In this interview, Rim Naguib (EUME Fellow 2019-21) discusses her research interests, her recent article published by the Arab Studies Journal, and the complex relationships between colonial legacies and processes of national independence in (interwar) Egypt.
Carolin Liebisch-Gümüş, Research Fellow at the GHI Washington, published her first monograph titled “Verflochtene Nationsbildung. Die Neue Türkei und der Völkerbund 1918–38” this summer. Here, she gives us some insights into her recent publication.
Earlier this year, the monograph “Exiled Among Nations: German and Mennonite Mythologies in a Transnational Age” by John P.R. Eicher was published by Cambridge University Press, in the Publications of the German Historical Institute Series. We talked with the author about the origins of his book, the role of institutions for diasporic groups and links between his research and today’s world.
On 20-21 January 2021, the conference “Understanding Childhood and Construction of National Identities” will take place at the branch office of the German Historical Institute Warsaw in Vilnius. We talked to the convener Gintarė Malinauskaitė about the upcoming event.
Rim Naguib’s (EUME Fellow 2019-21) article, published in the current issue of META (Middle East Topics & Arguments) Vol. 14 (2020) on “Gender” surveys and analyzes the gendered symbols and...
By Matthias Middell In Germany, the spread of the novel coronavirus is discussed as a crisis – Coronakrise – at least partially due to the fact that the term rolls...
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 Andriy Posunko, Institute for Human Sciences, Vienna On December 12-13, 2019, the Forum Transregionale Studien, Berlin, and Prisma Ukraïna – Research Network Eastern Europe hosted an international workshop “The...
Part of the TRAFO series “Reconstructing Neighborhoods of War” By Arshi Javid Setting the Context Nestled amidst the towering Himalayas lies the valley of Kashmir. The erstwhile independent princely state...
This article is part of the TRAFO series “Emerging Topics. Insights from ‘Behind the Scenes’”. Today, we put the spotlight on the workshop, “The Cossack Myth in Eastern Europe in the...
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