Announcements
03.09.2025 - 05.09.2025 Christof Dejung / Philipp Horn

The conference intends to examine the relation between nation-building, scholarly research, and class from a global historical perspective. It aims for exploring the possibilities of how to write the history of ‘imagined communities’ (Anderson 1983) or ‘invention of traditions’ (Hobsbawm and Ranger 1983) after the global turn.

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Reviews
Rev. by Pertti Ahonen, Department of History and Ethnology, University of Jyväskylä

One exciting development in the recent historiography of contemporary Europe has been the growing attention that scholars have begun to pay to the history of migrations. Within the last two decades, migration history has gone increasingly mainstream – from a vibrant but somewhat isolated subfield to an integral strand of the recent European past, particularly for the post-1945 period.

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Journals

Uncovering Non-Official Expectations of Independence in Africa
Ed. by Ngozi Edeagu and Dmitri van den Bersselaar

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Articles
By Jens Jäger, Historisches Institut, Universität zu Köln

Interpol – or rather the International Criminal Police Commission (ICPC) [1], as it was known until 1956 – was the only international organization to fall entirely into German hands after 1933. In contrast to the Nazi policy towards international organizations, which was generally ambivalent if not hostile [2], the new leaders of the German police took a keen interest in the ICPC.

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Conference Reports
12.10.2023 - 14.10.2023 Cristian Cercel, Institute for Danube Swabian History and Regional Studies, Tübingen; Dietmar Müller, Leipzig University
By David Borchin, Institut für Interdisziplinäre Studien und Forschungen, Lucian-Blaga-Universität-Sibiu
 
01.11.2024 - 31.12.2024, Ab Imperio Quarterly
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