Category: Teaching@NGHM
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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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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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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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NGHM WebApp Slam | Students Present Historical WebApps
On 21 January 2026, the first NGHM WebApp Slam took place at the Department of History at the University of Osnabrück. Eleven students presented their WebApps on historical topics developed during the winter semester 2025/26 in short pitches. The event concluded the seminar “Digital History Workshop: AI & Personal Information Management for Historians” and simultaneously…
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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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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 session, participants received an initial overview of the history of the 15 former ‘Emsland camps’,…
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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 afternoon, the NGHM team presented two LehrZeit projects at the University of Osnabrück’s first “Day of Teaching”, which exemplarily…
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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 scenes. In the third issue, Annika Heyen reports on her work as a historian. How did…
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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 remained almost invisible in European memory culture for a long time. A trinational project by the Universities…
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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 Historical Migration Research in the winter semester 2025/26 can be found on our website. In the winter…
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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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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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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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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,…