German Historical Institute London
Call for Papers
Did The Empire Make Sense? Exploring the Potential and the Limits of Colonial Environmental Knowledge
18–20 May 2027
Conveners: Mirjam Hähnle (German Historical Institute London) and Frank Uekötter (Ruhr University Bochum)
GHIL
Deadline for submissions: 16 November 2026
Opportunities
Postgraduate Students Conference 2027
28 and 29 January 2027
The German Historical Institute London invites applications from PhD students studying German history at a UK or Irish university.
GHIL
Deadline for applications: 20 November 2026
Call for Papers
Media of Memory and the Pre-Modern Economy
5-7 May 2027
Organisers: Marcus Meer (UCL) and Gabriele Passabi (GHIL)
GHIL
Deadline for submissions: 20 December 2026
10 November 2026 (5.30pm)
GHIL Lecture
Contract and Monarchy: King James VI/I and Thomas Hobbes—Brothers in Mind?
Andreas Pečar (Halle)
GHIL/online
16 November 2026 (5pm)
Thyssen Lecture
A Most Peculiar Empire: Imperial and Post-Imperial China at the Confluence of Western and Chinese Knowledge
Jürgen Osterhammel (Freiburg)
GHIL
26 October 2026
Blogpost
Jonas von Bockel
‘Commerce is the only way left to us’: Commerce and Political Independence in John Locke’s Political Economy
Category: Research, Scholarships
19 October 2026
Blogpost
Lukas Daub
When Norms Collide: Internal Negotiations in the UK and Germany Regarding the No-Fly Zone over Bosnia–Herzegovina
Category: GHIL Fellows, Research
Interview
GHIL 50: Indra Senguta (Senior Fellow and Head of India Research Programme)
Indra Sengupta, Kim König and Thomas Kaal
27 October 2026
, 0:16 h
Interview
GHIL 50: Indra Senguta (Senior Fellow and Head of India Research Programme)
Indra Sengupta, Kim König and Thomas Kaal
Interview
GHIL 50: Marcus Böick (Cambridge)
Marcus Böick and Kim König
22 October 2026
, 0:20 h
Interview
GHIL 50: Matthias Ammon (Head of the GHIL Library)
Matthias Ammon, Thomas Kaal and Kim König
19 October 2026
, 0:24 h
Interview
GHIL 50: Matthias Ammon (Head of the GHIL Library)
Matthias Ammon, Thomas Kaal and Kim König
GHIL
German Historical Institute London Bulletin, Vol. XLVIII, No. 1 (May 2026)
Andreas Fahrmeir
Wine, Organs, and Chant: Gothic Revival and a Rhenish Village
Juliane Clegg
Geprägte Freiheit: Großbritannien und das Europäische Währungssystem 1979–1992