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Swen Steinberg @swensteinberg.bsky.social · 3d

#OTD 90 years ago, Jewish journalist and Social Democrat Max Sachs was murdered in Sachsenburg concentration camp. His grandson visited me in Kingston this Friday, we talked a lot about his family, especially his refugee parents and my 2024 book about Max

www.hentrichhentrich.de/book-max-sac...

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Swen Steinberg @swensteinberg.bsky.social · 6d

Great conversations today at the Career & Further Education Fair at Queen's University, Richard Ascough and I organized a table as Research Ambassadors of the German Academic Exchange Service @daadworldwide.bsky.social

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Swen Steinberg @swensteinberg.bsky.social · 9d

Come to the table of the German Academic Exchange Service @daadworldwide.bsky.social I organize with Richard Ascough at the Career & Further Education Fair this Thursday at 10:30 AM to 3:30 PM (Queen's Main Gym), we will inform about study / funding opportunities

careers.queensu.ca/events-works...

Swen Steinberg @swensteinberg.bsky.social · 10d

Glad to see my last edited volume on display at #thegsa2025, the book "Environments of Exile: Nature, Refugees, and Representations" appeared earlier this year

www.vandenhoeck-ruprecht-verlage.com/themen-entde...

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Swen Steinberg @swensteinberg.bsky.social · 11d

Great panel today on "Migration, Identity, and Space in Contemporary Literature and Film" #thegsa2025, moderated by me

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Swen Steinberg @swensteinberg.bsky.social · 11d

... unfortunately not; or: not soon ...

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Swen Steinberg @swensteinberg.bsky.social · 12d

Great conversations today in our “Beyond Refuge: Legacies of Forced Migration and Transit in Post-1945 German-Jewish History“ panel #thegsa2025 with Anne Rothfeld, @strassenverlauf.bsky.social, Anna Augustin and Simone Lässig (both @ghiwashington.bsky.social), @rmgrossmann.bsky.social and me

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Swen Steinberg @swensteinberg.bsky.social · 13d

Looking forward to this roundtable #thegsa2025 I have organized with Rebekka Grossmann @rmgrossmann.bsky.social

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Swen Steinberg @swensteinberg.bsky.social · 16d

Great discussion yesterday after the screening of Christian Petzold’s 2018 film "Transit" at The Screening Room,
presented by The Cinema Society of Kingston and
@queenshistory.bsky.social

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Swen Steinberg @swensteinberg.bsky.social · Sep 5

Screening of Christian Petzold’s 2018 film "Transit" & history talk on September 21, 3.30pm, at The Screening Room.
Presented by The Cinema Society of Kingston and @queenshistory.bsky.social

www.screeningroomkingston.com/movie/transit

Swen Steinberg @swensteinberg.bsky.social · Aug 28

New on our Migrant Knowledge blog @ghiwashington.bsky.social: "Displaced Knowledge: Migration, Memory, and Transformation: An Interview by Nikolaus Hagen with Philipp Strobl about His New Book"

migrantknowledge.org/2025/08/28/d...

Displaced Knowledge: Migration, Memory, and Transformation: An Interview by Nikolaus Hagen with Philipp Strobl about His New Book - Migrant Knowledge

Philipp Strobl discusses his new book on displaced knowledge of Austrian refugees in Australia.

migrantknowledge.org

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Swen Steinberg @swensteinberg.bsky.social · Aug 8

Coming soon - and for the first time as Czech translation: in 1936, German socialist, journalist, writer and refugee Robert Grötzsch published "Our Quest for a Homeland. Novel of an Emigration" in Czechoslovakia. I introduced this early transit reflection of political exiles fleeing Nazi persecution

Swen Steinberg @swensteinberg.bsky.social · Jul 22

Many thanks to the German Ambassador in Canada Matthias Lüttenberg‬ for the productive discussion today on the transnational challenges of far-right radicalization with @jennifervevans.bsky.social‬, Jordan Leichnitz (Friedrich Ebert Foundation), and Populist Publics researcher David Clement and me

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Migrant Knowledge @MigKnow @migknow.bsky.social · Jul 17

Please see our new post today by blog co-founder @swensteinberg.bsky.social about industrial #forced_migrants from #Czechoslovakia in #Canada in the #Nazi era: migrantknowledge.org/2025/07/17/s...

Shoes and Guns from Batawa: Refugees from Czechoslovakia, Knowledge Transfers, and Canadian Immigration from the late 1930s to the 1940s - Migrant Knowledge

Describes circumstances of a group of Czech refugees in Canada during WWII to analyze knowledge transfers through migration .

migrantknowledge.org

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Swen Steinberg @swensteinberg.bsky.social · Jul 20

If you are in Dresden from August to November, please visit the exhibition of the outstanding photographer Andrei Liankevich from Belarus. In 2008, I have organized the first exhibition for Andrei in Germany

kulturaktiv.org/events/liank...

www.anzenbergergallery-bookshop.com/book/353/foc...

Andrei Liankevich – Traditionelle Belarusische Interieurs

Die Ausstellung zeigt das aktuelle Fotoprojekt, in dem Liankevich die verschwindenenden Innenraumausstattungen traditioneller Häuser in Belarus dokumentiert. Sein Projektarchiv umfasst inzwischen mehr...

kulturaktiv.org

Swen Steinberg @swensteinberg.bsky.social · Jul 18

Screening & history talk hosted by The Cinema Society of Kingston - September 21, 2025 at 3.30pm

Save the date for Christian Petzold’s 2018 film "Transit" at The Screening Room. I will introduce the movie and lead a post-screening discussion

www.screeningroomkingston.com/movie/transit

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Swen Steinberg @swensteinberg.bsky.social · Jul 18

‪New on our Migrant Knowledge blog @ghiwashington.bsky.social: I wrote a piece about "Shoes and Guns from Batawa: Refugees from Czechoslovakia, Knowledge Transfers, and Canadian Immigration from the late 1930s to the 1940s"

migrantknowledge.org/2025/07/17/s...

Shoes and Guns from Batawa: Refugees from Czechoslovakia, Knowledge Transfers, and Canadian Immigration from the late 1930s to the 1940s - Migrant Knowledge

Describes circumstances of a group of Czech refugees in Canada during WWII to analyze knowledge transfers through migration .

migrantknowledge.org

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Swen Steinberg @swensteinberg.bsky.social · Jun 24

Nice online event today about our "Lost Knowledge and Migration" special issue in the Journal of Migration History with Eliyana R. Adler, Susanne Korbel, Angelika Laumer and Matteo Sartori, co-edited by Philipp Strobl and me

brill.com/view/journal...

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Swen Steinberg @swensteinberg.bsky.social · Jun 22

... coming soon ...

Swen Steinberg @swensteinberg.bsky.social · May 29

Join us for the "Lost Knowledge and Migration" online discussion @ghiwashington.bsky.social on June 24 at 5-6 PM (Central European Time):

www.ghi-dc.org/events/event...

Special issue of the Journal of Migration History @degruyterbrill.bsky.social:
brill.com/view/journal...

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Swen Steinberg @swensteinberg.bsky.social · Jun 20

New on our Migrant Knowledge blog @ghiwashington.bsky.social: Amelie Harbisch @unierfurt.bsky.social writes about "Refugees’ Counter-Knowledge: Resisting Stereotypes, Becoming Political", based on fieldwork for her recent book

migrantknowledge.org/2025/06/20/r...

Refugees' Counter-Knowledge: Resisting Stereotypes, Becoming Political - Migrant Knowledge

Based on fieldwork, Harbisch highlights refugees' strategies for asserting their own knowledge about themselves.

migrantknowledge.org

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Migrant Knowledge @MigKnow @migknow.bsky.social · May 29

Upcoming online discussion (June 24) organized & moderated by founding @migknow.bsky.social member @swensteinberg.bsky.social and Philipp Strobl: Lost Knowledge and Migration: Eliyana R. Adler, Susanne Korbel, Angelika Laumer and Matteo Sartori
5-6 PM (CET)
www.ghi-dc.org/events/event...

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www.ghi-dc.org

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Swen Steinberg @swensteinberg.bsky.social · May 29

Join us for the "Lost Knowledge and Migration" online discussion @ghiwashington.bsky.social on June 24 at 5-6 PM (Central European Time):

www.ghi-dc.org/events/event...

Special issue of the Journal of Migration History @degruyterbrill.bsky.social:
brill.com/view/journal...

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Swen Steinberg @swensteinberg.bsky.social · May 27

Another short interview (in German) early this morning #deutschlandfunk.kultur, about the visit of King Charles III in Canada today and some historical (plus also other) perspectives

www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/koenig-charl...

König Charles in Kanada: Ein Signal an die USA

Als Staatsoberhaupt Kanadas eröffnet Charles III. das Parlament. Kanada zeigt den USA damit, dass es ein souveräner Staat ist, so Historiker Steinberg.

www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de

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Swen Steinberg @swensteinberg.bsky.social · May 22

Looking forward to this "Beyond Refuge: Legacies of Forced Migration and Transit in Post-1945 German-Jewish History" roundtable I organize with @rmgrossmann.bsky.social at @thegsa.bsky.social and supported by @ghiwashington.bsky.social

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Swen Steinberg @swensteinberg.bsky.social · May 4

ICYMI: special section "In Search of the Migrant Child – Entangled Histories of Childhood and Migration" in the Journal of Contemporary History, edited by Friederike Kind-Kovács @kindkovacs.bsky.social, Bettina Hitzer, Sheer Ganor and me

www.hsozkult.de/journal/id/z...

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