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….
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Verlieben, verloren, vergessen, verzeihen. Frauenbriefe aus den Londoner Prize Papers
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1793. In Frankreich ist es das zweite Jahr der Republik entsprechend der neuen Zeitrechnung der Revolution und der Beginn der Schreckensherrschaft…
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Women and the Transregional Circulation of Knowledge, from 1800 to 1950 – Interview with Heike Liebau, Tika Ramadhini and Thiago Pinto Barbosa
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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 “Women and the Transregional Circulation of Knowledge,…
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War and Revolution in the Caribbean – The Lesser Antilles, 1789–1815
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For the last twenty years, scholarship on the Age of Revolutions in the Caribbean has been booming. The focus of this scholarly attention lies on the Haitian Revolution (1791–1804), the only successful slave rebellion in world history.
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“I found myself drawn to history in search of an answer”—5in10 with Nir Shafir
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Nir Shafir is a historian of the early modern Ottoman Empire. His research explores how shifts in material culture and religious practice shaped the intellectual and scientific life of the…
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Slavery’s Past and Present: Challenges to Academic Research and Museum Work in Germany and Britain
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The association of Great Britain with the transatlantic slave trade and the enslavement of people of African descent is a common one. However, this is very different in the case of the Holy Roman Empire (HRE).
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“I was fascinated by all the places I could experience in a book” – 5in10 with Shailka Mishra
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Shailka Mishra holds a doctorate from the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi and is a post-doctoral fellow of Art Histories and Aesthetics Practices, a research program of the Berlin-based Forum…
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The Chaldeans: Politics and Identity in Iraq and the American Diaspora
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By Yasmeen Hanoosh. When articulating their identity in the United States, Iraqi Catholic immigrants and refugees often reference an association between their monumental history, the progress of modernity, and the…
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“Freedom: Home, Prison, Exile… and the World” – Yassin Al Haj Saleh in conversation with Nayera A. Soliman
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From 12th to 17th of March, the workshop “Post-2011 Arab Diaspora and Home-Making in Berlin” took place at the Werkstatt der Kulturen in Berlin-Neukölln. The workshop has been inspired by…
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“Why don’t we have Arabic theaters, cinemas or decent public libraries in Israel?” – 5in10 with Himmat Zoubi
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Himmat Zoubi (هِمَّت زعبي) is a Palestinian researcher and feminist activist. Her dissertation at the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Ben-Gurion University, entitled “The Case of Haifa during the Israeli…
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Entangling the Pacific & Atlantic Worlds: Past & Present
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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 “Entangling the Pacific & Atlantic Worlds: Past &…
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“Authoritarian regimes apply the epithet ‘historic’ to every simple policy.” Interview with Burak Onaran
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Burak Onaran is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at Mimar Sinan Güzel Sanatlar University, Istanbul. He received his PhD in History from the EHESS, Paris. His research interests…
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From the Ruins of Preservation: A Symposium on Rethinking Heritage Through Counter-Archives
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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 event “‘From the Ruins of Preservation’: A symposium…
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Transnational Commercial Surrogacy and the (Un)Making of Kin in India
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By Anindita Majumdar Once identified as an emerging transnational industry, the commercial surrogacy arrangement in India was more than mere commerce. It also involved the birth of kin and relationships…
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The Art Salon in the Arab Region
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By Nadia von Maltzahn and Monique Bellan The Art Salon in the Arab Region: Politics of Taste Making discusses the emergence and role of the art salon in the Arab…
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Chronopolitics: Time of Politics, Politics of Time, Politicized Time
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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 international conference “Chronopolitics: Time of Politics, Politics of…
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„I have always been interested in environmental topics“ – 5in10 with Nicole Wiederroth
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Nicole Wiederroth received her PhD in Modern and Contemporary History at the University of Duisburg-Essen. In her thesis, she analysed the reproduction and legitimisation of the colonial order in South…
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Turkish Germans in the Federal Republic of Germany: Immigration, Space, and Belonging, 1961-1990
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By Sarah Thomsen Vierra The decades following the end of the Second World War proved a particularly dynamic period of migration across the globe, and the Federal Republic of Germany,…
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Drink and Power. Alcohol and the Making of Illiberal Regimes in the Long 20th Century
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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 “Drink and Power. Alcohol and the Making of…
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Rethinking Refuge: Processes of refuge seeking in Africa 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 workshop, “Rethinking Refuge: Processes of refuge seeking in Africa…
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Provincializing European Jewry: R. Yosef Hayyim of Baghdad and Ottoman Modernity – Interview with Avi-ram Tzoreff
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Avi-ram Tzoreff is a EUME Fellow at the Berlin-based Forum Transregionale Studienin 2018-19. He wrote a dissertation entitled Jewish-Arab Coexistence against the Secular Discourse: Theology, Politics and Literature in the…
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De-centering the Early Modern French Empire – Décentrer l’histoire de l’empire colonial français à l’époque moderne
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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 international conference “De-centering the Early Modern French Empire…
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“I was and still am particularly interested in the mobility of people and texts” – 5in10 with Christopher Bahl
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Christopher Bahl received his PhD in history from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London in September 2018 with a thesis on Histories of Circulation –…
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Annual Conference Talk: Expert Knowledge on Migration in the Public Arena: How to Get Your Message Through?
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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….