Category: Events
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German Listeners!” – Students Develop Perspectives on Thomas Mann’s Radio Addresses
Student conference of the seminar “Deutsche Hörer! Thomas Mann’s BBC Radio Addresses as a Source for Exile and Migration History” in the winter semester 2025/26. In the winter semester 2025/26, students at the University of Osnabrück examined Thomas Mann’s BBC radio addresses ‘Deutsche Hörer!’ (1940–1945) in a block seminar not as a literary work, but…
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Student Conference Words and/as Resistance: Thomas Mann and the German Listeners
In the winter semester 2025/2026, the Chair of Contemporary History and Historical Migration Research is organizing a student conference as part of the block seminar “Words and/as Resistance: Thomas Mann and the German Listeners”, conducted by Prof. Dr. Christoph Rass, Dr. Sebastian Huhn, Dr. Sebastian Musch, Annika Heyen and Jessica Wehner. Between 1940 and 1945,…
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There and back again | Film Screening “Black Sugar – Red Blood” and Meeting with Anna Strishkowa
On 19 January 2026, students from the Chair of Contemporary History and Historical Migration Research attended a film screening at the Bürgerhaus Ibbenbüren. The documentary film “Black Sugar – Red Blood” by Luigi Toscano about the life of Auschwitz survivor Anna Strishkowa was shown. The excursion formed the first part of a two-part event series,…
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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 concluded the seminar “Digital History Workshop: AI & Personal Information Management for Historians” and simultaneously…
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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 present their experimental WebApp prototypes – developed with historical questions, critical reflection and AI-supported tools. We cordially…
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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 present and discuss their research on the topic “The Holocaust and its Consequences…
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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 afternoon, the NGHM team presented two LehrZeit projects at the University of Osnabrück’s first “Day of Teaching”, which exemplarily…
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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 these approaches and to discuss the question of what infrastructures the social sciences and cultural…
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International Workshop on Agency and Forced Migration at the University of Southern Denmark
On September 25 and 26, Prof. Dr. Christoph Rass, Dr. Sebastian Huhn, Annika Heyen, and Jessica Wehner participated in the international workshop on Forced Migration and Agency at Southern University in Denmark, which was organized by Morten Baarvig Thomsen and sponsored by the Carlsberg Foundation. Following a visit by Morten Baarvig Thomsen in April 2025…
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There and Back Again | Excursion to the ZeitZentrum Zivilcourage Hannover
Between Escape Room and Memory Culture: Right-wing Extremism Then and Now. An Approach at the ZeitZentrum Zivilcourage An Excursion Report by Manuel Büchner and Leonie Güneri Right-wing extremist tendencies and anti-democratic positions are no longer a marginal phenomenon; they manifest themselves in social debates, online, and in many everyday situations. For this reason, it is…
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Announcement: Tiny Desk Colloquium: Digital History & Humanities – Research, Teaching and Infrastructures in Dialogue on 17 July 2025
On 17 July 2025, the fourth 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 and discuss outstanding theses as well as their projects in the field of Digital Humanities. The programme will be expanded by contributions from VirtUOS…
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StreitBar: Between Lecture Hall and Debate Room – Studying (Un)politically? A Conversation Between Student Generations at UOS.
“Politics? I don’t have time for that” – a sentence that can be heard again and again at universities. Between academic pressure, earning a living, growing up and the supposedly “best time of life”, there seems to be little room left for political engagement for many students. At the same time, political disputes are currently…
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NGHM as Guest | “80 Years Later – Using History for Democracy”: Panel Discussion at Georgianum in Lingen.
On 21 May, Prof. Dr. Christoph Rass was a guest at the Georgianum in Lingen. There, students prepared a panel discussion on questions of historical and memory culture in the context of Nazi rule, the Second World War and the Holocaust as part of their history seminar course and created a radio programme together with…
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Challenge accepted: The “We” in Migration Society. Panel Discussion on 14 May 2025 at UB@UOS.
From 6 May to 21 June 2025, the Federal Chancellor Helmut Schmidt Foundation will present its exhibition #ChallengingDemocracy – From Helmut Schmidt to Today in Osnabrück. The hosts are the University Library and the Chair of Contemporary History and Historical Migration Research. The We in Migration Society … On 14 May 2025, the accompanying programme…