What is Global History?
Krishan Kumar has recently written an article on the Times Literary Supplement entitled “What is Global History?”. In the article, Kumar reviews two recent publications – C.A. Bayly’s Remaking the...
Kategorie: Areas and Disciplines
Conference Report: “Rethinking Ukrainian Studies: Locally, Regionally, Transnationally”
By Antonina Rybka On 16–17 May, Frankfurt an der Oder, a city on the German-Polish border, welcomed international scholars, young researchers and students to the Prisma Ukraïna Conference Rethinking Ukrainian...
Birgit Meyer: „Social Sciences, Humanities and the World“
Birgit Meyers Keynote „Towards New Synergies: Social Sciences & Humanities and the World“ (Originaltitel des Vortrages), gehalten auf der Synergy Conference 2019 der Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) am...
Podiumsdiskussion “Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft an den Grenzen Europas”
Die Podiumsdiskussion “Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft an den Grenzen Europas” mit Jeanette Hofmann (WZB / Alexander von Humboldt Institut für Internet und Gesellschaft), Paweł Machcewicz (Fellow des Imre-Kertész-Kollegs in Jena), Ernst...
Annual Conference: Knowledge and Society in Times of Upheaval
On 20-21 November 2018, the Annual Conference 2018 of the Forum Transregionale Studien and the Max Weber Stiftung, “Knowledge and Society in Times of Upheaval”, will take place at the...
Von Grenzen, Zugängen und Standorten: Annäherungen an die Globalgeschichte auf dem Historiker*innentag
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...
“Islam” as an Epistemic Field: Imperial Entanglements and Orientalism in the German-Speaking World since 1870
This article is part of the TRAFO series “Emerging Topics. Insights from ‘Behind the Scenes’”. Today, we put the spotlight on the conference “”Islam” as an Epistemic Field: Imperial Entanglements and Orientalism in the German-Speaking World since 1870″ which will take place on October 11-12 2018 in Berlin. The conference is a collaboration of the Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient Berlin (Research Cluster „Trajectories of Lives and Knowledge”) and the Freie Universität Berlin.
Andreas Eckert zur Ozeanischen Geschichte
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...
African Historiography and the Challenges of European Periodization: A Historical Comment
By Ihediwa Nkemjika Chimee 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 African...
Official History in Eastern Europe. Transregional Perspectives
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”...
