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Migrant Knowledge

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News and tips: one postdoc and two doctoral research positions, three calls, a book launch, and a new book series.

#MigKnow Notes 11

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 for Proposals: Fifth Annual Bucerius Young Scholars Forum

Call for proposals for a conference to be held in Washington, DC, November 3–5, 2022. The deadline for proposals is March 31, 2021.

Call: German Migrants and Migrating Knowledge in Latin American History

New book: Jan Jansen and Simone Lässig, eds., Refugee Crises, 1945-2000: Political and Societal Responses in International Comparison, Cambridge University Press 2020.

News from the Network: Refugee Crises, 1945–2000

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.

Call: Doing Historical Research on Migration in the Digital Age

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.

#MigKnow Notes 10

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.)

Virtual Book Launch: The British Empire as Refuge?

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.

News from the Network: Landscape of Migration

The latest installment of related news and tips: An updated call, a podcast, and three conference reports, including one that discusses knowledge as a resource.

#MigKnow Notes 9

This note offers a brief update on how we post news. It also invites readers to contribute their related announcements and tips.

Editors’ Note

Recent publications and other news from members of the Migrant Knowledge Network.

News from the Network

"Histories of Migrant Knowledge: Transatlantic and Global Perspectives," edited by Andrea Westermann and Onur Erdur, Bulletin of the German Historical Institute Supplement 15 (2020).

News from the Network: Histories of Migrant Knowledge

Call for Papers: Contested Meanings of Migration Facilitation: Emigration Agents, Coyotes, Rescuers, and Human Traffickers

Call for Papers: Contested Meanings of Migration Facilitation

Wolf Gruner's 2016 monograph is now available in English as 'The Holocaust in Bohemia and Moravia: Czech Initiatives, German Policies, Jewish Responses.'

News from the Network: The Holocaust in Bohemia and Moravia

Four calls, a conference reminder, a new book on the history of knowledge (open access), a special issue on migration and knowledge (open access), and a new book series on refugees and migrants in the Middle East.

# MigKnow Notes 8

Workshop report for the Third Annual Bucerius Young Scholar Forum, held at the GHI Pacific Regional Office at Berkeley in October 2019.

Report: Histories of Migration: Transatlantic and Global Perspectives

Levke Harders
Andrea Westermann

Learn more about a fellowship deadline extension (Feb 9), calls for papers, a summer course on early modern visual data, two publications, and a new history of knowledge center.

# MigKnow Notes 7

Short film about "Migrant Knowledge, Early Modern and Beyond," an event "at the crossroads" of art, scholarship, and activism in September 2019.

Migrant Knowledge “at the Crossroads”

Call for Papers: Workshop, May 18–19, 2020, Berkeley, California. Deadline: January 15, 2019.

CFP: Change in Motion: Environment, Migration, and Mobilities

The latest installment of links to research, events, and other news at the intersection of migration and knowledge.

# MigKnow Notes 6

"Knowledge and Young Migrants," special issue of KNOW edited by Simone Lässig and Swen Steinberg, with contributions by Paula S. Fass, Simone Laqua-O’Donnell, Wendy L. Rouse, Emily Marker, Kijan Espahangizi, and Stephanie Zloch.

News from the Network: Knowledge and Young Migrants

The latest installment of links to research, events, and other news at the intersection of migration and knowledge.

# MigKnow Notes 5

The latest installment of links to research, events, and other news at the intersection of migration and knowledge.

# MigKnow Notes 4

Workshop call (Washington), conference program (Berkeley), and a crowdsourced project (German Letters)

# MigKnow Notes 3

A call for summer school applications (Bern), a grant in aid awards notice (IHRCA), and a call for papers (Millenium)

# MigKnow Notes 2

Two CFPs: "Material Cultures in Migration" (deadline: March 31, 2019) and "Imagining Migration, Knowing Migration" (deadline April 20, 2019)

# MigKnow Notes 1

Blog post by Charlotte Mueller, who argues, "Migrants can be knowledge senders and knowledge receivers simultaneously, in their country of destination as well as in their country of origin."

News from the Network: Migration and Knowledge Transfer

Abstracts seven posts about migration and knowledge that were published at the History of Knowledge blog in the past two years.

Linking Migration and Knowledge: Seven Viewpoints at ‘History of Knowledge’

Mark R. Stoneman

Simone Lässig, “The History of Knowledge and the Expansion of the Historical Research Agenda,” Bulletin of the German Historical Institute 59 (Fall 2016): 29–59.

The History of Knowledge and the Expansion of the Historical Research Agenda

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