This article is part of the TRAFO series Emerging Topics. Insights from ‘Behind the Scenes’. Today, we put the spotlight on the international conference “Chronopolitics: Time of Politics, Politics of…
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„I have always been interested in environmental topics“ – 5in10 with Nicole Wiederroth
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Nicole Wiederroth received her PhD in Modern and Contemporary History at the University of Duisburg-Essen. In her thesis, she analysed the reproduction and legitimisation of the colonial order in South…
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Turkish Germans in the Federal Republic of Germany: Immigration, Space, and Belonging, 1961-1990
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By Sarah Thomsen Vierra The decades following the end of the Second World War proved a particularly dynamic period of migration across the globe, and the Federal Republic of Germany,…
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Drink and Power. Alcohol and the Making of Illiberal Regimes in the Long 20th 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 workshop “Drink and Power. Alcohol and the Making of…
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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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Rethinking Refuge: Processes of refuge seeking in 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 workshop, “Rethinking Refuge: Processes of refuge seeking in Africa…
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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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Provincializing European Jewry: R. Yosef Hayyim of Baghdad and Ottoman Modernity – Interview with Avi-ram Tzoreff
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Avi-ram Tzoreff is a EUME Fellow at the Berlin-based Forum Transregionale Studienin 2018-19. He wrote a dissertation entitled Jewish-Arab Coexistence against the Secular Discourse: Theology, Politics and Literature in the…
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De-centering the Early Modern French Empire – Décentrer l’histoire de l’empire colonial français à l’époque moderne
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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 “De-centering the Early Modern French Empire…
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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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“I was and still am particularly interested in the mobility of people and texts” – 5in10 with Christopher Bahl
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Christopher Bahl received his PhD in history from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London in September 2018 with a thesis on Histories of Circulation –…
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Annual Conference Talk: Expert Knowledge on Migration in the Public Arena: How to Get Your Message Through?
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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 place in Berlin….
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Why China Did Not Have a Renaissance – And Why that Matters
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By Thomas Maissen and Barbara Mittler The r/Renaissance is often characterized as a particular epoch in European history and an important element in the traditional narrative of the rise of the West….
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Book Review: The Medieval Invention of Travel
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By William Kynan-Wilson Shayne Aaron Legassie, The Medieval Invention of Travel (Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2017) Recent years have seen a series of studies concerning medieval…
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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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Professional Managerial Class Liberalism and Global Migration
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A Response to “Migration and Mobility” at the Annual Conference of the Forum Transregionale Studien and the Max Weber Stiftung, „Knowledge and Society in Times of Upheaval“ (Berlin, November 20-21,…
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Restitution of Art Objects: Bringing in African Perspectives
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By Wazi Apoh and Andreas Mehler The debate on the restitution of colonially-‘acquired’ art objects from Africa is boiling in Paris and Berlin, but in other quarters of the world it…
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Leaks, Hacks, and Scandals: Arab Culture in the Digital Age
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By Tarek El-Ariss When looking at the Arab world since 2010, we experience both exhilaration and complete despair. Whereas the Arab uprisings initially brought about great hope with the initial…
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Annual Conference Talk: Nataliya Gumenyiuk, Regaining Public Trust in Times of Populism. Lessons from Ukraine
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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 conference “Knowledge and Society…
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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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Social Disappearance: Explorations Around a Travelling Concept from Latin America to Eastern Europe
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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 „Social Disappearance: Explorations Around a Travelling Concept from…
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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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„I learned to become a person who excavates the past in order to understand the present“ – 5in10 with Diana Abbani
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Diana Abbani received her PhD in Arabic studies from the Sorbonne University with a dissertation entitled, “Music and Society in Beirut during the Nahḍa Period”. She holds an MA in…
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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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Lebendiger Ozean – Ein Bericht vom WeberWorldCafé „Transoceanic Cultures“
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Von Anna Sawerthal Am 26. Oktober fand in Heidelberg das zehnte WeberWorldCafé statt. Die Jubiläums-Ausgabe des innovativen Formats stand ganz im Zeichen des Meeres: „The Sea in Past and Present“….
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Exploring Networks of Transnational Surrogacy
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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 Explorative Workshop, „Exploring Networks of Transnational Surrogacy„, which…
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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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Conference Report “Reconfigurations and Connectivities of the MENA Region: Contextualizing Upheavals, Transformations, and Lasting Crises”
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By Igor Johannsen A report of the Final Conference of the Research Network “Re-Configurations – History, Remembrance and Transformation Processes in the Middle East and North Africa” at the Center…
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WeberWorldCafé: „Changing Neighbourhoods“
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January 29, 2019 from 2:30 to 6:00pm Werkstatt der Kulturen Wissmannstr. 32, 12049 Berlin To participate, please register your name via wwc@maxweberstiftung.de Neighbourhood relations differ from other kinds of relations…
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Annual Conference 2018 Panel: „Migration and Mobility“
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A report from the panel „Migration and Mobility“ at the Annual Conference of the Forum Transregionale Studien and the Max Weber Stiftung: „Knowledge and Society in Times of Upheaval“, Berlin, November 20-21st, 2018….
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The Holocaust and the Nakba: Intersecting Traumas
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By Bashir Bashir and Amos Goldberg The Holocaust and the Nakba were very painful and traumatic events in Jewish and Palestinian history. Both events, which differ in nature and in…
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„In my situation as a Ukrainian, mobility means not only exchange, but also access to knowledge as such“ – 5in10 with Kateryna Mishchenko
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Kateryna Mishchenko is a writer, curator and publisher. She was the editor of Prostory, a magazine on art, literature and social critique. She is co-founder and editor of the Ukrainian publishing…
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Jenseits etablierter Meta-Geographien: Der Nahe Osten und Nordafrika in transregionaler Perspektive
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Von Steffen Wippel Im Zuge des „spatial turn” beschäftigen sich die Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften zunehmend mit den räumlichen Dimensionen politischer, wirtschaftlicher, sozialer und kultureller Phänomene. Dabei dekonstruieren kritische Positionen nach…
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Power in Medicine: Interrogating the Place of Medical Knowledge in the Modern Middle East
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The workshop “Power in Medicine: Interrogating the Place of Medical Knowledge in the Modern Middle East” is organized by Edna Bonhomme (MPIWG), Shehab Ismail, (MPIWG) and Lamia Moghnieh (AUB, EUME)….
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The French Language in Russia: A Social, Political, Cultural, and Literary History
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By Gesine Argent Many accounts of life in the Russian empire, especially the empire in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, express the idea that French was a universal language for…
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Workshop Report: Out of the Archives … New Archival Practices: Towards Alternative Historiographies, Voices, and Spaces
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By Rasha Chatta, Pascale Ghazaleh, Lamia Moghnieh, and Alia Mossallam From 12 to 14 July 2018, the Exploratory Workshop “Out of the Archives … New Archival Practices: Towards Alternative Historiographies,…
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Interview with Omar Al-Ghazzi
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On November 2o 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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Book Review: Despite Cultures. Early Soviet Rule in Tajikistan
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By Jeff Sahadeo, Department of Political Science, Carleton University, Ottawa Kassymbekova, Botakoz: Despite Cultures. Early Soviet Rule in Tajikistan, Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press 2016, ISBN 978-0-8229-6419-3, pp. 296. This review was first…
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Early Medieval Southern Italy in Transregional Perspective
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By Kordula Wolf When the Aghlabids and later Kalbids were ruling the emirate in Sicily (ca. 831–1091), the island was not a space separated from the southern part of the Italian peninsula. Therefore, the…