Gregory Afinogenov is an assistant professor of Imperial Russian History at Georgetown University and a Tandem Fellow in Global & Transregional History at the German Historical Institute Washington DC. He…
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Indigenous Visual Cultures and Aesthetic Practices in the Americas’ Past and Present
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By Sanja Savkić The volume “Culturas visuales indígenas y las prácticas estéticas en las Américas desde la antigüedad hasta el presente” brings together fifteen essays in three languages (Spanish, English…
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Texture of Loss: Tapestry of a Withered Neighborhood from Kashmir
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Part of the TRAFO series “Reconstructing Neighborhoods of War” By Arshi Javid Setting the Context Nestled amidst the towering Himalayas lies the valley of Kashmir. The erstwhile independent princely state…
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Post-Conflict Cities and Neighborhoods
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Part of the TRAFO series “Reconstructing Neighborhoods of War” By Kai Vöckler Understanding the repercussions of political conflict for urban development is a very important and yet often neglected topic….
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Conference Talk: Towards the production of meaning – Visualising, Enacting and Writing Histories in Times of Political Upheaval
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In her paper “Towards the production of meaning – Visualising, Enacting and Writing Histories in times of political upheaval”, Alia Mossallam dealt with the issue of how moments of political…
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Post-conflict Analysis and Post-war Reconstruction Strategies: Sociopolitical Considerations Using the Old City of Aleppo as an Example
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Part of the TRAFO series “Reconstructing Neighborhoods of War” By Mamoun Fansa Each reconstruction project after the destruction of a war has two priorities to consider: Technical management, such as…
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The Cossack Myth in Eastern Europe – Interview with Denys Shatalov
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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, “The Cossack Myth in Eastern Europe in the…
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100 Histories of 100 Worlds in one Object
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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 “100 Histories of 100 World in one…
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“I try to reconstruct the processes of creating and negotiating the narratives of museums” – 5in10 with Zofia Wóycicka
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Zofia Wóycicka, PhD is a researcher at the German Historical Institute Warsaw. She studied history and sociology at the University of Warsaw, the Friedrich-Schiller University Jena and at the School…
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Conference Talk: “Portable Labour Rights for Migrant Workers in North America” by Xóchitl Bada
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In this conference talk entitled “Portable Labour Rights for Migrant Workers in North America”, Xóchitl Bada looks at “glocalized” campaigns for international migrant workers and their portability in linking local…
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Peace and Security in Times of Transition: The Socialist and Post-Socialist States in International Peacekeeping since 1945
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The conference „Peace and Security in Times of Transition“ will take place on October 29-31, 2020 at the German Historical Institute Moscow. We talked with one of the conveners, Andreas Hilger, about the upcoming event.
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Informality for Reconstruction: A Possible Partnership
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Part of the TRAFO series “Reconstructing Neighborhoods of War” By M. Wesam Al Asali, Majida Malo, and Iyass Shahin Post-war reconstruction has always been proposed and studied as a set…
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A Treasure of Heritage for the Poor of Aleppo: Neighborhoods between the Hammer of Political Insecurity and the Anvil of Warlords
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Part of the TRAFO series “Reconstructing Neighborhoods of War” By Zoya Masoud Heritage experts around the globe are continuously highlighting the importance of safeguarding the architecture of Aleppo, as one…
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“The name of the game was globalization of goods, services and finance” and India was increasingly part of it – Interview with Michael Gadbaw
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Stefan Tetzlaff, social and economic historian and former research fellow at the German Historical Institute Washington, had the chance to interview Michael Gadbaw, former vice-president and Senior Counsel of General Electric (1990-2008) about his involvement with India.
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Youth Teams and Reconstruction
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Part of the TRAFO series “Reconstructing Neighborhoods of War” By Kefah Ahmed M. Najjar Why youth teams? The battles for the liberation of Mosul ended on 10 July 2017, when…
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Remapping Our Mindset Towards a Transregional and Pluralistic Outlook
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By Birgit Meyer Birgit Meyer is Professor of Religious Studies at Utrecht University. Her research focuses, among other things, on the relationship between religion and society in the present. Trained as…
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Mapping Discourse in R.H. Dana’s “Two Years Before the Mast”
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By Steffen Wöll When Richard Henry Dana Jr. visited San Francisco in 1859 after an absence of almost a quarter of a century, he was informed that, unbeknownst to him,…
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The ‘Here’ and ‘Elsewhere’ in World Literature: Interview with Bodhisattva Kar
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On 11-20 July 2019, the Transregional Academy “Minor/Small Literature(s). Perspectives on World Literature from Elsewhere” took place in Berlin. The Academy was organised by the Forum Transregionale Studien and the…
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“I am convinced that academic mobility is crucial for innovative research” – 5in10 with Barbara Geilhorn
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Barbara Geilhorn is a senior researcher at the Max Weber Foundation’s German Institute for Japanese Studies (DIJ) Tokyo. Before joining the DIJ, Barbara was a JSPS postdoctoral researcher based at…
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Baghdad Neighborhoods: Processes of Resilience against the Internally-reflected Conflict of 2006–2008
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Part of the TRAFO series “Reconstructing Neighborhoods of War” By Namariq Al-Rawi Foucault described war as a force for generating and promoting new ways of living, and such interventions require…
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“When you start working on a topic, you feel like swimming in an ocean, and without a boat” – 5in10 with Gülşah Başkavak
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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…