By Katarzyna Puzon. This year marks the twentieth anniversary of 9/11 – an event that triggered a significant and sustained rise in prejudice, discrimination, and hate crimes against Muslims. These trends have accelerated steadily since then. The tragic developments that followed, especially the invasions of Afghanistan in 2001 and of Iraq in 2003, still reverberate across Europe, not least in the recent ‘refugee crises’.
By Žilvinas Švedkauskas. As rightly noted in the introduction to this TRAFO series, the boundary between Europe and its neighborhood has historically been and remains highly ambiguous, though little questioned.
Heidrun Zinecker ist seit 2008 Professorin am Institut für Politikwissenschaften der Universität Leipzig mit dem Schwerpunkt für Internationale Beziehungen. Ihre Forschungsschwerpunkte reichen inhaltlich von Entwicklungspolitik und -theorien über Friedens-, Konflikt-...
Nadine Abdalla is a Cairo-based political scientist and currently a Fellow of Europe in the Middle East—The Middle East in Europe (EUME) 2015/16. Her research focuses on social mobilizations in...
von Rachid Ouaissa (Philipps-Universität Marburg) Meine eigene akademische Verortung Seit Februar 2009 leite ich das Fachgebiet Politik des Nahen und Mittleren Ostens am Zentrum für Nah- und Mittelost-Studien (CNMS)...
Podiumsdiskussion anlässlich der Präsentation des Buches „Phantomgrenzen – Räume und Akteure neu denken”, 12. November 2015 im Centre Marc Bloch, Berlin Bericht und Audiomitschnitt von Susanne Beer und Laura Roos...
Summer Academy in Tunis, 28 August to 04 September 2016 Deadline: 29 February 2016 Call for Applications (pdf) The research units “Re-Configurations. History, Remembrance and Transformation Processes in the Middle...
by Yazan Doughan, Nada Moumtaz, Karim Sadek Report on the EUME Workshop “Authority, Tradition and Critique in the Modern State” that was held on June 22, 2015 at the Forum Transregionale...
Karim Sadek (EUME Fellow 2014/2015) holds a PhD in Philosophy from Georgetown University and has served, since then, as a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Arts and Humanities at the...
Valeska Huber (German Historical Institute London) and Jürgen Osterhammel (Leibnizpreis-Forschungsstelle Globale Prozesse, University Konstanz) are looking for contributions for the conference “The Global Public: Its Power and its Limits” taking...
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