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,…
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The Japanese Empire’s Enduring Vestiges. An Interview with Sherzod Muminov
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On 13-14 December 2017, Sherzod Muminov participated in the Exploratory Workshop „The Axis Powers and Decolonisation: Debating Perspectives, Differences, and Entanglements of the End of Empire in Germany, Italy, and…
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Soviet Student Dormitories: Structures and Legacies
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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 Prisma Ukraïna Workshop „Soviet Student Dormitories: Structures and…
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One’s own Present, and the 18th Century Present
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Impressions of the Workshop “Landscapes of the Long 18th Century: Mediating Places, Powers and Pasts in South Asia and Beyond,” which was organized by Dipti Khera and Hannah Baader on…
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Workshop Report: „On the Ruins of History“. A Walter Benjamin Moment in Arab Thought? – ورشة بنيامين عربيا
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Report on a workshop at the Forum Transregionale Studien, 1-2 December 2017, by Asmaa Essakouti (Doha Institute for Graduate Studies) …
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Speech, the Still Image, and their Silent Returns in Vandy Rattana’s MONOLOGUE (2015)
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A follow-up comment on the workshop “Histories of Art and Art as History in Contemporary Southeast Asia” by Pamela N. Corey In April 2017 the “Art Histories and…
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„I was curious about knowing what it means to exist in the vast universe“ – 5in10 with Sanja Savkić
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Sanja Savkic received her Ph.D. in Art History (Indigenous Art of the Americas), as well as her M.St. in Mesoamerican Studies from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). In…
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“I plead for a dispassionate dialogue on memory” – Interview with Iuliia Buyskykh
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From October 2017 to January 2018, Julia Buyskykh is a Visiting Fellow at Prisma Ukraina – Research Network Eastern Europe. She is an ethnologist currently working with the National…
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The reemergence of history in Ukrainian elections – An interview with Alexandr Osipian
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Alexandr Osipian was a Visiting Fellow at the Prisma Ukraïna – Research Network Eastern Europe from April to June 2017. In this interview he discusses how he got…
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Impressions of the Workshop “Landscapes of the Long 18th Century: Mediating Places, Powers and Pasts in South Asia and Beyond”
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by Nobuko Toyosawa (Oriental Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences) The two-day workshop, “Landscapes of the Long 18th Century: Mediating Places, Powers, and Pasts in South Asia and…
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Cultural Heritage, Trauma, and Manipulation – Interview with Wulandani Dirgantoro
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Together with Venugopal Maddipati (Art Histories Fellow), Wulandani Dirgantoro hosted a discussion table on “Cultural Heritage, Trauma, and Manipulation” at our event “Negotiating Cultural Heritage. Making, Sustaining, Breaking, Sharing. A…
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Art Histories Research Travel Reports
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As fellows of the research program Art Histories and Aesthetic Practices at the Forum Transregionale Studien in Berlin, Wulandani Dirgantoro, Marton Orosz, and Sarada Natarajan conducted research in Singapore, Indonesia,…
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“Today I see myself as a composite individual” – 5in10 with Venugopal Maddipati
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Venugopal Maddipati holds a Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota and is Assistant Professor at the School of Design at Ambedkar University, Delhi. He is currently working on his monograph titled „Architecture as Weak…
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“It was storytelling that intrigued me” – 5in10 with Alia Mossallam
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Alia Mossallam holds a PhD in Political Science. Her dissertation explores a popular history of Nasserist Egypt through stories told and songs sung by people behind the 1952 revolution….
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“I guess I am still dealing with the same questions that I had when I was a child“ – 5in10 with Deniz Yonucu
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Deniz Yonucu received her PhD degree in Social Anthropology from Cornell University in 2014 and is currently an Alexander von Humboldt post-doctoral fellow at Leibniz-ZMO and Forum Transregionale Studien (EUME) and…
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What Makes a Man? Sexuality and Representation in Europe-Middle East Encounters
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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 „What Makes a Man? Sexuality and Representation…
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„As far back as I can remember, I have loved stories“ – 5in10 with Michael Allan
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Michael Allan is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Oregon, where he is also program faculty in Cinema Studies, Arabic and Middle East Studies. He is the…
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Workshop Report: “New Migration Patterns in the Western Hemisphere: Challenges for the new Century”
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By Stephanie Schütze The Explorative Workshop „New Migration Patterns in the Western Hemisphere: Challenges for the New Century“ took place on 13-14 January 2017 at the Forum Transregionale Studien in…
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Mapping the Counter-Histories of Port Said: A Critical Reading Into a Communal Mapping Project
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by Alia Mossallam and Nermin El-Sherif “Here the tabular space–of the map, the canvas, the textbook–comes to be transformed into a topology that rapidly acquires depth when it is bent…