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 Anna Hofmann. The revolutionary moments of the Arab Spring in 2011 and the Ukrainian “Euromaidan” in 2014 called for a remarkable rise of public and academic attention towards regions in the east and south of the European continent.
By James D Sidaway and Franz Waldenberger | How and why do we compare in the social sciences and humanities? These are enduring questions. On 2nd and 3rd December 2019, a group of scholars affiliated with the Max Weber Research Group at the National University of Singapore and researchers from the German Institute for Japanese Studies (DIJ) met at the DIJ in Tokyo to compare notes on comparisons.
By Ulf Engel The new special issue “Africa’s Transregional Conflicts” of the journal Comparativ. Zeitschrift für Globalgeschichte und vergleichende Gesellschaftsforschung (Journal for Global History and Comparative Research on Societies) addresses...
This article is part of the TRAFO series Emerging Topics. Insights from ‘Behind the Scenes’. Today, we put the spotlight on the 15th Summer School of the Graduate...
by Sebastian Schwecke The German Historians‘ Convention 2016 in Hamburg selected for the very first time a non-western country as its partner country: India. This choice was mirrored by...
Sarah Ruth Sippel is a Senior Researcher at the University of Leipzig, Germany, and an Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the University of Queensland, Australia. She studied Middle Eastern...
Einführung in die Vortragsreihe “Transregionale Verflechtungen: Räumliche Zusammenhänge jenseits etablierter Metageographien” am Centrum für Nah- und Mittelost-Studien (CNMS), Philipps-Universität Marburg im Wintersemester 2016/17 und Sommersemester 2017. von Steffen Wippel ...
by Claus Bech Hansen, Aizhamal Marat and Catherine Reynolds The field of Area Studies as traditionally pursued in academia has been broadly criticized, in particular for ethnocentrism, obsolete methods, rigid adherence to...
von Talia Bachir-Loopuyt Als Forscherin, die sich nach einer ersten Ausbildung in der französischen Germanistik der Forschung in Musikethnologie und Anthropologie zugewandt hat und seitdem insbesondere innerhalb der französischsprachigen und...
TRAFO offers a platform for scholars in the humanities and social sciences who are interested in transregional exchange and research on current issues. TRAFO is the blog of the Forum Transregionale Studien, curated in cooperation with the Max Weber Stiftung – Deutsche Geisteswissenschaftliche Institute im Ausland.