By Mathias Foit. Ever since the Law and Justice (PiS) party’s victory in the 2015 parliamentary election, queer research in Poland has become especially challenging and more politicised than ever before. The moment the ultraconservative PiS party won the election in 2015 and secured an outright majority can be pinpointed as the beginning of what some have referred to as a “conservative revolution” in Poland.
By Kordula Wolf When the Aghlabids and later Kalbids were ruling the emirate in Sicily (ca. 831–1091), the island was not a space separated from the southern part of the Italian peninsula. Therefore, the...
Dr. Rimi Tadu is currently teaching at the Centre for North East Studies and Policy Research at Jamia Milia Islamia University, New Delhi. She was a fellow at the Max...
Sarah Lemmen is a historian of Eastern Europe in the 19th and 20th centuries, specializing in the history of the Bohemian lands/Czechoslovakia. With a strong focus on cultural history, her...
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.