Verschlagwortet: 20th century
By Ulf Engel. Contemporary conflicts in Ethiopia are overshadowed by the ongoing war between the government of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed on the one hand and the Tigray People’s Liberation Front on the other. Between 1991 and 2018 both parties were partners in a Tigray dominated coalition front which finally failed to impose its hegemonic nation-building project on the multi-ethnic country.
By Christoph Kalter. The year is 1975, and the footage comes from the Portuguese Red Cross. Who, or maybe what, are these people? Returnees or retornados is the term commonly assigned to more than half-a-million people, the vast majority of them white settlers from Angola and Mozambique, most of whom arrived in Lisbon in 1975.
Von Iwona Dadej Gläserne Decke in der Wissenschaft? Fehlende Anerkennung der weiblichen wissenschaftlichen Leistung und ein erschwerter Zugang zu bestimmten Positionen im akademischen Betrieb? Vielseitige Förderprogramme für angehende Wissenschaftlerinnen, damit...
This article is part of the TRAFO series Emerging Topics. Insights from ‘Behind the Scenes’. Today, we put the spotlight on the workshop “Drink and Power. Alcohol and the Making of...
By Bashir Bashir and Amos Goldberg The Holocaust and the Nakba were very painful and traumatic events in Jewish and Palestinian history. Both events, which differ in nature and in...
By Torsten Weber China’s recent rediscovery of the Silk Road for its ‘One Belt-One Road’ initiative reaffirms the country’s claim to being acknowledged once again in its role as the...
Valeska Huber (German Historical Institute London) and Jürgen Osterhammel (Leibnizpreis-Forschungsstelle Globale Prozesse, University Konstanz) are looking for contributions for the conference “The Global Public: Its Power and its Limits” taking...