Hot off the press: together with Susanne Quitmann @globaldiscnct.bsky.social I wrote the migration chapter for "Kindheitsgeschichte. Ein Handbuch" [Childhood History: A Handbook], the #OpenAccess volume came out today with @transcript-verlag.bsky.social - www.transcript-verlag.de/media/pdf/08...

Coming soon, please share in your networks: the call deadline for our 2027 "Family Archives in / of Global Transit" workshop @tu-braunschweig.de is approaching (July 31)

Swen Steinberg@swensteinberg.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Call for Paper: "Family Archives in / of Global Transit: Knowledge, Memory and the Ambiguity between Private and Public," a workshop I co-organize in May 2027 @tu-braunschweig.de, deadline July 31, 2026 www.hsozkult.de/event/id/eve...

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...

Robert Grötzsch’s "Tormann Bobby" (1938), written in exile, follows a young footballer amid tensions of capitalism, belonging, and fascism. Republished this summer @fesonline.bsky.social with my intro on refugees, soccer and social justice. Podcast interview: pivoundklobasa.de/36-das-abent...

#36 - Robert Grötzsch: Schriftsteller, Fußballfan, Exilant - Pivo und Klobása

Mit dem Historiker Swen Steinberg werfen wir einen Blick in die Vergangenheit und auf die anstehende Fußball-WM. Der fast in der Vergessenheit geratene Autor Robert Grötzsch verbrachte große Teile sei...

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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.

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Swen Steinberg@swensteinberg.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Call for Paper: "Family Archives in / of Global Transit: Knowledge, Memory and the Ambiguity between Private and Public," a workshop I co-organize in May 2027 @tu-braunschweig.de, deadline July 31, 2026 www.hsozkult.de/event/id/eve...

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

Swen Steinberg@swensteinberg.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Congrats to Queen's @acs.org Student Chapter for organizing the Historic Chemical Landmark honoring refugee chemist Alfred Bader. Glad to contribute research insights, speak at the ceremony, and presenting “A Journey in 15 Objects” with Heather Home @quarchives.bsky.social tinyurl.com/mrzubfbr

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

If you want to learn more about the issue and topic before the event, follow the link to get to the #openaccess version: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi... @lunduniversity.bsky.social @wienerlibrary.bsky.social @unisouthampton.bsky.social @swensteinberg.bsky.social

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"

Congrats to Queen's @acs.org Student Chapter for organizing the Historic Chemical Landmark honoring refugee chemist Alfred Bader. Glad to contribute research insights, speak at the ceremony, and presenting “A Journey in 15 Objects” with Heather Home @quarchives.bsky.social tinyurl.com/mrzubfbr

From refugee to innovator: Queen’s alumnus Alfred Bader honoured with rare landmark designation

More than eight decades after arriving at Queen’s University, Alfred Bader returned in spirit Friday as the institution unveiled a rare international scientific honour recognizing a life that reshaped...

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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!

The CfA deadline for the 2027 volume of "History of Intellectual Culture: International Yearbook of Knowledge and Society" is coming tomorrow - please share and apply

Swen Steinberg@swensteinberg.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Last year, I joined the Editors-in-Chief team of "History of Intellectual Culture: International Yearbook of Knowledge and Society" (peer-reviewed, open access), after serving on the Advisory Board since 2021. Please share the CfP for Volume 6 (2027) - newhistoryofknowledge.com/2026/03/12/c...

Looking forward to marking the 75th anniversary of Canada-Germany bilateral relations at this event! Learn more about #Canada - #Germany relations ⬇️ www.international.gc.ca/country-pays...

Swen Steinberg@swensteinberg.bsky.social · 3mo ago

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...

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...

Join the In Global Transit working group , founded by former GHI director Simone Lässig and @swensteinberg.bsky.social tomorrow, May 5, 12:30pm ET on the topic of "Permanently in Transit? The Inability of Refugees of the Spanish Civil War to let go of their Homeland” queensu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: "Permanently in Transit? The Inability of Refugees of the Spanish Civil War to let go of their Homeland" - In Global Transit talk by Dolores Augustine and ...

Making a new home in a foreign country is difficult for those who have been forced to emigrate. The refugees of the Spanish Civil War, which ended in 1939, proved particularly resistant to accepting t...

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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

Please sign this open letter supporting the Köpenick Blood Week Memorial (Berlin), commemorating SA terror (June 20–24, 1933). Hundreds were abducted and tortured; at least 23 murdered. A stark reminder how fast hate turns into violence. Sign: innn.it/rettet-die-g... #rettetdiegedenkstaette

Yves Müller@ueffesmueller.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Zahlreiche Personen haben einen Offenen Brief unterzeichnet, mit dem sie ihre Bestürzung und Sorge über die seit Jahren schleppende und zunehmend widersprüchliche Entwicklung rund um die Gedenkstätte Köpenicker Blutwoche in Berlin zum Ausdruck bringen. #rettetdiegedenkstaette

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-...

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Swen Steinberg@swensteinberg.bsky.social · 5mo ago

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...

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...

Glad to be invited to serve for another term at the International Advisory Board of the Lund Centre for the History of Knowledge @lunduniversity.bsky.social until 2029 newhistoryofknowledge.com/events/inter...

International Advisory Board

Maria Bach, Junior Lecturer at the Walras-Pareto Centre, University of Lausanne Shadi Bartsch-Zimmer, Director of the Stevanovich Institute on the History of Knowledge and the Regenstein Professor …

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CfP "History of Intellectual Culture: International Yearbook of Knowledge and Society" (peer-reviewed, open access) for Volume 6 (2027), deadline May 8 - www.hsozkult.de/event/id/eve...

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

Coming soon: "Diaspora, Gender & Generation in 'The Joy Luck Club'" - screening & history talk - secure your ticket & spread the word March 28, 2026 3:30 – 6:00 PM The Screening Room Movie Theatre 120 Princess Street, Kingston Tickets: www.screeningroomkingston.com/movie/the-jo...

Swen Steinberg@swensteinberg.bsky.social · 5mo ago

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...

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...