Caroline Mezger @CarolineMezger Twitter profile

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Caroline Mezger

5 years

Sneak peek of my book cover - thank you @OUPHistory @GermanHistSoc for the great design! Who is the boy on the photograph? Read my forthcoming book to find out!

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Caroline Mezger

@CarolineMezger

6 months

Contract's been signed - Princeton, here I come (in spring 2025)!

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Caroline Mezger

@CarolineMezger

3 years

Struck again today by what an effective memorial #stolpersteine are. There's nothing like walking in a new city/neighborhood and thinking: here, too. They, too.

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Caroline Mezger

@CarolineMezger

2 years

Just signed my publication agreement with The Journal of Modern History. "Rumor and Wartime Migration: Informal Communication, Propaganda, and the 1939 'Option' in South Tyrol" to appear in the JMH soon!

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Caroline Mezger

@CarolineMezger

7 months

Just received the best news - I'll be spending spring 2025 as a fellow at the Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies @Princeton !

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Caroline Mezger

@CarolineMezger

5 months

Overwhelmed by the response to this! Thanks so much for the kind words, advice, and cheering on!

Caroline Mezger

@CarolineMezger

6 months

Contract's been signed - Princeton, here I come (in spring 2025)!

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Caroline Mezger

@CarolineMezger

3 years

Today is my first official day working @LMU_Muenchen . So honored to be joining the brilliant history faculty for a semester to teach courses on forced migration and historical communications!

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Caroline Mezger

@CarolineMezger

5 years

It's the official publication date of my book! 🥳

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Caroline Mezger

@CarolineMezger

2 years

Our newest arrival

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Caroline Mezger

@CarolineMezger

11 months

Working with German sources

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Caroline Mezger

@CarolineMezger

2 years

My seminar on forced migration in 20th-century Europe seems to have touched a nerve: over 50 students on the waiting list!

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Caroline Mezger

@CarolineMezger

2 years

Really looking forward to participating in this book roundtable next month on "Ideology and Complicity in Mass Violence"! @LMU_Muenchen @jleadermaynard @_tim_williams_

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Caroline Mezger

@CarolineMezger

3 years

Pandemic management, 17th century style

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Caroline Mezger

@CarolineMezger

3 years

My interview on Forging Germans with the @NewBooksEEuro is now online. Thank you so much, Jill Massino, for your excellent questions and for taking an interest in my book!

Caroline Mezger, "Forging Germans: Youth, Nation, and the National Socialist Mobilization of Ethnic...

newbooksnetwork.com

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Caroline Mezger

@CarolineMezger

3 years

So thrilled that this was my workplace today! And in the @BundesarchivD 's elegant new reading room, no less! #INFOCOM #IfZ

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Caroline Mezger

@CarolineMezger

3 years

When your book becomes the #1 reference on Wikipedia for "Germans of Yugoslavia"

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Caroline Mezger

@CarolineMezger

4 years

When you look at your PhD alma mater's newly designed website and see your graduation photo is now one of the site's main banners... #nostalgia @EUI @EUI_History

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Caroline Mezger

@CarolineMezger

5 years

Happy to announce that pre-order for my book is now available! Curious about ethnic German youth mobilization, Nazi projects in Southeastern Europe, or even Third Reich religious initiatives among the "Volksdeutsche"? Check out Forging Germans:

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Caroline Mezger

@CarolineMezger

1 year

CfP for various 2024 fellowships at the Center for Holocaust Studies @Leibniz_IfZ 📣

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Caroline Mezger

@CarolineMezger

3 months

Received the best course evaluations of my career today 🥳 Thank you to my students for making our explorations of the Habsburg Empire so awesome this term!

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Caroline Mezger

@CarolineMezger

3 years

Back in the archives! #IfZ #INFOCOM

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Caroline Mezger

@CarolineMezger

2 years

One of the more exciting things to happen this past spring ... we finally made it!!

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Caroline Mezger

@CarolineMezger

5 years

Despite Germany's borders effectively shutting down today... I received my book copies!

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Caroline Mezger

@CarolineMezger

11 months

The #INFOCOM team warmly congratulates @IzabelaPaszko on her successful PhD defense today!! You have been a fantastic colleague and we wish you all the best for your future!

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Caroline Mezger

@CarolineMezger

6 months

Happy start of the new semester @LMU_Muenchen ! Looking forward to teaching a survey course on the Habsburg Empire this term (finally get to showcase some of the brilliant recent scholarship by my specialist colleagues and friends)! #HabsburgStudies #Kakanien 🩷

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Caroline Mezger

@CarolineMezger

2 years

Excited to finally be researching in the Bundesarchiv Bayreuth! As a historian working on ethnic Germans, I can't believe it's taken me so long to explore these collections... even more wonderful to be here!

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Caroline Mezger

@CarolineMezger

2 years

Yugoslav historians! Found this in my family's basement, ads point to the Kingdom of Yugoslavia time-wise. Was it really a thing to call it "Jugoslavisch"? Never came across the term in my own sources...

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Caroline Mezger

@CarolineMezger

2 years

Thrilled that our panel "Unsicherheit und Handlungsmacht: Gerüchte als historische Ereignisse in Europa und Nordamerika" has been accepted for the Historikertag 2023 @VHDtweets ! Looking forward to it, @rumorator @ArchivalGossip @FelixGeschichte and Olaf Stieglitz!

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Caroline Mezger

@CarolineMezger

3 years

Embarking on a new archival research trip with a current anthropological exhibit next to my seat... who knew my topic still had such relevance 😬

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Caroline Mezger

@CarolineMezger

6 months

Truly Orwellian headline. Disgraceful!

BMBF

@BMBF_Bund

6 months

Das Bundeskabinett hat heute die Reform des #WissZeitVG beschlossen. Damit verbessern wir die Arbeitsbedingungen für #Wissenschaftlerinnen und #Wissenschaftler . 🎓 Alle Details sind hier nachzulesen:

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Caroline Mezger

@CarolineMezger

5 years

Received the production schedule for my book with OUP ... Forging Germans coming to a bookstore near you in February 2020!

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Caroline Mezger

@CarolineMezger

7 months

Happy to announce that #INFOCOM 's first major peer-reviewed publication is out! Thank you to the team members, workshop participants & reviewers who made it better! Read my article on "Rumor and Wartime Migration" in The Journal of Modern History here:

Rumor and Wartime Migration: Informal Communication, Propaganda, and the 1939 “Option” in South...

Abstract Nazi-instigated cases of forced displacement, flight, and deportation have received considerable historiographical attention. Much of this literature, however, has restricted itself either...

www.journals.uchicago.edu

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Caroline Mezger

@CarolineMezger

2 years

A little preview of next month's #INFOCOM Workshop @dhiparis with @CRH_ehess - very much looking forward to this! @Leibniz_IfZ

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Caroline Mezger

@CarolineMezger

3 years

Looking forward to discussing "Transnational Germans" with @jtkoranyi , @pluaro , and others at #thegsa2021 conference later this week! @GSA

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Caroline Mezger

@CarolineMezger

1 year

One of the most insightful, rigorous, and moving pieces of scholarship I have encountered in a long time. Thank you @AmHistReview for sending it to me for review!

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Caroline Mezger

@CarolineMezger

3 years

Working in the new #Bundesarchiv Lichterfelde was a DREAM! 💫 Fabulous new spaces and technology, friendly, efficient, and helpful staff - even the coffee machines serve Lavazza! Thank you @BundesarchivD for 2 fantastic weeks of archival research! #INFOCOM #IfZ

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Caroline Mezger

@CarolineMezger

3 years

When a historian whose work you've been reading since high school cites you 😄

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Caroline Mezger

@CarolineMezger

4 years

Since my child was born on the day corona measures first went into effect in Bavaria, I can watch the #pandemic age in human terms. It can now sit, crawl, babble, stand supported, eat solids, and make friends.

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Caroline Mezger

@CarolineMezger

3 years

It's finally here!! After 2 years of pandemic-related delays, the #INFOCOM team @Leibniz_IfZ is finally going to the @DeutschesMuseum to learn more about WWII communication technologies!

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Caroline Mezger

@CarolineMezger

1 year

Disturbing conclusions on gender history re. our #Historikertag panel: "Wenn in einer Sektion über Gerüchte ... drei von vier Vorträgen eigentlich Genderforschung boten, dann sollte das ein Warnsignal sein"! @rumorator @ArchivalGossip @FelixGeschichte

Historikertag in Leipzig: Das Gerücht vom SS-Offizier, der eine Münchnerin im Café erschoss - WELT

„Fragilen Fakten“ widmete sich der 54. Historikertag in Leipzig. Er zeigte, dass selbst die Genetik keine absoluten Gewissheiten liefert und warum der Patriarch von Moskau Putins Panzer segnet. Die...

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Caroline Mezger

@CarolineMezger

5 years

Thrilled to announce that a preview of my book, Forging Germans, is now available on Google Books! Thank you @OUPHistory @GermanHistSoc

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Caroline Mezger

@CarolineMezger

2 years

A few last impressions of the #INFOCOM Workshop @DHIP with @CRH_ehess and @Fondation_Shoah last week. Thank you so much to all the co-organizers and speakers for a wonderful conference! @Leibniz_IfZ

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Caroline Mezger

@CarolineMezger

4 months

Congratulations to Manuel Mork of the #INFOCOM Project @Leibniz_IfZ for his successful PhD defense today, in a joint French-German cotutelle no less! All the Project's PhD students are now #PhDone 🥳

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Caroline Mezger

@CarolineMezger

3 years

Another research trip is coming to a close - thank you @ÖsterreichischesStaatsarchiv for the excellent service!

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Caroline Mezger

@CarolineMezger

4 months

In case you're wondering how my trip home is going...

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Caroline Mezger

@CarolineMezger

5 years

Look what's on display at #LLmuc19 - the new edition of European Holocaust Studies, edited by Gaelle Fisher and me! Thank you to all the authors and contributors who made this possible! #IfZ #VEJ

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Caroline Mezger

@CarolineMezger

5 months

Received a fantastic parcel from @utpress - can't wait to tuck into these titles! Thanks @ShapiroUTP , it was a pleasure working with you!

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Caroline Mezger

@CarolineMezger

3 years

It's starting!!! #INFOCOM #IfZ @ceu

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Caroline Mezger

@CarolineMezger

3 years

So glad to finally see this in print! The article explores childhood agency among ethnic Germans in WWII & the "Vertreibung", arguing that questions of agency are central to untangling postwar memorial/historiographical frameworks of "German" victimhood

From Hitler’s Disciple to Wartime Refugee

Abstract Building on recent investigations into children as historical actors, this article examines the experiences of ethnic German (Donauschwaben) expellees from northern Yugoslavia’s Vojvodina...

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Caroline Mezger

@CarolineMezger

3 years

After two weeks of health-related absences, toddler's daycare suddenly shut down until further notice due to covid-19 contact cases. 2022, pack up and go home #primalscream

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Caroline Mezger

@CarolineMezger

4 years

Interested in doing a PhD in History at the European University Institute in Florence? Join in on one of several interactive webinars for prospective applicants this fall! Registration for the first one here: @EUI_History

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Caroline Mezger

@CarolineMezger

3 years

Teaching history in Germany - when your seminars are interrupted by the sudden detonation of a WWII-era bomb... (loved being present in your class today, @LisbethMatzer !) München: Fliegerbombe in Nähe der Donnersbergerbrücke explodiert via @sz

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Caroline Mezger

@CarolineMezger

3 years

On a more positive note, toddler was able to hack into my password-protected tablet, draw this, and upload it onto a cloud so that it appeared on my PC. All within 2 minutes, without me watching... no idea my devices had such functions #amazed #digitalnatives

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Caroline Mezger

@CarolineMezger

6 months

Twitterers, advice needed! I'm currently figuring out the details of a fellowship and am facing the issue of exorbitant childcare costs in the USA (how do you guys do it over there?!). Are there any grants you can apply for to help cover the cost of childcare? #womeninacademia

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Caroline Mezger

@CarolineMezger

5 months

It's reached the halls of my apartment building ...

Caroline Mezger

@CarolineMezger

11 months

Jüdische Freunde, auf deren Gartenzaun ein Hakenkreuz geschmiert wurde. In München, 2023. Die Gewalt und der Hass der letzten Wochen machen mich fassungslos.

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Caroline Mezger

@CarolineMezger

3 years

Really looking forward to participating in this #ASEEES21 panel on Thursday!

Rok Stergar

@stergarr

3 years

Another great #ASEEES21 panel with @GrubackiIsidora , Fabio Giomi, Jovana Papović, Lucija Balikić, @LisbethMatzer , and @CarolineMezger . The future of our discipline never looked brighter, we just need to make sure these young stars get descent jobs.

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Caroline Mezger

@CarolineMezger

3 years

Returning from an archival research trip on the history of forced displacement on a train packed with refugees. I'm so heartbroken.

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Caroline Mezger

@CarolineMezger

3 years

My interview with the fabulous @LucijaBalikic on Forging Germans is now available @RevDem2020 . Thank you very much for your thoughtful questions and for interviewing me!

Review of Democracy

@RevDem2020

3 years

In our latest interview, @LucijaBalikic talks with @CarolineMezger about the complex avenues of negotiating “Germanness” in historical perspective, as well as the dynamics of the National Socialist takeover of youth organizations in Yugoslavia 👇

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Caroline Mezger

@CarolineMezger

3 years

Thank you for your eloquent and positive review, Carl Bethke! This book was only possible through the fantastic support and resources of @EUI_History , @EUI_EU & @SBFI_CH , my editors at OUP @NeilGregor1 & @LenScales , the team @OUPHistory & the #IfZ ! Danke!

Rezension zu: C. Mezger: Forging Germans

Rezension zu / Review of: Mezger, Caroline: : Forging Germans. Youth, Nation, and the National Socialist Mobilization of Ethnic Germans in Yugoslavia, 1918–1944

www.hsozkult.de

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Caroline Mezger

@CarolineMezger

4 months

It's always nice to be back in Paris

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Caroline Mezger

@CarolineMezger

3 years

Inspiring discussions this weekend on transnational/transgressive Germans @TheGSA #theGSA2021 ! Thanks so much for organizing this seminar @jtkoranyi & Cristian Cercel! It was a pleasure, @Amber_N_Nickell @Stefanie_Mahrer & others

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Caroline Mezger

@CarolineMezger

3 years

Some impressions of the #INFOCOM workshop with @DeutschesMuseum . Thank you so much, Sonja Neumann, Luise Allendorf-Hoefer & Carola Dahlke for the fascinating insights into WWII communication technologies!

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Caroline Mezger

@CarolineMezger

2 years

Just a friendly reminder that @CEU 's remarkable Invisible University for Ukraine began its courses this week! #StandWithUkraine

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Caroline Mezger

@CarolineMezger

2 years

Members of the #INFOCOM team @Leibniz_IfZ attended a workshop @Cambridge_Uni this week. Thanks a lot for the fantastic opportunity!

Institut für Zeitgeschichte München−Berlin

@Leibniz_IfZ

2 years

Gemeinsamer PhD-Workshop von @LMU_Muenchen und @Cambridge_Uni : Drei Tage lang haben sich auch Doktorand/innen aus dem #IfZ über "Methods and Approaches in Contemporary History" ausgetauscht. Die nächste Runde von #CALM findet im November in #M ünchen statt. Wir freuen uns schon!

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Caroline Mezger

@CarolineMezger

7 months

For those without institutional access, the following link provides up to 50 free downloads of the article! @LeibnizWGL @Leibniz_IfZ

Caroline Mezger

@CarolineMezger

7 months

Happy to announce that #INFOCOM 's first major peer-reviewed publication is out! Thank you to the team members, workshop participants & reviewers who made it better! Read my article on "Rumor and Wartime Migration" in The Journal of Modern History here:

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@CarolineMezger

1 year

Many congratulations to #INFOCOM 's @FelixGeschichte for his successful PhD defense today!! It's been an honor and a pleasure to have you as part of our team!

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Caroline Mezger

@CarolineMezger

3 years

Another amazing research trip is drawing to a close. Thank you, @doew_at and #VWI for making my time in your collections so enjoyable and productive! #INFOCOM #IfZ

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@CarolineMezger

3 years

Here we go!!

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@CarolineMezger

3 years

Thanks so much @GermanHistSoc ! It was a pleasure to present with my fellow series authors and to work with @NeilGregor1 @OUPHistory

German History Society

@GermanHistSoc

3 years

It looks as good as it sounded - thanks @CarolineMezger for a fascinating presentation of your book!

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Caroline Mezger

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2 years

Here we are!! #INFOCOM @dhiparis

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Caroline Mezger

@CarolineMezger

3 years

Received my first covid vaccination and feel like the happiest kid on earth!

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@CarolineMezger

3 years

1st holiday collaboration, toddler & me

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@CarolineMezger

9 months

This weekend across Germany, 100,000s took to the streets to peacefully demonstrate against the radical right - and it was beautiful. Here some local impressions:

Demo gegen Rechts in München: 100.000 Menschen protestieren – Bilder zeigen die Massen

www.merkur.de

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Caroline Mezger

@CarolineMezger

3 years

Looking forward to discussing my research on #rumors and #migration at the colloquium of @ContHistUIBK next week! Thanks a lot for the invitation, @EvaPfanzelter !

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Caroline Mezger

@CarolineMezger

4 months

Looking forward to presenting my #INFOCOM research at the @sfb_1369 colloquium @LMU_Muenchen this week! How are rumors, anti-Nazi jokes, and pseudo-religious prophecies related to Gestapo surveillance and courtroom crackdowns? Come find out this Thursday!

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Caroline Mezger

@CarolineMezger

3 years

It's application season again! Feel free to join one of several interactive webinars on applying for a fully-funded #PhD in History at the fabulous @EUI_EU @EUI_History - the next one tomorrow, Nov. 3rd:

PhD Information Session and Q&A

Orientation webinar for PhD applicants with a multilingual Q&A session.

www.eui.eu

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@CarolineMezger

3 years

The start of the new term also means changes in the #INFOCOM team: After successfully finishing her Master's degree, @chantalhambeck will soon begin pursuing a PhD in history @uni__augsburg . Congratulations and thank you so much for your fantastic work!

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@CarolineMezger

5 months

Fantastic trip to the #DokumentationObersalzberg today @Leibniz_IfZ - congratulations to our colleagues on the great new exhibition!

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@CarolineMezger

1 year

Powerful accounts @historikertag by our Ukrainian colleagues on doing history in conditions of war

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@CarolineMezger

1 year

Little trip down memory lane @EUI

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@CarolineMezger

2 years

One of the benefits of studying Volksdeutsche educated in Southeastern Europe? You barely come across Sütterlin and other godawful forms of German handwriting in ego documents. #blessed

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@CarolineMezger

3 years

Thank goodness for bureaucratic insubordination - archival materials saved! #INFOCOM # IfZ

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@CarolineMezger

3 years

Interested in histories of #rumor in World War I? Read my review of N. Orgill, "Rumors of the Great War", out now with #FranciaRecensio @dhiparis

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Caroline Mezger

@CarolineMezger

7 months

A very helpful English-language thread on what's currently going on in German academia (postdoctoral precariousness has recently become even worse).

Tanja Bhuiyan

@TanjaBhuiyan6

7 months

Last week, the government has agreed on reducing the period Postdocs can work on a temporary contract from 6 to 4 (+2) years. What does this law amendment mean for international Postdocs and marginalized persons in academia? A🧵 #WissZeitVG #ichBinHanna #ichBinReyhan #ichBinTina

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Caroline Mezger

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3 years

Wrote the introduction to my new book! So liberating to work on new materials...!

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@CarolineMezger

3 years

Can't believe this was one year ago, and here we are all over again. Happy new year to all - may this one be brighter!

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@CarolineMezger

2 years

They don't do much, it seems 😂 I suppose raising a family in academia is still seen as a type of "Privatvergnügen", i.e. not something employers should concern themselves with... #AcademicParents #MunichKitaCrisis

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@CarolineMezger

2 years

Survey! How does your academic employer handle shortages in childcare among its employees? Looking for inspiration!! #AcademicParents

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3 years

Loved discussing my research @ContHistUIBK yesterday evening - thanks again for the invitation, great questions, and welcoming atmosphere @EvaPfanzelter !

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@CarolineMezger

2 years

Looking forward to speaking at the Modern History Colloquium @WWU_Muenster tonight!

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@CarolineMezger

4 years

It's always nice to be back @dhiparis

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@CarolineMezger

2 years

Beginning this new academic term without childcare. Please send all your best wishes and fairydust my way.

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Caroline Mezger

@CarolineMezger

4 years

Honored to have been included in the AcademiaNet database! Thank you @AcademiaNet_org , @LeibnizWGL , and @snsf_ch ! #womenacademics

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@CarolineMezger

3 years

Probably no better way to spend Christmas than by picking fresh oranges off a tree 🍊

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Caroline Mezger

@CarolineMezger

2 years

@LaurienVastenh1 Add archaic family models and the cost of childcare to that and you've got the perfect storm... Had to decline a prestigious fellowship recently because it wasn't financially viable for researchers with families without independent means and/or a fulltime, unpaid homemaker...

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Caroline Mezger

@CarolineMezger

1 year

The Center for Holocaust Studies @Leibniz_IfZ is hiring a postdoc - more info below. I loved working there!

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@CarolineMezger

2 years

Holiday breakfasts

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@CarolineMezger

7 months

My review of Rebecca Clifford's inspiring book, Survivors: Children's Lives After the Holocaust, is now out @AmHistReview . Hugely recommend reading this book!

Rebecca Clifford. Survivors: Children’s Lives After the Holocaust.

Over the past two decades, studies of the Holocaust have probed two lines of investigation that lie at the heart of Rebecca Clifford’s Survivors: Children’

academic.oup.com

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Caroline Mezger

@CarolineMezger

4 years

Excited to have been included as a lecturer at the #Universit ätderBundeswehr and greatly looking forward to our seminar on informal communication in Nazi Europe this spring! #INFOCOM #IfZ

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Caroline Mezger

@CarolineMezger

5 years

Preparations for the Lessons&Legacies discussion - The Holocaust: Turns and Trends of Research with Christopher Browning, Andrea Petö, Hana Kubatova, Frank Bajohr, and Dieter Pohl #llmuc2019

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