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…
History @ SFB 1604 | Interview with Gerhard Kromschröder for the “Production of Migration” podcast.
On 21 October 1985, "Ganz unten" by Günther Wallraff was published. Almost exactly three years earlier, on 14 October 1982, another undercover report in "Stern" had already drawn attention to the everyday racism experienced by migrants from Turkey in…
Research Revisited: Digital Exhibitions on the Hürtgen Forest Conflict Landscape
In the Research Revisited section, the NGHM team presents completed research projects and their results in an informal series. We begin with a retrospective look at digital exhibitions that we have developed in recent years within our projects at the…
Teaching Program NGHM@UOS in Winter Semester 2025/26
The courses in the winter semester 2025/26 at the Chair for Contemporary History and Historical Migration Research focused on the Holocaust and its consequences. An overview of the entire teaching portfolio of the Chair for Contemporary History and…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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 &…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.…