By Simon Rowedder | If we remember that those we study are also studying us as well as themselves, and that they are all engaged in the human exercise of understanding the play of cultural difference and similarity, we may be able to contribute to making comparison the fruitful, congenial, and open-ended conversation that the discipline’s ethical as well as intellectual commitments demand.
This article is part of the TRAFO series “Emerging Topics. Insights from ‘Behind the Scenes’”. Today, we put the spotlight on the Explorative Workshop “100 Histories of 100 World in one...
This contribution is part of the TRAFO series “Emerging Topics. Insights from ‘Behind the Scenes’”. Today, we put the spotlight on the Explorative Workshop “Acoustic Histories/Historiographies in the Asia Pacific“...
This article is part of the TRAFO series “Emerging Topics – Insights from behind the scenes” Today, we put the spotlight on the workshop “Stepping Back in Time: Living...
During the Annual Conference in Heidelberg in October 2016 I had the opportunity to interview William Carruthers about his research on the connection between UNESCO politics, the difference in the management...
Short presentation by Viola König (Director of the Ethnological Museum Berlin and Professor at Freie Universität Berlin, Germany) at the conference “Areas and Disciplines: Lessons from Internationalization Initiatives in the...