Swen Steinberg
Lecturer @queenshistory.bsky.social / affiliated @ghiwashington.bsky.social / co-founder migrantknowledge.org / co-head transit.hypotheses.org / Ambassador for daad-canada.ca/en
Website: drswensteinberg.academia.edu
- New on our Migrant Knowledge blog @ghiwashington.bsky.social: Nicolas Blumenthal @unifr.bsky.social wrote about "Challenging 'Racelessness:' Debates and Restrictions on Immigration in Postwar Switzerland" migrantknowledge.hypotheses.org/33179
- Mark your calendar: on March 28, I will present and discuss "The Joy Luck Club" from 1993 at The Screening Room in Kingston and as part of my seminar on diaspora and migration @queenshistory.bsky.social www.screeningroomkingston.com/movie/the-jo...
- Reposted by Swen SteinbergExcited to see this out! I really enjoyed contributing thoughts racist violence, “gang wars,” and policing in ‘90s Berlin. Thank you @swensteinberg.bsky.social and Raphael Rössel for putting together this important special issue!
- Hot off the press: I edited with Raphael Rössel @ghiwashington.bsky.social a special issue on "Violence and Social Inequalities" in "Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaft" - with contributions by Sophia Dafinger, Darius Muschiol and @christopherewing.bsky.social metropol-verlag.de/produkt/zeit...
- Nice conversation today with @matthiasecke.bsky.social @europarl.europa.eu, many thanks to the @fesonline.bsky.social regional office in Saxony for organizing this
- Looking forward to the conversation (in German) with @matthias-ecke.eu @europarl.europa.eu next week about transatlantic perspectives on Greenland and the US, organized by @fesonline.bsky.social. Join us online: www.fes.de/veranstaltun...
- Hot off the press: I edited with Raphael Rössel @ghiwashington.bsky.social a special issue on "Violence and Social Inequalities" in "Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaft" - with contributions by Sophia Dafinger, Darius Muschiol and @christopherewing.bsky.social metropol-verlag.de/produkt/zeit...
- Today, the first time Czech translation of "Our Quest for a Homeland. Novel of an Emigration" from 1936 has been presented at the Masarykova demokratická akademie / Masaryk Democratic Academy @feps-europe.eu in Prague
- I’ve always wanted to know who I was in a previous life. Apparently, I lived in the summer of 1924 in Montana near Big Timber (naturally in the Crazy mountains), according to a report in the "Sweet Grass News" from July 9, 1924
- Amazing cross-country morning at Little Cataraqui Creek Conservation Area
- ... this might be of interest to @kindheiten.bsky.social @histedsocuk.bsky.social @socscihistory.bsky.social #childhist #histchild #childhistory #histyouth #youthhist
- THE WORLD OF CHILDREN: Foreign Cultures in Nineteenth-Century German Education and Entertainment, edited by Simone Lässig and Andreas Weiß is now available in paperback! Find out more here: bit.ly/4qJzlYT #History #CulturalStudies #EducationalStudies #GermanStudies
- Great conversation today of the "In Global Transit" international standing working group @tu-braunschweig.de - many thanks to Nicolas Blumenthal @unifr.bsky.social and Barbara Lüthi @unileipzig.bsky.social for sharing insights from your research!
- Coming soon - register here: queensu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
- REGISTER NOW – December 9, 2025, 6-7 PM (CET) – online conversation “Deportation Transit between Immobilization and Resistance: Examples from Switzerland between the 1950s and 1970s” with Nicolas Blumenthal and Barbara Lüthi www.hsozkult.de/event/id/eve...
- New on our Migrant Knowledge blog @ghiwashington.bsky.social: Andreas Markus Schurr @eui-eu.bsky.social wrote about "Between Mirador and Washington: Carl Sartorius and His Collaboration with the Smithsonian Institution" migrantknowledge.org/2025/11/28/c...
- The new issue is also coming with a report about the "Refugees in Global Transit: Encounters, Knowledge, and Coping Strategies in a Disrupted World, 1930s – 1950s" conference I co-organized in February this year in Mumbai www.ghi-dc.org/fileadmin/pu...
- The newest issue of our Bulletin has just been published! The contents cover the full range of our research interests, from early modern German history to interwar Jewish history to 20th-century international history. Find the complete issue online: ghi-dc.org/publication/...
- REGISTER NOW – December 9, 2025, 6-7 PM (CET) – online conversation “Deportation Transit between Immobilization and Resistance: Examples from Switzerland between the 1950s and 1970s” with Nicolas Blumenthal and Barbara Lüthi www.hsozkult.de/event/id/eve...
- Join Richard Ascough and me this Thursday for an info session about the funding opportunities for postdocs and beyond through the German Academic Service Exchange (DAAD) @daadworldwide.bsky.social - November 6, 2025 10-11am Ellis Hall 333 #QueensUniversity www.queensu.ca/grad-postdoc...
- Great three days in Ottawa with the "Hate, Conspiracy Theories, and the Challenge to Democracy" workshop and the amazing evening event with @milleridriss.bsky.social I co-organized carleton.ca/populistpubl...
- Hot off the press: the new #OA #OpenAccess volume of "History of Intellectual Culture - International Yearbook of Knowledge and Society" has been published @degruyterbrill.bsky.social. I am glad to join the the editorial team of this journal with Isak Hammar www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
- SAVE THE DATE – December 9, 2025, 6-7 PM (CET) – online conversation “Deportation Transit between Immobilization and Resistance: Examples from Switzerland between the 1950s and 1970s” with Nicolas Blumenthal and Barbara Lüthi Register here: queensu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
- #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...
- 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
- 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...
- 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...
- Great panel today on "Migration, Identity, and Space in Contemporary Literature and Film" #thegsa2025, moderated by me
- 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
- Looking forward to this roundtable #thegsa2025 I have organized with Rebekka Grossmann @rmgrossmann.bsky.social
- 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
- 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
- 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...
- 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
- 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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- 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...
- 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
- 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...
- 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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- 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...
- 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...
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- 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...
- 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...
- 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
- 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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- ... deadline is Monday next week - please share: the knowledge from your research, and the Call within your networks!
- ... short interview (in German) early this morning #deutschlandfunk.kultur, about the federal elections in Canada today and some historical (plus also other) perspectives www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/parlamentswa...
- Happy to be the moderator of the "Migration, Identity, and Space in Contemporary Literature and Film" panel @thegsa.bsky.social, many thanks to the program committee #GSA2025 - and to Helga Schreckenberger @uvmvermont for organizing this!
- Accepted: @rmgrossmann.bsky.social and I proposed the round-table "Beyond Refuge: Legacies of Forced Migration and Transit in Post-1945 German-Jewish History" to the @thegsa.bsky.social, supported by @ghiwashington.bsky.social. We are looking forward to a inspiring conversation in DC!
- This was a wonderful journey, with wonderful colleagues - our "Search of the Migrant Child" was the most precise definition of the terms cooperation and collaboration migchild.hypotheses.org
- Had some great days in btf Paris, with a nice visit @dhi-paris.fr Also, I was at the grave of Otto Wels, and brought some flowers for this socialist and democrat who died in exile in 1939 "Freedom and life can be taken from us, but never our honor!"
- New on our Migrant Knowledge blog @ghiwashington.bsky.social: Kaia Santisteban #UniversityofBuenosAires publishes a "Anthropological Reflection on the Memories and Mobility of the Mapuche-Tehuelche People in the Andes Mountains" migrantknowledge.org/2025/04/14/a...
