On November 20 and 21st 2018, the Annual Conference “Knowledge and Society in Times of Upheaval” of the Forum Transregionale Studien and the Max Weber Stiftung – Deutsche Geisteswissenschaftliche Institute im Ausland took place in Berlin….
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Why China Did Not Have a Renaissance – And Why that Matters
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By Thomas Maissen and Barbara Mittler The r/Renaissance is often characterized as a particular epoch in European history and an important element in the traditional narrative of the rise of the West….
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Book Review: The Medieval Invention of Travel
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By William Kynan-Wilson Shayne Aaron Legassie, The Medieval Invention of Travel (Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2017) Recent years have seen a series of studies concerning medieval…
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Professional Managerial Class Liberalism and Global Migration
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A Response to “Migration and Mobility” at the Annual Conference of the Forum Transregionale Studien and the Max Weber Stiftung, „Knowledge and Society in Times of Upheaval“ (Berlin, November 20-21,…
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Restitution of Art Objects: Bringing in African Perspectives
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By Wazi Apoh and Andreas Mehler The debate on the restitution of colonially-‘acquired’ art objects from Africa is boiling in Paris and Berlin, but in other quarters of the world it…
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Leaks, Hacks, and Scandals: Arab Culture in the Digital Age
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By Tarek El-Ariss When looking at the Arab world since 2010, we experience both exhilaration and complete despair. Whereas the Arab uprisings initially brought about great hope with the initial…
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Annual Conference Talk: Nataliya Gumenyiuk, Regaining Public Trust in Times of Populism. Lessons from Ukraine
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On November 20 and 21st 2018, the Annual Conference of the Forum Transregionale Studien and the Max Weber Stiftung – Deutsche Geisteswissenschaftliche Institute im Ausland took place in Berlin. The conference “Knowledge and Society…
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Social Disappearance: Explorations Around a Travelling Concept from Latin America to Eastern Europe
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This article is part of the TRAFO series Emerging Topics. Insights from ‘Behind the Scenes’. Today, we put the spotlight on the workshop „Social Disappearance: Explorations Around a Travelling Concept from…
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„I learned to become a person who excavates the past in order to understand the present“ – 5in10 with Diana Abbani
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Diana Abbani received her PhD in Arabic studies from the Sorbonne University with a dissertation entitled, “Music and Society in Beirut during the Nahḍa Period”. She holds an MA in…
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Lebendiger Ozean – Ein Bericht vom WeberWorldCafé „Transoceanic Cultures“
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Von Anna Sawerthal Am 26. Oktober fand in Heidelberg das zehnte WeberWorldCafé statt. Die Jubiläums-Ausgabe des innovativen Formats stand ganz im Zeichen des Meeres: „The Sea in Past and Present“….
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Exploring Networks of Transnational Surrogacy
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This article is part of the TRAFO series „Emerging Topics. Insights from ‘Behind the Scenes’„. Today, we put the spotlight on the Explorative Workshop, „Exploring Networks of Transnational Surrogacy„, which…
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Conference Report “Reconfigurations and Connectivities of the MENA Region: Contextualizing Upheavals, Transformations, and Lasting Crises”
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By Igor Johannsen A report of the Final Conference of the Research Network “Re-Configurations – History, Remembrance and Transformation Processes in the Middle East and North Africa” at the Center…
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WeberWorldCafé: „Changing Neighbourhoods“
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January 29, 2019 from 2:30 to 6:00pm Werkstatt der Kulturen Wissmannstr. 32, 12049 Berlin To participate, please register your name via wwc@maxweberstiftung.de Neighbourhood relations differ from other kinds of relations…
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Annual Conference 2018 Panel: „Migration and Mobility“
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A report from the panel „Migration and Mobility“ at the Annual Conference of the Forum Transregionale Studien and the Max Weber Stiftung: „Knowledge and Society in Times of Upheaval“, Berlin, November 20-21st, 2018….
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The Holocaust and the Nakba: Intersecting Traumas
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By Bashir Bashir and Amos Goldberg The Holocaust and the Nakba were very painful and traumatic events in Jewish and Palestinian history. Both events, which differ in nature and in…
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„In my situation as a Ukrainian, mobility means not only exchange, but also access to knowledge as such“ – 5in10 with Kateryna Mishchenko
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Kateryna Mishchenko is a writer, curator and publisher. She was the editor of Prostory, a magazine on art, literature and social critique. She is co-founder and editor of the Ukrainian publishing…
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Jenseits etablierter Meta-Geographien: Der Nahe Osten und Nordafrika in transregionaler Perspektive
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Von Steffen Wippel Im Zuge des „spatial turn” beschäftigen sich die Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften zunehmend mit den räumlichen Dimensionen politischer, wirtschaftlicher, sozialer und kultureller Phänomene. Dabei dekonstruieren kritische Positionen nach…
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Power in Medicine: Interrogating the Place of Medical Knowledge in the Modern Middle East
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The workshop “Power in Medicine: Interrogating the Place of Medical Knowledge in the Modern Middle East” is organized by Edna Bonhomme (MPIWG), Shehab Ismail, (MPIWG) and Lamia Moghnieh (AUB, EUME)….
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The French Language in Russia: A Social, Political, Cultural, and Literary History
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By Gesine Argent Many accounts of life in the Russian empire, especially the empire in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, express the idea that French was a universal language for…
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Workshop Report: Out of the Archives … New Archival Practices: Towards Alternative Historiographies, Voices, and Spaces
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By Rasha Chatta, Pascale Ghazaleh, Lamia Moghnieh, and Alia Mossallam From 12 to 14 July 2018, the Exploratory Workshop “Out of the Archives … New Archival Practices: Towards Alternative Historiographies,…
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Interview with Omar Al-Ghazzi
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On November 2o and 21st 2018, the annual conference of the Forum Transregionale Studien and the Max Weber Stiftung – Deutsche geisteswissenschaftliche Institute im Ausland took place in Berlin. The…
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Book Review: Despite Cultures. Early Soviet Rule in Tajikistan
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By Jeff Sahadeo, Department of Political Science, Carleton University, Ottawa Kassymbekova, Botakoz: Despite Cultures. Early Soviet Rule in Tajikistan, Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press 2016, ISBN 978-0-8229-6419-3, pp. 296. This review was first…
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Early Medieval Southern Italy in Transregional Perspective
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By Kordula Wolf When the Aghlabids and later Kalbids were ruling the emirate in Sicily (ca. 831–1091), the island was not a space separated from the southern part of the Italian peninsula. Therefore, the…
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Workshop: Reframing Chinese Objects
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The International Workshop “Reframing Chinese Objects: Collecting and Displaying in Europe and the Islamic World, ca. 1400-1800” will take place on 7-8 December 2018 within the framework of the project…
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Arabischer Patriotismus: Kulturpolitik und nationale Ideologie im modernen Ägypten
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von Adam Mestyan 2016 publizierte die Ägyptische Nationalbibliothek eine Neuauflage des Essays „Buch des Patriotismus“ von Muhammad Akhtar, das erstmals 1893 mit Genehmigung der Pressestelle des Ägyptischen Innenministeriums erschienen war….
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„I Want to Establish the History of Family Planning and Birth Control Clinics as a Transnational History“ – 5in10 with Claudia Roesch
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Claudia Roesch (Picture: private) Claudia Roesch is a historian of 20th century American history, specializing in the history of family. Her fields of interest include the history of transatlantic exchanges,…
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Negotiating Asylum and Accommodation – Migrants, Refugees and Host Societies
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This article is part of the TRAFO series “Emerging Topics. Insights from ‘Behind the Scenes’”. Today, we put the spotlight on the conference “Negotiating asylum and accommodation – Migrants, refugees…
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Annual Conference: Knowledge and Society in Times of Upheaval
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On 20-21 November 2018, the Annual Conference 2018 of the Forum Transregionale Studien and the Max Weber Stiftung, “Knowledge and Society in Times of Upheaval”, will take place at the…
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Revisiting Archive in the Aftermath of Revolution
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This article is part of the TRAFO series “Emerging Topics. Insights from ‘Behind the Scenes’”. Today, we put the spotlight on the symposium, Revisiting Archive in the Aftermath of Revolution,…
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Sense and Essence. Heritage and the Cultural Construction of the Real
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By Birgit Meyer and Mattijs van de Port The past is present in the present in many ways and shapes, from barely marked traces to cherished treasures. In this spectrum,…
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Celebrating One Year GHI West in Berkeley
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The GHI Washington’s Pacific Regional Office has quickly established itself as trans-regional hub for historical research and cooperation Background and Structure Due to its pivotal role in global academia…
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Book Review: Carola Lentz and David Lowe, Remembering Independence
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By Katrin Bromber, Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient Lentz, Carola; Lowe, David: Remembering Independence (Remembering the Modern World, vol. 6), London, New York: Routledge 2018, ISBN 978-1-138-90573-3, pp. 244. Remembering independence is…
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Exile and Academic Freedom Today
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This article is part of the TRAFO series “Emerging Topics. Insights from ‘Behind the Scenes’”. Today, we put the spotlight on the conference Exile and Academic Freedom Today,“ which will…
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“Islam” as an Epistemic Field: Imperial Entanglements and Orientalism in the German-Speaking World since 1870
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This article is part of the TRAFO series “Emerging Topics. Insights from ‘Behind the Scenes’”. Today, we put the spotlight on the conference „“Islam“ as an Epistemic Field: Imperial Entanglements and Orientalism in the German-Speaking World since 1870″ which will take place on October 11-12 2018 in Berlin. The conference is a collaboration of the Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient Berlin (Research Cluster „Trajectories of Lives and Knowledge”) and the Freie Universität Berlin.
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Andreas Eckert zur Ozeanischen Geschichte
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Andreas Eckert, Professor für die Geschichte Afrikas an der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin und Mitglied des Vorstands des Forums Transregionale Studien, kommentierte kürzlich in der Frankfurter Allgemeinen Zeitung die Zusammenhänge zwischen…
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“I Aim to Ask Big Questions: About Inequality, Injustice, and Power Structures” — 5in10 with Juhi Tyagi
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Juhi Tyagi (Picture: private) Juhi Tyagi has a PhD in Sociology from Stony Brook University, New York where she worked on resilience in armed movements. She is currently a Marie…
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WeberWorldCafé: “Transoceanic Cultures: The Sea in Past and Present”
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October 26, 2018 from 2:30 to 6:00pm, Cluster „Asia and Europe in a Global Context“, Voßstr. 2, 69115 Heidelberg To participate, please register your name via wwc@maxweberstiftung.de Oceans are key arenas…
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Criticisms of Democracy, Authoritarianism and Populism in Europe: Continuities and Disruptions from the Interwar Period Until Today
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This article is part of the TRAFO series “Emerging Topics. Insights from ‘Behind the Scenes’”. Today, we put the spotlight on the workshop “Criticisms of democracy, authoritarianism and populism in …
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Book Review: Hala Auji, Printing Arab Modernity: Book Culture and the American Press in Nineteenth-Century Beirut
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By Fabian Steininger Auji, Hala. Printing Arab Modernity: Book Culture and the American Press in Nineteenth-Century Beirut. Arts and Archaeology of the Islamic World 7. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2016….
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Resources, Environment and Infrastructures between Russia and the Asia-Pacific: Cooperation and Conflicts
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This article is part of the TRAFO series “Emerging Topics. Insights from ‘Behind the Scenes’”. Today, we put the spotlight on the conference “Resources, Environment and Infrastructures between Russia and…