If, in exceptional cases, the fellowship is not, or only partially, spent in Istanbul, a close connection to the institute is required.

Upon consultation this may also be arranged through supervision by members of the Orient-Institut’s Scientific Advisory Board or other scholars associated with the institute.

During the duration of the scholarship no other scholarship may be obtained, and no paid employment positions may be taken.

Grants are preferably available to support research in one of the institute’s research areas https://www.oiist.org/en/forschungsprofil/, namely

1. Musicological research on the Ottoman Empire and Turkey
2. Narrative sources on Istanbul and the Ottoman Empire
3. Past and contemporary forms of religious expression in the regions investigated at the OII (since the 11^th century)
4. Turkology (Linguistics and Literary Studies)
5. Iran
6. Entanglements between Turkish or Ottoman society, culture and literatures on the one, and Southeast Europe, the Mediterranean, Iran, The Caucasus and Eastern Europe on the other side. The migration of academics and artists is part of this field
7. Ottoman modernities
8. Science, Technology, and Society with a topic relating to Turkey

The research grant consists of a monthly stipend of € 1,200 for the duration of usually ten to twelve months. Short term grants of up to 90 days may also be made available. Travel expenses of a journey to and from Turkey will be reimbursed. Start of the scholarship should be at the earliest March 1^st, 2026 and at latest September 15^th, 2026.

The Orient-Institut cannot guarantee regarding the issuance of residence permits by the Turkish authorities. For short-term fellowships of a duration of up to three months, applicants must ensure that they have not stayed as a tourist in Turkey during the 90 days preceding the commencement of the fellowship.

Prospective applicants are expected to hold an M.A. degree in a related academic discipline. As a rule, a complete application is to demonstrate the necessity of conducting research in Istanbul or Turkey at large. Good command of Turkish or another source language necessary for the proposed project is obligatory. As the Orient-Institut Istanbul aims at creating an open and supportive academic environment, grant holders are expected to attend colloquia and conferences organised by the institute and to give a presentation of their own research. Research stays outside Istanbul must be cleared with the institute’s director.

Applications to

Prof. Dr. Christoph K. Neumann
Director of the Orient-Institut Istanbul

must be submitted via our online application portal by January 12, 2026. For the reference letter, please share the link https://oiist.org/letter-of-reference-phd-research-grant-2026-2027/ with the academic supervisor you have asked for a reference letter to upload the reference letter there.

Complete applications must include the following:

• Cover letter with indication of the desired period of the fellowship
• CV
• Outline of the Ph.D./ research project
• Explanatory statement and research schedule for the stay in Istanbul/Turkey
• A letter of recommendation written and uploaded by an academic supervisor
• Copy of M.A. diploma
• Documentation of proficiency in Turkish or another relevant source language#

Zur Website des OI Istanbul 

We invite you to join us in discussing the symphony of different voices, of dissonance and cacophony, the tone and timbre of narratives, but also the unspoken, the unvoiced, the silenced. We propose to look at various geographies and chronologies of wars and conflicts, each of which produces different narratives that merge, complement, or undermine one another. By studying other post-war experiences, we hope to gain more awareness to navigate the challenges that Ukrainian society will face.

This year's Symposium program will consist of various formats: panel discussions, Q&A sessions, networking, films, trainings, and informal opportunities to exchange experiences.

• WHEN: June 4-6, 2026
• LOCATION: Lviv, Ukraine
• WORKING LANGUAGES: Ukrainian and English (with simultaneous interpretation)

Registration — until January 26, 2026.

We will confirm participation by  February 13, 2026.

Registration

The program will grant up to two summer fellowships of up to 3,300 Euro each to graduate students in German History at North American Universities located along the West Coast (west of the Mississippi River and the western provinces of Canada). This funding will give doctoral candidates with a focus on German history the opportunity to work for four to six weeks in German archives and libraries to review material for their dissertation. In individual cases outstanding projects can also be funded, which are not primarily concerned with German History but require a research stay in German archives.

This preparatory research is intended to make it easier for doctoral candidates to write a detailed description of their project which in turn can improve their chances of success if they choose to apply for a longer-term research fellowship in Germany in the future. Questions about applying or about the fellowship program in general should be directed to Heike Friedman (friedman(at)ghi-dc.org).

Eligibility Requirements:

• Applicants should be enrolled in a graduate program at a university in a state or province along the North American West Coast (west of the Mississippi River and the western provinces of Canada) and have worked on their project for less than 2 years
• Adequate knowledge of the German language
• Existing or planned contacts with archives and libraries in Germany

Apply online

The following must be submitted before January 31, 2026 as single pdf using the application portal linked anove:

1. A tabular curriculum vitae

2. A brief description of the project with time and work schedule for the planned stay in the archives (maximum 15,000 characters)

3. Two letters of reference from academic supervisors (sent separately to fellowship(at)ghi-dc.org)

Applicants may write in either English or German; we recommend that they use the language in which they are most proficient. Applicants will be notified about the outcome approximately one month after the deadline.

Zur Website des GHI Washington

This one-day workshop on the history of medieval Germany (broadly defined) offers an opportunity for researchers from Europe and the wider English-speaking world to meet at the German Historical Institute in London. Participants will be able to discuss their work in a relaxed and friendly setting and to learn more about each other’s research. 

Proposals for short papers of 10–15 minutes are invited from researchers at all career stages with an interest in any aspect of the history of medieval Germany. Participants are encouraged to present work in progress, highlight research questions and approaches, and point to yet unresolved challenges of their projects. Presentations will be followed by a discussion. 

Participation is free of charge and includes lunch and dinner. The GHIL and the GHS will also provide a contribution towards travel expenses. Accommodation costs cannot be reimbursed. Support is available for postgraduate and early career researchers: up to £150, for travel within the UK (excluding London) and up to €300 for an economy round trip from Europe. Please indicate your interest in travel support in your application. 

We look forward to reading your proposals. Please send your submission—which must include a title, an abstract of c. 200 words, and a biographical note of no more than c. 100 words—to Thomas Kaal: t.kaal@ghil.ac.uk. Questions about all aspects of the workshop can also be sent to Marcus Meer: m.meer@ucl.ac.uk. 

Students and researchers interested in medieval German history are also very welcome to attend and listen to the presentations. There is no charge for attendance, but pre-booking is essential. If you would like to attend as a guest, please contact Kim König: k.koenig@ghil.ac.uk. 

The deadline for proposal submissions is 15 February 2026.

Call for Papers (PDF)

Zur Website des GHI London

Organisiert von: PD Dr. Jan Simon Karstens, Dr. Eva Seemann, Hannah Tulay

Dass Mobilitäts- und Migrationserfahrungen nicht nur in der neuesten Geschichte zur Lebensrealität zahlreicher Frauen und Mädchen gehörten, kann heute als unhintergehbare Tatsache gelten. Dabei war die Mobilität von Frauen, sei es als Töchter, Ehefrauen oder Witwen, als Arbeiterinnen, Nonnen, Unternehmerinnen oder Aktivistinnen, mit geschlechtsspezifischen Erwartungen, aber häufig auch mit besonderen Erfahrungen verbunden, die je nach Herkunft, Stand, Alter, religiöser, ethischer und familiärer Zugehörigkeit variieren konnten. Hieran knüpft der geplante Workshop am Deutschen Historischen Institut Paris an und fragt danach, wie historische Akteur:innen insbesondere solche Erfahrungen von Mobilität reflektierten, deuteten und kommunizierten, die in einem Widerspruch zu vorherigen Erwartungen standen. Hierbei wollen wir dezidiert in einen transepochalen Dialog treten und laden daher Beiträge von der Frühen Neuzeit bis in die Zeitgeschichte ein.

Die Geschichte geschlechtsspezifischer, insbesondere weiblicher Mobilität ist in den letzten zwanzig Jahren zu einem etablierten Thema der historischen Forschung geworden. In Abgrenzung zu älteren Annahmen haben neuere Forschungen dabei nicht nur das weite Ausmaß weiblicher Mobilität seit der Frühen Neuzeit sichtbar gemacht, sondern auch die große Bandbreite unterschiedlicher Mobilitätserfahrungen von Frauen und Mädchen herausgearbeitet. Das Spektrum reicht von weiblicher Bildungs- und Heiratsmobilität, über Stadt-Land-Wanderungen weiblicher Dienstboten und andere Formen von Arbeitsmobilität, bis hin zur Mobilität im Rahmen von Familienmigrationen oder politischem Aktivismus, sei es in kleinräumigen oder grenzüberschreitenden Settings. In jüngeren Arbeiten sind hierbei vor allem weibliche Handlungsmacht sowie die mit der Mobilität einhergehenden Chancen und Möglichkeiten, etwa für Existenzsicherung, sozialen Aufstieg und Selbstbestimmung, betont worden. Dabei war die Mobilität von Frauen nicht selten mit besonderen Zwängen, Herausforderungen und Enttäuschungen verbunden, die Einfluss auf Mobilitätserfahrungen und Entscheidungsprozesse hatten sowie ihrerseits Erwartungen an weibliche Mobilität prägten. Explizite Formen von erzwungener Mobilität (z.B. Vertreibung, Flucht, Sklaverei) sollen hierbei ausgeklammert werden.

Das hier entstehende Spannungsfeld zwischen individuellen und gesellschaftlichen Erwartungungen und dazu widersprüchlichen Erfahrungen soll im Zuge des Workshops tiefer ausgelotet werden. Dabei sollen sowohl die Erwartungen und Erfahrungen mobiler Akteurinnen selbst als auch Deutungen und Reflexionen von Dritten (z.B. Verwandte, Institutionen, Gelehrte, Peers) über weibliche Mobilität und ihre Widersprüche berücksichtigt werden, wie sie in Briefen, Tagebüchern, Memoiren und Reiseberichten, aber auch in öffentlichen Debatten, Medien, behördlichen Schriften, Traktaten u.a. verhandelt werden. Entsprechend orientiert sich der Workshop an einer erfahrungsgeschichtlichen Perspektive und fragt danach, wie historische Akteur:innen eine Diskrepanz zwischen Erwartung und Erfahrung deuteten. Es geht somit nicht um die Messung objektiven Erfolgs oder Scheiterns von Mobilität oder Migrationspolitik, sondern um Wahrnehmungen und Sinnzuschreibungen angesichts solcher Erfahrungen.

Neuere Studien zum historischen ‚Scheitern‘ haben gezeigt, wie sehr die Deutungen enttäuschter Erwartungen variierten. Beispielsweise konnten sie als Teilerfolg oder wichtige Lebenserfahrung relativiert, mittels Schuldzuweisungen abgestritten oder offen als Leidensgeschichte oder Handlungsappell präsentiert werden. Die Frage, welche dieser Deutungen Akteur:innen in welchen Kontexten und mit welcher Intention wählten, berücksichtigt zum einen die Handlungsmacht der Akteur:innen und eröffnet zum anderen neue Einblicke in den Wandel von Erwartungen und Rezeptionen weiblicher Mobilität.

Der geplante Workshop lädt Historiker:innen und Forschende angrenzender Disziplinen (z. B. historisch arbeitende Geschlechterforschung, Literaturwissenschaft … ) ein, gemeinsam den Blick auf enttäuschte Erwartungen zu richten, die mit der Mobilität von Frauen in der neueren und neuesten Geschichte (17. bis frühes 20. Jahrhundert) verbunden waren.

Beiträge sind unter anderem zu folgenden Schwerpunkten/Themenfeldern willkommen:

• Geschlechterrollen sowie individuelle und gesellschaftliche Erwartungen an weibliche Mobilität in unterschiedlichen Kontexten
• individuelle und kollektive Deutungen enttäuschender Mobilitätserfahrungen sowie ihre Auswirkungen auf Entscheidungsprozesse
• Auswirkungen »gescheiterter« oder »enttäuschender« weiblicher Mobilität auf Geschlechterbilder (z.B. der immobilen Frau), auf Geschlechterverhältnisse und Handlungsspielräume von Frauen
• mediale und administrative Narrative über weibliche Mobilität und enttäuschende Mobilitätserfahrungen
• (wahrgenommene) Faktoren des »Scheiterns« weiblicher Mobilität und deren intersektionale Verflechtungen
• Bedeutungen familiärer Netzwerke und des familiären Status auf Mobilitätserfahrungen
• Methodische Probleme und Herausforderungen bei der Erforschung weiblicher Mobilitätserfahrungen

Geplant ist eine gemeinsame Publikation in englischer Sprache. Wir bitten ausschließlich um bisher unpubliziertes Material.

Tagungssprachen sind Englisch und Französisch.

Link to English version

Bitte richten Sie Ihren Themenvorschlag (Abstract im Umfang von 300 Wörtern) zusammen mit einem kurzen CV (1 Seite) bis zum 31. Januar 2026 an hannah.tulay@dhi-paris.fr.

Zur Website des DHI Paris

Topic: The AI Turn in Contemporary Historiography: Challenges, Applications, Reflections 

Deadline for submissions: 30 June 2026

Themes and questions:

1) Epistemology, authorship, and interpretation

2) Methodology, infrastructure, and the Black box

3) Cognitive, political, and environmental boundaries

4) Education, practice, and the future of humanistic knowledge

Here you can find the complete call.

Zur Website des DHI Warschau

Das Deutsche Historische Institut Paris (DHIP) vergibt zweimal jährlich die Karl-Ferdinand-Werner-Fellowships. Gefördert werden können neben individuellen Archiv- und Bibliotheksforschungen in Paris und Umgebung auch Aufenthalte, die der konzentrierten Manuskriptarbeit mit Hilfe der gut ausgestatteten Institutsbibliothek dienen oder der Vertiefung von wissenschaftlichen Kontakten für die französisch-deutsche Wissenschaftskooperation (z. B. zur Konzeption von gemeinsamen Forschungsprojekten).

Stichdaten für Bewerbungen sind jeweils der 15. Februar (Aufenthalte im Sommer/Herbst des laufenden Jahres) und der 15. September (Aufenthalte in den ersten Monaten des Folgejahrs).

Die Dauer der geförderten Aufenthalte beträgt zwischen einer und vier Wochen. Die Fellows wohnen kostenlos in einem der Gästezimmer des DHIP, erhalten Anbindung an die Infrastruktur des Instituts sowie seine Bibliothek und können von den wissenschaftlichen Kontakten des DHIP profitieren.

Das Programm richtet sich insbesondere an Professorinnen und Professoren und an Angehörige des akademischen Mittelbaus (mit zumindest abgeschlossener Promotion) an deutschen Hochschulen, deren Vorhaben sich in die Arbeitsfelder des DHIP einfügen. Dozierende, die im universitären Alltag die Lasten von Lehre und Selbstverwaltung zu tragen haben, sollen zum Beispiel in der vorlesungsfreien Zeit während ihres kostenlosen Aufenthalts am DHIP ungestört ihre wissenschaftliche Arbeit verfolgen und von dessen Infrastruktur profitieren.

Andere Bewerberinnen und Bewerber mit einem förderungsfähigen wissenschaftlichen Anliegen können dann berücksichtigt werden, wenn die Kapazitäten des Programms nicht ausgeschöpft sind. Vertreterinnen und Vertreter historisch arbeitender Nachbarfächer können sich ebenfalls bewerben, wenn ihre Forschungsanliegen interdisziplinär ausgerichtet und für das DHIP relevant sind. Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler, die schon einmal KFW-Fellow waren, können sich um weitere Forschungsaufenthalte bewerben.

Bewerbungen können in deutscher oder französischer Sprache eingereicht werden. Bitte nennen Sie in Ihrem Anschreiben die Dauer und nach Möglichkeit bereits den geplanten Zeitraum Ihres Aufenthalts und fügen Sie Ihrer Bewerbung folgende Unterlagen bei:

• eine Skizze Ihres Forschungsvorhabens im Umfang von ca. 5000 Zeichen (einschließlich Leerzeichen), aus der auch die aufzusuchenden Forschungseinrichtungen (Archive, Bibliotheken) und deren einschlägigen Bestände hervorgehen
• einen tabellarischen Lebenslauf
• ein Schriftenverzeichnis.

Über die Zuerkennung eines Fellowship entscheidet eine vom DHIP unabhängige Kommission, der zwei deutsche und zwei französische Historikerinnen und Historiker angehören.

Ihr Bewerbungsdossier richten Sie bitte vollständig und in einer PDF-Datei per E-Mail (foerderung@dhi-paris.fr) an das DHIP, zu Händen von Frau Svenja Dallner.

Für weitere Auskünfte zu den Karl-Ferdinand-Werner-Fellowships steht Ihnen Frau Dr. Christine Zabel gerne zur Verfügung (czabel@dhi-paris.fr /Telefon: +33 (0)1 44 54 23 80).

Zur Website des DHI Paris

The German Historical Institute (GHI) Washington seeks to hire two full-time Research Fellows in the field of modern and contemporary history, with an anticipated start date of June 1, 2026.

The GHI Washington is part of the Max Weber Foundation – German Humanities Institutes Abroad, one of the leading agencies supporting German research in the humanities and social sciences abroad. The institute conducts research and promotes work in the fields of German/European and Jewish history, American and transatlantic history (North America and Latin America), and the history of migration and mobility. Currently, the institute is establishing a new research focus on “Empires and their Legacies.” In its role as an intermediary between researchers in Germany and North America, the GHI Washington has a broad international academic network.

Call for Applications and application portal (German)

Call for Applications and application portal (English)

Primary Tasks and Responsibilities

The advertised positions require active participation in the institute’s overall work. This includes editing the institute’s scholarly publications, organizing academic events, participating in the administration of the institute’s fellowship programs, and cultivating international academic networks.

Requirements

Applicants are expected to have earned a doctoral degree in modern or contemporary history with distinction; they should also be pursuing a new research project that will result in the publication of a Habilitation or an equivalent second book project. Ideally, this project should align with one of the current focal points of research at the GHI Washington. Applications relating to our new research focus “Empires and their Legacies” are particularly welcome.

Applicants should have a very good command of German and English. Experience in the acquisition of third-party funding and in the organization of conferences is an asset.

The GHI Washington as an Employer

Both positions are initially limited to three years (qualification period according to WissZeitVG). There is the possibility of an extension. The place of employment is Washington, DC. If the applicant meets the criteria for a posting from Germany and fulfills the advertised position’s requirements, then remuneration will be in accordance with TVöD E13 (German Federal Government). Benefits for posted employees will be consistent with those of the Federal Civil Service and will include a foreign allowance (§53 BBesG), a purchasing-power adjustment (§55 BBesG), and a housing subsidy (§54 BBesG) to account for higher cost of living in Washington, DC. American citizens and other applicants with a valid U.S. work permit will be offered a local employment contract in accordance with the German Embassy in Washington, DC. Local employee salaries and benefits are based on Embassy guidelines; the starting salary range for Research Fellows is $10,050-10,352 per month, and benefits include (but are not limited to) health insurance, a 401(k) plan, and paid vacation/sick leave.

The Max Weber Foundation is a family-friendly employer who values work-life balance. We are happy to answer any questions you may have about our policies at gleichstellung(at)maxweberstiftung.de. The GHI Washington is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will be considered without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, marital status, personal appearance, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, familial status, disability, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic.

Application Instructions

Your application should include a cover letter (which lists your contact information and highlights your most relevant qualifications for the advertised position), a CV, a list of publications, copies of high school and university diplomas, a description of the research that you plan to undertake at the GHI (2 pages), and the names of two references (written references may be requested). Please compile all your application documents into one PDF and submit the file through our application portal until January 11, 2026.

Should you have questions about the responsibilities associated with the position, please contact Dr. Sarah Beringer.

Short-listed candidates will be invited to Zoom interviews that are provisionally scheduled for early February 2026.

Zur Website des DHI Washington

23.-27. März 2026

Organisiert vom Deutschen Forum für Kunstgeschichte (DFK Paris), der Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg und der Universität Aix-Marseille, mit der Unterstützung der Deutsch-Französischen Hochschule/Université Franco-allemande

Bewerbungsfrist: 11. Januar 2026
Wiss. Leitung: Stephan Albrecht, Julia Drost, Andreas Hartmann-Virnich, Anna Chiara Knoblauch

Der Wiederaufbau von Notre-Dame hat neue methodische Zugänge in der Kunstgeschichte katalysiert, die der Forschung der Kathedrale einen Erkenntnisgewinn versprechen. Der von der Deutsch-Französischen Hochschule geförderte Studienkurs zielt darauf ab, aktuelle Ansätze zur Erforschung der Kathedrale zu diskutieren und interdisziplinäre wie spezialisierte Fragestellungen zu fördern. Welche neuen Fragestellungen standen in den letzten 15 Jahren im Vordergrund? Wie haben sie unseren Blick auf die Kathedrale verändert?
Im Verlauf eines fünftägigen Programms sollen diese Fragen im deutsch-französischen Vergleich und im internationalen Kontext theoretisch reflektiert werden. 

Acht bis zehn Nachwuchswissenschaftler:innen, Doktorand:innen- und fortgeschrittene Masterstudierende der Kunstgeschichte und deren verwandten Disziplinen (Denkmalpflege, Restaurierung, Bauforschung, mittelalterliche Geschichte, …) aus Deutschland, Frankreich und dem internationalen Ausland erhalten die Gelegenheit, im Rahmen von Workshops, öffentlichen Vorträgen, Besichtigungen vor Ort in Paris, Saint-Denis und Chartres von ausgewiesenen Spezialist:innen die aktuellen Forschungsfragen zu architektur- und kunsthistorischen Themen in den Blick zu nehmen. Dabei werden die verschiedenen Methoden der historischen, archäologischen, technischen, künstlerischen und denkmalpflegerischen Ansätze beleuchtet.

Gemeinsam mit Mittelalterhistoriker:innen, Kunsthistoriker:innen sowie Restaurator:innen und Naturwissenschaftler:innen werden im Rahmen von Workshops, Vorträgen und Begehungen in situ Fragen der Bau-, Ausstattungs- sowie Nutzungsgeschichte, Erhaltung und Konservierung diskutiert. Es sind Ortsgespräche und Besichtigungen der Kathedralen von Notre-Dame, Chartres sowie Saint-Denis geplant, die durch Besuche im Musée national du Moyen Âge - Thermes et hôtel de Cluny in Paris und in der Médiathèque du Patrimoine et de la Photographie in Charenton ergänzt werden.

Voraussetzung für die Teilnahme am Studienkurs sind aktive Kenntnisse der deutschen oder der französischen Sprache und zumindest passive Kenntnisse der jeweils anderen Sprache (punktuell kann auch auf die englische Sprache zurückgegriffen werden) sowie die Präsentation von mindestens einem 15-minütigen Impulsreferats in deutscher oder französischer Sprache mit anschließender Diskussion vor Ort. Die Referatsthemen werden den Teilnehmer:innen zugeteilt. Darüber hinaus werden zwei Seminareinheiten stattfinden, die den Teilnehmer:innen die Vorstellung Ihres aktuellen Forschungsthemas (Masterarbeiten, Doktorarbeiten, …) im Themenbereich der Studienkurses ermöglichen.
Studierende und Doktorand:innen, die weder ein Stipendium in Paris erhalten noch Einkünfte aus einem Arbeitsverhältnis von mehr als 50 % beziehen, können einen Reisekostenzuschuss in Höhe von bis zu 150 € sowie einen weiteren Zuschuss zu den Übernachtungskosten in Höhe von bis zu 350 € beantragen. Der Antrag auf Zuschuss ist formlos und muss mit der Bewerbung eingereicht werden. 
 
Ihre vollständigen Bewerbungsunterlagen (ein Motivationsschreiben von nicht mehr als 2 Seiten, ein Empfehlungsschreiben einer Dozentin oder eines Dozenten sowie einen tabellarischen Lebenslauf mit Nachweis der bisherigen Studienleistungen) richten Sie bitte bis zum 11. Januar 2026 mit dem Stichwort » Internationaler Studienkurs 2026/Atelier de recherche international 2026 « an: ateliersderecherche@dfk-paris.org 
Ein Anspruch auf Zulassung besteht nicht. 
Für weiterführende Informationen steht Ihnen Frau Katharina Kolb (kkolb@dfk-paris.org) gerne zur Verfügung.

Zur Website des DFK Paris

Place: German Historical Institute Paris / Institut historique allemand, Paris, 8, rue du Parc-Royal, 75003 Paris
Date: 22-26 June 2026
Application deadline: 15 January 2026
Submissions by mail: dh [at] dhi-paris . fr

Cette appel en français : https://dhiha.hypotheses.org/3813

How does the history of migration change when it relies on digital sources and methods? What new knowledge and what forms of inquiry, narration and documentation do these digital practices make possible? How can we identify and reduce bias while complying with the ethical and legal requirements that govern the collection, analysis and dissemination of data? These questions will be at the heart of the workshops, presentations and discussions of the 2026 summer school at the German Historical Institute in Paris.

Over the past few decades, the history of migration has broadened its horizons. Today it articulates shifts in scale from the micro to the global, takes social and cultural differentiations into account, and focuses on the infrastructures of mobility as well as the material, legal and affective conditions of “being on the move.” Greater attention is paid to the practices and everyday lives of migrants, often from a transnational perspective. This development goes hand in hand with increased use of large, multilingual corpora, whose access increasingly depends on digital tools. In addition to serial and statistical collections, sources include administrative, police or NGO archives, genealogical databases, documents from associations and religious organisations, legal sources, the press and other media, correspondence and private writings (including social media), as well as oral history interviews.

In this context, digital technologies are profoundly transforming research practices and have effects on the history of migration, a field long familiar with serial sources and open to computational tools. Large-scale digitisation and easier access to textual and visual corpora make new explorations possible. Analytically, computational approaches—text mining (e.g. topic modelling, sentiment analysis), network analysis and geographic information systems (GIS)—enable the exploration of large corpora and the identification of trends, recurrences and developments (by themes, periods, places, actors, etc.). For scholarly communication, maps, graphs and timelines offer readable ways to present, compare and discuss results. Oral history also benefits: remote collection, assisted transcription and indexing, archiving and online dissemination, as well as interactive forms of restitution that broaden audiences, open up new perspectives while calling for increased vigilance in matters of ethics, consent and data protection.

At the same time, we must take into account OCR/HTR errors, platform and selection biases—especially in the choice of sources to digitise and put online—which make some sources and voices more visible than others; gaps in provenance and coverage; and descriptive and dating inconsistencies that are common in often multilingual corpora. Hence there is a need for rigorous source criticism, transparent documentation of procedures and continuous contextualisation.

Objectives and thematic axes

The GHI summer school 2026 will examine what digital methods bring to the history of migration and how digitisation and computer-based processing influence results, interpretations and research pathways. It will also encourage the explicit discussion of limits and uncertainties. We invite presentations from advanced master’s students, as well as doctoral and postdoctoral researchers who wish to discuss ongoing projects and share a critical assessment of practices.

Proposals may address, in particular, the following themes:

• History of migration (all periods and regions): presentation of an ongoing project using digital methods in migration history, specifying the research questions, corpus/sources, methods and expected or obtained results.
• Theoretical perspectives on migration history: epistemological contributions of digital sources and traces of migration; effects on categories, scales of analysis and the writing of migration history.
• Critique of digital and ethical issues: relationships between research and the digital in migration history (datafication, algorithmic mediation and platform bias, digitisation and online dissemination policies, standards and interoperability, documentation and replicability); data protection, security and legal frameworks; the role of platforms and infrastructures of migrant communities, as well as those created for them.
• Data practices on migration: transforming migration corpora into databases (modelling, normalisation, alignments, documentation); critical reuse of existing databases; the contribution of these practices to substantive findings on migration.
• Oral history and digital narratives of migration: uses of born-digital sources, collection and archiving, interactive narratives and online exhibitions, associated ethical requirements.
• Computational methods and visualisations: network analysis, spatial analysis and GIS applied to mobilities (infrastructures, trajectories), text mining and image processing, sequence and temporality modelling, visualisations for exploration and argumentation, using mixed quantitative and qualitative approaches.

Other topics related to the theme of the summer school are also welcome.

Format
The summer school will take place from 22 to 26 June 2026 at the German Historical Institute (Paris). It will begin with an informal get-together on Monday evening, 22 June. On Tuesday morning, three hands-on workshops will be offered, applied to the participants’ corpora and fields. The other days will be devoted to short presentations by participants, each commented on by an expert and discussed collectively. The event will conclude on Friday, 26 June 2026, after lunch. Coffee breaks and lunch will be provided on site; partial funding may be considered for travel and accommodation costs (subject to funding currently being sought).

Eligibility and prerequisites

Applications are open to advanced master’s students, doctoral candidates and postdoctoral researchers at the time of the summer school, with a project in migration history that includes a methodological dimension related to the themes. The working languages are French and English: active proficiency in at least one of the two is expected; passive comprehension of the other is desirable.

Application file

A single PDF file titled “name_topic_application_dh_migration” including a brief cover letter (with an indication regarding funding for your participation, particularly whether it can be covered by your home institution), a one-page CV, and a two-page abstract of the proposed presentation specifying the research question, the source or data base, the digital methods used, the expected contribution and the limits or uncertainties.

Submission
Applications must be sent by 15 January 2026 to: dh [at] dhi-paris . fr

Informations
https://dhdhi.hypotheses.org

PDF of the call

Zur Website des DHI Paris

Workshop 1: IKGN, Lüneburg, Germany, 17-18 September 2026

Religion in Motion:  Multi-level entanglements between USSR and Germany

Workshop 2: MWF Helsinki, Finland, 29-30 April 2027

Religious actors amid radical transformations in the Soviet Republics

Submission deadline: 31 January 2026

Perestroika reconfigured the religious field across the USSR and beyond. Policy shifts under Gorbachev – on vivid display during the 1988 Millennium of the Baptism of Rus’ and later legally fixed in the 1990 Law on freedom of faith – opened space for religion while exposing deep divisions about its place in Soviet society and history. Equally important, but hitherto little explored is the fact that borders became more permeable, both toward the West and within the socialist bloc. This produced a multi-faceted space for exchange, transfer, transcultural impact, self-representation and competition. Transformations affected the religious field at every level: from the top of the socialist state to the grass-roots levels of society, but also horizontally, in the centers, regions and peripheries of the USSR and across the hitherto restrictive borders. Representatives of émigré churches re-entered the scene with distinct agendas; the official, but hitherto subdued, church (ROC) tested new forms of publicity and self-promotion at home and abroad; local authorities experimented with notions of “national” religion; Western missionaries pursued “mission on red territory;” new forms of religious tourism emerged, and churches acted on the moving diplomatic floor, assuming relevant roles in states and societies across the ‘Socialist Bloc’. Memory politics changed rapidly, with public narratives about victims of the Soviet regime and the creation of a new pantheon of martyrs. A swift expansion of publishing, seminaries, translations, student exchanges, missions and branch offices, humanitarian relief, and even the antiquities trade reshaped infrastructures. Besides, changing emigration rules – affecting Jews, ‘Russian Germans,’ and other groups – radically altered local communities within the disintegrating Soviet Union and created new trends and communities of former Soviet citizens worldwide.

All these phenomena occurred simultaneously and impacted each other in a transnational dimension. They require further investigation while existing research findings await a comprehensive discussion in a focused scientific setting. We want to offer such a setting in two interdisciplinary workshops, the first taking place at Nordost-Institut (IKGN e.V.) in Lüneburg in September 2026, the second at Max Weber Forum (Max Weber Network Eastern Europe), Helsinki, in April 2027.

The first workshop is designed to specifically address entanglements of religious relations, including religious PR, mobility, and networks of religious actors during perestroika and early transformation. This workshop concentrates on relations between the USSR and Germany, both in their bilateral dimensions and their embeddedness in broader, global structures, due to the participation of involved actors from other countries and continents. We look for evidence on brokers and gatekeepers, linking religious and other actors in different republics of the USSR with Germany, for example in the form of support projects and aid campaigns. We presume that there were actors from all segments of state and society – political and religious hierarchies, religious and administrative practitioners, but also ‘ordinary’ people, who became interested and engaged under the new political circumstances.

The second workshop shifts its focus more on developments within the republics of the USSR, especially regarding the transformations of law, religious relations across different Soviet republics, and cases of state–religion governance. One aim is to explore how the legal announcement of religious freedom was perceived and processed by the actors; how it was understood both in the sense of a new pressure to act, even a threat, but also as the hitherto unknown opportunity for self-realization and the emergence of “traditional religions” and “national churches”.

We welcome proposals that explore the entangled history of religion during perestroika from the perspectives of history, religious studies, and anthropology. We are especially interested in source-based case studies that uncover how people, texts, funds, artifacts, and norms moved across the “Iron Curtain” and circulated within the diverse and multifaceted Soviet Union. While work on Orthodox and Catholic contexts is welcome, we especially seek contributions on initiatives from EKD milieus, free evangelical communities, and the often-overlooked Islamic, Jewish, Buddhist, and neo-pagan settings.

We are particularly interested in research that addresses:

• grassroots and regional (provincial) initiatives, especially in the republics of Central Asia and the Baltic states, as well as in the Far East, the Caucasus, and other regions;
• sensitivity to gender aspects, with special attention to hidden or overlooked women’s roles;
• religious or spiritually based humanitarian, educational, artistic, and ecological initiatives.

Please indicate which of the two workshops you would like to participate in and submit a paper proposal (400 words) along with a short CV (including current affiliation and contact details) by 31 January 2026 to Nadezhda.Beliakova@uni-bielefeld.de and Franziska.Schedewie@zegk.uni-heidelberg.de

Applicants will be informed of the acceptance of their proposal by 28 February 2026.

The working language of the workshops will be English. A publication of contributions is planned.

The workshops are organized by Nadezhda Beliakova (University of Bielefeld) and Franziska Schedewie (University of Heidelberg) in cooperation with Nordost-Institut – IKGN e.V. (Lüneburg) and Max Weber Forum Helsinki and funded by Nordost-Institut – IKGN e.V. (Workshop 1), Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft – DFG, and Max Weber Network Eastern Europe (Workshop 2).

The organizers will provide accommodation in Lüneburg (for Workshop 1) and Helsinki (for Workshop 2) for the duration of each workshop. Travel costs will be reimbursed after the workshop depending on budget availability with early career researchers, participants from post-Soviet states (excluding Russia and Belarus) and scholars in exile taking precedence.

Zur Website des MWN Osteuropa

Seminar at UC Berkeley | Conveners: Anna von der Goltz (Georgetown University) and Richard Wetzell (GHI Washington)

The German Historical Institute Washington and the BMW Center for German and European Studies at Georgetown University are pleased to announce the 30th Transatlantic Doctoral Seminar in German History, which will take place at the GHI’s Pacific Office at the University of California in Berkeley on June 16-18, 2026. 

The seminar will bring together advanced doctoral students from Europe and North America to discuss their dissertation projects with one another and a small group of faculty mentors. The organizers welcome proposals from doctoral students working on any aspect of the history of German-speaking Central Europe since the eighteenth century or on topics in European, transnational, comparative or global history that have a significant German component. Doctoral students working in related fields – including art history, legal history, and the history of science – are also encouraged to apply. The discussions will be based on papers (in German or English) submitted six weeks in advance. The seminar will be conducted bilingually, in German and English; therefore, fluency in both languages is a prerequisite. Accommodations will be arranged and paid for by the conference organizers. In addition, a travel subsidy will be available for those who do not have travel funding from their home institution.

We are now accepting applications from doctoral students whose dissertations are at an advanced stage (that is, in the write-up rather than research stage) but who will be granted their degrees after June 2026. Applications should include: (1) vita, max. 2 pages; (2) dissertation project description, max. 1000 words; (3) provisional table of contents, indicating which chapters have been completed (max. 2 pages), (4) letter of reference from the major dissertation advisor (commenting on progress toward completion and fluency in English and German). Applicants may submit their materials in German or English (preferably in the language in which they are writing their dissertation). The first three documents should be combined into a single PDF (file name should start with applicant’s last name) and submitted via upload at the online portal by December 31, 2025. Letters of reference should be emailed to Richard Wetzell at wetzell(at)ghi-dc.org (preferably as a PDF) by the advisor by the same date. Questions may be directed to Richard Wetzell via email. 

Zur Website des GHI Washington

Workshop at UC Berkeley | Convener: Simone M. Müller (University of Augsburg), Isabel Richter (German Historical Institute Washington, Pacific Office)

Protests against the siting of a toxic waste incinerator in Warren County, North Carolina, in 1982—and similar protests in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Texas – moved the intersection of racial discrimination and toxic exposure into the center of public attention (Murdock 2021). Since then, an increasing number of activists, researchers, and politicians have worked with the umbrella term environmental justice to investigate a wide range of topics. These include urban and industrial environments, labor conditions (Flanagan 2000; Pellow 2002, Carruthers 2008; Janos/ McKendry 2021; Rector 2023, Tau Lee 2023), the production of toxins, hazardous waste, and radioactive material (Malin 2015, Arndt 2020, Müller 2023), conservation of national parks and ecotourism (Wakild 2011; Honey 1999), the history of climate change (Morgan 2024), processes of privatizing resources and public goods (Bauer 1998; Shiva 2002; Robinson 2013), activism and environmental movements (Anthony 2002; Cairns 2021;), and people of color and environmental justice (Carneiro da Cunha 2000; Voyles 2015; Gilio-Whitaker 2019). Researchers in Central and South America have played a significant role in shaping the recent trend of analyzing decolonial environmental justice (Castro Gomez/Grosfoguel 2007; Escobar 2011; Álvarez/Coolsaet 2018; Rodriguez 2021). 

The workshop “Environments and Societies at the Crossroads” seeks to bring graduate students, postdocs, and senior scholars working on the history of social and environmental justice into conversation. By examining the historical connections between environments and social justice in nineteenth and twentieth-century Europe and the Americas, our workshop will explore the rise of modern environmentalism and the environmental justice movement including crucial topics and developments prior to the 1970s. Understanding social injustice and ecological decline as twin crises in the age of extractivism and industrialization, we invite historical contributions that explore the intricate relationship between societies and environments including topics such as debates on industrial pollution, labor rights or the distribution of wealth to projects of nature conservation, wildlife protection, and decolonization. 

We are particularly interested in contributions exploring the intersection of societies and environments at the crossroads, testing both their contestations as well as their alignments. We will use social practices, discourse and debates, and experiences in environmental and social history as a lens to reflect on a variety of methodologies, historical strategies, places, and spaces in the Americas and Europe during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries as arenas to negotiate questions of justice, including topics such as:

• Case studies that illuminate how justice is defined in this context. Who defines, and which lines of intellectual thought are considered ‘just’?
• Which terms and practices existed prior to the late twentieth-century environmental justice movement?
• How has the relationship between social and environmental justice been negotiated?
• How are distributional justice of environmental burdens and social burdens debated, i.e., who is paying for the damage, and who is being held responsible for it?

The in-person workshop will be held in English and will be hosted by the GHI Pacific Office at UC Berkeley. During the workshop we will discuss pre-circulated papers limited to 5000 words. Proposals, which should include a paper title, an abstract of no more than 250 words, a short CV, and contact information (address, phone, email), must be submitted online in a single pdf (the file name should be the last name of the applicant) by January 16 , 2026.

Please contact Heike Friedman if you have problems submitting your information. Decisions will be sent out by the end of January 2026. 

Accommodations will be arranged and paid for by the conference organizers. Participants will be expected to make their own travel arrangements. Some subsidies for travel will be available upon request, especially for those who might not otherwise be able to attend the conference, including junior scholars and scholars from universities with limited resources. There is no registration fee.

Zur Website des GHI Washington

Das Max Weber Netzwerk Osteuropa (MWNO) bietet deutschen und internationalen Studierenden der Geschichts- und Geisteswissenschaften die Möglichkeit zu einem Praktikum zwischen 6 und 12 Wochen.

Praktika können derzeit an den Standorten Helsinki und Tbilissi absolviert werden.

Dort können Praktikant*innen Einblicke gewinnen in

• die Arbeitsweisen und Strukturen einer international aktiven Wissenschaftsinstitution
• erweiterte wissenschaftliche Recherche und Datenverarbeitung im Kontext der Forschungs- und Digital History-Projekte vor Ort
• Veranstaltungsorganisation in ihren verschiedenen Aspekten über die Einbindung in die Vorbereitung, Durchführung und Abwicklung von internationalen Workshops, Abendveranstaltungen und Arbeitstreffen
• Wissenschaftskommunikation, u.a. in den Sparten wissenschaftliche Blogs, Podcasts, Social Media und Webseitenbetreuung

Darüber hinaus bieten wir:

• flexible Arbeitszeiten und zwei Tage bezahlten Urlaub/Monat
• Vollzeitpraktikant*innen erhalten eine monatliche Aufwandsentschädigung von 450.- €.  – Wir weisen ausdrücklich auf die Möglichkeit hin, sich unter Berücksichtigung der entsprechenden Fristen zusätzlich auf ein Stipendium des DAAD für Praktika im Ausland zu bewerben
• Zusammenarbeit in einem internationalen Team

Vorausgesetzt werden

• fundierte Deutsch- und Englischkenntnisse in Wort und Schrift; Kenntnisse der für das MWNO relevanten Sprachen sind erwünscht, aber keine Voraussetzung
• die Fähigkeit zum selbstständigen Arbeiten
• Teamfähigkeit
• gute Computerkenntnisse (sichere Umgang mit allen Office-Anwendungen; Kenntnis von Netiquette und Prinzipien der Datensicherheit)
• die Bereitschaft, aktiv an allen Bereichen der Arbeit des Netzwerkes teilzunehmen
• Erfahrungen in den oben genannten Tätigkeitsfeldern sind keine Voraussetzung, aber von Vorteil

Bitte beachten Sie auch die Regelungen in Bezug auf Pflicht- und freiwillige Praktika der Max Weber Stiftung.

Bewerbungen mit Motivationsschreiben und Lebenslauf senden Sie bitte gebündelt in einem PDF-Dokument per E-Mail an maike.lehmann(at)mws-osteuropa.org.

Bitte geben Sie den Zeitraum an, für den Sie sich bewerben. Für 2026 ist die Bewerbung offen, aber bitte sorgen Sie für einen VORLAUF VON MINDESTENS DREI MONATEN. Für 2026 ist eine Bewerbung bis spätestens 15.07.2026 möglich.

Wir wertschätzen Vielfalt und begrüßen daher qualifizierte Bewerbungen unabhängig von Geschlecht, Behinderung, Nationalität oder ethnischer und sozialer Herkunft. 

Kontakt: Maike Lehmann, maike.lehmann(at)mws-osteuropa.org

Zur Website des MWN Osteuropa

Launched in 2024, the first volumes have attracted considerable attention from the international academic community and are now available in paperback edition.

Our understanding of “transnational histories” is informed by approaches such as the new imperial histories, translocal histories, or global histories. It transcends the bilateral concepts of relational history or histoire croisée. This series presents interwoven histories that include diverse ethnicities, religions, cultures, and social classes.

We seek original manuscripts that analyze the mobilities and shifts (of borders, people, or concepts) characteristic of Polish history. We expect authors to contextualize their studies within broader historical developments beyond Polish territories and to examine the complexities and entanglements of Poland’s past as the norm rather than as the exception.

We welcome studies addressing the following topics:

• social and spatial migrations;
• cultural and intellectual transfers;
• social and economic changes;
• ethnic, linguistic, or religious interrelationships;
• environmental and natural histories (especially in borderlands).

We are open to other innovative research approaches in terms of topics, methods, and sources.

Please send your proposals to Annika Wienert (GHIW), wienert@dhi.waw.pl. Proposals are accepted on a rolling basis. They will be evaluated by the series editors and subsequently undergo an external, double-blind peer review process.

Please note that we can only accept proposals in English.

Series editors:

Magdalena Saryusz-Wolska (GHIW, managing editor), Catherine Gousseff (CNRS Paris), Maciej Górny (IH PAN), Maciej Janowski (IH PAN), Miloš Řezník (Chemnitz University of Technology), and Keely Stauter-Halsted (University of Illinois Chicago).

Volumes available: 

• Vol. 1: Alexej Lochmatow: Public Knowledge in Cold War Poland: Scholarly Battles and the Clash of Virtues, 1945–1956
• Vol. 2: Raluca Goleșteanu-Jacobs: Habsburg Galicia and the Romanian Kingdom: Sociocultural Development, 1866–1914
• Vol. 3: Aleksander Łupienko (ed.): Urban Communities and Memories in East-Central Europe in the Modern Age
• Vol. 4: Izabela Paszko: Informal Communication and Occupation in the Polish Borderlands: Fragmented Worlds in East Upper Silesia, 1939–1945 (forthcoming)

Zur Website des DHI Warschau

The mobility fellowships support self-chosen innovative research projects with links to one of the module themes of the research node. They are granted for research stays from one to two months. We especially encourage stays that involve joint activities with researchers at the host institutions, such as workshops, publications etc. Fellows are expected to contribute to one of the module blogs, which will be set up on the MWS blog platform (https://mws.hypotheses.org) or write a research note based on the research conducted during their stay.

This call for applications aims at strengthening and expanding networks within and beyond the research node and invites applications for research stays of one to two months during the time period between April 2026 and October 2026. All of the partner institutions in the research hub (ARI, DIJ Tokyo, GHI London, MWF Delhi, GHI Paris, GHI Washington, IAAS HU Berlin) are possible destinations for a research stay.

The mobility fellowship covers the travel costs and a daily stipend for living expenses abroad, the amount depends on the chosen location. Details can be found in the fellowship guidelines.

Mobility fellowships are awarded on a competitive basis. Applications are to be submitted electronically through the online platform. They need to include a CV, a description of the research project, planned dates, the names of possible collaborating partners at the host institution and one letter of reference.

The application deadline is December 14th 2025, 24:00 CET.

For further inquiries, please contact global-indopacific@maxweberstiftung.de.

Zur Website des DIJ Tokyo

In fundamental ways, colonial empires were all about mobility. The functioning of the imperial military and administrative apparatus, the production of colonial knowledge, the economic extraction of local resources, the export of colonial commodities were all based on relentless movement and circulation. This circulation, in turn, relied heavily on the use of various mobility technologies as well as on the creation of mobility infrastructures. It also crucially depended on the spatial movement of segments of the colonized population and/or external labour forces, clerks and military personnel, scientific experts imported from the imperial metropole or other world regions. At the same time, however, imperial formations were at pains to restrict or suppress mobility. Thus, the ideal colonial subject was usually imagined as being sedentary and immobile, whereas subaltern mobilities’ in general and the movements of potentially ‘dangerous’ population groups (such as nomads, ‘criminal tribes’, religious mendicants, diasporic anti-colonialists etc.) were seen as suspicious and in need of close monitoring.

In the spirit of the gd:c’s double emphasis on connectivity and the absence thereof, this workshop wants to bring together scholars of history and neighbouring disciplines that provide fresh and original perspectives on mobilities and immobilities created by/in the British, Dutch, American, Spanish, Portuguese and French colonial empires in South and Southeast Asia (and their respective global entanglements). The temporal focus may also be extended to the early postcolonial states that followed their collapse. While the ambiguities and tensions between forms of mobility and immobility and their relation to power may serve as a leitmotif, the focus of the individual contributions can be on the material, social, cultural, economic and political impact of particular transport technologies (steamships, railways, automobiles bicycles, tongas etc.) and the basic infrastructures (railway tracks, roads, docks) they required, as well on the movement of Käte Hamburger Research Centre global dis:connect certain groups of historical actors on both sides − and beyond − the colonial divide (soldiers, sailors, scientists, ‘peripatetic revolutionaries’, tourists and ‘globetrotters’, etc.) and the measures to control and check their mobility (passports, border controls, creation of surveillance networks). Another area of interest lies in the literary and artistic representation of various mobility experiences in travelogues, guidebooks, novels or films.

Application:

If you are interested in presenting a paper, please send an abstract (around 300 words) and a bionote of not more than 100 words by November 9, 2025 to both conveners, Siddharth Pandey (spandey_87@yahoo.co.in) and Harald Fischer-Tiné (harald.fischertine@gess.ethz.ch).

About the partners:

The Käte Hamburger Research Centre global dis:connect funded by the Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space (BMFTR) in Germany approaches globalisation through the lens of dis:connectivity. The term dis:connection emphasises the dynamic interrelationship between global integration, disintegration and (absent) connections. Both conveners are currently fellows at the Käte Hamburger Research Centre global dis:connect in Munich.

The Delhi-based Merian – Tagore International Centre of Advanced Studies ‘Metamorphoses of the Political’ (ICAS:MP) is one of five Maria Sibylla Merian Centres funded by the German Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space (BMFTR). ICAS:MP has been offering short-term fellowships to distinguished scholars in the Humanities and Social Sciences since 2015.

The Max Weber Forum for South Asian Studies Delhi (MWF Delhi) by the Max Weber Foundation acts as an intermediary between German and South Asian research in the humanities and social sciences and provides a space for academic debate with and about the South Asian region.

Click here for the CfP for the workshop

Zur Website des MWF Delhi

Das Jahrbuch widmet sich der italienischen Geschichte und Musikgeschichte sowie der Geschichte der deutsch-italienischen Beziehungen in transregionalen bzw. transnationalen Zusammenhängen vom frühen Mittelalter bis zur Gegenwart. Publiziert werden Aufsätze (nach Peer Review) sowie Rezensionen, Forschungs- und Tagungsberichte, bevorzugt in deutscher und italienischer, vereinzelt auch in englischer Sprache. In der Rubrik "Forum" erscheinen Essays zu aktuellen geschichtswissenschaftlichen Fragen und Diskussionen. Autorinnen und Autoren von fachwissenschaftlichen Veröffentlichungen (5.–21. Jahrhundert) zum oben genannten Themenprofil oder ihre Verlage können Rezensionsexemplare an die Redaktion der Zeitschrift senden.

Hinweise für die Abgabe von Manuskripten
Deadline für Band 106 (2026): 31. Januar 2026
Umfang: max. 100 000 Zeichen (inkl. Leerzeichen)
Kontakt: Susanne Wesely wesely@dhi-roma.it
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Coorganized by the Orient-Institut Istanbul, the Center for the Study of Manuscript Cultures Hamburg and the Institute for Medieval Research of the Austrian Academy of Sciences.

Instructors
Dr. Christiane Czygan, Orient-Institut Istanbul
Prof. Dr. Kaja Harter-Uibopuu, CSMC Hamburg
Dr. Krystina Kubina, University of Vienna
Prof. Dr. Christoph K. Neumann, Orient-Institut Istanbul
PD Dr. Andreas Rhoby, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna
Prof. Dr. Mustafa Hamdi Sayar, Istanbul University
Assist. Prof. Dr. Gülşah Taşkın, Boğaziçi University

This interdisciplinary Summer Academy invites advanced MA students, doctoral candidates, and early postdoctoral researchers to explore the role of epigraphy in shaping Istanbul’s urban, sacred, and imperial spaces across antiquity, the Byzantine era, and the Ottoman period.

Inscriptions constitute not only documents but also monuments or artefacts situated in specific spatial settings, where they actively mark and articulate thresholds. This conviction forms the basis for all further inquiries of the academy. Building on this perspective, the program will examine how epigraphic texts delineate transitions between sacred and profane, interior and exterior, imperial and civic. Inscriptions on palatial gates and entrances to religious buildings, on convent walls, and along the Bosporus shoreline in Üsküdar (a major point of passage between Anatolia and Istanbul) will serve as case studies.

Sessions will combine seminar discussions with excursions in the city, allowing participants to engage with inscriptions both in a classroom setting and in situ. Student presentations will alternate with contributions by the faculty, fostering an interactive and dialogical format. Emphasis will be placed not only on decipherment but also on the physical setting, visibility, and performative dimensions of each inscription. Broader questions and comparative approaches are welcome.

Working knowledge of at least one epigraphic language (Ancient Greek, Latin, Arabic, Ottoman Turkish, etc.) is recommended.

Costs for accommodation will be supported. Lunch as well as two group dinners will be covered.

Application deadline: January 3, 2026, notifications will be sent by January 31, 2026

Please upload application with your motivation letter, CV, and a short letter of reference each as a separate PDF file using the link here.

Zur Website des OI Istanbul

Den Teilnehmerinnen und Teilnehmern der Spring School wird die Möglichkeit geboten, an ausgewählten originalen Schauplätzen (z. B. Botschaften, Medienhäuser, Forschungsinstitute und Museen) die Internationalität Roms in der Moderne in Augenschein zu nehmen, um diese sodann mit Unterstützung fachkundiger Kenner und Kennerinnen näher zu ergründen. Weiterhin sollen in verschiedenen Archiven die Suche nach Quellen und die quellenkritische Arbeit mit historischem Material eingeübt werden.

In methodischer Hinsicht zielt die Spring School darauf ab, die Teilnehmerinnen und Teilnehmer mit transnationalen Zugängen zur italienischen Zeitgeschichte vertraut zu machen. Gleichzeitig werden sie die vielfältigen Möglichkeiten, in Rom wissenschaftlich zu arbeiten, kennenlernen.

Das Deutsche Historische Institut übernimmt die Kosten für fünf Übernachtungen mit Frühstück in einem Doppelzimmer und gibt einen pauschalen Unkostenbeitrag von 150 €. Die Anreise erfolgt am 8. März, die Abreise am Nachmittag des 13. März 2026.

Voraussetzungen:

Die Bewerbung steht allen fortgeschrittenen Studierenden deutscher und italienischer Hochschulen nach erfolgreichem Besuch eines Proseminars im Bereich der Neueren Geschichte und vor Abschluss des Masters offen. Erforderlich sind sehr gute Deutschkenntnisse.

Bewerbungsmodalitäten:

Bewerbungen werden bis 15. Dezember 2025 ausschließlich über das Bewerbungsportal https://application.dhi-roma.it entgegengenommen. Bitte laden Sie über dieses Portal eine aktuelle Immatrikulationsbescheinigung, einen Transcript of Records, eine Befürwortung durch eine/n Hochschullehrer/in sowie den Nachweis eines ausreichenden Krankenversicherungsschutzes hoch.

Kontakt:

Prof. Dr. Christoph Cornelißen (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main): cornelissen(at)em.uni-frankfurt.de

Prof. Dr. Simone Derix (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg): simone.derix(at)fau.de

PD Dr. Lutz Klinkhammer (DHI Rom): klinkhammer(at)dhi-roma.it  

Zur Website des DHI Rom

Das Symposium beleuchtet sowohl historische als auch zeitgenössische Karrierewege von Musikwissenschaftler*innen im Ausland. Es richtet den Fokus auf Aspekte der Internationalisierung, Institutionalisierung und Netzwerkbildung sowie auf bestehende Hürden und Strategien zu deren Überwindung.

Die Gründe für akademische Mobilität sind vielfältig: Zugang zu Quellenmaterial und berufliche Möglichkeiten im Ausland, Kulturpolitik, Internationalisierung der Forschungslandschaft, Gründung von Institutionen, persönliche und berufliche Netzwerke usw.

Akademische Mobilität kann das Ergebnis einer bewussten Entscheidung, aber auch durch politischen Druck und Verfolgung erzwungen sein. Internationale Biografien – etwa von Wissenschaftler*innen wie Higinio Anglès, Alfred Einstein, Vladimír Karbusický, Zofia Lissa oder Kathi Meyer-Baer – zeugen von den Verflechtungen von Musik, Forschung und Politik sowie von der historischen Bedeutung und allzu oft sogar lebenswichtigen Notwendigkeit von Mobilität im Bereich der Musikwissenschaft.

Den Ausschreibungstext finden Sie hier.

Eine Kooperation der Fachgruppe Nachwuchsperspektiven der Gesellschaft für Musikforschung mit der Musikgeschichtlichen Abteilung am Deutschen Historischen Institut in Rom.

Bitte senden Sie ein Abstract im Umfang von max. 2000 Zeichen inkl. Leerzeichen zu dem von Ihnen geplanten Beitrag in deutscher, englischer oder italienischer Sprache bis zum 31. Oktober 2025 als PDF-Datei per E-Mail an Flavia Hennig: Hennig[at]sim[dot]spk-berlin[dot]de.

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More than any other country, Russia has colonised and industrialised the Arctic—including its coasts—and has utilised the ocean as a strategic sea route. Today, the Russian Far North serves as a projection screen for national interests and identities; its history legitimises the supposedly “natural” privileges of the largest Arctic state. Central to these narratives is the concept of “appropriation” (osvoenie)—a buzzword originating in the Stalin era that has, in recent years, regained significant prominence as an ideological tool in Russian Arctic discourse. Researchers often translate it too narrowly as “conquest”, yet the term encapsulates a multifaceted complex of processes. It serves as a euphemism describing diverse practices and dynamics: exploration and scientific surveying, resource exploitation, the “Sovietisation” and transformation of indigenous populations, the migration and settlement of groups from the Russian sub-Arctic, and their mental, ideological, and physical adaptation to the environment. This complex also encompassed the assertion of economic and legal claims in the Arctic Ocean, alongside a militarisation that has accelerated since 2022. At an ideological level, appropriation transforms the Arctic into a core realm of Russian history—an emotionally charged counter-image, the ‘Russian North’, contrasted both with a supposedly declining West and with subarctic Asia.

The workshop foregrounds a comprehensive analysis of Russian and Soviet “appropriation” in the Arctic up to the 2020s. While osvoenie serves as a conceptual probe, the scope extends beyond conceptual history (Begriffsgeschichte). Contributions may examine actors and objectives, images and ideologies, methods and epistemologies, interests and achievements, as well as costs, failures, resistance and collaboration. As strategies varied by region, the project deliberately refrains from imposing rigid boundaries. However, particular emphasis will be placed on the formative connection between ocean and coastal regions: the Arctic Ocean is no longer regarded as a distant, impenetrable ice sheet north of Siberia, but instead has provided a strategic sea route to Siberia and is now considered one of Moscow’s most important geopolitical focal points. The timeframe spans from the late nineteenth century, when St Petersburg asserted claims over the Arctic Ocean and technological advances made the icy seas more accessible, through to the present, as the Arctic rises ever higher on the economic and security agenda of the Russian Federation. The workshop and the planned volume aim to analyse these developments through a historically grounded framework that brings together disciplinary perspectives from political science, anthropology, literary studies, law and economics, amongst others.

We invite contributions from scholars at all career levels whose research explores one or more of the following aspects of Russian/Soviet Arctic history:State and empire building

• Oceanic and maritime history
• Science, technology and medicine
• Modernity and indigenous cultures
• Heroes and heroines
• Human and non-human actors
• Built environments and imagined geographies
• Historiography and master narratives
• Geopolitical concepts and economic interests
• Local experiences and perspectives

The workshop aims to lay the groundwork for a joint publication. Rather than producing another anthology of specialised research or a handbook with survey articles, its goal is to assemble a coherent collection of previously unpublished papers that address a shared, cross-cutting theme from multiple disciplinary perspectives. The resulting volume is intended to be finalised by the end of 2027 and to foster ongoing scholarly collaboration.

Proposals should include a concise outline of a specific chapter (approximately 500–750 words) that demonstrates a clear connection to the overarching theme of ‘Appropriation’ and formulates a research question, as well as a one-page cv. Please send your submission to Andreas Renner at andreas.renner(at)lmu.de by 30 November 2025.

Authors whose proposals are accepted will be invited to a workshop at the Chair of Russian-Asian Studies at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich, 12–14 March 2026. The workshop is intended to take place on site, but hybrid participation can be arranged if required.

The conference will be supported by the German Research Foundation (DFG), which enables us to reimburse participants’ travel expenses up to a specified limit.

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Kaum eine Stadt der Welt ist so reich an internationalen Forschungsinstitutionen wie Rom, kaum ein Land so reich an vormodernen Quellenbeständen wie Italien. Junge Forschende finden dort beste Voraussetzungen, um spannende Themen zu untersuchen und mit Wissenschaftler*innen aus aller Welt in Kontakt zu treten. Als Forum des internationalen Austauschs und als Vermittler zwischen unterschiedlichen Wissenschaftskulturen, vor allem zwischen Italien und Deutschland, ist das Deutsche Historische Institut (DHI) in Rom mit seiner umfangreichen Spezialbibliothek seit über 100 Jahren ein zentraler Anlaufpunkt.

Die Spring School will junge Studierende für die facettenreiche italienische Geschichte im Mittelalter begeistern und gleichzeitig auf die vielfältigen Möglichkeiten, in Rom wissenschaftlich zu arbeiten, hinweisen.

Spezialist*innen aus dem DHI sowie Mitglieder des wissenschaftlichen Beirates des Instituts führen anhand ausgewählter Materialien in grundlegende Aspekte der italienischen Geschichte ein, wecken Interesse an offenen Fragen und vermitteln handwerkliche Fähigkeiten zur Quellenanalyse. Auf dem Programm steht ebenfalls der Besuch eines römischen Archivs und des Laterankomplexes.

Die Kosten für vier Übernachtungen mit Frühstück trägt das Deutsche Historische Institut. Die Anreise erfolgt am 8. März, die Abreise am Nachmittag des 12. März 2026.

Voraussetzungen:

Die Bewerbung steht allen fortgeschrittenen Studierenden deutscher und italienischer Hochschulen nach erfolgreichem Besuch eines Proseminars im Bereich der mittelalterlichen Geschichte und vor Abschluss des Masters offen. Erforderlich sind sehr gute Deutschkenntnisse.

Bewerbungsmodalitäten:

Bewerbungen werden bis 30. November 2025 ausschließlich über das Bewerbungsportal https://application.dhi-roma.it entgegengenommen. Bitte laden Sie über dieses Portal eine aktuelle Immatrikulationsbescheinigung, einen Transcript of Records, eine Befürwortung durch eine/n Hochschullehrer/in sowie den Nachweis eines ausreichenden Krankenversicherungsschutzes hoch.

Kontakt:

Prof. Dr. Florian Hartmann (RWTH Aachen): hartmann(at)histinst.rwth-aachen.de

Dr. Kordula Wolf (DHI Rom): wolf(at)dhi-roma.it

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