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…
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Migration, Home, and Playfulness: Viking Age Perspectives on the Creation of a Sense of Place
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By Matthias Egeler ‘Migration’, ‘home’ and the creation of a ‘sense of place’ are topics of utmost actuality. In the current situation, not least the scale of population movements in…
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Our Frontier Is the World: The Boy Scouts in the Age of American Ascendancy
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By Mischa Honeck Scouting, and with it the arcadian images of happy children and caring adults hiking through the woods or sitting around campfires, may have outlived its prime in…
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Child Custody in Islamic Law: Theory and Practice in Egypt Since the Sixteenth Century
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By Ahmed Fekry Ibrahim This monograph takes as its central theme the following paradox: while Muslim jurists canonized most of the laws of child custody in the eighth-eleventh centuries, changes…
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“New Perspectives, New Contexts, New Colleagues and New Challenges Always Open up New Paths of Thinking” – 5in10 with Sarah Lemmen
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Sarah Lemmen is a historian of Eastern Europe in the 19th and 20th centuries, specializing in the history of the Bohemian lands/Czechoslovakia. With a strong focus on cultural history, her…
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Out of the Archives … New Archival Practices: “The session inspired me to think differently about my work”
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From 12 to 14 July 2018, the Exploratory Workshop “Out of the Archives … New Archival Practices: Towards Alternative Historiographies, Voices, and Spaces” was held at Archive Kabinett Berlin-Wedding. It…
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“Academic Mobility Shifted my Research Concept in a Substantial Way“ – 5in10 with Zdeněk Nebřenský
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Zdeněk Nebřenský is the head of the Prague branch office of the German Historical Institute Warsaw. He studied History and Anthropology in Prague, Leipzig and Berlin and graduated in 2012…
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Der inspizierte Muslim. Zur Politisierung der Islamforschung in Europa
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Von Schirin Amir-Moazami Gegenwärtig vergeht europaweit kaum eine Debatte zu religiöser oder kultureller Pluralität, ohne dass dabei nach dem legitimen oder illegitimen Ort des Islam gefragt würde. Von diesem überhöhten…
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“I Used to Love Plants More Than Books” – 5in10 with Yoav Di-Capua
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Yoav Di-Capua is an Associate Professor of History at the University of Texas at Austin, where he teaches modern Arab intellectual history. His recent book, No Exit: Arab Existentialism, Jean…
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African Historiography and the Challenges of European Periodization: A Historical Comment
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By Ihediwa Nkemjika Chimee Abstract African historiography has been following divisions, schemes, and sequences set by the Europeans who in the past claimed that there was no such thing as…
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Language Choice in Enlightenment Europe: Education, Sociability, and Governance
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By Vladislav Rjéoutski The publication Language Choice in Enlightenment Europe is one of the outcomes of a research project on the history of language learning in 18th-century Russia. The project…
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“My Study Vacation in Syria was Fundamental for my Career” – 5in10 with Arturo Monaco
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Arturo Monaco is a PhD holder in Civilizations, Cultures and Societies of Asia and Africa, Sapienza University of Rome (2016). His PhD dissertation explores the surrealist trend in modern Arabic…
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Workshop Report: Acoustic Histories/Historiographies in the Asia Pacific
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by meLê yamomo The Exploratory Workshop „Acoustic Histories/Historiographies in the Asia Pacific“ took place on January 11–12, 2018 at the Forum Transregionale Studien in Berlin. It was convened by meLê yamomo (FU…
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Between Empire and Continent. British Foreign Policy before the First World War
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By Andreas Rose The origins of the First World War in general and Britain’s foreign policy in the decades prior to 1914 in particular belong to the most researched topics…
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Grasping the Global: Lessons from the 1970s
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By Bence Kocsev A couple of years ago, during one of his eye-opener lectures, Irish-American thinker James M. Skelly coined the term “recovering sociologist”. With this term, he tried to…
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“Basic Freedoms and Rule of Law Ought not be Taken for Granted” – 5in10 with Wendy Pearlman
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Wendy Pearlman is the Koldyke Outstanding Teaching Associate Professor of Political Science at Northwestern University, where she specializes in Middle East politics. Wendy earned a Ph.D. from Harvard University, an…
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“Seen Through a Spatial Lens … ”: Interview with Jonathan Everts
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This interview is part of the series “Seen Through a Spatial Lens … – Spatializations in Global Times”. The series presents the guests invited by the Collaborative Research Centre 1199…
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Wie gestalten Empfehlungsschreiben transnationale soziale Netzwerke?
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Von Lisa Gerlach Ein gutes Empfehlungsschreiben kann das Zünglein an der Waage sein, wenn es darum geht, eine neue Stelle anzutreten. Das gilt nicht nur für die Universität und auch…
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Wie gestalten Empfehlungsschreiben transnationale soziale Netzwerke?
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Von Lisa Gerlach Ein gutes Empfehlungsschreiben kann das Zünglein an der Waage sein, wenn es darum geht, eine neue Stelle anzutreten. Das gilt nicht nur für die Universität und auch…