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Author: Forum Transregionale Studien

An abstract mosaic consisting of shapes and also depictions of families.

Conviviality and Inequality

Articulating Differences and Inequalities

By Raquel Rojas Scheffer.
Housewives’ and domestic workers’ organisations have been present in Latin America for decades. These groups not only perform – at least to a certain extent – the same kinds of tasks. They also tend to share an interest in the valorisation of domestic work: If this activity were recognised as work, housewives could claim retirement rights, while domestic workers would be granted the same labour rights as any other worker. But even while sharing the historical burden of care work, there are other social hierarchies that interrupt the common experience of these women and hinder the creation of alliances between them.

Logo depicting Digital Al Andalus with a sword logo standing in for the L in digital and the L in Andalus.

EUME / Issues

New Podcast Series “Digital Al-Andalus: On the Record” – Imaginations of Al-Andalus and How History Returns in the Present  

By Cristina Moreno Almeida and Hanan Natour.

What do we really mean when we speak of “Al-Andalus”? Was medieval Iberia a model of coexistence, a lost paradise, or something far more complex? How do historians find people and ideas that barely appear in the official record? And how do political and cultural actors today reach back to remember, romanticise, or instrumentalise the medieval past for political mobilisation?  Cristina Moreno Almeida and Hanan Natour discuss how the digital Al Andalus project, an engaging podcast series, connecting scholars across disciplines, can engage and bring new light to these questions.

A golden sculpture depicting a man standing in front of a horse, holding the reigns and carrying a pistol in his belt.

Prisma Ukraïna / Rethinking East European Studies in Times of Upheaval

“The Frontier Creates Its Own World On Both Sides” – Conversation with Denys Shatalov

By Denys Shatalov.
In this conversation, Denys Shatalov explores the question: What historiographical misunderstandings could the frontier theory reveal when applied to the study of the Ukrainian Cossacks as a border phenomenon?

Four people sit on a panel and stage, facing the audience, deep in discussion.

Conversations / MECAM

Multilinguality in Academic Research and Publishing

Scholars working with and on the world regions in the Global South face a dilemma of doing fieldwork and researching in local languages and then publishing results in international outlets dominated by the English language. In this conversation based on the roundtable, we reflect on this tension navigating the requirements of academic publishing and career-related issues, and regional and local academic traditions in Southeast and West Asia as well as the African continent.

Photo showing a lecture hall with rows of metal desks and benches heavily damaged, debris and broken wood scattered across the floor, and sunlight entering through windows on the left.

EUME / Issues

Pedagogy Under Fire: Teaching Archaeology with WhatsApp during Sudan’s Civil War

This paper examines the educational experience in Sudan from 2023 until the present. In 2023, with the outbreak of the civil war, the Sudanese universities completely ceased operations. In this text, Adam explores the innovative ways Sudanese educators and students continue university education during times of war and what this means for education, community and contribution of knowledge and innovation from the Global South.

Issues / Prisma Ukraïna

Negotiating What Endures: Exploring Connections Between the Flossenbürg DP Camps and Ukrainian Memory Work Today

By Anna Skiba. How do Ukrainian individuals and organisations in Germany and Norway negotiate what memory and identity to preserve, emphasise, or make visible under conditions of displacement? How does the historical memory context of the host country shapes what is available to them as they do so? The experiences of Ukrainian DPs in Flossenbürg offer an interesting point of comparison here, demonstrating how memory practices can generate agency and visibility amidst uncertainty and displacement.

Two small boats on a lake.

A Decolonial Mediterranean – Disparities, Imaginations, Power Relations / MECAM

Representing ‘Sub-Saharan’ Boat Migrants: Global and Tunisian Media Narratives of the Mediterranean Migration ‘Crisis’

By Imene Gannouni Khemiri. The escalating ‘irregular’ migration across the Mediterranean Sea has become a major topic of international interest. While it is not a new phenomenon, the number of ‘sub-Saharan’ migrants, along with the associated death toll, has recently reached unprecedented levels. Against this backdrop, the present study explores how the tragic deaths of ‘sub-Saharan’ migrants crossing the Mediterranean are represented in media discourse.

Three people seated on a stage with a large screen behind them showing a fourth person participating remotely.

Conversations / Prisma Ukraïna / Rethinking East European Studies in Times of Upheaval

What Could War Monuments Be Silent About? – A Conversation with Misсha Gabowitsch and Mykola Homanyuk

Olha Haidamachuk in Conversation with Misсha Gabowitsch and Mykola Homanyuk. Conflicts of interpretation and the semiotic contradictions of the war monumentscapes in Russian-occupied Ukrainian territories were recently explored by Misсha Gabowitsch and Mykola Homanyuk. In their book Monuments and Territory[1], focusing on memory study, they also raise issues of political and symbolic borders and, therefore, offer rich empirical and analytical materials for rethinking аpproaches to border study.

Neoclassical museum building with tall columns and steps leading to the entrance.

Conviviality and Inequality

Restitution and Postcolonial Justice. A Dialogical Approach

By Julia von Sigsfeld. Confronting a history of dispossession and alienation, and of accumulation thereby, restitution is generally seen as a recognition of and corrective to historical injustice or, rather, as an element thereof. Demands for the return of museologized objects, belongings, and ancestral remains are thus deeply connected to and indicative of struggles over postcolonial memory and justice. Not only do these demands surface suppressed histories and memories in public discourse, but they also expose the violence and Eurocentric foundations of heritage practices and museums.

Collage of Photographs, including the Ukrainian Flag with a dove symbol.

Fragmented Lives / Prisma Ukraïna

Fragmented Lives in Times of War – An Introduction

By Lidia Kuzemska. What are the challenges faced by forced migrants within and from Ukraine due to the Russian invasion? Ukrainians feel, live with, and live through uncertainties, whether emotionally, intellectually, or bodily. The new edited collection sheds light on the lives of displaced persons, which are divided, in terms of time, space, and social context, into a “before” and “after” the war. It analyses the uncertainties faced by war migrants and those who have decided to remain in Ukraine, as well as how people cope with these uncertainties in their daily lives.