By Salwa Benaissa Mona Kareem is the author of three poetry collections in Arabic, a translator, and a literary scholar whose research is offering new critical perspectives on feminist novels in…
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“Rethinking Ukrainian Studies”: Interview with Viktoria Sereda
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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 young researchers from…
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Covering Iran: Leftist Continuities and Discontinuities, from Propaganda to PR
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By Arash Davari A significant portion of those involved in the secularist left movement of the 1979 Revolution in Iran ended up living, and raising children, outside of Iran. If…
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Healing Hands: Sickness, Healthcare, and Remedies from the Colonial Period to Today – Interview with Dorit Brixius and Nayeli Urquiza
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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 “Healing Hands: Sickness, Healthcare, and Remedies from…
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German Heritage in Letters: Understanding knowledge transfers by migrants and their networks
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German Heritage in Letters is a project to create a digital collection of German-language correspondence currently held in private hands, or by archives, libraries, museums, and other institutions. We talked to Atiba Pertilla, who is managing the “German Heritage in Letters” project at the GHI Washington.
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German Heritage in Letters: Understanding knowledge transfers by migrants and their networks
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German Heritage in Letters is a project to create a digital collection of German-language correspondence currently held in private hands, or by archives, libraries, museums, and other institutions. We talked to Atiba Pertilla, who is managing the “German Heritage in Letters” project at the GHI Washington.
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Workshop Report: “Social Disappearance. Explorations around a travelling concept from Latin America to Eastern Europe”
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By Estela Schindel and Gabriel Gatti From 7th to 8th of February 2019, the Exploratory Workshop “Social Disappearance: Explorations Around a Travelling Concept from Latin America to Eastern Europe” was…
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‘Pickled’ infrastructure and connectivity: Locating community engagement in Northeast India’s infrastructural transformation
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The local communities remain trapped between the interplay of the past developmental lag of the region and the current development impetus. By Mirza Zulfiqur Rahman ‘Pickled’ infrastructure and connectivity in…
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Conference Report: “Rethinking Ukrainian Studies: Locally, Regionally, Transnationally”
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By Antonina Rybka On 16–17 May, Frankfurt an der Oder, a city on the German-Polish border, welcomed international scholars, young researchers and students to the Prisma Ukraïna Conference Rethinking Ukrainian…
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Die Nanking Tagebücher John Rabes – Historische Quellen im multilingualen Kontext
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Als japanische Truppen im Herbst 1937 auf die chinesische Hauptstadt Nanking vorrückten, entschied sich der deutsche Siemens-Repräsentant John Rabe (1882-1950) nicht zu flüchten, sondern in Nanking zu bleiben und leitete für einige Monate die Flüchtlingszone der Stadt.
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Globalgeschichte in der Konsolidierungsphase
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Die Globalgeschichte hat in den letzten zwei Jahrzehnten einen wahren Boom erlebt. Mit ihrer Verankerung in Lehrplänen und Institutsstrukturen verfestigen sich die Konturen des Feldes zunehmend. Globalhistorikerinnen und -historiker müssen vermehrt über ihr Verhältnis zu anderen Forschungsbereichen nachdenken.
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Colonialism and Islam: German and British Rule in West Africa (1900–1914)
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By Sebastian Gottschalk. For almost two decades, Europe’s relationship with Islam has been one of the most discussed subjects in academic debates and public discourse alike. However, even though the…
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How is World Literature Pedagogy for the Public?
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By May Hawas Politicising World Literature: Egypt between Pedagogy and the Public grew out of two sets of convictions, each with their own contradictions. The first is the belief in…
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Freiheit, Gerechtigkeit und Gleichheit? Frauen und Prostitution im Pressediskurs des spätosmanischen Damaskus
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Nach der Jungtürkischen Revolution vom Sommer 1908 und der Wiedereinsetzung der osmanischen Verfassung von 1876 wurden Geschlechterbeziehungen und die Präsenz von Frauen im öffentlichen Raum zu einem der Brennpunkte für die Aushandlung der Bedeutung von Freiheit und Gleichheit.
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5in10 with Nora Kottmann
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Nora Kottmann is a Senior Research Fellow at the Max Weber Foundation’s German Institute for Japanese Studies (DIJ) since September 2018. At the DIJ she is currently working on her research project „(Re)Locating Intimacy – Spatial Perspectives on Personal Relationships in Contemporary Japan“.
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Green was the Name of my Civilization: Turkish Islamism in the Late 1970s
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By Jan-Markus Vömel In 1974, a short piece of vivid prose entitled “Green was the Name of my Civilization” appeared in the Milli Gazete (National Gazette), the main organ of…
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Migration and Racism in the United States and Germany in the Twentieth Century
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The workshop “Migration and Racism in the United States and Germany in the Twentieth Century” will take place on April 23-24, 2020 at the German Historical Institute Washington. We talked with the conveners, Elisabeth Engel and Maria Alexopoulou about the upcoming event.
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An Era of Value Change. The Seventies in Europe
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In March the conference „An Era of Value Change. The Seventies in Europe“ took place at the Max Weber Foundation’s German Historical Institute in London. We have talked to Fiammetta Balestracci, one of the conveners, about the proceedings and results of the conference.
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“Literature has persistently been all that I’ve loved” – 5in10 with Mona Kareem
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Mona Kareem earned her PhD in Comparative Literature from The State University of New York Binghamton in 2018. She is the author of three poetry collections and two book-length translations….
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Verlieben, verloren, vergessen, verzeihen. Frauenbriefe aus den Londoner Prize Papers
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1793. In Frankreich ist es das zweite Jahr der Republik entsprechend der neuen Zeitrechnung der Revolution und der Beginn der Schreckensherrschaft…
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Taking Refuge: Weaving Memory and History in Comics – An Interview with Zeina Abirached
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In this interview the celebrated Lebanese comics artist and illustrator Zeina Abirached talks with Rasha Chatta (EUME Fellow 2017–19) about the sources of inspiration for her work. Beirut has been…
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Women and the Transregional Circulation of Knowledge, from 1800 to 1950 – Interview with Heike Liebau, Tika Ramadhini and Thiago Pinto Barbosa
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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 “Women and the Transregional Circulation of Knowledge,…
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War and Revolution in the Caribbean – The Lesser Antilles, 1789–1815
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For the last twenty years, scholarship on the Age of Revolutions in the Caribbean has been booming. The focus of this scholarly attention lies on the Haitian Revolution (1791–1804), the only successful slave rebellion in world history.
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Omnia El Shakry: Psychoanalysis and the Imaginary – Translating Freud in Postcolonial Egypt
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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” took place in Berlin. It was organized by…
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“I found myself drawn to history in search of an answer”—5in10 with Nir Shafir
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Nir Shafir is a historian of the early modern Ottoman Empire. His research explores how shifts in material culture and religious practice shaped the intellectual and scientific life of the…
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Nordafrika als europäische Migrationsressource – Interview mit Leila El Houssi
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Leila El Houssi hat in Neuester Geschichte an der Universität Pisa promoviert. Sie ist Lehrbeauftragte für Geschichte der islamischen Staaten an der Universität Florenz und war im Herbst 2018 Postdoc-Stipendiatin am Deutschen Historischen Institut in Rom.
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Slavery’s Past and Present: Challenges to Academic Research and Museum Work in Germany and Britain
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The association of Great Britain with the transatlantic slave trade and the enslavement of people of African descent is a common one. However, this is very different in the case of the Holy Roman Empire (HRE).
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The Logic of Transformation – Media and the Constitution of the Political
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Interview with Ravi Vasudevan and Srirupa Roy, co-directors of the M. S. Merian – R. Tagore International Centre for Advanced Studies: “Metamorphoses of the Political: Comparative Perspectives on the Long Twentieth Century” (ICAS:MP) in New Delhi.
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“I was fascinated by all the places I could experience in a book” – 5in10 with Shailka Mishra
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Shailka Mishra holds a doctorate from the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi and is a post-doctoral fellow of Art Histories and Aesthetics Practices, a research program of the Berlin-based Forum…
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The Chaldeans: Politics and Identity in Iraq and the American Diaspora
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By Yasmeen Hanoosh. When articulating their identity in the United States, Iraqi Catholic immigrants and refugees often reference an association between their monumental history, the progress of modernity, and the…
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“Freedom: Home, Prison, Exile… and the World” – Yassin Al Haj Saleh in conversation with Nayera A. Soliman
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From 12th to 17th of March, the workshop “Post-2011 Arab Diaspora and Home-Making in Berlin” took place at the Werkstatt der Kulturen in Berlin-Neukölln. The workshop has been inspired by…
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“Why don’t we have Arabic theaters, cinemas or decent public libraries in Israel?” – 5in10 with Himmat Zoubi
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Himmat Zoubi (هِمَّت زعبي) is a Palestinian researcher and feminist activist. Her dissertation at the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Ben-Gurion University, entitled “The Case of Haifa during the Israeli…
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Entangling the Pacific & Atlantic Worlds: Past & Present
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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 “Entangling the Pacific & Atlantic Worlds: Past &…
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“Authoritarian regimes apply the epithet ‘historic’ to every simple policy.” Interview with Burak Onaran
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Burak Onaran is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at Mimar Sinan Güzel Sanatlar University, Istanbul. He received his PhD in History from the EHESS, Paris. His research interests…
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Cape Verde and the Atlantic: Crossroads of People, Goods and Capital Investments (1460–1610)
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By Lesley Braun A report of the workshop, “Cape Verde and the Atlantic: Crossroads of People, Goods and Capital Investments (1460–1610)”, held in Cidade Velha, Cape Verde, on January 28–29th,…
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Conference Report: “The Global Power of Private Museums: Arts and Publics – States and Markets”
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By Nathalie Okpu A Report of the International Symposium, „The Global Power of Private Museums: Arts and Publics – States and Markets„, at the TU Berlin and the Forum Transregionale…
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From the Ruins of Preservation: A Symposium on Rethinking Heritage Through Counter-Archives
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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 event “‘From the Ruins of Preservation’: A symposium…
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Transnational Commercial Surrogacy and the (Un)Making of Kin in India
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By Anindita Majumdar Once identified as an emerging transnational industry, the commercial surrogacy arrangement in India was more than mere commerce. It also involved the birth of kin and relationships…
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Psychoanalysis and the Imaginary: Translating Freud in Postcolonial Egypt — Interview with Omnia El Shakry
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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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The Art Salon in the Arab Region
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By Nadia von Maltzahn and Monique Bellan The Art Salon in the Arab Region: Politics of Taste Making discusses the emergence and role of the art salon in the Arab…