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GHI Blogs

 

The GHI publishes several blogs to provide a different forum for new academic research fields to connect with new audiences. The blogs take advantage of the GHI’s professional editing capacity to help disseminate “work-in-progress.” “History of Knowledge” was established in 2016 as part of the GHI’s new research concentration in the history of knowledge; “href” was launched in 2018 and is is dedicated to the use of digitized primary source materials in studying, teaching, and researching German and global history; and “Migrant Knowledge” was created in 2019 to to foster and disseminate research at the nexus of migration and knowledge studies.

Latest Blogposts

Nov 20, 2024

Laura-Elena Keck

Stowaway Mosquitoes and Twentieth-century Quarantine Knowledge 

Argues that following the traces of mosquitoes can provide valuable insights into the history of quarantine in the twentieth century, the relationship between medical knowledge and public health, and …

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Nov 12, 2024

katharina hering

Call for Contributions: Lehrbuch Historische Propädeutik im Digitalen Zeitalter

Abgabetermin für die Einreichung der Beitragsvorschläge: 15. Januar 2025Abgabetermin für die Beiträge: 30. September 2025 Beschreibung des Publikationsprojektes: Im Rahmen des NFDI-Konsortiums 4Me…

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Nov 08, 2024

Ecem Nazlı Üçok

Navigating the Personal in Migration Research

Reflects on the author's own experience as a researcher and theories such as “situated knowledge,” and “relational accountability,” emotional labor feminist standpoint theory to elucidate how …

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Nov 01, 2024

hansgeorgripken

Hätte ich das mal eher gewusst … mit Hans-Georg Ripken

Kannst Du kurz Dein Projekt vorstellen und sagen, was speziell der digitale Anteil daran war? Nach dem Mauerfall, der deutschen Wiedervereinigung und dem Ende des Kalten Krieges, verkündet mit der Ch…

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Oct 28, 2024

Editors

Knowledge Notes

Occasional notes on calls, events, publications, and more that caught our attention. …

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Oct 26, 2024

Maret Nieländer

The Great Outdoors Web, Seen in Braunschweig, Part Two

More href markers from Braunschweig, shared by Maret Nieländer, continuing our series on the Great Outdoors Web…All photographs by Maret Nieländer.   Photo credit: Maret Nieländer…

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Oct 12, 2024

Maret Nieländer

The Great Outdoors Web, Seen in Braunschweig, Part One

True, the digital space is vast and diverse, populated with code and tags, including href tags, which inspired the name of our blog. But there is also the great analog space, populated with its own co…

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Oct 07, 2024

Viola Alianov-Rautenberg, Swen Steinberg

A Journey Worth Knowing About? Interview with Swen Steinberg about the Past Five Years of the Blog Migrant Knowledge

Interview with Swen Steinberg outlining key achievements of the blog and network Migrant Knowledge since its inception in 2019. The post A Journey Worth Knowing About? Interview with Swen Steinberg ab…

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Sep 27, 2024

Felix Krämer

Living on Credit: Student Debt in the U.S. History of Knowledge

Presents insights on student debt from the author’s book, Leben auf Kredit, which examines various forms of precarious debt in the US from the end of slavery to the present.…

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Sep 04, 2024

Mareen Heying

An Instrument of Social Control: The Scientization of Drunkenness

Contrasts three interpretations of drunkenness within the academic discourse of the late 19th and early 20th centuries: drunkenness as a disease, as an addiction, and as a form of degeneration and sho…

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Aug 27, 2024

Victoria Van Orden Martínez

Suffering, Displacement, and the Circulation of Knowledge about Nazi Atrocities

Presents testimonies of Nazi atrocities by witnesses who were interviewed by refugees in Sweden to show the epistemic value of emotions in analyses of knowledge circulation. The post Suffering, Displa…

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Jun 18, 2024

Laura Stielike

The Politics of Knowledge Production in Migration Studies

Presents the arguments from Stielike's longer German work on the politics of knowledge production in Migration Studies, examining 3 distinct types of migration research. The post The Politics of Knowl…

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Migrant Knowledge Blog

The “Migrant Knowledge” blog fosters and disseminates research at the nexus of migration and knowledge studies.

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History of Knowledge

The "History of Knowledge" blog serves as a venue for the exchange of ideas and information on the history of knowledge.

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href

The "href" blog is dedicated to the use of digitized primary source materials for studying, teaching, and researching German and global history.

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