Zoom, March 23, 2022 | 10 am ET | 3 pm CET
We are excited to present the official launch of our new website Migrant Connections. This online research platform will bring together three projects which combine the institute’s long-standing interest in migration history with its research focus on digital history. One component of the site will be “Mobile Lifeworlds in German-American Letters,” the institute’s long-running project to collect and make accessible in digital form German immigrant correspondence (also known as “German Heritage in Letters”). The site will also feature “Traveling Texts in German-American Newspapers,” a digital humanities project which uses computational and qualitative methodologies to examine the circulation of ideas, literature, and consumer information in the German-American press. Finally, it will provide an online home for “Writing Across Borders,” a citizen-scholarship initiative to make migrants’ narratives documenting their travels accessible for research. The launch event will include a preview of the new website and its component projects moderated by Atiba Pertilla and a roundtable with a cross-section of participants illustrating how Migrant Connections draws on both traditional academic research as well as the new possibilities of citizen science. Round table participants include: Ursula Lehmkuhl (University of Trier), Carl-Henry Geschwind, Bettina Hess, (German Society of Pennsylvania), Regina Kunz, and Clara Willmann.
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