NGHM-Tracker (5/26)
The monthly newsletter of the Working Group on Contemporary History and Historical Migration Research at the University of Osnabrück. By Benjamin Look & Jessica Wehner. April brought a remarkable density of impulses, ranging from Florence to…
NGHM reads | Klaus J. Bade: Europa in Bewegung (2000)
Is migration the exception or the rule of European history? Klaus J. Bade's Europa in Bewegung, the third title on the NGHM reading list, comes from the field of migration history and theory and answers this question with a comprehensive synthesis that…
NGHM reads | Christopher R. Browning: Ordinary Men (1992)
Who were the perpetrators of the Holocaust? Christopher R. Browning's Ordinary Men, the second title on the NGHM reading list, this time selected from the field of National Socialist history and Holocaust research, offers an answer that…
Hidden Legacies, Untidy Endings. Notes from the InechO Conference in Florence.
What happens to an international organization after it has ceased to exist? On 23 and 24 April 2026, the Alcide De Gasperi Research Centre at the European University Institute in Florence convened a conference of the InechO project (International…
NGHM reads | Edward Hallett Carr: What is History? (1961)
With Edward Hallett Carr's What is History? our series "NGHM reads" begins, in which the 65 titles of the NGHM reading list from the field of historical theory and historiography are presented. Carr's six lectures, delivered in Cambridge in 1961 and…
IMIS Guests @ NGHM | Summer Semester 2026: Matti Välimäki (Helsinki) and Morten Baarvig Thomsen (Odense).
Since early April 2026, two visiting scholars have joined the Institute for Migration Research and Intercultural Studies (IMIS) at the University of Osnabrück as guests integrated into the NGHM Research Group (Prof. Dr. Christoph Rass): Matti Tapio…
Forum HistOS Invites | Forum HistOS in the Summer Semester 2026: Quo Vadis?!
The "Forum HistOS – More than just History/Histories" is entering its third semester. Since its founding in the summer semester of 2025, it has established itself as a cross-epochal space for dialogue within the Historisches Seminar at the University of…
NGHM-Tracker (4/26)
The monthly newsletter of the Working Group on Contemporary History and Historical Migration Research at the University of Osnabrück. By Benjamin Look & Jessica Wehner. March was marked by movement – in both the literal and figurative sense. Several…
NGHM-digital | An App for Excursions: HistOS Trip to Nuremberg as a Test for a DH Prototype.
Anyone who has navigated a city full of history with students for three days will be familiar with the challenges: meeting points, train connections, tour bookings, historical background information, and spontaneous changes of plan all compete for…
There and Back Again | Nuremberg between the Middle Ages and National Socialism – An Excursion into the Historical Layers of a City
From 17 to 19 March 2026, a joint excursion by the Chair for the History of the Middle Ages (Christoph Mauntel) and the Chair for Contemporary History and Historical Migration Research (Christoph Rass) at the University of Osnabrück led to Nuremberg: a…
There and Back Again | Digital Excursion to the Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial
An excursion report by Jule Kumbrink As part of a digital day excursion, a group of students from the University of Osnabrück dedicated themselves on January 23, 2026, to the history and media engagement with the Neuengamme concentration camp. The…
Call for Papers | The Age of Humanitarianism. Jewish and Other Global Migrations Between Empire and Decolonisation
The 2026 annual conference of the Leibniz Institute for Jewish History and Culture – Simon Dubnow (DI) will take place with participation from the NGHM team. Dr. Sebastian Musch, Alfred Landecker Lecturer in Modern History and Historical Migration…
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…
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.…
NGHM Tracker (3/26)
The monthly newsletter of the Research Group Modern History and Historical Migration Research at the University of Osnabrück By Benjamin Look & Jessica Wehner In February, the lecture-free period began for Team NGHM, and with it the concentrated work…
There and Back Again | Excursion to the Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial
An excursion report by Leonie Güneri On January 16, 2026, a day excursion to the Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial in Hamburg took place under the leadership of Imke Selle. In preparation, the students had already received an initial thematic…
Out Now | Two New IMIS Working Papers on the ‘Production of Migration
'Guest workers' in the Nazi press (1933–1945) The IMIS Working Papers series has been expanded by two contributions that examine a common question from different perspectives: How do language, knowledge and categories produce those social orders or…
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…
