Category: Posts
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Inside.NGHM | Frank Wobig
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, Frank Wobig reports on his studies at UOS, his activities as a…
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History@SFB: DOMiD Workshop with Students of History and IMIB
On 27 June, the first test workshop of the SFB 1604 transfer project “Reflexive Migration Research in the Museum” took place. For this purpose, the project staff members Aladin El-Mafaalani, Lale Yildirim, Annika Heyen, Johannes Pufahl and Tim Ott, together with students from the History department as well as the Master’s programme “International Migration and…
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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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Making History Production ‘Playable’ | The “Osnabrück Peace Chess”. Negotiating Memory in Game Format.
In the context of the interdisciplinary LehrZeit project “Research, mediate, exhibit. Virtual learning spaces in historical studies” at the University of Osnabrück, students together with Imke Selle, Prof. Dr. Christoph Rass, Prof. Dr. Lale Yildirim & Prof. Dr. Michael Brinkmeier have developed the “Osnabrück Peace Chess”: the chessboard functions as an interactive memory game in…
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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 History as a Political Argument Using the Example of Corona…
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NGHM-Tracker (8/2025)
The monthly newsletter of the Working Group Modern History and Historical Migration Research at the University of Osnabrück By Benjamin Look & Jessica Wehner In July, Team NGHM entered the end-of-semester sprint and organised various formats on-site in Osnabrück for exchanging insights from our work in research and teaching: in poster presentations, students presented results…
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Out Now | TRANSLATION, MIGRATION, NARRATIVE – Editor’s Introduction by Julie Weise and Christoph Rass in History & Theory.
The recently published forum on the Translation of Migration in the journal History & Theory is now fully accessible online as Early View. In the introduction to the forum, co-edited by Julie M. Weise from the University of Oregon, Eugene, and Christoph Rass from the Institute for Migration Research and Intercultural Studies at the University…
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Digital Public History Workshop “The ‘Emsland Camps’ as a Conflict Landscape in Transformation
On 5 June 2025, a workshop took place at the Esterwegen Memorial with students from years 11 and 12 of Georgianum Lingen. The event was conducted as part of the project “The ‘Emslandlager’ as a Conflict Landscape in Transformation. Research-based Learning at the Intersection of University Teacher Education, Memorial Site Pedagogy and Participatory Digital Public…
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History@SFB: Projects A3, A5 and T with the DH Team of the University Library as Guests at the German National Library in Frankfurt am Main
From July 10th to 11th, the team from the Chair of Contemporary History and Historical Migration Research and the Collaborative Research Centre 1604 “Production of Migration” were guests at the German National Library, together with colleagues from Osnabrück University Library. As part of a joint workshop of the research study programme “Hermes”, they discussed the…
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There and Back Again | The Willy Brandt Seminar on Excursion to Berlin
by students of the seminar and Frank Wolff Boom – torn away from the seminar and off to the train station: this is how the students of the Willy Brandt Seminar began their excursion to Berlin due to a bomb alert in Osnabrück’s Lokviertel. Most of them still caught the planned train, and ultimately everyone…
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Out Now | Ramirez & Rass: Producing Integration. The Translation of Non/Belonging in Germany and the United States @ History and Theory Early View.
On July 11, 2025, texts by the interdisciplinary working group Translations of Migration were published as Early View in a forum of the journal History & Theory; the print edition of the forum Translation, Migration, Narrative will follow in September. Since 2020, the working group Translations of Migration has provided a format for exchange among…
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Research@NGHM | Greek Government Recognises Karya Station as ‘Historic Site’.
In April 2024, the team from the Chair of Contemporary History and Historical Migration Research at the University of Osnabrück, led by Prof. Dr. Christoph Rass, researched and extensively documented the Karya railway station in Greece as part of an international research group. The prospection was part of work on a German-Greek exhibition project that…
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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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NGHM-Tracker (7/2025)
The monthly newsletter of the Working Group Contemporary History and Historical Migration Research at the University of Osnabrück By Benjamin Look & Jessica Wehner In June, Team NGHM dedicated itself to research and teaching on site as well as preparations for the Connective Holocaust Commemoration Expo in Sussex. In Osnabrück, the final framework event “Contentious:…
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Sussex Dispatch #4
With the third conference day, the Landecker Digital Memory Lab inaugural Expo – Exploring the Future of Digital Holocaust Memory at the University of Sussex came to an end for the NGHM team – and at least the rearguard – those who did not have to travel directly to the next working group meeting in…
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Sussex Dispatch #3
The second full conference day of the Landecker Digital Memory Lab inaugural Expo – Exploring the Future of Digital Holocaust Memory at the University of Sussex also provided fascinating and inspiring insights into digital public history projects on the Holocaust. At the same time, the Exhibition Spaces remained open, where participants could familiarise themselves more…
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Sussex Dispatch #2
The second day of the Landecker Digital Memory Lab inaugural Expo – Exploring the Future of Digital Holocaust Memory at the University of Sussex in Brighton began for the Osnabrück team with the two-hour workshop Mapping the Past and the Production of History: Low-Tech, Participatory Approaches to Documenting Holocaust Sites, and Conflict Landscapes. Following an introductory lecture on…
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Sussex Dispatch #1
This week, the NGHM team travelled with a delegation to the University of Sussex to participate in the Landecker Digital Memory Lab inaugural Expo, which is dedicated to digital public history in the context of Holocaust history under the title “Exploring the Future of Digital Holocaust Memory”. From Tuesday to Thursday, the Osnabrück researchers are…