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”
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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?
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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…
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Grasping the Global: Lessons from the 1970s
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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”….
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Zwischenstand und Ankündigungen [06/2018]
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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
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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…