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….
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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…