During the interwar period and much of World War II, the Parisian café Le Bosphore served as a focal point of sociability and knowledge exchange for Sephardi Jews from the former Ottoman Empire. Cafés as Sites of Migrant Knowledge Exchange: The Case of Ottoman Jews in Interwar Paris Oct 21, 2021 Robin Buller
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
Annette Lützel explains the FRG's very different responses to the large numbers of refugees who came in the early 1990s and in 2015. Citing recent employment and job-training numbers, she sees an ongoing positive trend. From Hoyerswerda to Welcome Culture: Asylum and Integration Policy in the Federal Republic of Germany Nov 5, 2020 Annette Lützel
The author looks at the relationship between two famous early sociological community studies, "Middletown" and "Marienthal." The latter became Paul Lazarsfeld's "ticket out of Europe just as the continent was descending into fascism." Drifting Along: Unemployment and Interwar Social Research, from Marienthal to Muncie Dec 28, 2020 Joseph Malherek