Roundup of calls for papers, submissions, conference reports, new publications relevant to Migrant Knowledge. #MigKnow Notes 19 May 29, 2024
A roundup of current events, CfPs, conference reports, and new publications, exhibits, projects, and book reviews relevant to Migrant Knowledge. #MigKnow Notes 18 Jul 28, 2023
Here we share a call for applications for the Bucerius Young Scholars Forum at UC Berkeley, GHI Pacific Office, September 2023, as it relates closely to our blog's topic. Seventh Bucerius Young Scholars Forum—Indigenous Migration Mar 16, 2023 Nino Vallen
Describes Migration- and Mobility-related events at #AHA23 Migrant Knowledge at the #AHA23 Jan 5, 2023
A roundup of recent work, relevant publications, resources, and calls for papers related to migrant knowledge. #MigKnow Notes 15 Dec 19, 2022
Compares two textbooks for schoolchildren in Baden in the late nineteenth century and presents the ideas they conveyed about the US. A Cautionary Tale: Baden’s Late Nineteenth-Century Textbooks and Their Portrayal of America Nov 7, 2022 Marie Nella Hoffmann
The author interrogates a mid-nineteenth-century map for German emigrants, using it as a way to talk about the central concept behind this blog, "migrant knowledge". An 1853 Map for German-Speaking Emigrants Jan 30, 2022 Mark R. Stoneman
Victoria Harms talks with the Turkish-German activist and author Ali Can about race, diversity, and identity in contemporary Germany. ‘I am German plus something else’ — An Interview with Ali Can Feb 18, 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
The role of children in history matters, including in knowledge formation and in migration. Simone Lässig introduces a miniseries about children and youth as go-betweens in migration contexts, whether people migrated or knowledge itself. Knowledge and the Agency of Children in Migration Contexts Aug 5, 2020 Simone Lässig
A young German in 19th-century North America bragged that his travels had enabled him to "learn and see how it goes in the world." What did he mean? What can we learn from him about migration, knowledge, and knowledge formation? Migration, Creativity, and the Construction of Knowledge Jun 3, 2019 Benjamin Hein
Discusses a 1909 Syrian American advice book for Ottoman subjects planning to emigrate to the U.S., which contained knowledge about would-be immigrants' specific rights in the U.S. and self-fashioning tips for dealing with authorities there. A Little Advice: Syrian American Advice Booklets as Knowledge Production Mar 27, 2019 Stacy D. Fahrenthold
Ben Nobbs-Thiessen examines the personal geographies of some Mennonites in Latin America who "have exercised a paradoxical degree of mobility" despite their well-known horse-and-buggy appearance. Marginal Knowledge: The Transnational Practices of Latin American Mennonites Mar 22, 2019 Ben Nobbs-Thiessen
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