By Žilvinas Švedkauskas. As rightly noted by Dr. Anna Hofmann in the introduction to this TRAFO series, the boundary between Europe and its neighborhood has historically been and remains highly ambiguous, though little questioned.
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Trajectories of Change: New Research Projects on the European Neighbourhood
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By Anna Hofmann. The revolutionary moments of the Arab Spring in 2011 and the Ukrainian “Euromaidan” in 2014 called for a remarkable rise of public and academic attention towards regions in the east and south of the European continent.
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“Whoever Owns Heritage is a Temporary Custodian”: An Interview with Akram Zaatari
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In this interview the Lebanese filmmaker and artist Akram Zaatari discusses his practice based on collecting and studying photography. Over the past twenty-five years Zaatari has conducted research into private archives and family albums in the Middle East and North Africa, exploring how photography has shaped aesthetic and social codes in the region.
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Crisis and Future: On the Demise of Dreams of Connectivity and Mobility
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By Farish A. Noor. Crises are not simple objects that we encounter as we walk along, and they cannot be simply pinned down through ostensive definition. We never encounter crisis as something that is already fully-constituted and fully present, but …
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Writing(s) on Time in Modernity
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By Clara Frysztacka. “Zeit-Schriften der Moderne” is a study of the construction of historical time in “classical” modernity at the end of the long 19th century. The pioneering work of Reinhard Koselleck on historical semantics as well as postcolonial historiography invite us to think about modernity …
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Banishment and Belonging: Exile and Diaspora in Sarandib, Lanka and Ceylon
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By Ronit Ricci How are the plights of Adam, first man and, according to Islamic tradition, also first prophet; Sita, heroine of the Ramayana; and the 18th century Javanese king…
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Theaters of Citizenship. Aesthetics and Politics of Avant-Garde Performance in Egypt
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By Sonali Pahwa When the dust of a revolution settles, its sense memory lives on in protest songs, poems, and chants. In the years leading up to the Egyptian uprising…
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Coronavirus: What next for Democracy? A report from the European Forum Alpbach
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By Neus Vidal-Martí “I’m afraid I haven’t heard you,” says a Minister when asked about her country’s stance on Fundamental Rights. In January, this would have been a classic way…
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The Anti-Gendered Face of the Corona Crisis: The Case of Turkey
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By Sedagul Yavuz While the COVID-19 pandemic intensifies, its gendered effects have begun to gain attention and psychological, sexual, and physical violence against women is increasing all over the world….
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The Pandemic as a Prism: Patterns of En-Gendering and Contestations to Women’s and Gender Rights in Times of Corona
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By Julia Roth When the pandemic “broke out”, I was focusing my work on Right-Wing Populism and Gender, a volume on the topic which I edited with Gabriele Dietze had…
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Gender in the EU’s Corona Response – Transformation Beyond Clapping?
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By Felicia Riethmüller and Hanna-Maria Paul While the Corona pandemic has had an impact on all members of society, the crisis unquestionably aggravates existing gender inequalities within the European Union…
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Sexualized Violence in Peru amid Covid-19
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By Patricia Ruiz Bravo and Aranxa Pizarro Peru has been under sanitary emergency for the past five months due to the coronavirus pandemic. During this time, we stayed home for more…
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“#systemrelevance in one word? women” – The Need for Analyzing Gender(ed) Media Discourse
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By Margreth Lünenborg, Wolfgang Reißmann, Miriam Siemon and Moe Kinoshita The above quote is taken from a German tweet by Jeannette Gusko from March 18, 2020. Gusko works for the…
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Covid-19 and Radical Self-Care
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By Chia Longman. In this short blog, I introduce the idea that we urgently need to radicalize ‘self-care’ from a feminist intersectional perspective.
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Brazil and Coronavirus: How Denialism, Religious Fundamentalism and Necropolitics has Disproportionately Affected Women
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By Andrea Dip Brazil is the second country in the world with the most infections and deaths from coronavirus, surpassed only by the United States. We have exceeded 100,000 deaths…
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Hate Male
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Audrey Truschke, a philologist and historian of encounters and entanglements in early modern South Asia at Rutgers University – in an essay published in the online magazine The Revealer on July…
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The Leader as Groom, the Nation as Bride: Patriarchal Nationalism under Nasser and Sisi
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Rim Naguib’s (EUME Fellow 2019-21) article, published in the current issue of META (Middle East Topics & Arguments) Vol. 14 (2020) on “Gender” surveys and analyzes the gendered symbols and…
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Beyond the Boundaries of “The Land of the Deer”: R. Binyamin between Jewish and Arab Geographies, and the Critique of the Zionist-Colonial Connection
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Avi-ram Tzoreff’s article, published in Issue 82 (Summer 2020) of the Jerusalem Quarterly, revisits the writings and ideas of Yehoshua Radler-Feldman, an observant orthodox Jew, author, essayist, and anti-colonial Zionist,…
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The Virtue of Stopping
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Towards Learning Journeys That Build Bridges Rather Than Schooling in Bubbles By Alia Mossallam On the first day of school after the lockdown, my second-grade daughter was beside herself with…
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On Colonial Aphasia in the Study of German Orientalism
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By Zubair Ahmad This article is part of the TRAFO Series “40 Years After Orientalism”. Humanists have too often confined their attention to departmentalized topics of research. They have…
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Ten Revolutionary Nights in Tehran: On the Significance of the Poetry at the dah shab for the ‘1979 Moment’ in Iran
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By Olmo Gölz Pinpricks: On Small Moments with Seminal Impact “Nineteenth-century European revolutions often started in opera houses; the Iranian Revolution can be said to have begun in poetry-reading sessions.”[1]…
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Reenchantment: From the Facts of Orientalism to the Sustenance of Storytelling
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By Wendy Shaw Facts cannot solve the problem of lies. Stories can. The given wisdom of modern positivism has been that more facts amount to more truth. In line with…
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40 Years After Orientalism
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An Introduction to the TRAFO series “40 Years After Orientalism”, Edited by Schirin Amir-Moazami (Freie Universität Berlin). Published in 1978, Orientalism has been a seminal investigation on questions regarding cultural…
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“A Major Task is to Challenge our own Positionality on an Ongoing Basis” – Interview with Mohammed Bamyeh
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Mohammed Bamyeh is a Sociologist from the University of Pittsburgh and has been working with the Europe in the Middle East – The Middle East in Europe (EUME) program of…
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Fatal Friends, National Trauma, Accountability
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Lecture by Khaled Fahmy Khaled Fahmy’s talk, held December 4th, 2019, in the framework of the research program Europe in the Middle East—The Middle East in Europe (EUME) at the…
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The Eclectic Nature of the Cossack Myth. Report from the Prisma Ukraïna Workshop “The Cossack Myth in Eastern Europe in the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries”
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by Andriy Posun’ko, Institute for Human Sciences, Vienna On December 12-13, 2019, the Forum Transregionale Studien, Berlin, and Prisma Ukraïna Research Network hosted an international workshop “The Cossack Myth in…
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What Was Philology in Arabic?
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Editorial Introduction to Philological Encounters, Vol. 4.1-4. By Islam Dayeh If philology—as a set of conceptual tools and material practices concerned with the care for texts—came into being as a…
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“Turkey Is Not Iran”: Middle East Experts in the 1979 Moment
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By Alp Yenen “Turkey is not Iran” is the title of Metin Heper’s 1981 book review of C.H. Dodd’s Democracy and Development in Turkey (N. Humberside: Eothen Press, 1979). The…
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“How Can We Speak of Defeat? Archival Abysses in the History of the Naksa” – Lecture by Pascale Ghazaleh
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On August 26th to September 6th, 2019, the Transregional Academy “Fragment – Power – Public: Narrative, Authority and Circulation in Archival Work” took place in Beirut, Lebanon. The Academy was…
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“Archiving the Nile: A Look and ‘Ear’ into Nubian Historiography of an Undammed River” – Lecture by Alia Mossallam
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On August 26th to September 6th, 2019, the Transregional Academy “Fragment – Power – Public: Narrative, Authority and Circulation in Archival Work” took place in Beirut, Lebanon. The Academy was…
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Regionalism without Regions: Reconceptualizing Ukraine’s Heterogeneity
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By Oksana Myshlovska, Graduate Institute Geneva / University of Bern Ukraine has become a fascinating case study for the investigation of the phenomenon of regionalism. In the last decades, a…
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„Die Bergarbeiter dachten: wenn der Markt kommt, dann werden die Fabriken den Arbeitern gehören“ – Interview mit Kyrylo Tkachenko
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Kyrylo Tkachenko ist Doktorand an der Europa-Universität Viadrina und Stipendiat des trajectories-of-change-Programms der Zeit Stiftung Ebelin und Gerd Bucerius. Er beschäftigt sich mit den Protesten der ukrainischen Bergarbeiter zwischen 1989…
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‘Rethinking Ukrainian Studies’: Serhy Yekelchyk’s keynote lecture ‘Writing the history of revolution in the time of war’
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A report by Sophie Schmäing, Universität Gießen Struggles over the interpretation of historical events have always been a salient issue in independent Ukraine. Since the Maidan protests in 2013–14, the…
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“Even history that happened centuries ago can cause problems for the people you are working with” – Interview with Naira Sahakyan
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This interview was conducted on 9th May 2019, during the workshop ”Knowledge, Politics and Publics: Conversations on the Role of the Academic, the Intellectual and the Writer in Times of…
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“Echoing Europe – Postcolonial Reverberations”. Interview with meLê yamomo
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The sound performance “Echoing Europe – Postcolonial Reverberations” premiered at the Ballhaus Naunynstrasse Berlin on 16 May 2019. The event was produced by Kultursprünge at Ballhaus Naunynstrasse and funded by…
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“Rethinking Ukrainian Studies”: Interview with Viktoria Sereda
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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 young researchers from…
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Workshop Report: “Social Disappearance. Explorations around a travelling concept from Latin America to Eastern Europe”
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By Estela Schindel and Gabriel Gatti From 7th to 8th of February 2019, the Exploratory Workshop “Social Disappearance: Explorations Around a Travelling Concept from Latin America to Eastern Europe” was…
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Conference Report: “Rethinking Ukrainian Studies: Locally, Regionally, Transnationally”
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By Antonina Rybka On 16–17 May, Frankfurt an der Oder, a city on the German-Polish border, welcomed international scholars, young researchers and students to the Prisma Ukraïna Conference Rethinking Ukrainian…
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Green was the Name of my Civilization: Turkish Islamism in the Late 1970s
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By Jan-Markus Vömel In 1974, a short piece of vivid prose entitled “Green was the Name of my Civilization” appeared in the Milli Gazete (National Gazette), the main organ of…
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Taking Refuge: Weaving Memory and History in Comics – An Interview with Zeina Abirached
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In this interview the celebrated Lebanese comics artist and illustrator Zeina Abirached talks with Rasha Chatta (EUME Fellow 2017–19) about the sources of inspiration for her work. Beirut has been…