Keynote | ICDAR 2026 Vienna | History and Document Analysis in Dialogue
On 1 September 2026, I delivered the second keynote at ICDAR 2026, the central conference on machine document analysis, held at TU Wien. This report elaborates the argument of that talk: the recognition of historical handwriting is largely a solved…
Closing Conference: “The ‘Emsland Camps’ as a Conflict Landscape in Transformation” on 24 and 25 September 2026
How do digitally dispersed histories of National Socialist camp sites become legible again? Our closing conference on 24–25 September 2026 presents new research, digital tools, and pedagogical approaches developed around the Emsland Camps ... —…
Watching a Register Move | An Animated Card Index and the Production of Migration
This essay follows an animated visualization built from Osnabrück’s historic foreigners’ registration index to ask, from the perspective of CRC 1604 ‘Produktion von Migration’, whether a bureaucratic register merely records migration — or helps produce…
Notes from the DHIP-Summer University in Paris | Doing Migration History with Digital Methods.
This essay presents a shortened, reworked version of the keynote lecture given at the summer university 'Doing Migration History with Digital Methods', held at the German Historical Institute Paris (DHIP / Institut historique allemand) and organized by…
›Production Site‹ | The First Episodes of the SFB 1604 Podcast Are Online
Czarina Wilpert, Gerhard Kromschröder, and the question of who studies migration, who describes it, and who is heard. The first episodes of ›Production Site‹ are online, and with them, the podcast of the Collaborative Research Center 1604 ›Production of…
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…
Online Now | Two New NGHM Exhibitions
What can we learn about local history when we read administrative files, index cards, and survey forms not merely as carriers of information, but as sources that were themselves involved in the production of knowledge about population, belonging, and…
Out Now | Karya 1943. Forced Labour and Holocaust – The Catalogue for the German-Greek Travelling Exhibition
With the publication of the exhibition catalogue Karya 1943. Forced Labour and Holocaust in German and English, a publication is now available that documents a multi-year German-Greek collaborative project on the reappraisal of a long-forgotten chapter…
Digital Teaching and Learning | Contribution to the Lecture Series of the UOS Centre for Teacher Education
History × Digital History × AI On January 20, 2026, Christoph Rass spoke as part of the lecture series "Teaching and Learning in the Digital World" at the University of Osnabrück about the potentials and challenges of Artificial Intelligence for…
NGHM WebApp Slam | Students Present Historical WebApps
On 21 January 2026, the first NGHM WebApp Slam took place at the Department of History at the University of Osnabrück. Eleven students presented their WebApps on historical topics developed during the winter semester 2025/26 in short pitches. The event…
NGHM reads | A knowledge graph with literature recommendations for studying at the Chair of Contemporary History and Historical Migration Research at UOS
Reading as Critical Practice: The NGHM Reading List and its Digital Exploration. Studying Contemporary History and Historical Migration Research means more than just familiarising oneself with methods, facts and data. It is about developing critical…
NGHM WebApp Slam on January 21, 2026
How can historical questions be reconceptualised using digital tools? Students from the History Department engaged with this question during the winter semester 2025/26 in the NGHM Digital History Workshop. At the NGHM WebApp Slam, the students will now…
Announcement: Tiny Desk Colloquium on 29 January 2026: The Holocaust and its Consequences – Regional and International Perspectives
On January 29, 2026, the fifth edition of the NGHM Tiny Desk Colloquium will take place. Once again, young historians from the University of Osnabrück will have the opportunity to present outstanding thesis papers, and our guests will have the chance to…
NGHM engaged | The Day of Teaching and the Relevance of Historical Studies.
December 3, 2025, was dedicated to two central aspects of university work for the Research Group Contemporary History and Historical Migration Research: innovative teaching and critical reflection on the social role of historical scholarship. In the…
3D Digitization Hands-On Workshop on 10.11.2025
On 10 November 2025, the Research Group on Contemporary History and Historical Migration Research — including Lukas Hennies, Imke Selle, Tim Ott and Johannes Pufahl — together with Henning Wellmann, staff member in the Education Department of the Arolsen…
Research Revisited: Digitally Remembering Maly Trostinets – Trinational Cooperation Opens Up a Forgotten Site of Extermination
Between 1942 and 1944, approximately 60,000 people were murdered at Maly Trascjanec southeast of Minsk. This extermination site thus ranks among the largest scenes of the Shoah in the territory of the occupied Soviet Union. Nevertheless, Maly Trascjanec…
Team NGHM@”Future Digital?” Poster Slam on September 30th at UB Osnabrück
At the University of Osnabrück, Digital Humanities methods are not only applied in teaching and research in many areas, but are also being developed, tested and made ready for application. In order to further develop the consolidation and networking of…
History@SFB: DOMiD Workshop with Students of History and IMIB
On 27 June, the first test workshop of the SFB 1604 transfer project "Reflexive Migration Research in the Museum" took place. For this purpose, the project staff members Aladin El-Mafaalani, Lale Yildirim, Annika Heyen, Johannes Pufahl and Tim Ott,…