By Bence Kocsev A couple of years ago, during one of his eye-opener lectures, Irish-American thinker James M. Skelly coined the term “recovering sociologist”. With this term, he tried to…
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Wie gestalten Empfehlungsschreiben transnationale soziale Netzwerke?
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Von Lisa Gerlach Ein gutes Empfehlungsschreiben kann das Zünglein an der Waage sein, wenn es darum geht, eine neue Stelle anzutreten. Das gilt nicht nur für die Universität und auch…
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Wie gestalten Empfehlungsschreiben transnationale soziale Netzwerke?
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Von Lisa Gerlach Ein gutes Empfehlungsschreiben kann das Zünglein an der Waage sein, wenn es darum geht, eine neue Stelle anzutreten. Das gilt nicht nur für die Universität und auch…
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Out of the Archives … New Archival Practices – Interview with Rasha Chatta, Pascale Ghazaleh, Lamia Moghnieh and Alia Mossallam
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The exploratory workshop “Out of the Archives … New Archival Practices: Towards Alternative Historiographies, Voices, and Spaces” is convened by Rasha Chatta, Pascale Ghazaleh, Lamia Moghnieh and Alia Mossallam and…
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The Forlorn Arab as Foil in the Curriculum of Postrevolutionary Iran
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By Shervin Malekzadeh As was the case for many of her neighbors, Iran’s path to salvation ran through the source of her perdition. The trauma of military defeat and the…
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”Islamic intellectual thought of the modern times can be described as already ‘Europeanized’” – Interview with Armina Omerika
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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 ”At Home: Jews and Muslims in Eastern Europe”….
Heraldica Nova
Zwischenstand und Ankündigungen [06/2018]
by Torsten Hiltmann •
Es ist einigen sicher nicht entgangen, dass unser Blog Heraldica nova in der letzten Zeit etwas verstummt ist. Dies liegt unter anderem daran, dass sich die erste Förderphase des „Performanz der Wappen“-Projektes langsam dem Ende nähert und wir uns – …
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Maras and the Darker Sides of Globalization
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By Marlon Carranza In 2006 Arjun Appadurai published his book Fear of Small Numbers: an Essay of the Geography of Anger, to evaluate “the darker sides of globalization” (p.3). Appadurai’s…
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Official History in Eastern Europe. Transregional Perspectives
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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 “Official History in Eastern Europe. Transregional Perspectives”…
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Global Capitalism from the South. The Mediterranean, Africa and the Rise of the Atlantic
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Mr. Taviani, your project is looking at the dynamics of capitalism from a historical perspective. You are focusing on two topics which are at the core of capitalism, the slave…
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The Disenchantment of the Left: Two Memories of the Palestinian Struggle
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By Jihane Sfeir Islamist leaders are often former liberationist or nationalist ideologues who after being disappointed by the failure of nationalism or Marxism, turn to Islam as a mobilizing force.[1]…
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When Financial Statecraft Goes to War: Western Sanctions and Russian Reactions
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By Sophie Lambroschini* The latest US round of sanctions hit Russian domestic markets like a missile strike early April: the effect was immediate and the conflagration unexpected. The announced ban…
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Global History of Knowledge from a Latin American Perspective: Overcoming the West-Rest Dichotomy
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By Frederik Schulze One of the key questions of the Global History debate is how to understand the relation between the so-called West and other world regions. Initially, Global History…
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Turning the Page: Reading 1979 in and through the Cultural Journal Mawaqif
by Forum Transregionale Studien •
By Yvonne Albers Years that Matter and the Phenomenology of the Periodical Form Those who study periodical culture (in the Middle East and elsewhere) know: The periodical form, generally, and…
PopHistory
Listening Again to Popular Music as History (CfA, Deadline: Sept. 2018)
by PAUL LONG •
Jeffrey H. Jackson and Stanley C. Pelkey open their collection, Music and History (subtitle ‘Bridging the Disciplines’, 2005) by asking: ‘Why haven’t historians and musicologists been talking to one another?’ They suggest that at the heart of this absence is … Continue reading →
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The Making and Unmaking of the Moments: From the 1979 Revolution to the Arab Spring
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By Behrooz Moazami The 1979 revolution in Iran is often identified as a pivotal moment in the Islamization of political and social movements in the Middle East, representing the forceful…
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“The migration of images, objects, commodities, and texts” – Interview with Andreas Beyer
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On May 11-12, 2018, the international research group “‘Bilderfahrzeuge’ – Aby Warburg’s Legacy and the Future of Iconology” will host a conference entitled “Images on the Move: Depots | Routes |…
Heraldica Nova
Digitale Heraldik. VolkswagenStiftung bewilligt Fortsetzung des „Performanz der Wappen“ Projektes
by Torsten Hiltmann •
Eine Mitteilung in eigener Sache: Bereits seit längerem arbeite ich ja daran, die neuen kulturhistorischen Ansätze zur mittelalterlichen Heraldik mit den Methoden der Digital Humanities zu verbinden und zu erweitern. Diese Bemühungen waren unter andere…
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Looking Back at the “1979 Moment” in the Middle East
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This article is part of the TRAFO Series “The ‘1979 Moment’ in the Middle East”. By Amir Moosavi On June 15-16, 2017, in the framework of Europe in the Middle…
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Keynote Lecture „Region, Nation, World Scale and the Problem of Periodisation“ by Sanjay Subrahmanyam
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From 7 to 9 December 2017, the Annual Conference 2017 “Chronologics: Periodisation in a Global Context” of the Forum Transregionale Studien and the Max Weber Stiftung took place at the…
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Globe, Region, and Periphery: The Spatialization of the American West in Nineteenth-Century US Literature
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by Steffen Wöll What kind of spatial imaginations and place-making processes can be identified in nineteenth-century American literature from and about the western peripheries? What is the relationship between local,…
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ENIGMA. Gregorianik, Religiosität, Popkultur
by Michael Fischer •
Der 1957 geborene Musikproduzent Michael Cretu ist wohl nicht nur musikalisch ein Musterbeispiel populärer Mittelalterrezeption. In einem Interview wurde er nämlich auf sein Projekt ENGIMA angesprochen. Dieses hätte „immer einen Hang zum Mittelalterlichen, sowohl musikalisch durch die anfängliche Verwendung von … Continue reading →
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In the Shadow of World Literature: Sites of Reading in Colonial Egypt – From Literary Artifacts to Reading Cultures
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by Michael Allan When I first set out to write In the Shadow of World Literature, I had every intention of exploring the place of Arabic literary traditions in…
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Whales in the Congo River? Boats, Names and Bureaucratic Norms on Congo’s Inland Waterways
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By Peter Lambertz (IHA-CREPOS, Dakar) In the DR Congo, most highways are made of water. At least half of Congo’s urban centres depend on the country’s extensive network of inland…
Heraldica Nova
Protected: Insignia seu clenodia regis et regni Poloniae
by Adam Żurek •
There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.
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Soviet Dormitories as a Prism for Interpreting Cultural Ties Between the Soviet Union and the World
by Forum Transregionale Studien •
A Workshop Report by Ewa Dabrowska and Margaret Litvin Student dormitories are a setting of numerous Soviet artworks and a quintessential “common place” of the post-Soviet collective imagination. In contrast…
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Conundrum Ruthenicum – Versuch einer Erhellung der ukrainischen Kalamität
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Von Philipp Ammon „Tschuesch, mij drusche, slawnij junatsche, jak Ukraina stogne i platsche“ – „vernimmst du, mein Freund, du ruhmreicher Recke, wie die Ukraine wehklagt und aufstöhnt“, intonierte in der…
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In the borderlands of war of eastern Ukraine
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Making borders by mapping needs and social practices. An overview of recent academic and NGO expertise on life along the Contact line by Sophie Lambroschini, Centre Marc Bloch (Berlin) …
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The Japanese Empire’s Enduring Vestiges. An Interview with Sherzod Muminov
by Forum Transregionale Studien •
On 13-14 December 2017, Sherzod Muminov participated in the Exploratory Workshop „The Axis Powers and Decolonisation: Debating Perspectives, Differences, and Entanglements of the End of Empire in Germany, Italy, and…
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Cosmopolitanism on the Move: Port Said around 1900
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By Valeska Huber, Freie Universität Berlin. Research on the Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean has stressed the importance of the opening of the Suez Canal as a transformative factor that…
Heraldica Nova
Heraldry is Vanity! Moral Criticism of Heraldic Commemoration in Germany – A European Phenomenon?
by Marcus Meer •
Medieval churches still abound in coats of arms depicted on tombs, epitaphs, windows, altarpieces and other commemorative devices. And of course it was not just knights, nobles, princes and kings that tried to preserve their memory by means of heraldry…
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Emotions as a Useful Category in Global Urban History
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by Joseph Ben Prestel Scholars frequently write about cities’ past as nationally or regionally specific stories. A variety of publications frame the history of urban settings along the lines…
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Das „Bassenheimer Wappenbuch“ und das „Hofwappenbuch Herzog Ferdinands von Bayern 1544 – 1607“
by Frhr. v. Recum •
In Gustav A. Seylers (1846-1935) süddeutschen Siebmacherbänden (Adel und Bürgerliche) findet man als Quellenangabe häufiger den Verweis auf das „Bassenheimer Wappenbuch“ und auf das „Hofwappenbuch“. Letzteres lässt sich relativ einfach identifizieren. …
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Knowledge on the Move. Historical Preservation and Knowledge Practices between Colony and Empire
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„Surely the judgment of … men arrived at on the spot is worth a great deal more than the dogmas of a Committee, the majority of whose members have probably…
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Unter falscher Flagge. Rechte “Identitäre” setzen auf Antiken-Pop. Die Geschichte ihrer Symbole dürfte ihnen kaum gefallen
by Bodo Mrozek •
In der derzeit vieldiskutierten rechtsradikalen Szene fällt eine Gruppe als besonders aggressiv auf. Die übernational organisierte „Identitäre Bewegung“ (IB) agiert als eine Art Agit-Pop-Gruppe der völkischen Szene. Aus einer Nachfolgeorganisation der rechtsterroristischen französischen Unité radicale hervorgegangen, ist sie heute europaweit … Continue reading →
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Miguel Metelo de Seixas professeur invité à l’Ecole pratique des Hautes Etudes Paris, 16 à 26 janvier 2018
by Laurent Hablot •
En janvier 2018, Miguel Metelo de Seixas, spécialiste bien connu d’emblématique et d’héraldique portugaise, séjourne à Paris comme professeur invité de la chaire d’emblématique occidentale de l’Ecole pratique des Hautes Etudes &…
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One’s own Present, and the 18th Century Present
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Impressions of the Workshop “Landscapes of the Long 18th Century: Mediating Places, Powers and Pasts in South Asia and Beyond,” which was organized by Dipti Khera and Hannah Baader on…
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Europas Erbe, Menschen und Grenzräume – Russisch-türkische Verflechtungen im Spiegel der Zeit
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Von Zaur Gasimov Europa war spätestens seit dem 18. Jahrhundert Inspirationsquelle für russische und osmanische Modernisierer; die Geschichte des Beziehungsgefüges zwischen Europa, den Osmanen und den Russen ist Gegenstand zahlreicher…
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[Report:] Visible Identities: Symbolic Codes from Personal Heraldry to Corporate Logos, London, 6 November 2017
by Marcus Meer •
It is a convenient coincidence that an event of this thematic scope took place in London, a city that is home to the College of Arms as the oldest authority of heraldry as a century-old tradition of visual identification on the one, and the headquarter…
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Speech, the Still Image, and their Silent Returns in Vandy Rattana’s MONOLOGUE (2015)
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A follow-up comment on the workshop “Histories of Art and Art as History in Contemporary Southeast Asia” by Pamela N. Corey In April 2017 the “Art Histories and…