Vom 10.12. bis 12.12.2019 findet an der Europa-Universität Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder) der Workshop: “History Goes Pop? On the Popularization of the Past in Eastern European Cultures” statt – in Kooperation mit dem Leibniz-Zentrum für Kultur- und Literaturforschung Interessierte sind herzlich … Continue reading →
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Die Transnationale Forschungsgruppe „Die Bürokratisierung afrikanischer Gesellschaften“ in Dakar
by Max Weber Stiftung •
Dakar (Senegal) ist seit 2017 Standort der von der Max Weber Stiftung geförderten Transnationalen Forschungsgruppe (TFG) „Die Bürokratisierung afrikanischer Gesellschaften“. In diesem Beitrag stellt Susann Baller die Forschungsschwerpunkte der Gruppe vor.
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Der Sound der Wende. Ein Gespräch mit Ilko-Sascha Kowalczuk (Audio)
by Bodo Mrozek •
Als die Mauer fiel, war Ilko-Sascha Kowalczuk 22 Jahre alt. Als Mitglied der Bürgerbewegung durfte er in der DDR nicht studieren. Stattdessen absolvierte er eine Lehre als Baufacharbeiter und arbeitete als Pförtner. Nach 1989 studierte er an der Humboldt-Universität … Continue reading →
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Mehr als nur die halbe Miete – Hilf dem Berliner Archiv der Jugendkulturen in Kreuzberg zu bleiben
by Daniel Schneider •
Das Archiv der Jugendkulturen ist das Gedächtnis der Szenen, von Science-Fiction über Gothic und Graffiti bis hin zu Punk, Riot Grrrl und Techno. Staatliche Einrichtungen sammeln diese widerständigen Geschichten kaum, deshalb ist ein selbstorganisiertes Archiv wie unseres einmalig. Wir sind … Continue reading →
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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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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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Nach drüben – Oststars wechseln die Seiten. Ein Film von Michael Rauhut & Tom Franke
by Michael Rauhut •
Flucht und Ausreise spiegelten die politischen Verhältnisse der DDR, sie waren Indizien für eine andauernde Sehnsucht nach Freiheit und Mündigkeit. Mehr als fünf Millionen Menschen verließen zwischen 1949 und 1990 die DDR in Richtung Westen. Nachdem der Bau der Mauer … Continue reading →
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Von “Anywheres” und “Somewheres”. Das Feindbild der “kosmopolitischen Eliten” ist ein ahistorisches Klischee
by Bodo Mrozek •
(Der nachfolgende Beitrag kann hier in einer Audioversion gehört werden.) „Man muss die Ängste und Sorgen der AfD-Wähler ernst nehmen.“ Kaum ein Satz erklingt in diesen Tagen häufiger und … Continue reading →
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Heraldica Nova 2019-10-07 16:32:38
by paulfox •
Papers from Coat of Arms no.235 ( 2018) now available online on the Heraldry Society website visit www.theheraldrysociety.com ARTICLES The heraldry and badges of King Richard II at Westminster Hall, Palace of Westminster. By D. Mark Collins. King Ric…
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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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SUBPROJECT ON ARMORIALS IN MEDIEVAL MANUSCRIPTS REACHES ITS CONCLUSION
by Heraldica Nova •
This week, Elmar Hofman handed in his dissertation on armorials in Dutch, German and French manuscripts from the thirteenth to the early sixteenth centuries, a subproject of the “Performanz der Wappen” research project. In this dissertation, Hofman pur…
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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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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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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…
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The Feminist Novel is on the Rise in the Arab Gulf: An Interview with Mona Kareem
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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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German Heritage in Letters: Understanding knowledge transfers by migrants and their networks
by Max Weber Stiftung •
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
by Max Weber Stiftung •
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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‘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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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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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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Neuerscheinung: >Jugend — Pop — Kultur. Eine transnationale Geschichte<
by Bodo Mrozek •
Scheppernde Sounds, lautes Benehmen und schrille Mode: Das Vokabular, mit dem Zeitgenossen Mitte des 20. Jahrhunderts eine neue Jugendszene beschrieben, markiert einen Kulturbruch. Ästhetische Konflikte kulminierten in Straßenkrawallen, Polizeimaßnahmen und Zensurgesetzen. Zugleich etablierten Tourneen, Piratensender und Fanclubs grenzüberschreitend neue Inhalte. … Continue reading →
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The Logic of Transformation – Media and the Constitution of the Political
by Max Weber Stiftung •
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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[CfP:] 2nd International Congress about Heraldry – 2ème Congrès International sur l’Héraldique – October 5, 2019 (invitation and program)
by Maurizio Carlo Alberto Gorra •
The program of the 2nd International Congress on Heraldry is now available. The conference will take place in the Palazzo Pretorio, Buggiano (Pistoia – Italie), on Saturday 5 October 2019. See the full programme on the poster below. L’argom…
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New Website for the Study of Medieval Badges
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Professor Ann Marie Rasmussen (University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada) has produced a website on medieval badges with the support of an Insight Grant from the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada. The website shares knowledge about…
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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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“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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Birgit Meyer: „Sozial- und Geisteswissenschaften und die Welt“
by Forum Transregionale Studien •
Birgit Meyers Keynote „Towards New Synergies: Social Sciences & Humanities and the World“ (Originaltitel des Vortrages), gehalten auf der Synergy Conference 2019 der Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) am…
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La Cour amoureuse, dite de Charles VI : héraldique, politique, société et culture au XVe siècle
by Axe III •
Conférence d’Hélène Loyau et Clara Bozzolo à la Société française d’héraldique et de sigillographie à l’occasion de la sortie du t. IV de l’Armorial de la Cour amoureuse, Paris, Le Léopard d’or. Paris, Centre d’accue…
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Workshop: “Post-2011 Arab Diasporas and Home-Making in Berlin”
by Forum Transregionale Studien •
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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“I have always been intrigued by questions of norm and difference, majority and minority.” – 5in10 with Malak Labib
by Forum Transregionale Studien •
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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“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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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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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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Three Dynasties, One Armorial: Cranachs, Wettins and Habsburgs in Manchester, John Rylands Library, German MS. 2
by Ben Pope •
Manchester’s John Rylands Library is the custodian of a high-quality sixteenth-century German armorial (available online) which has only recently been studied in detail for the first time. In an article for the latest issue of the Bulletin of the John …
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Capturing the Zeitgeist of Infrastructure
by Forum Transregionale Studien •
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
by Forum Transregionale Studien •
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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„There has never been deregulation“. Interview with Nicole Mayer-Ahuja
by Forum Transregionale Studien •
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…