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Yesterday & today we've been holding our annual Fellows’ Symposium, one of the rare moments when our whole research community gathers together, featuring dynamic presentations and conversations across global, European, & American history and showcasing the breadth of research the GHI supports.

Entre América y el mundo | E-Book | Online kaufen Entre América y el mundo: Actores, ideas y circulaciones, siglos XVI a XX ✔ E-Book von Antonio Ibarra, Stefan Rinke, Carlos Riojas ✔ Open Access (PDF) ✔ 228 S. ➤ Online kaufen bei Herder.de!

Congratulations to former Visiting Fellow Karina Kriegesmann on publishing a new study of the Emergency Committee to Aid Latin American Scholars, based in part on research conducted at our Pacific Office. Available in #OpenAccess: www.herder.de/wissen/shop/...

#CfP Transformation of Heritage, Heritage of Transformation. Political Change and its Impact on Synagogues 📌 #Conference in #Lithuania at #KlaipedaUniversity | 12/10-14/10/2026 | organised by #DHIWarsaw, #KlaipedaUniversity and #BetTfila 📝 Deadline: 31/01/2026 🔗https://www.maxweberstiftung.de/aktuelles/ausschreibungen/einzelansicht-calls/call-for-papers-transformation-of-heritage-heritage-of-transformation-political-change-and-its-impact-on-synagogues.html

#CfP Transformation of Heritage, Heritage of Transformation. Political Change and its Impact on Synagogues

📌 #Conference in #Lithuania at #KlaipedaUniversity | 12/10-14/10/2026 | organised by #DHIWarsaw, #KlaipedaUniversity and #BetTfila

📝 Deadline: 31/01/2026

🔗www.maxweberstiftung...

Between Mirador and Washington: Carl Sartorius and His Collaboration with the Smithsonian Institution - Migrant Knowledge Explores the scientific work of Carl Sartorius and his Veracruz plantation, a center of nineteenth-century transatlantic scientific exchange.

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New on our Migrant Knowledge blog @ghiwashington.bsky.social: Andreas Markus Schurr @eui-eu.bsky.social wrote about "Between Mirador and Washington: Carl Sartorius and His Collaboration with the Smithsonian Institution"

migrantknowledge.org/2025/11/28/c...

Screenshot from the “Queer Philly Mapping Project” by Max Gaida

We spoke with current Visting Fellow Max Gaida about his project “From Red Light to Rainbow: The Politics of Sex and Space in Philadelphia’s Urban Crises. Read our interview here: www.ghi-dc.org/news-show/in...

Cover of the book "A History of India's Green Revolution: Reign of Technocracy," by Prakash Kumar (Pennsylvania State University)

Congratulations to former Visiting Fellow Prakash Kumar (history & Asian Studies, Penn State) on the publication of his monograph "A History of India's Green Revolution: Reign of Technocracy" (@universitypress.cambridge.org, 2025)! www.cambridge.org/core/books/h...

As ever, you can also find in our Bulletin reports on our conferences plus news from the GHI and about our fellowship programs and future events

Our final article, by @juergendinkel.bsky.social, "Acknowledgments: A History of Academic Gratitude," traces this paratext's history from early modern panegyrics through 19th century reticence to the rise of subjective & expansive acknowledgments since the 1990s. PDF: www.ghi-dc.org/filea...

“The Challenge of German Histories: An American Retrospective” is taken from Konrad H. Jarausch's 2024 Feldman Memorial Lecture and presents his reflections on the field of German history, drawing on his decades of research & teaching on both sides of the Atlantic. PDF: www.ghi-dc.org/filea...

Cover image: Photograph of Sigmund Freud behind his desk, photo by Edmund Engelman from "Berggasse 19: Sigmund Freud’s Home and Offices" (New York: Basic Books, 1976).

“The Power of Photobooks: Crafting (Jewish) History from Below” by Steven Weiss Samols, winner of the GHI's 2024 Stern Dissertation Prize, examines how Jewish photographers, writers, & publishers used the photobook to celebrate difference and contest antisemitism. PDF: www.ghi-dc.org/filea...

Caption: Film still from "Der alte und der junge König," directed by Hans Steinhoff, 1935. The scene shows Emil Jannings as Frederick William I and Werner Hinz as Crown Prince Frederick.

"On the Logic of Autocracy and the Plasticity of History: The Case of Frederick William I, King of Prussia," by Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger, draws on her biography in preparation & examines how a monarch seen as a classic tyrant was transformed into a heroic figure. PDF: www.ghi-dc.org/filea...

Photograph of four men in business attire smiling as their picture is taken. Caption: The “Four Wise Men” [Randolph Burgess, Sir Paul Gore-Booth, Bernard Clappier, and Xenophon Zolotas] visiting the Organisation for European Economic Co-operation, March 1960. © OECD

"After Life: The Legacy of Discontinued International Organizations in the Twentieth Century" presents Kiran Klaus Patel's 2024 annual lecture at the GHI, which examined the question “What happens when international organizations die?” Available in PDF format here: www.ghi-dc.org/filea...

Cover of the GHI Fall 2025 bulletin, featuring a photograph of Sigmund Freud behind his desk, photo by Edmund Engelman from "Berggasse 19: Sigmund Freud’s Home and Offices" (New York: Basic Books, 1976).

Our Fall 2025 Bulletin (issue #76) is now online! The full issue is available in #OpenAccess here: www.ghi-dc.org/publi.... Some highlights of this issue include:

Die auf dem letzten Historikertag von @kdstahl.bsky.social
und Andreas Greiner @ghiwashington.bsky.social organisierte Sektion „Luftkrieg, Recht und Macht“ mit @janinefunke.bsky.social und annakferl.bsky.social kann das Forschungsgespräch nun bei HSozKult nachlesen: www.hsozkult.de/conferencere...

CfP: Citizen Practices in Producing and Preserving the Past Call for papers for an international conference hosted by the C²DH on 11 and 12 May 2026.

Who produces history, and under what conditions?
⏱️ Only a few days left to submit your proposal
#cfp #PublicHistory #citizenscience #heritage
www.uni.lu/c2dh-en/news...

📰 In der neusten Ausgabe unseres Forschungsmagazin #WeltweitVorOrt haben wir mit der Historikerin Viola Alianov-Rautenberg vom @ghiwashington.bsky.social über die Rolle von Kontrafakturen in der jüdischen Emigrationsgeschichte gesprochen. 🔗 Jetzt lesen unter https://www.maxweberstiftung.de/magazin.html

📰 In der neusten Ausgabe unseres Forschungsmagazin #WeltweitVorOrt haben wir mit der Historikerin Viola Alianov-Rautenberg vom @ghiwashington.bsky.social über die Rolle von Kontrafakturen in der jüdischen Emigrationsgeschichte gesprochen.

🔗 Jetzt lesen unter www.maxweberstiftung...

Appropriately for the Thanksgiving holiday here in the U.S., among the pieces in this issue of the Bulletin you'll also find "Acknowledgments: A History of Academic Gratitude," by Jürgen Dinkel. 🙏 The complete issue is available in #OpenAccess on our website: www.ghi-dc.org/publication/...

Cover image: Photograph of Sigmund Freud behind his desk, photo by Edmund Engelman from "Berggasse 19: Sigmund Freud’s Home and Offices" (New York: Basic Books, 1976).

The newest issue of our Bulletin has just been published! The contents cover the full range of our research interests, from early modern German history to interwar Jewish history to 20th-century international history. Find the complete issue online: ghi-dc.org/publication/...

Excited to share that we’re hiring! We are now accepting applications for two full-time Research Fellow positions in modern/contemporary history in Washington, to begin in June 2026. More details available here: www.ghi-dc.org/news-show/tw...

#CfP Environments and Societies at the Crossroads: Socio-Environmental Justice in Europe and the Americas in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries 📌 #Workshop at #UCBerkeley | 16/11-17/11/2026 | organised by @ghiwashington.bsky.social 📝 Deadline: 16/01/2026 🔗https://www.maxweberstiftung.de/aktuelles/ausschreibungen/einzelansicht-calls/call-for-papers-environments-and-societies-at-the-crossroads-socio-environmental-justice-in-europe-and-the-americas-in-the-nineteenth-and-twentieth-centuries.html

#CfP Environments and Societies at the Crossroads: Socio-Environmental Justice in Europe and the Americas in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

📌 #Workshop at #UCBerkeley | 16/11-17/11/2026 | organised by @ghiwashington.bsky.social

📝 Deadline: 16/01/2026

🔗www.maxweberstiftung...

#CfP 31st Transatlantic Doctoral Seminar: German History from the 18th Century to the Present 📌 #Seminar at #UCBerkeley | 16/06-18/06/2026 | organised by @cgesgeorgetown.bsky.social and @ghiwashington.bsky.social 📝 Deadline: 31/12/2026 🔗https://www.maxweberstiftung.de/aktuelles/ausschreibungen/einzelansicht-calls/call-for-papers-31st-transatlantic-doctoral-seminar-german-history-from-the-18th-century-to-the-present.html

#CfP 31st Transatlantic Doctoral Seminar: German History from the 18th Century to the Present

📌 #Seminar at #UCBerkeley | 16/06-18/06/2026 | organised by @cgesgeorgetown.bsky.social and @ghiwashington.bsky.social

📝 Deadline: 31/12/2026

🔗www.maxweberstiftung...

Happening tomorrow!

Sign up here to join us in person or online: www.lse.ac.uk/Internationa...

#colonialhistory #skystorians

Cover der neuen Ausgabe "Weltweit vor Ort" zum Schwerpunkt Musik. Mit diesen Artikeln: Musik erzählt eine andere Seite DHI Washington Über den sakralen Raum hinaus DHI London Einen Mythos entzaubern DHI Rom Corpus Musicae Ottomanicae und die Wiederentdeckung osmanischer Kunstmusik OI Istanbul

Frisch erschienen: #WeltweitVorOrt zur #Musikforschung in der MWS 🎶 Von jüdischen Kontrafakturen bis zur osmanischen Kunstmusik.
🔗 Hier geht's zum #ePaper: publish.flyeralarm.digital/weltweit-vor...

@ghiwashington.bsky.social @ghilondon.bsky.social @dhiroma.bsky.social

Poster advertising the event "The German Audience for the U.S. Declaration of Independence," a talk by Dr. Emily Sneff, hosted by the Horner Library of the German Society of Pennsylvania and taking place online on Thursday, November 20th at 7 PM Eastern Time.

Looking forward to tomorrow's online talk by Emily Sneff, "The German Audience for the U.S. Declaration of Independence," co-sponsored with the German Society of Pennsylvania & the Max Kade Institute for German-American Studies. Registration info here: germansociety.app.neoncrm.com/nx/portal/ne...

We are now accepting nominations for our 2025 Fritz Stern Dissertation Prize, awarded for the best doctoral dissertation on a topic in German history written at a North American university. Information about the application process is available here: www.ghi-dc.org/programs/fri...

#CfP International Summer School “Innovative Perspectives on Holocaust Research: Sources, Method, and Digital Tools” 📌 #Workshop and #Seminar in #Warsaw | 05-10/07/2026 | organised by #DHIWarsaw, #PolishCenterforHolocaustResearch and more 📝 Deadline: 30/11/2025 🔗https://www.maxweberstiftung.de/aktuelles/ausschreibungen/einzelansicht-calls/call-for-papers-international-summer-school-innovative-perspectives-on-holocaust-research-sources-method-and-digital-tools-dhi-warschau.html

#CfP International Summer School “Innovative Perspectives on Holocaust Research: Sources, Method, and Digital Tools”

📌 #Workshop and #Seminar in #Warsaw | 05-10/07/2026 | organised by #DHIWarsaw, #PolishCenterforHolocaustResearch and others

📝 Deadline: 30/11/2025

🔗www.maxweberstiftung...

We are now accepting Visiting Fellowship applications (6–12 months) for the 2026–27 academic year! Learn about our research areas and how to apply here: www.ghi-dc.org/programs/lon...

📣 New Call for Abstracts! Our workshop "Environments and Societies at the Crossroads: Socio-Environmental Justice in Europe and the Americas in the 19th and 20th Centuries" will take place in Nov. 2026 at our Pacific Office at UC Berkeley. Learn more: www.ghi-dc.org/events/event...

📣 Application deadline extended: The new application deadline for the Academy in Exile Fellowships is 30 November! Are you a researcher who is under threat because of your academic work or civic engagement? Then apply now!
📍KWI Essen / @tu-dortmund.de
INFO: www.academy-in-exile.eu
@mellon.org

Job opportunity! There's still time to apply for a Research Associate position on the project “Money, History, and Moral Economies: Communicative Functions of Monetary Information in the Institutional Historiography of the Later Middle Ages (1250–1530)” funded by the German Research Foundation!
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