German Historical Institute London
Opportunities
Postgraduate Research Students Conference 2026
The 30th postgraduate research students conference of the German Historical Institute London will take place on Thursday 26 and Friday 27 February 2026.
The Conference aims to give postgraduate research students from the UK and Ireland working on German history the opportunity to present their work-in-progress and to discuss their research with other students working in the same field.
GHIL
Closing date for applications: 25 November 2025
GHIL Building
Renovation Works and Closure
The GHIL building, including the library, will be closed for renovation works until early 2026.
Among other works, our reception space and the seminar and common rooms will receive a face-lift, and a previously hidden Octagon room on a the ground floor will become a new meeting space.
Please bear with us during this unavoidable period of closure. We look forward to welcoming you to the new and improved GHIL next year!
Opportunities
Scholarships
For postgraduate students, Habilitanden and postdocs at German universities who wish carry out research in Britain
Awarded for a period of up to three months (only full months), depending on the requirements of the research project
Closing date for applications: 30 September 2025
8–10 October 2025
Workshop
Medieval History Seminar
Swedenborg House (20-21 Bloomsbury Way, London, WC1A 2TH)
13 October 2025 (5.30 pm)
Thyssen Lecture
Colonialism and the Climate Crisis: Rethinking Legacies and Trajectories
Sunil Amrith (Yale)
34 Belgrave Square, London, SW1X 8QB
21 October 2025 (5.30pm)
GHIL Lecture
Queering German History: Still a Vital and Viable Endeavour?
Benno Gammerl (European University Institute, Florence)
Swedenborg House/Online
26 September 2025
Blogpost
Daniel E.D. Müller
Researching Religious Coloniality in Colonial East Africa: A Summer at the GHIL
Category: Research, Scholarships
19 September 2025
Blogpost
Nikolas Maisch
The art&market Exhibition in Karlsruhe
Category: Announcements
Interview
What is a fever?: Examining illness, 1770-1830
Stefanie Gänger, Pascale Siegrist and Kim König
5 September 2025
, 0:18 h
Interview
What is a fever?: Examining illness, 1770-1830
Stefanie Gänger, Pascale Siegrist and Kim König
GHIL Joint Lecture
‘The Most Common and Fatal of All Diseases’: Histories of Fever, 1770-1830
Stefanie Gänger
5 September 2025
, 0:47 h
GHIL Joint Lecture
‘The Most Common and Fatal of All Diseases’: Histories of Fever, 1770-1830
Stefanie Gänger
Interview
Urban issues: Social problems in late 20th-century European cities
Christiane Reinecke, Ole Münch and Kim König
8 August 2025
, 0:30 h
Interview
Urban issues: Social problems in late 20th-century European cities
Christiane Reinecke, Ole Münch and Kim König
Gudrun Krämer
Local modernity: agency, entanglement, and the making of the modern Middle East
Lokale Moderne: Agency, Austausch und die Enstehung des modernen Mittleren Ostens
Eckhart Hellmuth