Gülşah Başkavak is a sociologist, specializing in sociology of medicine and sociology of work. She received her PhD in Sociology from the Middle East Technical University (METU) in Ankara, with…
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War Emigration and its Impact on Post-War Reconstruction of Neighborhoods: A Case Study of Khorramshahr after the Iran-Iraq War
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Part of the TRAFO series “Reconstructing Neighborhoods of War” By Mohammad Hassan Khani Wars force people to move from their homeland and to settle in new places far from the…
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Workshop Report: Women and the Transregional Circulation of Knowledge, 1800–1950
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By Tika Ramadhini and Thiago Pinto Barbosa (ZMO) From 20 to 22 June 2019, the Explorative Workshop “Women and the Transregional Circulation of Knowledge, from 1800 to 1950” was held…
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Mapping/Tracing National Literature without a Nation-state: Interview with Refqa Abu-Remaileh
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Michael Allan interviewed Refqa Abu-Remaileh on her current project in the framework of the Transregional Academy “Minor/Small Literature(s). Perspectives on World Literature from Elsewhere”, which was held in Berlin on 11-20 July 2019….
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Beyond the Atomic Bombing: The Revival of Hiroshima’s Neighborhoods
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Part of the TRAFO series “Reconstructing Neighborhoods of War” By Allam Al-Kazei More than seven decades have passed since the atomic bombing of Hiroshima in 1945. When people look back…
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“More Beautiful than Ever Before!” Neighborhood Rebuilding in Divided Germany as Political Propaganda during the Cold War
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Part of the TRAFO series “Reconstructing Neighborhoods of War” By Paul Sigel Neighborhood Rebuilding in postwar Germany was not only confronted with the challenge of reconstruction of housing, infrastructure, industry…
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Electric News in Colonial Algeria
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By Arthur Asseraf The news you read may change every day, but the system that underlies it has not changed much since its emergence in the 19th century. Then, the…
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Global Royal Families: Concepts, Cultures, and Networks of International Monarchy, 1800-2020
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The conference „Global Royal Families: Concepts, Cultures, and Networks of International Monarchy, 1800-2020“ focuses on the global engagements of Western and non-Western monarchies. We talked to Falko Schnicke. He is one of the conveners of the upcoming conference at the German Historical Institute London.
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Postcolonial Critique: Latin American and Eastern European Perspectivations – Interview with Clara Frysztacka, Jennifer Ramme and Pablo Valdivia
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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 “Postcolonial Critique: Latin American and Eastern European…
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The Reconstruction of Warsaw: Between Abhorrence and Acceptance
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Part of the TRAFO series “Reconstructing Neighborhoods of War” By Piotr Korduba The post-war reconstruction of Warsaw was an unprecedented undertaking. As Jarosław Trybus, director of the Warsaw Museum, aptly…
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WeberWorldCafé: Legacies of Colonialism in East Central Europe – Race, Scholarship and Politics
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October 15th, 2:30 to 6:00 pm, at the Museum am Rothenbaum – Kulturen und Künste der Welt, Rothenbaumchaussee 64, 20148 Hamburg. To participate, please register your name via wwc@maxweberstiftung.de Not…
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Neighbors at War in 1975-77 Beirut
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Part of the TRAFO series “Reconstructing Neighborhoods of War” By Mazen Haidar When it comes to retracing the urban history of Beirut, the long-established narrative often considers the war as…
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Fighting Under the Same Banner: Memories from the Ottoman Theater of the Great War
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Personal narratives have recently begun to attract great interest among military and social historians of the Middle East in their work on the wars from 1912 until 1918. We talked with one of the conveners, Richard Wittmann, about the upcoming conference „Fighting Under the Same Banner: Memories from the Ottoman Theater of the Great War“.
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Not Just Neo-Liberalism: Spontaneous Settlement and Violent Conflict in Homs, Syria
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Part of the TRAFO series “Reconstructing Neighborhoods of War” By Kevin Mazur. Predatory capitalism and central authorities’ acts of misrule feature prominently in accounts of contestation, violence, and reconstruction in…
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Book Review: Ottoman Children and Youth during World War I
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By Karen Vallgårda Nazan Maksudyan, Ottoman Children and Youth during World War I, New York: Syracuse University Press, 2019. Series: Contemporary Issues in the Middle East. 211 pages. ISBN: 9780815636458…
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Past Imperfect, Future Tense: Writing People’s Histories in the Middle East Today
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With Pascale Ghazaleh’s “Past Imperfect, Future Tense: Writing People’s Histories in the Middle East Today”, the fifth volume of the “Essays of the Forum Transregionale Studien” is now available open…
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The Importance of Being Earnest About Neighborhoods
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An Introduction to the TRAFO series “Reconstructing Neighborhoods of War” By Birgit Schäbler The blog series that is about to start with this contribution assembles the presentations of the 3-day…
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“When you work with objects that were globally translocated, mobility is crucial” – 5in10 with Anna-Carolin Augustin
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Anna-Carolin Augustin joined the German Historical Institute Washington as a research fellow in April 2019. Her main fields of interest are modern German-Jewish history and culture with an emphasis on…
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All Things Transregional? A Conversation about Transregional Research
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The contributions of the blog series »All Things Transregional?« are now available in an open access volume on perspectivia.net and in print. Scholars from various disciplines discuss about the issues,…
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“Hikes and pilgrimages to peaks and temples only increased my desire to learn more” – 5in10 with Nachiket Chanchani
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Nachiket Chanchani (Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 2012) is a tenured associate professor jointly appointed in the Department of the History of Art and in the Department of Asian Languages and…
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Postmodern Architecture and Political Change – Poland and Beyond
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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 “Postmodern Architecture and Political Change – Poland and Beyond” which will take place on September 12-14, 2019 at the German Historical Institute Warsaw. We talked with two of the conveners, Annika Wienert and Florian Urban, about the upcoming conference.
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Barbara Törnquist-Plewa’s and Rory Finnin’s Concluding Remarks at the ‘Rethinking Ukrainian Studies’ Conference
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On 16-17 May 2019, the Prisma Ukraïna conference ‘Rethinking Ukrainian Studies: Locally, Regionally, Transnationally’ took place at the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder) and Słubice. Ten junior researchers from…
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News from Germany: The Competition to Control World Communications, 1900–1945
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By Heidi Tworek Our current information environment seems unprecedented to many. Attempted Russian interference in the Brexit referendum and the 2016 US election still dominates headlines. Outlets like Al Jazeera,…
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Multidirectional Memory? National Holocaust Memorials and (Post-)Colonial Legacies
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How do colonial history, the Second World War, and the Holocaust intersect in scholarship and/or wider public engagement? What is the relationship between these histories and diverse fields of study? The seminar series „Contested Histories“ dealt with these questions.
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Beyond Trauma? A Transregional Perspective on Trauma and Aesthetics
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By Stéphanie Benzaquen-Gautier and Afonso Dias Ramos. A report of the symposium, “Beyond Trauma? A Transregional Perspective on Trauma and Aesthetics”, held on 13–15 June 2019 in Berlin, and organised…
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From Collected to Contested: Die Zukunft von Museen nach der Rückführungsdebatte
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Wie ist mit den oftmals problematischen Provenienzen von Museumsobjekten aus ehemals kolonialisierten Ländern zu verfahren? Unter anderem damit beschäftigte sich das Seminar „From Collected to Contested: The Future of Museums after the Repatriation Debate“ am DHI London von dem David Irion berichtet.
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What is Global History?
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Krishan Kumar has recently written an article on the Times Literary Supplement entitled “What is Global History?”. In the article, Kumar reviews two recent publications – C.A. Bayly’s Remaking the…
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“I am interested in how one could study history beyond text” – 5in10 with Jing Zhu
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Jing Zhu is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of History, University of Warwick, sponsored by the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation from July 2018 to July 2020 and is a Research…
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„History Battles“ und „Weapons of mass instruction“: Geschichtslehrbücher in Konfliktgesellschaften
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Wie man die historische Vergangenheit seines eigenen Landes wahrnimmt, wird meist schon in der Schule – insbesondere im Geschichtsunterricht – vorgeprägt. Damit beschäftigte sich das Seminar „Who owns Public History“ des DHI London über das Simone Hacke berichtet.
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The Feminist Novel is on the Rise in the Arab Gulf: An Interview with Mona Kareem
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By Salwa Benaissa Mona Kareem is the author of three poetry collections in Arabic, a translator, and a literary scholar whose research is offering new critical perspectives on feminist novels in…
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Covering Iran: Leftist Continuities and Discontinuities, from Propaganda to PR
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By Arash Davari A significant portion of those involved in the secularist left movement of the 1979 Revolution in Iran ended up living, and raising children, outside of Iran. If…
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Healing Hands: Sickness, Healthcare, and Remedies from the Colonial Period to Today – Interview with Dorit Brixius and Nayeli Urquiza
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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 “Healing Hands: Sickness, Healthcare, and Remedies from…
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‘Pickled’ infrastructure and connectivity: Locating community engagement in Northeast India’s infrastructural transformation
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The local communities remain trapped between the interplay of the past developmental lag of the region and the current development impetus. By Mirza Zulfiqur Rahman ‘Pickled’ infrastructure and connectivity in…
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Globalgeschichte in der Konsolidierungsphase
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Die Globalgeschichte hat in den letzten zwei Jahrzehnten einen wahren Boom erlebt. Mit ihrer Verankerung in Lehrplänen und Institutsstrukturen verfestigen sich die Konturen des Feldes zunehmend. Globalhistorikerinnen und -historiker müssen vermehrt über ihr Verhältnis zu anderen Forschungsbereichen nachdenken.
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Colonialism and Islam: German and British Rule in West Africa (1900–1914)
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By Sebastian Gottschalk. For almost two decades, Europe’s relationship with Islam has been one of the most discussed subjects in academic debates and public discourse alike. However, even though the…
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How is World Literature Pedagogy for the Public?
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By May Hawas Politicising World Literature: Egypt between Pedagogy and the Public grew out of two sets of convictions, each with their own contradictions. The first is the belief in…
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5in10 with Nora Kottmann
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Nora Kottmann is a Senior Research Fellow at the Max Weber Foundation’s German Institute for Japanese Studies (DIJ) since September 2018. At the DIJ she is currently working on her research project „(Re)Locating Intimacy – Spatial Perspectives on Personal Relationships in Contemporary Japan“.
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Migration and Racism in the United States and Germany in the Twentieth Century
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The workshop “Migration and Racism in the United States and Germany in the Twentieth Century” will take place on April 23-24, 2020 at the German Historical Institute Washington. We talked with the conveners, Elisabeth Engel and Maria Alexopoulou about the upcoming event.
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An Era of Value Change. The Seventies in Europe
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In March the conference „An Era of Value Change. The Seventies in Europe“ took place at the Max Weber Foundation’s German Historical Institute in London. We have talked to Fiammetta Balestracci, one of the conveners, about the proceedings and results of the conference.
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“Literature has persistently been all that I’ve loved” – 5in10 with Mona Kareem
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Mona Kareem earned her PhD in Comparative Literature from The State University of New York Binghamton in 2018. She is the author of three poetry collections and two book-length translations….