Historian & Associate Professor @EHESS in Paris | Group Leader of INFOCOM Project | World War II, National Socialism, Migration, Informal Communication | Currently writing a book on rumors 📚 🖋https://bsky.app/profile/carolinemezger.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/carolinemezger.bsky.social/post/3ml4weluf3s2tHot tip - you might also consider studying @ehess.fr 📚 https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/29/world/europe/france-american-universities-trump-sciences-po.html?unlocked_article_code=1.elA.cGU1.cD9k63w7FkVw&smid=nytcore-ios-share05 May 2026 19:30 +0000at://did:plc:eh3s3p2onin4pn55xglnpfed/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml4weluf3s2thttps://bsky.app/profile/carolinemezger.bsky.social/post/3mkjycs2vtk2j3 days left 😄 [contains quote post or other embedded content]28 Apr 2026 06:44 +0000at://did:plc:eh3s3p2onin4pn55xglnpfed/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkjycs2vtk2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/carolinemezger.bsky.social/post/3mjhpeszyzc2vThe @ehess.fr has a fancy new website, including a highly accessible section on its international initiatives and programs — feel free to browse below! https://ehess.fr/jcms/ehess_25228/en/formations-et-dispositifs-internationaux14 Apr 2026 15:34 +0000at://did:plc:eh3s3p2onin4pn55xglnpfed/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjhpeszyzc2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/carolinemezger.bsky.social/post/3mjdc7ypqrs2kA photo I took 14 years ago at an anti-Orbán/Fidesz demonstration in Budapest... It is finally done!12 Apr 2026 21:28 +0000at://did:plc:eh3s3p2onin4pn55xglnpfed/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjdc7ypqrs2khttps://bsky.app/profile/carolinemezger.bsky.social/post/3mig4lgcnnc2jFriendly reminder: applications for the INFOCOM Project's final conference are due in one month! Looking forward to seeing you there @leibniz-ifz.bsky.social @crh.ehess.fr @lmu.de https://www.ehess.fr/fr/appel-communication/informal-communication-nazi-europe01 Apr 2026 07:00 +0000at://did:plc:eh3s3p2onin4pn55xglnpfed/app.bsky.feed.post/3mig4lgcnnc2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/carolinemezger.bsky.social/post/3mgs2wxdtxk2kThe Franco-German CIERA network has opened their call for various mobility fellowships for M.A. and Ph.D. students seeking to do research in the German-speaking world. Deadlines in March and April! https://www.ciera.fr/fr/programme-mobilite11 Mar 2026 14:12 +0000at://did:plc:eh3s3p2onin4pn55xglnpfed/app.bsky.feed.post/3mgs2wxdtxk2khttps://bsky.app/profile/carolinemezger.bsky.social/post/3mgmgk7dz622dThe @dhi-paris.fr and Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Shoah have launched a new one-year research fellowship on the history of the Holocaust in France/Western Europe! Deadline for this first round of applications: April 1. More details below 👇👇👇 https://www.dhi-paris.fr/fileadmin/user_upload/DHI_Paris/07_Newsroom/2026/20260121_ausschreibung_fms_iha_dt.pdf09 Mar 2026 08:24 +0000at://did:plc:eh3s3p2onin4pn55xglnpfed/app.bsky.feed.post/3mgmgk7dz622dhttps://bsky.app/profile/carolinemezger.bsky.social/post/3mg2zexcc7s2wJoin us this Thursday for a doctoral workshop @ehess.fr on images and the ethics of representation! I'll be speaking about my own research experience with working on Nazi images and Holocaust photographry https://www.ehess.fr/fr/journ%C3%A9es-d%C3%A9tude/ethivu-deuxi%C3%A8me-demi-journ%C3%A9e-d%C3%A9tudes-l%C3%A9cole-doctorale-image-et-%C3%A9thique02 Mar 2026 10:13 +0000at://did:plc:eh3s3p2onin4pn55xglnpfed/app.bsky.feed.post/3mg2zexcc7s2whttps://bsky.app/profile/carolinemezger.bsky.social/post/3mflr4f2rwc2xLooking forward to presenting my research @inalco.fr this evening — thank you, @andreasguidi.bsky.social and Katerina Kesa, for inviting me to speak in your seminar! https://www.inalco.fr/actualites/seminaire-de-master-et-de-recherche-histoire-politique-et-culture-en-europe-mediane24 Feb 2026 08:35 +0000at://did:plc:eh3s3p2onin4pn55xglnpfed/app.bsky.feed.post/3mflr4f2rwc2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/carolinemezger.bsky.social/post/3mfjpmxi4rs2mThe call is now also on H-Soz-Kult! Apply by May 1st for our conference @leibniz-ifz.bsky.social on "Informal Communication in Nazi Europe: World War II, Occupation, and the Search for Meaning in Societies at War" @crh.ehess.fr @ehess.fr https://www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-16075023 Feb 2026 13:03 +0000at://did:plc:eh3s3p2onin4pn55xglnpfed/app.bsky.feed.post/3mfjpmxi4rs2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/carolinemezger.bsky.social/post/3mfceyawanc2zThrilled to announce the Final Conference of the INFOCOM Project, October 7-9, 2026 @leibniz-ifz.bsky.social: "Informal Communication in Nazi Europe: World War II, Occupation, and the Search for Meaning in Societies at War" Applications due by May 1! @crh.ehess.fr @leibniz-gemeinschaft.de20 Feb 2026 15:04 +0000at://did:plc:eh3s3p2onin4pn55xglnpfed/app.bsky.feed.post/3mfceyawanc2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/carolinemezger.bsky.social/post/3mejbtu567k2fhttps://www.propublica.org/article/ice-dilley-children-letters?fbclid=IwY2xjawP3udFleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZA80MDk5NjI2MjMwODU2MDkAAR69i39gBnWea3tLXk_VVunM5BLqdmLospKKnGgctzEgC9qSskBRUVd9S8A2Zw_aem_UHmsGC2XJVKFcd7bRdu5vg10 Feb 2026 15:31 +0000at://did:plc:eh3s3p2onin4pn55xglnpfed/app.bsky.feed.post/3mejbtu567k2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/carolinemezger.bsky.social/post/3mcomdjfris24https://www.liberalcurrents.com/so-hows-the-occupation-going-for-you/18 Jan 2026 07:32 +0000at://did:plc:eh3s3p2onin4pn55xglnpfed/app.bsky.feed.post/3mcomdjfris24https://bsky.app/profile/carolinemezger.bsky.social/post/3mbo7xcn7o224Just in time for the #INFOCOM Project @leibniz-ifz.bsky.social's final year, the @leibniz-gemeinschaft.de has published a portrait of the project and my research on rumors under National Socialism. Stay tuned for the Project's final events! https://www.leibniz-gemeinschaft.de/fileadmin/user_upload/Bilder_und_Downloads/Wettbewerb/Facetten.pdf05 Jan 2026 10:25 +0000at://did:plc:eh3s3p2onin4pn55xglnpfed/app.bsky.feed.post/3mbo7xcn7o224https://bsky.app/profile/carolinemezger.bsky.social/post/3mabpcdq7ak2dNot a bad view on my way home from this year's last seminar. Wishing everyone joyous and restful holidays ✨️18 Dec 2025 17:30 +0000at://did:plc:eh3s3p2onin4pn55xglnpfed/app.bsky.feed.post/3mabpcdq7ak2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/carolinemezger.bsky.social/post/3maat6dmpps2zIt's publication day (again)!! #INFOCOM's Felix Berge has published his book on informal communication in wartime Nazi Germany. Congratulations on this accomplishment! 🎊 @leibniz-ifz.bsky.social @leibniz-gemeinschaft.de https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783111657134/html18 Dec 2025 09:07 +0000at://did:plc:eh3s3p2onin4pn55xglnpfed/app.bsky.feed.post/3maat6dmpps2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/carolinemezger.bsky.social/post/3m7zab23j2k2uIt's publication day! #INFOCOM's Izabela Paszko has published her book on informal communication in Upper Silesia under Nazi rule. Many congratulations! 🎉 @leibniz-ifz.bsky.social @leibniz-gemeinschaft.de https://www.routledge.com/Informal-Communication-and-Occupation-in-the-Polish-Borderlands-Fragmented-Worlds-in-East-Upper-Silesia-1939-1945/Paszko/p/book/978104107300015 Dec 2025 08:39 +0000at://did:plc:eh3s3p2onin4pn55xglnpfed/app.bsky.feed.post/3m7zab23j2k2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/carolinemezger.bsky.social/post/3m7wnek4wtk2b"Both women said the shooting had damaged a sense of security they had cultivated for years based on the notion that they were unlikely to witness two school shootings in one lifetime." https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/12/13/us/brown-shooting#brown-students-mass-shooting-parkland14 Dec 2025 07:56 +0000at://did:plc:eh3s3p2onin4pn55xglnpfed/app.bsky.feed.post/3m7wnek4wtk2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/carolinemezger.bsky.social/post/3m7wn6pbwpk2bOf all the attacks on US higher education this year, I didn't see this one coming. Devastating. My thoughts go out to all those affected by the shooting.14 Dec 2025 07:53 +0000at://did:plc:eh3s3p2onin4pn55xglnpfed/app.bsky.feed.post/3m7wn6pbwpk2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/carolinemezger.bsky.social/post/3m6wb45ogys25The full program of the seminar "Histoire et historiographie de la Shoah" @ehess.fr @crh.ehess.fr is now online! People interested in attending remotely are welcome to inscribe, via the link below.01 Dec 2025 10:51 +0000at://did:plc:eh3s3p2onin4pn55xglnpfed/app.bsky.feed.post/3m6wb45ogys25https://bsky.app/profile/carolinemezger.bsky.social/post/3m6u7uxknx22oHappy (Belated) Thanksgiving! 🦃 Feeling extra thankful this year 🙏30 Nov 2025 15:24 +0000at://did:plc:eh3s3p2onin4pn55xglnpfed/app.bsky.feed.post/3m6u7uxknx22ohttps://bsky.app/profile/carolinemezger.bsky.social/post/3m5srav73cs24Employment opportunity in Baltic history (deadline: Nov 22) 👇 https://emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/UMR8083-JULCAD-003/Default.aspx?lang=EN17 Nov 2025 08:04 +0000at://did:plc:eh3s3p2onin4pn55xglnpfed/app.bsky.feed.post/3m5srav73cs24https://bsky.app/profile/carolinemezger.bsky.social/post/3m4x62xhyis2tTomorrow marks the start of my research seminar, "Rumor and War: History and Society in the Twentieth Century," @ehess.fr. We'll be discussing Marc Bloch on "fausses nouvelles," and I couldn't be more thrilled to be teaching his work at his intellectual home.06 Nov 2025 08:39 +0000at://did:plc:eh3s3p2onin4pn55xglnpfed/app.bsky.feed.post/3m4x62xhyis2thttps://bsky.app/profile/carolinemezger.bsky.social/post/3m4v4fyaq522d@crh.ehess.fr05 Nov 2025 13:04 +0000at://did:plc:eh3s3p2onin4pn55xglnpfed/app.bsky.feed.post/3m4v4fyaq522dhttps://bsky.app/profile/carolinemezger.bsky.social/post/3m4q5qhdow22sLooking forward to kicking off our seminar "Histoire et historiographie de la Shoah" this week with my lecture "Understanding the Anschluss: Communication, Surveillance, and the Persecution of Austria’s Jews". More information through the link below! @ehess.fr @crh.ehess.fr03 Nov 2025 13:45 +0000at://did:plc:eh3s3p2onin4pn55xglnpfed/app.bsky.feed.post/3m4q5qhdow22shttps://bsky.app/profile/carolinemezger.bsky.social/post/3m4b7dktpes2oAcademy in Exile offers 5 Residential Fellowships in Germany: Application deadline is 15 November 2025 www.academy-in-exile.eu https://www.academy-in-exile.eu/28 Oct 2025 15:03 +0000at://did:plc:eh3s3p2onin4pn55xglnpfed/app.bsky.feed.post/3m4b7dktpes2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/carolinemezger.bsky.social/post/3m3wypiaw7s2eThe fact that such public education has become necessary is mind-blowing. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/10/24/us/us-federal-agents-national-guard-ice-fbi.html24 Oct 2025 13:38 +0000at://did:plc:eh3s3p2onin4pn55xglnpfed/app.bsky.feed.post/3m3wypiaw7s2e