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CFP Extended Deadline April 17 I The New Normal I BP Summer Workshop I July 6-7, 2022 (Deadline 17 April 2022)
Hello!
Just sharing the good word that the deadline for submissions for the (free) Berlin Program Workshop at the Freie Universität (Berlin) has been extended to Monday, 17 April 2022.
The Berlin Workshop, now in its tenth year, takes place from 6-7 July 2022 on the campus fo the Freie Universität. This years theme is "The New Normal." Presentations and projects – in any stage of development – from any discipline or interdisciplinary perspective are welcome.
More information is below, including the email and guidelines for sumbitting a propsal.
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Deadline Approaching: USHMM Virtual Seminar: Theological Encounters of Race, Antisemitism, and the Holocaust in Transatlantic Context, June 17-24, 2022 (due April 18, 2022)
The Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum announces the call for applications for the
CFA: Research Fellowships in ERC-funded Project "The Making of Monoculture: A Global History" (Deadline 30 April)
The ERC-funded project "The Making of Monoculture: A Global History" (MaMoGH) explores monocultures in agriculture and forestry as phenomena of global modernity. It invites scholars to study individual monocultures anywhere in the world with a common set of questions that focus on the rise and resilience of organic production regimes that focus on one single species.
ANN: College of William and Mary, Modern Languages and Literatures Visiting Instructor/Assistant Professor of Italian and German Studies
College of William and Mary, Modern Languages and Literatures
Visiting Instructor/Assistant Professor of Italian and German Studies
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H-Net Job Guide Weekly Report For H-German: 28 March - 4 April
H-Net Job Guide Weekly Report For H-German: 28 March - 4 April
CFA (Fellowship): THYSSEN@KWI FELLOWSHIP (Deadline 29 April 2022)
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ANN: "Accountability for War Crimes: WWII Cases in Europe and Asia/Pacific" (panel presentation & discussion via zoom), 28 April 2022
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April 28, 2022
ANN: Opportunities to support Ukrainian historians, U of Münster, Germany
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August 31, 2022
CFA: Deadline Reminder - Dissertation Grants for 2022 Summer Research at Deutsches Literaturarchiv Marbach (Deadline 15 April 2022)
Reminder: Apply by April 15 for DLA Dissertation Grants
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Reviewer:
Kristopher Imbrigotta
Imbrigotta on Zervigón, 'John Heartfield and the Agitated Image: Photography, Persuasion, and the Rise of Avant-garde Photomontage'
Andrés Mario Zervigón. John Heartfield and the Agitated Image: Photography, Persuasion, and the Rise of Avant-garde Photomontage. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012. Illustrations. 336 pp. $65.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-226-98177-2.
Reviewed by Kristopher Imbrigotta (University of Puget Sound) Published on H-German (July, 2015) Commissioned by Chad Ross
Prosecutor with Scissors: John Heartfield and the Photomontage
Reviewer:
Elizabeth Morrow Clark
Clark on Kuzmany, 'Brody: Eine galizische Grenzstadt im langen 19. Jahrhundert'
Börries Kuzmany. Brody: Eine galizische Grenzstadt im langen 19. Jahrhundert. Vienna: Böhlau Verlag Wien, 2011. 406 pp. EUR 35.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-3-205-78763-1.
Reviewed by Elizabeth Morrow Clark (West Texas A&M University) Published on H-German (July, 2015) Commissioned by Chad Ross
Brody is Always Brody: A Galician Border City in the Long Nineteenth Century
Reviewer:
Karen Auerbach
Auerbach on Dynner, 'Yankel's Tavern: Jews, Liquor, and Life in the Kingdom of Poland'
Glenn Dynner. Yankel's Tavern: Jews, Liquor, and Life in the Kingdom of Poland. New York: Oxford University Press, 2014. 249 pp. $74.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-998851-8.
Reviewed by Karen Auerbach (University of North Carolina Chapel Hill) Published on H-German (June, 2015) Commissioned by Chad Ross
Coexistence and Symbiosis: The Jewish Tavernkeeper in Nineteenth-Century Poland
Reviewer:
Kelly McFall
McFall on Dorondo, 'Riders of the Apocalypse: German Cavalry and Modern Warfare, 1870-1945'
David R. Dorondo. Riders of the Apocalypse: German Cavalry and Modern Warfare, 1870-1945. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2012. 352 pp. $36.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-61251-086-6.
Reviewed by Kelly McFall Published on H-German (June, 2015) Commissioned by Shannon Nagy
Delaying the Inevitable: The Decline of the Cavalry in Germany
Reviewer:
Robert P. Stephens
Stephens on Jessen and Nembach-Langer, 'Transformations of Retailing in Europe after 1945'
Ralph Jessen, Lydia Nembach-Langer, eds. Transformations of Retailing in Europe after 1945. Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate Pub., 2012. xvi + 234 pp. GBP 74.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4094-2444-4; ISBN 978-1-4094-2445-1.
Reviewed by Robert P. Stephens (Virginia Tech) Published on H-German (April, 2015) Commissioned by Chad Ross
A Close Examination of Postwar Retailing
Reviewer:
Robert Terrell
Terrell on Bauerkämper and Kaelble, 'Gesellschaft in der europäischen Integration seit den 1950er Jahren: Migration – Konsum – Sozialpolitik – Repräsentationen'
Arnd Bauerkämper, Hartmut Kaelble, eds. Gesellschaft in der europäischen Integration seit den 1950er Jahren: Migration – Konsum – Sozialpolitik – Repräsentationen. Studies on the History of European Integration Series. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2012. 187 pp. $54.00 (paper), ISBN 978-3-515-10045-8.
Reviewer:
Lily E. Hirsch
Hirsch on Thomas Trezise, 'Witnessing Witnessing: On the Reception of Holocaust Survivor Testimony'
Thomas Trezise. Witnessing Witnessing: On the Reception of Holocaust Survivor Testimony. New York: Fordham University Press, 2013. 336 pp. $26.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8232-4448-5.
Reviewed by Lily E. Hirsch (California State University-Bakersfield) Published on H-German (March, 2015) Commissioned by Chad Ross
Trauma and Biography
Reviewer:
Tom Saunders
Saunders on Doherty, 'Hollywood and Hitler, 1933-1939'
Thomas Doherty. Hollywood and Hitler, 1933-1939. Film and Culture Series. New York: Columbia University Press, 2013. 448 pp. $35.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-231-16392-7; $22.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-231-16393-4.
Reviewed by Tom Saunders (University of Victoria) Published on H-German (March, 2015) Commissioned by Chad Ross
Business Strategies, Politics and Morality: American Cinema and Nazi Germany
Reviewer:
Christiane Grieb
Grieb on Schaad, 'Dann geh doch rüber - Über die Mauer in den Osten'
Martin Schaad. Dann geh doch rüber - Über die Mauer in den Osten. Berlin: Ch Links Verlag, 2009. x + 208 pp. EUR 4.95 (paper), ISBN 978-3-86153-516-4.
Reviewed by Christiane Grieb (University College London) Published on H-German (March, 2015) Commissioned by Shannon Nagy
Stasiobjekt “Mauer”: Menschen im Konflikt zwischen Mauer und Souveränität
Reviewer:
Robert D. Billinger, Jr.
Billinger, Jr. on James, 'Witnessing the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars in German Central Europe'
Leighton S. James. Witnessing the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars in German Central Europe. War, Culture and Society, 1750-1850 Series. London: Palgrave Macmillan. xiii + 281 pp. $90.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-230-24917-2.
Reviewed by Robert D. Billinger, Jr. (Wingate University) Published on H-German (March, 2015) Commissioned by Chad Ross
Contemporary Accounts of the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars in German Central Europe