History of Knowledge

Shoes and Guns from Batawa: Refugees from Czechoslovakia, Knowledge Transfers, and Canadian Immigration from the late 1930s to the 1940s - Migrant Knowledge Describes circumstances of a group of Czech refugees in Canada during WWII to analyze knowledge transfers through migration .

Please see the new post on our sister blog @migknow.bsky.social, written by co-founder @swensteinberg.bsky.social, curated by @ghiwashington.bsky.social of the @maxweberstiftung.de: migrantknowledge.org/2025/07/17/s...

Refugees' Counter-Knowledge: Resisting Stereotypes, Becoming Political - Migrant Knowledge Based on fieldwork, Harbisch highlights refugees' strategies for asserting their own knowledge about themselves.

See the new post on our sister blog @migknow.bsky.social, about #refugees and their political agency.
migrantknowledge.org/2025/06/20/r...

Knowledge Notes Occasional notes on calls, events, publications, and more that caught our attention. Please email us your own items. Job Opening Lund University: Associate Senior Lecturer in Global History of Knowled...

We have a new Knowledge Notes post. See especially @swensteinberg.bsky.social's panel on June 24 and Lund University's opening for a senior lecturer, application deadline August 17: historyofknowledge.hypotheses.org/26169

Assistant Professor (Associate Senior Lecturer) at the Joint Faculties of Humanities & Theology, Lund University We are looking for an up-and-coming researcher who wants to conduct pioneering research to take up a position as Assistant Professor at the Joint Faculties of Humanities and Theology, Lund University.

There is a job listing in the history of knowledge! Please see the listing at ‪@lund-university.bsky.social, Sweden: lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

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See the upcoming online discussion organized by @migknow.bsky.social members of possible interest to our readers: (June 24): Lost Knowledge and Migration: Eliyana R. Adler, Susanne Korbel, Angelika Laumer and Matteo Sartori
5-6 PM (CET)
www.ghi-dc.org/events/event... @ghiwashington.bsky.social

Anthropological Reflection on the Memories and Mobility of the Mapuche-Tehuelche People in the Andes Mountains - Migrant Knowledge Analyzes collective memories about displacements of the Mapuche-Tehuelche people (Patagonia) concerning state borders and the nation-state.

Please see the new blogpost on our sister blog @migknow.bsky.social curated by @ghiwashington.bsky.social of the @maxweberstiftung.de: migrantknowledge.org/2025/04/14/a...

Knowledge and Organization of Guard Dogs in the Nazi Concentration Camps: The Hundestaffeln In March 1943, six Russian prisoners of war escaped from a factory in Neustadt where they had been forced to work. To recapture them, the German authorities dispatched SS-Untersturmführer Koermann and...

Check out our new post today by @barnabasbalint.bsky.social of @ushmm.bsky.social and formerly of @magdalenoxford.bsky.social of @ox.ac.uk on dog squads at concentration camps. @ghiwashington.bsky.social @maxweberstiftung.de @hefnu.bsky.social: historyofknowledge.hypotheses.org/26040