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“Oral Communities Are Rich in Their Traditions and Knowledge About the Past” – 5in10 with Rimi Tadu
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Dr. Rimi Tadu is currently teaching at the Centre for North East Studies and Policy Research at Jamia Milia Islamia University, New Delhi. She was a fellow at the Max…
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Book Review: Hala Auji, Printing Arab Modernity: Book Culture and the American Press in Nineteenth-Century Beirut
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By Fabian Steininger Auji, Hala. Printing Arab Modernity: Book Culture and the American Press in Nineteenth-Century Beirut. Arts and Archaeology of the Islamic World 7. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2016….
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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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Resources, Environment and Infrastructures between Russia and the Asia-Pacific: Cooperation and Conflicts
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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 conference “Resources, Environment and Infrastructures between Russia and…
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Migration, Home, and Playfulness: Viking Age Perspectives on the Creation of a Sense of Place
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By Matthias Egeler ‘Migration’, ‘home’ and the creation of a ‘sense of place’ are topics of utmost actuality. In the current situation, not least the scale of population movements in…
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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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Our Frontier Is the World: The Boy Scouts in the Age of American Ascendancy
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By Mischa Honeck Scouting, and with it the arcadian images of happy children and caring adults hiking through the woods or sitting around campfires, may have outlived its prime in…
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Child Custody in Islamic Law: Theory and Practice in Egypt Since the Sixteenth Century
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By Ahmed Fekry Ibrahim This monograph takes as its central theme the following paradox: while Muslim jurists canonized most of the laws of child custody in the eighth-eleventh centuries, changes…
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“New Perspectives, New Contexts, New Colleagues and New Challenges Always Open up New Paths of Thinking” – 5in10 with Sarah Lemmen
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Sarah Lemmen is a historian of Eastern Europe in the 19th and 20th centuries, specializing in the history of the Bohemian lands/Czechoslovakia. With a strong focus on cultural history, her…
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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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Out of the Archives … New Archival Practices: “The session inspired me to think differently about my work”
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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…
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“Academic Mobility Shifted my Research Concept in a Substantial Way“ – 5in10 with Zdeněk Nebřenský
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Zdeněk Nebřenský is the head of the Prague branch office of the German Historical Institute Warsaw. He studied History and Anthropology in Prague, Leipzig and Berlin and graduated in 2012…
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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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Der inspizierte Muslim. Zur Politisierung der Islamforschung in Europa
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Von Schirin Amir-Moazami Gegenwärtig vergeht europaweit kaum eine Debatte zu religiöser oder kultureller Pluralität, ohne dass dabei nach dem legitimen oder illegitimen Ort des Islam gefragt würde. Von diesem überhöhten…
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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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“I Used to Love Plants More Than Books” – 5in10 with Yoav Di-Capua
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Yoav Di-Capua is an Associate Professor of History at the University of Texas at Austin, where he teaches modern Arab intellectual history. His recent book, No Exit: Arab Existentialism, Jean…
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African Historiography and the Challenges of European Periodization: A Historical Comment
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By Ihediwa Nkemjika Chimee Abstract African historiography has been following divisions, schemes, and sequences set by the Europeans who in the past claimed that there was no such thing as…
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Language Choice in Enlightenment Europe: Education, Sociability, and Governance
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By Vladislav Rjéoutski The publication Language Choice in Enlightenment Europe is one of the outcomes of a research project on the history of language learning in 18th-century Russia. The project…
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“My Study Vacation in Syria was Fundamental for my Career” – 5in10 with Arturo Monaco
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Arturo Monaco is a PhD holder in Civilizations, Cultures and Societies of Asia and Africa, Sapienza University of Rome (2016). His PhD dissertation explores the surrealist trend in modern Arabic…
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Workshop Report: Acoustic Histories/Historiographies in the Asia Pacific
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by meLê yamomo The Exploratory Workshop „Acoustic Histories/Historiographies in the Asia Pacific“ took place on January 11–12, 2018 at the Forum Transregionale Studien in Berlin. It was convened by meLê yamomo (FU…
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Between Empire and Continent. British Foreign Policy before the First World War
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By Andreas Rose The origins of the First World War in general and Britain’s foreign policy in the decades prior to 1914 in particular belong to the most researched topics…
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Grasping the Global: Lessons from the 1970s
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By Bence Kocsev A couple of years ago, during one of his eye-opener lectures, Irish-American thinker James M. Skelly coined the term “recovering sociologist”. With this term, he tried to…
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“Basic Freedoms and Rule of Law Ought not be Taken for Granted” – 5in10 with Wendy Pearlman
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Wendy Pearlman is the Koldyke Outstanding Teaching Associate Professor of Political Science at Northwestern University, where she specializes in Middle East politics. Wendy earned a Ph.D. from Harvard University, an…
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“Seen Through a Spatial Lens … ”: Interview with Jonathan Everts
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This interview is part of the series “Seen Through a Spatial Lens … – Spatializations in Global Times”. The series presents the guests invited by the Collaborative Research Centre 1199…
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Wie gestalten Empfehlungsschreiben transnationale soziale Netzwerke?
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Von Lisa Gerlach Ein gutes Empfehlungsschreiben kann das Zünglein an der Waage sein, wenn es darum geht, eine neue Stelle anzutreten. Das gilt nicht nur für die Universität und auch…
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Wie gestalten Empfehlungsschreiben transnationale soziale Netzwerke?
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Von Lisa Gerlach Ein gutes Empfehlungsschreiben kann das Zünglein an der Waage sein, wenn es darum geht, eine neue Stelle anzutreten. Das gilt nicht nur für die Universität und auch…
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Out of the Archives … New Archival Practices – Interview with Rasha Chatta, Pascale Ghazaleh, Lamia Moghnieh and Alia Mossallam
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The exploratory workshop “Out of the Archives … New Archival Practices: Towards Alternative Historiographies, Voices, and Spaces” is convened by Rasha Chatta, Pascale Ghazaleh, Lamia Moghnieh and Alia Mossallam and…
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Open Architecture: Migration, Citizenship and the Urban Renewal of Berlin-Kreuzberg by IBA-1984/87
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By Esra Akcan As I was writing this book on the relation between migration, citizenship and urbanism, the world’s biggest refugee crisis since the Second World War came about. In…
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The Forlorn Arab as Foil in the Curriculum of Postrevolutionary Iran
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By Shervin Malekzadeh As was the case for many of her neighbors, Iran’s path to salvation ran through the source of her perdition. The trauma of military defeat and the…
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The European Industrial Heritage of the First World War
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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 conference “The European Industrial Heritage of the First…
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”Islamic intellectual thought of the modern times can be described as already ‘Europeanized’” – Interview with Armina Omerika
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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 conference ”At Home: Jews and Muslims in Eastern Europe”….
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From Depot to Museum: Recovering a Monumental Masterpiece from Qing Dynasty
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The art historian and curator Ching-Ling Wang recently published a book on a very unique piece of art: Ding Guanpeng’s monumental “The Buddha Preaching” from the collections of Berlin’s Ethnological…
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Defining Black European History
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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 “Defining Black European History”, which will take…
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“I want to explore the contribution of Eastern Europeans to the debates on colonialism and racism” – 5in10 with Olga Linkiewicz
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Olga Linkiewicz is Assistant Professor at the Tadeusz Manteuffel Institute of History, Polish Academy of Sciences. She specializes in social history of modern Poland, history of social sciences, and memory…
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Socialist Cultural Diplomacy of the ХХth Century: Institutes, Actors, Discourses
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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 international conference “Socialist Cultural Diplomacy of the ХХth…
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Transatlantic Slavery and the European Hinterland
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By Felix Brahm (German Historical Institute London) and Eve Rosenhaft (University of Liverpool) The cover of this book displays a sketch of the Wupper Valley in Germany around 1800. Only at…
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Maras and the Darker Sides of Globalization
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By Marlon Carranza In 2006 Arjun Appadurai published his book Fear of Small Numbers: an Essay of the Geography of Anger, to evaluate “the darker sides of globalization” (p.3). Appadurai’s…
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Workshop Report: „Constructions, Representations, Productions. Exploring Historical and Contemporary Imaginations of Land“
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By Michaela Böhme Recent dynamics in the global food system – such as large-scale farmland acquisitions by corporate and state investors, processes of farmland financialization and assetization, or the increasing…