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“As I Worked More in Academia, I Have Come to Realize that Each Methodology Has a Cost.” – 5in10 with C. Ceyhun Arslan

C. Ceyhun Arslan is Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature at Koç University and Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation at the Forum Transregionale Studien and Saarland University. His first book, The Ottoman Canon and the Construction of Arabic and Turkish Literatures, has just been published by Edinburgh University Press. He is working on his second book project entitled Becoming Mediterranean: Views from Arabic, French, and Ottoman Literatures.

Losing Our Minds, Coming to Our Senses

By Mehdi Khorrami and Amir Moosavi. Can a text, in its broadest sense, transcend its primary sensory medium and trigger multisensory reactions? Can a painting activate the sense of taste, in addition to sight? Is it possible to see, taste or touch a piece of music while listening to it?

Racism in German Public Institutions – Interview with Matthias Middell

The Research Institute for Social Cohesion is investigating racism in German public institutions on behalf of the Federal Ministry of the Interior in a project titled “Rassismus als Gefährdung des gesellschaftlichen Zusammenhalts im Kontext ausgewählter gesellschaftlich-institutioneller Bereiche”. We discussed the goals of this research with Matthias Middell (University of Leipzig), spokesperson of the FGZ and co-principal investigator of this study.

History without Debate: A Reading of the Crisis in Arab Historiography

By Abdulhadi Alajmi (History, Kuwait University, Kuwait). Many universities in the Arab world, which annually publish thousands of theses, dissertations, academic articles and a numerous range of monographs, follow a common framework, which is the extensive collection of information.

التاريخ بلا جدل: قراءة في أزمة الكتابة التاريخية العربية

عبد الهادي العجمي (تاريخ، جامعة الكويت، الكويت). الكثير من الجامعات التي تُصدِر في كلّ عامٍ آلافًا من الرسائل والأطروحات والمقالات العلمية والدراسات المتعدّدة والمختلفة، تتّبع إطارًا عامًا مشتركًا ألّا وهو الجمع الواسع للمعلومات، مشتركًا يفتقد لروح الجدل والفرضية. والحقيقة أن هذا المعطى التجريبي أصبح هو المنتج لاحقًا لما أسمّيه ’سلبية علم التاريخ‘ ولفقدان هذا الأخير لسمة التحليل النقدي والقدرة التنافسية في حيّز ومسار الفكر الثقافي والإنساني للمجتمعات العربية.

History: An Important but Potentially Dangerous Part of the Humanities

By Antje Flüchter (History, University of Bielefeld, Germany). Before I start, I want to lay open the social and cultural position I am writing from: I write this piece as a historian, from a White female German perspective: History is a part of the humanities, but history is perhaps closer to politics and power than some of the other parts of the humanities.

التاريخ: جزءٌ من الإنسانيات مهمٌّ لكنّه قد يكون خطيرًا

أنتجي فلوشتر (التاريخ، جامعة بيلفيلد، ألمانيا). قبل أن أبدأ، أريد أن أبيّن الموقع الاجتماعي والثقافي الذي أكتب منه: أكتب هذه المقالة كمؤرّخة، من منظور أنثى ألمانية بيضاء: التاريخ جزء من الإنسانيات، لكنّ التاريخ قد يكون أقرب إلى السياسة والقوة من بعض أجزاء الإنسانيات الأخرى.

A ‘Conversation’ on Comparisons between Japanese Studies, Contemporary History and Medieval Art History

By Nora Kottmann | While studying political science at Heidelberg University’s South Asia Institute, I was always told to refrain from making comparisons if and when I would become a researcher. Comparative research, it was said, is an extremely complex research methodology