Claudia Roesch (Picture: private) Claudia Roesch is a historian of 20th century American history, specializing in the history of family. Her fields of interest include the history of transatlantic exchanges,…
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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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Negotiating Asylum and Accommodation – Migrants, Refugees and Host Societies
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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 “Negotiating asylum and accommodation – Migrants, refugees…
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Annual Conference: Knowledge and Society in Times of Upheaval
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On 20-21 November 2018, the Annual Conference 2018 of the Forum Transregionale Studien and the Max Weber Stiftung, “Knowledge and Society in Times of Upheaval”, will take place at the…
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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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Von Grenzen, Zugängen und Standorten: Annäherungen an die Globalgeschichte auf dem Historiker*innentag
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Vom 25.-28. September versammelten sich unter dem Titel „Gespaltene Gesellschaften“ Historikerinnen und Historiker in Münster. Zu diesem Anlass war die Positionierung der Globalgeschichte innerhalb der Geschichtswissenschaften das Thema zweier großer…
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Revisiting Archive in the Aftermath of Revolution
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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 symposium, Revisiting Archive in the Aftermath of Revolution,…
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Sense and Essence. Heritage and the Cultural Construction of the Real
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By Birgit Meyer and Mattijs van de Port The past is present in the present in many ways and shapes, from barely marked traces to cherished treasures. In this spectrum,…
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Celebrating One Year GHI West in Berkeley
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The GHI Washington’s Pacific Regional Office has quickly established itself as trans-regional hub for historical research and cooperation Background and Structure Due to its pivotal role in global academia…
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Book Review: Carola Lentz and David Lowe, Remembering Independence
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By Katrin Bromber, Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient Lentz, Carola; Lowe, David: Remembering Independence (Remembering the Modern World, vol. 6), London, New York: Routledge 2018, ISBN 978-1-138-90573-3, pp. 244. Remembering independence is…
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Exile and Academic Freedom Today
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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 Exile and Academic Freedom Today,“ which will…
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“Islam” as an Epistemic Field: Imperial Entanglements and Orientalism in the German-Speaking World since 1870
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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 „“Islam“ as an Epistemic Field: Imperial Entanglements and Orientalism in the German-Speaking World since 1870″ which will take place on October 11-12 2018 in Berlin. The conference is a collaboration of the Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient Berlin (Research Cluster „Trajectories of Lives and Knowledge”) and the Freie Universität Berlin.
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Andreas Eckert zur Ozeanischen Geschichte
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Andreas Eckert, Professor für die Geschichte Afrikas an der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin und Mitglied des Vorstands des Forums Transregionale Studien, kommentierte kürzlich in der Frankfurter Allgemeinen Zeitung die Zusammenhänge zwischen…
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“I Aim to Ask Big Questions: About Inequality, Injustice, and Power Structures” — 5in10 with Juhi Tyagi
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Juhi Tyagi (Picture: private) Juhi Tyagi has a PhD in Sociology from Stony Brook University, New York where she worked on resilience in armed movements. She is currently a Marie…
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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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WeberWorldCafé: “Transoceanic Cultures: The Sea in Past and Present”
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October 26, 2018 from 2:30 to 6:00pm, Cluster „Asia and Europe in a Global Context“, Voßstr. 2, 69115 Heidelberg To participate, please register your name via wwc@maxweberstiftung.de Oceans are key arenas…
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Criticisms of Democracy, Authoritarianism and Populism in Europe: Continuities and Disruptions from the Interwar Period Until Today
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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 “Criticisms of democracy, authoritarianism and populism in …
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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…