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Swen Steinberg
@swensteinberg.bsky.social
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Coordinator www.queensu.ca/grad-postdoc / teaching @queenshistory.bsky.social / affiliated @ghiwashington.bsky.social / co-founder migrantknowledge.org & transit.hypotheses.org / Ambassador for www.daad-canada.ca/en/

Website: drswensteinberg.academia.edu
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Today and tomorrow at @thegsa.bsky.social annual conference in Phoenix #theGSA2026, too bad I cannot join especially the two "Archives in/of Global Transit" panel I have co-organized
swensteinberg.bsky.social Swen Steinberg @swensteinberg.bsky.social · May 15
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"
September 25, 2026 at 8:45 AM
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Glad to join the Advisory Board of @memart-uni.bsky.social "Performing Art-Based Memory Practice on Jewish Holocaust Refugee Stories with University Students", a 2026-28 @cerveu.bsky.social funded project at @univie.ac.at, @univ-amu.fr and #UniversityofWrocław - memart.univie.ac.at
September 23, 2026 at 10:52 AM
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My research on the ornithologist Günther Niethammer has been featured in GEO, Germany’s leading monthly magazine covering science, nature, culture, and travel - www.geo.de/wissen/weltg...
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September 4, 2026 at 9:31 AM
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jennifervevans.bsky.social
Understanding how authoritarianism/fascism/ populism works means thinking about how social and intellectual life is re-organized to serve the state. /1

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August 30, 2026 at 12:16 PM
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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...
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August 4, 2026 at 12:17 PM
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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)
July 28, 2026 at 12:49 PM
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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

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July 26, 2026 at 11:39 PM
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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”

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July 17, 2026 at 9:44 AM
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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...
June 20, 2026 at 2:01 PM
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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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June 10, 2026 at 2:44 PM
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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.
May 28, 2026 at 1:23 AM
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Reminder - apply & share ...
May 25, 2026 at 10:39 PM
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Just got a picture of Heather and me putting the final touches on the exhibition
May 24, 2026 at 2:43 PM
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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
May 21, 2026 at 9:54 PM
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dgb-history.bsky.social
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
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May 19, 2026 at 8:46 AM
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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"
May 15, 2026 at 5:34 PM
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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

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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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May 14, 2026 at 11:12 PM
swensteinberg.bsky.social
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

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May 11, 2026 at 6:54 PM
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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!
May 7, 2026 at 10:10 PM
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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
swensteinberg.bsky.social Swen Steinberg @swensteinberg.bsky.social · Mar 12
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...
CfP: History of Intellectual Culture vol. 6
The editors of the scholarly yearbook History of Intellectual Culture (De Gruyter) invite contributions to Vol. 6, to be published in autumn 2027. All contributions will be peer reviewed and availa…
newhistoryofknowledge.com
May 7, 2026 at 10:11 AM
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globalaffairs.canada.ca
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...
May 5, 2026 at 12:54 PM
swensteinberg.bsky.social
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...
May 5, 2026 at 6:06 PM
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ghiwashington.bsky.social
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...
queensu.zoom.us
May 4, 2026 at 3:28 PM
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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...
May 3, 2026 at 11:42 AM
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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

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Book: tinyurl.com/4jsnm4h4
April 24, 2026 at 11:21 AM