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,...
The Internationale Sommerkurse at the Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf
The German History Society and the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) language course grant allowed me to attend the Internationale Sommerkurse at the Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf. The course offered a great opportunity to revise and refresh my German language proficiency before beginning archival research and oral history interviews for my PhD...
‘A Place of Refuge’ Exhibition
Refugees have help shape the University of Southampton and make it the world-leading institution it is today. Like much of refugee history, however, that contribution remains largely invisible. As Southampton is soon to gain status as a ‘university of sanctuary’, making itself accessible to those fleeing persecution, it was a...
Research Trip to Strasbourg: GHS Funding Report
Harry O'Neill
By the autumn of 2023, I had been researching the latter-day prophet, Ursula Jost, for around two and a half years. Having just returned to London from Birmingham after presenting my first paper at that year’s German History Society conference, I was feeling rather pleased with myself about how it...