The Guardian about Berlin and its Controversial Prussian Palace
The rebuilding of the Prussian royal palace started in 2013. It will be open its doors in 2019. This giant project is Europe’s most expensive cultural endeavor and will be...
The rebuilding of the Prussian royal palace started in 2013. It will be open its doors in 2019. This giant project is Europe’s most expensive cultural endeavor and will be...
Sebastian Conrad, Vorstandsmitglied des Forum Transregionale Studien, und Alexandra Przyrembel, Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut Essen, veranstalteten zu Beginn diesen Jahres den Workshop “Decolonizing Knowledge: Figures, Narratives, and Practices” (16./17. Februar 2015) an...
Conference Report by Christina Lubinski The history of business in modern South Asia has traditionally focused on large-scale Indian firms and corporations in an attempt to study the contribution...
In the September issue of Foreign Affairs, Ananya Vajpeyi writes on the controversy around Wendy Doniger and his book “The Hindus: An Alternative History” in the context of Hindu nationalism and...
As a total war, the First World War directly or indirectly affected people in countless regions of the world. The WeberWorldCafé “Narrating the First World War – Experiences and Reports...
By Mohamed Elshahed One of the features of modern Mumbai is the city’s expansive Art Deco heritage. During the traveling seminar’s visit to the city we stopped at the...
By Sugata Ray In February 2014, Penguin Books withdrew University of Chicago professor Wendy Doniger’s “The Hindus: An Alternative History” from the Indian market and destroyed all remaining copies...
Niharika Dinkar is Associate Professor of Art History and Visual Culture at Boise State University. She studied at the National Museum in New Delhi before receiving her PhD in Art...
Vortrag von Dr. Aribert Reimann In der Vortragsreihe des historischen Instituts der Universität Köln entwirft PD Dr. Aribert Reimann, ERC Principal Investigator am Cologne Centre for Area Studies, ein umfassendes...
Während im 20. Jahrhundert eine Aufarbeitung der deutschen Kolonialgeschichte weitestgehend ausblieb, findet in den vergangenen Jahren nun – angestoßen unter anderem von der Initiative des Bündnis 90/Die Grünen zur Umbenennung...