International Workshop
May 27-28, 2027
Conveners: Technische Universität Braunschweig and the Leo Baeck Institute - New York / Berlin
Organizers: Simone Lässig, Julian zur Lage (both Institut für Geschichtswissenschaft, Technische Universität Braunschweig), Frank Mecklenburg (Leo Baeck Institute - New York / Berlin), Jennifer Rodgers (Centre Interdisciplinaire d’études et de Recherches sur l’Allemagne, Paris) and Swen Steinberg (Department of History and School of Religion, Queen’s University Kingston, Ontario)
This workshop in Braunschweig (May 27-28, 2027) examines how forced migration and phases of transit have shaped familial structures, practices of remembrance, and the formation of archives. It focuses on private and family archives of refugees and other displaced persons of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, their material traces, as well as the methodological, legal, and ethical questions arising from their study. Scholars, archivists, museum professionals, and representatives of public and private collections are invited to discuss the manifold dimensions of “life in transit.”
See the Call for Papers here and on the “In Global Transit” website (https://transit.hypotheses.org/family-archives-call-for-papers).