Great conversation today with Dorit Visbeck-Liebers, president of the German Ornithologists' Society, about examining the society’s Nazi past and collaboration. This builds on my 2018 paper on former president Günther Niethammer, an SS guard at Auschwitz who studied birds there tinyurl.com/58ufthae

Last year I joined the HIC Editors-in-Chief team of this "International Yearbook of Knowledge and Society" @degruyterbrill.bsky.social, after serving on the Advisory Board since 2021. Vol 5 is coming this Fall, with a thematic section on “Technology and the Making of History” tinyurl.com/frrdzjrp

Five years ago, we - students @queenshistory.bsky.social, librarians, and archivists @quarchives.bsky.social - created “Queen’s Refuge." On #WorldRefugeeDay, these stories still remind us of resilience and solidarity—and the role universities play virtual-exhibits.library.queensu.ca/queens-refug...

Today, I received the first-time Czech translation of "Our Quest for a Homeland: A Novel of Emigration." The book was written by German Social Democrat, journalist, and refugee Robert Grötzsch, who fled to Czechoslovakia in March 1933.

Just got a picture of Heather and me putting the final touches on the exhibition

Gave a guest lecture this week on “Flight to Canada? Immigration, Internment & Transit, Memory” in Simone Lässig’s course “Life in Transit” at @tu-braunschweig.de. Two weeks ago, I talked about Czechoslovakia, Borderland Networks, Resistance, and Memory. Grateful for the chance to share my research

Also, Melissa Kravetz #LongwoodUniversity and Erin Hochman #SouthernMethodistUniversity invited me to their "Flirting with Fascism and Antifascism in the Americas" panel, I will present about young German-speaking refugees in Canada after 1938

Looking forward to @thegsa.bsky.social annual conference in Phoenix #GSA2026 this Fall. Together with Simone Lässig @tu-braunschweig.de, Jennifer Rodgers #CIERA and Frank Mecklenburg #LBI New York | Berlin I've organized the two panel session "Family Archives in/of Global Transit"

Great news: the UK will rejoin Erasmus+ in 2027. As former Erasmus coordinator in History at @tudresden.bsky.social (2010–18), I especially valued our partnership with @exeter.ac.uk. After the Brexit uncertainty in 2016, its encouraging to see academic exchange opening up again tinyurl.com/mr2b99us

Yesterday and today, more Stolpersteine / stumbling blocs were laid in Dresden to commemorate victims of Nazi persecution. I initiated having this art and memorial project there in 2008; in 2009, the first five blocs were installed. And yesterday marked the 400th! Grateful this work continues!

Fantastic presentation + discussion with Dolores Augustine (St. John's University) and Stefanie Schüler-Springorum (Technische Universität Berlin) today in our "In Global Transit" working group @tu-braunschweig.de Stay tuned: transit.hypotheses.org Upcoming call: www.hsozkult.de/searching/id...

Looking forward to this "75 Years Canada-Germany Diplomatic Relations" event in June @uottawa.ca, organized by @cepi-cips.bsky.social @germanyincanada.bsky.social @globalaffairs.canada.ca and @daadworldwide.bsky.social www.cips-cepi.ca/event/75-yea...

Looking forward to this online talk (in German), “Max Sachs: Life and Work – Crime and Accountability – Reckoning and Remembrance,” on May 9 at Chemnitzer Museumsnacht, where I will discuss my 2024 book on this Jewish journalist and Social Democrat tinyurl.com/k4wsswbc Book: tinyurl.com/4jsnm4h4

Nice prep at Queen's Archives today, Heather Home @quarchives.bsky.social and I @queenshistory.bsky.social picked objects for a exhibition about refugee-chemist Alfred Bader for the International Historic Chemical Landmark Ceremony at Queen’s on May 8 qacsstudentchapter.wixsite.com/q-acs/bader-...

Great conversation today at the "Critical Issues in Global Historiography" online conference of the Global History Initiative @queenshistory.bsky.social, looking forward to the next two days www.queensu.ca/ghi/critical...

Nice screening and discussion today of the 1993 movie "The Joy Luck Club" at The Screening Room, presented by @queenshistory.bsky.social

Looking forward to the upcoming Queen's-BSIA International Migrations and Mobilities Graduate Symposium on "Borders, and (Un)Bordering: Analyzing Migration and (Im)Mobility In An Era Of 'Polycrisis'" - March 20 & 21, 2026 www.queensu.ca/mobilities-m...

SAVE THE DATE – May 5, 6:30-7:30PM (Central European) – online presentation + discussion with Dolores Augustine (St. John's University) and Stefanie Schüler-Springorum (Technische Universität Berlin) I co-organized with "In Global Transit" @tu-braunschweig.de socialhistoryportal.org/news/article...

Glad that I could participate online yesterday in an event in Waldheim / Saxony and talk about my 2015 dissertation on Christian corporate cultures and the industrialization in rural regions of 19th/20th Central Germany, the book is now available open access: slub.qucosa.de/api/qucosa%3...

Save the date - and your ticket: on March 28, I will present and discuss "The Joy Luck Club" from 1993 at The Screening Room in Kingston and as part of my seminar on diaspora and migration @queenshistory.bsky.social - open to the public, share widely! www.screeningroomkingston.com/movie/the-jo...

Nice turnout & discussion today with Thorsten Faas @utoronto.ca @daadworldwide.bsky.social @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social at @queensucsdd.bsky.social today, many thanks for sharing your research on young voters

Copies arrived: special issue on "Violence and Social Inequalities" in "Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaft" I've edited with Raphael Rössel @ghiwashington.bsky.social - with articles by Sophia Dafinger, Darius Muschiol and @christopherewing.bsky.social metropol-verlag.de/produkt/zeit...

What influence do young people have on politics today? And how does social media influence them? I invited Thorsten Faas @utoronto.ca @daadworldwide.bsky.social @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social to discuss these questions @queensucsdd.bsky.social - mark your calendar for Mar 2, 1-2.30pm, MackCorry A309

#OTD 1945, allied forces bombed Dresden. Years ago, I've published a text about the Heidefriedhof as a main place of commemoration - and instrumentalization of history until today, confusing victims and perpetrators abolishcommemoration.org/steinberg.html www.verbrecherverlag.de/wp-content/u...

Nice conversation today with @matthiasecke.bsky.social @europarl.europa.eu, many thanks to the @fesonline.bsky.social regional office in Saxony for organizing this

Looking forward to the conversation (in German) with @matthias-ecke.eu @europarl.europa.eu next week about transatlantic perspectives on Greenland and the US, organized by @fesonline.bsky.social. Join us online: www.fes.de/veranstaltun...

Hot off the press: I edited with Raphael Rössel @ghiwashington.bsky.social a special issue on "Violence and Social Inequalities" in "Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaft" - with contributions by Sophia Dafinger, Darius Muschiol and @christopherewing.bsky.social metropol-verlag.de/produkt/zeit...

Today, the first time Czech translation of "Our Quest for a Homeland. Novel of an Emigration" from 1936 has been presented at the Masarykova demokratická akademie / Masaryk Democratic Academy @feps-europe.eu in Prague

I’ve always wanted to know who I was in a previous life. Apparently, I lived in the summer of 1924 in Montana near Big Timber (naturally in the Crazy mountains), according to a report in the "Sweet Grass News" from July 9, 1924

Amazing cross-country morning at Little Cataraqui Creek Conservation Area