By Christian Junge. What are the social functions of reading literature? While many studies approach Arabic literature primarily through the lens of authors, the literary field, or sociopolitical discourses, my interdisciplinary postdoctoral research project, “Affective Readings”, shifts the focus to the readers. I ask: What do readers read, and how and why?
By Yaprak Melike Uyar. Due to globally unified measures for controlling the Covid-19 pandemic, it has been almost one year since musicians have not met their audiences.
On May 29-30, 2020, the conference “Mainstream! Popular Culture in Central and Eastern Europe” will take place. We talked to one of the conveners, Ondřej Daniel, about the upcoming event.
This article is part of the TRAFO series “Emerging Topics: Insights from ‘Behind the Scenes’”. Today, we put the spotlight on the EUME workshop, “Recollecting a Shared Polyphony: Popular Culture, Media...
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...
Max meets LISA mit Barbara Mittler und Thomas Maissen Läuft man als WissenschaftlerIn Gefahr, angefeindet zu werden, wenn man sich mit aktuellen Themen kritisch auseinander setzt? Sollten Forschende politisch sein und sich als...
Isabel Richter forscht derzeit als Research Fellow in the History of Migration am DHI Washington. Nachdem sie sich im Rahmen ihrer Promotion an der TU Berlin mit dem Widerstand der...
The research network “Re-Configurations: History, Remembrance and Transformation Processes in the Middle East and North Africa” invites submissions for the international conference: “Trans-l Encounters: Religious Education and Islamic Popular Culture...
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