Christopher Dillon

This will be a lovely event tomorrow! Come, all!

The #1 lesson from yesterday’s blowout:
Humanities majors killed on the job market
1) Mamdani- Africana Studies
2) Spanberger -French
3) Sherill - Global History

Episode 4 of 'Glimpses of German History' is now LIVE!

In this episode @profpanayi.bsky.social shows us a picture book depicting the work of German missionaries in nineteenth century India.

Check out the video on our YouTube channel here: youtu.be/IPHH-uPr8KA

We very much look forward to this year's seminar papers! Please join us @ihr.bsky.social for the Modern German History research seminar 2025-26.

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For this year's programme, please see below

Travelling exhibition - Finding Ivy: A Life Worthy of Life - The Wiener Holocaust Library This important travelling exhibition tells the stories of disabled British-born victims of Nazi persecution in the wider context of the Nazis’ T4 ‘euthanasia’ programme. It features previous unseen…

📣 Launching next week!

This important travelling exhibition tells the stories of British-born victims of Nazi persecution in the wider context of the Nazis’ T4 euthanasia programme, featuring previously unseen materials from Schloss Hartheim memorial and The Wiener Holocaust Library

If you feel the need to do something in the wake of the Manchester attack why not donate to the Community Security Trust, the organisation that works to keep jews in Britain safe

cst.org.uk/donate-now

Eric D Weitz, Weimar Germany: Promise and Tragedy (2009) is super-readable

Remembering the black history of Weimar Berlin - The Berliner Three Cameroonian Berliners from a century ago were key figures in Berlin's black history, remembered for their fight for self-determination.

Remembering the black history of Weimar Berlin: www.the-berliner.com/politics/bla...

Learn about Sport in History Learn about Sport in History aims & scope, editorial board, journal metrics and more.

Welcome to the Bluesky page for the Sport in History journal, the official journal of @bssh.bsky.social that covers all eras & contexts of sports history.

If you want to find out more about the journal or submit a piece, please check our website:

www.tandfonline.com/journals/rsi...

We're excited to announce the line-up of speakers for our upcoming GHIL Autumn/Winter Lecture Series! 📣

We're kicking off our lecture programme on 21 October with a lecture by Benno Gammerl (European University Institute) on 'Queering German History: Still a Vital and Viable Endeavour?'! 📅
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Siemens on Wessel, too

Lecture title, speaker name, and lecture time/date/location info on a poster, all of which is available on the website for the event.

QR code for the online registration for those interested attending via zoom.

UBC Queer and Trans German Studies is hosting Andrea Rottmann (FU Berlin) as the next Tobin Distinguished Lecture in Queer and Trans German Studies! The event will take place in person at UBC as well as online. We would be grateful if you could pass the announcement on to your networks.

Publications by Non-Tenure-Track Historians Since we began publishing in 2019, Contingent has published end-of-year lists of books and articles by non-tenure-track historians released in the past calendar year. To submit something for inclusion...

Each year, we publish lists of books, journal articles, and chapters published by historians working off the tenure track. It's never too early to start collecting, so if you or someone you know has something with a 2025 publication date to submit, have at it!

There's just over two weeks left to register for #GermanHistSoc2025 !!
On our website you'll also find accommodation and dinner registration links so check it out soon!

www.germanhistorysoc...

🎓 We're delighted to announce the new Doctoral School for Arts & Humanities here @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social

The new school is a major investment into the postgraduate research environment for the arts and humanities by King's.

Read more👇

www.kcl.ac.uk/news/kings-l...

Book cover for Jonah Garde's "Trans* Geschichten der Moderne »Geschlechtsumwandlung« im 20. Jahrhundert und ihre kolonialen Geister." The figure of a ghostly apparition floats behind the text against a dark background.

It is out! @jonahgarde.bsky.social's magnificent and field-defining book. A good way to support this fab project and amazing scholar is to acquire the book for your personal or institutional library. You'll notice it is also available open access.

www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-7...

We're hiring for two 12-month lecturing jobs at King's History ---

History of political thought, especially focusing on Indian & anticolonial perspectives: my.corehr.com/pls/kclrecru...

& early American history: my.corehr.com/pls/kclrecru...

CfP: Queer Lives & Trans* Formations: Reimagining Weimar Germany’s LGBTQ+ Histories and Cultures, an online conference that I have co-organized with Cedar Lensing-Sharp! Deadline for submissions: 30 August 2025! Keynotes from @manwithoutatan.bsky.social @jonahgarde.bsky.social & Camilla Smith!

Did the GREAT CRASH of 1929 really propel HITLER into power??

Historian of the Third Reich, Dr. @drcrdillon.bsky.social from King's College London clarifies once and for all🎙️ 👇🏻

YT:
youtu.be/W9zlZjtrWM8

Spotify:
open.spotify.com/show/3vwsz3S...

Apple:
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...

#ww2

So happy that our piece with @ankahajkova.bsky.social—"Teaching Eastern Europe in the Age of Russia’s Imperial Invasions: A Conversation on Being Postcolonial When No One Takes Any Notice"—is finally out in @historyworkshop.org.uk

academic.oup.com/hwj/advance-...

The Wandering Jew is going up north! The travelling exhibition will be on display at HCN 12th May - 30th June, launched with a conversation on the Holocaust context of the legend and origins of 'Der ewige Jude'
@parkesinstitute.bsky.social @germanhistsoc.bsky.social @newgenerationgroup.bsky.social

Check out our website now for the CFP and details of how to send us your abstract!

We're excited to be heading to @lborouniversity.bsky.social, and welcome papers on ALL periods and topics relating to the history of the German speaking world

www.germanhistorysociety.org/2025/04/18/g...

Palestinian Scholarship

Please share in your networks. Goldsmiths, UoL are offering 5 scholarships in Undergrad & MA courses for Palestinian students. The scholarships include: tuition fee waiver, £19,550 allowance, return trip to & from the UK.
Eligibility details & further info at link👇🏽
www.gold.ac.uk/fees-funding...

Join us for IHR@Sheffield!

Frank Trentmann (Birkbeck) speaks on "Complicity, Conscience and Compassion: History and Morality in Germany since the Second World War"

The lecture will take place at the University of Sheffield on Wednesday, 30 April, at 4:15pm.

Save the date, more details to follow

Oof choked to hear that, Rob. FUBAR. Sending solidarity

The GHS has numerous funding opportunities and awards available throughout the year for PGRs and ECRs. The deadline for some of them is fast approaching!

Check out the following 🧵 for more details:

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We have two events coming up next week!

Isabella Löhr's lecture "The Birth of the Refugee Figure in the 1970s" (25 Mar, GHI London, 5:30pm)

and
Tim Grady's talk on "Travelling as a Culture of Reconciliation: Britain, Germany and the Enemy War Dead" (26 Mar, IHR London, 5:30pm)

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Heute Abend eröffnen wir im Historischen Museum Bayreuth die von Studierenden aus Bayreuth und Wuppertal erarbeitete Ausstellung "Leben im Umbruch" zu den Anfangsjahren der Weimarer Republik! www.historisches-museum-bayreuth.de

Our best hope is that he finally vanishes in a puff of vanity

Doesn’t changing the constitution require a 2/3 supermajority in Congress? Surely even this crop of Dems could manage to vote No