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.…
Research@NGHM | Greek Government Recognises Karya Station as ‘Historic Site’.
In April 2024, the team from the Chair of Contemporary History and Historical Migration Research at the University of Osnabrück, led by Prof. Dr. Christoph Rass, researched and extensively documented the Karya railway station in Greece as part of an…
Announcement: Tiny Desk Colloquium: Digital History & Humanities – Research, Teaching and Infrastructures in Dialogue on 17 July 2025
On 17 July 2025, the fourth edition of the NGHM Tiny Desk Colloquium will take place. Once again, young historians from the University of Osnabrück will have the opportunity to present and discuss outstanding theses as well as their projects in the field…
NGHM-Tracker (7/2025)
The monthly newsletter of the Working Group Contemporary History and Historical Migration Research at the University of Osnabrück By Benjamin Look & Jessica Wehner In June, Team NGHM dedicated itself to research and teaching on site as well as…
Sussex Dispatch #4
With the third conference day, the Landecker Digital Memory Lab inaugural Expo – Exploring the Future of Digital Holocaust Memory at the University of Sussex came to an end for the NGHM team – and at least the rearguard – those who did not have to travel…
Sussex Dispatch #3
The second full conference day of the Landecker Digital Memory Lab inaugural Expo – Exploring the Future of Digital Holocaust Memory at the University of Sussex also provided fascinating and inspiring insights into digital public history projects on the…
Sussex Dispatch #2
The second day of the Landecker Digital Memory Lab inaugural Expo – Exploring the Future of Digital Holocaust Memory at the University of Sussex in Brighton began for the Osnabrück team with the two-hour workshop Mapping the Past and…
Sussex Dispatch #1
This week, the NGHM team travelled with a delegation to the University of Sussex to participate in the Landecker Digital Memory Lab inaugural Expo, which is dedicated to digital public history in the context of Holocaust history under the title…
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…
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…
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…
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).…
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…
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…
