Part of the TRAFO series “Reconstructing Neighborhoods of War” By Zoya Masoud Heritage experts around the globe are continuously highlighting the importance of safeguarding the architecture of Aleppo, as one…
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“The name of the game was globalization of goods, services and finance” and India was increasingly part of it – Interview with Michael Gadbaw
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Stefan Tetzlaff, social and economic historian and former research fellow at the German Historical Institute Washington, had the chance to interview Michael Gadbaw, former vice-president and Senior Counsel of General Electric (1990-2008) about his involvement with India.
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Youth Teams and Reconstruction
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Part of the TRAFO series “Reconstructing Neighborhoods of War” By Kefah Ahmed M. Najjar Why youth teams? The battles for the liberation of Mosul ended on 10 July 2017, when…
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Remapping Our Mindset Towards a Transregional and Pluralistic Outlook
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By Birgit Meyer Birgit Meyer is Professor of Religious Studies at Utrecht University. Her research focuses, among other things, on the relationship between religion and society in the present. Trained as…
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Mapping Discourse in R.H. Dana’s “Two Years Before the Mast”
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By Steffen Wöll When Richard Henry Dana Jr. visited San Francisco in 1859 after an absence of almost a quarter of a century, he was informed that, unbeknownst to him,…
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The ‘Here’ and ‘Elsewhere’ in World Literature: Interview with Bodhisattva Kar
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On 11-20 July 2019, the Transregional Academy “Minor/Small Literature(s). Perspectives on World Literature from Elsewhere” took place in Berlin. The Academy was organised by the Forum Transregionale Studien and the…
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“I am convinced that academic mobility is crucial for innovative research” – 5in10 with Barbara Geilhorn
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Barbara Geilhorn is a senior researcher at the Max Weber Foundation’s German Institute for Japanese Studies (DIJ) Tokyo. Before joining the DIJ, Barbara was a JSPS postdoctoral researcher based at…
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Baghdad Neighborhoods: Processes of Resilience against the Internally-reflected Conflict of 2006–2008
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Part of the TRAFO series “Reconstructing Neighborhoods of War” By Namariq Al-Rawi Foucault described war as a force for generating and promoting new ways of living, and such interventions require…
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“When you start working on a topic, you feel like swimming in an ocean, and without a boat” – 5in10 with Gülşah Başkavak
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Gülşah Başkavak is a sociologist, specializing in sociology of medicine and sociology of work. She received her PhD in Sociology from the Middle East Technical University (METU) in Ankara, with…
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War Emigration and its Impact on Post-War Reconstruction of Neighborhoods: A Case Study of Khorramshahr after the Iran-Iraq War
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Part of the TRAFO series “Reconstructing Neighborhoods of War” By Mohammad Hassan Khani Wars force people to move from their homeland and to settle in new places far from the…
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Workshop Report: Women and the Transregional Circulation of Knowledge, 1800–1950
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By Tika Ramadhini and Thiago Pinto Barbosa (ZMO) From 20 to 22 June 2019, the Explorative Workshop “Women and the Transregional Circulation of Knowledge, from 1800 to 1950” was held…
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Regionalism without Regions: Reconceptualizing Ukraine’s Heterogeneity
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By Oksana Myshlovska, Graduate Institute Geneva / University of Bern Ukraine has become a fascinating case study for the investigation of the phenomenon of regionalism. In the last decades, a…
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Mapping/Tracing National Literature without a Nation-state: Interview with Refqa Abu-Remaileh
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Michael Allan interviewed Refqa Abu-Remaileh on her current project in the framework of the Transregional Academy “Minor/Small Literature(s). Perspectives on World Literature from Elsewhere”, which was held in Berlin on 11-20 July 2019….
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Beyond the Atomic Bombing: The Revival of Hiroshima’s Neighborhoods
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Part of the TRAFO series “Reconstructing Neighborhoods of War” By Allam Al-Kazei More than seven decades have passed since the atomic bombing of Hiroshima in 1945. When people look back…
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“More Beautiful than Ever Before!” Neighborhood Rebuilding in Divided Germany as Political Propaganda during the Cold War
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Part of the TRAFO series “Reconstructing Neighborhoods of War” By Paul Sigel Neighborhood Rebuilding in postwar Germany was not only confronted with the challenge of reconstruction of housing, infrastructure, industry…
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Electric News in Colonial Algeria
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By Arthur Asseraf The news you read may change every day, but the system that underlies it has not changed much since its emergence in the 19th century. Then, the…
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Global Royal Families: Concepts, Cultures, and Networks of International Monarchy, 1800-2020
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The conference „Global Royal Families: Concepts, Cultures, and Networks of International Monarchy, 1800-2020“ focuses on the global engagements of Western and non-Western monarchies. We talked to Falko Schnicke. He is one of the conveners of the upcoming conference at the German Historical Institute London.
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Postcolonial Critique: Latin American and Eastern European Perspectivations – Interview with Clara Frysztacka, Jennifer Ramme and Pablo Valdivia
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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 “Postcolonial Critique: Latin American and Eastern European…
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The Reconstruction of Warsaw: Between Abhorrence and Acceptance
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Part of the TRAFO series “Reconstructing Neighborhoods of War” By Piotr Korduba The post-war reconstruction of Warsaw was an unprecedented undertaking. As Jarosław Trybus, director of the Warsaw Museum, aptly…
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WeberWorldCafé: Legacies of Colonialism in East Central Europe – Race, Scholarship and Politics
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October 15th, 2:30 to 6:00 pm, at the Museum am Rothenbaum – Kulturen und Künste der Welt, Rothenbaumchaussee 64, 20148 Hamburg. To participate, please register your name via wwc@maxweberstiftung.de Not…
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Neighbors at War in 1975-77 Beirut
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Part of the TRAFO series “Reconstructing Neighborhoods of War” By Mazen Haidar When it comes to retracing the urban history of Beirut, the long-established narrative often considers the war as…
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Fighting Under the Same Banner: Memories from the Ottoman Theater of the Great War
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Personal narratives have recently begun to attract great interest among military and social historians of the Middle East in their work on the wars from 1912 until 1918. We talked with one of the conveners, Richard Wittmann, about the upcoming conference „Fighting Under the Same Banner: Memories from the Ottoman Theater of the Great War“.
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Not Just Neo-Liberalism: Spontaneous Settlement and Violent Conflict in Homs, Syria
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Part of the TRAFO series “Reconstructing Neighborhoods of War” By Kevin Mazur. Predatory capitalism and central authorities’ acts of misrule feature prominently in accounts of contestation, violence, and reconstruction in…
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Book Review: Ottoman Children and Youth during World War I
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By Karen Vallgårda Nazan Maksudyan, Ottoman Children and Youth during World War I, New York: Syracuse University Press, 2019. Series: Contemporary Issues in the Middle East. 211 pages. ISBN: 9780815636458…
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„Die Bergarbeiter dachten: wenn der Markt kommt, dann werden die Fabriken den Arbeitern gehören“ – Interview mit Kyrylo Tkachenko
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Kyrylo Tkachenko ist Doktorand an der Europa-Universität Viadrina und Stipendiat des trajectories-of-change-Programms der Zeit Stiftung Ebelin und Gerd Bucerius. Er beschäftigt sich mit den Protesten der ukrainischen Bergarbeiter zwischen 1989…
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Past Imperfect, Future Tense: Writing People’s Histories in the Middle East Today
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With Pascale Ghazaleh’s “Past Imperfect, Future Tense: Writing People’s Histories in the Middle East Today”, the fifth volume of the “Essays of the Forum Transregionale Studien” is now available open…
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The Importance of Being Earnest About Neighborhoods
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An Introduction to the TRAFO series “Reconstructing Neighborhoods of War” By Birgit Schäbler The blog series that is about to start with this contribution assembles the presentations of the 3-day…
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“When you work with objects that were globally translocated, mobility is crucial” – 5in10 with Anna-Carolin Augustin
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Anna-Carolin Augustin joined the German Historical Institute Washington as a research fellow in April 2019. Her main fields of interest are modern German-Jewish history and culture with an emphasis on…
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All Things Transregional? A Conversation about Transregional Research
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The contributions of the blog series »All Things Transregional?« are now available in an open access volume on perspectivia.net and in print. Scholars from various disciplines discuss about the issues,…
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‘Rethinking Ukrainian Studies’: Serhy Yekelchyk’s keynote lecture ‘Writing the history of revolution in the time of war’
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A report by Sophie Schmäing, Universität Gießen Struggles over the interpretation of historical events have always been a salient issue in independent Ukraine. Since the Maidan protests in 2013–14, the…
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“Hikes and pilgrimages to peaks and temples only increased my desire to learn more” – 5in10 with Nachiket Chanchani
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Nachiket Chanchani (Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 2012) is a tenured associate professor jointly appointed in the Department of the History of Art and in the Department of Asian Languages and…
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Postmodern Architecture and Political Change – Poland 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 conference “Postmodern Architecture and Political Change – Poland and Beyond” which will take place on September 12-14, 2019 at the German Historical Institute Warsaw. We talked with two of the conveners, Annika Wienert and Florian Urban, about the upcoming conference.
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Barbara Törnquist-Plewa’s and Rory Finnin’s Concluding Remarks at the ‘Rethinking Ukrainian Studies’ Conference
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On 16-17 May 2019, the Prisma Ukraïna conference ‘Rethinking Ukrainian Studies: Locally, Regionally, Transnationally’ took place at the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder) and Słubice. Ten junior researchers from…
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News from Germany: The Competition to Control World Communications, 1900–1945
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By Heidi Tworek Our current information environment seems unprecedented to many. Attempted Russian interference in the Brexit referendum and the 2016 US election still dominates headlines. Outlets like Al Jazeera,…
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Making Justice Visible: The Mediatization of the World War II War Crimes Trials
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The conference „Making Justice Visible: The Mediatization of the World War II War Crimes Trials“ will take place on September 25-26 at the Branch Office Vilnius of the German Historical Institute Warsaw. We talked with one of the conveners, Gintaré Malinauskaité about the upcoming conference.
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Multidirectional Memory? National Holocaust Memorials and (Post-)Colonial Legacies
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How do colonial history, the Second World War, and the Holocaust intersect in scholarship and/or wider public engagement? What is the relationship between these histories and diverse fields of study? The seminar series „Contested Histories“ dealt with these questions.
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Beyond Trauma? A Transregional Perspective on Trauma and Aesthetics
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By Stéphanie Benzaquen-Gautier and Afonso Dias Ramos. A report of the symposium, “Beyond Trauma? A Transregional Perspective on Trauma and Aesthetics”, held on 13–15 June 2019 in Berlin, and organised…
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From Collected to Contested: Die Zukunft von Museen nach der Rückführungsdebatte
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Wie ist mit den oftmals problematischen Provenienzen von Museumsobjekten aus ehemals kolonialisierten Ländern zu verfahren? Unter anderem damit beschäftigte sich das Seminar „From Collected to Contested: The Future of Museums after the Repatriation Debate“ am DHI London von dem David Irion berichtet.
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“Even history that happened centuries ago can cause problems for the people you are working with” – Interview with Naira Sahakyan
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This interview was conducted on 9th May 2019, during the workshop ”Knowledge, Politics and Publics: Conversations on the Role of the Academic, the Intellectual and the Writer in Times of…
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What is Global History?
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Krishan Kumar has recently written an article on the Times Literary Supplement entitled “What is Global History?”. In the article, Kumar reviews two recent publications – C.A. Bayly’s Remaking the…