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NGHM Website | Updates
In early May, the Chair of Contemporary History and Historical Migration Research, along with the entire University of Osnabrück, switched its online presence to a new website, which we are still expanding and developing. This week, we have added some guidance on academic writing and the organisation of teaching operations, with which we aim to…
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There and Back Again | Excursion to the Documentation Centre Haren/Mazków, the Former Camp Site Oberlangen and the War Cemetery Groß Fullen
Following the Traces of Haren/Maczków: A Post-War History in Emsland by Lisa Marie Schophuis On the morning of 16 May 2025, a group of history students gathered to set off for Emsland. The students were accompanied by Lukas Hennies, Lea Horstmann and Imke Selle. In total, the group visited three destinations in Emsland: the site…
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NGHM-Tracker (6/2025)
The monthly newsletter of the Working Group Contemporary History and Historical Migration Research at the University of Osnabrück By Benjamin Look & Jessica Wehner In May, we not only devoted ourselves to teaching and research in the ongoing summer semester, Team NGHM was also travelling to conduct research, present, discuss and exchange ideas with colleagues…
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NGHM Website 2.0 | Negotiating Migration & Conflict Landscapes are online.
In April and May 2025, the University of Osnabrück, with all its facilities, departments, and institutes, will switch to a new version of its website. This includes the Research Group for Contemporary History and Historical Migration Research (NGHM). After our new online presence went live at the beginning of the month, the NGHM team has…
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StreitBar: Between Lecture Hall and Debate Room – Studying (Un)politically? A Conversation Between Student Generations at UOS.
“Politics? I don’t have time for that” – a sentence that can be heard again and again at universities. Between academic pressure, earning a living, growing up and the supposedly “best time of life”, there seems to be little room left for political engagement for many students. At the same time, political disputes are currently…
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NGHM as Guest | “80 Years Later – Using History for Democracy”: Panel Discussion at Georgianum in Lingen.
On 21 May, Prof. Dr. Christoph Rass was a guest at the Georgianum in Lingen. There, students prepared a panel discussion on questions of historical and memory culture in the context of Nazi rule, the Second World War and the Holocaust as part of their history seminar course and created a radio programme together with…
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Digital Humanities at the University of Osnabrück. University Library Workshop with Cultural and Social Sciences in May 2025
The social sciences and humanities have already been undergoing a profound transformation for several years, driven by the ubiquitous and constantly accelerating digitisation of knowledge, culture and communication. This transformation has entered a new phase with the general availability of “artificial intelligence”, whose course and impact we can barely foresee at present. The social sciences,…
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Challenge accepted: The “We” in Migration Society. Panel Discussion on 14 May 2025 at UB@UOS.
From 6 May to 21 June 2025, the Federal Chancellor Helmut Schmidt Foundation will present its exhibition #ChallengingDemocracy – From Helmut Schmidt to Today in Osnabrück. The hosts are the University Library and the Chair of Contemporary History and Historical Migration Research. The We in Migration Society … On 14 May 2025, the accompanying programme…