Annika Heyen, M.A.

Profile

Research assistant at the Chair of Modern History and Historical Migration Research, coordinator of the transfer project "Reflexive Migration Research in Museums. Potentials and Perspectives of Virtual Realities" of the Collaborative Research Center 1604 "Production of Migration".

PhD student in the Gerda Henkel Foundation-funded project "The Bermuda Conference 1943: The negotiations on the rescue of Jewish refugees and their failure?"

Vita

Since April 2024: Research assistant and project coordinator in the T-project of the CRC 1604 "Production of Migration"

Since February 2022: PhD student at the Chair of Modern History and Historical Migration Research at Osnabrück University

February 2022 - March 2024: Doctoral scholarship holder of the Gerda Henkel Foundation

April 2023 - March 2024: Project coordination "In Stein Gemeißelt? Digitally tangible memory discourses in the urban space of Lower Saxony and Eastern Europe"

February 2022 - July2022: Project coordination "Virtual tour for the multi-perspective development of the  Maly Trascjanec memorial site"

October 2019 - December 2021: Student Assistant for Prof. Jochen Oltmer at the Institute for Migration Research and Intercultural Studies (IMIS) at Osnabrück University

October 2019 - December 2019: Collaboration on the content of the special exhibition "2 million years of migration" for the Varus Battle in the Osnabrücker Land Museum and Park Kalkriese

March 2014 - February 2019: Student assistant in the exhibition of the German Emigration Center in Bremerhaven

March 2016 - September 2018: Student assistant in the EU-funded database project  German Slavery under the direction of Prof. Dr. Rebekka von Mallinckrodt at the University of Bremen

Publications

with Sebastian Musch. "The bermuda conference in april 1943: allied politics, jewish orgaizations and the emergence of the international migration regime." Holocaust Studies, 30(2) (2024): 290-307  . doi.org/10.1080/17504902.2023.2228181.

"Resettled. Highlights on a system of forced emigration from the administrative district of Osnabrück 1832-1866." Osnabrücker Mitteilungen. Notices of the Association for History and Regional Studies of Osnabrück (Historical Association) 128 (2023): 135-163.

"'Millions of unwanted persons': 'Refugees' 80 years ago - and today? Thoughts on World Refugee Day 2023." NGHM@UOS Blog, June 20, 2023  . nghm.hypotheses.org/13299.

"Declaration of December 17, 1942 - A Memorable Anniversary." NGHM@UOS Blog, December 17, 2023  . nghm.hypotheses.org/7780.

Conference Report "'Displaced Persons' in Lower Saxony and Bremen. 42nd meeting of the working group for the history of the 19th and 20th centuries." H-Soz-Kult, January 16, 2022  . www.hsozkult.de/conferencereport/id/fdkn-132881.

"The Unwanted. Social Cleansing through forced emigration in the Kingdom of Hanover 1832-1866." NGHM@UOS Blog, August 3, 2022  . nghm.hypotheses.org/5326.