Pour ceux qui n’auraient pas pu assister à la 1ère séance du Séminaire Histoire sociale du rock du 7 avril 2021 dédiée à Rock et mode, voici le lien vers l’enregistrement: Adrian Kammarti (doctorant en histoire de l’art, Paris 1- … Continue reading
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New publication: Made in Germany – Studies in Popular Music
by David-Emil Wickström •
Made in Germany: Studies in Popular Music serves as a comprehensive introduction to the history, sociology, and musicology of contemporary German popular music. Each essay, written by a leading scholar of German music, covers the major figures, styles, and social … Continue reading
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Neuerscheinung: Werk oder Ware? Eine Wirtschaftsgeschichte der Tonträgerindustrie in der zweiten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts
by Christian A. Müller •
Erfolge auf dem Musikmarkt lassen sich selbst von den Machern der Produkte oft nicht erklären. Die Musikgeschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts kennt daher zwar unzählige Stars, aber keine empirisch wirklich überzeugenden Erklärungen für deren Markterfolg. Es mag im Nachhinein zwar Gründe … Continue reading →
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On Dersim and the Banality of Evil: The Diary of Yusuf Kenan Akım
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By Zeynep Türkyilmaz. Entering my usual keywords randomly to see what is out there in my areas of interest, I came across a diary of a Turkish soldier kept during the year 1938.
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[Report:] Seals and Linked Open Data, December 2nd to 8th 2020
by Philipp Schneider •
From 2 to 8 December, the symposium Seals and Linked Open Data was held as part of the online Linked Pasts 6 conference. The symposium was organised by John McEwan, Associate Director of the Center for Digital Humanities at Saint Louis University. Thre…
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“The Ideological Deportation of Foreigners and ‘Local Subjects of Foreign Extraction’ in Interwar Egypt” – Interview with Rim Naguib
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Rim Naguib’s article, “The Ideological Deportation of Foreigners and ‘Local Subjects of Foreign Extraction’ in Interwar Egypt”, was published by the Arab Studies Journal this fall. In this interview, Rim discusses her research interests, her recent article, and the complex relationships between colonial legacies and processes of national independence in (interwar) Egypt.
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[Paper] Detection, description, analysis – Towards an integrated approach to heraldic representations on seals using machine learning and semantic web technologies (Linked Pasts 6 conference, 2 December 2020)
by Philipp Schneider •
From 2 December to 16 December 2020, the sixth edition of the conference Linked Pasts, organised by the Institute of Classical Studies in London, will be held online. Linked Pasts is an annual conference on the use of Linked Open Data for the study of …
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Heraldic Language in French Narrative of 12th-13th centuries
by dariastaroskolskaya •
In memory of Gerard J. Brault, 1929-2020 Being an MA in linguistics I was invited in 2013 by the group of Heraldry and Genealogy Project of the Institute of World History, Moscow, to conduct research on blazon as a professional language o…
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Recent Publications – Update November 2020
by Heraldica Nova •
As the days get both shorter and colder again and we all have to social distance in these times, how about some new reading material? This list contains publications on heraldry as well as articles and books in which heraldry plays a supporting role. S…
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Refugees and Revolution in the Atlantic World – An Interview with Jan C. Jansen
by Max Weber Stiftung •
In October 2020, the five-year research project “Refugees and Revolution in the Atlantic World (1770s–1820s)” started. The project will undertake a systematic exploration of the period as an age of…
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News on “Heraldica Nova” and the “Coats of Arms in Practice” Project
by Heraldica Nova •
Lately it has become a little quieter on Heraldica Nova. This was partly due to the effects of the Corona pandemic, which has not left us unaffected as well, but above all to the relocation of the research project “Die Performanz der Wappen”…
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“Lebanon’s Art World at Home and Abroad (LAWHA)” – Interview with Nadia von Maltzahn
by Max Weber Stiftung •
In October 2020, the five-year research project “Lebanon’s Art World at Home and Abroad: Trajectories of artists and artworks in/from Lebanon since 1943” will begin. The project will investigate the…
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The Corpus of Russian Translations of Social and Political Works
by Max Weber Stiftung •
It is in the eighteenth century that Russian political language was born. The digital project “The Corpus of Russian Translations of Social and Political Works of the Eighteenth Century” coordinated…
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Eckensteher, schwere Jungs und leichte Mädchen
by Bodo Mrozek •
Dramatische Bilder kamen aus dem beschaulichen “Ländle”. Gruppen Jugendlicher randalierten auf der Stuttgarter Königsstraße. Trümmer, Verletzte, Festnahmen. Anderntags suchte man die Täter in der Partyszene – sie hatten vorab Musik gehört. Bald darauf ähnliche Szenen in Frankfurt: Krakeelende Jugendliche störten … Continue reading →
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Coronavirus and the Middle East’s ongoing state of emergency
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Abdalhadi Alijla, Post-doctoral fellow at the Orient Institute in Beirut, recently published an article on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in the Middle East. The region was hit hard…
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Collaboration + Laboratory = The German Studies Collaboratory
by Max Weber Stiftung •
By Jennifer Evans and Swen Steinberg | “We are all in this together” is not simply the solidarity slogan of our new reality in times of Covid-19. In May 2020, it became a starting point for a group of scholars teaching at North American universities
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Hate Male
by Forum Transregionale Studien •
Audrey Truschke, a philologist and historian of encounters and entanglements in early modern South Asia at Rutgers University – in an essay published in the online magazine The Revealer on July…
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The Leader as Groom, the Nation as Bride: Patriarchal Nationalism under Nasser and Sisi
by Forum Transregionale Studien •
Rim Naguib’s (EUME Fellow 2019-21) article, published in the current issue of META (Middle East Topics & Arguments) Vol. 14 (2020) on “Gender” surveys and analyzes the gendered symbols and…
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Book Review: M. Maruschke, M. Middell: The French Revolution as a Moment of Respatialization
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Since the 1990s, the historiography on the French Revolution has seen a major refocus in the context of the so-called “global turn”. However, the disparate conceptual framework within which this…
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Beyond the Boundaries of “The Land of the Deer”: R. Binyamin between Jewish and Arab Geographies, and the Critique of the Zionist-Colonial Connection
by Forum Transregionale Studien •
Avi-ram Tzoreff’s article, published in Issue 82 (Summer 2020) of the Jerusalem Quarterly, revisits the writings and ideas of Yehoshua Radler-Feldman, an observant orthodox Jew, author, essayist, and anti-colonial Zionist,…
Heraldica Nova
CfP: Heraldic Imagination in the Netherlands, 1500-1800
by Torsten Hiltmann •
Panel at the Historians of Netherlandish Art Conference (Amsterdam, 2-5 June 2021) Originally hereditary symbols of the medieval noble elite, from the late-14th century onwards crests, coat of arms and blazons were increasingly altered, added to and cu…
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Die große Leere im Archiv – Herausforderungen einer global gedachten Kunstgeschichtsforschung
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Von Sophie Junge Die Wirkungsmacht europäischer Archiv- und Museumssammlungen wird in den Debatten um die Provenienz und Restitution von Kulturgütern deutlich. Auch die Ausstellung Fiktion Kongo im Zürcher Rietberg Museum…
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The cold German: The thermo-aesthetics of Kraftwerk. On the Obituaries on Florian Schneider
by Florian Völker •
Nothing is more German than Kraftwerk, not even Germans themselves. Kraftwerk has long since risen to national myth, with significant help from English-speaking writers with a certain affinity for everything German. The obituaries that appeared after the recent death of … Continue reading →
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Der kalte Deutsche: Zur Thermoästhetik von Kraftwerk. Anlässlich der Nachrufe auf Florian Schneider
by Florian Völker •
Nichts ist so ‚deutsch‘ wie Kraftwerk, nicht einmal die Deutschen selbst. Kraftwerk sind längst zu einem nationalen Mythos geworden, der sowohl von deutschen als auch englischsprachigen Autoren mit einer gewissen Affinität für alles ‚Deutsche‘ ausgiebig gepflegt wird. Die jetzt erscheinenden … Continue reading →
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History Goes Pop? On the Popularization of the Past in Eastern European Cultures (Bericht)
by Nikolai Okunew •
von Tom Koltermann und Nikolai Okunew Den Krieg in der Ukraine und den lauter werdenden Rechtspopulismus in Osteuropa konnte man im Dezember 2019 auch in Frankfurt/Oder noch gut vernehmen. Der Workshop widmete sich dem Zusammenhang von populären Formen der Geschichte, … Continue reading →
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Die Pandemie als Generationenkonflikt? Von „Corona-Partys“ und Moral Panics
by Nikolai Okunew •
Abgesehen von Streamingserviceprovidern, Online-Versandhäusern und Toilettenpapierherstellern gibt es in Zeiten einer globalen Pandemie nur für wenige Menschen Gründe, irgendetwas zu feiern. Dennoch wabert ein besorgniserregendes Phänomen durch die deutsche Medienlandschaft. Ein Phänomen, das suggeriert, dass einige unserer Mitbürger*innen die massiven … Continue reading →
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Book announcement: >Punk in Paradiso<
by Oscar Smit •
Paradiso in Amsterdam is one of the most well-known concert halls in the world. Back in 1968 the former church was converted into a space with a stage. But without the rise of the punk movement in 1977, Paradiso would … Continue reading →
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What I Learned From My Grandparents, and Other Stories: Fragments of Biography, Autobiography and a History of Calcutta
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By Benjamin Zachariah [1] I: The Meanings of Lives It seems not a little self-indulgent for a historian to tell a story with oneself in it, even if one is…
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Knowledge Unbound – New International Research Project
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The new research project „Knowledge Unbound“ is opening up innovative areas of research by focussing on key regions such as Africa, the Near and Middle East and the Pacific region.
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Report de mes trois dernières conférences à Paris (mars/avril 2020)
by Torsten Hiltmann •
Comme vous vous en doutez certainement déjà, les conférences à Paris, qui n’ont pas encore eu lieu, doivent malheureusement être reportées à cause de la crise actuelle. Il s’agit des conférences de 25 et 26 mars ainsi que de 7 avril. S̵…
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Mars 2020 – Série de conférences à Paris sur des nouvelles approches pour l’étude de l’héraldique médiévale
by Torsten Hiltmann •
En mois de mars, je vais être professeur invité à l’École des Hautes Études à Paris, à l’invitation de Laurent Hablot. Dans le cadre de cette fonction, je vais présenter une série de conférences: Entre histoire culturelle et humanités num…
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“What is Art History when the Primary Sensory Organ is the Heart?” ‒ A Conversation with Wendy M.K. Shaw
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In October 2019, Wendy M.K. Shaw (Professor of the Art History of Islamic Cultures at Freie Universität Berlin) published her new book, What Is “Islamic” Art? Between Religion and Perception,…
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“History Goes Pop? On the Popularization of the Past in Eastern European Cultures” (Conference, 10.-12.12.19)
by Nina Weller •
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 →