Conferences & Lecture Series

Working Group Modern History and Historical Migration Research
Prof. Dr. Christoph A. Rass
[IMIS] [SFB1604] [HistOS]

Conferences and workshops

  • SFB 1604 Workshop:  Forced Migrants, Agency and the Production of Migration, July 2024

  • SFB 1604 Workshop  Concepts of Agency of Refugees and Forced Migrants: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives, April 2024

  •  "Negotiating Global Migrations, 1944-1959" - Conference of the DACH project "Norms, Regulations and Refugee Agency. Negotiating the Regime" at the University of Vienna, April 2024

  • "Struggles of re/interpretation. History, society and the far-right threat", series of events in the summer semester 2024
  • Digital History and Documenting Memory. Experiences from a Citizen Science Field Test in Greece: Report from a NGHM-Workshop in Athens, July 19-22, 2023.
  • The Digital Communication of the Holocaust and Other National Socialist Crimes: Approaches, Methods, Challenges - International Workshop at the University of Osnabrück, July 10, 2023.
  • Digital Humanities & friends - Reports from interdisciplinary practice. History & Didactics, Geography & Computer Science in Dialogue on the Potentials of 3-D Modeling and Virtual Reality in Research and Teaching, NGHM Tiny Desk Colloquium, May 4, 2023.
  • Conflict Landscapes: Archaeology, Landscape Concepts, Narratives and Public History, NGHM Tiny Desk Colloquium, March 2, 2023.
  •  Translations of Migration, together with Julie Weise (University of Oregon, Eugene) and the Translations of Migration Working Group, Eugene, April 27-29, 2022.
  • Labeling and the Management of Displacement, conference of the working group Negotiating Migration and fifth conference of the Displaced Persons Research Network, Osnabrück, October 28-30, 2021.
  • Potentials of Conflict Landscape Research for the Documentation of Mass Graves of the Shoah, Second Joint Workshop of the Interdisciplinary Working Group Conflict Landscapes and the Foundation Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, Osnabrück, February 21, 2020.
  • Geoinformation Systems in Historical Data Analysis - Hands-On-Workshop, Osnabrück, February 17-18, 2020.
  • International Workshop Methods of Conflict Landscape Research with the Foundation Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, Osnabrück, November 15, 2019.
  • Negotiating Displacement: New Perspectives in War, Migration and Refugee Studies, joint conference of the Institute for Migration Research and Intercultural Studies at Osnabrück University and the NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust, and Genocide Studies, Amsterdam, December 9-10, 2019.
  • International Conference Conflict Landscape Hürtgenwald, a cooperation of the Conflict Landscape Research Group of Osnabrück University with the Landschaftsverband Rheinland LVR (Administrative Service Culture and Landscape Cultural Preservation), Cologne, October 1-2, 2019.
  • Cultural engineering? Migrationsgesellschaften und die Produktion von In- und Exklusion in personenbezogenen Massendaten, workshop at the Institute for Migration Research and Intercultural Studies (IMIS) at Osnabrück University as part of the Migration Societies profile line. Organized by JunProf. Dr. Jannis Panagiotidis & Prof. Dr. Christoph Rass with Dr. Laura Stielike (IMIS) as well as PD Dr. Hans-Christian Petersen (Federal Institute for Culture and History of Germans in Eastern Europe, Oldenburg), Osnabrück, 9 November 2018.
  • Turning points: Peace Ends and Peace Beginnings from the Thirty Years' War to the Present, international conference of the German Foundation for Peace Research (DSF Osnabrück), the Research Center Institute of Early Modern Intercultural Studies (IKFN Osnabrück), the Center for Historical Peace Research (ZHF Bonn) and the Department of History (Osnabrück University), October 24-26, 2018.
  • Conflict Landscapes. Militärgeschichte im interdisziplinären Dialog, annual conference of the  Arbeitskreis Militärgeschichte in cooperation with the  Arbeitsgruppe Interdisziplinäre Konfliktlandschaftsforschung, Osnabrück, October 10-12, 2018.
  • Industrialization - Deindustrialization - Reindustrialization, Workshop of the Working Group on Economic and Social History of the Historical Commission for Lower Saxony and Bremen, Villa Stahmer, Georgsmarienhütte, 29 April 2017 [with Johannes Laufer and Christian Fieseler].
  • Farewell to the 'agricultural state' of Lower Saxony? State of research and recent aspects of changes in agriculture and social conditions in the countryside from the 18th to the 20th century, Autumn Conference of the Working Group on Economic and Social History of the Historical Commission for Lower Saxony and Bremen, Historical Museum of the City of Hanover, December 3, 2016 [with Johannes Laufer and Christian Fieseler].
  • Conflict landscapes in interdisciplinary dialog. Second workshop of the Interdisciplinary Working Group Conflict Landscapes of Osnabrück University in cooperation with the Kalkriese Museum and Park.Kalkriese, November 25, 2016.
  • The Visual Production of Migration [with Prof. Melanie Ulz], Workshop of the Graduate School 'Production of Migration', Osnabrück, June 29, 2016.
  • Project workshop: 'People on the move'. Revisiting Events and Narratives of the European Refugee Crisis (1930s-1950s) of IMIS with ITS & NIOD, Osnabrück, June 27, 2016 [not open to the public].
  • "Konfliktlandschaften" - Eine interdisziplinäre und intertemporale Annäherung an topologische Zäsuren Conference of the  Conflict Landscape Research Group at Osnabrück University in cooperation with Kunsthalle Osnabrück, Osnabrück, June 9/10, 2016.
  • Flight and Refuge in the History of Northwest Germany in the 20th Century, Spring Conference of the Working Group on Economic and Social History of the Historical Commission for Lower Saxony and Bremen, Historical Museum of the City of Hanover, April 30, 2016 [with Johannes Laufer and Christian Fieseler].
  • Networking and Transfer in an Interregional Perspective: Actors, Practices and Institutions of Knowledge Transfer, Trade and Communication from the Early Modern Period to the Present, Autumn Conference of the Working Group on Economic and Social History of the Historical Commission for Lower Saxony and Bremen, German Maritime Museum, Bremerhaven, November 15, 2015 [with Johannes Laufer and Christian Fieseler].
  • Forschungskolloquium zur Wirtschafts- und Sozialgeschichte Niedersachsensund angrenzender Regionen, spring conference of the Arbeitskreis Wirtschafts- und Sozialgeschichte der Historischen Kommission für Niedersachsen und Bremen, Historisches Museum der Stadt Hannover, March 13, 2015 [with Johannes Laufer and Christian Fieseler].
  • 'Niemand zeugt für den Zeugen - Der Tod hat nicht das letzte Wort' lecture series by Jürgen Kaumkötter in cooperation with the Institute of Art History (Prof. Niehr), the Department of Art (Prof. Brenne) and the Department of History (Dr. Christoph Rass) in the winter semester 2014/15.
  • Economic and Social History of the 20th Century in the Museum, Annual Conference of the Working Group on Economic and Social History of the Historical Commission for Lower Saxony and Bremen, Goslar, November 18, 2014 [with Johannes Laufer and Christian Fieseler].
  • Perspektiven der Wirtschafts- und Sozialgeschichte auf die Niedersächsische Landesgeschichte, Frühjahrstagung des Arbeitskreises Wirtschafts- und Sozialgeschichte der Historischen Kommission für Niedersachsen und Bremen, Hannover, March 22, 2014 [with Johannes Laufer and Christian Fieseler].
  • Officers from Yugoslavia as prisoners of war of the Wehrmacht. Die Lagergesellschaft des Oflag VI-c in Osnabrück als Spiegel der serbischen, deutschen und jüdischen Geschichte, international conference in cooperation with the association Antikriegsbaracke-Atter/Osnabrück e.V., Osnabrück, November 3, 2012.
  • Krieg, Militär und Mobilität von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart, annual conference of the Arbeitskreis Militärgeschichte e.V. in cooperation with the Institute for Migration Research and Intercultural Studies at Osnabrück University, Osnabrück, September 20-22, 2012.
  • Between Narration and Method: New Impulses in Historical Biographical Research, Tag der Wissenschaftsgeschichte des AKWG der RWTH Aachen, December 16, 2011
  • The Experience of War in a Border Region: Belgium, Luxemburg, the Netherlands and Germany 1914-1945; in cooperation with the NS-Dokumentationszentrum der Stadt Köln, the Gesellschaft für interdisziplinäre Studien and the Konejung Stiftung:Kultur, RWTH Aachen 12-13.03.2009.
  • Möglichkeiten und Probleme der computergestützten Datengewinnung, -aufbereitung und -auswertung in der Militärhistoriographie; Workshop des Arbeitskreises für Militärgeschichte e.V. in Kooperation mit dem Lehr- und Forschungsgebiet Wirtschafts- und Sozialgeschichte der RWTH Aachen und dem Hamburger Institut für Sozialforschung, RWTH Aachen 23-25.09.2004 [Together with Christian Th. Müller].