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A great first day at the @ghiwashington.bsky.social West Coast Germanists Workshop @unevadareno.bsky.social with the incredible 2025 Henkel Lecture by Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger!

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The 2025 Henkel Lecture Tour continues with Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger presenting “On the Logic of Autocracy and the Plasticity of History: The Case of Frederick William I, King of Prussia” at @unevadareno.bsky.social

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Our 7th West Coast Germanists’ Workshop, with the theme “Migration, Mobility, and Exchange,” convenes at @unevadareno.bsky.social starting today! Learn more about the program here: wcgw.hypotheses.org

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Our 2025 Henkel Lecture Tour begins this afternoon at @uoregon.bsky.social, where historian Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger will deliver the first of three talks titled "On the Logic of Autocracy and the Plasticity of History" calendar.uoregon.edu/event/depart...

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Unser #Vernetzungsfellowship ermöglicht es den Mitarbeitenden der MWS, andere Standorte der Stiftung kennenzulernen. 🌏 Wir haben mit Jaromír Mrňka, Leiter der Außenstelle Prag, über seine Erlebnisse und Erfahrungen am @ghiwashington.bsky.social gesprochen. 👉 gab.hypotheses.org/1...

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Our spring lecture series starts tonight with Chelsea Schields, author of the acclaimed book “Offshore Attachments,” presenting “Of Fossil Fuels and Families: How the Oil Industry Shaped Ideas of Race and Poverty in Caribbean Europe” www.ghi-dc.org/events/event...

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Join us MARCH 11 for a lecture by Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger. Register for the next installment in our Gerda Henkel Lecture Series: events.berkeley.edu/ies/event/28... Co-sponsors: Gerda Henkel Stiftung @ghiwashington.bsky.social UC Berkeley CGES UC Berkeley History UC Berkeley ISEEES

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Call for Applications! 🎓 Each year, the GHIL offers research scholarships for postgraduate students, Habilitanden, and postdocs at German universities, providing an incredible opportunity to conduct research in the UK! Applications for the period from July 2025 are open until 31 March!📥 1/2

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🥇 Reminder: Nominations for the Fritz Stern Dissertation Prize, awarded by the Friends of the German Historical Institute, are due by March 1st! More details: www.ghi-dc.org/programs/fri...

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CFP Reminder: “Beyond Refuge: Legacies of Forced Migration and Transit in Post-1945 History” roundtable at @thegsa.bsky.social in September; proposals due 28 Feb. www.ghi-dc.org/events/event...

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Our 2025 Henkel Lecture Tour begins next week! We'll be welcoming Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger to the West Coast to give three lectures on Prussian King Frederick William I as an example of the social logic of autocracy and the power of retrospective rationalization. www.ghi-dc.org/events/event...

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Call for applicants! 📣 Only a few days left to apply for the Gerda Henkel Fellowship offered by @ghiwashington.bsky.social and in collaboration with RRCHNM. Applications for the 12-month fellowship in digital history are due by February 28th, 2025. Learn more: www.ghi-dc.org/programs/hen...

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Join us 2/26 for a panel on the results of the German Federal Elections featuring @profterrig.bsky.social, Sabrina Zajak, @andrearoemmele.bsky.social, Mia Fuller and Akasemi Newsome: events.berkeley.edu/ies/event/28... Co-sponsors: @ghiwashington.bsky.social UCB German UCB Political Science

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Noch bis Ende des Monats läuft die Umfrage zu Machtmissbrauch in der Geschichtswissenschaft ⬇️

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Explore the AHA’s Resource Library, with hundreds of resources developed or vetted by the AHA and our partners. Our resources range from classroom syllabi, to archival documents from the Civil War, to standards and guidelines for the discipline, and more. 🗃️

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We're currently accepting applications for the 2025-26 Henkel Fellowship in Digital History, which provides for a 12-month residency in Washington in partnership with @rrchnm.bsky.social thanks to generous support from the Gerda Henkel Stiftung. Applications due 2.28: www.ghi-dc.org/programs/hen...

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CFP: “Beyond Refuge: Legacies of Forced Migration and Transit in Post-1945 History” roundtable at @thegsa.bsky.social 2025 conference; proposals due Feb. 28: www.ghi-dc.org/events/event...

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A few snippets from the Day 2 panels of our #workshop on #GlobalTransit @ghiwashington.bsky.social @maxweberstiftung.de #OIlstanbul #OIBeirut @mariaframke.bsky.social

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📣There's still time! Only 5 days left until the deadline for participating in seminars at the GSA conference this year. ⏰Applications due on February 19 at 11:59 pm (PT) ⏰ See our website for the list of seminars and apply via the Open Water portal: 👉https://thegsa.org/blog/cfa-gsa-seminars-2025

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Deadline approaching: submit your proposals for #AHA26 by February 15, 2025. Our 2026 annual meeting will take place on January 8–11, 2026, in Chicago. The Program Committee welcomes and encourages all historians to submit proposals. 🗃️

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A few snippets from the Day 1 panels of the #workshop on #GlobalTransit @ghiwashington.bsky.social @mariaframke.bsky.social @arnabduttahist.bsky.social @rosadejong.bsky.social

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#CfA @ghiwashington.bsky.social sucht wissenschaftlichen Mitarbeiterin (m/w/d) 📌 ab 01. Oktober 2025 | für den Bereiche Geschichte Lateinamerikas | am #PacificOffice des #GHIWashington in #Berkeley Bewerbungsschluss: 31. März 2025 🔗 www.maxweberstiftung...

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Calling all advanced BA or MA students of history or other related subjects at German universities: Are you interested in the history of the British Empire and the history of capitalism and/or environment? 1/5

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The participants of the #workshop on #Refugees in #GlobalTransit warmly welcomed by Ute Frevert, the President of the Max Weber Stiftung @maxweberstiftung.de @ghiwashington.bsky.social @ghilondon.bsky.social @mariaframke.bsky.social

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Ab morgen veranstalten @ghiwashington.bsky.social, @mwfdelhi.bsky.social, OI Beirut und OI Istanbul eine gemeinsame Konferenz zu globalen Fluchtrouten jüdischer Emigrant*innen. Für #WeltweitVorOrt haben wir mit Simone Lässig und Sebastian Schwecke über die Planung gesprochen👉tinyurl.com/WvO66

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Now available on our Href blog: “Ukraine’s Museums in War: An Interview with Olha Honchar,” director of the Territory of Terror Memorial Museum in Lviv href.hypotheses.org/4026

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Reminder: We’re hiring for an Events Coordinator/Assistant position at our Pacific Office at UC Berkeley— applications are due tomorrow, February 12 www.ghi-dc.org/news-show/ev...

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Wir stellen ein! Wissenschaftliche/n Mitarbeiter/in (w/m/d) mit einem Schwerpunkt in der Geschichte Lateinamerikas am Pazifikbüro des DHI Washington in Berkeley. Bewerbungsfrist: 31.3.2025 www.ghi-dc.org/news-show/wi...

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📢 International Conference on "Refugees in Global Transit: Encounters, Knowledge, and Coping Strategies in a Disrupted World, 1930s–50s." 📆February 13-14, 2025 in Mumbai, India 📄 Full Program online: tinyurl.com/inglobaltran... 🔗More on our blog: endsofwar.hypotheses.org/977

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Join us in three weeks for the launch of our spring lecture series, starting with Professor Chelsea Schields’ talk “Of Fossil Fuels and Families: How the Oil Industry Shaped Ideas of Race and Poverty in Caribbean Europe”! Information on attending is at: www.ghi-dc.org/events/event...

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#CfA Reminder: The deadline for the BAA-Fellowship Program 2025 is less than two weeks away! 🎓 Until mid-February, (post-)doctoral researchers at Bavarian universities can submit their applications for a BAA-Postgraduate Research Fellowship at the Library of Congress, Harvard, Yale, or Duke U. 📑✍

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Congratulations to the Atlantic Exiles team, led by our former Research Fellow Jan C. Jansen, on their work over the past few years!

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📢 CfP deadline extended! 📢 The GHIL and the @ghiwashington.bsky.social are excited to announce the fourteenth Medieval History Seminar, to be held in London from 8 to 10 October 2025. 📅 1/6

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Join us tomorrow, Feb. 5, for "Stranded Between Borders: The Limitations of Categorizing People in Transit," an online discussion with Tobias Brinkmann & Carly Goodman examining how the categories of economic migrant and political refugees have historically been defined. www.ghi-dc.org/event...

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A thoughtful interview with Dr. Katharina Matro, the winner of our 2016 Fritz Stern Dissertation Prize

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Congratulations to our colleague Mario Peters on the publication of his new article “Contesting US hegemony: Pan-American infrastructure and South American visions of global transportation, 1880s–1890s,” in the Journal of Global History! Available in #OpenAccess: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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The AHA’s Calls for Opportunities Calendar shares upcoming calls for papers, conference proposals, and other activities. Anyone may submit opportunities of interest to historians to the calendar. 🗃️

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#CfA Fritz Stern Dissertation Price 📌 awarded by @ghiwashington.bsky.social | for the best Dissertation on German #History written at a North American University Deadline: March 1, 2025 🔗 www.maxweberstiftung...

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#CfP German History in the 19th and 20th Century 📍 International Doctoral Seminar | for advanced Doctoral Students to discuss their Dissertation Projects 📅 June 3-6, 2025| @ghiwashington.bsky.social in #WashingtonDC Deadline: February 1, 2025 🔗 www.maxweberstiftung...

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Nominations are now being accepted (through March 1) for the Fritz Stern Dissertation Prize, awarded annually by the Friends of the GHI to the best dissertation on a topic in German history written at a North American university. Further details here: www.ghi-dc.org/programs/fri...

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Neue Ausschreibungsrunde für "Aufbruch – Neue Forschungsräume für die Geistes- und Kulturwissenschaften", Stichtag: 3. April 2025, Infos unter www.volkswagenstiftung.de/de/foerderun... Noch Fragen? Online-Sprechstunden am 21. & 28. Februar 2025, 10:00 – 11:30 Uhr, keine Anmeldung erforderlich!

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Join us Thursday, February 27 when Professor Chelsea Schields will give a talk titled “Of Fossil Fuels and Families: How the Oil Industry Shaped Ideas of Race and Poverty in Caribbean Europe” to launch our Spring Lecture Series, “Poverty in the Twentieth Century” www.ghi-dc.org/events/event...

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#CfA Event Coordinator/ Assistant @ghiwashington.bsky.social 📌 Pacific Office in #Berkeley, California| from April 1, 2025 | planning and managing of events Deadline: February 12, 2025 🔗 www.maxweberstiftung... #Jobs #JobAlert #Eventmanagement

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#CfA Reminder: Until Feb 15, doctoral researchers & junior faculty in #AmericanStudies & #AmericanHistory can apply for the BAA #SummerAcademy 2025, which takes place July 16-23 in Berkeley. Organized in cooperation with @ghiwashington.bsky.social & @fau.de ➡️ Learn more: tinyurl.com/baa-summer-a...

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Join us on Wednesday, February 5 for “Stranded Between Borders - The Limitations of Categorizing People in Transit,” a virtual discussion about the history of the migrant asylum system featuring Tobias Brinkmann and Carly Goodman: www.ghi-dc.org/events/event...

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Call for applicants! 📣 The Gerda Henkel Fellowship offered by @ghiwashington.bsky.social and in collaboration with RRCHNM, is now accepting applications. Applications for the 12-month fellowship in digital history are due by February 28th, 2025. Learn more here: www.ghi-dc.org/programs/hen...

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We're hiring! Please check out & share our ad for an Event Coordinator/Assistant position at our Pacific Office, on the campus of UC Berkeley www.ghi-dc.org/news-show/ev...

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