By Torsten Weber China’s recent rediscovery of the Silk Road for its ‘One Belt-One Road’ initiative reaffirms the country’s claim to being acknowledged once again in its role as the…
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Imaginations and Processes of Spatialization under the Global Condition
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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 third annual conference of the Collaborative Research Centre…
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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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Global History of Knowledge from a Latin American Perspective: Overcoming the West-Rest Dichotomy
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By Frederik Schulze One of the key questions of the Global History debate is how to understand the relation between the so-called West and other world regions. Initially, Global History…
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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 Arab Sartre, Existentialism and Decolonization. A Conversation
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Following EUME-CNMS Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung Yoav di-Capua’s recent Berliner Seminar presentation on his new book No Exit: Arab Existentialism, Jean-Paul Sartre and Decolonization, he sat down with…
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Transoceanic American Studies
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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 “Transoceanic American Studies”, which will take…
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In Global Transit. Jewish Migrants from Hitler’s Europe in Asia, Africa and Beyond
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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 „In Global Transit. Jewish Migrants from…
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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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“The migration of images, objects, commodities, and texts” – Interview with Andreas Beyer
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On May 11-12, 2018, the international research group “‘Bilderfahrzeuge’ – Aby Warburg’s Legacy and the Future of Iconology” will host a conference entitled “Images on the Move: Depots | Routes |…
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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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“Seen Through a Spatial Lens … ”: Interview mit Dirk van Laak
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Unsere Interviewserie “Seen Through a Spatial Lens … – Spatializations in Global Times” stellt Gäste des Sonderforschungsbereichs 1199 “Verräumlichungsprozesse unter Globalisierungsbedingungen” vor. Die kurzen Interviews geben Einblick in die Forschung unserer…
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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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Keynote Lecture „Region, Nation, World Scale and the Problem of Periodisation“ by Sanjay Subrahmanyam
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From 7 to 9 December 2017, the Annual Conference 2017 “Chronologics: Periodisation in a Global Context” of the Forum Transregionale Studien and the Max Weber Stiftung took place at the…
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“Seen Through a Spatial Lens … ”: Interview with Benjamin Tallis
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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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“German History in Documents and Images: beyond ‘old national history’”
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Work on the relaunch of the German History in Documents and Images website begins in April 2018. We talked with project manager Kelly McCullough about the history of this project,…
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Subjects, Citizens, and Others – Administering Ethnic Heterogeneity in the British and Habsburg Empires, 1867–1918
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by Benno Gammerl British nostalgia for an imperial past imagined as heroic and fabulous has been a persistent feature of culture and politics in the UK since the 1960s, from…
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Annual Conference Talk: Alessandro Stanziani, Periodisation and the Culture of Histories: The Bolchevik Revolution
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From 7 to 9 December 2017, the Annual Conference 2017 “Chronologics: Periodisation in a Global Context” of the Forum Transregionale Studien and the Max Weber Stiftung took place at the…
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Globe, Region, and Periphery: The Spatialization of the American West in Nineteenth-Century US Literature
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by Steffen Wöll What kind of spatial imaginations and place-making processes can be identified in nineteenth-century American literature from and about the western peripheries? What is the relationship between local,…
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Annual Conference: Panel Report “The Making of Periodization Schemes”
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A report from the Annual Conference “Chronologics: Periodisation in a Global Context” of the Forum Transregionale Studien and the Max Weber Stiftung, Berlin, 7-9 December 2017. by Judith Schulte “The…
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National History and New Nationalism in the 21st Century
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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 “National History and the New Nationalism…
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“The First to Wake up Played the Music of His Choice” – 5in10 with Rasha Chatta
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Rasha Chatta earned her PhD in Comparative Literature from SOAS University of London (2016), with a dissertation entitled “Marginality and Individuation: A Theoretical Approach to Abla Farhoud and Arab Migrant…
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On Chronologics and Eurochronology – An Interview with Özen Nergis Dolcerocca
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The Annual Conference 2017 “Chronologics: Periodisation in a Global Context” of the Forum Transregionale Studien and the Max Weber Stiftung took place in Berlin, 7-9 December 2017. The conference was…
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Annual Conference Talk: Anubhuti Maurya, The Mythical Medieval
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From 7 to 9 December 2017, the Annual Conference 2017 “Chronologics: Periodisation in a Global Context” of the Forum Transregionale Studien and the Max Weber Stiftung took place at the…
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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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The Paris Peace Conference of 1919 and the Challenge of a New World Order
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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: “The Paris Peace Conference of 1919…
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Annual Conference Talk: Michael Geyer, After the “Provincialization of Europe”
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From 7 to 9 December 2017, the Annual Conference 2017 “Chronologics: Periodisation in a Global Context” of the Forum Transregionale Studien and the Max Weber Stiftung took place at the…
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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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Investigating the ‘Islamic’ Work on the Body – 5in10 with Fatima Tofighi
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Fatima Tofighi is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Religions (Qom, Iran), where she teaches a variety of topics on theories and methods in religious studies,…
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The First of the Modern Ottomans – The Intellectual History of Ahmed Vâsıf
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by Ethan L. Menchinger Years ago, several mentors warned me against writing a biography. “Don’t do it,” they said. “You will get bogged down in the details and life-story.” I…
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Secularities. Freethinkers in the Context of National Movements and the Rise of Nation States in Europe, 1789–1920s
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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 “Secularities. Freethinkers in the Context of National…
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“The Russian Position on Climate Change Matters” – 5in10 with Benjamin Beuerle
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Benjamin Beuerle is currently a research fellow at the German Historical Institute Moscow. He holds a PhD from Humboldt University (Berlin) where he graduated in 2014 with a study on…
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In the Shadow of World Literature: Sites of Reading in Colonial Egypt – From Literary Artifacts to Reading Cultures
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by Michael Allan When I first set out to write In the Shadow of World Literature, I had every intention of exploring the place of Arabic literary traditions in…
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Whales in the Congo River? Boats, Names and Bureaucratic Norms on Congo’s Inland Waterways
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By Peter Lambertz (IHA-CREPOS, Dakar) In the DR Congo, most highways are made of water. At least half of Congo’s urban centres depend on the country’s extensive network of inland…
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Talking Periodization, or: Too Short a Blanket
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A comment on the Annual Conference “Chronologics: Periodisation in a Global Context”, Berlin, 7-9 December 2017. by Lorenzo Andolfatto When the organizers of Chronologics asked Milinda and me if we…
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“I have remained ambivalent towards polished narratives” – 5in10 with Pascale Ghazaleh
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Pascale Ghazaleh is an Associate Professor of History at the American University in Cairo. She specializes in Ottoman history and 19th-century Egypt. She received her PhD in History from the…
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Periodization as Mastery, Periodization as Resistance
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A Report of the Annual Conference 2017 “Chronologics: Periodisation in a Global Context” by Milinda Banerjee What are the ‘prime motors’ which drive schemes of periodization? The ambition of the…
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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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“Universities are institutions in which a society articulates its collective worldview“ – 5in10 with Jonathan Kriener
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Jonathan Kriener joined the Orient-Institut Beirut in October 2015 as research associate. He graduated with a doctoral degree in Oriental Studies from Ruhr University Bochum. In his thesis, he explored…
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The Unmaking of the Arab Intellectual: An Interview with Zeina G. Halabi
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Zeina G. Halabi is Assistant Professor of Arabic Literature at the American University of Beirut. From April 2018, she will be a EUME fellow at the Forum Transregionale Studien. During…