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Migrant Knowledge

Category: Notices

News from Migrant Knowledge Network members and news about other events associated with the network. Members are invited to share theirs as well.

News from the Network

Sep 20, 2022
 
News about various contributions and awards from the Migrant Knowledge Network. Members are invited to share theirs as well.

News from the Network

Aug 12, 2022
 
A roundup of recent work and resources in migration and migrant knowledge.

MigKnow Notes #14

Jul 26, 2022
 
The latest issue of the Bulletin of the German Historical Institute includes an interview with Director Simone Lässig on the research focus "In Global Transit"

Simone Lässig Interviewed on “In Global Transit” Research Focus

Jul 1, 2022
 
Kijan Espahangizi has a new book available: Der Migrations-Integrationskomplex (Wallstein, 2022), in the Konstanz University Press series.

New Book from the Network: Migration Policy and Scholarship in Switzerland

Jun 28, 2022
 
Lecture series for 'In Global Transit' Project begins June 8 with a lecture by Joachim Schlör. Registration required.

2022 Lecture Series for the Project ‘In Global Transit’

May 31, 2022
 
Mark Stoneman is leaving the Migrant Knowledge editorial team. We would like to thank him for his years of engagement, and especially for all his hard work in helping us to conceive and launch the blog. Patricia "Casey" Sutcliffe of the GHI Washington will manage the blog going forward.

Editorial News

May 23, 2022
 
News about various contributions and awards from the Migrant Knowledge Network. Members are invited to share theirs as well.

News from the Network

Feb 28, 2022
 
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

Feb 15, 2022
 
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

Feb 15, 2022
 
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

Feb 15, 2022
 
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

Jan 30, 2022
 
An occasional roundup of resources for the study of migration and knowledge: calls, events, readings, etc.

#MigKnow Notes 13

Nov 29, 2021
 
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

Nov 2, 2021
 
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

Oct 18, 2021
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

Aug 30, 2021
 
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

Aug 30, 2021
 
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”

Jul 20, 2021
 
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

Jul 19, 2021
 
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

Jul 15, 2021
 
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

Jul 15, 2021
 
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

Jul 12, 2021
 
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

Jul 8, 2021
 
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

Jun 30, 2021
 
Two calls and five reading tips related to this blog's central themes: migrants' knowledge, knowledge about migrants, and migrating knowledge.

#MigKnow Notes 12

Mar 23, 2021
 
News about the H-Migration editorial team as well as about changes in Migrant Knowledge's own editorial team.

News from the Network

Feb 3, 2021
 
News and tips: one postdoc and two doctoral research positions, three calls, a book launch, and a new book series.

#MigKnow Notes 11

Jan 17, 2021
 
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

Jan 17, 2021
 
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

Dec 10, 2020
 
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

Nov 9, 2020
 
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

Oct 30, 2020
 
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

Oct 26, 2020
 
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?

Sep 5, 2020
 
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

Jul 9, 2020
 
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

May 19, 2020
 
This note offers a brief update on how we post news. It also invites readers to contribute their related announcements and tips.

Editors’ Note

May 18, 2020
 
Recent publications and other news from members of the Migrant Knowledge Network.

News from the Network

May 11, 2020
 
"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

Mar 26, 2020
 
Call for Papers: Contested Meanings of Migration Facilitation: Emigration Agents, Coyotes, Rescuers, and Human Traffickers

Call for Papers: Contested Meanings of Migration Facilitation

Mar 16, 2020
 
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

Mar 15, 2020
 
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

Mar 6, 2020
 
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

Feb 6, 2020
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

Feb 3, 2020
 
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”

Feb 1, 2020
 
Call for Papers: Workshop, May 18–19, 2020, Berkeley, California. Deadline: January 15, 2019.

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

Dec 9, 2019
 
The latest installment of links to research, events, and other news at the intersection of migration and knowledge.

# MigKnow Notes 6

Nov 7, 2019
 
"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

Oct 19, 2019
 
The latest installment of links to research, events, and other news at the intersection of migration and knowledge.

# MigKnow Notes 5

Sep 20, 2019
 
The latest installment of links to research, events, and other news at the intersection of migration and knowledge.

# MigKnow Notes 4

Aug 5, 2019
 
Workshop call (Washington), conference program (Berkeley), and a crowdsourced project (German Letters)

# MigKnow Notes 3

May 2, 2019
 
A call for summer school applications (Bern), a grant in aid awards notice (IHRCA), and a call for papers (Millenium)

# MigKnow Notes 2

Mar 27, 2019
 
Two CFPs: "Material Cultures in Migration" (deadline: March 31, 2019) and "Imagining Migration, Knowing Migration" (deadline April 20, 2019)

# MigKnow Notes 1

Mar 16, 2019
 
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

Mar 14, 2019
 
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’

Mar 14, 2019
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

Mar 14, 2019

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