Inaugural Lecture : Prof Dr Bernhard C. Schär - Where Were the Swiss? Switzerland and the Making of European Empire #infoclioevent
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Inaugural Lecture : Prof Dr Bernhard C. Schär - Where Were the Swiss? Switzerland and the Making of European Empire #infoclioevent
We're pleased to welcome Dr Marcus Böick (Cambridge) for this year's IHR@sheffielduni.bsky.social seminar talking about "Guarding Germany: The History of Private Security Companies in the 20th Century" on 24 March, 4:15pm.
Please sign up here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
I am delighted that the special issue ‘Socialist Humanitarianism in the Twentieth Century’ has now been published in the Journal of Contemporary History. This special issue was a joy to edit and brings together a dream team of contributors. I'll post the contributions in this thread...
Neues Portal zu Quellen des Rechtsradikalismus seit 1945 wird online veröffentlicht.
Herausgeber des Portals sind Frank Bösch, Direktor des Leibniz-Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung Potsdam (ZZF), und Gideon Botsch (MMZ).
Weitere Informationen:: tinyurl.com/2728k8y5
#Rechtsradikalismus #online
LEGAL ENTANGLEMENTS: Law, Rights and the Battle for Legitimacy in Divided Germany, 1945-1989 by Sebastian Gehrig @sebastiangehrig.bsky.social is now available in paperback!
Find out more here: bit.ly/45GNX2l
Review from @choicereviews.bsky.social
#History
Very happy to see my book “Legal Entanglements” now also out as a paperback!
@berghahnbooks.bsky.social offers 25% discount (code: GEHR3913) until 31 March!
www.berghahnbooks.com/title/Gehrig...
Reposting to tag @ihrgermanhistory.bsky.social in this time!
I m advertising a PhD position as part of our ERC project BLOCKADE. The PhD cand. should focus on myth/narratives of the hunger blockade in Germany, Austria in the era of the World Wars. 4 years of funding, wonderful team, amazing city (evidence attached)! Pls share! www.hsozkult.de/opportunity/...
CFP: The Impact and Heritage of Treason
https://www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-159370
Oxford, 30.04.2026-01.05.2026, AHRC-Network ‘Writing a New History of Treason’, Bewerbungsschluss: 01.01.2026 The Impact and Heritage of Treason
Heute!
Join us for this week's seminar!
Dr Douglas Pretsell (Keele) discusses:
"In the beginning was the Word: “Urning” to "Homosexual" 1866-1913".
The seminar will be held in-person at Senate House, John S Cohen room (N203), 26 November 2025 at 5:30pm.
www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
🎉 New publication 🎉 Why do #youngpeople vote for the #AfD? This question has kept our research project busy for quite some time, so I'm beyond excited that our first article - co-authored with @timonscheuer.bsky.social - is now out in #GermanPolitics! 🤩 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Der Bericht von @mjgronau.bsky.social zur rechtsgeschichtlichen Sektion auf dem @historikertag.bsky.social in Bonn mit @dinalog.bsky.social @sebastiangehrig.bsky.social und unserer Direktorin Kim Wünschmann ist erschienen 👇
t1p.de/eroa7
Join us for this week's seminar! Prof Jerry Palmer (London) discusses "Hitler's Autobiographies: The Personal is the Political".
The seminar will be held in-person at Senate House, John S Cohen room (N203), 29 October 2025 at 5:30pm.
www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
Check out our sibling IHR seminar, the Modern German History seminar @ihrgermanhistory.bsky.social, on 26 Nov at 5:30pm to hear @history-doug.bsky.social Douglas Pretsell's talk:
'In the beginning was the Word: “Urning” to "Homosexual" 1866-1913”'
More info here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
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.
Sign up here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
For this year's programme, please see below
#GermanHistSoc2025 starts TOMORROW!
We can't wait to see everyone in Loughborough!
You can check out the full programme here: www.germanhistorysoc...
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In #Erfurt finden #andiesemTag 1975, heute vor 50 Jahren, die ersten pogromartigen Ausschreitungen in Deutschland seit Kriegsende statt: Aufgeheizt von erfundenen Gerüchten über Vertragsarbeiter machen bis zu 300 Deutsche Jagd auf Algerier. Erst nach drei Tagen kann die Lage beruhigt werden. 1/
Das IGdJ auf dem @historikertag.bsky.social 2025 mit rechtsgeschichtlicher Fachsektion unserer Direktorin Kim Wünschmann mit @dinalog.bsky.social @sebastiangehrig.bsky.social u.a.auf Basis neuer #OpenAccess Studie zu "Enemy Alien"-Tribunalen im Zweiten Weltkrieg: doi.org/10.1080/0261... t1p.de/bk09u
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...
'It is less that AI is the cause of degradation in reading and thinking, and more that the creation of a culture that views knowledge primarily in an instrumental manner has made it easier to misuse AI.'
The model of doctoral research that those of us who studied in the 1980s and 1990s experienced is essentially finished.
Pierre Bourdieu: 'Imperialisms: The International Circulation of Ideas and the Struggle for the Universal' (Polity Press, June 2025). bit.ly/3I0Dnud #sociology #soctheory #theorysky
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