German Historical Institute Washington

LA folks: join us Wednesday at 4 PM at USC's Max Kade Institute for Dorothee Wierling on the Rise of Right-Wing Populism in Eastern Germany

Das Plakat für den Call for Papers.

#CfP Experiencing the Borders: The Long 1940s and Their Legacies in (Eastern) Europe

📌 #Conference in #Lviv | 16-18 September 2026 | organised by @rcu-mws-ukraine.bsky.social, #CenterForUrbanHistoryLviv, @crh.ehess.fr and more

📅 Deadline: 20 April 2026

🔗 www.maxweberstiftung...

Excellent Finding Aids online for preparing an application for a GHI Research Fellowship or just checking their holdings.

www.germansociety.org/horner-library

Poster for the Gerda Henkel Stiftung 2026 lecture tour by Dorothee Wierling (Hamburg University), presenting "The German Blues: A Historian's Perspective on the Rise of Right-Wing Populism in Eastern Germany," listing upcoming dates: March 4, Max Kade Institute for Austrian-German-Swiss Studies (USC); March 6, University of Colorado, Boulder; March 10, UC Berkeley; March 12, UC San Diego.

Next week our 2026 Gerda Henkel Lecture Tour begins! We look forward to welcoming Dorothee Wierling to present "The German Blues: A Historian’s Perspective on the Rise of Right-Wing Populism in Eastern Germany." Further information here: www.ghi-dc.org/events/event...

Die Bibliothek des DHI Warschau mit Regalen voller Bücher.

#CfP Asynchronous Histories Summer School

📌 #SummerSchool from 31 August - 4 September 2026 | in #Warsaw | for #PhDStudents, #MasterStudents and #Postdocs in #Humanities and #SocialSciences | organised by #GHIWarsaw, #UniversityOfWarsaw & more

📅 Deadline: May 31 2026

🔗www.maxweberstiftung...

YouTube video by Max Kade Institute for German-American Studies German Americans and the Founding of the United States

The recording of Dr. Emily Sneff's talk "German Americans and the Founding of the United States" is now available online! The lecture looks back at how supporters like Mary Ludwig Hays—better remembered as Molly Pitcher—shaped the unfolding of the American Revolution: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jO_...

Apply now for our Horner Library fellowships, which fund research at the German Society of Pennsylvania's unparalleled collections on German-American culture and history. Deadline: March 15; more information at www.ghi-dc.org/programs/fel...

📣 CEH is now on LinkedIn!

Head on over and give us a follow for the journal's latest updates and long-form posts!

👉 www.linkedin.com/company/cont...

Auf einem Tisch liegt ein Notizbuch und ein Kugelschreiber.

#CfP AI through History, History through AI

📌#Conference on #DigitalHumanities and #DigitalHistory | 15-16 June 2026 | at University of #Luxembourg @uni.lu | focus on #AI and #HistoryOfSimulation | Co-Conveners @ghiwashington.bsky.social & more

📅Deadline: 1 March 2026

🔗 www.maxweberstiftung...

Photograph of GHI Washington Director Ulrike von Hirschhausen

Tomorrow (Feb. 19) at @ucberkeleyies.bsky.social GHI Director Ulrike von Hirschhausen will give a public lecture titled "Spaces of Contested Statehood: A Legacy of Empire.” To register to attend, please visit: www.ghi-dc.org/events/event...

Doctoral and Postdoctoral Research Fellowships @ghiwashington.bsky.social! Information here: www.ghi-dc.org/programs/doc...

Now available in paperback: “Citizens into Dishonored Felons” by Timon de Groot, part of our @berghahnbooks.bsky.social Studies in German History book series!

Copies arrived: special issue on "Violence and Social Inequalities" in "Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaft" I've edited with Raphael Rössel @ghiwashington.bsky.social - with articles by Sophia Dafinger, Darius Muschiol and @christopherewing.bsky.social

metropol-verlag.de/produkt/zeit...

📣There's still time! Only one week left until the application deadline for participating in seminars at the GSA conference this year.

⏰Applications due on February 18 at 11:59 pm (PT) ⏰

See our website for the list of seminars and apply via the Open Water portal:
👉 thegsa.org/blog/cfa-gsa...

The GHI Washington is saddened to learn of the passing of Professor Zohar Shavit of Tel Aviv University, who partnered with us in our project "Innovation through Tradition," and send our condolences to her family, friends, and colleagues. Learn more about the project here: jewishtrad.hypotheses.org

Happening tonight! Online talk by Dr. Emily Sneff on “German Americans and the Founding of the United States”… register here to attend: uwmadison.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Challenging “Racelessness:” Debates and Restrictions on Immigration in Postwar Switzerland Discusses deportation practices in Switzerland since World War II

New on our Migrant Knowledge blog @ghiwashington.bsky.social: Nicolas Blumenthal @unifr.bsky.social wrote about "Challenging 'Racelessness:' Debates and Restrictions on Immigration in Postwar Switzerland"

migrantknowledge.hypotheses.org/33179

Hätte ich das mal eher gewusst …mit Helena Friedrich Schwinghammer Kannst Du in drei Sätzen Dein Projekt vorstellen und sagen, was speziell der digitale Anteil daran war? Das Vogtland war bis zur Deindustrialisierung eine Region, die lange von weiblicher Arbeit in de...

Happy Love Data Week! Check out our talk with Helena Friedrich Schwinghammer about using a dataset from the 1980s to answer new questions about deindustrialization in Germany, part of our @vhdonline.bsky.social "Hätte ich das mal eher gewusst…” interview series href.hypotheses.org/5722 #LoveData26

The Migrant Knowledge blog has a new location! You can now find it at migrantknowledge.hypotheses.org, complete with an archive of all of the site's past blogposts.

Are you an emerging scholar seeking to share your research with a wider audience? @conteurohistory.bsky.social has a new blog called "New Voices" that highlights research by advanced grad students + early career on European history 1914-present. Submit your work! tinyurl.com/2s45996j

Portrait of GHI Washington Director Ulrike von Hirschhausen

GHI Director Ulrike von Hirschhausen will be giving a public lecture on "Spaces of Contested Statehood: A Legacy of Empire" at @ucberkeleyies.bsky.social on Thursday, February 19th. Registration details are available here: www.ghi-dc.org/events/event...

We are now accepting manuscripts for consideration for the 2027 Franz Steiner Prize! The prize is awarded every two years to an outstanding work of historical scholarship in the field of North American studies or transatlantic relations. Application details here: www.ghi-dc.org/programs/fra...

Challenging “Racelessness:” Debates and Restrictions on Immigration in Postwar Switzerland Discusses deportation practices in Switzerland since World War II

New blogpost by Nicolas Blumenthal of Univ. Fribourg and former @ghiwashington.bsky.social fellowship recipient on Swiss immigration laws and claims of racelessness in the postwar decades: migrantknowledge.hypotheses.org/33179

#OpenAccess! THE MAKING OF MODERN EATING: How the German Middle Class Forged the Way We Eat, 1780-1910 by Claudia Kreklau @claudiakreklau.bsky.social has now been published.

Find out more: bit.ly/4jRtWMc

#History #FoodStudies

The relaunched German History in Documents and Images can be found here: germanhistorydocs.org

Zwischen Forschung und Vermittlung: Digitale Quellenarbeit am Deutschen Historischen Institut in Washington Screenshot der German History in Documents and Images Website (GHDI). German History in Documents and Images. URL: https://germanhistorydocs.org/ (Abgerufen am 27. Januar 2026). Foto: Lena Essifi, © G...

Our @germanhistorydocs.bsky.social colleague Insa Kummer was recently interviewed about her role managing the German History in Documents and Images project — check out the conversation here: www.historischer-augenblick.de/dhi-washingt...

For further details, please visit: www.ghi-dc.org/events/event...

Card announcing the online lecture "German Americans and the Founding of the United States," taking place on Thursday, February 12 at 7 p.m. Eastern time

Join us online on February 12 for the event "German Americans and the Founding of the United States," a lecture by Dr. Emily Sneff presented in partnership with the Max Kade Institute (University of Wisconsin-Madison) and the German Society of Pennsylvania uwmadison.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

The cover of the book shows a fork and spoon. Four QR codes lead to the free pdf, epub and kindle, as well as the hardback. President of the AHA Suzanne Marchand endorses the book.

It is out, everyone! 🎉

My book "The Making of Modern Eating" is out with
@berghahnbooks.bsky.social and the
@ghiwashington.bsky.social!

The digital versions are free—so download, share and enjoy! 📚

@thegsa.bsky.social @germanhistsoc.bsky.social @cas-umn.bsky.social @ceuropeanhistory.bsky.social

Aufgeschlagenes Buch mit einem Stift darauf und einem weiteren aufgeschlagenen Buch im Vordergrund vor einem Bücherregal

#CfP | Flight, Exile and Emigration in Germany’s Age of Extremes: Biographical Perspectives

📌 International #workshop at Georgetown University in #WashingtonDC | organized by the @ghiwashington.bsky.social | 08-09 October 2026

📅 Deadline: March 1, 2026

🔗 www.ghi-dc.org/event...