University Osnabrück

Summer semester 2025

Lecture: Global infrastructures and mobility in the 19th and 20th centuries
Seminar: Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free" (Emma Lazarrus). The production of migration in the United States of America (1865-1965)
Colloquium for exam candidates (BA & MA - Teacher Education) in Modern History
Colloquium for exam candidates in the FACHMASTER GESCHICHTE, specializing in Modern History

Winter semester 2024/25

Lecture: The Second World War - global perspectives
Seminar (in English): Producing Migration | The Global Refugee Regime during the "Age of Extremes"
Colloquium for exam candidates (BA & MA - Teacher Education) in Modern History
Colloquium for exam candidates in the FACHMASTER GESCHICHTE, specializing in Modern History, as well as doctoral students etc. of the Chair of Modern History and Historical Migration Research
Excursion: War of extermination, occupation and Holocaust in the regional culture of remembrance in East-Central Europe. International workshop and excursion in Vilnius

Summer semester 2024

Winter semester 2023/24

Lecture: The "Third Reich"
Seminar: Violence-induced mobility and its consequences in the context of Nazi rule, the Holocaust and the Second World War
Colloquium on modern history and historical migration research for exam candidates
Osnabrück in the 'Third Reich': event horizon and history, remembrance and reappraisal

Summer semester 2023

Lecture: Germany and Europe in the long 19th century
Seminar: Public History and Virtual Reality: Osnabrück monuments to war, violence and peace
Seminar: Politics of temporary labor migration in the 19th and 20th centuries
Colloquium for doctoral students and exam candidates of the Chair of Modern History and Historical Migration Research (summer semester 2020 - summer semester 2023)
Colloquium Modern History

Winter semester 2022/23

Lecture: Germany in the interwar period
Seminar: "Assimilation" - "Integration". Concepts of the production of belonging in 20th century migration societies
Seminar: Two streets in Osnabrück. Urban historical perspectives on the 20th century as digital public history
Colloquium on modern history
Colloquium on modern history and historical migration research

Summer semester 2022

Research semester off.
You can find the courses offered in the field of Modern History and Historical Migration Research on our website or in StudIP.

Winter semester 2021/22

Lecture: Migration and Europe in the 20th century
Seminar: Transformations of an urban society: International migration and Osnabrück from forced labor to "guest labor"
Seminar: The production of migration: path dependencies of leading migration policy categories of the 20th century
Colloquium on Modern History
Colloquium for doctoral students and exam candidates of the Chair of Modern History and Historical Migration Research

Summer semester 2021

Lecture: Killing Fields: Sites of violence and conflict landscapes of the 20th century in German and European historyVernichtungsort
Seminar: Malyj Trostenez. From the development to the mediation of violent places of the Shoah and the war of extermination.
Seminar: Camps as conflict landscapes of forced migration. Perspectives on violence-induced mobility in the context of the Second World War
Colloquium Modern History
Colloquium for doctoral students and exam candidates in Modern History and Historical Migration Research

Winter semester 2020/21

Lecture: "Out of Many": Migration, Mobility and Identity Constructions in the USA between the Civil War and the Civil Rights Movement
Seminar: "A dark and bloody ground". The "Battle of All Souls" in November 1944 from a US-American perspective: event, place, memory
Seminar: The end of "immigration"? Science in the debate on identity and migration in the USA between 1917 and 1965
Seminar: Doctoral Colloquium in Modern History and Historical Migration Research
Seminar: Colloquium in Modern History

Summer semester 2020

Lecture: Forced migration: war and violence, flight and "refugee policy" in Europe from the mid-19th century to after the Second World War
Seminar "Homeless Foreigners": The Reception of Surviving Victims of National Socialism in West Germany after 1945
Seminar: Places of violence: research, musealization, mediation
Colloquium on Modern History
Colloquium for doctoral students and exam candidates of the Chair of Modern History and Historical Migration Research

Winter semester 2019/20

Lecture: "War" in the history of the 20th century
Seminar: Places of violence of the Second World War in Belarus: Event horizon and culture(s) of remembrance
Seminar: Knowledge production, knowledge transfer and the cultural framing of the negotiation of the regulation of "migration"
Colloquium Modern History
Colloquium on Modern History and Historical Migration Research

Summer semester 2019

Lecture: Globalization, migration and mobility in the 19th century
Seminar: "Whatever happens, we have got the Maxim gun, and they have not." Violence and European colonial rule in the 19th century
Seminar: Migration regimes and the dating of mobility in the late 19th and early 20th century.
Colloquium on Modern History and Historical Migration Research
Colloquium Modern History

Winter semester 2018/19

Lecture: The Second World War and its consequences from a 'glocal' perspective
Seminar 1: Subsequent processes of violence-induced mobility: migration regimes and migration patterns of the DP-Resettlement after the Second World War
Seminar 2: Historiography and the visualization of conflict landscapes: The battlefield "Hürtgenwald" in aerial photograph and situation map, 3D simulation and first-person shooter.
Colloquium Modern History
Colloquium on modern history and historical migration research

Summer semester 2018

Lecture: A brief global history of migration policies in the 19th and 20th centuries
Seminar 1: Refugees and Displaced Persons. Resettlement and national migration policy 1946-1951
Seminar 2: "We are no country of immigration anymore". Debates about the USA's migration policy in the interwar period
Colloquium on Modern History
Colloquium for doctoral and post-doctoral students and exam candidates at the Chair of Modern History and Historical Migration Research

Winter semester 2017/18

Lecture: War and migration in the 20th century
Seminar: The narrative production of places of memory. "Battlefields" and their history(ies) in the 19th and 20th centuries.
Seminar: Resettlement. Negotiations of international refugee policy after the Second World War.
Colloquium on Modern History
Colloquium for doctoral students of the Chair of Modern History and Historical Migration Research.

Summer semester 2017

Lecture: Society on the move: Migration in the history of the USA in the 19th and 20th centuries
Seminar: "Refugee crisis". DP migration overseas between 1945 and 1955
Seminar: Americans @ War: Conflict landscapes and cultures of remembrance
Colloquium for doctoral students and exam candidates of the Chair of Modern History & Historical Migration Research
Colloquium Modern History

Winter semester 2016/17

Research semester

Summer semester 2016

Lecture: War and Peace in the 20th Century. Global perspectives.
Seminar: Migration Migration and Violence in the 20th Century (the seminar may be held in English in order to expand the offer for refugees).
Seminar: Osnabrück as a theater of the 20th century.
Seminar: Proxy wars. The East-West conflict globally
Colloquium: Modern history

Winter semester 2015/16

Lecture: FRG/DDR 1945/49-1989/91
Seminar: Migration Regimes at work: 'Labor Migration' between free circulation, bilateral recruitment and regulated international labor markets (19th/20th century)
Seminar: Refugee policy in Germany between the Basic Law, the UN Convention on Human Rights and the 'asylum compromise'
Seminar: The Korean War as a global event
Exercise: GIS application for migration research and historiography [with Sebastian Bondzio]
[together with Professor Dr. Jannis Panagiotidis] Colloquium: Modern History

Summer semester 2015

Lecture: 'Germany' in Europe in the 19th century.
Seminar: Migration regimes and images. The visual production of migration in contemporary and historical perspective.
Seminar: 'Strangers in the city'. Mobility and migration in Osnabrück from French rule to the German Empire.
Inter-epochal seminar [with Prof. Sigrid Westphal]: Making peace: A comparison of the Peace Congress of Westphalia and the Congress of Vienna
[with apl. Prof. Dr. Jochen Oltmer] Colloquium Modern History.

Winter semester 2014/15

Lecture: Germany in the age of the world wars
Seminar: Church and religiosity in the First World War
Seminar [with Dr. Frank Wolff]: Emigrate or endure? Jewish survival strategies in the "Third Reich" 1933-1939
Seminar [with Dr. Frank Wolff]: Generations on the move. Life history as migration history
Seminar: Migration Regimes: Past and Present
[with apl. Prof. Dr. Jochen Oltmer] Colloquium Modern History

Summer semester 2014

Lecture: Europe and the world in the 19th century
Advanced seminar: The German Empire globally: colonialism, migration and world politics
Advanced seminar: Edward Said and the culture of imperialism
Advanced seminar: Migration regimes in historical perspective: flight, asylum and labor migration
[with apl. Prof. Dr. Jochen Oltmer] Colloquium Modern History

Winter semester 2013/14

Lecture: Globalization and conflict in the 20th century
Advanced seminar: War over "Indochina" 1945-1975
Advanced seminar: Empires, decolonization and migration in the 20th century
Advanced seminar: Comming to terms: Migration Regimes, Migration Management and the Governance of Migration
[with apl. Prof. Dr. Jochen Oltmer] Colloquium Modern History

Summer semester 2013

Lecture: The History of the USA from the Revolution to the First World War
Advanced seminar: "A house divided against itself cannot stand". The War of Secession (1861-1865) in the history of the USA
Advanced seminar: New York. An American metropolis in the 19th century
Advanced seminar: Migration and the labor market in the 20th century: Theoretical and empirical perspectives
[with apl. Prof. Dr. Jochen Oltmer] Colloquium Modern History

Winter semester 2012/13

Lecture: FRG and GDR 1945/49-1989/90
Advanced seminar: Flight to Lower Saxony as a contemporary historical phenomenon and interface between regional history and migration research (IMIB Master, History)
Advanced seminar: Elite continuity and state history: Collective biographical analysis of the project "The Nazi past of later members of the Lower Saxony state parliament" (History/Master)
Advanced seminar: Migration Regimes and the Governance of Migration in Europe during the 20th century (MISOCO, IMIB & History/Master)
[with apl. Prof. Dr. Jochen Oltmer] Colloquium Modern History

Summer semester 2012

Lecture: "Germany" in Europe 1806-1914
Advanced seminar: War and peace in the 19th century (History/Master)
Advanced seminar: "Germany" on the way to the nation state (History/Bachelor)
Advanced seminar: Migration and the labor market: Theoretical and empirical perspectives (IMIB & History/Master)
[with apl. Prof. Dr. Jochen Oltmer] Colloquium Modern History

Winter semester 2011/12

Lecture: Germany in the Age of the World Wars
Advanced seminar: The Wehrmacht in the war of extermination (History/Bachelor)
Advanced Seminar: Living and Dying in the Age of the World Wars: Mass Data-Based Biographical Analysis of 'Fallen' of the First World War (History/Master)
Advanced seminar: Labor migration and migration regimes in 20th century Europe (IMIB & History/Master)
Advanced seminar: Migration Regimes in Europe. A comparative approach to the 20th century (MISOCO, IMIB & History/Master)
[with apl. Prof. Dr. Jochen Oltmer] Colloquium Modern History

Summer semester 2011

Lecture: Europe and the world in the long 19th century
Advanced seminar: A place in the sun? Colonial rule and the global presence of the German Empire 1884-1918
Advanced seminar: Pandemic! The Spanish flu of 1918 from a global, regional and local perspective
[with apl. Prof. Dr. Jochen Oltmer] Colloquium Modern History
Exercise: Scientific work: Text creation and work organization