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Call for Papers | The Age of Humanitarianism. Jewish and Other Global Migrations Between Empire and Decolonisation
The 2026 annual conference of the Leibniz Institute for Jewish History and Culture – Simon Dubnow (DI) will take place with participation from the NGHM team. Dr. Sebastian Musch, Alfred Landecker Lecturer in Modern History and Historical Migration Research, is co-organising the international conference “The Age of Humanitarianism: Jewish and Other Global Migrations Between Empire…
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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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NGHM Tracker (3/26)
The monthly newsletter of the Research Group Modern History and Historical Migration Research at the University of Osnabrück By Benjamin Look & Jessica Wehner In February, the lecture-free period began for Team NGHM, and with it the concentrated work on texts, projects and presentations. In addition, several trips were scheduled – for example to Hamburg…
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There and Back Again | Excursion to the Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial
An excursion report by Leonie Güneri On January 16, 2026, a day excursion to the Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial in Hamburg took place under the leadership of Imke Selle. In preparation, the students had already received an initial thematic introduction through a preliminary discussion, which had to take place digitally due to the sudden onset…
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Out Now | Two New IMIS Working Papers on the ‘Production of Migration
‘Guest workers’ in the Nazi press (1933–1945) The IMIS Working Papers series has been expanded by two contributions that examine a common question from different perspectives: How do language, knowledge and categories produce those social orders or phenomena that we negotiate as ‘migration’? Both texts originate from the Chair of Contemporary History and Historical Migration…
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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 exclusion? Two new digital exhibition projects by students from the Research Group Modern History and Historical…
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NGHM Tracker (1-2/26)
The monthly newsletter of the Working Group Modern History and Historical Migration Research at the University of Osnabrück By Benjamin Look & Jessica Wehner After a brief winter break, the Tracker editorial team is back in service for public outreach. In December and January, Team-NGHM together with students and colleagues used the time to present…
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There and Back Again | Voice of History – Commemoration and Historical Scholarship in Ibbenbüren
On 27 January 2026 – the 81st anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz – the Catholic School Pastoral Care Ibbenbüren invited to the commemoration event “Voice of History – Remembering for our Future” at the Cultural Centre. At the centre was the encounter with Anna Strishkowa, a survivor of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, who was…
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NGHM Students Present Their Research | Holocaust and Occupation in Belarus and Greece.
On 30 and 31 January 2026, the University of Osnabrück will host the concluding conference of two courses in which students analysed primary sources on the history of the Holocaust during the winter semester 2025/26. The conference brings research on crime sites in Belarus and Greece into comparative dialogue. In the winter semester 2025/26, two…
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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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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 historical studies. The central thesis of the contribution: AI does not change what history is.…
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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 thinking, questioning analytical categories and understanding the construction processes of history itself. This is precisely where the NGHM reading list…
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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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Inside.NGHM | Eduard Usov
With the series Inside.NGHM, we regularly provide insights into research and teaching at the Chair of Contemporary History and Historical Migration Research at the University of Osnabrück, but above all we introduce the scholars who work behind the scenes. In the second issue, Eduard Usov reports on his studies at UOS and his activities as…