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…
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Rasha Chatta in Conversation with Joseph Kai
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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 was…
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Mughal Arcadia: Persian Poetry in an Indian Court
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By Sunil Sharma Mughal Persian literary culture was a transregional phenomenon in the early modern period. Part of the Persianate cultural ecumene, the Mughal courts, as well as the Deccan, attracted…
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Contested Minorities in the ‘New Europe’: National Identity from the Baltics to the Balkans, 1918-1939
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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 „Contested Minorities in the ‚New Europe‘: National Identity…
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Workshop Report: „At Home: Jews and Muslims in Eastern Europe“
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by Jesko Schmoller (Ruhr-Universität Bochum; European University St. Petersburg) On 28–29 June 2018, Prisma Ukraïna conducted a workshop titled “At Home: Jews and Muslims in Eastern Europe” at Forum Transregionale…
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Islam without Europe: Traditions of Reform in Eighteenth-Century Islamic Thought
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By Ahmad Dallal Islam without Europe is a study of Islamic traditions of reform in the long eighteenth century. The book aims to offer a revision of both traditional historiography…
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A Taste For Home. The Modern Middle Class in Ottoman Beirut
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By Toufoul Al-Hodeib The word “home” usually has parochial and quotidian connotations. In postcolonial scholarship, 19th– and 20th-century domesticity is primarily understood as a place where difference can be located…
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“I wanted to include the East European experience into the Western narrative about the WWII” – An Interview with Paweł Machcewicz
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Prof. Dr. Paweł Machcewicz is currently Professor of History at the Institute of Political Studies at the Polish Academy of Sciences and was previously Fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin (2017-2018)….
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From History to Memory
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A Wissenschaftskolleg Focus Group’s Views of a West African Family – After Six Months Work By Carola Lentz, Isidore Lobnibe, and Stanislas Meda Our focus group’s work at the Wissenschaftskolleg…
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When Threads Wear Thin: The West German Radical Left and Palestinian Groups at the End of the 1970s
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By Joseph Ben Prestel During the 1970s, ties with Palestinian groups occupied a prominent place in activities of the West German radical left. An increasing criticism of Israel along with…
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Family History as Family Enterprise?
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A Wissenschaftskolleg Focus Group’s Views of a West African Family Family history as family enterprise: this is the title under which the journalist Manuela Lenzen recently published an article on…
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The Disenchantment of the Left: Two Memories of the Palestinian Struggle
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By Jihane Sfeir Islamist leaders are often former liberationist or nationalist ideologues who after being disappointed by the failure of nationalism or Marxism, turn to Islam as a mobilizing force.[1]…
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When Financial Statecraft Goes to War: Western Sanctions and Russian Reactions
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By Sophie Lambroschini* The latest US round of sanctions hit Russian domestic markets like a missile strike early April: the effect was immediate and the conflagration unexpected. The announced ban…
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Workshop Report: “Religious Intersections in Post-Socialist Europe: Between State and Imaginary Borders”
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By Iuliia Buyskykh Interdisciplinary study of religion and faith in Eastern Europe, including both post-socialist and post-Soviet spaces, reflects the internal complexity and dynamics of religiosity in a region that…
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Turning the Page: Reading 1979 in and through the Cultural Journal Mawaqif
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By Yvonne Albers Years that Matter and the Phenomenology of the Periodical Form Those who study periodical culture (in the Middle East and elsewhere) know: The periodical form, generally, and…
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The Making and Unmaking of the Moments: From the 1979 Revolution to the Arab Spring
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By Behrooz Moazami The 1979 revolution in Iran is often identified as a pivotal moment in the Islamization of political and social movements in the Middle East, representing the forceful…
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Looking Back at the “1979 Moment” in the Middle East
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This article is part of the TRAFO Series “The ‘1979 Moment’ in the Middle East”. By Amir Moosavi On June 15-16, 2017, in the framework of Europe in the Middle…
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Workshop Report: “The Axis Powers and Decolonisation: Debating Perspectives, Difference, and Entanglements of the End of Empire in Germany, Italy and Japan”
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by Giulio Salvati and Annalisa Urbano The Explorative Workshop “The Axis Powers and Decolonisation: Debating Perspectives, Difference, and Entanglements of the End of Empire in Germany, Italy and Japan” took place…
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African Pentecostals in Catholic Europe: The Politics of Presence in the Twenty-First Century
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by Annalisa Butticci In recent years, the media and material turn in the study of religion has questioned the dominant understanding of religion as an inward and intellectual human…
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Germany and the Ottoman Railway: Art, Empire and Infrastructure
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by Peter Christensen The Ottoman railway network, considered the pride of that empire’s modernizing impulses, was actually engineered by Germans. While it employed local builders and craftsmen, and advanced Ottoman goals…
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Soviet Dormitories as a Prism for Interpreting Cultural Ties Between the Soviet Union and the World
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A Workshop Report by Ewa Dabrowska and Margaret Litvin Student dormitories are a setting of numerous Soviet artworks and a quintessential “common place” of the post-Soviet collective imagination. In contrast…
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Das koloniale Erbe der Achsenmächte nach 1945. Ein Interview mit Patrick Bernhard
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Am 13. und 14. Dezember fand am Forum Transregionale Studien der Explorative Workshop „The Axis Powers and Decolonisation: Debating Perspectives, Differences, and Entanglements of the End of Empire in Germany,…