By Nurçin İleri. The year 1933 was particularly significant in the history of Turkey. Following a long preparation process, the tenth-year anniversary of the Republic, which ran day and night on 29 October, was held more gloriously than those in previous years, serving as a model for the future.
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Why Non-European Languages Matter to European Humanities: Area Studies and Postcolonial Philology
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By Christian Junge. English is, without doubt, the dominant academic language of our time, especially in the natural sciences, where materials are often taught and published in English. On the contrary, in European humanities, scholars of literary and cultural studies, linguistics and philosophy teach and publish quite widely in minor academic languages, such as German, Italian or Polish.
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لماذا تهمّ اللغات غير الأوروبية الإنسانيات الأوروبية: دراسات المناطق وفقه اللغة ما بعد الاستعماري
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كريستيان يونغي. لا شك أنَّ اللغة الإنكليزية هي اللغة الأكاديمية السائدة في عصرنا، لا سيما في العلوم الطبيعية، إذ غالبًا ما تُدرَّس المواد وتُنشر باللغة الإنكليزية. وبخلاف ذلك، فإنَّ باحثيّ الدراسات الأدبية والثقافية واللغويات والفلسفة، في الإنسانيات الأوروبية، يدرّسون وينشرون على نطاق واسع بلغات أكاديمية ثانوية، مثل الألمانية أو الإيطالية أو البولندية.
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Out of the Ivory Tower: Broadening Global History in Germany
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By Julia Hauser. The humanities are united by their aim of promoting critical self-reflection. History shares this aim, and so do recent turns in the field.
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نزولاً من البرج العاجيّ: توسيع التاريخ العالمي في ألمانيا
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بشار حيدر. ما يوحّد الإنسانيات هو هدفها المتمثّل في تعزيز التفكير الذاتي النقدي. ويشارك التاريخُ هذا الهدف، وكذلك تفعل الانعطافات الأخيرة في هذا الحقل.
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“The Pictures Are the Thing”: Farm Security Administration Photographers Document the American Factory in the Depression Era
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By Rick Halpern. The 1930s were a formative period for documentary photography in the United States. The twin phenomena of the Great Depression and the emergence of a militant workers’ movement gave photographers interested in the working class a surfeit of material to shoot.
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The Humanities’ Constant Need for Self-Justification
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By Bashshar Haydar. It is not uncommon for people working in the humanities to feel the need to demonstrate the significance or, even, the relevance of their disciplines. There is not a matching pressure in the fields of natural sciences, whether applied or theoretical.
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حاجة الإنسانيات المتواصلة إلى تبرير ذاتها
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بشار حيدر. ليس من غير المألوف أن يشعر العاملون في الإنسانيات بالحاجة إلى تبيان أنَّ لفروعهم أهميتها، أو حتى أنّها ذات صلة. ما من ضغط مماثل في مجالات العلوم الطبيعية سواء التطبيقية أو النظرية. يحتاج التباين الآنف في المواقف تفسيرًا، في ضوء الأهمية المفروغ منها التي للإنسانيات في حياتنا، على كلا المستويين الفردي والجمعي. ويكفي تأملٌ وجيز في الدور المركزي الذي تؤدّيه الفنون والآداب في تأطير قيمنا ومعاييرنا، والمؤسسات التي تجسّدها، لتأكيد ما للإنسانيات من تأثير واسع وعميق.
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Middle Class Factory: The (partial) privilege of industrial labor in Tunisia
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By André Weißenfels. In the south of Tunis, around 450 Tunisians work at an offshore French electronics factory. Even though the majority of them work on the shop floor and have what is traditionally called “working class” jobs, they consider themselves to be middle class.
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The Humanities in the 21st Century: Perspectives from the Arab World and Germany – An Introduction
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An Introduction to the TRAFO series “The Humanities in the 21st Century: Perspectives from the Arab World and Germany” by Nuha Alshaar, Beate La Sala, Jenny Oesterle and Barbara Winckler. This project is part of the activities of the Arab-German Young Academy of Sciences and Humanities (AGYA).
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الإنسانيات في القرن الحادي والعشرين: وجهات نظر من العالم العربي وألمانيا – مَدْخِل
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مدخل إلى سلسلة TRAFO التي تحمل عنواناً „الإنسانيات في القرن الحادي والعشرين: وجهات نظر من العالم العربي وألمانيا“، كتبته بربارة وينكلر (جامعة مونستر) وبيآتا لا سالا (جامعة برلين الحرة) وجيني أوستيرله (جامعة باساو) ونهى الشعار (الجامعة الأميركية في الشارقة/ معهد الدراسات الإسماعيلية، لندن). وهذا المشروع هو جزء من نشاطات أكاديمية الشباب العربية الألمانية للعلوم والإنسانيات (AGYA).
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Port Cities of the Eastern Mediterranean
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By Malte Fuhrmann. With my book, I aim to rise to that challenge by readdressing an issue of classic political and social history of the nineteenth century – that is, the issue of Europeanization.
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Photography as Policing Infrastructure During the Late Ottoman Empire
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By İlkay Yilmaz. In the 19th century, the Ottoman Empire attempted to construct new technologies of transportation and communication in its territories. These were not only new technologies for the empire, they were also new to the rest of the world.
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Spaces of National-Industrial Modernity: Factories and Factory Women in Early Republican Turkey
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By Görkem Akgöz. In the New Year’s special issue of the Vatan (Homeland) newspaper, a Santa Claus-like, Father Time figure (zaman, meaning time) rips off the year 1933 from the calendar to reveal the exciting prospects of the coming year.
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Social Distance, Hygiene and the Handshake: a Chinese Perspective
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By Barbara Mittler. No Handshakes, no Hugs and no Bises: The global call for social distancing has significantly changed rules and gestures of conduct and etiquette that had travelled the world for centuries. The handshake is one such example.
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Infrastructures and Society in (Post-)Ottoman Geographies: Call for Contributions to the Series
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We invite contributions to discuss and investigate how infrastructures shape and affect power relations and daily life; how they produce or organize inequalities, discrimination, or differentiated access to public goods and services; and how they may become part of state violence, or resistance, in Ottoman and post-Ottoman geographies.
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Factory Reloaded: Transregional Perspectives on the Industrial Workplace
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An introduction to the TRAFO Series “Factory Reloaded” by Görkem Akgöz, Malak Labib, and Nurçin İleri. Factories have received attention almost exclusively at times of crises, such as the Dhaka garment factory fire, the Foxconn suicides, or the liquidation of large public-sector companies in some developing countries.
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Refugee Routes: Telling, Looking, Protesting, Redressing – An Academy in Exile Book
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By Egemen Özbek. As Vanessa Agnew highlights in the Introduction to the volume, Refugee Routes is a response to the ever-growing number of refugees and internally displaced people around the world.
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Constitutional Capture in and around the Contested Neighborhood
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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…