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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
There and Back Again | Excursion to the Esterwegen Memorial
An excursion report by Leonie Schwiers and Greta Petersen On November 28, an excursion to the Esterwegen Memorial, which has existed since 2011, took place under the leadership of Imke Selle and with support from Ilka Schwerdtfeger. In the preparatory…
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…
3D Digitization Hands-On Workshop on 10.11.2025
On 10 November 2025, the Research Group on Contemporary History and Historical Migration Research — including Lukas Hennies, Imke Selle, Tim Ott and Johannes Pufahl — together with Henning Wellmann, staff member in the Education Department of the Arolsen…
Research Revisited: NGHM Publications on the Production of Figures of Migration 2024/25
In the section Research Revisited, the NGHM team presents completed research projects and publications in an irregular series. This issue provides insights into four internationally published journal articles from the academic year 2024/25: Transatlantic…
NGHM Tracker (12/25)
The monthly newsletter of the Working Group for Contemporary History and Historical Migration Research at the University of Osnabrück By Benjamin Look & Jessica Wehner In November, Team NGHM had the opportunity to welcome several guests to our…
NGHM asks | Where can memorial sites for Displaced Persons actually be found in Germany?
Why this question? After liberation in May 1945, between 6.5 and 11 million "Displaced Persons" (DPs) were located in the territory of the western occupation zones of Germany. This category included former forced labourers, concentration camp prisoners,…
Inside.NGHM | Annika Heyen
With the new series Inside.NGHM, we regularly provide insights into research and teaching at the Chair for Contemporary History and Historical Migration Research at the University of Osnabrück, but above all we introduce the scholars who work behind the…
NGHM Tracker (11/25)
The monthly newsletter of the Working Group on Contemporary History and Historical Migration Research at the University of Osnabrück By Benjamin Look & Jessica Wehner October marked the start of the winter semester 2025/2026 and was therefore…
Research Revisited: Digitally Remembering Maly Trostinets – Trinational Cooperation Opens Up a Forgotten Site of Extermination
Between 1942 and 1944, approximately 60,000 people were murdered at Maly Trascjanec southeast of Minsk. This extermination site thus ranks among the largest scenes of the Shoah in the territory of the occupied Soviet Union. Nevertheless, Maly Trascjanec…