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…
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Omnia El Shakry: Psychoanalysis and the Imaginary – Translating Freud in Postcolonial Egypt
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On 11th and 12th April 2019, the workshop “Power in Medicine: Interrogating the Place of Medical Knowledge in the Modern Middle East” took place in Berlin. It was organized by…
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Cape Verde and the Atlantic: Crossroads of People, Goods and Capital Investments (1460–1610)
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By Lesley Braun A report of the workshop, “Cape Verde and the Atlantic: Crossroads of People, Goods and Capital Investments (1460–1610)”, held in Cidade Velha, Cape Verde, on January 28–29th,…
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Conference Report: “The Global Power of Private Museums: Arts and Publics – States and Markets”
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By Nathalie Okpu A Report of the International Symposium, „The Global Power of Private Museums: Arts and Publics – States and Markets„, at the TU Berlin and the Forum Transregionale…
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Psychoanalysis and the Imaginary: Translating Freud in Postcolonial Egypt — Interview with Omnia El Shakry
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On 11th and 12th April 2019, the workshop “Power in Medicine: Interrogating the Place of Medical Knowledge in the Modern Middle East” will take place in Berlin. It is organized…
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Power in Medicine: Psychiatry in the Middle East—Interview with Christopher Dole
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On 11th and 12th April 2019, the workshop “Power in Medicine: Interrogating the Place of Medical Knowledge in the Modern Middle East” will take place in Berlin. It is organized…
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Birgit Meyer: „Sozial- und Geisteswissenschaften und die Welt“
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Birgit Meyers Keynote „Towards New Synergies: Social Sciences & Humanities and the World“ (Originaltitel des Vortrages), gehalten auf der Synergy Conference 2019 der Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) am…
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Jüdischer Islam: Islam und jüdisch-deutsche Selbstbestimmung
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By Susannah Heschel The book was published in the Schriftenreihe des Forum Transregionale Studien in the Matthes & Seitz series Fröhliche Wissenschaft. Why were so many European Jewish scholars drawn…
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Workshop: “Post-2011 Arab Diasporas and Home-Making in Berlin”
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The workshop “Post-2011 Arab Diasporas and Home-Making in Berlin” seeks to examine the various ways of leaving home that can represent a disruption in one’s life but can also offer…
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“I have always been intrigued by questions of norm and difference, majority and minority.” – 5in10 with Malak Labib
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Malak Labib received her doctorate from Aix-Marseille University / Institut de Recherche sur le Monde Arabe et Musulman (2015) and her MA from Sciences Po Paris (2005). Her background is…
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Liver and the Embodiment of Disease: Interview with Jennifer Derr
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On 11th and 12th April 2019, the workshop “Power in Medicine: Interrogating the Place of Medical Knowledge in the Modern Middle East” will take place in Berlin. It is organized…
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Book review: New Conservatives in Russia and East Central Europe
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By Alicja Curanović Katharina Bluhm and Mihai Varga, New Conservatives in Russia and East Central Europe (London, New York: Routledge, 2019) Conservatism seems to be the new black among experts on…
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Annual Conference Talk: Western Knowledge About Reforming China (1972-1989)
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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…
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Capturing the Zeitgeist of Infrastructure
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Reflections from the Transregional Academy on “Infrastructures, Regions, and Urbanization”, 29 September to 7 October 2018, Singapore by Norman Aselmeyer (European University Institute, Florence) In 1999, Susan Leigh Star famously…
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Book Review: The Long End of the First World War: Ruptures, Continuities and Memories
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By Nazan Maksudyan Katrin Bromber, Katharina Lange, Heike Liebau, Anorthe Wetzel (eds.), The Long End of the First World War: Ruptures, Continuities and Memories (Frankfurt: Campus, 2018). British futurist writer,…
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Podiumsdiskussion „Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft an den Grenzen Europas“
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Die Podiumsdiskussion „Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft an den Grenzen Europas“ mit Jeanette Hofmann (WZB / Alexander von Humboldt Institut für Internet und Gesellschaft), Paweł Machcewicz (Fellow des Imre-Kertész-Kollegs in Jena), Ernst…
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„There has never been deregulation“. Interview with Nicole Mayer-Ahuja
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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…
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„Speaking with witnesses is the most fascinating aspect of my research“ – 5in10 with Anja Blanke
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Anja Blanke is a scholar of the 20th-century Chinese history, specializing in the history and memories of campaigns during the Mao-era, such as the Anti-Rightist Campaign (1957-58) or the Cultural Revolution…