Gaining Knowledge about the Comanches: Meusebach’s Path Towards a Notable Treaty
Examines the sources of knowledge about the Comanches available to John Meusebach when he sought to make a treaty with them.
‘On to Texas’: An Introduction to the Miniseries on Texas Germans
Weiss introduces a miniseries on German migration to Texas and knowledge transfers that occurred between German settlers and Texans.
Cultural Crossroads: The Assumptionists and Their Transnational Exchange in the Ottoman Orient
Describes the Assumptionist and Oblate missions as part of the Mission d’Orient in the Ottoman Empire, focusing on them as a cultural bridge that fostered the exchange of knowledge between East and West.
Call for Proposals: Online Source Portal ‘History of the German-Jewish Diaspora’
Call for proposals from the Moses Mendelssohn Center for European-Jewish Studies for an online source portal called “History of the German-Jewish Diaspora”
CfP: Mapping German Film Exile: A Transnational Perspective
CfP for Mapping German Film Exile: A Transnational Perspective
Shared Spaces of Knowledge: Russian Exiles and the V. P. Kuzmina Gymnasium in Interwar Bulgaria
In 1924, a private gymnasium opened its gates, welcoming children of Russian exiles to the Bulgarian capital of Sofia. The founder of the school, Varvara Pavlova Kuzmina, a teacher from St. Petersburg, had settled in […]
From Nabob to Saheb: Reflections of British Rule in <em>The Indian Vocabulary</em>
Examines The Indian Vocabulary (1788) produced in Britain for colonial civil servants in order to discern the ambiguous relationship toward India and British efforts to define itself in relation to its colony therein.
Migrant Autonomy in the Face of Regimes of Deterrence: Complications and Resiliency
Introduces the digital storytelling project Humanizing Deportation, which documents the human consequences of contemporary regimes of migration and border control in the United States and Mexico.
Epistolary Knowledge in Transit: Migrant Letters in Swiss Refugee Periodicals after the Second World War
Presents the knowledge produced and shared in refugee letters in periodicals in Switzerland in the post-World War II period.
#MigKnow Notes 18
A roundup of current events, CfPs, conference reports, and new publications, exhibits, projects, and book reviews relevant to Migrant Knowledge.
