Conference Report: ‘Art-Lovers in the World: Engaging with Art and Matter in...
The two-day ‘Art-Lovers in the World: Engaging with Art and Matter in Early Modernity’ conference took place at Trinity College, Cambridge on 28 and 29 June. The conference brought together an interdisciplinary group of leading scholars from North America and Europe to discuss the persona of the art-lover and the...
ANKK Jahrestreffen in Aschaffenburg, 23–24 October 2025
The Arbeitskreis Niederländische Kunst- und Kulturgeschichte (ANKK) is a German-speaking society devoted to the study of Dutch and Flemish art and culture. Their 2025 annual meeting took place in Aschaffenburg, on the theme of cultural interactions between the Low Countries and Germany. Over three panels, speakers covered a diverse range...
Postgraduate Bursary Recipients’ Reports
Each year the GHS awards a handful of Postgraduate/ECR Bursaries to individuals studying German history at UK universities. The following blog contains reports from three of these individuals: Lucy McCormick, Ryan Hampton, Emma Paterson. Lucy McCormick I would like to express my gratitude to the German History Society for supporting...
Colloquium Report: ‘Hannah Arendt: In Conversation with Thomas Meyer and Lyndsey Stonebridge’
On the 13th of May, a colloquium on the work and legacy of the political philosopher Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) was held at the University of Oxford. The event brought together two scholars of Arendt: Thomas Meyer, Adjunct Professor for Philosophy at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, and Lyndsey Stonebridge...
Research Trip to the Sydney Jewish Museum
From 5 to 19 May 2025, I conducted field research in Sydney as part of my PhD project, which critically examines the use of technology in museum-based representations of Holocaust survivor testimonies. The Sydney Jewish Museum (SJM) had recently concluded a temporary exhibition titled Reverberations (December 2022 – May 2024),...
Holocaust Studies Networking Event at the Imperial War Museum
[caption id="attachment_2557" align="alignright" width="300"] Cailee Davis (Oxford) opening the event[/caption] On 30 May, the German History Society funded a networking event for UK postgraduate students and early career researchers in Holocaust, Jewish, German, and Genocide Studies. The event was organized by Cailee Davis, a PhD researcher at the University of...
Conference Report: Laughter as a Political Coping Mechanism
‘Laughter as a Political Coping Mechanism’ took place on March 28-29th, 2025, transforming the Confluence Lecture Theatre at Durham University into an arena for multiple languages, disciplinary approaches, and engulfing conversations about humour’s function as a deeply human form of resistance. Organisers Benedetta Carnaghi and Helen Roche were delighted with the...
Attending the Conference ‘Crafting Fashion in the Longue Durée’
The conference, ‘Crafting Fashion in the Longue Durée / Les savoir-faire de la mode: matérialité et temporalité dans la longue durée’ took place from 28-30 November 2024 at the Université Sorbonne-Nouvelle in Paris. The conference was part of a research project by Ariane Fennetaux (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle) and Emilie Hammen...
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin Language Course, Researching Hirschfeld, and the GHS Scholarship
I am incredibly grateful for the support of the GHS Postgraduate Scholarship and the GHS Small Grant, which funded my language study, fieldwork, and conference attendance in Berlin and Potsdam over this summer. The experiences enabled by the support of the GHS have set me up with stronger language skills,...