German Historical Institute London
New Covid-19 safety measures from 1 November
For visitors and event attendees
External visitors and scholars are requested to demonstrate their COVID-19 status at our reception by providing proof of the following:
- Full vaccination (first and second dose), with the second dose administered at least 14 days before your visit, OR
- A negative lateral flow test taken no more than 48 hours before your visit.
You must not visit the institute if you are experiencing symptoms of Covid-19 or have tested positive for Covid-19 within the past 10 days.
Wherever possible, a minimum distance of 1m should be maintained between people. In addition to this, masks covering the mouth and nose must be worn in all areas of the Institute outside of offices and designated meeting rooms. Library readers may remove their masks once seated at their desks.
Events:
To ensure social distancing, the audience in our conference room is capped at a maximum of 25 attendees. Out of consideration for others, please cancel your booking for an in-person event if you are no longer able to attend. Our conference room is regularly aired. Attendees of events are required to wear a mask unless they are exempt from mask-wearing, are drinking, or are speaking at the event.
Library
Opening times and new readers
Our current opening hours are: Monday to Friday (9.30am-5pm).
New readers should book an appointment (email: library@ghil.ac.uk) for a virtual induction (offered via Zoom, Mondays 12pm and Wednesdays 4pm, or by arrangement) before their first visit, and register in person at reception on their first visit. Readers still need to wear a face covering when entering and moving around the building (unless exempt - please advise before arrival).
28–29 October 2021
Workshop
Contemporary historians and the re-use of social science-generated data sets
An international dialogue on the challenges presented by ‘social data’
German Historical Institute London
2 November 2021 (3.30pm)
GHIL Colloquium
Christina Bröker (Regensburg)
Grim Look and Teeth-Gnashing: Conditions of Constructing John and Henry III’s (emotional) Behaviour in Chronicles and Letters (1199–1272)
Online/GHIL
5 November 2021 (5.30pm)
Annual Lecture
Annual Lecture: Monica Juneja (Heidelberg)
Modernism’s Relational Geographies – Global (Art) History With and Beyond the Nation
GHIL/Online
23 November 2021 - 23 November 2022
Exhibition
Forms, Voices, Networks
Feminism and the Media
The exhibition Forms, Voices, Networks explores the intersections between the growth of mass media and women’s rights movements in a transnational context during the 20th century. Centred on the histories of feminisms and the media in Britain, Germany and India, it draws attention to little-known or unheard voices and stories and draws connections between activists and the media across time and space.
Developed by the International Standing Working Group on Medialization and Empowerment
Image from See Red Women’s Workshop: ‘Protest’. 1974 (screenprint)
Online
Call for Papers
From Cambridge to Bielefeld – and back? British and Continental Approaches to Intellectual History
2–4 June 2022
German Association for British Studies Annual Conference
Organizers: Sina Steglich (German Historical Institute London) and Emily Steinhauer (German Historical Institute London)
Humboldt University Berlin
Closing date for applications: 31 October 2021
Call for papers
Democratization, Re-Masculinization, or what? Masculinity in the 20th century and beyond
22–24 September 2022
Conference convened by Prof Martina Kessel (University of Bielefeld)
German Historical Institute London
Deadline: 17 December 2021
Call for Papers
Medieval Germany Workshop 2022
6 May 2022
Organised by the German Historical Institute London in co-operation with the German Historical Institute Washington and the German History Society
German Historical Institute London
Deadline: 17 January 2022
Call for Papers
The Politics of Iconoclasm in the Middle Ages
1–2 September 2022
Convenors: Marcus Meer (GHIL) and Len Scales (Durham University)
German Historical Institute London
Deadline: 31 January 2022
Vacancy
German-English Bilingual Assistant to the Director
Full time, permanent post
Starting 15 January 2022
Current gross salary per annum: £46,170
The German Historical Institute London is seeking to employ a German-English Bilingual Assistant to the Director to manage and prioritize secretarial and administrative services and support scholarly research projects.
German Historical Institute London
Closing date for applications: 15 November 2021
Student Workshop
Postgraduate Research Students Conference 2022
13–14 January 2022
Open to all postgraduate students enrolled at a British or Irish university.
Gives postgraduate research students in the UK and Ireland working on German history an opportunity to present their work in progress and to discuss it with other students working in the same field.
All 2nd and 3rd year students are encouraged to present a paper on their PhD project.
German Historical Institute London/Online
Closing date for applications: 30 November 2021
Featured Article
Mirjam Brusius
Introduction to Special Issue
Living through the Wende: Housing and the Home c.1989
German Historical Institute London Bulletin, vol. 43 (2021), no. 1, 3–11
Featured Article
Sonya Schönberger
Zingster Straße 25
German Historical Institute London Bulletin, vol. 43 (2021), no. 1, 12-33
María Ángeles Martín Romera and Hannes Ziegler (eds.)
The Officer and the People
Accountability and Authority in Pre-Modern Europe
Studies of the German Historical Institute London
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021
Julian Katz
Kriegslegitimation in der Frühen Neuzeit
Intervention und Sicherheit während des anglo-spanischen Krieges (1585-1604)
Veröffentlichungen des Deutschen Historischen Instituts London. Bd. 86
Berlin: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2021
Cristina Sasse
Die Stadt lesen
Englische “Directories” als Wissens- und Orientierungsmedien, 1760–1830
Veröffentlichungen des Deutschen Historischen Instituts London. Bd. 85
Berlin: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2021
Cross-Cutting Research Theme
Histories of Kinship and Gender
![Black and white image of a group of students during the student revolution, 1967/68, West Berlin (Stiftung Haus der Geschichte, Ludwig Binder, [CC BY-SA 2.0])](/fileadmin/_processed_/b/7/csm_Cross_Cutting_Kinship_16899874619_971d24b34f_o_600e6bc127.jpg "Student revolution 1967/68, West Berlin")
The categories of kinship and gender are powerful indicators of social place, but also social binding agents. How are individuals and groups assigned a social place? How are social hierarchies and differences, or support networks, created by the production of kinship and gender identities? Attention will be paid to the role of experts and knowledge, to practices ‘from below’, and the negotiation and strengthening of norms by situative performances. This will involve a dialogue with new methods and theories from other disciplines such as ethnography and gender studies. Both gender and kinship are here understood as multi-relational, in the sense of intersectionality.
GHIL Lecture
Tanika Sarkar
The Past in the Present
Historical Pedagogy of Hindu Nationalism in India
Summer Lecture Series
29 June 2021
, 0:59 h
GHIL Lecture
Tanika Sarkar
The Past in the Present
Historical Pedagogy of Hindu Nationalism in India
GHIL Lecture
Barbara Manthe
Writing a History of Right-Wing Terrorism in Post-WWII Germany
Chances, Challenges, and the Need for New Narratives
Summer Lecture Series
15 June 2021
, 0:35 h
GHIL Lecture
Barbara Manthe
Writing a History of Right-Wing Terrorism in Post-WWII Germany
Chances, Challenges, and the Need for New Narratives
GHIL Lecture
Amy S. Kaufman
Medievalism, Extremism, and “White History”
Summer Lecture Series
25 May 2021
, 0:37 h
Joint Lecture
Round Table
Confronting Histories of Violence and Populism
What can be learnt from “the Germans”? What have "the Germans" yet to learn?
Summer Lecture Series
4 May 2021
, 1:11 h
Joint Lecture
Round Table
Confronting Histories of Violence and Populism
What can be learnt from “the Germans”? What have "the Germans" yet to learn?
28 October 2021
Blogpost
Alexandria Ruble
Sustaining ‘Information for Women’: The Informationsdienst für Frauenfragen, the American Military Occupation, and Women’s Politics in West Germany, 1951–1990
‘The Women’s Affairs unit…is based on the recognition of the fact that German women are in a decisive position either to promote or retard the development of Germany as a democratic state.’1 This statement appeared as part of a 1949 report by the Women’s Affairs branch of the Office of Military Government, United States (OMGUS).
Category: Research, ISWG
28 September 2021
Blogpost
Maissan Hassan
‘Doing Well, Don’t Worry’: Exhibiting Archives as a Feminist Practice
In 2014, my colleagues at the Cairo-based Women and Memory Forum (WMF) and I decided to establish a women’s museum in Egypt. I was motivated by two things. The first was the absence of feminist narratives in museums in Egypt and across the Arab region...
Category: ISWG, Research