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
Gaps in the Culture of Remembrance | Between Commemoration and Repression. Panel Discussion on 1 October at the vhs Osnabrück.
Who decides what history remembers — and what it buries? On 1 October, a panel in Osnabrück examines gaps in remembrance culture around the Sinti and Roma genocide and post-1945 racist violence. — Translated from nghm.hypotheses.org
Team NGHM in Tutzing | Conference “From Geneva to Schengen
From June 29 to July 1, 2026, Jessica Wehner and Annika Heyen attended the international conference "From Geneva to Schengen. Shaping Immigration and Refugee Protection in Western Europe, 1951-1994" at the invitation of Michael Mayer (Akademie für…
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…
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…