GHI Blogs

May 24, 2023

Uwe Lübken

Migration, Displacement, and Memory in Vanport, Oregon (1942–2023)

Recounts the flooding of Vanport, Oregon, in 1948, the displacement of the city's residents, and the memory culture around this event. The post Migration, Displacement, and Memory in Vanport, Oregon (…

May 18, 2023

Editors

Knowledge Notes

Occasional notes on calls, events, publications, and more that caught our attention. Please tweet or email us your own items. Conference The International Hybrid Conference “The Intertwining of Magi…

May 09, 2023

Andrea Orzoff

Migrant Musical Knowledge in Latin America, 1935–1960

Describes Rudolf Holzmann's ethnomusicological work, cataloguing and orchestrating Indigenous music, in Peru after he fled there from Nazi Germany. The post Migrant Musical Knowledge in Latin America,…

May 04, 2023

Agata Paluch and Patrick Benjamin Koch

Kabbalah and Knowledge Transfers in Early Modernity

Foreword to the special issue of the European Journal of Jewish Studies 16, no. 1 (2022) Editors’ Note: As the History of Knowledge blog aims to facilitate scholarly exchange related to the field, t…

May 03, 2023

News from the Network

News from Migrant Knowledge Network members and about other associated events Members are invited to share theirs as well. The post News from the Network first appeared in Migrant Knowledge. …

Apr 20, 2023

Editors

Knowledge Notes

Occasional notes on calls, events, publications, and more that caught our attention. Please tweet or email us your own items. NEW PROJECT & CFA for SUMMER SCHOOL: “Science at the Fair: Performing Kn…

Apr 19, 2023

#MigKnow Notes 17

A roundup of new relevant projects, current events, CfPs and CfAs with upcoming deadlines, conference reports, and a book review. The post #MigKnow Notes 17 first appeared in Migrant Knowledge. …

Apr 11, 2023

Nicholas B. Miller

Of Dodos, Cane, and Migrants: Networking Migrant Knowledge between Mauritius and Hawai’i in the 1860s

Editor’s note: As has previously been mentioned on this blog, our sister blog, Migrant Knowledge, also always bears some relevance to the history of knowledge. This is not surprising since, as that …

Jan 10, 2023

katharina hering

The World Wide Web of Internationalism: Evaluating Total Digital Access for the League of Nations Archive (LONTAD) and Its Potential for Historical Research

By Valentin Loos Editorial Note: Having gained his bachelor‘s degree in 2020, Valentin Loos is now a master‘s student of history and English and American studies at Osnabrück University. His inte…

Jan 01, 2023

katharina hering

Aufbau (Reconstruction) Nachrichtenblatt des German-Jewish Club Inc., New York – Ein digitaler Zugang zu Wissen und Exil

By Charlotte Lenger Editorial note: Charlotte Lenger completed her bachelor´s degree at the Technische Universität Dortmund where she studies German, Educational and Rehabilitation Science. Currentl…

Dec 30, 2022

katharina hering

Visiting PACSCL – Part 2: How to Organize a Consortium

By Tim Feind In part one of my series on PACSCL I visited the Joseph P. Horner Memorial Library in Philadelphia and talked to Bettina Hess from the German Society of Pennsylvania about challenges and …

Oct 27, 2022

katharina hering

Online access to historical German TV programs: Reflections on the research potential of unique audiovisual sources

By Christoph Eisele Editorial note: Christoph Eisele is in the final phase of completing his master’s degree in history (focusing on modern history) at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich, w…