By Andrii Portnov. Ukrainian history and literature in the German higher education system are the disciplines whose institutional weakness is more than obvious. Ukraine itself, in the eyes of a large part of German (including academic) society, still does not have enough cultural and historical agency and remains ‘in the shadow of Russia’.
The Research Institute for Social Cohesion is investigating racism in German public institutions on behalf of the Federal Ministry of the Interior in a project titled “Rassismus als Gefährdung des gesellschaftlichen Zusammenhalts im Kontext ausgewählter gesellschaftlich-institutioneller Bereiche”. We discussed the goals of this research with Matthias Middell (University of Leipzig), spokesperson of the FGZ and co-principal investigator of this study.
By Jeremy Adelman. A few years ago, I organized a symposium at Princeton University. The theme was: does globalization mean that the social sciences (broadly defined) need to rethink their intellectual foundations? In the end, we came to a draw. Some felt that old models and familiar framings worked fine. Others saw global integration as an intellectual shakeup of the bedrock of methodological nationalism.
By Zubair Ahmad This article is part of the TRAFO Series “40 Years After Orientalism”. Humanists have too often confined their attention to departmentalized topics of research. They have...
By Wendy Shaw This article is part of the TRAFO Series “40 Years After Orientalism”. Facts cannot solve the problem of lies. Stories can. The given wisdom of modern positivism...
An Introduction to the TRAFO series “40 Years After Orientalism”, Edited by Schirin Amir-Moazami (Freie Universität Berlin). Published in 1978, Orientalism has been a seminal investigation on questions regarding cultural...
By Dorota Kołodziejczyk On September 23rd-24th, 2019, the Forum Transregionale Studien and the Max Weber Stiftung held a two-day workshop, Postcolonial Critique: Latin American and Eastern European Perspectivations (America South...
On 11-20 July 2019, the Transregional Academy “Minor/Small Literature(s). Perspectives on World Literature from Elsewhere” took place in Berlin. It aimed to question common assumptions of world literature through the...
The contributions of the blog series »All Things Transregional?« are now available in an open access volume on perspectivia.net and in print. Scholars from various disciplines discuss about the issues,...
A report by Sophie Schmäing, Universität Gießen Struggles over the interpretation of historical events have always been a salient issue in independent Ukraine. Since the Maidan protests in 2013–14, the...
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