GHI Blogs

Mar 17, 2025

danielerdmann

Hätte ich das mal eher gewusst … mit Daniel Erdmann

Kannst Du in drei Sätzen Dein Projekt vorstellen und sagen, was speziell der digitale Anteil daran war? Ich beschäftige mich in meinem Promotionsvorhaben mit der Disziplingeschichte der Erziehungswi…

Mar 10, 2025

Victoria Morick

Syphilis Knowledge between Spaces and Species: Animal Experiments on Java

Traces the roles and conditions of laboratory animals as “objects of knowledge” in syphilis re-search in the early twentieth century using the example of primates at a medical research station in …

Mar 07, 2025

María Belén López

Circulation of Rural Migrant Knowledge in the Face of Environmental Injustice

Examines how latin american rural migrant women living in a watershed area of Greater Buenos Aires navigate environmental injustice, use knowledge from their former homelands, and contribute to commun…

Feb 24, 2025

The History of Knowledge Conference at LUCK Lund Centre for the History of Knowledge

Mirrors a call for papers for a conference at LUCK Lund Centre for the History of Knowledge from 8-10 October, 2025. The post The History of Knowledge Conference at LUCK Lund Centre for the History of…

Feb 24, 2025

Editors

The History of Knowledge Conference at LUCK Lund Centre for the History of Knowledge

Mirrors a call for papers from for a conference in October at LUCK, the Lund Centre for the History of Knowledge, from October 8-10, 2025…

Jan 27, 2025

jonasbaake

Ukraine’s Museums in War: An Interview with Olha Honchar

An interview with Olha Honchar, who Olha Honchar is a cultural scholar, director of the Territory of Terror Memorial Museum of Totalitarian Regimes in Lviv, founder and coordinator of the Museum Crisi…

Jan 03, 2025

Erika Rosado Valencia

Importing “Civilization”: Ecuadorian Elites’ National Representation Strategies and Immigration Promotion at the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition

Discusses the way Ecuadorian elites presented themselves at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition to the world, focusing on strategies to attract European and American migrants and minimize the percep…

Dec 16, 2024

Kim Carlotta von Schönfeld

Third Cultures—The (Cursed) Gold of Migrants?

Describes the subgroup of migrants called “third culture kids,” the adjustments they go through, and some knowledge-based implications. The post Third Cultures—The (Cursed) Gold of Migrants? fir…

Dec 16, 2024

Alice Weinreb

Anorexia Nervosa: Hilde Bruch and the Construction of Eating Disorders

Explores the construction of the psychiatric category of eating disorders in the 1970s through an analysis of the archive of psychiatrist Hilde Bruch.…

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 …

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…

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…