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@janakeck.bsky.social

Research Fellow and Head of Digital History at the German Historical Institute Washington. #digitalhumanities #digitalhistory #americanstudies #thoughtsaremyown

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I really enjoyed our panel. Didi's and my paper both explored the characteristics and "usefulness" of fictional and fabricated sources and emphasized that Jewish history is also part of German-American history. Many thanks to @drjanaweiss.bsky.social for providing the comment! #migrationhistory

02.10.2025 15:29 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
History of Tariffs Professors Douglas Irwin (Dartmouth College), Sharon Ann Murphy (Providence College), and Eric Rauchway (University of California, Davis) discussed how the federal government historically has implemen...

Watch the AHA’s Congressional Briefing on the history of tariffs on C-SPAN. Panelists @douglasirwin.bsky.social, @sharonannmurphy.bsky.social, & @rauchway.bsky.social discussed how the government has implemented tariffs in the past & how they have impacted the economy. πŸ—ƒοΈ

01.08.2025 17:03 β€” πŸ‘ 19    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 2
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What a fantastic conference! Thanks to @danstein2025.bsky.social and his team for organizing #dgfa2025. And many many thanks to @drjanaweiss.bsky.social for organizing our roundtable on German-American archives which explored the value of ethnic archives and linking different digital collections.

14.06.2025 15:47 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

@petertevans.bsky.social sorry you had to miss it! But I am happy that I could at least provide some visual material for you :)

14.06.2025 15:39 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Last up is Torsten Roeder with a talk on "Greening DH" elaborating on DH and its struggle of depending on computers, computing, and infrastructures which, however, is one of the big drivers of climate change. Is DH actually sustainable in itself? #efficiency #sufficiency #consistency #solarcomputing

13.06.2025 08:24 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Followed by @sarahalang.bsky.social's talk on "Empowerment:" DH does not have a gender problem, but an underrepresentation of feminized topics. Feminized labor remains undervalued (in academia). Let's focus more on making labor visible by e.g. recognizing datasheets as valuable research outcomes.

13.06.2025 08:24 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Second day of "Disciplinary Transformations" by @chnunn.bsky.social starts with the "Dark Sides of DH." First up was AlΓ­z HorvΓ‘th showing us the multilingual transformations of DH over the last few years. We are more multilingual than we think! #multilingualism #multilinguality

13.06.2025 08:24 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

#letstalkabouttheory! @tesstess.bsky.social explores how theory has become more visible in DH. BUT, it was never absent. #thingsareinmotion

12.06.2025 13:26 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Christof SchΓΆch kicks off with reflections on 10 years of DHd. Institutionally, DH is a discipline. BUT in practice, it’s more complex.

12.06.2025 08:19 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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@chnunn.bsky.social opens our conference β€žDisciplinary Transformations?β€œ We will discuss how H have impacted DH. @uniheidelberg.bsky.social

12.06.2025 07:36 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

Just a few more days to apply for our conference, "Rebuild or Retreat." Recent events across Europe (record heatwaves, widespread floods) and the U.S. (27 individual weather and climate disasters at least $1 billion in damages in 2024) underscore the urgency of climate migration and mobility. πŸ‘‡

10.06.2025 13:03 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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What’s the relevance of the rule of law in the past and present of democracy?

Reminder: Join the 5th panel in the Historians on Democracy series:
June 3
11 AM EST / 17 CET

πŸŽ™ Featuring:
Deborah Gonzalez
Benjamin C. Hett
Mohamed Camara
Samuel Miner
Ute Frevert

30.05.2025 16:12 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 2
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#CfA Internships @ghiwashington.bsky.social

πŸ“Œ at GHI Washington | for students of history, political science, public relations or public administration | three-month stay is preferred

Deadline: July 31, 2025

πŸ”— www.maxweberstiftung...

#Praktikum #Auslandspraktikum #Internship #StudyAbroad

16.05.2025 08:20 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Photograph of Lauren Rever (at front of picture, in red shirt) leading a zine-making workshop during the digital history conference, an activity to provide time for unstructured creativity after long days of conferencing

Photograph of Lauren Rever (at front of picture, in red shirt) leading a zine-making workshop during the digital history conference, an activity to provide time for unstructured creativity after long days of conferencing

Lauren Rever, the 2024/2025 @gerda-henkel-stiftung.de Digital History Fellow, recently wrote a post for the @rrchnm.bsky.social news blog reflecting on our March conference on "Real-Time History": rrchnm.org/news/report-...

20.05.2025 16:32 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Poster for the German Historical Institute Washington lecture series "Poverty in the Twentieth Century."

Poster for the German Historical Institute Washington lecture series "Poverty in the Twentieth Century."

"From the Margins: Poverty in Divided and United Germany," the last lecture in our spring lecture series, "Poverty in the 20th Century," takes place on June 12. We look forward to welcoming Christoph Lorke to share perceptions of poverty in East & West Germany: www.ghi-dc.org/events/event...

22.05.2025 15:52 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Deadline extended to June 8, 2025! The workshop @ghiwashington.bsky.social will bring scholars to discuss the use of audio[visual] sources and the development of innovative methodologies for their study and dissemination. #migrationhistory #digitalhistory

29.05.2025 15:13 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Our event β€œResilience and Resistance in Fragile Democracies” is taking place tonight; we’ll be sharing the recording in the future: www.ghi-dc.org/events/event...

27.05.2025 22:13 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I have similar experiences with our interns. They became part of our daily business, our team, leave after three months and I feel like these repetitive good-byes are really heartbreaking.

29.05.2025 15:08 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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I'm so excited about the upcoming conference β€žDisciplinary Transformations?" at @uniheidelberg.bsky.social, (June 12–13) by @chnunn.bsky.social and Natalie Rauscher exploring how the humanities have influenced the DH and its growing body of sub-disciplines: lnkd.in/ebV9jARa #DHTransformations

27.05.2025 19:19 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

Time is flying! Last presentation of the day and this workshop 😒 @miriamposner.com gives us a tour through the world of humanities data, capta, demarcation, and classification schemes - asking: What does data demand? #digitalhumanities #categorization

20.05.2025 21:45 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Presenting today with my DC crew from @librarycongress.bsky.social, @smithsonianmag.bsky.social, @ushmm.bsky.social and @ghiwashington.bsky.social on β€œAI in LAM.” #aiintheloop

20.05.2025 19:11 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

And super happy to finally meet @bcgl.bsky.social and @miriamposner.com in person :)

19.05.2025 21:56 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Together with colleagues from GLAM, political science, history, literary and media studies, DH, and more, we are tackling questions about AI, memory, representation, opportunities, failures, vibes, datafication of people, emotions, documentation debts, dimensions of scale, and distant witnessing.

19.05.2025 21:56 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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AI and the Future of Holocaust Research & Memory: A Public Symposium Please mark your calendars for Tuesday, May 20, 9 a.m.-5 p.m., for a public symposium on AI and the Future of Holocaust Research & Memory, to be held i...

"AI-in-the-loop": truly grateful to be part of this workshop "AI and the Future of Holocaust Research and Memory" - at the @ischool.uw.edu, org. by @bcgl.bsky.social, @toddpresner.bsky.social, UCLA, and Robert Ehrenreich, @ushmm.bsky.social. ischool.uw.edu/events/2025/...

19.05.2025 21:56 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

You might want to consider submitting an abstract for our upcoming conference again reading this today: "The States reported the highest figure with 11 million disaster-related movements, nearly a quarter of the global total, mostly the result of major hurricanes that led to mass evacuations".

13.05.2025 10:59 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

CFP: Rebuild or Retreat? Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Climate Migration and Mobility in the Global North

https://www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-154881

Washington, 23.04.2026-24.04.2026, Jana Dunz-Keck (GHI Washington) and Sarah Beringer (GHI Washington), Simon Richter (University of …

02.05.2025 21:17 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 2

CFP: Climate Change, Climate Crisis: Canadian Perspectives

https://www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-154314

Tutzing, 20.02.2026-22.02.2026, Gesellschaft fΓΌr Kanada-Studien e.V., Bewerbungsschluss: 26.05.2025

04.05.2025 21:14 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

CFP: Imperial Legacies? (Dis)continuities and Comparisons between Colonialism and Nazi Rule

https://www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-154892

Washington, 28.05.2026-29.05.2026, German Historical Institute Washington; University College Dublin, Bewerbungsschluss: 01.07.2025

05.05.2025 17:27 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

CFP: Geschichtsdidaktische Herausforderungen im Umgang mit dem deutschen Kolonialismus

https://www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-154930

Aachen, 09.02.2026-10.02.2026, Arbeitskreis Welt- und globalgeschichtliche Perspektiven im Geschichtsunterricht, Konferenz fΓΌr Geschichtsdidaktik; Fachbereich …

06.05.2025 17:15 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

CFP: Sozialdaten in der Zeitgeschichte

https://www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-154956

Bad Homburg, 16.03.2026-17.03.2026, AG Sozialdaten und Zeitgeschichte; Werner-Reimers-Stiftung, Bewerbungsschluss: 30.09.2025

07.05.2025 18:12 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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