Revisits Werner Schiffauer's 1991 classic, Die Migranten aus Subay, which reminds us that "migrants have lives of their own before they arrive in host societies, and they never cease to maintain ties … to the homelands they leave behind." Rebels against the Homeland: Turkish Guest Workers in 1980s West German Anthropology Oct 23, 2019 Michelle Lynn Kahn
A Berlin-based group works with refugee girls, who make films as a way to narrate their life experiences. The idea is to help the girls form and mobilize knowledge repertoires for their self-empowerment, although the process is by no means linear. Girls’ Self-Empowerment through Narrative in Film Sep 23, 2020 Mervete Bobaj and Anh-Susann Pham Thi
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. From Nabob to Saheb: Reflections of British Rule in The Indian Vocabulary Sep 20, 2023 Mayukhi Ghosh
Presents the motivation for GHI's spring lecture series on climate mobilities with abstracts of the lectures. GHI Lecture Series—Moving Out of Harm’s Way: Historical Perspectives on Climate-related Mobilities Feb 24, 2023 Nino Vallen and Casey Sutcliffe