‘I am German plus something else’ — An Interview with Ali Can
Victoria Harms talks with the Turkish-German activist and author Ali Can about race, diversity, and identity in contemporary Germany.
News from the Network
News about the H-Migration editorial team as well as about changes in Migrant Knowledge’s own editorial team.
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News and tips: one postdoc and two doctoral research positions, three calls, a book launch, and a new book series.
Call for Proposals: Fifth Annual Bucerius Young Scholars Forum
Call for proposals for “Histories of Migration: Transatlantic and Global Perspectives,” October 18–21, 2021, GHI Pacific Regional Office at Berkeley. DEADLINE: February 15, 2021.
Call: German Migrants and Migrating Knowledge in Latin American History
Call for proposals for a conference to be held in Washington, DC, November 3–5, 2022. The deadline for proposals is March 31, 2021.
New Book from the Network: Refugee Crises, 1945–2000
New book: Jan Jansen and Simone Lässig, eds., Refugee Crises, 1945-2000: Political and Societal Responses in International Comparison, Cambridge University Press 2020.
Call: Doing Historical Research on Migration in the Digital Age
Lorella Viola and Machteld Venken at the Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History seek applications for a large panel on “Doing Historical Research on Migration in the Digital Age.” Deadline: November 20, 2020.
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News and tips: an article about knowledge of America in rural Hungary, ca. 1900; a multimedia project on scientists in exile; a blog series on COVID-19 and refugees; and a winter school on Nazi forced labor.
Virtual Book Launch: The British Empire as Refuge?
Event to launch “Refugees from Nazi-Occupied Europe in British Overseas Territories,” the first book to cover forced emigration from Nazi-controlled Europe to the territories of the British Empire as a whole. (Oct. 7, 2020, via Zoom. Registration required.)
New Book from the Network: Landscape of Migration
Ben Nobbs-Thiessen’ monograph, ‘Landscape of Migration: Mobility and Environmental Change on Bolivia’s Tropical Frontier, 1952 to the Present,’ is now available at UNC Press. Check out his recent interviews with Elena McGrath and Steven Hyland too.
