VR Experiment “Changing Places”: Participants Sought
Can virtual reality change how we perceive familiar places? Participate in the "Changing Places" VR experiment at Osnabrück's StudZ on 21 or 28 October, 12–6 p.m. Compensation: €10. — Translated from nghm.hypotheses.org
Sites of Violence, Traces, and Digital History Culture | »The ›Emsland Camps‹ as a Conflict Landscape in Transformation«, Osnabrück and Dalum, 24 and 25 September 2026.
Beneath an industrial estate near Dalum lie the unmarked graves of approximately ten thousand Soviet POWs. How do we read landscapes that conceal more than they reveal? A new conference project confronts this question head-on. — Translated from…
OUT NOW | The Holocaust and Varieties of Migration
Migration was not only a consequence of Holocaust-era violence — it helped organize and execute it. This Open Access volume reframes both Holocaust and migration history through a revealing new lens. Read more at the link below. — Translated from…
NGHM Research | From “Wasteland” to Climate Protector: New Cooperative Project with the Emsland Moormuseum Approved.
From "wasteland" to climate asset: peatlands now store a third of all soil carbon, yet were systematically drained for decades. A new approved project examines how—and why—societies reverse course so dramatically. — Translated from…
Fundstücke | »Guests of the Reich«. An American Riposte to the Nazi Catchphrase ‘Gastarbeiter’, 1943
A weekly newspaper from rural Georgia, July 23, 1943: Under the headline "Guests of the Reich," a short column dissects the National Socialist propaganda term Gastarbeiter in its English translation and calls it "Hitler tosh." The source predates the…
Production of ‘Volksgemeinschaft’. Notes on a Conference in Hameln
The conference From 18 to 20 June 2026, the Dokumentations- und Lernort Bückeberg invited participants to Hameln, to the premises of the Zedita, in cooperation with the Stiftung niedersächsische Gedenkstätten and the Institut für Didaktik der…
›Twice Displaced‹: Queer ›Displacement‹ in Post-War Europe, Lecture of 4 June
4th Alfred Landecker Lecture with Samantha K. Knapton (University of Nottingham) When Pierre Seel, having returned to Alsace in 1945 after the camp and the Wehrmacht, wrote decades later about his liberation, he articulated a sobering finding: the true…
Research Revisited | Twelve Years of the Interdisciplinary Working Group Conflict Landscapes at the University of Osnabrück
Conflict Landscapes in Osnabrück: An Interim Assessment after Twelve Years In spring 2026, the project "The 'Emsland Camps' as a Conflict Landscape in Transformation. Research-Based Learning at the Interface of University Teacher Education, Memorial…