Conference report: Amsterdam as Haven for Religious Refugees in the Early Modern Period
Conference location: Ritman Research Institute
Embassy of the Free Mind
Recent Discussions
CfP (GSA 2023 Panel): Black German Disability Politics (German Studies Association, Forty-Seventh Annual Conference, Montreal, Canada, October 5-8, 2023, Black and Diaspora Studies sponsored panel - Deadline March 1, 2023)
CfP: Black German Disability Politics (German Studies Association, Forty-Seventh Annual Conference, Montreal, Canada, October 5-8, 2023)
CfP (GSA 2023 Panel): "Blood, Borders, and the Body: Shifts in how Bodies are Policed, Controlled, and Regulated," Black Diaspora Studies + Body Studies Network co-sponsored panel (Deadline: March 1, 2023)
CfP: Blood, Borders, and the Body: Shifts in how Bodies are Policed, Controlled, and Regulated (German Studies Association, Forty-Seventh Annual Conference, Montreal, Canada, October 5-8, 2023)
CFP (Conference): Rethinking Carnival from the Pre-modern to the Present, 5-8 October 2023, Frankfurt (Deadline 30 March 2023)
Research on celebration of the Carnival tradition in different times and places has provided a rich lens into fields ranging from political and social history to the history of everyday life and questions about intangible cultural heritage.
Call for Applications EHRI Seminar | Engaging Educators
August 7-11, 2023 | Location: Jewish Museum in Prague, Czech Republic
We invite applications from educators of different professional (e.g. secondary school teachers, lecturers involved in teacher training, educators at memorials and other commemorative initiatives) and national backgrounds to attend the first EHRI pedagogical Seminar. The event will offer an opportunity for educators to expand their skills when teaching about the Holocaust in different settings and familiarize them with EHRI’s digital services.
CFP: Affektive Verstörungen: Christian Kracht's oeuvre (GSA; October 5-8, 2023, Montréal)
Call for Papers: Affektive Verstörungen: Christian Kracht's oeuvre
Swiss Studies Network (SSN)
Forty-Seventh Annual Conference of the German Studies Association
October 5-8, Montréal, Québec, Canada
CFP (Workshop): Carceral Spaces in Holocaust and Genocide Studies, 22-23 September 2023, Leicester, UK (Deadline May 1)
Call for Papers: Carceral Spaces in Holocaust and Genocide Studies
ANN: Journal of Women's History, Graduate Student Prize Submissions, Due on April 17, 2023 by 11:59pm ET
The Broad of Trustees of the Journal of Women's History is proud to announce that the prize for the best paper in women's history authored by a graduate student has returned. Given the pandemic, we are happy to feature this prize once again. Article-length essays in any chronological and geographical field are eligible; we especially encourage submissions with a focus beyond the United States or Western Europe. Papers should not exceed 10,000 words, including endnotes, and should follow the University of Chicago Manual of Style.
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Recent Reviews
Reviewer:
Jeremy Zima
Zima on Thurman, 'Singing Like Germans: Black Musicians in the Land of Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms'
Kira Thurman.
Singing Like Germans: Black Musicians in the Land of Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms.
Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2021. 368 pp.
$32.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-5017-5984-0. 
Reviewed by Jeremy Zima (Wisconsin Lutheran College) Published on H-German (January, 2023) Commissioned by Matthew Unangst (SUNY Oneonta)
Reviewer:
Philipp Nielsen
Nielsen on Lehmann, 'The Baron: Maurice de Hirsch and the Jewish Nineteenth Century'
Matthias B. Lehmann.
The Baron: Maurice de Hirsch and the Jewish Nineteenth Century.
Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 2022. 400 pp.
$35.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-5036-3030-7.
Reviewer:
J.P. Short
Short on Grimmer-Solem, 'Learning Empire: Globalization and the German Quest for World Status, 1875-1919'
Erik Grimmer-Solem.
Learning Empire: Globalization and the German Quest for World Status, 1875-1919.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. 668 pp.
$44.99 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-108-48382-7.
Reviewer:
Emily Bruce
Bruce on Daub, 'The Dynastic Imagination: Family and Modernity in Nineteenth-Century Germany'
Adrian Daub.
The Dynastic Imagination: Family and Modernity in Nineteenth-Century Germany.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020. 253 pp.
$95.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-226-73773-7; $29.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-226-73787-4.
Reviewer:
Robert Radu
Radu on Johnston, 'Networks of Modernity: Germany in the Age of the Telegraph, 1830-1880'
Jean-Michel Johnston. Networks of Modernity: Germany in the Age of the Telegraph, 1830-1880. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. 304 pp. $80.75 (e-book), ISBN 978-0-19-259894-3; $85.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-885688-7.
Reviewed by Robert Radu (Universität Bonn) Published on H-German (October, 2022) Commissioned by Matthew Unangst (SUNY Oneonta)
Reviewer:
Tim Mueller
Mueller on Roche, 'The Third Reich's Elite Schools: A History of the Napolas'
Helen Roche. The Third Reich's Elite Schools: A History of the Napolas. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. 544 pp. $115.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-872612-8.
Reviewed by Tim Mueller (Chester and Fourth) Published on H-German (September, 2022) Commissioned by Jasper Heinzen (Department of History, University of York)
Printable Version: https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=58077
Reviewer:
Tobias Huff
Huff on Ault, 'Saving Nature under Socialism: Transnational Environmentalism in East Germany, 1968-1990'
Julia E. Ault. Saving Nature under Socialism: Transnational Environmentalism in East Germany, 1968-1990. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. xiii + 262 pp. $99.99 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-316-51914-1.
Reviewed by Tobias Huff (Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz) Published on H-German (August, 2022) Commissioned by Matthew Unangst (SUNY Oneonta)
Reviewer:
James Chappel
Chappel on Patch, 'Christian Democratic Workers and the Forging of German Democracy, 1920-1980'
William L, Patch. Christian Democratic Workers and the Forging of German Democracy, 1920-1980. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. 340 pp. $105.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-108-42411-0.
Reviewed by James Chappel Published on H-German (July, 2022) Commissioned by Matthew Unangst (SUNY Oneonta)
Printable Version: https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=56137
Reviewer:
Frank Uekoetter
Uekoetter on Treitel, 'Eating Nature in Modern Germany: Food, Agriculture and Environment, c.1870 to 2000'
Corinna Treitel. Eating Nature in Modern Germany: Food, Agriculture and Environment, c.1870 to 2000. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. 404 pp. $125.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-107-18802-0; $34.99 (paper), ISBN 978-1-316-63839-2.
Reviewed by Frank Uekoetter (University of Birmingham) Published on H-German (May, 2022) Commissioned by Jasper Heinzen (Department of History, University of York)
Reviewer:
Julia Sonnevend
Sonnevend on Harrison, 'After the Berlin Wall: Memory and the Making of the New Germany, 1989 to the Present'
Hope M. Harrison.
After the Berlin Wall: Memory and the Making of the New Germany, 1989 to the Present.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, Illustrations. 2019. 478 pp.
$34.99 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-107-04931-4.