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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
by Heraldica Nova •
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…
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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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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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„Speaking with witnesses is the most fascinating aspect of my research“ – 5in10 with Anja Blanke
by Forum Transregionale Studien •
Anja Blanke is a scholar of the 20th-century Chinese history, specializing in the history and memories of campaigns during the Mao-era, such as the Anti-Rightist Campaign (1957-58) or the Cultural Revolution…
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Armoiries et insignes d’Ezzelino da Romano, tyran de Padoue: une équivoque qui a la vie dure
by Patrizia Dal Zotto •
Fig. 1: Francesco Antonibon (1809-1883), Ezzelino siégeant en cour de justice, huile sur toile, Musée de Bassano del Grappa (avec l’aimable autorisation de MBA ,Musei Biblioteca Archivio di Bassano del Grappa. Reproduction interdite par quelque moyen q…
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Von Grenzen, Zugängen und Standorten: Annäherungen an die Globalgeschichte auf dem Historiker*innentag
by Johanna Beamish •
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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“Dictionary of British Arms. Medieval Ordinary” (4 vols) available in Open Access
by Heraldica Nova •
The four volumes of the Dictionary are purchasable in print at Boydell & Brewer (photo: Boydell & Brewer) In four volumes, the Dictionary of British arms gathers the known coats of arms from the British Isles from the beginning of heraldry up t…
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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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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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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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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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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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From History to Memory
by Forum Transregionale Studien •
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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When Threads Wear Thin: The West German Radical Left and Palestinian Groups at the End of the 1970s
by Forum Transregionale Studien •
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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Family History as Family Enterprise?
by Forum Transregionale Studien •
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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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…