Report | Sixth Tiny Desk Colloquium: Displaced Persons, Urban Migration Policy, and the Historiography of the Refugee Regime
The most recent Tiny Desk Colloquium of the Chair of Contemporary History and Historical Migration Research, convened under the direction of Dr. Sebastian Musch, brought together five contributions ranging from West German postwar justice and digital…
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…
Announcement: Tiny Desk Colloquium on 2 July 2026: Current Research in the History of Migration
On 2 July 2026, the sixth 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 theses, and our guests will have the chance to present and…
›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…
Invitation: Lecture by Dr Samantha Knapton on Queer Experiences of Displacement, 4 June
On June 4 (6:30 pm), the Working Group on Modern History and Historical Migration Studies warmly invites you to a public evening lecture at 15/130. Samantha Knapton from the University of Nottingham will deliver a lecture in English titled "Twice…
IMIS Guests @ NGHM | Summer Semester 2026: Matti Välimäki (Helsinki) and Morten Baarvig Thomsen (Odense).
Since early April 2026, two visiting scholars have joined the Institute for Migration Research and Intercultural Studies (IMIS) at the University of Osnabrück as guests integrated into the NGHM Research Group (Prof. Dr. Christoph Rass): Matti Tapio…
Forum HistOS Invites | Forum HistOS in the Summer Semester 2026: Quo Vadis?!
The "Forum HistOS – More than just History/Histories" is entering its third semester. Since its founding in the summer semester of 2025, it has established itself as a cross-epochal space for dialogue within the Historisches Seminar at the University of…
There and Back Again | Digital Excursion to the Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial
An excursion report by Jule Kumbrink As part of a digital day excursion, a group of students from the University of Osnabrück dedicated themselves on January 23, 2026, to the history and media engagement with the Neuengamme concentration camp. The…
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…
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.…
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…
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 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…
Osnabrücker Mitteilungen Vol. 130 published | NGHM team represented once again
In December, the Association for History and Regional Studies of Osnabrück reported on its blog about the publication of the latest volume of the Osnabrücker Mitteilungen. In this year's edition, the Research Group Contemporary History and Historical…
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…
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…
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…