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…
A problem of the present – a conference for the future? The 1943 Bermuda Conference on the “Refugee Problem” re-read from the perspective of a Migration Historian
What happens when a migration historian re-examines the 1943 Bermuda Conference — long studied through a Holocaust studies lens? Annika Heyen's new essay tests how fresh disciplinary perspectives can unlock overlooked dimensions of well-tr... —…
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…
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…
History @ SFB 1604 | Interview with Gerhard Kromschröder for the “Production of Migration” podcast.
On 21 October 1985, "Ganz unten" by Günther Wallraff was published. Almost exactly three years earlier, on 14 October 1982, another undercover report in "Stern" had already drawn attention to the everyday racism experienced by migrants from Turkey in…
Right-wing Populist Politics of History for Destabilising Democratic Systems | Summary of the Essay by Valentin Loos in Historia Prima, 2. 2025
This post is an abridged version of an essay in the second issue of Historia Prima, which appeared in May 2025 under the title "'What we are experiencing here is 1933 on a global level, that is, the total seizure of power.' The Functionalization of…