MWNO - Max Weber Netzwerk Osteuropa

Ausschreibung: Klaus-Mehnert-Preis zur Förderung junger Wissenschaftler*innen 2026

📆 Einsendeschluss: 01. Oktober 2026

Wir laden ein, Arbeiten für den Klaus-Mehnert-Preis zur Förderung junger Wissenschaftler*innen einzureichen.

Der Preis ist mit 1.000 Euro dotiert. Ausgezeichnet werden wissenschaftliche Arbeiten (Dissertationen), in denen es im weiteren Sinne um die Staaten Osteuropas geht und die aus dem deutschsprachigen Raum stammen. Die Arbeiten können in deutscher oder englischer Sprache abgefasst sein. Berücksichtigt werden Arbeiten, die nach dem 30. Juni 2024 beim Prüfungsamt eingereicht worden sind. Das Verfahren (die Verteidigung) muss zum Zeitpunkt der Bewerbung abgeschlossen sein.

Interessierte Personen können sich direkt bewerben. Hochschullehrer*innen können (im Einverständnis mit der Verfasserin bzw. dem Verfasser) Personen für die Preisvergabe vorschlagen. Die Förderung erfolgt unabhängig von einer Mitgliedschaft in der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Osteuropakunde.

🔗Alle Informationen zum Bewerbungsverfahren findet ihr auf unserer Website: https://dgo-online.org/informieren/aktuelles/ausschreibung-klaus-mehnert-preis-2026/

🔎 Interesting CfP: Spaces of the Holocaust: Occupation Regimes, Borders, and Local Experiences on the Territory of Ukraine
📅 10-11.12.2026
📍 Lviv
🏁 September 15, 2026
Organized by Центр міської історії / Center for Urban History (Lviv), Center for Interethnic Relations Research in Eastern Europe (Kharkiv), Uzhhorod National University (Uzhhorod), Research Centre Ukraine / Max Weber Foundation (Lviv)

From the CfP: ...
📌 The Holocaust on the territory of Ukraine unfolded in various spatial and political contexts: in the ghettos of the District of Galicia, which was incorporated into the German General Government with its center in Kraków; in the deportation camps and ghettos of the Romanian-occupied zone of Transnistria; at sites of mass shootings in cities, towns, villages, ravines, and suburbs of the Reichskommissariat Ukraine and in frontline zones controlled by the Wehrmacht; in territories under Hungarian administration, where mass deportations took place in the spring of 1944; and finally, in the system of concentration camps and "death marches" toward the end of the war.

This diversity raises the question of how to study the Holocaust not only within the borders of individual regions or occupation administrations, but also beyond them. A transregional and trans-occupational perspective allows us to see how practices of persecution, deportation, forced labor, mass murder, survival, and rescue varied depending on the political and administrative context. At the same time, this approach helps us view borders not only as dividing lines between occupied zones, but also as spaces of movement, interaction, escape, persecution, and the transfer of experiences. ...

Find all the info here ⤵️

Простори Голокосту: окупаційні режими, кордони та локальні досвіди на території України Історія Голокосту на території України є одним із найбільш динамічних напрямків досліджень. Її поліцентричність відображає не лише розвиток дослідницької інфрас...

World Photography Day - Stories | Arolsen Archives What do Leica cameras have to do with N**i persecution? More than you might think. The Wehrmacht’s propaganda photographers used specially modified versions of these compact cameras to produce heroic images on the front lines. And the Leitz company, which had become famous for the Leica, transitio...

📸 WORLD PHOTOGRAPHY DAY - On August 19th, 1839, the Academy of Siences and Academy of Arts in Paris met to discuss a photographic process called daguerreotype – after the inventor Louis Daguerre. A quite heated discussion followed, apparently.

Nevertheless, 1839 has since been named as the year photography was ‚born‘. Later, August 19th was named World Photography Day.

For us, it is reason enough to repost an important discussion of the means and uses of photography that Natalija Arlauskaite published last April with the MWNO - Max Weber Netzwerk Osteuropa’s DECENTERED ARCHIVE blog ⬇️

How to Look at File Photographs: Archive, Optical Citizenship, and Documentary Art How are film and photographic documents produced by various repressive regimes used in their own context and later reinterpreted? As a researcher in visual studies, I analyze archives and their evolution somewhat differently than...

🔎 WORLD WAR II / ARCHIVES – mostly, you never learn when, where and how projects have an effect beyond historiography. Of course, the documents we deal with have meaning to non-historians, too. But learning of it is not always straightforward.⤵️

📌 Today marks the anniversary of an explosion that killed 15 people in 1944 in , a little medieval town in the Tuscan Valtiberina, in the midst of the Wehrmacht’s war on the Resistenza and a string of massacres in Northern Italy.

📰 Two local historians followed up on the rumor about the Germans being responsible – an found proof and details on the actions of the 80th pioneer battalion of the Wehrmacht in the MWNO - Max Weber Netzwerk Osteuropa's digital archive of German trophy holdings in Russia. Their article in the regional media can be read at TTV.it: https://www.ttv.it/storia/strage-della-caserma-di-anghiari-le-prove-definitive-furono-i-tedeschi/ ⬇️

🖥 The database is the result of the project ‚Deutsche Beuteakten in Russischen Archiven‘ (2011-2021). It includes German trophy holdings of the Soviet armed forces, which are stored in the Central Archives of the Russian Ministry of Defense (CAMO), a total of 50 finding aids with approx. 28,000 files. The MWNO - Max Weber Netzwerk Osteuropa makes the digitized documents available at https://germandocsinrussia.org/de/nodes/1-russisch-deutsches-projekt-zur-digitalisierung-deutscher-dokumente-in-den-archiven-der-russischen-f-deration

Strage della Caserma di Anghiari, le prove definitive: furono i tedeschi | TTV.it 82 anni dopo, documenti rintracciati in Russia dimostrano la responsabilità dell’80º Battaglione Pionieri

🔎 CfA: Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies (HCAS) fellowships 2027

Check out the long-term opportunities of our neighbour here in Helsinki, the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies (HCAS) ⤵️

Apply | Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies | University of Helsinki Here you will find information on our application procedures

CfA: Academic Coordinator

The Research Centre Ukraine (RCU) / Max Weber Foundation invites applications for the full-time position of Academic Coordinator, offered on a fixed-term contract until April 2030.

The position is based in Lviv, Ukraine, and is expected to commence as soon as possible.
The appointment forms part of the four-year research project “Rethinking Europe: Ukrainian History as Entangled History”, conducted at the RCU and funded by the German Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space (BMFTR) Bundesministerium für Forschung, Technologie und Raumfahrt

Please submit your application in English or German as a single PDF document to the project’s PI, Iryna Klymenko, by 5 September 2026. More details and the application link are available via https://karriere.maxweberstiftung.de/jobposting/2016769b7184ebc4a8e67baf5ddbcfc68d3886b00

Max Weber Stiftung

📢 TRAVEL GRANTS / DEADLINE IN 8 WEEKS
CfA: Gerald D. Feldman Travel Grants by the Max Weber Stiftung

🏛 You want to go to the archives to do research on Eastern Europe
and Northern Eurasia? Or do research elsewhere?

🍀 One opportunity to do so is with scholarships of the MWNO branches in Helsinki, Vilnius and Tbilisi. Another is to apply for a Gerald D. Feldman Travel Grant at the Max Weber Foundation.

📌 The Gerald D. Feldman Travel Grants offer up to THREE ONE-month research trips to at least TWO and at most THREE countries. They are meant to improve the career opportunities for humanities and social science academics in their qualification phase. Among other places, you could conduct research in , , , and

Scholars of any nationality may apply, there is no age restriction.

🏁 This year`s application deadline is October 4th, 2026.

🔗 For more info on the MWS Gerald D. Feldman Travel Grants go to https://mwseasteurope.hypotheses.org/11434 or www.maxweberstiftung.de/travel-grants

🔗 For information about opportunities provided by the MWNO go to https://mwseasteurope.hypotheses.org/opportunities