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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 conceptual history and the critical analysis of migration policy categories How are people transformed into specific “figures” through migration policy categories…
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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 professorship to exchange ideas about our academic methods and projects. On the other hand, fieldwork – including…
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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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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 entirely focused on the preparation and implementation of the first courses. The individual status groups of the professorship…
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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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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 Germany. The following year, journalist Gerhard Kromschröder published his observations and experiences in the book “Als…
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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 intersection of academic research and Public History. Between September 1944 and February 1945, the northern…
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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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Team NGHM@”Future Digital?” Poster Slam on September 30th at UB Osnabrück
At the University of Osnabrück, Digital Humanities methods are not only applied in teaching and research in many areas, but are also being developed, tested and made ready for application. In order to further develop the consolidation and networking of these approaches and to discuss the question of what infrastructures the social sciences and cultural…
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NGHM Tracker (9-10/25)
The monthly newsletter of the Working Group Modern History and Historical Migration Research at the University of Osnabrück By Benjamin Look & Jessica Wehner After a brief summer break, the Tracker editorial team returns in early September with an August-September double issue of the NGHM newsletter. Team NGHM used the lecture-free period for conference trips,…
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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 Thomsen and sponsored by the Carlsberg Foundation. Following a visit by Morten Baarvig Thomsen in April 2025…
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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 scenes. In the second issue, Frank Wobig reports on his studies at UOS, his activities as a…
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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, together with students from the History department as well as the Master’s programme “International Migration and…
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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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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 & Prof. Dr. Michael Brinkmeier have developed the “Osnabrück Peace Chess”: the chessboard functions as an interactive memory game in…
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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 History as a Political Argument Using the Example of Corona…
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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 in Osnabrück for exchanging insights from our work in research and teaching: in poster presentations, students presented results…
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