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


Sep 02, 2024

Maret Nieländer

Hätte ich das mal eher gewusst … mit Maret Nieländer

Was Historiker:innen und historisch Arbeitende ihrem jüngeren Ich raten würden Kannst Du in drei Sätzen Dein Projekt vorstellen und sagen, was speziell der digitale Anteil daran war? Ich berichte m…

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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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Jul 25, 2024

Henning Bovenkerk

Hätte ich das mal eher gewusst … mit Henning Bovenkerk

Was Historiker:innen und historisch Arbeitende ihrem jüngeren Ich raten würden Kannst Du in drei Sätzen Dein Projekt vorstellen und sagen, was speziell der digitale Anteil daran war? In meiner Diss…

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Jul 05, 2024

historyofknowledgeblogeditor

Knowledge Notes

Occasional notes on calls, events, publications, and more that caught our attention. Please email us your own items. Grants Gerda Henkel Tandem Fellowships for the Global History of Ideas (Forschungsz…

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Jul 02, 2024

Vanessa Tissen

Hätte ich das mal eher gewusst … mit Vanessa Tissen

Was Historiker:innen und historisch Arbeitende ihrem jüngeren Ich raten würden Kannst Du in drei Sätzen Dein Projekt vorstellen und sagen, was speziell der digitale Anteil daran war? Das Deutsche H…

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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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Jun 17, 2024

Alwin J. Cubasch

Floating Food/Filming Knowledge: Creating Food Knowledge above the Clouds

Parabolic Dining On February 11, 1971, NASA food experts from Houston’s Manned Spacecraft Center climbed aboard a KC-135 plane to undergo short periods of near weightlessness.1 The KC-135 was unique…

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Jun 12, 2024

Jonathan Baum

Anpassung der Zotero Gruppenbibliografie “Data Literacy”

Von Jonathan Baum Editorial note:  With the participation of the GHI Washington in the NFDI 4Memory Consortium, an initiative dedicated to the creation of a long-term and sustainable research data in…

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May 30, 2024

Aiden Maliskas and Mark McShane

Wurstfest: A Culinary, Cultural, and Economic Masterpiece

Looks at the ethnic, cultural, and economic factors that drove the development of Wurstfest, one of the biggest German ethnic festivals in the United States. The post Wurstfest: A Culinary, Cultural, …

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May 29, 2024

#MigKnow Notes 19

Roundup of calls for papers, submissions, conference reports, new publications relevant to Migrant Knowledge. The post #MigKnow Notes 19 first appeared in Migrant Knowledge. …

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May 28, 2024

Alexej Lochmatow

Virtues as a Lens: Exploring Science, Scholarship, and Politics under Soviet Domination

Why Virtues? The concept of “virtue” has a long and controversial history. Aristotle supposed that virtue could make an individual know what is a “good thing to do.” Machiavelli highlighted th…

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Apr 22, 2024

Malin Sonja Wilckens

‘Collecting’ and Comparing – Skulls, Transatlantic Knowledge Production, and Racial Science

On May 29, 1793, Göttingen anthropologist Johann Friedrich Blumenbach received a Georgian woman’s skull. It would later become the most prominent representation of the so-called Caucasian variety o…

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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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