Organized by Kateryna Filyuk PhD, Lesia Kulchynska PhD, Oleksandra Osadch PhD

Rationale and scope. The Methodology Seminars for Art History in Ukraine is a two-year scholarly initiative dedicated to rethinking the foundations and future directions of art history within Ukraine. The Seminars serve as a platform for early-career researchers from Ukraine to collaborate on critical and practice-oriented reflection on art historical methodology. It aims to foster deeper awareness of how knowledge is produced, transmitted, and situated — and to explore how disciplinary practices might be reconfigured in response to both local contexts and global shifts within the humanities.

Structure. The first iteration of the Seminars, titled Methodology and Ideology, will bring together 12 Ukrainian early-career scholars working in art history or related fields. At the application stage, candidates will be asked to submit an abstract of a research topic connected with art history/art theory and visual culture they are currently pursuing or plan to develop  (e.g., a scholarly article, monograph chapter, or dissertation section). There are no geographical or chronological limitations on topics; we welcome a wide range of proposals.

The initial phase of the 1st Seminar will take place online from late July to September 2025. During this period, participants will work together during eight webinars focused on theoretical readings curated by the organizing team, while concurrently developing their individual research projects. In September, each participant will receive personalized feedback on their work during a one-on-one session with an invited senior international expert.

The 1st Seminar will conclude with a week-long residency in Lviv (October 27–31, 2025), where participants will present their research topics and take part in lectures, and workshops led by senior experts.

Terms and participation. Each selected participant will receive an honorarium of 500 EUR, awarded upon successful completion of the Seminar. Travel, accommodation, and per diem expenses for the on-site portion of the program will be fully covered. We strongly emphasize that participation in all the webinars is mandatory. Each week, an assigned moderator from the group will gather a written feedback of one or two pages from participants and prepare a concise summary and questions about the assigned readings. Webinar topics will take place weekly in the late afternoon, each lasting two hours. The final schedule will be shaped in consultation with the selected participants. We ask all applicants to ensure their full commitment to the program and active contribution to the group’s collective work.

Eligibility. Eligible are doctoral students and postdoctoral researchers in Art History and related fields from Ukraine or Ukrainian citizens of Ukraine residing abroad. The working language of the Seminars is English; therefore, a proficient command of the language is required.

Experts. To ensure the scholarly level and efficiency of the project, the Seminars will be supported by the following group of specialists: PD Dr Mateusz Kapustka, Dr Olenka Pevny, Edit András.  The Advisory Board: Dr Bohdan Shumylovych, Dr Stefaniia Demchuk, Oksana Barshynova, PD Dr Iryna Klymenko, Prof Dr Tristan Weddigen.

Application. To apply, candidates must submit:

• A CV (PDF)
• A motivation letter (PDF, max. 2 pages)
• A short research proposal (PDF, max. 2 pages)

Applications must be submitted via the following platform: https://recruitment.biblhertz.it. Results of the selection process will be communicated by mid-July. For more information, please see here.

We warmly welcome any inquiries that could be addressed to the grantforurkaine(at)gmail.com.

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Veranstalter: Deutsches Historisches Institut Paris, Univ. Nantes, CRHIA, École française de Rome, Institut français du Proche-Orient
Ort: DHIP
Datum: 3.-5. Dezember
Sprache: Englisch
Organisatoren und Organisatorinnen: Alexandre Bibert (DHIP), Fabrice Jesné (Univ. Nantes), Marie Levant (École française de Rome, Institut français du Proche-Orient).

Ziel dieses Aufrufs zur Einreichung von Beiträgen ist eine gemeinsame Publikation über die Akteure und Praktiken der Hilfe für Migranten in Europa und im Nahen Osten zwischen 1945 und 1970. Das Projekt verfolgt eine innovative Perspektive und konzentriert sich auf die Dynamiken vor Ort und die Interaktionen zwischen den verschiedenen Akteuren und Akteurinnen, die an der Migrationshilfe beteiligt sind, zwischen Kooperation, Konkurrenz und Verflechtung. Außerdem sollen weniger bekannte Figuren aus dem Bereich der Hilfe für Binnenvertriebene beleuchtet werden, deren Rollen zwar wichtig sind, aber in der historischen Forschung oft an den Rand gedrängt wurden. Ein redaktioneller Workshop, der die eingereichten Texte koordinieren und verfeinern soll, wird zwischen dem 3. und 5. Dezember 2025 am Deutschen Historischen Institut in Paris stattfinden (das genaue Datum wird zu einem späteren Zeitpunkt festgelegt). Die ausgewählten Teilnehmerinnen und Teilnehmer werden die Arbeiten der anderen Teilnehmerinnen und Teilnehmer im Voraus gelesen haben, so dass sich der Workshop auf die gemeinsame Abstimmung und Überarbeitung der Beiträge konzentrieren kann. Alle TeilnehmerInnen werden gebeten, ihre Beiträge vor der Veranstaltung einzureichen, um eine gründliche kollaborative Arbeit während des Workshops zu ermöglichen.

Themen

Wir laden interessierte Forscherinnen und Forscher herzlich ein, sich mit Themen, die sich mit den oben genannten Inhalten beschäftigen, zu bewerben. Besondere Aufmerksamkeit wird den Beiträgen gewidmet, welche sich mit folgenden Themen befassen:

• Die Erfahrungen von Emigranten mit Hilfsmechanismen, potenziell durch die Brille des Vergleichs
• Die Dynamik der Interaktion zwischen den Akteuren der Hilfe: Zusammenarbeit, Konkurrenz oder hybride Formen zwischen öffentlichen und privaten Hilfsstrukturen
• Die Erfahrungen der Migranten mit den Mechanismen der Hilfe, potenziell durch ein vergleichendes Prisma
• Die Beziehung zwischen humanitärer Hilfe und den großen geopolitischen Umwälzungen: die Auswirkungen der Nachwirkungen des Zweiten Weltkriegs, des Kalten Krieges und der postkolonialen Transformationen
• Transnationale Zirkulation von Personal oder Fachwissen über verschiedene institutionelle und territoriale Rahmen hinweg, sowie Finanztransfers
• Personen, die an der Bereitstellung von Hilfe beteiligt waren unter Berücksichtigung ihres Status (Freiwillige, angestellte Mitarbeitende, Geflüchtete, usw.), der von ihnen konstruierten Narrative und der persönlichen oder beruflichen Werdegänge, die zu ihrem Engagement geführt haben

Abstracts, vorzugsweise auf Englisch, sollten nicht mehr als 500 Wörter umfassen und mit einer kurzen bio-bibliografischen Notiz von maximal einer Seite versehen sein. Bitte senden Sie beide Dokumente in einer einzigen PDF-Datei bis zum 30. Juni 2025 an anm@francemel.fr. Da das Ziel des Workshops die Erstellung eines zusammenhängenden bearbeiteten Bandes ist, müssen die ausgewählten Beitragenden eine erste Version ihres Artikels (20.000-30.000 Zeichen, einschließlich Leerzeichen) vor dem Treffen, spätestens am 1. November 2025, einreichen. Die Reise- und Unterbringungskosten werden ganz oder teilweise übernommen, vorbehaltlich der endgültigen Finanzierungsbestätigung.

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The starting point is the Berlin research project #lastseen, which researched, assigned, and analyzed photographs of Jews shortly before the deportation s occurred. For more information on the project, please refer to https://atlas.lastseen.org/ Until now, researchers working on the project have mainly analyzed material depicting the departure point of deportees. For the first time, the workshop will focus on places of deportation in the former Reichskommissariat Ostland, now part of the Baltic States, thereby linking and contextualizing different historical narratives.

We will explore the importance of researching visual sources alongside textual ones, highlighting the significance of photographs and their contribution to historical research. One aim of this call is to explore methodologies of photography, photo analysis, empirical research, and the consolidation of historical photographic documents from different sources. Another objective is to demonstrate how visual material can be used in a contemporary way for museum and educational purposes.

To discuss and analyze all these historical and methodological issues, the Vilnius branch of the GHI Warsaw and the Kaunas Ninth Fort Museum invite you to a workshop in Kaunas in the last week of November 2025. (We will finalize our plans by the end of July.)

We intend to foster discussions among advanced students, historians, and cultural studies scholars, mainly from the Baltic region, to explore the following issues: 

• What is known about the deportations of Jews from Germany and Austria to Kaunas, Riga, and other cities? 

• Are there any eyewitness testimonies, documents, or photographs of the deportations from Germany and Austria?

• Photographs as historical sources - how can photographs be evaluated as documents? 

Which photos from events of the persecution and murder of Jews that took place in the Baltic region during the same period can be examined as historical sources?

We expect short (20-minute) presentations on the questions mentioned earlier or case studies.

Another objective is to demonstrate how visual material that has been discovered can be utilized in a contemporary manner for museum and educational purposes.

We welcome submissions from researchers at all stages of their academic careers, including doctoral candidates, early-career scholars, and established academics. Limited financial assistance will be available to support travel and accommodation costs, with priority given to early-career researchers and those without institutional funding. Please submit an abstract (up to 350 words), a brief narrative biography, and an indication of whether you are applying for financial support by 25 July 2025 to leiserowitz@dhi.waw.pl. Please also direct further inquiries to this address.

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We invite applications from Ph.D. students worldwide from the Humanities, Social Sciences,
Economics and Law who are studying various facets of uncertainty. Both empirical research based on extensive fieldwork as well as projects centered on historical and theoretical reflection are eligible for support. Innovative and challenging research questions as well as comparative
approaches are highly welcome. Projects can be interdisciplinary, yet also rooted in a specific
discipline.

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Conference at the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna (Austria) | Conveners: Daniel Brewing, Moritz Fischer, Elke Seefried (RWTH Aachen), Alexander Bogner (Austrian Academy of Sciences), Axel Jansen (GHI Washington)

Call for Papers

Warnings against moralization are a common theme in discourses about the sciences and the humanities. Moralization introduces a dichotomy of good and evil, which, from an epistemic perspective, constitutes an impermissible simplification of complex relationships and, from a social perspective, contributes to the entrenchment of conflicts. Ultimately, it transforms the opposing party into an enemy against whom one’s own values must be asserted with full force. Warnings against moralization assume that both truth and social peace are endangered by it—and that it is others who engage in moralizing.

However, moralization can also yield positive effects, as illustrated by the rise of bioethics. To the extent that advances in the life sciences have been interpreted as profound moral challenges, bioethics has undergone institutionalization and professionalization from the 1960s onward. Concern for moral standards in scientific practice has contributed to the further development of research ethics. In this way, ethics has evolved into the most visible subdiscipline of philosophy. Thus, moralization can function as a driving force in the differentiation of research fields. At times, moralization originated from within academia itself. One example from the early postwar period is political science, which understood itself as an instrument for promoting liberal democracy. In response to the crimes of National Socialism, political education and academic reform in Germany sought to prevent future abuses. Similar debates emerged globally, for example, in the U.S. after Hiroshima, and in Japan through anti-nuclear movements. Another example is environmental and climate science: After the Rio Earth Summit in 1992, scientific efforts to contribute to ecological transformation intensified. Environmental and climate sciences serve the cause of sustainability and, among other things, advance the moralization of markets and consumption. The fact that contemporary surveys indicate declining trust in climate science due to its perceived proximity to politics suggests that science can also fall victim to its own moralization.

When it comes to moralization, science does not merely function as a subject or object of such processes. Scientific knowledge itself can serve as a resource in processes of moralization. Relevant examples are value conflicts, which often revolve around the question of who the “true” victims are. Consider the controversy over stem cell research during the 2000s: Are the true victims the patients who are denied access to a potential stem cell therapy due to insufficient research funding or the embryos that are used and consumed for research purposes? In such disputes, the ability to prevail depends, among other things, on the possession of relevant scientific expertise.

This outline highlights the intricate and multifaceted relationships between science and the humanities, moralization, and victimization. As debated among historians, moralization is an essentially contested concept: diverse actors employ the term—often in opposition to one another—leading to ambiguity regarding its meaning and semantic boundaries. Our conference seeks to address this challenge by exploring the intersection of scholarship and moralization from a historical perspective.

We proceed from the assumption that the interrelationship between moralization and science has become increasingly prominent and visible since 1945. Of course, this issue has been debated in various forms at least since the professionalization and differentiation of the sciences in the late nineteenth century. But in the German-speaking world, the continued relevance of issues discussed in the earlier Werturteilsstreit (debate over value judgments) after World War II and the 1960s Positivismusstreit (debate over positivism) highlighted tensions about the role of critical science in democratic societies. Both debates revolved around the extent to which non-scientific values could or should influence academic discussions and whether a scholar could still claim scientific freedom while advocating for social justice. These lines of conflict persist into the present.

We expect to place particular focus on the period since the 1970s, asking to what extent a specific constellation emerged during this decade that intensified moralizing discourses in science. In Western industrialized countries, the legacy of ‘1968’ and the rise of new social movements prompted a critical reassessment of the role of science amid broader social and cultural transformations, and of the relationship between science and activism. This shift helped catalyze the rise of Science and Technology Studies (STS) and, within the social sciences, a growing emphasis on subjectivity, individual experience, and authenticity. Particularly in Western Europe, ideas of participatory democracy and equality began to permeate not only the social sciences and humanities but also the natural sciences, fostering methods and practices that blurred the boundaries between science, society, and the public sphere. These developments contributed to the emergence of “counter-knowledge” from above (A. von Schwerin) and became a central driver of the growing moralization of science. In the United States, the 1970s likewise saw an intensification of moralizing tendencies, shaped by the decline of the Great Society paradigm in politics, culture, and public life. The rise of neoliberalism signaled a return to an older, historically embedded discourse centered on the individual as a moral agent. Across both sides of the Atlantic, these developments reinforced the moralization of science.

We invite contributions that explore the role of moralization in fields of science, the social sciences, and the humanities, in public discourses fueled by these fields, and in public discussions about them. How is science a driver of moralization and victimization? What conflicts evolve from the moralizing role of science for science itself? What conflicts evolve for societies at large? In short: Under what circumstances and in what historical contexts does science become the subject, object, or resource of moralization—and what are the consequences with respect to awareness of societal problems, political decision-making, and research itself?

Key Questions for Inquiry

We invite contributions from historians, sociologists, and scholars in related fields to present papers that take up questions such as the following:

• In what ways have discourses and practices of moralization been interconnected in the history of science and the humanities? What roles have they played in stabilizing or challenging paradigms and disciplinary communities? How have these discourses and practices changed over time?
• To what extent has moralization contributed to scientific self-reflection and progress? Conversely, to what extent has it posed a threat to the scientific ethos and to adherence to norms of truth-seeking?
• Who has engaged in moralization, who has accused others of doing so, and to what end? What cultural, political, or economic contexts have shaped these dynamics?
• What role have methodological problems played in advancing or hindering moralization within scientific and humanistic fields?
• What resources has science contributed to public debates on “political correctness” or critiques of historical injustice? How have the humanities drawn on science in these contexts, and what roles have scientists themselves chosen to adopt—or avoid—in academic and public discourse?
• We are also interested in the impact of different forms and practices of communication: How should we evaluate the role of intermediaries such as journalists? What role does the public play in shaping or responding to moralizing discourses?
• Potential topics include (but are not limited to) nuclear technology, environmental science, the AIDS crisis, and biomedical ethics in the 1980s and 1990s. While the sciences offer particularly rich ground for analysis, we also welcome papers on moralizing discourses in the social sciences and the humanities.
   

The conference will bring together scholars from diverse fields, including history (such as the history of science or medicine), sociology, and science studies, as well as related disciplines. The conveners aim to publish contributions to this conference as a special issue in a peer-reviewed journal or (given the interdisciplinary nature of the project) as an edited book.

The conference will be held at the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna (Austria) on September 17 and 18, 2026. Please upload a paper proposal in our applicant portal by September 15, 2025. A proposal consisting of a single PDF-file containing a brief description of the research project (up to 300 words), a brief CV (1 or 2 pages), and contact information. Successful applicants will be notified in October 2025.

Accommodation will be arranged and paid for by the conference organizers. Participants will make their own travel arrangements; funding subsidies for travel may be available upon request for selected scholars, especially those who might not otherwise be able to attend the conference, including junior scholars and scholars from universities with limited resources. For further information regarding the event’s format and conceptualization, please contact Axel Jansen. For questions about the submission platform or logistics (travel and accommodation), please contact our event coordinator Nicola Hofstetter.

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The Orient-Institut Beirut (OIB) is a leading and interdisciplinary academic research institute on the Middle East and North Africa from Late Antiquity to the present. Being a part of the Max Weber Foundation – German Humanities Institutes Abroad, Bonn, which guarantees the academic freedom of its researchers the OIB is generously funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research. 

The OIB publishes three publication series, Bibliotheca Islamica (BI), Beiruter Texte und Studien (BTS), and Orient-Institute Studies (OIS).

The Beiruter Texte und Studien (BTS) is the OIB’s double-blind peer reviewed book series for research on the historic and contemporary Middle East. Since its inception in 1964, the series has published more than 140 books and has served as a platform for innovative studies. Its field combines disciplinary, interdisciplinary and area-studies approaches in the humanities and social sciences, including Islamic and Arabic studies, philology and literature, philosophy, religious studies, theology, material culture, art and architecture, history, cultural and social anthropology, law and critical legal studies, sociology, psychology, geography, political science and gender studies. The series publishes monograph studies, conference proceedings of the OIB and other collective volumes in German, English, Arabic and French.

For this series, the OIB invites tenders from publishers with relevant experience before June 20 2025 that meet the requirements and conditions specified below. The selection procedure is a two-stage process: first, the OIB invites bids that fulfil the mandatory criteria listed below in order to assess the bidder’s suitability. In a second round, the OIB will invite a maximum of 4 suitable applicants to submit a binding bid along criteria to be communicated to those selected in order to identify the best tender.
 

Mandatory criteria

1. The contract begins 1 January 2026 and terminates after five years. The contract can be extended by mutual agreement. 
2. As the publisher of the series, the OIB retains the exclusive right to reproduce and distribute the series. 
3. The OIB decides on content, author and publisher contracts.
4. The bidder must demonstrate its ability to produce Arabic, English, French and German texts through his previous book portfolio and specimen chapters of selected works from the same.
5. The books are produced in printed form and, parallel to that, as an electronic version in open access without embargo, preferably Golden Access.
6. The bidder assigns an ISBN, a DOI at book and chapter level and registers the book with digital object identifier agencies. It also specifies in its offer to which libraries it will send deposit copies of the titles to be produced. These must include at least the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek in Leipzig and the Library of Congress. 
7. The bidder produces an electronic online-version for the MENADoc-repository and specifies whether it makes it accessible at other repositories. 
8. The OIB seeks to publish texts that are as accessible as possible and that take into account the harmonized European standard EN 301 549 (currently version EN 301 549 v3. 2.1). The bidder sets out its capability to meet this standard. The contract will contain the requirement to cope with possible updates of the standard. 
9. The OIB aims to make the books in the series available worldwide. Hence, every tender demonstrates the bidder’s distribution chains, especially in the Middle East.
10. The bidder sets out its advertising strategy for the series. This includes to demonstrate the ability its participation in relevant book fairs.
11. The bidder sets out its advertising strategy for the series including its participation in relevant book fairs.

Please send in your contractual tenders addressing the aforementioned requirements and conditions before June 20 (Beirut time) 2025 to the following dedicated email-address: btscontract(at)orient-institut.org

Any tender submitted will be regarded as an offer by the Bidder and does not constitute or imply the acceptance of the tender. Multiple files and emails must be clearly identified by indicating in the subject line the bidder. The bidder should receive an email acknowledging email receipt. All files must be free of viruses and not corrupted. It is recommended that the entire bid be consolidated into as few attachments as possible. The Orient-Institut Beirut and/or the Max-Weber-Foundation Bonn shall not be responsible for any costs associated with a supplier’s preparation and submission of a tender, regardless of the outcome or the manner of conducting the selection process. Bids must be handed in in English. Additional translations into German or Arabic are possible but not required. 

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The World Bank’s 2021 Groundswell report highlights climate change as an increasingly powerful driver of migration (Clement et al.). It projects that by 2050, it could force 216 million people across six world regions to relocate within their own countries. While a significant number of people will be displaced in the Global South, it is also a matter that concerns the Global North. Nations and communities in the Global North are increasingly experiencing the impacts of — mostly internal — climate migration, i.e. the movement of people within a country's borders primarily due to sea-level rise. Unlike acute climate events such as hurricanes or wildfires, sea-level rise is a slow-moving, long-term process that gradually impacts coastal communities over decades. While it is chronic in nature, its effects — such as coastal erosion, frequent flooding, and saltwater intrusion — can lead to acute disasters when combined with extreme weather events like storm surges and hurricanes. Together, historically, gradual destruction and the one stemming from disaster scenarios have endangered the existence of many communities along the coastlines with no exception to the United States, as seen in the case of internal migration following Hurricane Katrina. Sweet et al. (2022) find that sea levels on the coasts of the 48 states spanning the conterminous U.S. are rising more rapidly than the global average. In consequence, over 20 million Americans could be forced to relocate in the coming decades, with more than 13 million facing permanent displacement due to sea-level rise by 2100, as highlighted in Matthew E. Hauer’s Nature article (2017). 

Thus, internal climate migration due to sea-level rise, is no longer a future scenario as imagined in climate fiction or scientific reports, but an already lived reality by low-lying coastal communities across the United States. For instance, Isle de Jean Charles in Louisiana, home to the Biloxi-Chitimacha-Choctaw Tribe, has already lost over 98% of its land to rising waters and erosion forcing the community to abandon the place their ancestors had lived on for centuries (Jimenez-Damary et al. 2020). While rising sea levels are impacting all coastal regions from Virginia to Washington state, minority communities are often — and, historically speaking, were always — disproportionately affected. The erosion of roads, sewage systems, and buildings and other impacts are leading to costly repairs and economic decline and pose serious risks to human health. In Louisiana, for example, sea-level rise and higher temperatures are a serious threat to wetland fisheries, forcing many people to abandon their homes and livelihoods. 

This scenario has prompted urgent debates on whether to rebuild or retreat and relocate. In their policy report Beyond Rebuilding: Planning for Better Managed Retreat published by the the DC-based think tank “New America,” Robustelli et al. advocate for the urgency of “an ambitious plan to support millions of Americans to steadily relocate in a way that is financially feasible, community-led, and socioeconomically equitable” (2023). In their analyses, politicians and policy advisers do not necessarily speak of (internal climate) migration. Instead, they have adopted the terminology of “managed retreat” to refer to the abandonment of occupied land and the removal or relocation of population and/or infrastructure out of areas subject to repeated flooding, rising sea level, or other natural hazards (Siders et al. 2019). Even though managed retreat is “a new concept in scientific and policy discussions, flooding [, which has forced people living near coasts or rivers to relocate,] has been threatening U.S. communities throughout the history of the nation,” as geologist Nicholas Pinter reminds us (2021). Other countries in the Global North, particularly Western European nations led by the Netherlands, have begun to implement publicly funded programs managing strategic retreat, which include buy backs of homes in affected coastal areas and targeted relocation (Lepesant 2024). In the United States, however, culture wars and climate change denialism of the conservative right and its MAGA movement have complicated the matter as seen with the recent freezing of respective Federal funds or as in the case of Florida — one of the hardest hit states of coastal sea level rise — through implementing a “Don’t say Climate Change” bill and its governor refusing to publicly address the matter of managed retreat (Tampa Bay Times, February 17, 2025). 

Climate change and its effects — including discussions about migration and adaptation  — have, thus, many layers which have been studied from an interdisciplinary perspective. Understanding its complex causes, impacts, and solutions requires integrating insights from environmental science, urban planning, policy studies, sociology, history, and beyond. This conference brings together scholars from diverse disciplines to examine contemporary and historical cases of sea level rise and the need for managed retreat in the United States — and as a matter of comparison within the Global North — Western Europe. By bridging knowledge across disciplinary and geographical boundaries, we aim to explore how societies navigate climate-induced displacement and adaptation.

Submission Guidelines

For this two-day conference, we invite colleagues to submit proposals by June 16, 2025, for individual presentations (20 minutes) that provide interdisciplinary perspectives on climate migration and mobility in the Global North by addressing the following questions:

• Which communities have access to funds that help managed retreat? How do these communities collaborate with local and federal governments or private interest groups?

• What case studies reveal the successes and failures of retreat strategies? Why do many residents prefer to rebuild rather than relocate? Which coastal communities have relocated or are planning to move?

• What role do policy frameworks, insurance mechanisms, and legal structures play in shaping responses to displacement? Using what criteria and by whom is the need determination made for community-level managed retreat?

• What lessons  — from both the Global North and the Global South  — can be drawn from past and present planned relocation efforts? What forms of climate-induced displacement and adaptation have societies and governments applied in the past?

• How do cultural, religious, and artistic expressions capture and influence public perceptions of climate migration and managed retreat?

• Lastly, on a methodological level: How do different disciplines conceptualize climate migration and human mobility, and where do their approaches intersect or diverge?

By engaging with these questions, this conference fosters a critical and interdisciplinary dialogue on one of the most pressing challenges of our time: the growing necessity — and resistance — to climate-driven migration in the Global North.

Submission and Contact Information

Although we favor in-person attendance of participants / presenters, facilities for hybrid participation will be provided with the aim of making the event as inclusive as possible. Please submit a short CV and paper abstract of no more than 500 words online in our application portal by June 16, 2025. Accommodations will be arranged and paid for by the conference organizers. Participants will make their own travel arrangements; funding subsidies for travel is available upon request (for one presenter per paper) for selected  scholars, especially those who might not otherwise be able to attend the workshop, including junior scholars and scholars from universities with limited resources. For further information regarding the event’s format and conceptualization, please contact Jana Dunz-Keck or Sarah Beringer. For questions about the submission platform or logistics (travel and accommodation), please contact our event coordinator Nicola Hofstetter.

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The seemingly irreconcilable positions of the debate so far have mostly been presented in programmatic essays and newspaper articles but are rarely substantiated by empirically grounded social-historical analyses.

Empirically oriented historians have so far only partially contributed to the discussion. This is precisely where the conference aims to intervene—by bringing greater objectivity to the currently heated debate through a clear empirical and social-historical analysis of systems of rule and mass violence.

We invite scholars from different methodological and historical backgrounds to submit proposals relevant to one of the planned panels of the conference.

• occupation regimes
• settlers
• counterinsurgency/partisan warfare
• camps
• collaboration
• forced labor and expropriation 
   

The event is jointly organized by the German Historical Institute Washington and the Centre for War Studies, University College Dublin. The conveners are Ulrike von Hirschhausen (GHI) and Robert Gerwarth (UCD). The conference will take place from May, 28 - 29, 2026 at the GHI.

Please submit an abstract (max. 500 words) and a short biography (max. 150 words) in English via the GHI online platform by July 1, 2025.

Applicants will be notified by early September 2025. Accommodation will be arranged and paid for by the conference organizers. Participants will make their own travel arrangements. Funding subsidies for travel are available upon request for selected scholars, especially those who might not otherwise be able to attend the workshop, including early-career scholars and scholars from universities with limited resources.Please contact Nicola Hofstetter (hofstetter-phelps(at)ghi-dc.org) if you have any difficulties submitting your information online or if you have other questions related to the event.

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Die Deutschen Historischen Institute Paris und Rom setzen im akademischen Jahr 2025/2026 die Onlineseminar-Reihe zum Thema »Euro-Mediterranean Entanglements in Medieval History« fort. Die Veranstaltungen finden im Zweimonatsrhythmus statt. Sie richten sich sowohl an den wissenschaftlichen Nachwuchs als auch an etablierte Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler aller mediävistischen Disziplinen. Ziel ist es, ein internationales und interdisziplinäres Forum zu schaffen, auf dem vielfältige Themen und methodische Ansätze vorgestellt und diskutiert werden können.
Wir laden interessierte Forscherinnen und Forscher herzlich ein, ihre laufenden oder vor Kurzem abgeschlossenen Arbeiten vor einem internationalen Publikum zu präsentieren und zu diskutieren. Bitte schicken Sie einen Abstract (1–2 Seiten) und kurzen Lebenslauf (ggf. mit Publikationsverzeichnis) bis zum 9. Juni 2025 an asagasser@dhi-paris.fr und wolf@dhi-roma.it.

Themen

Der geographische Raum ist bewusst nicht klar umrissen und umfasst Europa sowie den Mittelmeerraum im weitesten Sinne. Einbezogen sind auch Verflechtungen zwischen dem euromediterranen Raum und anderen Weltregionen. Folgende Themenfelder stehen im Mittelpunkt:

• Regional übergreifende, transkulturelle und interreligiöse Verflechtungen (Prozesse/Ergebnisse);
• Grenz- und Kontakträume;
• Soziale Netzwerke und interpersonelle Beziehungen;
• Migration und Mobilität;
• Transfer, Diffusion und Adaption bzw. Transformation von Ideen, Wissen und materiellen Objekten.

Seminarablauf

Im Mittelpunkt des Seminars steht der Austausch von Ideen. Unsere Referierenden beginnen mit einer 10- minütigen Keynote, in der sie ihre laufenden oder kürzlich abgeschlossenen Forschungsarbeiten vorstellen. Im Anschluss folgt ein 10-minütiger Kommentar eines Spezialisten. Dieser bildet die Grundlage für die anschließende 40-minütige Diskussion mit dem Online-Publikum.

Termine

Dienstags 17.00–18.00 Uhr (MEZ)

• 28. Oktober 2025
• 25. November 2025
• 20. Januar 2026
• 31. März 2026
• 26. Mai 2026

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The “Listening to the Past” workshop will bring scholars with interests in history, linguistics, and the digital humanities together to discuss the use of audio[visual] sources, the development of innovative methodologies for their study and dissemination, and assess the state of the field and chart opportunities for future research. Funding for the workshop is kindly supported by the Volkswagen Stiftung in conjunction with the research project “Let the Past Speak! Turning Migrant Letters of the 19th Century into Speech,” a joint collaboration of the German Historical Institute Washington and the University of Texas at Austin (Department of Germanic Studies) that will investigate leveraging written and oral sources with artificial intelligence (AI) technology to revive the sound of 19th-century speech.

Over the past fifteen years historians have become alive to the potential of the history of the senses, developing a new awareness and interest in methodological approaches rooted in sensory perception. Part of this work has included attempts to reconstruct the frameworks by which actors in the past created shared sensory vocabularies—whether visual, auditory, or olfactory, among other possibilities—to make sense of or to transform their surroundings and their culture. Out of necessity, when dealing with unconventional sources, such as songs and recipes, where lived experience might transcend the textual or the pictorial, scholars in history and other disciplines have also developed new tools to conduct research and to in turn communicate their results to academic and public audiences. 

With respect to auditory sources, linguists and especially sociolinguists have long been at the forefront of research, using both studies specifically designed to record language usage and oral histories recorded for other purposes to trace the history and development of regional, social, and other types of dialects as well as “standard” speech. Over the past twenty years, linguists have also opened up new avenues for research by analyzing historical (hand-written and printed) documents with digital methodologies to determine how languages and their various dialects change over time and why. These data not only shed light on the structural changes of languages and dialects, but they also have allowed linguists to gain a better understanding of the social and regional dynamics which influence language change.

Given this background, the “Listening to the Past” workshop will bring together a small cohort of scholars with interests in history, linguistics, and digital humanities to discuss the use of audio[visual] sources, the development of innovative methodologies for their study and dissemination, and to assess the state of the field and chart opportunities for future research. We invite scholars from various methodological and historical backgrounds to participate in this international workshop. The thematic range includes, but is not limited to, the following potential topics:

• Sociolinguistics and historical linguistics, including the development of dialects in diaspora communities
• The history of sound and the use of recorded/audiovisual sources in historical research
• Applications of artificial intelligence to historical and linguistic research
• Ethics of digital methodologies, tools, and datasets in the humanities
   

The workshop will take place from March 19-20, 2026, and will be hosted by the German Historical Institute in Washington, D.C.

Please submit an abstract (max. 500 words) and a short biography (max. 150 words) in English via the GHI conference platform by May 28, 2025.

Accommodations will be arranged and paid for by the conference organizers. Participants will make their own travel arrangements; funding subsidies for travel are available upon request for selected scholars, especially those who might not otherwise be able to attend the workshop, including junior scholars and scholars from universities with limited resources.For further information regarding the event’s format and conceptualization, please contact Hans Boas or Atiba Pertilla. For other logistical questions, or if you have any difficulties submitting your information online, please contact Nicola Hofstetter-Phelps.

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• German history (submitted to a British or Irish university),
• British history or British colonial history (submitted to a German university),
• British-German relations or British-German comparative history (submitted to a British, Irish, or German university).

The Prize is 1,000 Euros and will be presented on the occasion of the GHIL’s Annual Lecture in November 2025.

To be eligible, applicants must have successfully completed doctoral exams and vivas between 1 August 2024 and 31 July 2025.

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The scholarships are granted for the period of 12 months starting 1 July 2025.

Please send your application to scholarship@mwsindia.org

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The fellowship will be awarded to PhD and M.A. students and advanced scholars without restrictions in research fields or geographical provenance for research using materials at the Horner Library. The "GHI Fellowship at the Horner Library" will provide a travel subsidy and an allowance of $1,000 to $3,500 depending on the length of the stay and the qualifications of the fellows. Opportunities to research at other special collections in Philadelphia may be available.

The Joseph Horner Memorial Library houses 70,000 volumes and is the largest German American collection outside of a university. The collection offers rich materials from the 17th to the 20th centuries to historians of German American immigration culture, especially in Pennsylvania, as well as historians of German fictional and non-fictional literature, including travel and popular literature. See the reference guide on the GHI web site and the catalog at the German Society of Pennsylvania.Questions about applying or for the fellowship program in general should be directed to fellowships(at)ghi-dc.org.

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Die Bewerber*innen können sich für Forschungsaufenthalte in bis zu zwei Ländern (z.B. Litauen und Georgien) oder in einer Region (z.B. Baltikum, inkl. Finnland; Südkaukasus; Zentralasien) bewerben.

Die Richtlinien zur Vergabe und die Höhe des Stipendiums regelt die Stipendienordnung.

Die Bewerbungsunterlagen müssen auf Deutsch oder Englisch eingereicht werden.

Bitte senden Sie das ausgefüllte Antragsformular sowie alle anderen Unterlagen in einer PDF-Datei und ausschließlich per E-Mail an stipendien(at)mws-osteuropa.org.

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Long before academic specializations crystallized and new disciplines developed in the early twentieth century, historical and archaeological inquiries into relations between “East” and “West” have been foundational for framing interactions between different cultures. German Orientalists and archaeologists have been particularly prominent in this regard.

Our conference, which is being held at the Egyptian Society for Historical Studies in Cairo over two days, addresses the development of the study of issues related to Arab-German relations over time, with a focus on how research models, methods and approaches have changed. A prominent example of this development is how the study of the Crusades has changed in German and Arab discourse? We aim to explore the broader historiographical approaches and contemporary interests that shaped the most prominent features of this relationship.

For a long time, invocations of Arab and German pasts assumed a significant cultural gap between them, whether in terms of temporal or moral differences. More recent historical research has highlighted aspects of convergence between Germans and Arabs, identified sources of mutual inspiration, and found evidence of continuous cultural affinities.

From this standpoint, we invite researchers to present research papers on the following broad themes:

1. The historical legacies of merchants, spies, scholars, missionaries, students, and translators in shaping and developing relations between Arabic-speaking and German-speaking lands since the Crusades.
2. The image of Arab lands in the writings of German travelers, and the image of German lands in the writings of Arab travelers throughout the ages.
3. Egyptology, archaeology, and modern historical imagination.
4. Ottomans, Arabs and Germany in the Age of Imperialism.
5. The Arabo-Islamic heritage in German literature and issues of Orientalism/Occidentalism, nationalism, and Romanticism.
6. Germany (East and West) and Palestine (past and present).

Based on the methodologies of “intertwined history”, “comparative history” and related methodological approaches, conference participants are encouraged to think “across” history and “within” history, as we seek to answer a set of theoretical, methodological and conceptual questions together, to reveal how the study of Arab-German relations contributes to our deep understanding of history and its meanings in general. Among the questions that will be addressed are:

1. How did the early encounters between Arabic and German speakers shape modern and contemporary relations?
2. What political and cognitive divides can be identified in the course of Arab-German relations?
3. To what extent are the areas of Arab-German relations (such as culture, politics, and economics) independent or interconnected?
4. How did history and historiography influence the development of Arab-German relations, and what types of historical knowledge (or historical ignorance) did these relations produce?

Two keynote speeches will be given: the first on the day before the start of the conference, and the second on the evening of the first day, providing the historical framework on which the case studies that will be addressed during the six conference sessions will be based.

Researchers wishing to participate in the conference are invited to submit a summary of their research paper in no more than five hundred words, in either Arabic or English, accompanied by a brief CV that explains: academic specialization, scientific degree, a list of their published works and research, with a phone number and email address.

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Das DHI Rom ist eine Einrichtung der in Bonn ansässigen Max Weber Stiftung. Es widmet sich der epochenübergreifenden, interdisziplinären Erforschung der italienischen und deutschen Geschichte und Musikgeschichte in ihren europäischen und globalen Bezügen vom Mittelalter bis heute. Dabei schöpft es aus den einzigartigen Ressourcen, die Italien und insbesondere Rom als Wissenschaftsstandort bieten. Im Mittelpunkt stehen politische, wirtschaftliche und kulturelle Aspekte sowie die Vermittlung zwischen beiden Wissenschaftskulturen.

Die Zahl der Teilnehmer/-innen ist begrenzt. Erwartet wird die Übernahme eines Referates, dessen Thema bei Zusagebescheid vom DHI vorgeschlagen wird. Das Deutsche Historische Institut übernimmt die Kosten der Unterbringung in einem Doppelzimmer und gibt einen pauschalen Unkostenbeitrag von 150 €.

Weitere Informationen zu den einzureichenden Bewerbungsunterlagen können Punkt IV der Stipendienordnung entnommen werden.

Bewerbungen werden bis zum 30. April 2025 ausschließlich über das Bewerbungsportal entgegengenommen.

Bitte geben Sie auch an, für welche Epoche Sie sich besonders interessieren. Die Bewerber/-innen erhalten im Juni Bescheid.

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Die Veranstaltung richtet sich an fortgeschrittene Masterstudierende und Promovierende vorrangig deutscher und französischer Universitäten und Hochschulen, die in ihren Forschungsprojekten Anknüpfungspunkte zu den oben genannten grundwissenschaftlichen Disziplinen sehen. Voraussetzung sind gute Kenntnisse des Deutschen und Französischen, Lateinkenntnisse sind von Vorteil.

Die Reise- (üblicherweise Bahnfahrt, 2. Klasse, bis max. 200,- €) und Übernachtungskosten (Jugendherberge) werden vorbehaltlich der Zusage für die beantragte Drittmittelfinanzierung vom DHIP getragen. Eine Teilnahmebescheinigung kann ausgestellt werden.

Die Bewerbungsunterlagen müssen einen tabellarischen Lebenslauf sowie ein Bewerbungsschreiben in der Muttersprache enthalten. Des Weiteren soll eine kurze Projektskizze (max. 500 Wörter) in der jeweiligen Fremdsprache eingereicht werden, aus der eine klare Motivation und Eignung hervorgehen. Interessierte Bewerberinnen und Bewerber schicken bis zum 15. Juli 2025 ihre Unterlagen (CV, Bewerbungsschreiben, Sprachzertifikate und Projektskizze) unter dem Stichwort »Herbstuniversität am DHIP« in einem einzigen PDF-Dokument an: herbstuni@dhi-paris.fr.

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Geplant sind Besuche der Monumenta Germaniae Historica, des Bayerischen Hauptstaatsarchivs, der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, der Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek, des Zentralinstituts für Kunstgeschichte sowie des Historischen Kollegs.

Eine Teilnahmebescheinigung kann ausgestellt werden.

Die Teilnahmegebühr beträgt 50,- EUR. Die Reisekosten (üblicherweise Bahnfahrt, 2. Klasse, bis max. 150,- €) und Übernachtung (in der Regel im Doppelzimmer) werden vom DHIP getragen.

Die Bewerbungsunterlagen müssen einen tabellarischen Lebenslauf sowie ein kurzes Motivationsschreiben enthalten. Sie sind bis zum 1. Juni 2025 unter dem Stichwort »Mediävistik in München« an Frau Dr. Amélie Sagasser zu richten: asagasser@dhi-paris.fr.

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Ziel der Konferenz ist es, die Forschung über die Erfahrungen, Identitäten und den Aktivismus von LGBTQ+-Personen und -Gemeinschaften in der historischen und politischen Landschaft Ostmitteleuropas zu erweitern. Wir möchten queere Lebensweisen und Identitäten im Zusammenhang mit breiteren sozio-politischen Transformationen in Ostmitteleuropa untersuchen.

Die Veranstaltung soll über nationale Rahmen hinausgehen und sich mit der Fluidität, Hybridität und Vernetzung queerer Geschichten befassen, wobei intersektionale und interdisziplinäre Ansätze im Vordergrund stehen. Die Tagung wird den Teilnehmer:innen als erste Plattform für die Konzeption ihrer Forschungsarbeiten dienen. Eine Folgeveranstaltung sowie eine Publikation der Ergebnisse sind geplant.

Die Veranstaltung ist eine Kooperation des Herder-Instituts für historische Ostmitteleuropaforschung, Institut der Leibniz-Gemeinschaft, in Zusammenarbeit mit der Max Weber Stiftung, dem Deutschen Historischen Institut Warschau (DHIW) und seiner Prager Außenstelle sowie der Philosophischen Fakultät der Karls-Universität Prag.

Richtlinien für die Einreichung:
Bitte reichen Sie bis zum 30. April 2025 eine Zusammenfassung (250 Wörter) und eine Kurzbiografie (100 Wörter) in einer einzigen pdf-Datei mit dem Betreff QUEER HISTORIES an forum@herder-institut.de ein. Die angenommenen Teilnehmer werden bis zum 30. Mai 2025 benachrichtigt. Die Konferenz findet am 26. und 27. August 2025 im Herder-Institut, Marburg, Deutschland, statt.

Für Rückfragen wenden Sie sich bitte an forum@herder-institut.de. Wir freuen uns auf Ihre Beiträge und darauf, den Diskurs über queere Geschichte in Ostmitteleuropa voranzutreiben.

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Die SISCALT organisiert in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Österreichischen Historischen Institut in Rom, dem Deutschen Historischen Institut in Rom und der Villa Vigoni ein Seminar für bis zu zehn italienischsprachige und deutschsprachige Promovierende und Postdocs, die sich, aus unterschiedlichen Blickwinkeln, mit der österreichischen und der deutschen Geschichte und deren Beziehungen zu Italien und der gegenseitigen Beeinflussung beschäftigen, angefangen vom 19. Jahrhundert bis zur Gegenwart. Das Seminar bietet die Möglichkeit, sich untereinander sowie mit Spezialisten inhaltlich und methodisch über die Projekte auszutauschen. Besonders willkommen sind Projekte zum Habsburgerreich, zu den Folgen seines Untergangs für Italien und Deutschland und zu seinem Erbe in den Nachfolgestaaten.

Da keine Simultanübersetzung vorgesehen ist, sollten die Teilnehmer:innen über ausreichende Sprachkenntnisse verfügen, um den Beiträgen, die in deutscher bzw. italienischer Sprache präsentiert werden, folgen zu können.

Das Treffen findet am 30. September und 1. Oktober 2025 am Österreichischen Historischen Institut in Rom statt. Es ist ein Zuschuss zu den Reise- und Übernachtungskosten vorgesehen, der je nach Bedarf gestaffelt wird und die Kosten der Teilnehmer:innen so weit wie möglich deckt. Kandidaten, die über Kostenrückerstattung seitens ihrer Institution verfügen können, werden gebeten, dies in ihrer Bewerbung anzugeben. Die ausgewählten Teilnehmer:innen verpflichten sich, während des gesamten Seminars anwesend zu sein.

Um am Auswahlverfahren teilnehmen zu können, sind von Seiten der Kandidatinnen und Kandidaten folgende Unterlagen einzureichen:

1. Kurzer Lebenslauf (maximal 1 Seite) mit Angabe der Post- und Emailadresse, der Telefonnummer, der Sprachkenntnisse, des Titels der Dissertation oder des Postdoc-Projekts, desNamens der entsprechenden Institution und der Person, die die Arbeit akademisch betreut, der Verfügbarkeit etwaiger Kostenrückerstattung.

2. Ein Abstract des beabsichtigten Vortrags (maximal 6000 Zeichen), in dem ein Titel und die wesentlichen Fragestellungen der Arbeit ebenso angegeben werden wie der historiografische Rahmen, innerhalb dessen sich die Arbeit bewegt, die thematischen Schwerpunkte und die für die Recherche wesentlichen Quellen. Es ist besonders erwünscht, die innovativen Elemente der eigenen Forschung deutlich zu machen. Es werden nur Themen mit Bezug zur Dissertation oder zum laufenden Projekt angenommen.

Bewerbungen sind bis zum 15. April an folgende E-Mail zu richten: siscalt.info@gmail.com

Die Bewerbungen werden von einem wissenschaftlichen Gremium bewertet und die Ergebnisse den ausgewählten Teilnehmern bis Ende April 2025 mitgeteilt.

Für weitere Informationen: siscalt.info@gmail.com

Der Präsident der SISCALT (Carlo Spagnolo)

Die Koordinatorin des wissenschaftlichen Gremiums (Maddalena Guiotto)

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Kritika editors and our colleagues at EHESS and CNRS, Juliette Cadiot and Irina Tcherneva, are soliciting analyses of the border regions of the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union in times of war and postwar. Building on several decades of “borderlands” scholarship that focuses on the tension between local diversity and fluidity, on the one hand, and state-driven campaigns for security, legibility, and homogeneity, on the other, Kritika editors seek to highlight the centrality of the borderland as a “shatter zone”: a site for violence, genocide, warfare, forced population transfer, and migration. We intend for the conference to be transnational and decolonial in orientation. For instance, how was the expansion of the Soviet Union in and after the Second World War experienced by displaced and replacement populations? Similarly, what was it like to travel as a pilgrim or refugee from Soviet Central Asia to Iran, Afghanistan, Turkey, and elsewhere?

Among other topics, contributions might focus on the following:

• The projection of state power into borderlands regions
• Migration trajectories
• The entanglement of different political regimes at local, national, and imperial levels
• Forced population transfers
• The history of cross-border groups and their mobility
• Transnational and trans-imperial individual and family trajectories
• Population exchanges at the end of a war
• War crimes and postwar repressions
• The presence of border zones in international diplomacy
• The role of border zones in domestic politics
• Identity and citizenship in border zones
• The specific contributions of borderland history to the broader history of postwar eras
• The role of nonstate actors (NGOs, churches, etc.) in border zones

We anticipate inviting a group of twelve scholars to the conference. Participation is open to specialists of various levels of experience, from advanced doctoral students to senior scholars. We are especially keen to include scholars from the former Soviet Union and surrounding countries. All papers will be circulated beforehand; select articles will be published in a conference volume and/or a special issue of Kritika. All papers must be submitted in English.

We invite interested participants to apply to the conference by submitting a brief abstract (250– 300 words), along with a short CV (maximum two pages), combined into a single PDF by 1 May 2025 to Kritika’s Special Topics Editor, Stephen Bittner (bittner@sonoma.edu). Conference participants will be required to circulate a draft version of their paper (5,000–6,000 words) by 15 November 2025.

With support from the Institut Convergence migrations, Sorbonne, INED, the American University in Paris, EHESS, CNRS, Max Weber Network Eastern Europe, CERCEC, and Eur’ORBEM labs, conference organizers anticipate being able to cover travel costs and lodging for most participants. However, funds are limited. We ask participants to apply where possible for funding from their home institutions. Please indicate in your abstract whether you will need financial support if accepted.

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MWS Büro Georgien, Aleksanteri Institut an der Universität Helsinki, Max Weber Netzwerk Osteuropa

Datum: 30. November – 3. Dezember 2025

Ort: MWS Büro Georgien

Bewerbungsschluss: 5. Mai 2025

The Georgian Branch of the Max Weber Foundation in Tbilisi, the Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki, and the Max Weber Network Eastern Europe invite submissions for the International Workshop “The Foreign Expatriates at the South Caucasus. The case of international family enterprises in Azerbaijan and Georgia 1850–1925th”.

The New Industrial Revolution in the middle of 19^th century and its modern industry began to exploit many natural and synthetic resources, such as oil, gas, kerosene, or paraffin. The oil fields in the Absheron Peninsula and near Baku in Azerbaijan made this region very important for the growing industry since the middle of the 1860th. The Russian Empire was one of the most important markets for German, Finnish, and Swedish industries also as well as one of most important suppliers of raw materials for these nations. Finnish, Swedish, and German engineers, traders, businessmen, companies, and agencies had their activities in Russia. Dozen foreign firms turned their attention to this oil region. The largest foreign companies in the South Caucasus were the Nobel Brothers involved in the oil business and the Siemens & Halske AG and later the Simens Brothers with copper mines. Finns and Swedes (citizens of Finland and Sweden) were the largest foreign diaspora in Baku. The third group were Germans. It was a unique expats’ community with their own culture, its own church, its own schools, its own cemeteries.

This workshop addresses several different aspects of the history of international community and family business in Georgia and Azerbaijan: the specifics of a non-regional family business in the periphery of the Russian Empire, the cultural history of business-expats in Caucasian cities, merchant communities, in expat-communities (including roles as ethnic/religious minority) and their role in Caucasian-European contacts. The task of the workshop is to discuss the everyday life and fates of Germans, Finns, and Swedes who moved to Azerbaijan and Georgia for various reasons and the role of archives and museums in preservation of the history of migration.

We will accept paper proposals until the 5th of May 2025. The proposals must be in English and include a title, abstract of the theme/subject of the presentation (max. 300 words), and keywords plus a short author bio (max. 100 words), and contact information.

Please submit your proposal in one PDF-document via e-mail to the Organizers:
info(at)mws-osteuropa.org.

Questions related to the workshop topic can be directed to prof. Dmitri Frolov: dmitri.d.frolov(at)gmail.com.

The acceptance of proposals will be announced by 5th of June 2025.

For submissions and general inquiries regarding the conference, please contact:
info(at)mws-osteuropa.org

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Presentation and objectives

Almost fifty years after its outbreak, the Lebanese Civil War (1975-1990) stands as the last war of the Cold War era in the Middle East and a precedent setting model for a long list of internationalized civil wars that have since torn apart Arab societies in Algeria, Iraq, Yemen, Syria, Libya, and Sudan. Accordingly, the Lebanese Civil War still needs to be brought into conversation with the new wave of scholarship that has considerably enriched the understanding of civil wars in he past two decades (Arjona et al. 2015; Audoin Rouzeau 2008a; Baczko and Dorronsoro 2017; Cabanes et al. 2018; Kalyvas 2006; Marchal and Messiant 2006; Weinstein 2007; Wood 2008, to only cite synoptic approaches). Echoing this renewed interest in civil wars, this international workshop series pursues two objectives. First, it sets out to advance the study of the Lebanese Civil War by situating it within a broader historical framework. The war transformed the historiography of modern Lebanon (Laurens 2016), superseding the optimistic pre-war readings of a growing symbiosis between consociational democracy and liberal modernization with research on the root causes of sectarian strife and the alleged state failure. Rather than falling into this teleological interpretation, which casts the conflict as inevitable, this workshop aims to revise this view by questioning the war’s boundaries in terms of time, space, and practices, and by giving room to contingencies and “paths not taken” (France 2018). The second objective is to provide a platform for a broader reflection on armed conflicts in the Middle East and elsewhere. Departing from the enduring perception of “Lebanese exceptionalism” (Abu-Rish 2021), we believe that the Lebanon’s experience provides a fertile ground for a wider perspective on contemporary wars. Pioneering works on the Lebanese Civil War (Salibi 1976; 1 Kassir 1994), supplemented by more recent studies (Clerck and Malsagne 2020; Sinno 2008), have shown how a combination of internal and external factors led to civil strife. However, the very hybridity of this protracted conflict, which articulates its national and international dimensions, has led to two complementary and yet unsatisfactory perspectives: one that denies its classification as a civil war and promotes instead the idea of “a war for the others” (Tueni 1985)—or its variant “a war of the others”—and another that focuses exclusively on geopolitics (Corm 1986 and 2005). Building on recent scholarship on civil wars, we aim to challenge these perspectives by putting the entanglements between civil and international conflicts under scrutiny. To do so, we suggest the simultaneous consideration of multiple scales: the macro-scale of states, meso-scale of institutions and groups, to the micro-scale of individuals, and how each level was connected to global and regional dynamics. Such an approach will center the agency of local actors while demonstrating how local processes inform and are informed by broader historical dynamics. On the 50th anniversary of the outbreak of the war— according to the conventional historical narrative—this workshop series will gather scholars from around the world, and result in the publication of an edited volume showcasing such theoretically and empirically informed new scholarship. The series will comprise two rounds. The first workshop, to be held in Lebanon on June 18th-19th, aims to discuss the overall historiographical issues at stake and the participants’ early drafts. The second workshop, to be held in Paris in Autumn/Winter 2025, aims to complete the chapters with a final round of deliberation. Participants will be asked to circulate their drafts ahead of the sessions (details to be later provided to the selected candidates).

Practical information

Proposal submission deadline: 7 March 2025

Contact email: lebanesecivilwar@proton.me

• For consideration, candidates should send a proposal of 250-350 words that includes a clearly articulated research question, a brief literature review, and a description of the sources engaged.
• Proposals should also include a short biography with contact information.
• Applicants will be informed of the acceptance of their proposal by the end of March.
• Successful applicants will be provided with support for travel and accommodation

Proposals may address one or more of the following themes

1. Combatants, militants, and new economies of violence
2. Getting by in the war: individuals and institutions in a protracted conflict
3. Ideologies, imaginaries, and war cultures across borders
4. Researching a protracted conflict: memory, archives, and fieldwork

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Der Aufsatzpreis des DHIP ermöglicht die Veröffentlichung von Ergebnissen einer herausragenden deutschen Dissertation oder Habilitation im Bereich der Forschungsschwerpunkte des Instituts als französischsprachigen Aufsatz. Das DHIP übernimmt die Kosten für die Übersetzung (in Höhe von ca. 2.000 €) sowie die redaktionelle Betreuung des Aufsatzes. Dieser soll anschließend in der Zeitschrift »Francia« oder nach Absprache in einer einschlägigen französischsprachigen Zeitschrift veröffentlicht werden.

Der Bewerbung für den Preis sind folgende Unterlagen beizulegen:

• eine dreiseitige Zusammenfassung der Dissertation bzw. Habilitation, die das Potential einer übersetzten Aufsatzfassung für die französischsprachige Forschung skizziert und eine erste Idee für den Aufsatz formuliert (Resümee, Fallstudie, konzeptioneller Text etc.);
• ein Lebenslauf;
• das Manuskript der eingereichten Dissertation bzw. Habilitation;
• die Gutachten bzw. der rapport de soutenance.

Die Dissertation bzw. Habilitation muss in den letzten zwei Jahren (1. Januar 2023–31. Dezember 2024) eingereicht worden sein.

Über die Preisvergabe befindet ein international zusammengesetztes Gremium von deutschen und französischen Historikerinnen und Historikern:

• Olivier Richard (Univ. Freiburg i. Ü.), Mittelalter
• Martin Wrede (Univ. Grenoble), Frühe Neuzeit
• Jens Ivo Engels (Technische Univ. Darmstadt), Neueste Geschichte und Zeitgeschichte
• Hélène Camarade (Univ. Bordeaux-Montaigne), Neueste Geschichte und Zeitgeschichte
• Christine Zabel (DHIP), Frühe Neuzeit.

Die Bewerbungen richten Sie an aufsatzpreis@dhi-paris.fr. Bewerbungsschluss ist der 31. März 2025.

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Roundtable at the 49th annual conference of the German Studies Association, Arlington, VA | Conveners: Swen Steinberg (Queen's University) and Rebekka Grossmann (Leiden University)

Call for Papers:

Refuge, transit, and migration never end. They have afterlives that define migrants and their societies. This roundtable at the 49th annual conference of the German Studies Association carries analytical lenses and debates on post-migration (Erol Yildiz) into historical research to discuss new ways of addressing the agency and activities of former refugees in their countries of exile alongside policies of migrant governance of integration and pluralism. Building on methodological concepts like Transit and Migrant Knowledge (Simone Lässig/Swen Steinberg) it asks how former refugees’ and migrants’ stories can be studied as part of longer histories of arrival and migrant memory. Particular emphasis will be on the historical context of the Cold War and post-World War II processes of decolonization which often affected the countries that had served as these refugees’ temporary homes during war-time episodes of flight and displacement. 

Recent research on histories of forced migration and current debates on migration inspire the main questions guiding this panel: How did migrants engage with the stories of their refuge? How did they remember times in transit? How did their refugee journeys direct the ways they lived their lives as former migrants in the societies they had entered or returned to? How did times of refuge and statelessness transform refugees’ ideas of home and homeland? What role did landsmanshaften, family networks or professional circles play in this engagement? What kinds of alliances did former refugees create among minorities or between minoritized communities? What new “languages” of collaboration did these alliances incite? 

Some of these migrants’ narratives, for example, indicate that their time on the road affected the ways they would engage with former countries of transit. Others show that periods of refuge shaped families long after they ended, pointing to the intergenerational aspect of the legacies of forced migration. By foregrounding the ‘afterlives’ as a historical lens and with a distinct focus on the representation of this experience in sources from the 1940s to the 1960s, this roundtable seeks to reframe discussions of displacement beyond the moment of refuge, transit or immediate arrival, highlighting their changing identities as new inhabitants with a migrant past and exploring sources that allow studying their agency during these times. Engaging with histories of home and citizenship in the Cold War era, we invite scholars to reconsider the narratives of migration in the mid-20th century as fluid, interconnected, and transformative processes that continued to influence former refugees until long after their arrival. We approach these questions by means of written, visual and material sources and welcome suggestions touching on the politics, cultural practices and social debates influenced by former refugees. 

Please send a short abstract (up to 150 words) and a brief CV with your idea for a contribution to this roundtable to Rebekka Grossmann (r.m.grossmann(at)hum.leidenuniv.nl) and Swen Steinberg (Swen.Steinberg(at)queensu.ca) by February 28, 2025. Participants will be notified by March 4, 2025. The final deadline for proposal submissions to the German Studies Association is March 18, 2025. Please note that all proposed participants must be members of the German Studies Association at the time the proposal is submitted.

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Wann: 8.–12. September 2025
Wo: Deutsches Forum für Kunstgeschichte (DFK Paris)
Bewerbungsschluss: 15. April 2025

Der von der Deutsch-Französischen Hochschule (UFA-DFH) bezuschusste Kurs bietet frankreichinteressierten Kunsthistorikerinnen und Kunsthistorikern sowie Historikerinnen und Historikern die Möglichkeit, ihre Französischkenntnisse fachwissenschaftlich auszubauen und einen vertieften Einblick in die Pariser Wissenschaftslandschaft und ihre Forschungsinfrastrukturen zu gewinnen.
Der fünftägige Intensivkurs dient dazu, die sprachlichen Grundlagen zur Arbeit in französischen wissenschaftlichen Institutionen zu schaffen und auf diese Weise den akademischen Austausch zu fördern. An zwei Vormittagen und drei Nachmittagen sind darüber hinaus Einführungen in das Bibliotheks- und Archivwesen, in Museums- und Sammlungsbestände und in die Arbeit von Forschungseinrichtungen vorgesehen. Sie werden ergänzt durch Abendvorträge, in denen Fachvertreterinnen und Fachvertreter über das universitäre System und Karrierewege in Frankreich berichten.

Der Herbstkurs richtet sich an fortgeschrittene Studierende im Masterstudium mit einschlägigem Projekt, Doktorandinnen und Doktoranden, Postdoktorandinnen und Postdoktoranden, Assistentinnen und Assistenten, Professorinnen und Professoren deutscher Hochschulen aus den Bereichen Geschichte und Kunstgeschichte sowie an das wissenschaftliche Personal in Museen und Gedenkstätten. Gute Kenntnisse der französischen Sprache sind Voraussetzung (bitte Niveau angeben). Sprachkurs, Mittagsverpflegung an drei Tagen und Rahmenprogramm werden vom DFK und DHI Paris gestellt. Die Kosten für Reise und Übernachtung und die restliche Verpflegung werden von den Teilnehmerinnen und Teilnehmern getragen. Studierende, Doktorandinnen und Doktoranden sowie Postdoktorandinnen und Postdoktoranden, die kein Auslandsstipendium erhalten oder die keine Einkünfte aus einem Arbeitsverhältnis von mehr als 50 % beziehen, können auf Antrag einen Zuschuss zu den Reisekosten in Höhe von bis zu 100 € und zu den Übernachtungskosten in Höhe von 250 € erhalten. Ein solcher Antrag muss unter Darlegung der Einkommensverhältnisse zusammen mit der Bewerbung eingereicht werden. Nachträglich eingereichte Anträge können nicht berücksichtigt werden. Die Zahlung erfolgt gegen Vorlage der Rechnungen nach der Teilnahme am Herbstkurs.

Der Bewerbung ist neben einem Motivationsschreiben ein tabellarischer Lebenslauf beizufügen. Ein Anspruch auf Zulassung besteht nicht. Die Bewerbungen sind bis zum 15. April 2025 per Email in einer PDF-Datei an das DFK Paris (für das Fach Kunstgeschichte: herbstkurs@dfk-paris.org) bzw. an das DHIP (für das Fach Geschichte: herbstkurs@dhi-paris.fr) mit dem Betreff »Herbstkurs« zu richten.

Auskünfte erteilen:

Deutsches Forum für Kunstgeschichte Paris, Hôtel Lully, 45 rue des Petits-Champs, 75001 Paris
Dr. Julia Drost: jdrost@dfk-paris.org

Deutsches Historisches Institut Paris, Hôtel Duret-de-Chevry, 8 rue du Parc-Royal, 75003 Paris
Dr. Niels F. May: nmay@dhi-paris.fr

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22nd Summer School

29 July – 1 August 2025

Organizers: German Historical Institute London and the Ludwigs-Maximilian University, Munich

Course convenors: Alexander Engel (LMU Munich) and Indra Sengupta (GHI London)

Course tutors: Samita Sen (Cambridge) and Tirthankar Roy (LSE)

Course topic:

Humans depend on their natural environment to satisfy their needs and wants. Natural conditions are a key factor in shaping social structures, economic practices, and lifestyles. Nowadays, the use, exploitation, and consequent transformation of nature have reached unprecedented levels, giving rise in academic and public discourse to the notion of the “Anthropocene”: the age in which human impact on earth has become so all-encompassing that its different aspects (climate change; loss of biodiversity; ubiquity of concrete, plastic, pollutants etc) will leave permanent traces on a geological time scale. This development is driven by several factors: for example, by the rise of an economic and social order characterized by profit-seeking and market exchange, i.e. capitalism, the shift towards ever more extensive and intricate technologies of extracting and processing natural resources, and the continuous growth and development of economies, i.e. industrialization. A key driver behind these factors was the integration of all parts of the world into industrial capitalism by means of colonialism, imperialism, and globalization. In the nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth century, the British Empire stood at the centre of these fundamental developments. 

This summer school will engage with the history of nature and capitalism in the British Empire and the independent nations emerging from it, especially in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Our tutors, Professors Samita Sen (Cambridge) and Tirthankar Roy (LSE), will discuss key questions regarding the relationship between imperialism and colonialism, capitalist/industrial development and the increasing degradation of nature.

Course details:

The summer school is a part of the on-going collaboration between the German Historical Institute London and the Ludwigs-Maximilian University, Munich. The course convenors are Professor Alexander Engel (LMU Munich) and Dr Indra Sengupta (GHI London).

The course will take place in London on 29 July – 1 August 2025. It is aimed at advanced BA or MA students of history or other related subjects at all German universities. An interest in the history of the British Empire and the history of capitalism and/or environment is desirable.

Please note: Selected participants will be expected to attend all the classes. The course language is English and participants will be required to study the mandatory readings (around 15 chapter/article length pieces) to prepare for the classes. The readings will be sent out a few weeks ahead of the course. 

Who can apply:

The course is open to students from all German universities. However, a separate selection process applies to students from the LMU who should directly contact the convener Professor Engel. LMU students will participate in the summer school as part of an “Vertiefungskurs/Aufbaukurs Globalgeschichte” in the 2025 summer semester; see LSF for further information and details on the application process.

How to apply:

Students outside LMU, please apply in writing by Friday 7 March with the following documents:

• A cover letter of 1-2 pages explaining why you wish to take part in the summer school;
• A brief letter of recommendation from your supervisor;
• A list of courses you have attended and exams you have taken 

The organisers will bear the cost of accommodation in London and sandwich lunch will be provided on the days of the summer school. It may be possible to make a small contribution towards the cost of travel to London. Unfortunately, we are unable to cover any other costs. 

Please send us your application as a single PDF file and by email only to Dr Indra Sengupta i.sengupta@ghil.ac.uk 

Summer School (Download information as PDF file)

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Findet statt: In Präsenz

Deadline: 14.03.2025

Website: https://www.uni-saarland.de/lehrstuhl/clemens/ag-italien.html

Von: Jens Späth, Historisches Institut, Universität Saarland

23. Tagung der Arbeitsgemeinschaft für die Neueste Geschichte Italiens in Verbindung mit dem Deutschen Historischen Institut in Rom
19.-21. Juni 2025, Villa Lessing, Saarbrücken

1949 wurde im US-amerikanischen italienischsprachigen Programm des Fernsehsenders WOV erstmals die Sendung „La grande famiglia“ ausgestrahlt. Darin sammelte der New Yorker Moderator Giuliano Gerbi auf unzähligen Reisen Stimmen aus ganz Italien, um sie den in vielen Jahrzehnten zuvor ausgewanderten Landsleuten in Amerika zu übermitteln. Mit seiner immer beliebter werdenden Sendung stellte er bis 1961 viele Kontakte quer über den Atlantik wieder her, die oft unterbrochen gewesen waren. Dabei war der aus einer wohlhabenden jüdischen Florentiner Familie stammende Gerbi 1938 aufgrund der Rassengesetze Benito Mussolinis selbst zur Emigration gezwungen gewesen. Ausgerechnet ihm, den das faschistische Italien aus seiner Gemeinschaft ausgeschlossen hatte, oblag es also nun, die Italiener auf beiden Seiten des Atlantiks wieder zu vereinen. Doch die Geschichte hat ihn bald in Vergessenheit geraten lassen und erst in jüngster Zeit begonnen wiederzuentdecken.

Dabei gibt es Millionen von Italienerinnen und Italienern, die nicht erst seit 1860 aus unterschiedlichsten Gründen mehr oder weniger große Teile ihres Lebens außerhalb der Apenninenhalbinsel verbrachten und bis heute vollkommen vergessen oder nur wenig erforscht sind. Sie sollen im Mittelpunkt der geplanten Tagung stehen, die gleich mehrere jüngere und aktuelle Tendenzen der Geschichts-, Kultur- und Sozialwissenschaften aufnimmt, sei es die Migrationsforschung, Fragen der kulturellen Zugehörigkeit und Identität, Kolonialgeschichte und die Erinnerung daran, Globalgeschichte, politisches Exil und wirtschaftliche Emigration, aber auch klassische Themenfelder für Italiener außerhalb Italiens z.B. in der Diplomatie, im Handel, in Kriegen, als Seeleute oder in Kunst und Wissenschaft.

Diese Tendenzen will die Tagung bündeln und dabei folgende Fragen in den Mittelpunkt stellen: Inwieweit stellt Italien ein mobiles Subjekt in der neueren und neuesten Geschichte dar? Welchen Einfluss hatten ausgewanderte und geflüchtete Italienerinnen und Italiener auf ihre Herkunfts- und Zieldestinationen und was geschah nach einer eventuellen Rückkehr? Wie erzählten sie ihre Geschichten oder verschwiegen sie diese? Fragen dieser Art treffen im italienischen Kontext auf ein besonders ereignis- und variantenreiches Umfeld, bedenkt man allein die zahlreichen politischen Umbrüche auf der Apenninenhalbinsel vom 18. Jahrhundert bis heute oder die ungeheure Zahl von rund 30 Millionen Italienerinnen und Italienern, die nach Gründung des Nationalstaats ab 1860 bis 1960 ihre Heimat verließen und so italienische Sprache, Kultur und Traditionen samt Kulinarik und Mafia in die ganze Welt brachten. Ein Großteil von ihnen blieb im Ausland; aber insbesondere im 19. Jahrhundert war die Auswanderung vielfach nur temporär.

Mögliche Themenfelder für die Tagung zum italienischsprachigen Raum vom 18. bis 21. Jahrhundert – auch mit transnationaler und komparativer Erweiterung auf andere geographische Gebiete – sind:

• Selbst- und Fremdzuschreibungen von und für Italiener in der Welt
• Mechanismen der In- und Exklusion in der Heimat und in der Fremde
• Imperiale Räume italienischer Siedler im Mittelmeerraum und in den beiden Amerikas
• Nationale Identitätsbildung außerhalb Italiens, z.B. auf Weltausstellungen
• Auswanderung aus wirtschaftlichen oder politischen Gründen
• Italienische Besatzungsregime in Kriegen des 20. Jahrhunderts
• Rückkehr nach Italien mit dem Einbringen der Erfahrung aus der Fremde in die Heimat

Der CfP richtet sich in erster Linie an den wissenschaftlichen Nachwuchs. Promovierenden, Juniorprofessoreninnen und Juniorprofessoren sowie Habilitierenden soll Gelegenheit gegeben werden, ihre Qualifikationsarbeiten und Forschungsvorhaben einem deutsch-italienischen Expertenpublikum vorzustellen und mit diesem zu diskutieren. Darüber hinaus sind aber auch Projekte erfahrener Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler willkommen. Die Keynote wird Andrea Di Michele (Bozen) halten.

Tagungssprachen sind Deutsch und Italienisch. Wie üblich wird es auch 2025 wieder eine freie Sektion geben, in der einige Arbeiten vorgestellt werden können, die sich nicht dem Rahmenthema zuordnen lassen. Vortragsvorschläge mit einem Abstract (max. eine Seite) und knappen bio-bibliographischen Angaben (max. zehn Zeilen) schicken Sie bitte bis 14.03.2025 per E-Mail an: jens.spaeth@uni-saarland.de. Die ausgewählten Teilnehmerinnen und Teilnehmer werden bis 21.03.2025 benachrichtigt. Reise- und Übernachtungskosten werden übernommen.

Kontakt

jens.spaeth@uni-saarland.de

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Deadline for applications: March 1^st, 2025

The Summer Meeting on the Entangled Histories of in the Bengal-to-Balkans Complex invites applications for its second installment which will take place in Istanbul between September 22nd–26th, 2025.

The 2025 meeting will have a focus on concepts related to emotions and the body. PhD students and early PostDocs may also apply with other topics in the history of concepts in the B2B complex.

General Concept

The Summer Meeting builds upon and seeks to strengthen the increased scholarly interest in conceptual history as a tool to analyze the discursive transformations in the broad B2B geography. The “Bengal to Balkans” framework is inspired by Shahab Ahmed who drew attention to the shared cultural formations across this vast geography particularly in the post-Mongol era.

Illustrating the emergence of a field of research, several programmatic articles have been written on the particular problems and promises of conceptual history in different linguistic contexts. Building upon these developments, and as a culmination of the efforts of the organizers this Meeting will both identify historical evolutions and entanglements of concepts within the Bengal-to-Balkans-complex and critically discuss the theoretical implications and potentials of conceptual history in the region.

In terms of research foci, the Summer Meeting aims at (1) strengthening the notion of entanglement in conceptual history, and (2) furthering self-reflectivity in and critique of the usage of established concepts. By exploring conceptual entanglements in the history of the region together, we intend to overcome the long-standing limits imposed on historical research by methodological nationalism and disciplinary boundaries in area studies. Moreover, by focusing on the history of indigenous (emic) concepts we aim to come up with revised and better narratives and analytical (etic) categories to explain the historical transformations in the wake of post-colonial interventions which challenged Euro-centric paradigms.

Critically appropriating the various approaches to historical semantics for the particular problems and research questions of the region is also a central concern for the Summer Meeting. Conceptual histories of the region addresses both the paradigmatic problems and questions of area studies scholarship and also the fast growing global intellectual history. The growing number of programmatic publications in the field is evidence of this^[1] and the Summer Meeting is inspired by the example of the CONCEPTA summer schools, the first launched in 2006 in Helsinki (in its 18^th year now), the second launched in 2017 in Mexico..    The Meeting intends to enhance networks of research, foster collaboration and pass on expertise to a new generation of PhD students and junior scholars whose work covers one or more of the languages of the region and are interested in working with history of concepts.

^[1] Programmatic considerations include: Margrit Pernau, “Provincializing Concepts: The Language of Transnational History”, Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 36:3 (2016), 483–99; Alp Eren Topal and Einar Wigen, “Ottoman Conceptual History: Challenges and Prospects”, Contributions to the History of Concepts 14:1 (2019), 93–114; Florian Zemmin and Henning Sievert, “Conceptual History of the Near East: The Sattelzeit as a Heuristic Tool for Interrogating the Formation of a Multi-Layered Modernity”, Contributions to the History of Concepts 16:2 (2021), 1–26.

The 2025 Meeting

A first step is a three day on-line introduction into the theories of conceptual history, their application on colonial and post-colonial situations and the coonceptual history of bodies and emotion. These issues will be taught by Margrit Pernau and Alp Eren Topal July 29-31, 10-12 a.m. CEST, 11-14 TRT and 12.30-15.30 IST.

The main part will be housed at the Orient-Institut, Istanbul. Over the course of five days, our program will include (a) a day of introduction into current methodological problems, held by leading scholars, (b) a two-day seminar where participants will present their work-in-progress and receive feedback from the lecturers and their peers, and (c) a two day workshop of invited scholars of the history of concepts in the B2B region with a focus on the topic of body and emotions. Participants are required to attend all parts of the programme.

Research languages include (but are not limited to) Arabic, Turkish, Persian, Greek, Urdu, Hindustani, Bengali, Kurdish, Hebrew, Judezmo, Armenian, Slavic languages, Albanian, and their historical variants. PhD students and early PostDocs from all relevant disciplines and fields (e.g. history, philosophy, literature, social sciences, area studies, cultural anthropology, the study of religion, art history, environmental humanities etc.) are encouraged to apply. The summer meeting supports participants who wish to write or further develop drafts of thesis chapters or project-proposals related to conceptual history. The papers of the workshop on the History of Concepts related to the body and emotions will be published.

The student seminar has no formal topical or chronological restrictions, although we are most interested in early modern and modern conceptual formations related to the body and emotions.

We are eager to have a variety of academic and regional backgrounds represented and will, on a competitive basis, provide scholarship for PhD students and Post-Docs, taking into account both the academic quality of proposals and economic need. Participants from the global south might therefore be prioritized in funding. 

To apply, please upload the following as one *.pdf document to https://oiist.org/application-form-b2b-2025/

• Your academic CV
• A one-page statement of purpose explaining your background, your motivation for attending the academy, and a one-page summary of your research question(s).

Make sure to state in your application if you would require financial support. Note that the Academy has no tuition fee but the participants are expected to arrange their own travel to and accommodation in Istanbul.

The Summer Academy will take place in the Teutonia building of the Orient-Institut Istanbul.

Participants will be given a certificate of participation on request.

Contact

director@oiist.org

The organizing and selection committee:

Jens Hanssen (Orient Institut Beirut/Toronto University)
Elke Hartmann (Freie Universität Berlin)
Bilge Karbi (Orient Institut Istanbul)
Christoph K. Neumann (Orient Institut Istanbul)
Margrit Pernau (Max Planck-Institut für Bildungsforschung; Freie Universität Berlin)
Sebastian Schwecke (Max Weber Forum, Delhi)
Alp Eren Topal (Ibn Haldun University)
Esther Voswinckel (Orient Institut Istanbul)
Einar Wigen (University of Oslo)
Florian Zemmin (Freie Universität Berlin)

The meeting is organised and funded in cooperation of the following institutions:

Orient Institut Istanbul; Orient Institut Beirut; Freie Universität Berlin; Max Weber Forum for South Asian Studies in Delhi; Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul.

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Seminar at GHI Washington | Conveners: Anna von der Goltz (Georgetown University) and Richard Wetzell (GHI Washington)

The German Historical Institute Washington and the BMW Center for German and European Studies at Georgetown University are pleased to announce the 30th Transatlantic Doctoral Seminar in German History, which will take place in Washington DC on June 3-6, 2025.

The seminar will bring together advanced doctoral students from Europe and North America to discuss their dissertation projects with one another and a small group of faculty mentors. The organizers welcome proposals from doctoral students working on any aspect of the history of nineteenth- and twentieth-century German-speaking Central Europe or on topics in European, transnational, comparative or global history that have a significant German component. Doctoral students working in related fields – including art history, legal history, and the history of science – are also encouraged to apply. The discussions will be based on papers (in German or English) submitted six weeks in advance. The seminar will be conducted bilingually, in German and English; therefore, fluency in both languages is a prerequisite. Accommodations will be arranged and paid for by the conference organizers. In addition, a travel subsidy will be available for those who do not have travel funding from their home institution.

We are now accepting applications from doctoral students whose dissertations are at an advanced stage (that is, in the write-up rather than research stage) but who will be granted their degrees after June 2025. Applications should include: (1) vita, max. 2 pages; (2) dissertation project description, max. 1000 words; (3) provisional table of contents, indicating which chapters have been completed (max. 2 pages), (4) letter of reference from the major dissertation advisor (commenting on progress toward completion and fluency in English and German). Applicants may submit their materials in German or English (preferably in the language in which they are writing their dissertation). The first three documents should be combined into a single PDF (file name should start with applicant’s last name) and submitted via upload at the online portal by February 1, 2025. Letters of reference should be emailed to Richard Wetzell at wetzell(at)ghi-dc.org (preferably as a PDF) by the advisor by the same date. Questions may be directed to Richard Wetzell via email.

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Each year's winner is invited to present his/her research in May at the annual symposium of the Friends of the German Historical Institute, which will occur this year on Friday, May 9, 2025. The prizewinner also receives an award of $2,000 and reimbursement for travel to the annual symposium held in Washington D.C. 

Candidates are nominated by their dissertation advisers. Dissertations must have been completed, defended, and authenticated between January 1 and December 31, 2024. The prize committee will accept nominations through March 1, 2025. 

Advisers who wish to nominate a candidate can do so by sending an email to FritzSternDissertationPrize(at)case.edu with the following items:

• Letter of nomination
• Abstract (1-3 pages) of the dissertation
• Digital version of the dissertation in "Reduced Size PDF" format

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13th International Summer Academy of the Bavarian American Academy for Doctoral Researchers and Junior Faculty in American Studies and American History 

Jul 16, 2025 - Jul 23, 2025

To state that we are living in times of a continuous polycrisis with interdependent and overlapping crisis figurations has become a truism. This condition is reflected in much of contemporary cultural production and various forms of symbolization – be it in the genre of the dystopian, of horror, or, more generally, in end-of-the-world narratives, and it often plays off against states of disavowal and denial, at times implying a reparative or recuperative dimension. Some of these cultural expressions/representations also hark back to pertinent scenarios of the past and illustrate their ongoing relevance. 

Reflecting on constellations of crisis and repair, this year’s BAA Summer Academy seeks to examine both concepts in a diachronic as well as synchronic perspective with regard to different groups/actors in American history and culture. Topics to be addressed range from social and political inequalities and other effects of hegemonic hierarchical structures to discourses of recognition and demands for reparation for historical exploitation and injustice. The summer school aims at an interdisciplinary discussion of these problems within the field of North American Studies and American History.

Tuition Fee The tuition fee is EUR 600.00. Acceptance to the Summer Academy includes a full academic and cultural program, accommodation, and a travel grant for students from Europe. The 13th International BAA Summer Academy is organized by the Bavarian American Academy in cooperation with FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg and the German Historical Institute Washington and its Pacific Office at UC Berkeley.

Application Materials and Submission

Please submit your application materials (letter of motivation, curriculum vitae, 1-page project proposal, and letter of recommendation) by February 15, 2025, to

• Prof. Dr. Heike Paul (heike.paul@fau.de) Chair of American Studies | FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg
• PD Dr. Axel Jansen (a.jansen@ghi-dc.org) Deputy Director | GHI Washington
• Dr. Sarah Beringer (beringer@ghi-dc.org) Head of Strategy and Communications | GHI Washinton
• Dr. Christoph Straub (straub@amerika-akademie.de) Managing Director | Bavarian American Academy

Participants will be selected on the strength of their application. Acceptance to the Summer Academy includes a full academic and cultural program, accommodation, and a travel grant for students from Europe.

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Documentarians choose various trajectories for the collected materials: they incorporate them into state, community, or personal archives, integrate them into educational modules and artistic works, use them as evidence in court, and ultimately transform them into fragments of memory about those killed and injured in the war. Some of these materials have already been described and cataloged in institutional collections, while others are stored in the cloud or on private computers.

What are the intermediate results of the intensive documentation? What goals do people and organizations involved in documentation and archiving pursue, and what impact do they strive to achieve? How can we make existing archives visible and bring them into action? What is the archive of an ongoing war? How do archives reinforce or undermine knowledge production practices? What is the desired future of the community materials of the "most documented war"? How can we overcome our fatigue and remain motivated to document and archive on the way to such a future? How can archives of extraordinary events and borderline experiences from different geographies and time periods help us?

We invite you to join the discussion of these and related topics during the third annual symposium "The Most Documented War: Enacting Archives" to be held on 22-24 May in Lviv.

This year, we want to focus on the following issues:

• Multiple Practices of Describing, Preserving, and Actualizing Materials: How do collected materials become archives? How do we take into account the durability and fragility of physical and digital documents?
• State, Institution, Community, and Individuals: Who is responsible for the creation and further existence of an archive? How does this responsibility unfold temporally and geographically?
• From Document to Argument: How can we achieve legal, epistemic, and social justice by using community materials that document war experiences?
• Practices of Access and Engagement: What goals do institutions and initiatives pursue when providing access to materials? What are the risks? How can we navigate between short-term and long-term objectives?
• The Vulnerability of Archives: How can we document lost archives, particularly in occupied and destroyed territories? How can we ensure the viability of archives in the face of various threats such as physical destruction, cyberattacks, unauthorized access, and outdated software?
• The Frustrations of Documenting and Archiving: How do documentarians deal with the expectations of the immediate results of their work and the absence of such results?

This year's Symposium program will include a variety of formats: panel discussions, Q&A sessions, networking, walks, films, trainings, and informal exchange of experiences.

Working languages: Ukrainian and English.

Registration is available through the link until 25 February 2025. We will confirm participation by 10 March 2025.

The number of places is limited. Some participants from outside Lviv will be able to receive grants to cover travel and accommodation costs.

Organizers:

• Center for Urban History, Lviv;
• INDEX: Institute for Documentation and Exchange, Lviv;
• Documenting Ukraine / IWM, Vienna;
• Max Weber Foundation, Bonn/Lviv

Partners:

• LivArch / Herder Institute, Marburg;
• CERCEC / EHESS, Paris;
• Virtual Ukraine Institute for Advanced Study (VUIAS), Berlin;
• Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, the Polish Academy of Sciences (IFiS PAN), Warsaw;
• Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C2DH), Luxemburg

Registrierung

Call for Participation (PDF)

Angesichts der Zunahme EU-kritischer Bewegungen, Krieg sowie antidemokratischer Tendenzen auf dem europäischen Kontinent erlangen konkurrierende Konzepte, Geschichten und Narrative von Europa im 21. Jahrhundert große Bedeutung. Dasselbe gilt für einen Dialog über widersprüchliche und geteilte historische Narrative, der erforderlich ist, wenn sich die sprichwörtliche Einigung in Vielfalt und die damit verbundenen demokratischen Werte auf dem europäischen Kontinent entfalten sollen. Diese Tagung geht von der Annahme aus, dass –soziale, politische, geschlechtsbezogene, ethnische oder religiöse – Vielfalt zwar oft als Ursache von Problemen dargestellt wird, jedoch für Europa in der Gegenwart und Zukunft auch ein Mittel sein kann, um der Erosion von Demokratie und gesellschaftlichem Zusammenhalt entgegenzuwirken. Die Auseinandersetzung mit sozial marginalisierten Positionen, subalternen Sichtweisen und historischen Peripherien hält demnach wichtige Impulse für eine kritische Reflexion und Neubetrachtung Europas bereit, weil sie etablierte Darstellungen um die Perspektiven »anderer Europas« und »anderer Europäerinnen und Eruopäer« ergänzt (z. B. El-Tayeb 2011; Fornäs 2017; Gasser 2021; Otele 2020; Polland et al. 2020).

Diese Tagung bringt internationale Wissenschaftler und Wissenschaftlerinnen verschiedener Disziplinen zusammen, um Europa und seine Geschichte aus marginalisierten, peripheren und subalternen Perspektiven zu untersuchen. Sie fragt, inwieweit sich Konzepte, historische Darstellungen und Narrative von »Europa« verändern, wenn sie von Gruppen (neu) erzählt werden, die keinen oder wenig Zugang zu (politischer, wirtschaftlicher, sozialer) Macht haben bzw. soziale oder kulturelle Marginalisierung – z.B. aufgrund von Nationalität, Hautfarbe, Klasse, Geschlecht, Religion, Alter oder Sexualität – erfahren. Damit knüpft die Tagung zum einen an eine Reihe jüngerer Forschungsarbeiten an, die lineare, erfolgsorientierte oder binäre Narrative von Europa dekonstruieren und zugleich neue Perspektiven auf die Geschichte der europäischen Integration eröffnen (z. B. Patel 2018 und 2022; Soutou 2022; Leucht et al. 2020; Ruppen Coutaz und Paoli 2024). Zum anderen möchte sie diese Forschungen erweitern, indem sie Subalternität und Intersektionalität als analytisch vielversprechende Konzepte einbringt. Obwohl beide Konzepte in den Geschichts- und Kulturwissenschaften lange etabliert sind, enthalten sie für eine transnationale Geschichte Europas, die nicht aus einem einzigen Blickwinkel oder aus Top-Down-Perspektiven, sondern vielmehr in einem geografisch und sozial erweiterten Rahmen erzählt werden, nach wie vor großes Potential. Wir argumentieren, dass solche Geschichten, die etwa die Perspektiven von Arbeitsmigrantinnen und Arbeitsmigranten, Geflüchteten, Arbeiter und Arbeiterinnen, Frauen, Jugendlichen, Nicht-Staatsbürger und -Staatsbürgerinnen, Minderheiten sowie diversen, aufgrund von Hautfarbe, Ethnizität oder sexueller Identität kategorisierten und diskriminierten Menschen berücksichtigen, einen vielversprechenden Ausgangspunkt bieten, um normative, hegemoniale oder romantisierte Visionen von Europa und seiner Vergangenheit zu dekonstruieren.

Die Tagung berücksichtigt ein breites fachliches Spektrum aus Geschichtswissenschaft, Soziologie sowie Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft. Wir freuen uns auf Beiträge, die sich auf Europa in der Zeit zwischen dem 19. und dem 21. Jahrhundert konzentrieren, und eines oder mehrere der folgenden Themen behandeln:

• Geschichten über Europa oder Europäisierungsprozesse aus marginalisierten, peripheren oder subalternen Perspektiven und ihr Potenzial, blinden Flecken in der Geschichtsschreibung zu begegnen und/oder Konflikte und widersprüchliche Erinnerungen zu bearbeiten,
• historisch variable Konzepte eines »anderen Europas«,
• alternative Europavorstellungen in historischer Perspektive, historische Visionen »anderer Europas« als Bezugspunkt oder »Lehre« für die Gegenwart,
• Konzepte von Europa in Bezug auf den geografischen Raum, wechselnde Konstellationen von Zentren und Peripherien, polyzentrische oder dezentrierte Ansätze,
• konzeptionelle Ansätze zur Untersuchung »anderer Europas« in Vergangenheit und Gegenwart (z.B. »von unten«, »von den Rändern«, »Dezentrierung«, »Dekolonisierung«, »Queering«, »Schwarzes Europa«) und ihre analytischen Potentiale und/oder politischen Implikationen,
• »Europa« als eine (positiv oder negativ aufgeladene) Vision oder Bezugspunkt in sozialer Kritik oder in politischen Bewegungen in Vergangenheit und Gegenwart,
• die Wirkungsweisen historischer Erzählungen über Europa in aktuellen kulturellen Kontexten und ihre politischen Inanspruchnahmen,
• die Wirkungsweisen von (antieuropäischen) Diskursen des Anti-Elitismus in populistischen, rechten oder linken Erzählungen über und Visionen für Europa in Vergangenheit und Gegenwart,
• Erzählungen über Europa in verschiedenen Genres und Medien – transgenerische und intermediale Perspektiven.

Wir freuen uns auf Vorschläge im Umfang von 500 Wörtern für Beiträge in Englisch, Französisch oder Deutsch, denen ein kurzer Lebenslauf (maximal 1 Seite) beigefügt ist. Bitte senden Sie diese bis zum 14. Februar 2025 an nmay@dhi-paris.fr.

Die Kosten für Reise und Unterkunft (in der Regel zwei Übernachtungen) werden bei erfolgreicher Einwerbung von Drittmitteln durch die Veranstalter übernommen.

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Zum Historikertag 16.-19.9.2025 in Bonn schreiben die AG Digitale Geschichtswissenschaft, der Verband der Historikerinnen und Historiker Deutschlands und das Deutsche Historische Institut Paris zum dritten Mal den Peter-Haber-Preis für digitale Geschichte aus. Prämiert werden Projekte von Forschenden auf Master-, Promotion-, oder Post-Doc-Niveau, die einen innovativen Beitrag zum Gegenstandsbereich der digitalen Geschichtswissenschaft leisten. Sowohl individuelle Forschende als auch Kleingruppen von Forschenden können einen Vorschlag einreichen. Jede Person kann nur an einer einzigen Einreichung beteiligt sein. Ist das Proposal Teil eines größeren Verbundprojekts, sollte der eigene Beitrag der Autor*innen in den Einreichungen deutlich hervorgehoben werden. Infrastruktur- oder Großprojekte von Forschungseinrichtungen o.ä. können ihr Poster in der Allgemeinen Postersession präsentieren, sind aber vom Wettbewerb ausgeschlossen (siehe unten). 

Einreichungen sollen den Stand eines laufenden oder seit maximal zwei Jahren abgeschlossenen Projekts der digitalen Geschichtswissenschaft anschaulich beschreiben. Einen epochalen oder methodischen Schwerpunkt gibt es nicht. Zur Orientierung können sich die Projekte auf die folgenden Profilelemente beziehen, sind aber nicht auf sie beschränkt:

1. Empirische/Digitale Best Practice: Es wird überzeugend dargestellt, wie ein historisches Projekt mithilfe digitaler Verfahren umgesetzt wird und z.B. eine historische Fragestellung beantwortet. Dabei zeigt sich der Innovationsgrad u.a. durch eine plausible Argumentation dafür, dass Ergebnisse und Durchführung des Projekts ohne die eingesetzten digitalen Techniken nicht oder nur in anderer Form möglich gewesen wären.
2. Experimente: Es wird plausibel dargelegt, inwiefern der experimentelle Einsatz digitaler Verfahren einen Erkenntnisgewinn in der historischen Forschung zu fördern verspricht. Die Überlegungen, die zu der spezifischen Auswahl verwendeter Methoden/Techniken im Projekt geführt haben, sind sinnvoll und nachvollziehbar.
3. Entwicklung: Es werden Tools, Methoden, Datensätze oder andere Angebote entwickelt, die von der Community weiter genutzt werden können. Dargelegt wird, inwiefern dies die digitale Geschichtswissenschaft konstruktiv befördern kann.

Einreichungen sollen mindestens 500, maximal 750 Wörter umfassen (ohne Bibliographie, die separat eingereicht wird auf max. 1 Seite). Zusätzlich wird um einen Kurz-CV (1 Seite maximal) der einreichenden Person(en) gebeten. Bitte alle Dateien in einem gemeinsamen PDF einreichen.

Über die Annahme zur Präsentation auf dem Historikertag entscheidet das Komitee der AG Digitale Geschichtswissenschaft unter folgenden Bewertungskriterien:

• Es handelt sich um einen innovativen Beitrag zum Gegenstandsbereich der digitalen Geschichtswissenschaft (3-fach gewertet).
• Die Fragestellung und der Mehrwert des digitalen Ansatzes ist nachvollziehbar dargelegt bzw. bei Tools/Methoden/Datensätzen: Zweck, Funktionalitäten und Mehrwert des Tools/der Methode/Datensätze sind nachvollziehbar dargelegt (2-fach gewertet).
• Der Stand der Forschung ist hinreichend dargestellt (u.a. durch eine Bibliographie von max. 1 Seite) (2-fach gewertet).
• Die Forschungsmethodik ist verständlich beschrieben (2-fach gewertet).
• Das Proposal ist verständlich formuliert (2-fach gewertet).
• Allgemeine Empfehlung zur Annahme (4-fach gewertet).

Es wird erwartet, dass Poster, die für die Präsentation angenommen werden, zum Historikertag Open Access unter einer CC-BY-Lizenz online publiziert werden (z.B. in einem Repository wie Zenodo). Alle Poster werden anschließend gemeinsam auf dem Blog der AG veröffentlicht.

Auf dem Historikertag präsentieren die Preisanwärter*innen ihre Projekte anhand ihres Posters in einem 5-minütigen Pitch. Poster und Pitch werden von der Jury mit folgenden Kriterien bewertet:

• Thema und Kernaussagen des Projekts sind auf dem Poster und beim Pitch klar erkennbar, verständlich und gut strukturiert (3-fach gewertet).
• Visuelle Gestaltung und/oder Originalität des Posters und des Pitch (2-fach gewertet).
• Beziehung von Grafik und Text (2-fach gewertet).

Die Jury entscheidet gemeinsam mit einer Publikumsabstimmung über die Platzierungen.

Einreichungen bitte per Mail an christian.wachter@uni-bielefeld.de bis zum 15. Februar 2025.

Hinweise zum Call für die Allgemeine Posterausstellung Digitale Geschichte

Auf dem Historikertag in Bonn wird es zusätzlich die Möglichkeit für zehn weitere digitale Projekte geben, sich der Fachcommunity mit einem Poster zu präsentieren. Dieser Call richtet sich insbesondere an Infrastrukturprojekte und Projekte von Forschungsverbünden oder Einrichtungen, die Services, Tools, Editionen, Datenbanken o.ä. für die historische Fachcommunity bereitstellen.

Bitte bewerben Sie sich dafür mit einer Einreichung von mindestens 500, maximal 750 Wörter (ohne Bibliographie, die separat eingereicht wird auf max. 1 Seite). Zusätzlich wird um ein Kurz-CV (1 Seite maximal) der einreichenden Person(en) gebeten. Bitte alle Dateien in einem gemeinsamen PDF einreichen. Geben Sie außerdem an, dass Sie sich für die Allgemeine Posterausstellung bewerben (ohne Peter-Haber-Preis).

Die Auswahlkriterien entsprechen den oben genannten. Ebenso wird erwartet, dass Sie Ihr Poster vor dem Historikertag digital in einer offenen Lizenz publizieren und das Poster selbst beim Historikertag aufhängen und während der Postersession für Fragen zur Verfügung stehen.

Einreichungen bitte ebenfalls per Mail an christian.wachter@uni-bielefeld.de bis zum 15. Februar 2025.

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Eingereicht werden können Arbeiten, die im Zeitraum vom 1. Januar bis 31. Dezember 2024 an einer Hochschule in Deutschland oder Frankreich als Master-Abschlussarbeit (oder Äquivalent, z. B. Zulassungsarbeit zum Staatsexamen) in den Geschichtswissenschaften oder einer historisch arbeitenden Disziplin verteidigt und mit einer Note von »gut« bis »sehr gut« (in Frankreich 14/20 und besser) bewertet worden sind. Der Untersuchungsgegenstand soll bei einer Einreichung an einer deutschen Hochschule der französischen Geschichte, hingegen bei einer Einreichung an einer französischen Hochschule der deutschen Geschichte entnommen sein oder für beide Fälle der deutsch-französischen Geschichte angehören. Der Untersuchungszeitraum kann von der Spätantike bis in die jüngste Zeitgeschichte reichen.

Bewerbungsfrist: 2. März 2025

Für die Teilnahme am Wettbewerb senden Sie bitte per E-Mail Ihre Abschlussarbeit zusammen mit dem Gutachten des Betreuers oder der Betreuerin der Arbeit, einer zweiseitigen Zusammenfassung auf Französisch bzw. Deutsch (jeweils in der Sprache, in der die Arbeit nicht verfasst wurde), einem Bewerbungsschreiben und einem tabellarischen Lebenslauf in einem einzigen PDF-Dokument an Masterpreis@dhi-paris.fr.

Der deutsch-französische Geschichtspreis für Master-Abschlussarbeiten ist mit 500 € dotiert. Der Preisträger oder die Preisträgerin wird nach Paris zur Preisverleihung im Rahmen des Jahresvortrags des DHIP eingeladen. Reise- und Übernachtungskosten werden erstattet. Nach einer positiven externen Begutachtung können wesentliche Aspekte der Preisschrift als wissenschaftlicher Aufsatz in der Zeitschrift des Deutschen Historischen Instituts Paris (DHIP) »Francia. Forschungen zur westeuropäischen Geschichte« veröffentlicht werden.

Eine Kommission aus Wissenschaftlern und Wissenschaftlerinnen des DHIP sowie Hochschullehrern und Hochschullehrerinnen wählt unter den eingegangenen Bewerbungen den Preisträger oder die Preisträgerin aus. Ein Rechtsanspruch auf die Verleihung des Preises besteht nicht.

Jury: Claire Gantet, Silke Mende, Jörg Oberste und N.N.

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Hinweise für die Abgabe von Manuskripten
Deadline für Band 105 (2025): Januar 2025.
Umfang: max. 100 000 Zeichen (inkl. Leerzeichen)
Redaktionelle Richtlinien

Redaktion
Susanne Wesely wesely[at]dhi-roma.it

Editorial Board
Direktion und alle wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiter*innen des DHI Rom

Sie möchten in QFIAB publizieren?
Anfragen bezüglich einer Publikation in der Zeitschrift "Quellen und Forschungen aus italienischen Archiven und Bibliotheken" können an die Redaktion gerichtet werden. Veröffentlicht werden Originalbeiträge, die hohen internationalen wissenschaftlichen Standards entsprechen und die Vorgaben geltender Autoren- und Urheberrechte einhalten.

Code of Conduct (pdf, 98 KB)

Printpublikation / Open Access
QFIAB erscheint gedruckt und seit 2022 auch jahrgangsweise auf der Basis von Subscribe-to-Open im Goldenen Open Access unter der Creative Commons-Lizenz CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 auf der Verlagswebseite. Ab Band 18 (1926) stehen alle Bände der Zeitschrift online auf der Publikationsplattform der Max Weber Stiftung perspectivia.net kostenlos als Volltext zur Verfügung.

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Call for papers

How do artists and craftspeople work together? How do these collaborations affect their respective statuses and the value of their products? How are decisions made during the processes of design and execution? What effects do the particular geographical, political and economic conditions have on the production process, reception and marketing of the art objects created?

These are some of the questions the conference will consider in relation to the period starting from the Exposition Universelle in Paris in 1900, which also took stock of the state of arts and crafts production at that time, until the beginning of the Second World War. This period is characterized by the increasing mechanization and automation of the production processes of arts and crafts objects, with established artists increasingly becoming involved in their manufacture. Discussions on the collaboration between the so-called “fine arts” and craft often revolve around the influence of art on craft. Our focus is on the reciprocity of exchange within this cooperation and the discursive intermingling between these two fields. How is work structured and what kinds of organizational forms are found in different types of workshops? How are these related to artistic demands, or to the use and functions of the manufactured objects?

In many avant-garde movements the applied arts played an important socio-cultural and political role. The economic side was often ignored however, for the sake of the requisite social interventions. In what ways do economic and political conditions determine the production processes and the cooperation between art and craft? What role do educational ideals and programs play? How does the educational training in workshops differ from that in art academies, beyond the orientation towards sales? What avant-garde practices found their way into the workshops and how does this affect production? And conversely, how does the knowledge of materials, techniques and processes generated in workshops influence forms of artistic expression?

The conference addresses a diverse range of disciplines including art, design and cultural studies, sociology, and in particular organizational sociology, and the economic sciences, and seeks new perspectives on artistic production at the margins of “classical modernism”. We welcome contributions on exemplary cases, as well as methodological insights, particularly from the field of working structures, organization and the intermingling of discourses.

Contributions (20 minutes in length) should relate to at least one of the following thematic focuses:

• Working structures and processes, design and realization
• Programmatic approaches, economics and marketing
• Discursive intermingling between art and craft, and between the singular and the serial

This English-language conference will take place at the German Center for Art History in Paris (DFK Paris) from June 26–27, 2025. Travel expenses will be reimbursed.

Contribution proposals (300 words) and a short CV should be sent by February 28, 2025 to: patricia.fritze(at)leuphana.de.

We also request a first version of the manuscript by June 6, 2025, i.e. three weeks before the conference, for the planned publication, which will be circulated among the contributors in advance.

The final manuscripts (4000-5000 words and max. 8 illustrations) for the publication should be submitted by August 29, 2025.

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Seminar at GHI Washington | Conveners: Anna von der Goltz (Georgetown University) and Richard Wetzell (GHI Washington)

Call for Papers

The German Historical Institute Washington and the BMW Center for German and European Studies at Georgetown University are pleased to announce the 30th Transatlantic Doctoral Seminar in German History, which will take place in Washington DC on June 3-6, 2025.

The seminar will bring together advanced doctoral students from Europe and North America to discuss their dissertation projects with one another and a small group of faculty mentors. The organizers welcome proposals from doctoral students working on any aspect of the history of nineteenth- and twentieth-century German-speaking Central Europe or on topics in European, transnational, comparative or global history that have a significant German component. Doctoral students working in related fields – including art history, legal history, and the history of science – are also encouraged to apply. The discussions will be based on papers (in German or English) submitted six weeks in advance. The seminar will be conducted bilingually, in German and English; therefore, fluency in both languages is a prerequisite. Accommodations will be arranged and paid for by the conference organizers. In addition, a travel subsidy will be available for those who do not have travel funding from their home institution.

We are now accepting applications from doctoral students whose dissertations are at an advanced stage (that is, in the write-up rather than research stage) but who will be granted their degrees after June 2025. Applications should include: (1) vita, max. 2 pages; (2) dissertation project description, max. 1000 words; (3) provisional table of contents, indicating which chapters have been completed (max. 2 pages), (4) letter of reference from the major dissertation advisor (commenting on progress toward completion and fluency in English and German). Applicants may submit their materials in German or English (preferably in the language in which they are writing their dissertation). The first three documents should be combined into a single PDF (file name should start with applicant’s last name) and submitted via upload at the online portal by January 15, 2025. Letters of reference should be emailed to Richard Wetzell at wetzell(at)ghi-dc.org (preferably as a PDF) by the advisor by the same date. Questions may be directed to Richard Wetzell via email.

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Workshop | 6 June 2025

Conveners: Bridget Heal (University of St. Andrews), David Lederer (NUI Maynooth), Alison Rowlands (University of Essex) and Mirjam Haehnle (GHI London)

Venue: GHIL

Our first workshop ran in 2002 and has established itself as the principal forum in Great Britain and the Republic of Ireland for new research on early modern German-speaking Central Europe. It fosters exchange on work-in-progress between post-graduates and experienced scholars in a relaxed atmosphere. Previous transdisciplinary themes include artistic and literary representations, medicine, science and musicology, as well as political, social, economic, military and religious history. Contributions are also welcome from those wishing to range outside the period generally considered as ‘early modern’ and those engaged in comparative research on other parts of early modern Europe. 

The day will be organized as a series of themed workshops, each introduced by a panel chair and consisting of two to three short papers followed by discussion. The papers present key findings in summary format for discussion and/or suggestions. Each participant has 15 minutes to highlight their work-in-progress and indicate how work might develop in the future. 

The workshop is sponsored by the German History Society and the German Historical Institute London in cooperation with the GHI Washington. Participation is free, including lunch. However, participants will have to bear costs for travel and accommodation themselves. 

Doctoral students from North America (USA and Canada) who wish to present at the workshop can apply for two travel funding grants provided by the GHI Washington. Please indicate your interest in this grant in your application. 

Support for postgraduate and early career researchers from the United Kingdom and The Republic of Ireland is available on a competitive basis, subject to eligibility requirements. 

Postgraduate members of the German Historical Society currently registered for a higher degree at a university in the United Kingdom or the Republic of Ireland, and those who have completed a PhD within two years of the deadline for application but who have no other institutional sources of funding may apply for up to £150 for travel and accommodation expenses. Please see the GHS website for further information and application deadlines. 

If you are interested in presenting a paper, please send a short synopsis (max. 300 words) and a CV by 1 March 2025 to J.Triandafyllou@ghil.ac.uk

Call for Papers (PDF)

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Ohne Bilder kann der moderne Parlamentarismus nicht existieren. Als repräsentative Herrschaftsform, die auf tendenziell freien Wahlen und dem freien Mandat beruht, ist er auf schriftliche, mündliche und visuelle Kommunikation mit dem »Volk« angewiesen, um das Vertrauen der Wähler in die politische Vertretung herzustellen und zu erhalten. Denn die politische Repräsentation im Parlament ist, wie Hans Kelsen bereits 1926 schrieb, eine »Fiktion«, deren Glaubwürdigkeit kommunikativ permanent bestätigt werden muss. Seit dem späten 18. Jahrhundert entstanden deshalb in Großbritannien und Frankreich sowie in der Folge in allen Staaten, die moderne Parlamente einrichteten, zahlreiche visuelle Zeugnisse des parlamentarischen Lebens – entweder als Selbstdarstellung der Parlamente und der Abgeordneten oder als Zuschreibung durch Bildjournalisten, Fotografen, Karikaturisten und künstlerische Beobachter. Sie wurden als öffentliche Bilder durch vielfältige Medien verbreitet und wurden teil eines öffentlichen Diskurses über den Parlamentarismus.

Diese weit gestreute Überlieferung wurde bislang nur punktuell untersucht und selten für die historische Parlamentarismusforschung fruchtbar gemacht. Vor allem fehlt eine gesamteuropäische Perspektive, die vergleichende Aussagen über die jeweiligen parlamentarischen Öffentlichkeitsregime erlaubte: Nur durch die Betrachtung von Gemeinsamkeiten und Unterschieden lässt sich die Frage beantworten, ob und inwieweit es eine geteilte, spezifisch europäische Bildsprache des Parlamentarismus gab oder gibt. Die Entschlüsselung der Semantik der parlamentsbezogenen Bilder erlaubt es, die machtpolitische Stellung der Parlamente in den jeweiligen institutionellen Ordnungen präziser zu erfassen.

Die Vorträge der Tagung sollen Bausteine zu einem europäischen Panorama parlamentarischer Bilderwelten liefern, und zwar für den Zeitraum von der Französischen Revolution bis in die 1930er Jahre, als nicht nur in politischer Hinsicht, sondern mit der Bedeutungszunahme des Rundfunks und des Films auch mediengeschichtlich eine neue Epoche begann. Die Beiträge können die Parlamente auf der nationalen oder auch auf der föderalen Ebene betreffen, auch diachrone oder synchrone Vergleiche sind möglich. Unter anderem sind Vorschläge zu folgenden Themenbereichen erwünscht: (Bild-)Medienwandel zu Beginn, während und am Ende des vorgeschlagenen Zeitraums, Bildnisse von Abgeordneten, Parlamentarismus und Historienmalerei, Parlamentarismus und Karikatur, Parlamentarismus in der illustrierten Presse, Frauenwahlrechtsbewegungen, Frauen als Parlamentarierinnen, Wahlkämpfe und Wahlen, Parlamente in der Produktwerbung, visueller Antiparlamentarismus etc.

Im Sinne der historischen Bildforschung ist die Tagung interdisziplinär ausgerichtet. Insbesondere sind Beiträge aus den Geschichts-, Medien- und Kunstwissenschaften erwünscht. Wir laden ausdrücklich auch Nachwuchswissenschaftler/innen ein, Vorschläge einzureichen.

Ihre Vorschläge für einen ca. zwanzigminütigen Vortrag (etwa 2.000 Zeichen und unter Angabe Ihrer institutionellen Anbindung) bitten wir bis zum 15.12.2024 an Andreas Biefang (biefang@kgparl.de) und Jürgen Finger (j.finger@dhi-paris.fr) einzureichen.

Konferenzsprachen sind Französisch, Englisch und Deutsch.

Die Kosten für Reise und Unterkunft (i.d.R. zwei Übernachtungen) der Referentinnen und Referenten werden von den Veranstaltern übernommen.

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The German Historical Institute Washington (GHI) is now accepting applications for its long-term visiting fellow program. The fellowships will be granted for a period of 6 to 12 months in the following thematic areas:

• History of Knowledge
• Migration, Kinship & Belonging
• History of Race & Ethnicity
• History of the Americas
   

The identified thematic areas are intended to be broad in scope. Applicants are encouraged to identify up to two areas for which they wish to submit their application. Please be sure to make clear in the application why your research project fits within the identified area as well as why the GHI would be a good place for you to work on your research project. Additionally, the proposed research projects should clearly make use of historical methods and engage with the relevant historiography related to the specific thematic area.

The fellowship will preferably start in September 2025. The Fellow is expected to be in residence in Washington, DC, and participate in GHI activities and events. The Fellow will have the opportunity to make use of the resources in the Washington metropolitan area, including the Library of Congress and the National Archives, while pursuing his or her own research. Travel within the U.S. to work in archives and libraries will also be possible. Candidates doing original research for a dissertation or a second book project will be given preference.

The fellowship is open to both doctoral and postdoctoral scholars based in North America and Europe. The monthly stipend is € 2,400 for doctoral students and € 3,400 for postdoctoral scholars. In addition, fellowship recipients based in Europe will receive reimbursement for their round-trip airfare to the U.S.

Eligibility Requirements

Applicants should be based at (or recent graduates of) a North American or European university or research institute. Postdoctoral scholars should be untenured. For doctoral students applying, ABD status (or the equivalent) is required prior to commencing the fellowship. For postdoctoral scholars applying, the preference is for projects that are designed for the "second book" (Habilitation or pre-tenure equivalent).

Questions about applying or for the fellowship program in general should be directed to fellowships(at)ghi-dc.org.

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Call for Papers

This conference aims to bring scholars of European and North American higher education together to consider three main themes: access, on-campus inequities, and the social consequences of higher education’s dramatic expansion. The conference presupposes that higher education and its impact on Western societies has changed dramatically since the late nineteenth century. In Europe and North America, universities have evolved from hyper-exclusive havens of elites to entry points for broad sections of the population seeking social and professional security. In the United States, a mere three percent of young adults attended college in 1890, compared to thirty percent in 1950. Today, about two-thirds of US high school graduates decide to enroll in higher education. To many, a degree from an institution of higher education presents the sole path to (relative) economic independence.

Despite the enormous importance of higher education to both individuals and societies, the existing historiography has hardly addressed the relationship between higher education and social inequalities. Scholars of college life have often limited their focus to students’ political activities, especially left-wing protests. Although historians of higher education have placed the transformation of university cultures in broader contexts, they have often disregarded the wider economic, political, and social consequences of the changes on campus.

This international conference focuses both on distinct European and North American trajectories of the social impact of collegiate education as well as on transatlantic interdependencies and interactions. The conference addresses three central topics.

The first is the history of access to higher education. The opportunity to attend university was and often still is connected to identity and/or economic affluence. However, the significance of these aspects for university access fundamentally changed over time. From about 1880 to 1950, gender, religion, disability, and ethnicity enabled or prevented university attendance or only permitted matriculation at segregated institutions. Over the course of the twentieth century, exclusionary policies based on identity markers were (formally) lifted. However, higher education institutions that continue to utilize identity markers for admission decisions (e.g., womens’ colleges and some faith-based institutions) or highlight their tradition as once segregated institutions (e.g., HBCUs) have persisted in North America but play only a marginal role in Europe. Simultaneously, the role of individual and/or family wealth as a prerequisite for university access has significantly increased. Against the backdrop of rising tuition costs, student loans programs, among other things, forced millions of Americans (and a rising number of Europeans) into debt and increased their risk of poverty. Large segments of the student population have turned to non-residential institutions to reduce costs, but these students also often struggle to find housing and job opportunities in competitive urban markets.

Secondly, the conference traces the long-term effects of on-campus inequalities. Universities have always been hierarchical places. Power struggles between faculty and students have shaped the social history of college life. Furthermore, these groups were and are also marked by stark internal differences and hierarchies. On both sides of the Atlantic, exclusive student societies became a hallmark of campus cultures after 1850. Academic clubs, sports teams, and fraternal orders served not merely as extracurricular activities but also as the bases for powerful personal networks. The conference attempts to unearth whether and to what extent student groups secured privileges on and beyond campuses through their admission policies, their worldview and/or their rituals. How exactly did different actors generate belonging and social inequality? How did these negotiation processes change over the decades? Which actors relied on what patterns of legitimization and when, and what do changes in these constellations reveal? The conference will also address inequalities among teachers and other university employees. In both North American and European academia, for instance, unionized college faculty faced political backlash during Red Scares. But how did unionization as well as changes in employment status and occupational profiles of academic and non-academic personnel affect social relationships on campus, as well as the public perception of colleges?

The third focus of the conference addresses the societal consequences of higher education’s expansion. Transatlantic differences in the organization of higher education are striking, so we assume that this is a key element. While the majority of (Central) European universities were and are public, two-thirds of all US universities and colleges are not state-affiliated, and a substantial number of US institutions operate for profit. The conference seeks to analyze the political, economic, and social impact of these structural differences. How, for instance, did church-run colleges influence the values of their graduates? How did the formation of private universities in European higher education or the rise of for-profit institutions in the US in the second half of the twentieth century change students’ motives for studying and the public perception as well as the “worth” of a college degree, especially as so-called knowledge industries became more important to Western societies?

We invite scholars from different methodological and historical backgrounds to convene and develop a common research agenda. The thematic range includes, but is not limited to, the following potential topics:

• Social and cultural history of access to higher education (e.g., admission restrictions based on gender, race, disability, etc.; history of affirmative-action policies, history of university enrollment, history of elite institutions)
• Social and economic impact of college degrees and the relationship of higher education and social stratification
• History of the Campus as a workplace (e.g., unionization, history of student employment, social history of non-academic and academic professions within colleges)
• History of university/college affordability (e.g., student loans, tuition payments, student housing)
• History of private and for-profit higher education in North America and Europe
• Social and cultural history of student organizations (e.g., fraternities/sororities, social clubs/eating clubs, religious student orders, varsity/college sports teams)
• History of segregated and/or separated institutions within higher education (e.g., history of HBCUS, history of women’s colleges, history of Deaf higher education, history of religious seminaries)
   

The conference will take place from October 9 - 10, 2025, and will be hosted by the German Historical Institute in Washington, D.C.

Please submit an abstract (max. 500 words) and a short biography (max. 150 words) in English via the GHI conference platform by December 8, 2024.

Accommodations will be arranged and paid for by the conference organizers. Participants will make their own travel arrangements; funding subsidies for travel are available upon request for selected scholars, especially those who might not otherwise be able to attend the workshop, including junior scholars and scholars from universities with limited resources.

Please contact Nicola Hofstetter-Phelps (hofstetter-phelps(at)ghi-dc.org) if you have any difficulties submitting your information online or if you have other questions related to the event.

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Das Jahrbuch widmet sich der italienischen Geschichte und Musikgeschichte sowie der Geschichte der deutsch-italienischen Beziehungen in transregionalen bzw. transnationalen Zusammenhängen vom frühen Mittelalter bis zur Gegenwart. Publiziert werden Aufsätze (nach Peer Review) sowie Rezensionen, Forschungs- und Tagungsberichte, bevorzugt in deutscher und italienischer, vereinzelt auch in englischer Sprache. In der Rubrik "Forum" erscheinen Essays zu aktuellen geschichtswissenschaftlichen Fragen und Diskussionen. Autorinnen und Autoren von fachwissenschaftlichen Veröffentlichungen (5.–21. Jahrhundert) zum oben genannten Themenprofil oder ihre Verlage können Rezensionsexemplare an die Redaktion der Zeitschrift senden.

Hinweise für die Abgabe von Manuskripten
Deadline für Band 105 (2025): Januar 2025.
Umfang: max. 100 000 Zeichen (inkl. Leerzeichen)
Redaktionelle Richtlinien

Redaktion
Susanne Wesely wesely[at]dhi-roma.it

Editorial Board
Direktion und alle wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiter*innen des DHI Rom

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in Zusammenarbeit mit der Musikgeschichtlichen Abteilung des Deutschen Historischen Institut in Rom (DHI Rom) und der Universität Koblenz:

Ort und Termin: 13. bis 15. Oktober 2025 am DHI Rom

Deadline der Einreichung: 30. November 2024

Sprachen: Deutsch, Englisch und Italienisch

Für die themenoffene Arbeitstagung laden wir dazu ein, Beiträge über aktuelle Forschung im Bereich der Soziologie oder Sozialgeschichte der Musik einzureichen. Willkommen sind Vorschläge aus allen Gebieten der Forschung zu Soziologie und Sozialgeschichte der Musik: empirisch-soziologische, sozialgeschichtliche, theoretische, aus Themenbereichen wie den Gender oder Intersectional Studies, der Popularmusikforschung, globaler, lokaler und glokaler Musikgeschichte, musikalischer Ökonomie usw.

Der CfP steht allen Forschenden offen, die Mitgliedschaft in der Fachgruppe oder der Gesellschaft für Musikforschung ist nicht notwendig. Die Arbeitstagung ist insbesondere für Early Career Researchers gedacht. BA- und MA-Studierende sowie Promovierende sind daher speziell aufgefordert, sich zu bewerben.

Die Übernachtungskosten für zwei Nächte werden ebenso wie die Verpflegung während der Tagung übernommen. Die Reisekosten sind von den Teilnehmer*innen selbst zu finanzieren. Wir machen hier Promovierende auf die Möglichkeit aufmerksam, entsprechende Anträge für Auslandsvorträge beim DAAD zu stellen. Für Beschäftigte an Universitäten gibt es ggf. auch die Möglichkeit, eine Förderung bei der Heimatuniversität zu beantragen. In Härtefällen ist ein Zuschuss zu den Reisekosten oder die Online-Teilnahme möglich, bitte halten Sie in diesem Fall Rücksprache mit uns.

Bitte reichen Sie Ihr Proposal mit einem Abstract von max. 2000 Zeichen bis 30. November 2024 im Bewerbungsportal des DHI Rom ein. Über die Entscheidung der Annahme informieren wir Sie bis Ende Dezember.

Bei Rückfragen wenden Sie sich bitte an:

PD Dr. Vera Grund

Musikgeschichtliche Abteilung des DHI Rom

v.grund@dhi-roma.it

Prof. Dr. Corinna Herr

Institut für Musikwissenschaft und Musikpädagogie der Universität Koblenz

cherr@uni-koblenz.de

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Musikwissenschaftlicher Studienkurs

16. bis 22. März 2025, Deutsches Historisches Institut in Rom

Als politisches und religiöses Zentrum spielte Musik in Rom stets eine wichtige Rolle im Spiel der Mächtigen um Einfluss und Prestige. Dies begann nicht erst mit der christlichen Tradition, sondern galt besonders für das antike Rom, in dem die Herrschenden Theater- und Musikaufführungen als staatspolitisches Mittel zur Stabilisierung der gesellschaftlichen Verhältnisse und als Ort der politischen Kommunikation nutzten. Ebenso lässt sich Musik als Medium zur Repräsentation von Macht in religiösen wie weltlichen Kontexten der Neuzeit an zahlreichen Orten in Rom erfahren, in Kirchen, Opernhäusern oder Privatpalästen. Die bedeutenden Musiksammlungen, die in privaten und öffentlichen Archiven der Stadt liegen, zeugen von der medialen Bedeutung ihrer Dokumentation. Die Geschichte der im Faschismus gegründeten Cinecittà mit ihren staatlichen Filmstudios zeigt dagegen eindrucksvoll die Relevanz des italienischen Films als Medium in politischen Kontexten, dessen Erfolg nicht zuletzt mit der Herausbildung einer speziellen italienischen Filmmusiktradition in Verbindung steht.

Im Rahmen des Studienkurses „Musikstadt Rom: Macht – Musik – Medien“ werden wir uns mit Orten, an denen Musik als Medium oder Medien der Musik von der Geschichte bis in die Gegenwart eine Rolle spiel(t)en, befassen. Neben Besichtigungen und Stadtspaziergängen ist in Kooperation mit Prof. Dr. Luca Aversano eine gemeinsame Studentsconference am DAMS (Discipline Arti Musica Spettacolo) der Università degli Studi Roma Tre geplant.

Kursleitung

PD Dr. Vera Grund (DHI Rom, Musikgeschichtliche Abteilung)

Prof. Dr. Klaus Pietschmann und Prof. Dr. Peter Niedermüller (Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz)

Die Übernachtung in einem Doppelzimmer für sechs Nächte wird übernommen ebenso wie die Kosten für Eintritte und öffentliche Verkehrsmittel in Rom. Die Reisekosten sind von den Teilnehmerinnen und Teilnehmern selbst zu finanzieren. Wir weisen auf die Möglichkeit der Förderung der Reise durch den DAAD hin (www.daad.de).

Voraussetzungen:

Die Bewerbung für den Studienkurs Musikstadt Rom: Macht – Musik – Medien ist ab dem fortgeschrittenen Bachelorstudium möglich. Von den Kursteilnehmer:innen wird erwartet, ein Poster vorzubereiten und dieses im Rahmen der Studentsconference zu präsentieren (mögliche Sprachen Italienisch und Deutsch). Außerdem ist die Teilnahme an zwei vorbereitenden Zoom-Sitzungen sowie an den Besichtigungen obligatorisch.

Bewerbungen mit einem aussagekräftigen Motivationsschreiben werden bis 15. November 2024 ausschließlich über unser Bewerbungsportal https://application.dhi-roma.it entgegengenommen. Bitte laden Sie über das Bewerbungsportal eine aktuelle Immatrikulationsbescheinigung, eine Befürwortung durch eine/n Hochschullehrer/in sowie den Nachweis eines ausreichenden Krankenversicherungsschutzes hoch.

Wir danken der Gesellschaft für Musikforschung (GfM) und dem Verein der Freunde des Deutschen Historischen Instituts (DHI) in Rom e.V. für die finanzielle Beteiligung an der Förderung des Studienkurses.

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Call for Papers

The conference is kindly funded by the Volkswagen Foundation.

Please note: This CFP addresses two groups. We invite scholars to submit paper proposals for a General Workshop. We also invite emerging scholars (doctoral students) to submit proposals to receive feedback on their projects by senior scholars in a special Young Scholars Forum set aside for this purpose during the conference. More on this below.

As the controversies currently engulfing colleges and universities around the globe indicate, institutions of higher education remain sites of conflict and contestation among competing social, cultural, economic, and ideological forces. These conflicts have deep historical roots. During the heyday of the so-called liberal consensus after World War II, universities on both sides of the Atlantic were celebrated as symbols of enlightened liberalism, promoting a democratic ethos and social responsibility. The 1960s saw these traditions tested and reinterpreted amidst generational conflicts over the ideals and realities of participatory democracy. By the early 1980s, higher education institutions faced twin challenges: a conservative backlash and the rise of neoliberal economic ideologies.

To better understand higher education’s role in the current international political climate, the proposed conference provides an opportunity to reflect on the history of colleges and universities in North America and Europe since 1945. Characterized as “world institutions” whose dedication to scientific and humanistic endeavors seemed to align with a universalistic liberalism, colleges and universities nevertheless responded to global opportunities and pressures from their own particular perspectives and perceived societal roles.

While universities have long facilitated academic exchange, the period since World War II witnessed three important developments. First, a new and unprecedented focus on science, and technology brought universities, as research institutions, to the forefront of public attention and policy considerations. Second, a resurgent discourse on democratic structures and civic engagement compelled universities to reassess their public mission in light of emerging concerns about elitism, accessibility, and public service. Third, with the advent of mass higher education, universities engaged in a new wave of globalization through academic exchange, the proliferation of study abroad programs, and international fellowship programs.

These developments provide a framework for conference participants to examine the relationship between North American and European universities as institutions, nodes of networks, and competitors in research, education, and funding within an evolving political landscape. As universities during the second half of the twentieth century became, according to sociologists David John Frank and John W. Meyer, “the centerpiece” of a globalized knowledge society, they were simultaneously shaped by local, regional, and national settings as well as by cultural and political expectations and demands.

The conveners invite contributions that explore the history of colleges and universities in the transatlantic region as centers of education and research since 1945. Topics to be discussed include:

• How have higher education institutions defined their responsibilities and roles for various communities, such as regional, national, or global communities? How have they responded to cultural and political criticism of their work since 1945?
• How significant has the transformation of universities in North America and Europe been since 1945? How substantial are contemporary claims to innovation, such as Clark Kerr’s designation of the “multiversity”? By becoming global players, have universities evolved into new and different kinds of institutions? What, if anything, ties them to older models? What models did they seek to emulate, and what models were actually implemented?
• How have universities navigated post-colonial social, political, and economic transformations, both domestically and globally? How have justice movements influenced institutional structures, policies, and purposes?
• What role have political initiatives played in shaping higher education, particularly transnational or global initiatives (e.g., the OECD, the EU, the Bologna Process)?
• What has been the relevance and impact of transnational emulation, such as striving to meet European or “American” models?
• How have intellectual, political, and managerial agendas shaped the national and/or global roles of universities, fields of research, and education?
• What is the history of the global expansion of North American and European universities abroad? What has prompted global expansion and cooperation, and what has been the effect on research, teaching, and the public standing and role of universities?
• What has been the impact of shifts in funding sources on research and education? How have economic crises and government financial policies affected universities?
• What has been the impact of management agendas and styles in universities on research and education, and vice versa? What are the trajectories of engagement between the different levels and functions of universities?
• How have universities balanced initiatives for science diplomacy, international student mobility, their commitment to research and reflection, and their responsibilities (including legal national security mandates) to protect key technologies and knowledge? What strategies have been developed to respond to strict oversight or outright hostility towards universities in autocratic and some democratic states?
• How have institutions, along with their students, faculty, and administrations, navigated populist challenges to the role of universities in society? How have universities been affected by the reinterpretation and appropriation of some of their core ideals (from academic freedom to liberal education or democratic discourse) by counter-movements, technological development, or geopolitical challenges?

The conference will bring together scholars from diverse fields, including history (such as the history of science and the history of education), sociology, and science studies, as well as related disciplines. We will also invite university leaders and policymakers to join the conversation. The conference will feature panels, roundtable discussions, and a keynote address. We expect to invite up to 50 colleagues to participate. The conveners aim to publish contributions as a special issue in a peer-reviewed journal or as an essay collection.

As part of this conference, three distinct paper sessions will be designated as a Young Scholars Forum, providing doctoral students with an opportunity to receive feedback on their pre-circulated papers from senior scholars. These sessions will offer emerging scholars a platform to discuss their work and network during a critical phase of their careers.

The conference will be held at Herrenhausen Palace in Hanover (Germany). The deadline for proposals is January 19, 2025. Please upload a paper proposal for the General Workshop or the Young Scholars Forum via this link. A proposal consists of single PDF file containing a brief description of the research project (up to 300 words), a brief CV (1 or 2 pages), and contact information. Successful applicants will be notified in February 2025.

Accommodation will be arranged and paid for by the conference organizers. Participants will make their own travel arrangements; funding subsidies for travel may be available upon request for selected scholars, especially those who might not otherwise be able to attend the workshop, including junior scholars and scholars from universities with limited resources.

Please contact Nicola Hofstetter (hofstetter-phelps(at)ghi-dc.org) if you have any difficulties submitting your information online or if you have other questions related to the event.

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Die Spring School will junge Studierende für die facettenreiche italienische Geschichte im Mittelalter begeistern und gleichzeitig auf die vielfältigen Möglichkeiten, in Rom wissenschaftlich zu arbeiten, hinweisen.

Spezialist*innen aus dem DHI sowie Mitglieder des wissenschaftlichen Beirates des Instituts führen anhand ausgewählter Materialien in grundlegende Aspekte der italienischen Geschichte ein, wecken Interesse an offenen Fragen und vermitteln handwerkliche Fähigkeiten zur Quellenanalyse. Auf dem Programm steht ebenfalls der Besuch eines römischen Archivs und des Laterankomplexes.

Die Kosten für vier Übernachtungen mit Frühstück trägt das Deutsche Historische Institut.

Voraussetzungen:

Die Bewerbung steht allen fortgeschrittenen Studierenden deutscher und italienischer Hochschulen nach erfolgreichem Besuch eines Proseminars im Bereich der mittelalterlichen Geschichte und vor Abschluss des Masters offen. Erforderlich sind sehr gute Deutschkenntnisse.

Bewerbungsmodalitäten:

Bewerbungen werden bis 3. November 2024 ausschließlich über das Bewerbungsportal https://application.dhi-roma.it entgegengenommen. Bitte laden Sie über dieses Portal eine aktuelle Immatrikulationsbescheinigung, einen Transcript of Records, eine Befürwortung durch eine/n Hochschullehrer/in sowie den Nachweis eines ausreichenden Krankenversicherungsschutzes hoch.

Kontakt:

Prof. Dr. Florian Hartmann (RWTH Aachen): hartmann(at)histinst.rwth-aachen.de

Dr. Kordula Wolf (DHI Rom): wolf(at)dhi-roma.it

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The purpose of this seminar is to promote the historical study of refugees, who are too often regarded as a phenomenon of recent times. By viewing the problem of refugees from a historical perspective, the seminar seeks to complicate and contextualize our understanding of peoples who have fled political or religious conflicts, persecution, and violence. By bringing together 14 advanced PhD students and early postdocs from different parts of the world whose individual research projects examine refugees in different times and places, we intend to give a sense of purpose to this emerging field of study and demonstrate the value of viewing the plight of refugees from a historical perspective. The seminar is meant as a platform to share research findings, ideas, and work in progress.

We invite contributions from recent PhDs, as well as young scholars in the final stages of their dissertations. In addition to historians, we also encourage applications from researchers working in the fields of sociology, political science, anthropology, ethnic and area studies, but expect the application to make explicit reference to historical dimensions. Possible contributions include:

• Studies of refugee movements and exile diasporas in various periods and places;
• Studies of the ethnic, gendered, racial, religious, and other characteristics of refugee groups and how they impact on reception policies and processes;
• Studies of reception and aid policies, and on the repercussions of refugees on host states and societies;
• Studies of the changing inter-state framework of refugee movements, such as international or inter-imperial cooperation, the role of international governmental or non- governmental actors, humanitarian organizations, etc.;
• Studies of the infrastructures of exile (camps, networks, economies, regulations)
• Studies of the conceptual history of refugees and exile (legal history, administrative practice, cultural history, etc.)
   

Papers will be pre-circulated five weeks before the seminar to allow maximum time for peers and invited senior scholars to engage in discussions on the state of the field. The workshop language will be English. The organizers will cover basic expenses for travel and 

accommodation. The seminar is hosted by Jan C. Jansen (UT), Dane Kennedy (George Washington University) and Simone Lässig (GHI). The participants will be joined by a group of leading senior scholars in the field of refugee history, including Delphine Diaz (University of Reims-Institut universitaire de France), Ilana Feldman (George Washington University), Peter Gatrell (University of Manchester) and Susanne Lachenicht (University of Bayreuth).

The seminar is supported by the Fritz-Thyssen-Foundation, the University of Tübingen, the ERC project “Atlantic Exiles”, and the German Historical Institute. For more information on the seminar and its previous cohorts, visit its website.

Please submit a brief CV (max. 2 pages) and a proposal of no more than 750 words in English in one PDF by November 21, 2023 (extended) to refugee-history(at)histsem.uni-tuebingen.de. Please contact us under the same email address if you have any questions. Successful applicants will be notified in December 2024.

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German Historical Institute in Paris

Société internationale d’histoire du français langue étrangère ou seconde

In association with the German Research Foundation (DFG)

International workshop: Genesis of professions and language learning 16th – first half 19th c.

MW Network Eastern Europe, Helsinki

15-16 May, 2025

The early modern period saw the emergence of a number of professional groups in Europe that both shared characteristics with modern professions and showed distinct early-modern features. A key aspect of this process was the introduction of specialized education, which often included language learning. This was particularly true for occupations where proficiency in specific languages was essential, such as diplomats, diplomatic translators, secretaries, scribes, scholars, and clerics. Moreover, due to the intensification of transnational contacts and geographical mobility among specialists as well as the circulation of printed books, language proficiency became an integral part of the education for many other professional groups, such as military officers, engineers, and artists. Although language proficiency was highly valued among many professionals, the acquisition of foreign language skills varied significantly across different professional milieus. For some groups, such as the learned professions, language learning was part of their formal educational path. For others such as nobility, family strategies and personal experiences, such as educational travel, played a more significant role. For example, the linguistic training of aspiring diplomats remained, for a long time, dependent on the latter rather than on targeted professional training. However, signs of change emerged with the establishment of schools for future foreign affairs personnel and practices such as attaching young men to diplomatic missions as chevaliers d’ambassade or embassy secretaries. One question concerns the importance of linguae francae, particularly the role of French compared to other languages (both European and non-European) in the curriculum of early modern ‘professions’. Over the course of the early modern period, French became the main diplomatic lingua franca whose role increased particularly in the second half of the seventeenth and in the eighteenth centuries. However, the importance of French grew as well for many other specialists, such as military officers, engineers, scholars, and more. Social criteria played an important role: while for many diplomats from noble families French was part of their upbringing, for young men from other social strata it was a valuable addition and, in some cases, the central component of their professional knowledge and expertise. Another question concerns the relationship between the existing linguistic training and the personnel policy of early modern state administrations. To what extent did the latter influence the choice of languages and the forms of their acquisition within the institutions they supported financially, compared to the influence of other actors, such as school directors and teachers, who often pursued their own agenda? The objective of the workshop is to contribute to our understanding of the roles played by both state and private actors in the development of linguistic training for early modern professional groups and to assess differences in the emerging professionalisation policies across Europe.

Questions which are of interest for the workshop include but are not limited to:

• Institutions and practices in language learning for aspiring professionals
• (Foreign) language proficiency as a professional skill and/or part of the professional ethic of a group; the role of language training versus training in other disciplines in a growing specialisation
• The place of linguistic training within career structures
• The role of linguae francae, for example French, versus other languages in the linguistic training of would-be professionals
• Family strategies for language acquisition
• State and non-state actors providing linguistic training
• The dissemination of models for organizing training, including linguistic instruction

Confirmed keynote speakers: Prof. Guido Braun (University of Upper Alsace); Prof. Harry Lönnroth (Jyväskylä University).

Working language of the workshop: English, with the possibility to present papers in French.

Organizing committee: Vladislav Rjéoutski (German Historical Institute in Paris), Sophie Holm (Max Weber Network Eastern Europe).

Prospective participants are invited to submit their proposals to the following email address: vrjeoutski@dhi-paris.fr

Important dates:

• Submission deadline: 30 November 2024
• Notification of paper acceptance: 15 December 2024

The organisers may cover part of the travel expenses.

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In recent years, interest in the history of the digital humanities has grown. The 9^th dhiha conference at the German Historical Institute Paris from 23-25 October 2024 will connect to this growing interest. It will explore the overlooked history of digital history from different perspectives and emphasize the importance of understanding the field’s past by examining historical developments, methods, and research gaps. The aim is to highlight past achievements and offer a critical perspective on the evolution of digital history, challenging the rhetoric of novelty that often surrounds it. The conference program can be found here: https://dhdhi.hypotheses.org/9978

Applications are open to Master’s students and doctoral candidates in the field of digital history or digital humanities.

In return, you commit to accompanying the conference in the media, e.g. in the form of a conference report, a blog post, a photo story on Instagram, postings on the official Mastodon or X-account of the DHIP, a podcast, mini-videos, etc. (but we are happy about any creative format!). You can choose the language in which you want to write!

Please apply by 16 September 2024 by e-mail to DH@dhi-paris.fr with a letter of motivation (max. 2 pages) containing a brief outline of your ideas for media coverage of the conference and a short CV in tabular form (max. 1 page) in a merged PDF file. If your application is successful, you will receive a grant of up to 400 euros (from Germany/Europe) and up to 200 euros (from France) to cover travel and accommodation costs for the conference. The funds will be paid out after submission of receipts and after submission of your contribution to the media coverage of the conference.

Acceptances will be announced by e-mail by 20 September 2024.

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Die Bewerber:innen sind fortgeschrittene Masterstudierende, Doktoranden und Doktorandinnen oder Post-Docs, die an eine Einrichtung in den Staaten des Südkaukasus angebunden sind. Sie arbeiten zu einem Thema, das dem Forschungsprofil des Büro Georgien entspricht (https://mwsgeorgien.hypotheses.org/1).

Das Stipendium ermöglicht die Teilnahme an einer Veranstaltung, die für das jeweils eigene Forschungsprojekt von begründeter Relevanz ist. Es ist für die Mehraufwendungen bestimmt, die sich aus der Teilnahme ergeben. Die Erstattung der Kosten erfolgt gegen Vorlage der entsprechenden Rechnungen.

Erstattet werden:

− Fahrt-/Flugkosten für eine Hin- und Rückreise, jedoch höchstens 500,- €

− Übernachtungsgeld, jedoch höchstens 70,- € pro Übernachtung

Die Kostenübernahme ist insgesamt auf 700,- € begrenzt.

Neben dem formlosen Bewerbungsschreiben sind folgende Unterlagen einzureichen:

• Exposé zum Forschungsprojekt und Erläuterung der Relevanz der Veranstaltung (max. 2 Seiten)

• Kurzgutachten des akademischen Betreuers (bzw. eines anderen Experten im relevanten Bereich) (bis zu einer Seite)

• Lebenslauf (mit Publikationsliste)

• Einladung des Veranstalters

• Kopie der Bachelor-, Master- bzw. Promotionsurkunde

• Nachweis der Kenntnisse der Arbeitssprache der Veranstaltung

Die Bewerbung kann in Deutsch oder in Englisch eingereicht werden.

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In recent decades, memory and museum studies have vastly researched the social, political, and aesthetic concepts of exhibition narratives about difficult pasts. However, many other factors in the display of difficult pasts in museums, art galleries, or sites of memory have gone largely unnoticed. These include the materiality of exhibition spaces, technological developments, and administrative frameworks. While they are part of the everyday work of exhibition practitioners, they receive little attention from scholars.

In order to better understand these seemingly “banal” and yet very powerful aspects of exhibition (and memory) making, the conference organizers are drawing inspiration from infrastructure studies. According to this perspective, infrastructure is more than just an enabling subsystem beneath any visible structure that becomes palpable only when it breaks down. It can be seen as an active factor or an actant, a verb rather than a noun, a conjunction and intra-activity between elements and actions that ultimately lead to the creation of a cultural production.

Following these theoretical developments, we propose to examine various infrastructural factors that actively condition and shape historical and/or artistic exhibitions about difficult pasts, and to consider the exhibitions themselves as being, in turn, infrastructures of collective memory. These factors include, but are not limited to, artefact materiality and conservation requirements, exhibition space design, curatorial strategies, installation formats and display technologies, legal frameworks, management strategies and funding sources for cultural institutions, collaborative networks, cultural education strategies, audience development, public relations, disability law and policy, security protocols and safety standards.

As the conference takes place at the German Historical Institute Warsaw and is funded by the Polish-German Research Foundation, we are particularly interested in papers dealing with the difficult Polish-German past, namely the Second World War and the Holocaust. However, proposals related to exhibitions on other forms and histories of persecution, war and violence from East-Central Europe and beyond are also welcome. We refer to the concept of exhibition in its broad historical, artistic, and ethnographic sense and therefore welcome contributions on various forms of exhibiting history. We are also open to interdisciplinary and comparative approaches that combine discussions of exhibitions considered as infrastructures with other media of memory.

We encourage submissions on the following topics:

 • material and institutional histories of exhibitions

• technological and environmental factors of exhibiting history

• financial and legal frameworks of exhibiting history

• curatorial practices in exhibition making

• exhibiting history in times of digitalization, VR and AI

• transnational and global challenges in exhibiting local histories

The conference language is English. We are open to submissions from any discipline as well as to transdisciplinary contributions.

Practical Information:

The conference will take place at the German Historical Institute Warsaw on 29 – 31 May 2025. Conference participants are asked to submit an abstract and biography. Presentations should last no more than 20 minutes. The travel and accommodation expenses of the invited guests will be covered by the organizers. Selected papers will be considered for publication in an academic journal or collective monograph of international relevance.

Organizers: Magdalena Saryusz-Wolska and Izabela Paszko (GHI Warsaw)

To Apply: Please submit the title, abstract (ca. 250 words) and short biography (ca. 150 words) by e-mail to Izabela Paszko (paszko@dhi.waw.pl) by 31 October 2024. You will be notified about your participation by 30 November 2024.

Timeline:

Submission deadline: 31 October 2024

Notification of Acceptance: 30 November 2024

Conference: 29-31 May 2025

Contact: paszko@dhi.waw.pl

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We are pleased to announce the international conference Echoes of Conflict: Health Consequences of War and Violence Across Generations. This conference aims to explore the multifaceted impacts of war and violence on individuals and communities, encompassing its physical, mental, and societal dimensions. By delving into the intimate effects of war on health, governmental and societal responses at both national and international level, as well as itstransgenerational (mental) health effects, we seek to provide a comprehensive understanding of the enduring legacy of conflict.

Eighty years after the end of the Second World War, it is time to shift the focus toward the intimate impacts of war and violence on individuals and their health, with a special emphasis on transgenerational consequences. This reflection goes beyond the concept of post-memory to include new perspectives on how the traumas of war are experienced and processed across generations.

The conference aims to move from the global political aftermaths of war to victim care, the rebuilding of affected families and homes, and individual consequences for (mental) health. It also seeks to examine social transformations caused by mass violence, mass displacement, border and regime changes in the aftermath of World War II, and how individuals and communities have coped with these challenges.

We are honored to announce Prof. Michał Bilewicz, the renowned social psychologist from the University of Warsaw, as our keynote speaker. Prof. Bilewicz's work on intergroup relations, prejudice, and the psychological effects of historical trauma will provide valuable insights into our discussions.

Join us as we explore the enduring health consequences of war and violence across generations and work towards a more compassionate and resilient future.

Conference Themes:

Intimate Effects of War and Violence on Individuals and Their Health:

Explore individual and family experiences of coping with the physical and psychological aftermath of war and violence, as well as strategies of returning to normality. Examine life in post-war societies, navigating physical injuries and psychological trauma.

Governmental and Societal Responses to the Post-war Health Crisis:

Analyze governmental and societal approaches to caring for victims and rebuilding affected families and homes. Investigate public health policies addressing the health consequences of war, including the management of diseases and pandemics.

Transgenerational (Mental) Health Effects:

Investigate the impact of war and violence on the second and third post-war generations' physical and mental health. Assess strategies and programs for transgenerational care and the processes of rebuilding families across generations.

Inclusive Conference:

We encourage contributions from history and other related fields such as sociology, anthropology, literature, cultural studies, psychology, and social psychology, and others to promote a comprehensive exploration of this topic. Submissions should emphasize the historical dimensions of their chosen theme. We welcome contributions from across Europe and beyond, highlighting the diversity of experiences and responses to war and violence in different regions.

Submission Guidelines:

- Abstracts Submission Deadline: 30 November 2024

- Notification of Acceptance: 15 January 2025

- Full Papers Submission Deadline: 31 March 2025

- Conference Dates: 8 to 10 April 2025

- Venue: Karolinum, Charles University, Ovocný trh 560/5, Prague

Please submit abstract (250–300 words) and a brief bio (150 words) no later than November 30, 2024, to the following email: echoes@usd.cas.cz

For inquiries and further information, please contact: mrnka@dhi-prag.cz

Conference Organizing Committee

Dr. Adéla Gjuričová, Institute for Contemporary History of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague

Prof. Dr. Ota Konrád, Institute of International Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University, Prague

Dr. Jaromír Mrňka, German Historical Institute Warsaw, Prague Branch

Prof. Dr. Magdalena Saryusz-Wolska, German Historical Institute Warsaw

Prof. Dr. Ioulia Shukan, Center for Russian, Caucasian, Central European and Central Asian Studies (CERCEC), School of Advanced Studies in Social Sciences, EHESS, Paris

Dr. Iryna Sklokina, Center for Urban History, Lviv

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 The Conference is intended for postgraduate research scholars working on German history from the Middle Ages to the present at a UK or Irish university. Ph.D. students at all stages are encouraged to apply. All participants will be expected to briefly present their research projects, but if capacity is limited, preference will be given to second- and third-year students.

 A course on German Palaeography is planned for the first day of the conference. Should you wish to take part, please indicate your interest in your application. Please note that places will be assigned on a first-come, first-served basis. 

Application Details

If you are interested in attending, please send an email to PGconference@ghil.ac.uk by Friday 15th November 2024 and you must include the following: 

• full contact details – name, address, email address and telephone number
• the exact title of your Ph.D. project
• the date you started your Ph.D. project (and whether you are enrolled part- or full- time)
• the name, address, email address, and phone number of your university and supervisor
• an indication of whether you have undertaken research in Germany
• an indication of whether you wish to participate in the Palaeography course scheduled for the morning of 9th January 2025

 The GHIL will arrange accommodation for participants from outside the Greater London Area and offer a lump sum towards the cost of travel to London.

Call for Applications (PDF file)

Eighth Junior Scholars Conference in Jewish History in Berlin | Organized by Anna-Carolin Augustin (German Historical Institute Washington), Mark Roseman (Indiana University Bloomington), and Miriam Rürup (Moses Mendelssohn Centre for European-Jewish Studies, Potsdam), and the Wissenschaftliche Arbeitsgemeinschaft des Leo Baeck Instituts with additional support from the Indiana University Europe Gateway in Berlin

We invite proposals for papers to be presented at the Eighth Junior Scholars Conference in Jewish History to take place at the Indiana University Europe Gateway in Berlin, May 2025. We seek proposals specifically from postdoctoral scholars, recent PhDs as well as those in the final stages of their dissertations.

The aim of the two-day workshop is to bring together a small transatlantic group of junior scholars to explore new research and questions in Jewish history. Via pre-circulated papers and brief presentations at the workshop itself, participants will offer insights in their respective individual research projects and at the same time engage in a broader discussion on sources, methodology, and theory in order to assess current and possible future trends in the modern history of Jews in Europe, the Americas, and beyond.

For some time, historians have sought to bring the history of German Jews out of the shadow of the Holocaust. Especially for the period before 1933, and particularly before 1914, scholars have been at pains to show that the history of German Jewry was not simply characterized by antisemitism, exclusion, and delusions of acceptance. And while the theme of studies on Jews in postwar Germany was for a long time a community “living with packed suitcases”, German reunification and the Jewish immigration waves of the 1990s have evoked new questions and themes to complement or supersede the concern with the aftershocks of the Holocaust.  

So, what is the place now of National Socialism and the Holocaust in our current understanding of German Jewry? Does it remain the critical vanishing point for the history of German Jews before 1933?  Questions that might be raised include:

• To what extent was pre-1933 German Jewish history destined for disaster? What kind of alternative histories and trends can be/ have been offered about the place and experience of Jewry in pre-Nazi German society? 
• How far did Jewish responses to National Socialism and the Holocaust draw on Jewish practices and traditions that predated the catastrophe?
• How far is Jewish life in Germany, and are German Jewish diasporas elsewhere in the world, still shaped – in identity, aspirations, and memory by the experience of the Holocaust?  How did the Nazi-Past influence the perception of Judaism/Jewish presence – e.g. the role of the Zentralrat der Juden in Postwar West-Germany, the preservation and or neglect of Jewish heritage sites in East and West Germany? 
• How did this specific lens of looking at Jewish history through Holocaust history also shape and affect the historiography on Germany Jewry in the postwar period? How far did it determine what was visible in Jewish heritage and what remained invisible? And how did it influence public representations of Jewish history in Germany – in museums, memorials, or schools and teaching curricula?
• What role did Jewish perspectives and actors play in memorialization processes in the Post-Holocaust era?  How distinctive is the relationship of Jewry in Germany, or of German-Jewish diasporas to the Holocaust compared with other elements of the postwar Jewish world?
   

We invite:

• historical research that raises questions about the place and significance of the Holocaust in the history of pre-1945 German Jewry broadly understood, and of Jewry in the postwar Germanies;
• historiographical research that explores the way in which history writing has juxtaposed (or not) the history of German Jewry, and the Holocaust;
• Memory studies tackling questions of trauma, commemoration, restitution, identity and more.
   

The workshop language will be English. The organizers will cover basic expenses for travel and accommodation. Please submit short proposals (750 words max.) and a one-page CV by September 30, 2024 here. Successful applicants will be notified by October 15.

Food has a long tradition as a marker of social and cultural norms, relationships, and difference in modern history. As Sidney Mintz highlighted, eating food is “never a purely biological activity,” but rather a basic activity with social meaning(s) that are communicated symbolically, and have histories” (Mintz 1996: 7). Europe’s diverse food cultures have been significantly shaped by migration processes; migrants formed an integral, if often marginalized, part of European societies and played an important role in (re)creating Europe’s foodways. The proposed conference explores the intersection of migration studies and food studies: It tests the analytical potential of food practices and food histories for people migrating to and from Europe and asks how we might view the history of European societies differently by examining migrant foodways. This perspective opens a window onto different layers of historical analysis from individual experiences to the discourses of absorbing societies; from the domestic to the public; from everyday practices of preparing, serving, and consuming food to questions of public health, religion, and migration politics. Furthermore, food histories articulate how “modern,” “traditional,” “migrant,” and “ethnic” cuisines are constructed and have often been gendered and racialized, as well as how the local and the global intersect.

In the  last twenty years or so, food and migration have been discussed in migration studies as well as in food studies: historians, anthropologists, and sociologists have analyzed the role of food in migration processes focusing on regional case studies, such as migrant experiences in Australia (Hage 1997, Cardona 2004, Frost 2008), the U.S. (Kalcik 1984, Diner 2001, Ray 2007, Panayi 2010), and  Europe (Jamal 1996, Harbottle 1997, Cook 1999, Berg 2008, Tuomainen 2011). Recent studies also featured the making of world cuisines from a global studies perspective (Bender/Cinotto 2024). Studies in German history have highlighted the role of migrant entrepreneurs in the establishment of ethnic cuisines in West Germany since the 1960s (Möhring 2012, Möhring 2014, Marquart/Sterzinger-Killermann 2020) and in German-Jewish emigration to Palestine in the 1930s (Alianov-Rautenberg 2013). Food in migration processes has also been linked to the history of the senses and to body history (Stoller 1989, Holtzman 2006, Abbots 2013) and to gendered histories of food labor (Baxter 1988, Limeberry 2014).

The proposed conference, “Food, Migration, and Belonging in Twentieth-Century European History,” focuses on foodways as the articulation and embodiment of individual and collective identities in migration processes and will explore the relevance of food practices as an expression of belonging. The conference will discuss multilayered food histories and their potential for untangling the complexities of homemaking, hybridization and third cultures in 20^th century Europe. We are particularly interested in contributions on food and its impact on the making of communities and its effects on social, cultural, and religious belonging(s). By highlighting the semiotic and material, the sensual and emotional dimensions of food practices, the conference aims at gaining a better understanding of the creation and transformation of (group) identities and social relations in European migration societies in the 20^th century.  We will use food as a lens to reflect on a variety of places, spaces, and methodologies in  transregional European history, including topics such as

• Food and memory (the commemorative function of food; nostalgia; social rituals of serving and preparing food; food and emotions)
• Approaches to food and “the body” in migration societies (i.e., bodily senses, taste, and smell in terms of food consumption; discourses about domestic science, health, purity etc.)
• Transcultural encounters via food; hospitality and conviviality
• Culinary racism (negative depictions of the taste and smell of the food of the “other”; culinary hierarchies)
• The role of food in the social lives of diasporas (food gifts from home communities and sharing dishes across time and space; food and the sense of attachment to or detachment from the home country)
• Food and home/homemaking (notions of “belonging” and of where and what “home” can mean; use of food for asserting one’s place in a new setting)
• Food, migration, and religion (e.g., the challenges of religious dietary laws in migration processes, kosher cooking in Jewish migration; debates in absorbing societies about migrants’ religious practices, i.e., halal slaughtering in Europe)
• Third Culture cuisines in Europe (blending food from the first generation’s “home country” with flavors of the next generation’s current location)
• Objects/material culture in the study of food and migration (i.e., migrants and long-term residents confronted with processing unknown food; handling unfamiliar household appliances, etc.)
• Methodological challenges (food consumption as a fleeting practice and methodological questions about how to approach its historical meanings; question of useful sources in migration and food studies)
• Methodological and theoretical reflections on how belonging can be conceptualized and evaluated
   

The conference will be held in English and will be hosted by the GHI Pacific Office at Berkeley (richter(at)ghi-dc.org). Individual paper presentations are limited to 20 minutes. Proposals, which should include a title, an abstract of no more than 250 words, a short CV, and contact information (address, phone, email), must be submitted online in a single pdf (the file name should be the last name of the applicant) by September 20, 2024:

Please contact Heike Friedman (friedman(at)ghi-dc.org) if you have problems submitting your information. Decisions will be sent out by mid-October 2024.

Accommodations will be arranged and paid for by the conference organizers. Participants will be expected to make their own travel arrangements. Some subsidies for travel will be available upon request, especially for those who might not otherwise be able to attend the conference, including junior scholars and scholars from universities with limited resources. There is no registration fee.

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References: 

Abbots E.-J., Lavis A. (2013), Introduction: Mapping the new terrain of eating: Reflections on the encounters between foods and bodies, in: E.-J. Abbots, A. Lavis (eds.), Why We Eat, How We Eat: Contemporary Encounters Between Foods and Bodies, London: Routledge.

Alianov-Rautenberg, Viola (2013), Schlagsahne oder Shemen-Öl? Deutsch-jüdische Hausfrauen und ihre Küche in Palästina 1936-1940, in: Tel Aviver Jahrbuch für deutsche Geschichte 41, pp. 82-96. 

Avieli, Nir (2017), Food and power. A culinary ethnography of Israel. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Baxter S., Raw G. (1988), Fast food, fettered work: Chinese women in the ethnic Catering industry, in: S. Westwood, P. Bhachu (eds.), Enterprising women: ethnicity, economy, and gender relations, pp. 58–75.

Bender, Daniel E./ Cinotto, Simone (eds.) (2024), Food Mobilities. Making World Cuisines, Toronto: University of Toronto Press.

Beyers L. (2008), Creating Home: Food, ethnicity and gender among Italians in Belgium since 1946, Food, culture, & society 2008, vol. 11 (1), pp. 7-27.

Charon Cardona E. T. (2004), Re-encountering Cuban tastes in Australia, in: The Australian Journal of Anthropology Vol, 15(1), pp. 40-53.

Cook I., Crang P., Thorpe M. (1999), Eating into Britishness: Multicultural Imaginaries and the Identity Politics of Food, in: S. Roseneil, J. Seymour (eds.), Practising Identities: Power and Resistance, pp. 223–48.

Diner H. R. (2003), Hungering for America: Italian, Irish and Jewish Foodways in the Age of Migration, Cambridge: Harvard University Press.

Douglas, Mary, (1966), Purity and danger. An analysis of concepts of pollution and taboo, New York: Praeger.

Freeman, Andrea (2013), The Unbearable Whiteness of Milk: Food Oppression and the USDA, UC Irvine Law Review 3(4), pp. 1251-1277.

Frost N. (2008), Strange people but they sure can cook! An Indonesian womens group in Sydney, in: Food, Culture and Society, Vol. 11 (2), pp.173–89.

Hage G. (1997), At home in the entrails of the West: Multiculturalism, ethnic food and migrant home-building, in: H. Grace, G. Hage, L. Johnson, J. Langsworth, M. Symonds (eds), Home/World: Space, community and marginality in Sydney’s West, pp. 99–153.

Harbottle L. (1997), Fast food/spoiled identity: Iranian migrants in the British catering trade, in: P. Caplan (ed.), Food, health and identity, Routledge: Taylor & Francis Group, pp. 87–110.

Holtzman J. D. (2006), Food and memory, in: Annual Review of Anthropology, Vol. 35 (1), pp. 361-78.

Jamal A. (1996), Acculturation: The symbolism of ethnic eating among contemporary British consumers, in: British Food Journal, Vol. 98 (10), pp. 12–26.

Kalcik S. (1984), Ethnic foodways in America: Symbol and the performance of identity, in L. Keller Brown, K. Mussell (eds.), Ethnic and Regional Foodways in the United States: The Performance of Group Identity, pp. 37–65, Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press.

Limeberry, Veronica A. (2014), Eating in Opposition: Strategies of Resistance Through Food in The Lives of Rural Andean and Appalachian Mountain Women. Electronic Theses and Dissertations. Paper 2466. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/2466

Marquardt, Vivienne/ Sterzinger-Killermann, Clara (2020), Zwei Kugeln süss-sauer mit scharf. Münchens migrantisch geprägte Gastronomie, München: Allitera.

Mintz, Sidney W. (1985), Sweetness and power. The place of sugar in modern history, New York: Viking.

Mintz, Sidney (1996),Tasting food, tasting freedom: Excursions into eating, culture, and the past, Boston: Beacon Press.

Möhring, Maren (2012), Fremdes Essen. Die Geschichte der ausländischen Gastronomie in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, München: Oldenbourg.

Möhring, Maren (2014), Food for Thought: Rethinking the History of Migration to West Germany Through the Migrant Restaurant Business, in: Journal of Contemporary History, Vol. 49 (1), Special Issue: Migration in Germany’s Age of Globalization, pp. 209-227.

Panikos, Panayi (2010): Spicing Up Britain. The Multicultural History of British Food, Reaktion Books.

Pitts, Johny, Robinson, Roger (2022), Home is not a place, London: Harper Collins.

Ray K. (2004), The migrant’s table: meals and memories in Bengali-American households, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.

Stoller D. (1989), The taste of ethnographic things: the senses in anthropology, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.

Tuomainen H. M. (2011), Ethnic identity, (post)colonialism and foodways: Ghanaians in London, in: Food, Culture and Society, Vol. 12 (4), pp. 525-54.

Valenze, Deborah (2011), Milk: A local and global history, New Haven: Yale University Press.

Die Gedenkveranstaltungen zum achtzigsten Jahrestag des Endes des Zweiten Weltkriegs in Frankreich bieten die Gelegenheit, die Bildung nationaler Narrative über die Libération zu hinterfragen und über die Einbeziehung heterogener regionaler Erinnerung nachzudenken. Mit diesem Ziel organisieren die UMR 3400 ARCHE der Universität Straßburg und die Archives d’Alsace eine Reihe von wissenschaftlichen und kulturellen Veranstaltungen, die der besonderen Geschichte des Elsass im Zweiten Weltkrieg gewidmet ist und den Arbeitstitel »Elsass 39–45. Menschen im Krieg« trägt. Im Rahmen der Veranstaltungen soll über die sehr spezifische Art und Weise nachgedacht werden, wie das Elsass befreit wurde und wie die zu diesem Zeitpunkt im Elsass anwesenden Menschen die Libération erlebten. Auch der spezifische Kontext, aus dem das Elsass befreit wurde, soll bei dieser Gelegenheit erneut untersucht werden, nämlich die De-facto-Annexion durch das »Dritte Reich«.

Eine wissenschaftliche Tagung wird am 6. und 7. Februar 2025 in Straßburg stattfinden, gerahmt von acht Vortragsveranstaltungen und Podien zwischen November 2024 und Juni 2025 im ganzen Elsass. Diese Reihe wird die aktuelle historiografische Erneuerung zum Thema Elsass im Zweiten Weltkrieg dokumentieren und zu dieser beitragen. Die Präsentation und Analyse von fünfzig biografischen Fallstudien wird von der Vielfalt und Komplexität individueller Lebenswege im Kontext von Krieg, Annexion durch ein totalitäres Regime und Befreiung zeugen.

Weitere Informationen finden Sie in dem PDF unten.

Vorschläge für Beiträge zum Kolloquium und zu den Diskussionsveranstaltungen sind zusammen mit einer Zusammenfassung von ca. 2.000 Zeichen und einer kurzen biografischen Notiz in deutscher oder französischer Sprache bis zum 28. Juli 2024 an catherine.maurer@unistra.fr und post@frederic-stroh.eu zu richten.

Die Vorschläge werden dem deutsch-französischen wissenschaftlichen Beirat der Tagungsreihe vorgelegt. Die Kandidaten werden bis Ende September 2024 über das Ergebnis informiert. Die Aufteilung zwischen dem Kolloquium und den Podiumsveanstaltungen wird im Dialog mit den ausgewählten Rednern erfolgen.

Das Kolloquium wird am 6. und 7. Februar 2025 in Straßburg (Maison interdisciplinaire des Sciences Humaines d’Alsace - MISHA - und Archives d’Alsace) stattfinden, während die Konferenzen und Debatten monatlich zwischen November 2024 und Juni 2025 im Elsass abgehalten werden.

Arbeitssprachen: Französisch und Deutsch

Organisation: Carine Lévêque (Archives d’Alsace), Catherine Maurer (Univ. Straßburg), François Petrazoller (Archives d’Alsace), Frédéric Stroh (Univ. Straßburg).

Deutsch-französischer Beirat: Christian Bonah (Univ. Straßburg), Jürgen Finger (Deutsches Historisches Institut Paris), Benoît Jordan (Archives de la Ville et de l’Eurométropole de Strasbourg), Audrey Kichelewski (Univ. Straßburg), Michaël Landolt (Centre européen du résistant déporté), Carine Lévêque (Archives d’Alsace), Catherine Maurer (Univ. Straßburg), Marie Muschalek (Univ. Freiburg i. Br.), Frédérique Neau-Dufour (Région Grand Est), Sylvia Paletschek (Univ. Freiburg i. Br.), Nicolas Patin (Univ. Bordeaux), François Petrazoller (Archives d’Alsace), Jérôme Schweitzer (Bibliothèque nationale et universitaire de Strasbourg), Frédéric Stroh (Univ. Straßburg), Alexandre Sumpf (Univ. Straßburg), Benoit Vaillot (Univ. Luxemburg), Marie-Bénédicte Vincent (Univ. Besançon), Marie-Claire Vitoux (Univ. Mulhouse).

» Zum Call for Papers (PDF)

Integrating the history of violence in East Central Europe within the broader sweep of the human experience remains a scholarly desideratum. The majority of studies on violence in this geographical area pertain to interethnic conflicts of states or national groups. Anti-Jewish violence has been widely studied and violence under conditions of occupation, particularly during the Second World War, has also received a great deal of attention. In the course of the shift in focus towards the history of rural regions and their inhabitants, which is particularly visible in Polish public discourse, other phenomena and traditions of violence have also been engaged in recent years. This prompts the question of the extent to which approaches and concepts that have been developed in the long tradition of studying violent histories in East Central Europe can be “exported” beyond this particular region.

We invite proposals to participate in a conference devoted to the history of violence in East Central Europe from the Middle Ages to the end of the 20th century. Especially welcome is work on different types of violence: physical, symbolic, psychological, and military. We invite papers that pose bold theses and explore different research categories: gender, class, race, ethnicity. We encourage discussion of stories of individual, but also collective violence, from the perspective of social history, legal history, cultural and military history.

We encourage submissions on the following themes:

• continuity and variability in different types of violence from the Middle Ages to the first half of the 20th century
• the evolution of narratives about violence and their constant components
• the concurrence and interrelationship between different types of violence
• theories of violence in historical practice

The conference is open to a diversity of methods, sources, and types of narrative construction, to discuss “non-history” stories in various configurations made possible by comparison of different historical periods and geographical areas. We especially welcome contributions that not only transfer proven methods to our geographical area, but also provide impulses for a specifically East-Central European contribution to the universal understanding of violent phenomena.

The conference will be held within the walls of the Museum of Polish History in Warsaw, a new center that is an important point on the map of the study of Polish history, in the context of the history of the States and people of Central and Eastern Europe.
 

Conference: Histories of Violence in Central and Eastern Europe. A Comparative Perspective

Warsaw, 15-17th of September 2025

The conference is organized by:

• Faculty of History at the University of Warsaw
• Museum of Polish History in Warsaw
• Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw
• Commission on Slavonic and East European Studies of the Committee of Historical Sciences Polish Academy of Sciences
• German Historical Institute Warsaw
• The Society of Friends of History

Keynote speakers are:

• Diana Dumitru Georgetown University, Washington
• Stuart Carroll, University of York
• Piotr Maciej Majewski, University of Warsaw

The conference will be held in English. The organizers do not cover travel costs, but they provide meals.

Conference committee:

Conference Board: Philip Dwyer, Christhardt Henschel, Jeffrey Kopstein, Aneta Pieniądz, Natalia Starchenko, Michał Trębacz

Organizing committee: Victoria Gerasimova, Tomasz Kempa, Michał Kopczyński, Artur Markowski, Marta Pawlińska, Dariusz Adamczyk

We invite you to submit paper proposals by March 30, 2025 on the Google form.

Please feel free to contact historiesofviolence@uw.edu.pl if you have any questions or require further information. 

Website DHI Warschau

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Conference in Flinders University (city campus), Adelaide, South Australia | Conveners: Mathew Fitzpatrick (Flinders University), Simone Lässig (GHI Washington), Isabel Richter (GHI Washington Pacific Office at UC Berkeley)

In August 2023, German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock told an Australian audience “it is clear that the Indo-Pacific will play a decisive role in the 21st century.” Baerbock also intimated that Germany wants to become more deeply engaged in the region to assist in “strengthening the global rules that we all rely on” at a time when China is returning to the ranks of the major global powers.

But a long and complicated history informs Germany’s recent turn toward the Asia-Pacific region. Often overlooked is the fact that Germany once had a sizeable colonial empire there, with possessions in China, New Guinea, Nauru, Samoa, and many parts of Micronesia, including the Marshall, Mariana, and Caroline Islands. German firms, missionaries, and settlers established themselves in the region in the mid-nineteenth century, while scientists and researchers came to Asia and the Pacific as part of their scholarly endeavors, extracting artifacts in some places, while training local residents in German-style science in others. The experience of German colonial rule – of being educated by German missionaries, employed by German firms, and studied by German scientists – left a lasting and yet largely unacknowledged impression of the peoples of Asia and the Pacific.

After the First World War and the transfer of former German colonies in the region to Japan, Australia, and New Zealand as League of Nations Mandates, Germany played a less important role in Asia and the Pacific but still retained an important foothold. Ex-Governor of Samoa and Colonial Secretary Wilhelm Solf served as German Ambassador to Japan, laying the groundwork for a close relationship that would eventually see Japan become Nazi Germany’s Pacific ally during the Second World War. During that war, large numbers of German Jews fled and resettled in China. In the Pacific, as historians such as Christine Winter have shown, small political parties modelled on the National Socialist Party also sprang up in German expatriate communities in former German possessions such as New Guinea and Samoa.

In the postwar era, the two German states, the Federal Republic and the German Democratic Republic, followed vastly different trajectories. While Leftist students in the West rallied around Ho Chi Minh, the Federal Republic solidly supported the United States war in Vietnam and even took in South Vietnamese refugees. Meanwhile, despite tensions with China in the wake of the Sino-Soviet split, the German Democratic Republic offered some limited migration opportunities for fellow communists from Vietnam to serve as guest workers in East German factories.

What are the contours and legacies of German history in the Asia-Pacific region? Conference participants will examine the complex and varied interactions between Germans and the peoples of the Pacific and Asia-Pacific coast. The conference seeks to uncover Germany’s various entanglements in the region and to investigate the forms of cooperation and conflict that characterized German endeavors in the region. The chronological starting point for this investigation is the establishment of the Hamburg firm Godeffroy und Sohn in the Samoan capital of Apia in 1857. Focusing on the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the conference will evaluate the histories of German trade, religion, culture, science, and settlement in the Asia-Pacific region, emphasizing how these were affected by shifting attitudes towards gender, race, and class. It will also examine the military, diplomatic, and humanitarian presence of Germans there and consider forms of knowledge transfer during the Wilhelmine, Weimar, Nazi, and postwar eras. It seeks to grapple with the sporadic (as opposed to steadily evolving) nature of Germany’s impact on the region and to offer a set of histories that demonstrate the multifaceted nature of German encounters with Asia and the Pacific.  

To these ends, the conference seeks to answer questions such as:

• What was the nature of German colonialism and later political and cultural involvement in Asia and the Pacific, and how did it compare with German colonial activities elsewhere?
• What role did warfare, diplomacy, and trade play in establishing Germany in the Asia-Pacific region between the 1850s and the 1980s?
• Does an exploration of gender and racial relations link German history in the Asia-Pacific region to a broader history?
• How did Asian and Pacific peoples experience and respond to German colonial endeavors, political overtures, and knowledge production in their region?
• What are the legacies of German scientific and anthropological activity in the region, and how do these histories inform current debates about repatriation and restitution?
• How did Germany’s involvement in two World Wars and the Cold War affect the Asia-Pacific region and German activity there?

The conference will be held in English. Individual paper presentations are limited to 20 minutes. Proposals, which should include a title, an abstract of no more than 250 words, a short CV, and contact information (address, phone, email) should be submitted online in a single pdf (the file name should be the last name of the applicant) by September 30, 2024. Decisions will be sent out by early November 2024.

Accommodations will be arranged and paid for by the conference organizers. Participants will need to make their own travel arrangements. Subsidies for travel will be available upon request for selected scholars, especially those who might not otherwise be able to attend the workshop, including junior scholars and scholars from universities with limited resources. There is no registration fee.

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Conveners: Fiona Griffiths (Stanford University), Michael Grünbart (Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster), and Simon MacLean (University of St Andrews)

Venue: GHIL

The German Historical Institutes in London and Washington, D.C., are excited to announce the fourteenth Medieval History Seminar, to be held in London from 8 to 10 October 2025. The seminar will bring together Ph.D. candidates and recent Ph.D. recipients (2024/2025) in medieval history from American, Canadian, British, Irish, and German universities for three days of scholarly discussion and collaboration. Participants will have the opportunity to present their work to their peers and distinguished scholars from both sides of the Atlantic. Conveners for the 2025 seminar will be Fiona Griffiths (Stanford University), Michael Grünbart (Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster), and Simon MacLean (University of St Andrews).

The Medieval History Seminar invites proposals from all areas and periods of medieval history and is not limited to historians working on German history or German-speaking regions of Europe. All methodological approaches are welcome. Applications from neighbouring disciplines are welcome if the projects have a distinct historical focus.

The seminar is bi-lingual and papers and discussions will be conducted both in German and English. Participants must have a good reading and listening comprehension of both languages. Successful applicants must be prepared to submit a paper of approximately 5,000 words by August 15, 2025. They are also expected to act as commentator for other papers presented in the seminar.

Travel and accommodation expenses of the participants will be covered. Applications may be submitted in German or English and should include:

• a CV (including institutional affiliation, postal address, and e-mail)
• a description of the proposed paper (4–5 pages, double-spaced)
• one letter of recommendation

Please e-mail a single PDF-file with all documents to: j.triandafyllou@ghil.ac.uk

The deadline for submissions is 31 January 2025.

For further information, please contact Stephan Bruhn: s.bruhn@ghil.ac.uk

German Historical Institute
17 Bloomsbury Square
London WC1A 2NJ (UK)
Tel. +44–(0)20–7309 2050

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Venue: German Historial Institute London

22-23 May 2025

Trans saints – monachoparthenoi, saints who are initially described as female by their hagiographers, but transition to a male (often monastic) identity – are present in every late antique and medieval Christian tradition. The textual and artistic renderings of these figures offer a comparative key to conceptualizing trans bodies and trans souls across geographical and chronological boundaries. Binary cis-heteronormativity has long been portrayed as unchanging and unchangeable, as outside of the scope of history. This is a central plank in the playbook followed by transphobes worldwide, in the ever-escalating “culture war” against trans and queer people. Highlighting both the ubiquity and multivalence of premodern trans monks, and connecting across disciplinary divides to do so, is urgent work, not least because it provides a necessary counterpoint to such historically inaccurate rhetoric. 

Following the insights of the “performative turn” in queer and trans studies that underscores the enactment and negotiation of gender identity through lived experiences, social practices, and narratives, we welcome explorations of gender and sexuality in the textual traditions in both East and West and in their translation. We also take into consideration aspects related to the ”performative turn” in visual studies in the last decade, as relevant for both medieval Eastern and Western hagiographic iconographies of trans saints, focusing on visual representations actively shaping identities and power dynamics and incorporating the embodied experience of the ritual practices. 

While texts regarding fifteen trans saints are attested in the Eastern Mediterranean, this conference will focus on those whose vitae were available in Greek as well as in Latin: Eugenia*us, Euphrosyne*Smaragdus, Marina*us, Pelagia*us and Theodora*us. However, we particularly invite papers covering linguistic and artistic traditions beyond Greek and Latin, from Coptic to Old Norse. Taking seriously the connectivity of the Latin West, the Orthodox East, and the Islamic World in the Middle Ages, we adopt a trans-cultural comparative approach. Thus, contributions with a multilingual perspective are particularly welcome, as are those covering both textual and iconographic representations. Conference proceedings may be published as an edited volume. 

We invite proposals for 20-minute papers. Possible questions include – but are not limited to – the following: 

• How are the trans saints described as performing their gender? What gendered language is used in different traditions of their vitae? 
• What role does sexual desire play in the performance of gender? Who is desirable to whom, and in what context? 
• What role do familial ties (biological and spiritual) play in the construction of the trans saint’s gender? 
• How does the trans saint’s performance of gender intersect with other aspects of their identity – religion, ethnicity, social status, age? 
• How are trans saints translated – as texts (between languages), as relics (between places), as visual representations (from text to image)? Does re-writing/translating/visualizing a vita change the way the saint is gendered? 
• Do different linguistic traditions of these vitae engage differently with locally important intertexts/spaces/etc.? 
• How are trans saints materialized – in manuscripts, sculpture, iconography, cult spaces? 

To apply, please send an abstract of up to 300 words, as well as your name, pronouns, and a short bio, to michael.eber@history.ox.ac.uk by September 30, 2024. We welcome applications from scholars at any stage of their career, but particularly encourage early career researchers to apply. We are currently in the process of acquiring funding to cover at least part of the participants’ travel expenses

Call for Papers (PDF file)

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The conference will focus on the theme of “living archives” and their significance in contemporary history. Submissions are encouraged to address the value of living archives for real-time history, reflect on access and stewardship issues, provide examples for analyzing living archives, and explore the history and technology behind them. Deadline for submissions is August 15, 2024.

Date and Location

March 19-21, 2025, German Historical Institute Washington, DC, USA

Conference Theme

The Seventh Conference on Digital Humanities and Digital History will revolve around the concept of living archives and its relevance for contemporary history. The digital transformation has challenged scholars and memory workers to define their engagement with historical temporalities, with the past, present and future, in new ways. Digital technologies can be used effectively to support the development, analysis, and preservation of collections, projects, and tools that feature diverse temporal perspectives, including multifaceted, dynamic, relational, and cyclical conceptions of time. Such approaches can challenge, or even disrupt, prevalent linear conceptions of the progression of historical time. While this opens many possibilities for historical projects, it also presents new challenges. For example, historians and memory workers who have used digital technologies to document history in (almost) real time must now address new, unfamiliar, and often uncomfortable ethical and legal questions associated with “documenting the now.” Similarly, while taking advantage of the ability of new methodologies to collect large sets of data in a short period of time, we are repeatedly confronted with the fragility of digital objects and systems, and the challenges and costs of digital preservation, with the futures of the past in a digital era ranging between abundance and scarcity as astutely predicted by Roy Rosenzweig over two decades ago.   

Our conference will provide a forum to discuss these and other questions related to making history in real time. A particular focus will be on the increasing number of initiatives designed to capture history by creating “living archives” supported by digital technology. Originally, the concept of “living archives” goes back to the oral history movement during the 1970s and 1980s, when historians set out to capture people’s life experiences and memories while facilitating the transmission of generational memories embodied by living individuals. With the evolution of digital technologies, conceptions have broadened in recent decades to include a variety of collections and archives capturing events as they occur and in their immediate aftermath. This includes pioneering rapid response digital collecting projects like the September 11 Digital Archive and the Hurricane Digital Memory Bank, as well as the countless recent projects documenting people’s experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic such as A Journal of the Plague Year in the United States or Covidmemory in Europe. It also includes collections and archives utilizing social media to document the Black Lives Matter movement, the Arab Spring, the Gezi Park protests in Istanbul, and archives and art installations created as part of the Occupy Wall Street movement, to mention a few. Participatory documentation and archiving projects have also empowered migrants of all ages to document and preserve their migration experiences. Most recently, several projects and collections are documenting wartime experiences such as in Ukraine through social media. These approaches conceive of archives and collections as discursive, dynamic, and open-ended processes that actively contribute to present events and developments, which, in turn, shape the development of living archives and public history.

Submission Guidelines

For this three-day conference, we invite colleagues to submit proposals by August 15, 2024, for:

1. workshops for (hands-on) presentations of projects, tools, or skills (90 minutes),
2. or individual presentations (20 minutes)

that:

1. Discuss the value of living archives for doing real-time history By emphasizing the contingency and open-ended character of historical developments, “living archives” confront scholars and memory workers with fundamental questions regarding their roles and responsibilities in the present. How can living archives support ongoing dialogues about cycles of violence and oppression in the past, present, and future? What are the epistemological implications for the thinking, doing, and narrating of history when scholars are actively engaged in the creation, stewardship, and analysis of sources through living archives? Do living archives contribute to the democratization of historical storytelling by promoting multi-vocality and “shared authority” in digital public history?
    
2. Reflect on access to and stewardship of living archives What are some of the ethical and technical implications of “documenting the now,” including documenting the experiences of historically marginalized people and communities? How can individuals and groups be empowered to manage digital collections and archives outside of established repositories and in the post-custodial tradition throughout the life cycle of projects and records? How can living archives be maintained in an environment that is dominated by large for-profit companies driving rapid technical developments and media obsolescence? How can living archives balance the epistemological virtues of open access and respect for informational self-determination and privacy? What might ethical and professional long-term stewardship and research data management of these projects look like?
    
3. Provide examples for analyzing living archives. What methodological strategies and frameworks exist to analyze collections of data that continue to evolve over time? What does it mean if archival responsibility shifts from preserving the past for the future to documenting a multiplicity of pasts, presents, and futures? Are there best practices for the documentation of the building, managing, and maintaining of living archives aiming at promoting transparency and traceability of data? What practices can avoid creating indexical regimes that (re)produce biases or representational inequalities?
    
4. Explore the history and technology of living archives. What insights can the long history of living archives offer for scholars and memory workers creating and maintaining such archives today? What are the origins of the idea of living archives? What is the specific “archival performativity” of living archives and memory banks, and do they activate historical records in a different way than other forms of archives? How have advancements in technology influenced the development, design, and public use of living archives? How did new “mnemotechnologies” shape the documentary impulses of people and how did this affect historical imagination? Has the digital era paved the way for a new “snapshot culture” making “everyone their own historian”?

The conference will offer a dynamic, inclusive international forum to discuss these and other questions. Building on the established format of past GHI conferences on Digital History and Digital Humanities, we invite submissions of traditional analytical papers, reports reflecting on past and present projects, and workshops. We specifically encourage archivists to apply. While reflections about “living archives” will be an important component of the conference, we also invite presentations drawing on other experiences and analyses of time – and temporal multiplicities – in the digital environment.

Registration and Contact Information

Although we favor in-person attendance of participants and presenters, facilities for hybrid participation will be provided with the aim of making the event as inclusive as possible. Please submit a short CV and paper abstract of no more than 500 words to our conference platform by August 15, 2024. Accommodations will be arranged and paid for by the conference organizers. Participants will make their own travel arrangements; funding subsidies for travel is available upon request (for one presenter per paper or workshop) for selected scholars, especially those who might not otherwise be able to attend the workshop, including junior scholars and scholars from universities with limited resources. For further information regarding the event’s format and conceptualization, please contact Jana Keck, keck@ghi-dc.org. For questions about logistics (travel and accommodation), please contact our event coordinator Nicola Hofstetter, hofstetter-phelps@ghi-dc.org.

Group Bibliography

https://www.zotero.org/groups/5420323/living-archives-dh-conference-2025/library

Conference Committee

• Daniel Burckhardt, GHI Washington
• Andreas Fickers, Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C²DH)
• Peter Haslinger, Herder Institute for Historical Research on East Central Europe
• Katharina Hering, GHI Washington
• Torsten Hiltmann, Chair for Digital History at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
• Jana Keck, GHI Washington
• Simone Lässig, GHI Washington
• Lincoln Mullen, Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media (RRCHNM)
• Atiba Pertilla, GHI Washington

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Anmeldung via Conference Platform

• German history (submitted to a British or Irish university),
• British history or British colonial history (submitted to a German university),
• British-German relations or British-German comparative history (submitted to a British, Irish, or German university).

The Prize is 1,000 Euros and will be presented on the occasion of the GHIL’s Annual Lecture on 25 October 2024.

To be eligible, applicants must have successfully completed doctoral exams and vivas between 1 August 2023 and 31 July 2024.

To apply, send one copy of the thesis with

• a one-page abstract
• examiners’ reports on the thesis
• a brief CV
• a declaration that the work will not be published before the judges have reached a final decision
• a supervisor’s reference

to reach the Director of the German Historical Institute London, 17 Bloomsbury Square, London WC1A 2NJ, by 31 July 2024. Applications and theses should be sent by email as a PDF attachment to: prize@ghil.ac.uk.

If the prize-winning thesis is on British history, British colonial history, British-German relations or British-German comparative history it may also be considered for publication in one of the Institute's publication series.

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Rome, Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max Planck Institute for Art History

29-30 May 2025

Organizers Chiara Capulli, Vera Grund, Klaus Pietschmann, Kris Racaniello, Elisabetta Scirocco, Tobias C. Weißmann

Promoting Institutions Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max Planck Institute for Art History, Deutsches Historisches Institut Rom, Research Project CANTORIA – Music and Sacred Architecture, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz

Premodern sacred space was never in stasis. It was moving, active, and filled with materials, objects, sounds, and people that combined to create an atmosphere of the sacred and, sometimes, the miraculous. As space in flux by definition, the sedimented temporality of devotion – ie. the fundamental composition of the space over time – poses many difficulties for historical modeling, conservation, and restoration practices, against the backdrop of the dramatic changes that spaces, installations, and practices have undergone over the centuries. More durable evidence has won out in the history and historiography of spatial reconstruction. But what of perishable materials, objects, and architectural installations, as well as musical and sonic manifestations? How do we responsibly approach recreating such ephemeral features that once graced these interiors, enlivening the volumes of often-vacant digital models? Models constitute a frozen image, necessarily in conflict with such activated sacred space. Despite this seemingly contradictory polarization, modeling “snapshots” of activated spaces enriches our understanding and documentation of the past and advances previously stagnant historiographic queries. In particular, immaterial elements such as sound and movement can be made communicable through digital reconstructions. The combination of 3D reconstructions, virtual acoustics (auralizations) and historical performance practice enables immersive simulations of the multi-sensory experience of medieval sacred spaces.

Responding in part to the sensory turn, this workshop seeks papers that address the lost or ephemeral aspects of medieval sacred spaces in two senses:

- material, installation, or object-oriented holistic approaches to reconstruction,

- innovative approaches to modeling or reconstructing embodied experience, visually and aurally induced imaginaries, and sensorial interactions with sacred space through, for example, agent-based modeling.

We foresee three possible thematic sessions:

Session 1: Spatial Voids: Modeling the Gray Zones Advancements in 3D modeling have significantly improved the understanding of complex architectures. However, ensuring academic accuracy in these visualizations remains a subject of debate. This session invites papers addressing the challenges of digitally reconstructing lost or significantly altered buildings, proposing methods to compensate for limited historical data, and transparently conveying interpretative decisions to viewers.

Session 2: Digitally Reconstructing the Ephemeral: Music, Sound and Textile Architectures In light of recent interdisciplinary progress in the emergent field of sound studies, this session seeks papers addressing the incorporation of acoustic data into spatial models. A special focus on textiles is desired but not required for this session, as such virtual soundscape modeling is uniquely impacted by ephemeral materials, like veils, curtains, or other architectural installations.

Session 3: Simulating Sensoriums: Virtual Experiences and the Problem of Sensory Archiving Sensory studies open new questions for spatial modeling even beyond auralization processes. This session seeks papers taking new approaches to the integration of sensation into virtual models, for example, through agent-based modeling which might simulate historical performance practices.

The decidedly interdisciplinary workshop addresses art and architecture historians, musicologists and musicians, digital engineers, 3D environmental artists, (archeo)acousticians and sound engineers.

We are particularly interested in receiving proposals for 20-minute papers presenting results from collaborative endeavors and incorporating problems, methodological challenges, open questions, and potential next steps in the field. We welcome submissions and papers in German, Italian, and English.

Interested speakers are invited to submit an abstract of their proposed paper (max. 500 words) and a short CV (max. 300 words) through the Bibliotheca Hertziana’s recruitment platform by June 15th.

The organization will provide accommodation for speakers and will offer reimbursement –within reasonable bounds– for travel expenses.

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October 9 - October 11, 2024

The DIJ, in collaboration with the German Centre for Research and Innovation (DWIH) Tokyo, is hosting an interdisciplinary workshop delving into both fictional and nonfictional portrayals of Japan’s technological future. We will juxtapose these visions with those from other cultures and analyze them through the lens of “narrative” and “sociotechnical imaginary” theoretical frameworks.

The future begins with imagination. Consider Mark Zuckerberg’s ‘Metaverse’, inspired by Neal Stephenson’s 1992 novel Snow Crash, or Japan’s ‘Society 5.0’ campaign, envisioning a digitally transformed “Super Smart Society”. Japanese tech giants like Sony and NTT also recognize storytelling’s role in fostering innovation and societal acceptance of emerging technologies, particularly in Sci-Fi collaborations. These narrative visions of Japan’s tech-driven future make some predictions about the future, but most importantly, they channel emotional attitudes, such as hope and fear.

This situates them within the realm of “narratives” and “sociotechnical imaginaries”. Like “discourse”, narratives thoroughly pervade scholarly and everyday discussions. Peter Brooks (2022) illustrates this by noting how even mundane purchases, like buying cookies, involve encountering brand narratives proudly displayed on the packaging. Similarly, the theoretical concept of narrative spans a wide range of academic disciplines: “life narratives” are gathered through qualitative interviews in sociology and psychology, purposefully crafted narratives are a research subject of political science (election campaigns), legal studies (legal argumentation and statements) and economics (marketing), while cultural (meta-)narratives are addressed by cultural studies and history. One reason for this omnipresence of narrative might be their persuasive and even therapeutic power, which, as Fritz Breithaupt (2022/2024) suggests, rests in their ability to promise rewarding emotions.

Building from this, “sociotechnical imaginaries” can be defined as a more normative subtype of narrative instrumentalized in political and economic contexts. Introduced in Jasanoff and Kim’s 2009 study on the differing attitudes towards nuclear energy in South Korea and the US, sociotechnical imaginaries have been almost exclusively studied within Science and Technology Studies.

The aim of our workshop is to bring together scholars whose work engages with narratives and/or imaginaries of the future, especially but not exclusively in relation to Japan. Presentations may address the content of said narratives and imaginaries, their influences on the academic and non-academic discourses, or different methodological approaches (including those from Digital Humanities). In addition to the workshop presentations, we will invite practitioners from Japan’s tech industry for practical insights into the creation and circulation of future-related imaginaries. An excursion to sites in Tokyo where Japanese conceptions of the future become tangible is also planned.

The workshop is organized by Nicole M. Mueller (DIJ Tokyo) in cooperation with Christian Oberländer and Uwe Wolfradt (MLU Halle-Wittenberg). The Keynote Speaker is Fritz Breithaupt (Experimental Humanities Lab, Indiana University Bloomington), author of The Dark Sides of Empathy (2019, Cornell University Press), and The Narrative Brain (in press, Yale University Press).

Travel (national and international) and accommodation in Tokyo can be provided for a total of around 10 participants. We plan to do partially hybrid panel sessions via zoom, but for presenters, attendance in person is preferable.

Scholars whose research aligns with the thematic scope of our workshop are invited to send their abstracts (500 words maximum) for their planned presentations (in English) via E-Mail to mueller(at)dijtokyo.org by June 15, 2024. We plan to publish the presented papers and our discussion results as an edited volume.

We welcome paper proposals by scholars from different career stages (including PhD students) and from a variety of cultural and disciplinary backgrounds. Participants who are accepted for the workshop will be notified by July 5, 2024.

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The ECR symposium aims to provide a unique platform for early career researchers to showcase their research work in the fields of humanities and social sciences with the focus on cross-border mobility and a wide spectrum of inter- and multidisciplinary topics:

•             Refugees and Irregular Migration

•             Law and Migration 

•             Narratives of Migration

•             Migration and Education

•             Labour Migration (incl. Health)

Early career researchers from South Asia, Germany and Europe who work on topics related to India, South Asia, Germany and Europe are welcome to submit their abstracts for consideration. Doctoral students and postdocs, who completed their doctoral defence no more than two years ago, are eligible to apply. 

To register and submit your abstract, please take the following survey by clicking on the link below:

https://www.daad.de/surveys/919374?lang=en

Application deadline: 20 May 2024

The submitted proposals will be selected and shortlisted by an expert committee. Selected candidates for presentation during the symposium will be informed by 10 June 2024.

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Deadline for submitting panel, roundtable, and paper proposals: 7 May 2024

We welcome submissions to the 23rd Annual Aleksanteri Conference. This year’s conference will address the challenges posed by the spread and seeming resilience of authoritarianism in Eurasia in a variety of spheres: political contestation, social movements, political legitimacy, repression, and cultural resistance. All of these spheres reflect the formation and transformation of solidarities in the turbulent times, disruption of previously existing identities in the context of ongoing war in Ukraine and emergence of new ones.

The upcoming conference aims to explore political transformations in Eurasia from the perspective of various actors and institutions, with a particular emphasis on civil society organizations and political resistance. The conference will focus both on developments within authoritarian states and on how democracies have confronted the challenges posed by authoritarianism, including by resorting to armed resistance.

By addressing issues related to authoritarian resilience and spillover in the present and past, as well as themes such as legitimacy, civil resistance in times of war, and oppression, the conference seeks to shed light on the reshaping of political alliances and solidarities in the new era. It also aims to examine the cultural and historical origins of dictatorial as well as pluralistic regimes. Furthermore, the conference aims to explore how cultural, economic, and political attitudes have changed in times of profound crisis.

Schedule and deadlines

• Deadline for submitting proposals: Tuesday, 7 May 2024
• Notification of acceptance: Monday, 10 June 2024
• Registration fees due by:
  • Early bird (130 €): Sunday, 30 June 2024
  • Standard (170 €): Friday, 6 September 2024
• Conference programme published: late September 2024
• Conference: 23–25 October 2024

Zur Website des Büro Georgien der Max Weber Stiftung

Subject: Winter school: In-between: Intermediaries and Intermediate Places

Candidates with PhD funding are expected to fund their trips. However, candidates without funding can apply in their application for support of their travel expenses. You will be informed about the outcome of your application by 30 September, 2024. Successful applicants will be expected to pre-circulate their papers among the participants by 1 December, 2024.

For further information and queries, please contact:
Michaela Dimmers, Max Weber Forum for South Asian Studies, New Delhi: dimmers@mwsindia.org

Organisers:

Sebastian Schwecke, Max Weber Forum for South Asian Studies, New Delhi, India
Michaela Dimmers, Max Weber Forum for South Asian Studies, New Delhi, India
Christian Strümpell, Max Weber Forum for South Asian Studies, New Delhi, India
Christian G. De Vito, University of Vienna, Austria
Hanne Osthus, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway
Paola Revilla Orías, Universidad Católica Boliviana, La Paz, Bolivia
Paulo Cruz Terra, Universidade Federal Fluminese, Niterói, Brazil
Silvia Grinberg, National University of General San Martín, Buenos Aires, Argentina

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Academic Committee: Marnix Beyen, Anna Grześkowiak-Krwawicz, Paulina Kewes, Judit Pál, Henk te Velde

First Edition, 23-24 January 2025

Residues and Innovations within Imperial Orders. Political Assemblies in Continental Europe, 1800-1850

The turn of the 18th and 19th centuries witnessed profound transformations in the political landscape of continental Europe, that might be dubbed a Napoleonic moment. Novel ideas regarding national community and state centralization led to the rapid decline of residual republican systems, including almost synchronous collapses of the Dutch Republic, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, and Italian city-republics. Simultaneously, it paved the way for a new type of political assemblies representing a broader, modernly conceived nation, including the third estate. These newly established bodies often deviated from local political traditions, generating uncertainty but also stirring desire for change. These were, however, often created by politicians educated in the time of the 18th century ancien régime. The year 1815 marked a new wave of parliamentarization in Europe, guided by the provisions of the Congress of Vienna and subsequent treaties. Unlike in the Napoleonic era, the architects of the post Viennese order sought to restore and adapt previously existing representative institutions.

Both pre- and post-Vienna political assemblies, characterized by limited sovereignty were integrated into a broader imperial orders but often situated in buffer zones of empires. While securing imperial rule in these diverse interfaces, these assemblies articulated national-revolutionary claims in times of upheavals and crises, which spurred on centrifugal forces. By comparing these assemblies in the context of their nascent parliamentary culture mixing old forms and innovative designs, a deeper understanding of imperial nexus of power sovereignty, and representation on heterogenous territories can be fostered.

In the first edition of the 'Parliamentary Junctures in Continental Europe' conference, we welcome submissions addressing various aspects of representative assemblies' internal and external functioning during the first half of the nineteenth century. Exemplary areas of inquiry include, but are not limited to:

• parliamentary rhetoric / discourse and concepts,
• rearticulations of traditions,
• procedural and conceptual innovations,
• assemblies in interface peripheries and inter-imperial bids,
• social composition of assemblies.

Particular attention will be given to political assemblies situated in imperial borderlands.

Submission deadline: August 31st, 2024

Please send the title, abstract (up to 300 words), and a short CV (one-two pages) at parljunctures@mail.com

Selection results: mid-September 2024 Venues: German Historical Institute, Warsaw (23rd of January 2025)

Tadeusz Manteuffel Institute of History of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw (24th of January 2025)

Practicalities:

The conference organizer will provide accommodation to all participants. If necessary, travel expenses may be covered up to 300 EUR.

The conference results will be published in the form of a special issue of a respected journal in the field (in English). Participants are expected to circulate drafts of their papers at least two weeks before the workshop.

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Ältere deutsche Handschriften zu lesen, erscheint Anfängern auf dem Gebiet der Paläographie oft als unüberwindliches Hindernis. Um diese Hürde zu nehmen, bietet das DHIP Studierenden, Nachwuchswissenschaftlerinnen und Nachwuchswissenschaftlern einen zweitägigen Workshop mit praxisorientierter Einführung in die deutsche Paläographie an. Der Workshop konzentriert sich auf die deutsche Schreibschrift des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts und stellt das Lesen von ausgewähltem Übungsmaterial unter Anleitung in den Mittelpunkt. Unterrichtssprache ist deutsch.

Wenn Sie teilnehmen möchten, senden Sie bitte bis zum 30. Juni 2024 ein Motivationsschreiben und einen Lebenslauf (vollständig und in einer PDF-Datei) an Niels F. May: nmay@dhi-paris.fr.

» Zur Ausschreibung

Wie haben Zivilisten in Frankreich, Belgien, Luxemburg, den Niederlanden und Italien sowie in Deutschland und Österreich die Zeit der »Befreiung« erlebt? Konnten Sie mit dem Zweiten Weltkrieg »abschließen« und wie taten sie dies? Die Tagung anlässlich des 80. Jahrestags von débarquement und Libération geht von der Prämisse aus, dass Frauen und Männer in den genannten Gebieten über nationale Unterschiede hinaus eine gemeinsame Erfahrung des Kriegsendes und ein gemeinsames Schicksal teilten. Deshalb sollen Status, Erlebnisse und Gefühle der Zivilbevölkerung vor dem Hintergrund des Kriegsendes untersucht werden. Dieses bestand meist aus einer Abfolge von Phasen des Wartens, der Kämpfe, unmittelbarer Gefahr und Instabilität und der Neuordnung der Nachkriegsgesellschaften. Dabei kommen Erwartungen und Ängste, die Interaktionen der Zivilbevölkerung mit Militärs beider Seiten sowie den Angehörigen anderer Länder und Staatenlosen in den Blick, ihre Überlebensstrategien und Anpassungsversuche an die permanent sich wandelnde Situation. Wie gelang es den Menschen, mit dem Krieg abzuschließen?

Die Organisatorinnen und Organisatoren schlagen mehrere thematische Achsen vor, in die sich die vorgeschlagenen Beiträge einordnen können: Zivilbevölkerung während der bewaffneten Befreiung; Koexistenz von Zivilisten und Soldaten nach den Kämpfen; Normalität und Vergessen; Erinnerung.

Diese Tagung wird von der Universität Lothringen (CRULH), dem Goethe-Institut Nancy und dem Musée lorrain/Palais ducal im Rahmen der Mission »80 ans de Libération« organisiert, mit Unterstützung der Stadt Nancy und des Deutschen Historischen Instituts Paris.

Beitragsvorschläge (maximal 3000 Zeichen, mit einem kurzen Lebenslauf) sind bis 26. April 2024 bei den Organisatorinnen und Organisatoren einzureichen: laurent.jalabert(at)univ-lorraine.fr, jean-noel.grandhomme(at)univ-lorraine.fr. Eine Rückmeldung erfolgt nach der Sitzung des wissenschaftlichen Beirats, Anfang Mai 2024.

Vorträge können in französischer, deutscher oder englischer Sprache gehalten werden. Es wird keine Simultanübersetzung geben, sodass zumindest passive Kenntnisse des Französischen und der weiteren genannten Sprachen begrüßenswert sind.

Zum Call for Papers (PDF)

Die Deutschen Historischen Institute Paris und Rom setzen im akademischen Jahr 2024/2025 die Onlineseminar-Reihe zum Thema »Euro-Mediterranean Entanglements in Medieval History« fort. Die Veranstaltungen finden im Zweimonatsrhythmus statt. Sie richten sich sowohl an den wissenschaftlichen Nachwuchs als auch an etablierte Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler aller mediävistischen Disziplinen. Ziel ist es, ein internationales und interdisziplinäres Forum zu schaffen, auf dem vielfältige Themen und methodische Ansätze vorgestellt und diskutiert werden können.
Wir laden interessierte Forscherinnen und Forscher herzlich ein, ihre laufenden oder vor Kurzem abgeschlossenen Arbeiten vor einem internationalen Publikum zu präsentieren und zu diskutieren. Bitte schicken Sie einen Abstract (1–2 Seiten) und kurzen Lebenslauf (ggf. mit Publikationsverzeichnis) bis zum 3. Juni 2024 an asagasser@dhi-paris.fr und wolf@dhi-roma.it.

Themen
Der geographische Raum ist bewusst nicht klar umrissen und umfasst Europa sowie den Mittelmeerraum im weitesten Sinne. Einbezogen sind auch Verflechtungen zwischen dem euromediterranen Raum und anderen Weltregionen. Folgende Themenfelder stehen im Mittelpunkt:

• Regional übergreifende, transkulturelle und interreligiöse Verflechtungen (Prozesse/Ergebnisse);
• Grenz- und Kontakträume;
• Soziale Netzwerke und interpersonelle Beziehungen;
• Migration und Mobilität;
• Transfer, Diffusion und Adaption bzw. Transformation von Ideen, Wissen und materiellen Objekten.

Seminarablauf
Im Mittelpunkt des Seminars steht der Austausch von Ideen. Unsere Referierenden beginnen mit einer 10- minütigen Keynote, in der sie ihre laufenden oder kürzlich abgeschlossenen Forschungsarbeiten vorstellen. Im Anschluss folgt ein 10-minütiger Kommentar eines Spezialisten. Dieser bildet die Grundlage für die anschließende 40-minütige Diskussion mit dem Online-Publikum.

Termine
Dienstags 17.00–18.00 Uhr (MEZ)

• 24. September 2024
• 26. November 2024
• 28. Januar 2025
• 25. März 2025
• 27. Mai 2025

Kontakt für Fragen zum Forschungsseminar: Amélie Sagasser (DHI Paris, asagasser@dhi-paris.fr) und Kordula Wolf (DHI Rom, wolf@dhi-roma.it).

» Zum Call for Papers (auf Englisch)

Between the rise of fascism in Europe in the 1930s and decolonization after World War II, a range of non-Western, in many cases colonial, regions became hubs for people in transit. A growing body of new research on refugees “In Global Transit,” many of them Jews in flight from Nazi Germany and Nazi-occupied Europe, has highlighted this forced migration to, and in, the Global South. Scholars are documenting refugee encounters with local populations and colonial authorities, their search for more permanent new homes, as well as their attempts to maintain contact with, and facilitate the escape of, those left behind.

This conference builds on the emerging scholarship on cultural, social, and political encounters – connections and disconnects – among diverse groups of European and non-European refugees and with highly stratified host populations, including existing Jewish communities, colonial officials and settlers, and other migrants. While much of this research has relied on sources produced by state or colonial officials or the refugees themselves, this conference aims to explore new approaches and sources that require knowledge of local and national languages, archives, and histories.

“Transit” refers to individual and collective experiences of living in-between – that is, in spaces people did not envision remaining in permanently. However, it also refers to regions and countries like Turkey, Palestine, and India, where refugees from Nazi Europe found a safe haven while these regions were themselves undergoing turbulent transitions.

Examining this volatile historical moment raises further questions applicable to other refugee and migrant experiences in crisis: What kinds of knowledge transfer can we observe, and what kinds of boundaries and prejudices obstructed such transfers? What were the differential impacts of class, gender, and age on notions of ethnic, national, “racial,” and religious differences? And how can we uncover the long-term memories of this global diaspora of WWII refugees after most of them moved beyond their transit spaces in the decades following independence, state building, and – in some cases – new forms of forced migration?

We welcome paper proposals for an international conference that brings together scholars with an interdisciplinary and cross-epochal approach and are especially interested in exchange with and among scholars in and/or from the Global South. This conference aims to focus specifically on:

• hospitality, friendship, and enmity
• peaceful and violent encounters, connections, disconnects, and separations
• processes of and obstacles to knowledge transfer and cultural translation
• the formation and perception of diasporas
• memories in and of transit.

The conference will be held in English. Individual paper presentations are limited to 20 minutes. Proposals for entire panels (up to three papers) are welcome. Proposals, which should include a title, an abstract of no more than 300 words, a CV, and contact information (address, phone, email) must be submitted ONLINE in one pdf by April 30, 2024. Applicants will be informed about the acceptance of their paper by the end of June 2024.

Accommodation will be arranged and paid for by the conference organizers. Participants will make their own travel arrangements; funding subsidies for travel are available upon request for selected scholars, especially those who might not otherwise be able to attend the workshop, including junior scholars and scholars from universities with limited resources. Please inform us if you can utilize funds from your home institution to participate in the conference. There is no registration fee.

We are pleased to announce the “Catholicism and the Cold War in Latin America” conference to be held from November 21-22, 2024 at the University of Oxford with support from “The Global Pontificate of Pius XII” project directed by Dr Simon Unger (GHI Rome). We seek contributions from scholars working on Roman Catholicism and the Cold War in Latin America from c. 1940 to c. 1990. Participants may be invited to contribute to a related edited volume co-edited by Dr Daniel McDonald (Oxford), Professor Jaime Pensado (Notre Dame), and Dr Simon Unger. The conference will include both panels and a workshop to further develop the volume. We especially encourage applications from scholars based in Latin America as well as from Early Career Researchers.

The conference endeavours to assist with travel costs and accommodation for as many participants as possible, prioritizing those without institutional support and Early Career Researchers. Latin America comprised a central arena in both the global transformation of the Catholic Church and in the Cold War during the twentieth century. The elevation of Pope Francis (2013-present) to become the first Latin American pope reopened fraught questions about the role of the Catholic Church during the Cold War. Similarly, the opening of new archival collections, most notably that of the papacy of Pius XII (1939-1958), have invigorated an already thriving historiography. Here, we take inspiration from recent work on the Cold War that has moved beyond conceptualizing the conflict as a clash between the United States, the Soviet Union, and their respective allies. Rather, Latin America’s Cold War consisted of overlapping layers of conflicts of local, national, and transnational scale wherein struggles over culture, social citizenship, inequality, local issues, and more became enmeshed with one another.

Key questions we will collectively address include:

• How did the different Latin American Churches influence the global Catholic Church’s actions amid the Cold War?
• How can examining transnational religious networks and cultural discourses reshape our understanding of the global Cold War?
• How did the Vatican intervene in Latin America during the Cold War, including but not limited to measures to prevent the spread of communism and its relations with authoritarian regimes?
• And finally, how can unpacking these complex processes simultaneously help us move beyond established narratives while establishing new frameworks and periodizations?

While we welcome submissions on any topic that addresses these questions, we are especially interested in transnational approaches that place Latin America in a global context. Along these lines, possible topics may include but are not limited to works that examine the Catholic Church, Catholicism, and the Cold War with regards to:

• Inequality and poverty, including social Catholicism; liberation theology; and, relations with social revolution, communism, and socialism.
• Culture, including conflict over morality; gender and sexuality; race and racism; as well as counterculture, student movements, and 1968.
• Layperson movements, including Catholic Action and its specialized branches (JOC, JUC, JEC, JAC, etc.); Pax Romana; Base ecclesiastical communities (CEBs); as well as right-wing Catholic movements such as Family, Tradition, and Property and the National Synarchist Union, among others.
• Global connections, including with decolonization in the Global South; the Vatican and its diplomatic outreach; inter-American networks; democratizing and post-WWII Europe; as well as international NGOs. • Politics and political Catholicism, including Christian Democracy; dictatorships and state terror; as well as human rights and transitional justice.
• Ecclesiastical and theological approaches, including accounts focused on specific clergy, national Churches, missionaries, orders, and the papacy; the Second Vatican Council (1962-1965); the Conferences of Medellín (1968) and Puebla (1979); papal encyclicals and their reception; as well as theological debate on the aforementioned issues.

Please submit an abstract of no more than 250 words including a presentation title, author(s) name(s), and affiliation(s) no later than April 1, 2024. In the abstract, please indicate whether you would contribute to the edited volume. Abstracts and any questions should be submitted to Daniel McDonald (daniel.mcdonald@history.ox.ac.uk) and Jaime Pensado (jpensado@nd.edu).

Einblick in die Arbeit deutscher Forschungsinstitutionen zur mittelalterlichen Geschichte

Das Deutsche Historische Institut Paris (DHIP) bietet vom 25.–29. August 2024 eine Studienreise nach München für Studierende und Promovierende deutscher und französischer Universitäten und Hochschulen an.

Bewerbungsschluss: 1. Juni 2024

Die Studienreise bietet deutschen und französischen Studierenden und Promovierenden der mittelalterlichen Geschichte mit guten Grundkenntnissen in der jeweils anderen Sprache die Möglichkeit, einen vertieften Einblick in das deutsche Wissenschaftssystem zu gewinnen und auf diese Weise den akademischen Austausch zu fördern.
Geplant sind Besuche der Monumenta Germaniae Historica, des Bayerischen Hauptstaatsarchivs, der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, der Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek, des Zentralinstituts für Kunstgeschichte sowie des Historischen Kollegs.

Eine Teilnahmebescheinigung kann ausgestellt werden.

Die Teilnahmegebühr beträgt 50,- EUR. Die Reisekosten (üblicherweise Bahnfahrt, 2. Klasse, bis max. 180,- €) und Übernachtung werden vom DHI Paris getragen.

Die Bewerbungsunterlagen müssen einen tabellarischen Lebenslauf sowie ein kurzes Motivationsschreiben enthalten. Sie sind bis zum 1. Juni 2024 unter dem Stichwort »München für Mediävisten« an Frau Dr. Amélie Sagasser zu richten: asagasser@dhi-paris.fr.

» Zur Ausschreibung (pdf)

Socio-historical perspectives

International Conference

CERCEC-EHESS, Paris, November 7-8, 2024

The Russian occupation of Ukrainian territory since 2014 has brought into stark focus 20th century experiences and legacies of occupation in Europe. They are central in national memory cultures while generating polemics and conflicts up to this day, which are not resolved, but often enflamed, by the large body of historical research that has explored all the nuances and “greyness” of these difficult pasts. Beyond discrete case studies, we lack a clear understanding of the specificities of modern occupations, of the ways that people experience them, how they transform social, economic, political relations. 

What happens when a territory “is actually placed under the authority of the hostile army” during on-going international military conflict, when authority is split between the “legitimate power” and its exercise “in fact” by that power’s military enemy, as defined by the Hague and Geneva Conventions?

Much of the discourse and expectations surrounding this question continue to be shaped by the post-1945 diptych of “collaboration” and “resistance” as the two emblematic responses to foreign occupation and consequently the measure of all social behavior under occupation. Both terms became loaded not just with political, but with moral meaning, providing the bedrock of European post-war memory and mythmaking. Both come with expectations of legal retribution/recognition. This framework has become so entrenched in European memory and political culture as to seem natural, although it is reductive and historically situated. It also largely ignores the dynamic and fluid aspects of occupation, which is defined by much of the same uncertainty and risk as the war experience itself. It thus has limited value as either guide for empirical research or as conceptual framework to understand the complexity of social experiences of wartime occupation. Historical research has highlighted many of these aspects, turning to “attentism”, “grey areas”, forms of “passive resistance” and “cooperation”, without succeeding in providing an alternative conceptual framework for understanding this foundational experience of modern European societies.

The aim of this international conference is to explore ways to research and conceptualize the social experience of occupation beyond this post-1945 framework, through interdisciplinary discussion between historians, sociologists, and other social scientists working on contemporary European societies, within a comparative conversation including different occupations in all regions of Europe during different conflicts. We aim to shed light on the structural conditions, shifting dynamics, social actors, and orders, as well as lived experiences of wartime occupation as a social phenomenon. We welcome submissions that address the conceptual and methodological challenges of scientific research on past and present situations of wartime occupation.

We define wartime occupations as social situations, where a belligerent exercises authority over the territory and population of a country with which it is actively at war. These situations are also marked by the primacy of military actors and objectives, the presence of violence, a high degree of unsettledness, as well as the war-induced uncertainty over future outcomes.

Among the topics we would offer for consideration are:

• Social actors: how to identify and map the plurality of state and non-state actors involved at different scales from the micro-social to international? State actors include various representatives of at least two states claiming legitimate authority over the territory and the population; these can be local or central actors, present or not on occupied territory, military, police or civilian, with sometimes competing agendas. Non-state actors include civilians with diverse positions relative to state authorities, parastatal actors, militant groups with autonomous agendas, criminal ones... All these actors are forced to redefine their social identities and positions, their interactions, practices, language, values with various resources and constraints. How can we analyze their various degrees of autonomy? How can we understand “occupiers” and “occupied” as new social identities and categories, whose relations are defined by radical power imbalances, which reshape feelings of belonging and collective identities?
• Temporalities and lived experiences: how do the circumstances of invasion or retreat of occupying troops and the duration of occupation shape its experience by civilians? How is the time of everyday life transformed? How does war remain present, how do bombings, military operations and movements shape it? How are the extraordinary temporality of occupation and the ordinariness of everyday life articulated? How are time horizons of action and future expectations redefined? In how far is occupation a transformative experience? In how far are pre-war trajectories predictive or not, what pre-war dispositions and resources are useful or not? Many European regions have known repeated wartime occupations during the 20th and the 21st centuries, and some are occupied and liberated repeatedly during the same conflict: how does past experience shape the one under examination?
• Space: wartime occupation is accompanied by spatial fragmentation and reconfiguration, as pre-war borders take new meaning without disappearing and occupied territory is redefined by its position relative to the front-line. The movements of people and goods are disrupted, as the occupiers restrict and redirect them to serve what they see as their security and economic needs, including through evacuations and deportations. The distance to the front-line, the proximity to or integration in the territory of the occupying state, the natural environment, the communication and transportation infrastructures, rural or urban settings, are some of the many factors that spatially define different regimes and situations of occupation.
• Competing social orders and norms: how do the warring states adapt their legislation to address the situation of occupation? How are jurisdictions redefined? How are the state actors using legislation and regulations, on different levels, to restrict the population’s autonomy, encourage or enforce loyalty, and serve the state and army’s own objectives? How are laws enforced, how is behavior under occupation judged during the war itself? How do people under occupation understand and negotiate the sudden changes in regulations? How are these changes related to the renegotiation of social norms? How are social norms enforced, or not, under uncertainty? How does the competition between irreconcilable political orders under circumstances of uncertainty shape the experience of social order? How is the extraordinariness of the situation used by different state actors to experiment policies? How, why, and when do occupied territories become “laboratories” of new policies and orders?
• Economic dimensions: the destruction of property, the absence of parts of the population, legal uncertainty on property rights, and the value of goods, state policies that aim at exploiting the economic resources of the occupied territory for war while using their redistribution for reward and retaliation, are some of the issues that characterize wartime occupations. How do economic conflicts play out under such situations? How are social and economic hierarchies and networks redefined? How do occupying authorities articulate their aims of economic exploitation and loyalty extraction? How does the population navigate this politicization of economic survival through transformed practices, relations, strategies?
• Wars: How do we conceptualize the multiplicity of violent conflicts on different scales and with various actors and goals that characterize many occupation situations? How do political, social, economic conflicts, rooted or not in pre-war conflicts and political movements, play out under occupation? How to analyze their autonomous dynamics and logics as well as their articulation with each other and with “the” war? How does a renewed and social understanding of occupation help us reconsider the use of concepts such as “civil wars”, “internecine wars”?
• Mass violence, war crimes and crimes against humanity: wartime occupations are associated with widespread violence against civilians. For example, pillage, rape, and violence committed for “security” purposes, including arbitrary detention, kidnapping, torture and collective reprisals, are not only common, but are in various way “crimes of occupation”, violence against civilians directly linked to the specific situation of military occupation. What are those links? How do the dynamics of military occupation produce violent situations? How do occupying powers try to curb or to exploit these? Beyond this “ordinary” violence of occupation, are there specific situations, logics and dynamics that explain how occupations become spaces of mass violence and genocide?

We welcome submissions (max. 700 words) by all social scientists, including historians, on any wartime occupation in 20th and 21st century in Europe. The conference will include a half-day workshop specifically dedicated to an interdisciplinary discussion of sources and methods; submissions should point to these as well.

All applications should be sent by May 3, 2024, to: wartimeoccupations.conference(at)gmail.com.

The language of the conference will be English. Applications can be sent in most European languages, including Ukrainian, and fluency in English is not required to take part, although correct understanding is welcome. Organizers can help participants with weak English skills but strong scientific proposals during the conference.

The conference will take place on 7-8 November 2024 in Paris. The organizers will try to cover all the costs for participants who are not funded by their home institutions. Costs for all Ukrainian participants (currently in Ukraine or displaced abroad) will be entirely covered.

This conference is part of activities conducted by “War and Society in Central and Eastern Europe (20th-21st centuries)” Research Alliance (EURETES, EHESS – MESR) that bring together CERCEC-EHESS, Charles University in Prague and Lviv Center of Urban History. It is supported by the Osteuropa Network of the Max Weber Foundation, the German Historical Institute in Paris and the Marc Bloch Center (Berlin).

Scientific committee:

Xavier Bougarel (EHESS)

Masha Cerovic (CERCEC-EHESS)

Franziska Exeler (Freie Universität Berlin – Cambridge)

Jürgen Finger (Institut historique allemand de Paris)

Laurent Gayer (CERI-Sciences Po Paris)

Ota Konrad (Charles University, Prague)

Lukasz Krzyzanowski (Warsaw University)

Sophie Lambroschini (Centre Marc Bloch)

Anne Le Huérou, (University Paris Nanterre)

Silvia Serrano (Sorbonne Université)

Ioulia Shukan (University Paris Nanterre)

Iuliia Skubytska (Princeton University)

Ismee Tames (NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Utrecht University)

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Die Tagung versteht sich als ein Angebot an Nachwuchs­wissenschaftler­innen und Nachwuchs­wissenschaftler, eigene Forschungs­projekte im Kreis von Fach­kolleginnen und Fach­kollegen zu präsentieren und zu diskutieren. Ziel der Tagung ist es, einen intensiven Austausch und eine Vernetzung innerhalb der deutsch­sprachigen Möbel- und Raumkunst­forschung über die Grenzen der einzelnen Universitäten und Fachhochschulen hinaus zu gestalten.

Das Kolloquium richtet sich an Doktoranden (m, w, d), Postdoktoranden (m, w, d), Habilitanden (m, w, d) und allgemein an jüngere Forscher (m, w, d) von Hochschulen und musealen Einrichtungen des deutsch­sprachigen Raums, die sich mit Themen der Möbel- und Raumkunst befassen, wobei keine Beschränkungen bezüglich Epochen, Gattungen, Themengebieten etc. bestehen. Die Teilnehmenden werden gebeten, das eigene Forschungs­projekt im Rahmen eines etwa 20-minütigen Vortrags zu präsentieren. Je nach Stand der eigenen Recherchen sind hierbei sowohl Arbeits­berichte als auch die Vorstellung von Thesen oder Zusammenfassungen des Forschungsbeitrags willkommen.

Unterbringungskosten für zwei Nächte sowie Verpflegung und eine Erstattung der Reisekosten bis zu 150 Euro werden übernommen.

Die Bewerbungsunterlagen müssen einen tabellarischen Lebenslauf (ggf. mit Publikationsverzeichnis), eine knappe Zusammenfassung des Forschungsprojekts sowie ein Motivationsschreiben enthalten. Ein Anspruch auf Zulassung besteht nicht.

Die Bewerbungen sind bis zum 01. Juli 2024 zu richten an:
Dr. Andreas Büttner
Kurator Kunstgewerbe, Gemälde und Skulpturen
Städtisches Museum Braunschweig
Steintorwall 14
38100 Braunschweig
andreas.buettner(at)braunschweig.de

Auskünfte erteilen:

• Dr. Ralf Buchholz (ralf.buchholz(at)hawk.de)
• Dr. Andreas Büttner (andreas.buettner(at)braunschweig.de)
• Dr. Jörg Ebeling (jebeling(at)dfk-paris.org)

Verantwortliche Person am DFK

Dr. Jörg Ebeling

Forschungsleiter / Bibliotheksleiter

Telefon +33 (0)1 42 60 67 66

jebeling(at)dfk-paris.org

Zum dritten Mal wird das internationale Vernetzungstreffen in Form einer zweiteiligen Veranstaltung in Zusammenarbeit mit der Nationalen Autonomen Universität von Mexiko (UNAM), der Maison Universitaire Franco Mexicaine (MUFRAMEX), dem DFK Paris und dem Institut national d’histoire de l’art in Paris durchgeführt. Ziel des Treffens ist es, Studierende und Promovierende frankophoner, deutsch- und spanischsprachiger Universitäten zusammenzubringen und die Grundlagen für Austausch, Diskussion und Zusammenarbeit zu schaffen.

Das Vernetzungstreffen besteht aus zwei Volets und konzentriert sich sowohl auf Fragen der kunsthistorischen Ausbildung wie auch auf die nach der praktischen Anwendung der Kunstgeschichte. Der erste Teil findet vom 28. bis 30. Mai 2024 in Paris statt. Drei Tage Seminar, Besuche von Museen und Institutionen eröffnen den Teilnehmenden die Möglichkeit, Pariser Sammlungen und Archivbestände mit einem Bezug zu Lateinamerika kennenzulernen. Den zweiten Teil bildet die anschließende Teilnahme am Festival im Schloss Fontainebleau. Die Teilnehmer und Teilnehmerinnen können vom 31. Mai bis zum 2. Juni Vorträge, Diskussionsrunden, Filmvorführungen und andere Veranstaltungen besuchen, die das reichhaltige Programm des Festivals anbietet. Ein gemeinsames Seminar zu Methodenfragen vervollständigt das Programm.

Diese Ausschreibung richtet sich an Studierende, die einen Master 2, ein Doktorat oder ein Postdoc absolvieren und Forschung im Bereich der Kunstgeschichte, des Kulturerbes oder der Architektur, der Museumsstudien und der Archäologie betreiben. Bewerbungen müssen bis Sonntag, den 7. April (vor Mitternacht) eingereicht werden. Bedingungen und Details zur Bewerbung finden Sie in der nebenstehenden PDF-Datei. 

Link zum Bewerbungsformular: https://www.festivaldelhistoiredelart.fr/application-form-international-student-sessions-fha24/

Das Stipendium richtet sich an herausragende Wissenschaftler/-innen der Kunstgeschichte aus Frankreich, Deutschland und dem internationalen Ausland, die am Anfang ihrer Karriere stehen (Doktorand/-innen und Postdoktorand/-innen). Ziel der Förderung ist es, wissenschaftliche Arbeiten mit innovativen Forschungsansätzen zu unterstützen, die der Kunstgeschichte neue Perspektiven erschließen. Diese Arbeiten sollen sich mit kunsthistorischen Fragen befassen, die den europäischen und außereuropäischen Künsten zugrunde liegen oder sie miteinander in Verbindung bringen, insbesondere durch vergleichende Ansätze oder solche, die sich auf epistemologische, methodologische oder historiografische Aspekte konzentrieren. Themen zur Enteignung, Plünderung, Aneignung und Provenienz von Kunstwerken können ebenfalls Forschungsgegenstand sein.

Bewerbungen mit einem erforderlichen Aufenthalt in Paris werden bevorzugt behandelt.

Bedingung ist, dass die/der ausgewählte Kandidat/-in während des Förderzeitraums im engen Kontakt und Austausch mit dem DFK Paris und dem INHA steht und sich überwiegend in Paris aufhält.

Die Stipendiat/-innen forschen jeweils sechs Monate am Deutschen Forum für Kunstgeschichte Paris (DFK Paris) ab September 2024 und am Institut national d’histoire de l’art (INHA) ab März 2025. Die ausgewählten Stipendiat/-innen erwartet ein anregendes Arbeitsumfeld, das ihnen auch den Zugang zu den Archiven und den Austausch mit internationalen Expert/-innen erleichtern soll.

Der Umfang des Stipendiums beträgt monatlich 1.750 Euro (zuzüglich eines monatlichen pauschalen Sachkostenzuschusses von 250 Euro sowie ggf. einer Kinderzulage) für die Dauer von 12 Monaten. Die/der ausgewählte Kandidat/-in wird jeweils für sechs Monate am DFK Paris und am INHA als Wissenschaftler/-in gefördert. Das Stipendium beinhaltet ferner die Bereitstellung eines Arbeitsplatzes sowie die Nutzung der infrastrukturellen Ressourcen beider Institute.

Bewerbungen für die Auswahl 2024-2025 müssen auf https://candidature.inha.fr/ bis zum 15. Mai 2024 eingereicht werden.

Nur die auf diesem Wege eingereichten Bewerbungen werden im Auswahlverfahren berücksichtigt. Die Auswahlkommission, bestehend aus Peter Geimer, Julia Drost, Éric de Chassey und Juliette Trey, wird im Juni 2024 zusammentreten.

Zusammensetzung des Bewerbungsdossiers

Das Bewerbungsdossier kann in deutscher, französischer oder englischer Sprache verfasst werden.

- Ein Bewerbungsanschreiben, adressiert an den Direktor des Deutschen Forum für Kunstgeschichte Paris (DFK Paris) und die Interimsdirektorin des Département des études et de la recherche des INHA

- Einen Lebenslauf

- Eine Projektbeschreibung (maximal 3 Seiten) zzgl. einer Bibliographie mit Angaben der zu sichtenden Quellen sowie ein Zeitplan

Die Auswahlkommission tagt einmal jährlich.

Weitere Informationen und Kontakt:

Sekretariat des Département des études et de la recherche

Institut national d’histoire de l’art (INHA)

Tel.: +33 (0)1 47 03 85 81

E-Mail: der-dir@inha.fr

Deutsches Forum für Kunstgeschichte Paris (DFK Paris)

Abteilung Förderprogramme

Tel.: + 33 (0)1 42 60 68 23

E-Mail: stipendien@dfk-paris.org

3–6 September 2024

Venue: Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich

Capitalism, broadly understood as an economic and social order characterized by profit-seeking and market exchange, has become constitutive of modern societies. The expansion of trade between Europe and Asia since early modern times facilitated a boom in capitalist enterprise not only in Northwestern Europe but also in large parts of the world that now became linked to the global economy. The coercive, exploitative practices of colonialism and the expansionist forces of imperialism undergirded this global growth of capitalism.

The history of capitalism and capitalist expansion on the back of European imperialism has long drawn the interest of historians. For example, the colonial capitalism of the cash-crop plantations in the Americas and the parallel growth of the transatlantic slave trade has been much debated for its impact, both on the rise of industrial capitalism in the nineteenth century, and on the current shape of the world. The emergence of world markets under the auspices of industrialization and imperialism went hand in hand with a transformation of economic structures and global labour relations. The British Empire stood at the centre of these fundamental shifts in the world economic order. Global capitalism on the back of empire catapulted Britain into a global economic power, arguably at the cost of its colonies, such as South Asia.

This summer school will engage with the history of capitalism in the British Empire especially in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Our tutors, Professor Maxine Berg (Warwick), Dr Karolina Hutkova (LSE), and Professor Tirthankar Roy (LSE), will discuss key questions regarding the development of capitalism in the British transatlantic economy as well as in the relations between Britain and South Asia, stressing the circulation of resources (capital, knowledge, people, and/or materials) as well as economic, social, and political conditions in these and resulting from those developments. Finally, the course will explore how the history of capitalism in Britain’s imperial past has shaped, and continues to shape, modern Britain and its former colonies.

The summer school is a part of the on-going collaboration between the German Historical Institute London and the Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich. The course convenors are Professor Alexander Engel (LMU Munich) and Dr Indra Sengupta (GHI London).

The course will take place at LMU Munich on 3 - 6 September 2024. It is aimed at advanced BA or MA students of history or other related subjects at all German universities. An interest in the history of the British Empire and the history of capitalism is desirable.

Please note: Selected participants will be expected to attend all the classes. The course language is English and participants will be required to study the mandatory readings (around 15 chapter/article length pieces) to prepare for the classes. The readings will be sent out a few weeks ahead of the course.

The course is open to students from all German universities. However, a separate selection process applies to students from the LMU who should directly contact the convener Professor Engel.

Please apply in writing by Friday 12 April with the following documents:

• A cover letter of 1-2 pages explaining why you wish to take part in the summer school;
• A brief letter of recommendation from your supervisor;
• A list of courses you have attended and exams you have taken

The organisers will bear the cost of accommodation in Munich and sandwich lunch will be provided on the days of the summer school. It may be possible to make a small contribution towards the cost of travel to Munich. Unfortunately, we are unable to cover any other costs.

Please send us your application as a single PDF file and by email only to Dr Indra Sengupta i.sengupta@ghil.ac.uk

Summer School (Download information as PDF file)

Institute of History, Czech Academy of Sciences
Leibniz Institute for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe, GWZO
German Historical Institute Warsaw
Faculty of Humanities, Charles University
Date: November 13–15, 2024

Workhouse, house of correction, reformatory, forced labour colony, disciplinary labour camp, etc. – these are only a few designations of the disciplinary institutions that proliferated across Eastern, Central, and Western Europe during the late 19th and in the first half of the 20th century. These disciplinary institutions served a dual purpose of confinement as well as correction. Behind their walls or within their compounds, citizens who deviated from the prevailing middle-class norms of “proper work” and “decent behaviour” were confined as well as corrected by making use of their labour. The declared aim of such institutions, whose tradition dates back to the early modern period, was therefore not only to punish individuals whose mobility, livelihood and other types of conduct were criminalised, but also to turn “alcoholics”, “beggars”, “delinquents”, “pimps”, “prostitutes”, and “vagrants”, to name only a few groups who were targeted, into “orderly citizens”.

The majority of existing research has focused on the 18th and 19th centuries and the role of the continental as well as the English workhouse in Western Europe in relation to nascent capitalism. Therefore, shifting the focus on the late 19th and the first half of the 20th century opens up new possibilities for inquiring into the continuities and discontinuities of the practices and functions of previously established or newly created disciplinary institutions that were intended to provide additional punishment while simultaneously correcting the allegedly deviant subjects through labour. In particular, the regions of Central and Eastern Europe underwent significant political, social and economic development during this period. This development included the transition from semi-peripheral regions of empires to nation-states and many turbulent transformations of political regimes, encompassing liberal and popular democracies, authoritarian regimes as well as Nazi and state-socialist dictatorships. The political transformations often went hand in hand with significant economic fluctuations, such as the Great Depression or the two world conflicts. In addition, various social and penal reforms were introduced during this period, which had serious repercussions on the idea of who and how should be punished and/or rehabilitated through work.

In this workshop, we aim to bring together scholars from various fields, mainly experts in the history of social policies, history of convict or forced labour, histories of diverse marginalised or criminalised groups, history of criminology and penal law, and history of prisons and prison reform. Our intention is to explore the locally diverse disciplinary institutions such as continental workhouses, reformatories for young offenders, forced labour camps, etc. from various perspectives. These institutions could be located at the nexus of confinement, labour, and rehabilitation. They were embedded in a wider net of penal, social and economic measures and at the same time debated in expert circles as well as on the pages of the popular press. We also want to overcome the fact that the historiography of these various institutions remains very much focused on Western Europe, captive to national narratives, mostly overlooking institutions designed for women and often fragmented among a variety of research perspectives that overlap with each other only sporadically. Finally, in order to see possible innovations in this research field, we want to discuss the existing concepts (including disciplination, forced labour, and convict labour) that serve to interpret the meaning of these institutions and the methods and sources which could be used in order to reconstruct the everyday life of men and women assigned to these institutions as well as to re-examine the institutions’ role in confining specific groups of inhabitants, namely the Roma and Sinti.

Issues we would like contributors to address in the workshop are:

1. INSTITUTIONS AND ACTORS

• What functions did these disciplinary institutions perform in the broader context of social processes of exclusion and inclusion?
• How did the constitutive tension between the rehabilitation and confinement of inmates affect the position of these institutions within gradually diverging systems of punishment and social welfare?
• Which actors (e.g. different bodies of the state, municipalities, churches, private companies etc.) were involved in different aspects of these institutions and in which ways?

2. IDEAS AND PRACTICES

• How to interpret the relationship between the diverse contemporary discourses of rehabilitation and punishment, and the changing practice of the disciplinary institutions such as continental workhouses, forced labour camps and reformatories?
• What role did the disciplinary institutions play in the discourses and imaginations of social outcasts, especially those who were labelled as “Gypsies”?
• Did these popular as well as expert ideas and discourses shape the practice?

3. INMATES AND STAFF

• Who actually were the people confined in these institutions, in terms of their age, gender, class, professions, ethnicity, nationality, etc.?
• Why were they confined and in what ways were they deemed to need reforming?
• Who was recruited as staff in the disciplinary institutions and how?

4. LABOUR AND ECONOMIC EFFICIENCY

• What kinds of labour were used to correct male and female convicts and what concepts (e.g. forced labour or convict labour) could be used in order to capture the complexities of penal and economic goals?
• How were the inmates’ conditions negotiated in relation to the labour market, wages, etc. in the outside world?

5. EVERYDAY LIFE AND METHODOLOGY

• What were the living conditions and everyday life of the inmates and how did the everyday life of male and female convicts differ?
• How were the social hierarchies and order negotiated by the inmates and the staff?
• What types of sources and methods can be used in order to reconstruct everyday life and to capture the agency of the inmates and how?

6. (DIS-)CONTINUITIES

• How did these disciplinary institutions change over time?
• What role did the agency of inmates play in particular?
• How were they influenced by political development of the state or local administrations?

We especially welcome scholars who deal with these topics in the context of Central and Eastern Europe and/or apply innovative qualitative and/or quantitative methods and approaches.

Our plan is to publish an edited volume.

Workshop language: English.

Organisers:

Pavel Baloun (Institute of History, Czech Academy of Sciences / Faculty of Humanities, Charles University)
Lucie Dušková (Leibniz Institute for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe, GWZO)
Jaromír Mrňka (German Historical Institute Warsaw)
Klára Pinerová (Institute of History, Czech Academy of Sciences)
Jiří Smlsal (Institute of History, Czech Academy of Sciences)

Deadlines:

• Abstract Submission (max. 300 words with short bio): April 4, 2024
• Communicating Acceptance: April 22, 2024. Selected participants will be invited to submit a paper of 3,000–5,000 words as a basis for the book chapter.
• Paper Submission: September 30, 2024
• Submit Abstracts to prworkshop2024@hiu.cas.cz

Venue: Prague

Keynote Speaker: Sigrid Wadauer (University of Vienna)

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Entanglements are the order of the day. In the last two decades or so, the notion of entanglement has not only been very popular with historians (histoire croisée, Verflechtungsgeschichte), but also on fields such as comparative literature, cultural anthropology, archeology, and some social sciences. The concept of entanglement enables researchers to avoid dealing with clearly (pre-)defined social or political entities. It has awarded researchers the opportunity to attain a freely chosen vantage point with regard to both their evidence and concepts. Finally, it has proved especially suitable for the analysis of social, intellectual and political agency and interdependencies because of the concept’s capacity to break down asymetries, dilute binaries and highlight questions of process (how?) over quiddity (what?) and cause (why?).

The conference on ‘Harmful Entanglements’ thus addresses a phenomenon caused not so much by a principal methodological flaw in the concept of entanglement. Rather, it aims to answer to the unacknowledged conditions of the concept’s ubiquity, or, with other words, by its own ‘entanglement’ in a particular political context. Arguably, the study of and the various approaches to entanglements are products of an era of run-away globalisation and the heuristic possibilities it has enabled/unleashed. Scholars also began to ask questions that, to a degree, mirror the concerns and expectations of this kind of neo-liberal instability and acceleration. While many studies of entanglement were fed by general optimism in their transformative power, significant research has also been conducted on problems created by entanglement that encompasses topics such as environmental history, international law and diplomacy, (post-) colonialism, and the position of racist and fascist cultural production in the history of modernity or the project of modernism.

By and large, however, a silent assumption has been dominant: entanglement has come to be considered a phenomenon that obeys a logic of accretion. Entanglement by default seems not to lead to disentanglement but to a new level of tighter entanglement. The last few years with their crises of contagion, war, and economic rifts and collapses may offer a good occasion to question this assumption. It seems to be time to look at those who in the past or today reject to be entangled and at those etanglements that apparently proved detrimental. We aim to ask questions such as: What kind of entanglements have been regarded as sufficiently “bad” (harmful, exploitative, morally or legally unjustifiable, politivcally flawed, economically costly and so on) to provoke attempts at disentanglement? As dependencies (they may be understood as mutual as ever) involve power inequalities, the question of agency in disentanglements becomes crucial: What regimes of power trigger decolonialisation and neo-colonialisation processes? Do harmful entanglements lead to cultures of the vernacular, the backwater, the obscure – or at least to a longing for them? Do everincreasing entanglements continuously diminish agency and lead to an animosity against connectedness (as is observable in the present conjuncture of failing optimism in globalization)? Which actors are prone to fear or reject entanglements as principally dangerous or disastrous? When and why do attempts at disentanglement fail?

This year's Max Weber Foundation Conference is already the eighth such meeting organised by the Max Weber Foundation for German Humanities Institutes Abroad. The previous conferences of this format took place at the German Historical Institutes in Paris, Warsaw, Moscow, Washington, Kairo, Rome, and Tokyo. The Foundation Conference format takes up research topics from the institutes of the Max Weber Foundation and discusses them in an internationally comparative, trans- and interdisciplinary manner. The Foundation Conferences involve all of the Foundation's institutes and their partners.

The conference will take place in connection with the opening of the new building of the Orient-Institut Istanbul in the centre of Istanbul, in Galip Dede Caddesi 65, close to the Galata Tower. Keynotes will be delivered by Prof. em. Dr. Monica Juneja (Heidelberg University) and Prof. Dr. Eugene Rogan (Oxford University).

We invite papers that engage with these or related problems in the past or present and from a variety of disciplinary perspectives. Funding (travel-expenses, board and lodging) are available for participants not affiliated with the Max Weber Foundation.

The language of the conference is English. A volume of contributions will be published.

Please apply with an abstract of two pages and a cv to https://www.oiist.org/cfc/.

Deadline for applications is Sunday February 25th.

The GHI’s fellowship program promotes cutting-edge research in history and related disciplines and international exchange of scholars. For this purpose, the GHI and IES invite two postdoctoral scholars, one from a German and one from a North American university, to collaborate as a binational research tandem during a 24-month fellowship. The GHI's Pacific Office research programs center on histories of knowledge and migration in a broadly comparative perspective, addressing the experiences of many different migrant groups, home and transit lands, and receiving societies. Moreover, they widen the geographical focus from European history to include Latin American and Pacific histories of migrant knowledge.

The visiting tandem program is designed for postdoctoral historians with a strong interest in the history of knowledge and migration and an outstanding academic record. For applicants based in Germany, a good working knowledge of English is essential. Applicants may apply individually and be matched by the GHI or apply together with their potential tandem partner. Preference will also be given to candidates doing original research for a new book project.

The visiting fellow tandem program at the GHI's Pacific Office presents an excellent opportunity for scholars to develop their expertise by collaborating closely, to work with additional resources and to make connections with others in their fields.  The successful applicants will be in residence at the GHI's Pacific Office for a 24-month fellowship, starting in September 2024. They will be expected to conduct their research and fully participate in the academic life at the GHI's Pacific Office. Further, in collaboration with the staff at the GHI's Pacific Office, they will organize a workshop at an institution of higher education at the North American West Coast of their choice in their field of expertise. Fellows will have access to the UC Berkeley academic and social facilities (library, databases, email address, office space at the IES, etc.) and are offered the opportunity to make use of further resources in the greater Bay Area–including the Magnes Collection, the Hoover Institution Library and Archives in Stanford or the National Archives/ Pacific Region in San Bruno–while pursuing their research agendas.

A member institution of the Max Weber Foundation, the German Historical Institute Washington is a distinguished independent research institute, conducting inter- and transdisciplinary research with a transatlantic focus. The GHI's Pacific Office is located at UC Berkeley’s Institute of European Studies. It organizes a series of programs and scholarly events aimed at facilitating cooperation and dialogue among researchers in the humanities and social sciences based in North America and Germany, in Latin America and the Pacific world.

Funding will be provided for a 24-month stay at the GHI's Pacific Office/ UC Berkeley. The monthly stipend will be $5562 per month. In addition, fellowship recipients will receive reimbursement for their round-trip economy airfare. The GHI regrets that it is unable to provide accommodation for its fellows.

If you have questions concerning the fellowship, please contact Isabel Richter (richter(at)ghi-dc.org).

Eligibility Requirements

• Applicants must have completed a PhD before the start date of the fellowship

• Prospective fellows should be currently or recently affiliated with a North American or European research institution or university at the time of their application 

• Applicants should be able to take leave for the duration of the program to be in residence in Berkeley, CA for the fellowship

APPLY

Apply online

To apply please fill out the online application form by January 15, 2024 January 31, 2024 (deadline extended). Please include the following materials in your application (uploaded to the online portals as one pdf):

1. a cover letter

2. a CV

3. a copy of the certificate of your most recently achieved qualification or transcripts

4. a research project proposal (2,000 words max)

5. a workshop proposal which includes the intended workshop theme and scope as well as the intended host institution (1,000 words max)

Please send two letters of reference to fellowships(at)ghi-dc.org.

While applicants may write in either English or German, we recommend that they use the language in which they are most proficient. We can accept applications in electronic form only.

vergibt jedes Jahr Stipendien zur Förderung von Forschungsaufenthalten von Nachwuchswissenschaftler/-innen in Italien.

Für das zweite Halbjahr 2024 (Juli bis Dezember) bieten wir mehrere

Reisestipendien

an.

Das Reisestipendium ermöglicht Studien in Archiven und Bibliotheken, die für Qualifikationsarbeiten (Doktorarbeiten oder Habilitationsschriften) und für wissenschaftliche Arbeiten mit Italienbezug notwendig sind. Die maximale Förderdauer beträgt drei Monate.

Voraussetzungen:

Abgeschlossenes Studium (Master, Magister, Staatsexamen, Diplom, ggf. Promotion) der Geschichte oder Musikwissenschaften.

Das DHI Rom ist eine Einrichtung der in Bonn ansässigen Max Weber Stiftung – Deutsche Geisteswissenschaftliche Institute im Ausland. Es widmet sich der epochenübergreifenden, interdisziplinären Erforschung der italienischen und deutschen Geschichte und Musikgeschichte in ihren europäischen und globalen Bezügen vom Mittelalter bis heute. Dabei schöpft es aus den einzigartigen Ressourcen, die Italien und insbesondere Rom als Wissenschaftsstandort bieten. Im Mittelpunkt stehen politische, wirtschaftliche und kulturelle Aspekte sowie die Vermittlung zwischen beiden Wissenschaftskulturen.

Weitere Informationen zu den Modalitäten eines Reisestipendiums und den einzureichenden Bewerbungsunterlagen können der Stipendienordnung entnommen werden.

Bewerbungen werden bis zum 3.3.2024 ausschließlich über das Bewerbungsportal entgegengenommen.

vergibt jedes Jahr Stipendien zur Förderung von Forschungsaufenthalten von Nachwuchswissenschaftler/-innen in Italien.

Für das zweite Halbjahr 2024 (Juli bis Dezember) bieten wir mehrere

Forschungsstipendien

an.

Das DHI Rom ist eine Einrichtung der in Bonn ansässigen Max Weber Stiftung – Deutsche Geisteswissenschaftliche Institute im Ausland. Es widmet sich der epochenübergreifenden, interdisziplinären Erforschung der italienischen und deutschen Geschichte und Musikgeschichte in ihren europäischen und globalen Bezügen vom Mittelalter bis heute. Dabei schöpft es aus den einzigartigen Ressourcen, die Italien und insbesondere Rom als Wissenschaftsstandort bieten. Im Mittelpunkt stehen politische, wirtschaftliche und kulturelle Aspekte sowie die Vermittlung zwischen beiden Wissenschaftskulturen.

Voraussetzungen:

Abgeschlossenes Studium (Master, Magister, Staatsexamen, Diplom, ggf. Promotion) der Geschichte.

Weitere Informationen zu den Modalitäten eines Stipendiums und den einzureichenden Bewerbungsunterlagen können der Stipendienordnung entnommen werden.

Bewerbungen werden bis einschließlich 3.3.2024 über das Bewerbungsportal entgegengenommen.

vergibt jedes Jahr Stipendien zur Förderung von Forschungsaufenthalten von Nachwuchswissenschaftler/-innen in Italien.

Für das zweite Halbjahr 2024 (Juli bis Dezember) bieten wir mehrere

Stipendien zur Stellung eines Antrages auf Drittmittelförderung

an.

Anspruchsvolle und innovative Forschungsprojekte, die am DHI Rom angebunden werden sollen, können zielgerichtet gefördert werden, um Antragsreife für eine Drittmittelfinanzierung zu erlangen. Die maximale Förderdauer beträgt sechs Monate.

Voraussetzungen:

Abgeschlossenes Studium (Master, Magister, Staatsexamen, Diplom, ggf. Promotion) der Geschichte oder der Musikwissenschaften.

Das DHI Rom ist eine Einrichtung der in Bonn ansässigen Max Weber Stiftung – Deutsche Geisteswissenschaftliche Institute im Ausland. Es widmet sich der epochenübergreifenden, interdisziplinären Erforschung der italienischen und deutschen Geschichte und Musikgeschichte in ihren europäischen und globalen Bezügen vom Mittelalter bis heute. Dabei schöpft es aus den einzigartigen Ressourcen, die Italien und insbesondere Rom als Wissenschaftsstandort bieten. Im Mittelpunkt stehen politische, wirtschaftliche und kulturelle Aspekte sowie die Vermittlung zwischen beiden Wissenschaftskulturen.

Weitere Informationen zu den Modalitäten eines Stipendiums und den einzureichenden Bewerbungsunterlagen können der Stipendienordnung entnommen werden.

Bewerbungen werden bis zum 3.3.2024 ausschließlich über das Bewerbungsportal entgegengenommen

vergibt jedes Jahr Stipendien zur Förderung von Forschungsaufenthalten von Nachwuchswissenschaftler/-innen in Italien.

Für das zweite Halbjahr 2024 (Juli bis Dezember) bieten wir mehrere

Forschungsstipendien im Bereich der Musikwissenschaften

an.

Das DHI Rom ist eine Einrichtung der in Bonn ansässigen Max Weber Stiftung – Deutsche Geisteswissenschaftliche Institute im Ausland. Es widmet sich der epochenübergreifenden, interdisziplinären Erforschung der italienischen und deutschen Geschichte und Musikgeschichte in ihren europäischen und globalen Bezügen vom Mittelalter bis heute. Dabei schöpft es aus den einzigartigen Ressourcen, die Italien und insbesondere Rom als Wissenschaftsstandort bieten. Im Mittelpunkt stehen politische, wirtschaftliche und kulturelle Aspekte sowie die Vermittlung zwischen beiden Wissenschaftskulturen.

Voraussetzungen:

Abgeschlossenes Studium (Master, Magister, Staatsexamen, Diplom, ggf. Promotion) der Musikwissenschaften.

Weitere Informationen zu den Modalitäten eines Stipendiums und den einzureichenden Bewerbungsunterlagen können der Stipendienordnung entnommen werden.

Bewerbungen werden bis einschließlich 3.3.2024 über das Bewerbungsportal entgegengenommen.

Die Bewerbung schließt das stillschweigende Einverständnis der Bewerberin/des Bewerbers ein, dass der am Auswahlverfahren beteiligten Kommission für Auslandsstudien in der Gesellschaft für Musikforschung (GfM) Einsicht in die Bewerbungsunterlagen gewährt wird.

Eingereicht werden können Arbeiten, die im Zeitraum vom 1. Januar bis 31. Dezember 2023 an einer Hochschule in Deutschland oder Frankreich als Master-Abschlussarbeit (oder Äquivalent, z. B. Zulassungsarbeit zum Staatsexamen) in den Geschichtswissenschaften oder einer historisch arbeitenden Disziplin verteidigt und mit einer Note von »gut« bis »sehr gut« (in Frankreich 14/20 und besser) bewertet worden sind. Der Untersuchungsgegenstand soll bei einer Einreichung an einer deutschen Hochschule der französischen Geschichte, hingegen bei einer Einreichung an einer französischen Hochschule der deutschen Geschichte entnommen sein oder für beide Fälle der deutsch-französischen Geschichte angehören. Der Untersuchungszeitraum kann von der Spätantike bis in die jüngste Zeitgeschichte reichen.

Bewerbungsfrist: 1. März 2024

Für die Teilnahme am Wettbewerb senden Sie bitte per E-Mail Ihre Abschlussarbeit zusammen mit dem Gutachten des Betreuers oder der Betreuerin der Arbeit, einer zweiseitigen Zusammenfassung auf Französisch bzw. Deutsch (jeweils in der Sprache, in der die Arbeit nicht verfasst wurde), einem Bewerbungsschreiben und einem tabellarischen Lebenslauf in einem einzigen PDF-Dokument an: geschichtspreis@dhi-paris.fr.

Der deutsch-französische Geschichtspreis für Master-Abschlussarbeiten ist mit 500 € dotiert. Der Preisträger oder die Preisträgerin wird nach Paris zur Preisverleihung im Rahmen des Jahresvortrags des DHIP eingeladen. Reise- und Übernachtungskosten werden erstattet. Nach einer positiven externen Begutachtung können wesentliche Aspekte der Preisschrift als wissenschaftlicher Aufsatz in der Zeitschrift des Deutschen Historischen Instituts Paris (DHIP) »Francia. Forschungen zur westeuropäischen Geschichte« veröffentlicht werden.

Eine Kommission aus Wissenschaftlern und Wissenschaftlerinnen des DHIP sowie Hochschullehrern und Hochschullehrerinnen wählt unter den eingegangenen Bewerbungen den Preisträger oder die Preisträgerin aus. Ein Rechtsanspruch auf die Verleihung des Preises besteht nicht.

Jury: Corine Defrance, Claire Gantet, Silke Mende, Jörg Oberste

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Der Aufsatzpreis des DHIP ermöglicht die Veröffentlichung von Ergebnissen einer herausragenden deutschen Dissertation oder Habilitation im Bereich der Forschungsschwerpunkte des Instituts als französischsprachigen Aufsatz. Das DHIP übernimmt die Kosten für die Übersetzung (in Höhe von ca. 2.000 €) sowie die redaktionelle Betreuung des Aufsatzes. Dieser soll anschließend in der Zeitschrift »Francia« oder nach Absprache in einer anderen einschlägigen französischsprachigen Zeitschrift veröffentlicht werden.

Der Bewerbung für den Preis sind folgende Unterlagen beizulegen:

• eine dreiseitige Zusammenfassung der Dissertation bzw. Habilitation, die das Potential einer übersetzten Aufsatzfassung für die französischsprachige Forschung skizziert und eine erste Idee für den Aufsatz formuliert (Resümee, Fallstudie, konzeptioneller Text etc.),
• ein Lebenslauf,
• das Manuskript der eingereichten Dissertation bzw. Habilitation,
• die Gutachten bzw. der rapport de soutenance de thèse.

Die Dissertation bzw. Habilitation müssen in den letzten zwei Jahren (1. Januar 2022–31. Dezember 2023) eingereicht worden sein.

Über die Preisvergabe befindet ein international zusammengesetztes Gremium von deutschen und französischen Historikerinnen und Historikern:

Olivier Richard (Universität Straßburg),
Martin Wrede (Universität Grenoble Alpes),
Jens Ivo Engels (Technische Universität Darmstadt),
Christine Zabel (Deutsches Historisches Institut Paris).

Die Bewerbungen richten Sie an emarchioni@dhi-paris.fr. Bewerbungsschluss ist der 1. März 2024.

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(FR) « Les cœurs des Leuchtenberg » – Culture(s) mémorielle(s) d’une famille de la noblesse européenne au XIX^e siècle

Colloque international sur la ou les cultures mémorielle(s) de la famille Leuchtenberg, organisé par le Centre allemand d’histoire de l’art Paris (DFK Paris) en collaboration avec le Musée national des châteaux de Malmaison et Bois-Préau et le Bayerisches Nationalmuseum à Munich, à l’occasion du bicentenaire de la mort du fondateur de la dynastie des Leuchtenberg, Eugène de Beauharnais, mort le 21 février 1824 à Munich. Le colloque se tiendra du 24 au 26 octobre 2024 au Bayerisches Nationalmuseum à Munich. Les propositions pour des conférences de 30 minutes en allemand, français ou anglais sont à adresser avant le 15 avril 2024 à l’adresse suivante : leuchtenberg(at)dfk-paris.org. 

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(EN) “The Hearts of the Leuchtenberg” – The Culture(s) of Remembrance of a 19th-Century European Noble Family 

International colloquium on the cultures of remembrance within the Leuchtenberg family, co-organized by the German Center for Art History Paris (DFK Paris) with the Musée national des châteaux de Malmaison et Bois-Préau and the Bayerisches Nationalmuseum in Munich, on the occasion of the two-hundredth anniversary of the death of the founding father of the Leuchtenberg dynasty, Eugène de Beauharnais, who died on 21 February 1824 in Munich.The colloquium will take place 24–26 October 2024 in the Bayerisches Nationalmuseum in Munich. Proposals for presentation of 30 minutes are requested in German, French, or English by 15 April 2024 to the following address: leuchtenberg(at)dfk-paris.org.

See the detailed presentation in the pdf enclosed.

Organisationskomitee / Comité d’organisation / Organizing Committee

• Elisabeth Caude, Directrice du Service à Compétence Nationale des musées nationaux des châteaux de Malmaison et Bois-Préau, de l’île d’Aix et de la Maison Bonaparte à Ajaccio
• Dr. Jörg Ebeling, Forschungsleiter, Deutsches Forum für Kunstgeschichte Paris
• Dr. Sybe Wartena, Wissenschaftlicher Referent für Möbel, Musikinstrumente, Spiele und Stadtmodelle, Bayerisches Nationalmuseum  

Wissenschaftliches Komitee / Comité scientifique / Scientific Committee 

• Dr. Birgit Jooss, Wittelsbacher Ausgleichsfonds, Leiterin Kunst und Tradition
• Dr. Sylvia Krauss-Meyl,  Archivdirektorin a.D. im Bayerischen Hauptstaatsarchiv München
• Lars Ljungström, Head of the Department of Collections and Documentation, The Swedish Royal Collections, Schweden
• Prof. Dr. Hans Ottomeyer, ehemaliger Präsident der Stiftung Deutsches Historisches Museum in Berlin
• Marina Rosa, Vorsitzende des Centro documentazione Residenze Reali lombarde

Verantwortliche Person am DFK

Dr. Jörg Ebeling

Forschungsleiter / Bibliotheksleiter

Telefon +33 (0)1 42 60 67 66

jebeling(at)dfk-paris.org

Zur Website des DFK

Le modèle de pensée opposant le centre et la périphérie a déplacé l’attention de la recherche de l’observation du développement des grands centres artistiques vers les lieux vivant dans leur orbite régionale et leur contribution à l’évolution des arts. Ainsi notre conception de l’influence, du transfert et de l’appropriation de l’art s’est-elle déportée tandis que l’image traditionnelle de son histoire faisait l’objet de réajustements. Mais comme modèle susceptible d’approcher la manière dont se déroulent réellement la réception artistique, la production et les influences, cette conception se révèle elle aussi insuffisante. Car si l’on veut casser l’idée d’un développement linéaire de l’art dans ce qu’elle a de statique, toutes les images d’un transfert artistique pensé selon un schéma mathématique et géométrique s’avèrent contre-productives. Les topographies de l’art obéissent bien plutôt à l’idée d’un relief présentant de multiples formes.

À partir d’une région centrale pour l’histoire européenne de l’art à l’époque moderne, le colloque entend éclairer le rôle joué par les points de passage névralgiques du déplacement de l’art. En matière de voyages d’œuvres, d’artistes ou d’idées, les obstacles réels et les chemins possibles jouent de fait un rôle crucial, tout comme les conditions politiques ou infrastructurelles. Dans le centre de la Suisse et en particulier la région du lac des Quatre-Cantons convergent les voies qu’emprunte l’art venant de l’Europe du Nord et de l’Ouest pour rejoindre une destination dans le Sud, et inversement. Pour se rendre dans le Nord, les œuvres et les artistes exportés depuis le nord de l’Italie passent forcément par les cols des Alpes, en l’occurrence ici par le col du Saint-Gothard qui reste aujourd’hui encore le point de passage principal sur un itinéraire qui va de Milan à l’étape de Stans et Lucerne via Côme et Lugano. La seule alternative est la voie maritime et fluviale par le port de Gênes puis, vers le nord, par la vallée du Rhône. 

À l’exemple du canton de Nidwald, nous ne nous attacherons pas seulement au lieu et à son infrastructure comme instance de médiation. En effet, le canton est pertinent et représentatif pour mener une analyse permettant d’étudier aussi bien le rôle de la région et de ses protagonistes comme passeurs, qu’également la constitution d’une contribution propre à l’histoire de l’art. La naissance d’un style architectural vernaculaire, par exemple dans le type des églises de campagne, montre comment rivalisent et fusionnent des éléments du baroque romain, du décor tessinois, de la sculpture du nord de l’Italie, de la peinture française et des églises du sud de l’Allemagne, pour donner finalement naissance à des solutions jusqu’alors inédites. Les architectures civiles, les maisons bourgeoises des villes par exemple, s’inspirent quant à elles de modèles parisiens et allemands. Dépendantes de modes parfois décalées dans le temps, des voyages des maîtres d’œuvres ou des circuits empruntés par les manuels d’apprentissage ou des recueils d’échantillons ou de plans, les instances du transfert sont en même temps de nature institutionnelle. 

À travers la personne du peintre Johann Melchior Wyrsch, formé à Rome, Zurich et Paris, qui met son expérience de l’École de peinture et de sculpture de Besançon au service de l’école de peinture qu’il fondera plus tard à Lucerne, un volet du colloque sera donc consacré à une carrière artistique européenne exemplaire (Winkelriedhaus, Stans, 6 septembre 2024).

Auparavant, une première partie portant sur l’histoire de l’architecture (Centre allemand d’histoire de l’art, Paris, 28–29 mai 2024) se propose d’appréhender la genèse des traditions locales en matière de construction dans le contexte des centres européens de l’histoire de l’architecture.

Le projet entend dépasser le dualisme des modèles de pensée actuels, il fait du cheminement le but de l’étude en portant son intérêt sur les tendances marquantes de l’architecture et des arts plastiques non seulement à l’écart des grands centres artistiques mondains en Europe, mais surtout dans une région privilégiée qui peut être comprise autant comme un lieu de passage et de médiation que comme un lieu bénéficiaire d’innovations.

Les propositions pour des communications de 20 à max. 30 minutes sont à adresser jusqu’au 25 février 2024 à mcastor(at)dfk-paris.org et kultur(at)nw.ch.

Siehe die deutsche Fassung der Ausschreibung im beigefügten PDF.

Nom du responsable

Dr. Markus A. Castor

Directeur de recherches / Responsable des éditions de la coll. Passages Online

Téléphone +33 (0)1 42 60 67 13

mcastor(at)dfk-paris.org

Type: in person Conference language: English

Conveners: Max Weber Foundation – Georgia Branch Office & Orient-Institut Istanbul in cooperation with Ilia State University, Tbilisi

The Orient-Institut Istanbul and the Georgia Branch Office of the Max Weber Foundation in Tbilisi are jointly organizing a two-day workshop on the everyday life of urban communities in minority position in imperial pasts; on their memory and heritage. We intend to bring together historians and anthropologists to present diverse experiences of ethnic and religious communities in the cities of the Russian and Ottoman empires. Of particular interest to us are the history of the institutions that these communities created to function within the city, their ethnic and religious infrastructure, forms of agency, and their representation in private memory. A separate section shall be devoted to the past of communities no longer present today that nevertheless once played a pronounced role in urban life and whose cultural, artistic, and architectural heritage is still being appreciated and conceptualized both by contemporary residents and outside observers. We encourage an anthropological as well as a historical approach to the study of the past and presence of historical minority communities of imperial cities, while being open to a wide array of different approaches and methodologies employed in the Humanities and Social Sciences.

Send please your submissions (paper proposal of ca. 300 words and your CV) to the following address by 16 February 2024: info@mws-georgia.org

Acceptance decisions will be made by the beginning of March 2024.

Call for Papers (PDF)

Website MWS Georgia Branch Office

The Pacific Office of the German Historical Institute Washington at UC Berkeley is soliciting proposals for papers to be presented at the Eighth Annual Young Scholars Forum: Histories of Migration, which will be held at UC Berkeley on October 21–22, 2024. We seek contributions from postdoctoral scholars, recent PhDs, and advanced doctoral candidates in the humanities or social sciences.

The 2024 Forum focuses on the intersection of migration and gender and sexuality studies. Exploring gender relations, modes of intimacy, and sexual diversity is crucial to a nuanced analysis of both the causes and consequences of migration and of mobility regimes and practices. Starting from an understanding of gender and of sexuality as constructed within multiple intersecting power relations (including class, age, race, ethnicity, and geopolitical location), we welcome theoretical, methodological, and empirical contributions dealing with interconnections between gender studies, sexuality studies, and migration studies. Whereas sociologists and geographers began charting this important territory in the 2000s, historians and researchers in the humanities have lagged behind. As a result, historical approaches to these interconnected subjects are still few and far between. The Forum will explore the potential of gender-based analyses and queer historical perspectives on migration experiences; representations of femininity and masculinity constructed by actors themselves and by receiving societies; heteronormativity and how it shaped migrant histories; labor migration and gendered labor markets; sex work and migration; (im)migrant families, motherhood, and fatherhood; migration and gender-based violence; the mobility of transgender people; the shifting regimes of intimacy in the places people left, traversed, and settled; and other related questions.

The Forum approaches its annual theme from a trans-epochal and transregional perspective. We seek to link current developments to both the past and the present. We encourage applications from junior scholars in history, gender studies, sexuality studies, the social sciences, political sciences, anthropology, as well as area studies, ethnic studies, and other related fields. Contributions in other media, such as film and photography, will be considered as well. Papers will be pre-circulated to allow for maximum discussion time with peers and invited senior scholars. The workshop language will be English. The Forum will be hosted by Isabel Richter (GHI Pacific Office Berkeley, contact email: richter(at)ghi-dc.org) and Benno Gammerl (European University Institute Florence).

Selected participants might have the opportunity to extend their stay in Berkeley (by up to two weeks) through the California Archive Research Award (CARA). CARA funds can be used for research in various libraries and archival collections in the San Francisco Bay Area. These include, for example, the Bancroft Library at UC Berkeley, the Hoover Archives at Stanford University, the National Archives in San Bruno, the James C. Hormel LGBTQIA Center at the San Francisco Public Library, and the Bay Area Lesbian Archives in Oakland.

Please indicate in the online application form if you would like to be considered for the CARA grant. We will award the additional funding to up to two applicants. Please upload a brief CV and a proposal of no more than 750 words by March 15, 2023, to our online portal. Please contact Heike Friedman if you have problems submitting your information. Applicants will be informed of the outcome in April.

Date 
24–25 October 2024, Pilsen, Czech Republic

Organizing institutions
German Historical Institute Warsaw
Charles University
Philipps-University Marburg
University of West Bohemia
Conference languages: English, German

Annotation
In October 1925, seven international treaties were concluded in Locarno and signed in London on 1 December 1925. Germany was admitted to the League of Nations in September 1926. The Locarno Conference was attended by Reich Chancellor Hans Luther and German Foreign Minister Gustav Stresemann, Austen Chamberlain for Great Britain, Aristide Briand for France, Émile Vandervelde for Belgium, and, briefly, Edvard Beneš for Czechoslovakia, Aleksander Skrzyński for Poland and Benito Mussolini for Italy. For European security policy since the Peace Treaty of Versailles, the de-militarisation of the Rhineland, the securing of Germany’s western borders and options for its eastern borders, and last but not least the Soviet Union’s perspective on Central Europe, the treaties laid important foundations for Europe within the framework of the League of Nations. They were based on the principle of peaceful conflict resolution and were designed to take account of different security needs. Arbitration and defence treaties contributed to this. However, the Locarno Treaties were not without controversy and led, for example, to the resignation of the German nationalist ministers in October 1925. In conjunction with the Treaties of Rapallo (April 1922) and Berlin (April 1926), they reflect German power and security policy, which defied clear Western or Eastern European categorisation. The potential for revisionist demands in the form of the return of German colonial territories, the shifting of the German eastern border and a possible unification of Austria with the German Reich was as much a part of the policy of understanding as was the conciliatory “spirit of Locarno,” but ended abruptly with the occupation of the Rhineland in 1936.

Under the central question of security in political, economic, social, and military terms, the conference will examine the international significance and impact of the Treaties of Locarno in their historical long-term perspective and discuss how and whether they can be understood today, almost one hundred years later, as part of the European dynamics of security policy. Contributions will focus on the treaty-based security system in Central Europe in the 1920s and the diplomatic negotiations from a transnational perspective.

Selected papers will be printed in a conference collective monograph, planned for issue in 2025/2026. The organizers will cover accommodation.

Please send proposals of contributions – title, abstract (no longer than 300 words), CV – by 29 February 2024 to the following email address: conference2024@ff.cuni.cz

Organizers
Jaromír Mrňka, German Historical Institute Warsaw
Benedikt Stuchtey, Department of History and Cultural Studies, Department of Modern History, Philipps-University Marburg
Lukáš Novotný, Department of Historical Sciences, Faculty of Arts, University of West Bohemia
Václav Horčička, Institute of World History, Faculty of Arts, Charles Universit
Jaroslav Valkoun, Institute of World History, Faculty of Arts, Charles University

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3-5 September 2023, Hannah-Arendt-Institut für Totalitarismusforschung Dresden

The second half of the twentieth century saw a change in the concept of victimhood in post-socialist and post-conflict countries. Although victims are often perceived through the prism of their trauma and passivity, attention is currently focused also on their active role in the transitional justice and their social mobilization. It turns out that victims and their organizations have been playing an important role in democratic transition and public history and appeared on the political scene as distinct and powerful groups and managed to achieve some of their main goals such as compensations, rehabilitations, redress and acknowledgment. Representatives of victim associations (especially former political prisoners and their offspring) have also turned into ‘guardians of memory’. Their role is to share their experience and simultaneously defend the image of the group and the association. Their main goal is not only to integrate the history of the victims and survivors of the state socialist dictatorship into broader political and national history, but to enforce their version of the past as the dominant narrative as well.

The aim of the interdisciplinary conference is to focus on associations of victims of post-socialist countries in the east central Europe. The conference will focus on what role victim organizations (political prisoners, victims of repression of state socialism) played after the year 1989, what were their goals and activities to achieve recognition and redress. The conference aims to explore these organizations as participants in public life and the formation and maintenance of collective memory, as well as how these associations sought to emphasize and use or promote their collective memory and interpretation of history in the political process and contribute to the democratization of society.

Academics from various disciplines have contributed to a growing body of literature on victimhood in recent years. Together, these studies analyse the concept of victimhood in different geographical and historical contexts. This conference seeks to bring together scholars from various academic disciplines (history, psychology, sociology, political science and anthropology) working on aspects of the victimhood, victim organisations, victim trauma, victim politic and transitional justice in the post-socialist countries. We propose to follow three broad tracks to identify how victimhood was shaped, how the victims and their organisations acted as political actors in demands for redress and acknowledgement. We are also interested in the consequences of constructing victimhood in the democratic transitions, both positive and negative. The goal of this conference is:

1.Victimhood as a social construct

We consider victimhood as a socially and politically constructed category and characterize victimhood as a form of collective identity based on harm caused by an individual, group or state and therefore our aim is to focus on the questions of how and why some people transform their trauma into a collective identity. Because the victimhood is not only a moral and legislative matter, but also to a significant extent political, we want to study how political and social context shaped the narratives of victims and influences the form of victimhood. We are also interested in the questions such as, how victims define themselves and why some victim group received the victim status and obtained political and social acknowledgement and various advantages, while other groups not.

2.The role of victims in transitional justice and democratisation

As various studies have shown, victim organizations adopt different strategies and become active political actors. We are interested in the roles that of victims and their organization played in the transitional justice. In this regard, we would like to explore how victims shaped the democratisation process, their involvement in the legislative process, their strategies and objectives. How they influenced the legislative changes regarding rehabilitation, restitution, compensation and recognition? We are also interested in victim associations as participants in public life and the formation and maintenance of collective memory as well as how these associations tried to emphasise and utilise or promote their collective memory and interpretation of history in the political and educational process.

3.Shadows of victimhood

While the victim organizations are rightly understood as legitimate representatives of victims and their claims, their influence on democratic political developments can be controversial. Their activities on the one hand helped society cope with the difficult past, but on the other brought to public space a polarized narrative that was not limited to members of the Communist Party, but to other ethnic, religious, and sexual minority groups as well. They presented their statements from a position of moral superiority as the victims of communism, and any condemnation of their views was seen as belittling their experience and relativizing their suffering. The conference aim is to better understand how narratives of victimhood in various post-socialist countries exacerbated affective polarization.

Proposals
Proposals of 300–500 words, accompanied by a short biographical note, should be sent by January 30, 2024 to the following addresses: pinerova@usd.cas.cz. As we plan to have commentaries for each session, papers of 2,000 words are required to be pre-circulated by October 1, 2024.

Decisions will be announced no later than February 28, 2024.

Funding is limited for people from Europe, but we are open for other participants from other non-European countries and we are offering the digital participation.

Organised by: 

Hannah Arendt Institute for Totalitarianism Studies at TU Dresden (HAIT)
Institute of Contemporary History of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague (ÚSD)

Der Kongress ISSS Surréalismes Paris 2024 wird vom 28. bis zum 30. Oktober 2024 auf dem Campus der American University of Paris (AUP) stattfinden, in Kooperation mit dem Centre d'histoire de l'art (DFK Paris), der Universität Jean Monnet Lyon-Saint-Étienne (ECLLA) sowie der Universität Sorbonne Nouvelle. Neben Einzelvorträgen, Rundgesprächen und thematischen Panels werden Filmvorführungen, Lesungen, Besuche von Ausstellungen im Musée national d'art Moderne – Centre Pompidou usw. organisiert. Genaue Angaben werden im Programm bekanntgegeben.

2024 ist ein besonderes Jahr, denn es markiert den hundertsten Jahrestag des Manifeste du Surréalisme von André Breton, Une vague de rêves von Louis Aragon oder die Gründung der Zeitschrift La Révolution surréaliste im Herbst 1924. Zahlreiche Veranstaltungen (Ausstellungen, Kolloquien, Vorträge, Veröffentlichungen u.a.) sind zu diesem Anlass in ganz Frankreich geplant. Über das Jubiläum hinaus wird mit dem Kongress die Arbeit der fünf vorangegangenen Ausgaben des Jahreskongresses der ISSS weitergeführt, um die Vitalität des Surrealismus ebenso wie seine kontinuierliche internationale Verbreitung von 1924 bis heute zu befragen. "Um nicht zu vertrocknen", schrieb Benjamin Péret 1935, muss der Surrealismus "aus dem engen Rahmen der Grenzen Frankreichs heraustreten und eine internationale Gestalt annehmen". Der interdisziplinäre und transversale Kongress der ISSS Surréalismes Paris 2024 wird daher die Gelegenheit bieten, diese Internationalisierung bis hin zur Entstehung eines weltweiten Surrealismus in einem globalisierten Kulturmarkt umfassend zu erforschen.

Die internationale, nicht auf Europa beschränkte Öffentlichkeit des Surrealismus verdient es, diskutiert zu werden. Wo und durch welche Foren hat er sich verbreitet? Auf welche Widerstände und welche Zustimmung stieß er im Laufe seiner Geschichte je nach Ort und Kultur? Wie gestaltete sich seine Rezeption in Europa und darüber hinaus auf allen Kontinenten? Wie entwickelten sich die Beziehungen zwischen dem vermeintlichen "Zentrum" (Paris) und den sogenannten "Peripherien"? Wurde der Surrealismus durch diese internationale Erweiterung geschmälert oder bereichert? Hat die Bewegung ihre Eigenart verloren oder hat der Surrealismus im Gegenteil in seiner internationalen Präsenz die Bausteine einer unerlässlichen Erneuerung gefunden? Hat die fortschreitende Kommerzialisierung der Kunst den poetischen Anspruch, für den sie sich einsetzte, abgeschwächt? Hat seine Ästhetisierung und Musealisierung die politische Revolte, die er verkörperte, endgültig erstickt? Kurzum: Wie steht es heute weltweit um den Surrealismus?

Welche poetische Subversion, welche politische Revolte kann der Surrealismus noch nähren? Welche Gegensätze lassen sich noch formulieren? Es ist mithin die pluralistische Aktualität des Surrealismus als Verkörperung unterschiedlichster Ansätze, die uns in Paris zusammenbringen wird. 

Vorschläge für Einzelvorträge (20 Minuten) sollten eine Zusammenfassung von max. 250 Wörtern, einen Titel, ggfs. die institutionelle bzw. universitäre Anbindung sowie die Kontaktdaten des/der Teilnehmers/in enthalten. Vorschläge für thematische Panels sind sehr willkommen. Diese können drei oder vier Vorträge umfassen. Bewerbungen für Panels sollten einen zusätzlichen Absatz enthalten, der die thematische und methodische Ausrichtung einschließlich eines Titels darlegt. Rundgespräche und alternative Formate sind ebenfalls willkommen. Schließlich ermutigen wir auch Forscherinnen und Forscher, die an Themen im Zusammenhang mit dem erweiterten Surrealismus arbeiten, zur Teilnahme.

Tagungssprachen sind Französisch, Englisch und Spanisch.
Bitte senden Sie Ihre Vorschläge bis zum 15. März 2024 an die folgende Adresse: isssparis2024(at)laposte.net.
Einen Bescheid erhalten Sie spätestens am 15. Mai 2024.

Organisationskomitee der ISSS Paris 2024

• Julia Drost (Deutsches Forum für Kunstgeschichte, DFK Paris) 
• Fabrice Flahutez (Universität Lyon-Saint-Étienne, Institut Universitaire de France)
• Olivier Penot-Lacassagne (Universität Sorbonne Nouvelle)
• Iveta Slavkova (American University of Paris)

Auf dem Deutschen Kongress für Kunstgeschichte, der vom 13. bis zum 17. März 2024 in Erlangen stattfinden wird, richtet das DFK Paris in Kooperation mit dem Postdoc-Forum Frankreich­forschung ein Fachforum zum Thema Frankreich­forschung aus. Dort soll gemeinsam mit verschiedenen Status­gruppen des Fachs und in größtmöglicher Breite und Vielfalt die Frage diskutiert werden: Was ist Frankreich­forschung heute?

Wie jedes Forschungs­feld, das sich über einen geografischen bzw. nationalen Zuschnitt definiert, ist auch das Feld der Frankreich­forschung zum Objekt einer kritischen Revision geworden. Worauf bezieht sich das Präfix »Frankreich« der Frankreich­forschung – auf ihre Gegen­stände, ihre Archiv‑ und Museums­bestände oder auf eine methodische Ausrichtung? Wie verhält sich Frankreich­forschung zu den Heraus­forderungen einer trans­kulturellen Kunstgeschichts­schreibung? Welcher heuristische oder historische Wert macht es sinnvoll, weiterhin von Frankreich­forschung zu sprechen? Wir wollen fragen, auf welche Weise das Konzept der Frankreich­forschung ein Knoten­punkt für das gemeinsame Nachdenken über aktuelle Heraus­forderungen im Fach Kunst­geschichte sein kann.

Auf dem Kongress selbst ist eine zweiteilige Veranstaltung vorgesehen. Am Beginn steht eine Podiumsdiskussion mit pointierten Statements von Vertreter:innen unter­schiedlicher Status­gruppen und Arbeits­bereiche (Doktorand:innen, Postdoktorand:innen, Professor:innen, Kurator:innen). Den zweiten Teil der Veranstaltung bildet ein offenes Gespräch unter allen Anwesenden (Podium und Publikum). 

Um die Diskussion jedoch möglichst nachhaltig zu gestalten und der Gruppe der zu einem Thema mit Frankreich­bezug forschenden Doktorand:innen eine gut hörbare Stimme auf dem Fachforum zu verleihen, soll sich bereits im Vorfeld eine Gruppe von zehn Doktorand:innen konstituieren, die ihre Fragen und Vorschläge zum Thema der Frankreichforschung zusammenträgt und diskutiert. Geplant sind hierzu Treffen per Zoom im Vorfeld des Kongresses (gemeinsam mit der Leitung des Frankreichforums und autonom), die dem gemeinsamen Austausch dienen sollen. Die Gruppe selbst kann dann aus ihren eigenen Reihen zwei Personen bestimmen, die auf dem Podium in Erlangen jeweils mit einem fünfminütigen Statement zur Frage »Was ist Frankreichforschung heute?« vertreten sein werden. Die gesamte Gruppe ist aufgefordert, sich intensiv an der anschließenden offenen Diskussion zu beteiligen.

Haben Sie eine dezidierte Haltung zum Thema Frankreichforschung? Oder drängende Fragen, die sich aus Ihrer Arbeit heraus ergeben und die Sie gerne mit anderen diskutieren möchten? Dann bewerben Sie sich für die Diskussionsrunde Frankreichforschung. 

Bitte senden Sie hierzu bis zum 7. Januar 2024 einen kurzen Text (max. 500 Wörter) an stipendien(at)dfk-paris.org, der 1. Ihr Dissertationsthema und 2. Ihren Ansatz und Ihre Fragen zum Thema »Frankreichforschung heute« pointiert darstellt, und fügen drei bis fünf Sätze zu Ihrer Biografie hinzu (Studien‑ und Promotionsort etc.). Wir werden Sie noch im Januar benachrichtigen, ob Sie für die Diskussionsrunde ausgewählt wurden. 

Das Stipendium umfasst die Erstattung der Fahrtkosten (bis max. 250€) zum Kongress nach Erlangen, zwei Übernachtungen (bis max. 100€/Nacht) vor Ort und die Kongressgebühren.

Wir freuen uns auf zahlreiche Bewerbungen. Bei Rückfragen schreiben Sie gerne an die stellvertretende Direktorin des DFK Paris, Léa Kuhn, unter lkuhn(at)dfk-paris.org. 

Organisation und Leitung des Fachforums Frankreichforschung: 
Peter Geimer / Léa Kuhn (DFK Paris) 
in Kooperation mit Elisabeth Fritz / Lisa Hecht / Thomas Moser (Postdoc-Forum Frankreichforschung)

We are excited to announce a call for papers for a workshop to form a collaborative and interdisciplinary team. The workshop's primary goal is to collectively prepare a panel submission for the ASEEES (Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies) conference in 2025 while concurrently working on a collective monograph for a distinguished publication thematic series.

Concept:

The workshop aims to explore the living worlds and underworlds of state socialist cities, focusing on gendering and queering current research on the urban history of Eastern Europe under state socialism. It draws inspiration from the intricate dynamics of "living worlds" and "underworlds" within the urban landscape of state socialist cities in Eastern Europe. Stemming from exploring urban spaces as manifestations of societal power structures, the concept of "underworlds" goes beyond the physical confines beneath the city's surface, encapsulating hidden facets of urban life. Reflecting prevailing values and ideas regarding societal organization, these "underworlds" serve as fields of power marked by the indelible signs of social inequalities and the majority's dominance.

This nuanced understanding becomes the foundation for probing into the gendered and queer dimensions of state socialist cities, offering insight into the intricate complexities of urban life during this era. As we delve into these hidden realms, we aim to unravel the interplay between those in control and those under control, shedding light on the obscured facets of urban life and exploring unique strategies urban actors develop in adapting public spaces to their goals. Through this collective exploration, we seek to contribute significantly to the evolving narrative of Eastern European urban history.

Themes:

We invite submissions from various disciplines that explore the intersections of gender and queerness within the urban history of Eastern Europe during the state socialist era, i.e., of the so-called Eastern Bloc outside the Soviet Union from 1947 to 1991.

At the same time, the main emphasis of the contributions should be on the period of late socialism, its possible connections, continuities, and discontinuities with the subsequent post-socialist transformation.

Potential topics include, but are not limited to:

1. Gendered and queer spaces in state socialist cities.

2. Gendered everyday life and queer experiences in connection to the diversity of urban populations

3. Gender and queer aspects of subcultures, countercultures, and resistance movements.

4. Architectural and spatial implications of state socialism on gender and queerness.

5. Historical perspectives on the LGBTQ+ community in Eastern European cities.

Goals:

1. ASEEES Panel Submission: Develop a comprehensive and engaging panel proposal for presentation at the ASEEES 2025 Convention (Thursday, November 20 - Sunday, November 23, 2025, Washington, DC), fostering dialogue and intellectual exchange.

2. Collective Monograph: Collaborate on designing and crafting a thematic monograph for submission to prestigious publishers that will introduce gender and queerness into the urban history of the Eastern Bloc state socialist dictatorships.

Important Information:

Venue: Prague, Czech Republic, EU

The organizer provides all selected active participants with accommodation for two nights.

Reimbursement of travel expenses is possible. Specify the request in the application.

Submission Guidelines:

We invite interested participants to submit abstracts (250-300 words) and a brief bio (150 words) by 18.02.2024.

Please send your proposals to QWPrague2024(at)gmail.com

Important Dates:

Submission Deadline: 18.02.2024

Notification of Acceptance: 22.03.2024

Submission of Papers: 15.08.2024

Workshop Date: 17.09. - 19.09.2024

We welcome submissions from scholars, researchers, and practitioners across disciplines passionate about unraveling the multifaceted history of state socialist cities in Eastern Europe.

Join us in this collaborative venture to explore the Living Worlds and Underworlds of State Socialist Cities, contributing to the gendering and queering of Eastern European urban history.

Jaromír Mrňka, German Historical Institute Warsaw, Prague Branch

Adéla Gjuričová, Institute for Contemporary History, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague

Ladislav Jackson, Society for Queer Memory, Prague

Věra Sokolová, Faculty of Humanities, Charles University, Prague

Einreichungsfrist: 10. Januar 2024

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