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Library
Summer Opening Hours
The Library is open Monday-Friday, 9.30am-4pm.
New readers: please come in to register before 3pm
Opportunities
GHIL-MWF Joint Fellowship on The British Empire and the History of Colonialism
Joint fellowship for early career scholars (postdocs/no later than 6 years from completion of PhD) whose research is situated in the broad field of the British Empire and the History of Colonialism
Start date: 2026 (3 months)
London/New Delhi
Closing date for applications: 26 September 2025 (23.59 hours Central European Time)
Team
GHIL Academic Advisory Board
Prof Dr Silke Schwandt from the University of Bielefeld has joined the Academic Advisory Board of the GHIL.
The Board provides guidance and direction for the work of the Institute and helps shape the GHIL’s aims and strategy. It also plays a crucial role in supporting the research fellows in the pursuit of their academic careers.
26 August 2025 (2pm)
GHIL Colloquium
Geena Carlisle and Claudia Roesch
Two talks
GHIL/Online
9 September 2025 (3.30pm)
GHIL Colloquium
Ute Kemmerling
Ajmer – ein muslimischer Pilgerort unter kolonialer Beobachtung in Britisch-Indien (1818-1947)
GHIL/Online
23 September 2025 (2.30pm)
GHIL Colloquium
Lea Antonia Middell and Max Schellbach
Two talks
GHIL/Online
31 July 2025
Blogpost
Martin Meiske
How to Commemorate Railways at 200? Unearthing Histories of Maintenance, Global Material Flows, and Colonialism
Category: Research, Scholarships
22 July 2025
Blogpost
Roundtable Discussion
Expanding the Archive: Fact and Fiction, Reading against the Grain, and Formats of Engagement
Mirjam Brusius, Mirjam Hähnle, Mallika Leuzinger, Markus Mößlang, Ole Münch, Michael Schaich, Indra Sengupta, Pascale Siegrist, Clemens Villinger, Christina von Hodenberg
Category: GHIL Fellows
Interview
Mind the void: The importance of empty spaces in early modern Europe
Achim Landwehr
15 July 2025
, 0:25 h
GHIL Lecture
The Hole Story: Voids and their Constitutive Role in European (Early) Modernity
Achim Landwehr
15 July 2025
, 0:46 h
GHIL Lecture
The Hole Story: Voids and their Constitutive Role in European (Early) Modernity
Achim Landwehr
Special Lecture
London – Images as Evidence | Bilder als Beweise
Janina Struk, Paul Betts and James Bulgin
2 July 2025
, 1:07 h
Special Lecture
London – Images as Evidence | Bilder als Beweise
Janina Struk, Paul Betts and James Bulgin
Gudrun Krämer
Local modernity: agency, entanglement, and the making of the modern Middle East
Lokale Moderne: Agency, Austausch und die Enstehung des modernen Mittleren Ostens
Thiago P. Barbosa