Migrant Knowledge

Migrant Knowledge

Category: Notices

News about various contributions and awards from the Migrant Knowledge Network. Members are invited to share theirs as well.

News from the Network

Paul Lerner, Uwe Spiekermann, and Anne Schenderlein have a new book, Jewish Consumer Cultures in Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century Europe and North America (Palgrave, 2022).

New Book from the Network: Jewish Consumer Cultures

Frank Wolff's Yiddish Revolutionaries in Migration: The Transnational History of the Jewish Labour Bund is now available in an affordable paperback.

New Book from the Network: Yiddish Revolutionaries in Migration

Susanne Korbel and Philipp Strobl have co-edited a new volume titled Cultural Translation and Knowledge Transfer on Alternative Routes of Escape from Nazi Terror: Mediations Through Migrations (Routledge, 2022).

New Book from the Network: Cultural Translation and Knowledge Transfer

Open-access publication on digital history edited by Simone Lässig with other contributions from the Migrant Knowledge network and blog.

News from the Network: Digital History

An occasional roundup of resources for the study of migration and knowledge: calls, events, readings, etc.

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Call: Historicizing the Refugee Experience, 17th-21st centuries – Second Annual International Seminar in Historical Refugee Studies – Washington, DC, July 13–16, 2022 – Deadline: November 21, 2021

Call: Historicizing the Refugee Experience

Approaching migrant knowledge after migration: Call for papers for a collaboration entailing three online workshops and a special issue in a peer-reviewed journal

Call: Lost Knowledge

Swen Steinberg
Philipp Strobl

New book by Christiane Reinecke, Die Ungleichheit der Städte: Urbane Problemzonen im postkolonialen Frankreich und der Bundesrepublik [The Inequality of Cities: Urban Problem Zones in Postcolonial France and the Federal Republic of Germany] (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2021).

New Book from the Network: Urban Inequality

New Book: Migrations and Border Processes: Practices and Politics of Belonging and Exclusion in Europe from the Nineteenth to the Twenty-First Century, ed. Margit Fauser, Anne Friedrichs, and Levke Harders (Routledge, 2021).

New Book from the Network: Migrations and Border Processes

Call for a workshop titled "Knowledge on the Move: Information Networks during and after the Holocaust." Held by the Pacific Regional Office of the German Historical Institute Washington and the USC Dornsife Center for Advanced Genocide Research.

Call: “Knowledge on the Move: Information Networks during and after the Holocaust”

A new open access book by Jochen Oltmer (Osnabrück) is available in Springer's Essentials series: Die Grenzen der EU: Europäische Integration, 'Schengen' und die Kontrolle der Migration (2021).

New Book from the Network: Europe’s Borders

New essay collection: 'Navigating Socialist Encounters: Moorings and (Dis)Entanglements between Africa and East Germany during the Cold War' edited by Eric Burton, Anne Dietrich, Immanuel R. Harisch, and Maria Schenck – open access at De Gruyter Oldenbourg.

New Book from the Network: Africa and East Germany during the Cold War

A new monograph by Albert Manke is now available, 'Coping with Discrimination and Exclusion: Experiences of Free Chinese Migrants in the Americas in a Transregional and Diachronic Perspective.' It appears in the Inter-American Studies series.

New Book from the Network: Experiences of Free Chinese Migrants in the Americas

A new monograph by Machteld Venken is now available: 'Peripheries at the Centre: Borderland Schooling in Interwar Europe.' Published by Berghahn Books, the work is open access.

New Book from the Network: Borderland Schooling in Interwar Europe

Call for applications for a tandem fellowship in migration at the Pacific Regional Office of the German Historical Institute Washington. Deadline: November 1, 2021

Binational Visiting Tandem Program in the History of Migration at GHI PRO in Berkeley

A list of 29 recently published articles, book chapters, and so on published by members of the Migrant Knowledge News Network.

News from the Network: Recent Articles

Two calls and five reading tips related to this blog's central themes: migrants' knowledge, knowledge about migrants, and migrating knowledge.

#MigKnow Notes 12

News about the H-Migration editorial team as well as about changes in Migrant Knowledge's own editorial team.

News from the Network

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

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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.

New Book 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.

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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.

New Book 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.'

New Book 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.

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"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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