By Diana Roig-Sanz. The idea that the digital humanities enjoy a global scope remains utopian. Most of the departments and research institutions that house postgraduate studies, summer schools, international conferences, and scientific journals on the matter remain anchored in the Global North, especially in certain countries such as the United Kingdom, the United States and Canada.
By Jeremy Adelman. A few years ago, I organized a symposium at Princeton University. The theme was: does globalization mean that the social sciences (broadly defined) need to rethink their intellectual foundations? In the end, we came to a draw. Some felt that old models and familiar framings worked fine. Others saw global integration as an intellectual shakeup of the bedrock of methodological nationalism.
By Anna Hofmann. The revolutionary moments of the Arab Spring in 2011 and the Ukrainian “Euromaidan” in 2014 called for a remarkable rise of public and academic attention towards regions in the east and south of the European continent.
By Ulf Engel The new special issue “Africa’s Transregional Conflicts” of the journal Comparativ. Zeitschrift für Globalgeschichte und vergleichende Gesellschaftsforschung (Journal for Global History and Comparative Research on Societies) addresses...
Vom 26.-28 November 2020 wird in Prag die Konferenz “Die ungleiche Entwicklung im Mittelalter” stattfinden. Wir haben mit dem Organisator Dariusz Adamczyk über die Veranstaltung gesprochen.
Gregory Afinogenov is an assistant professor of Imperial Russian History at Georgetown University and a Tandem Fellow in Global & Transregional History at the German Historical Institute Washington DC. He...
By Birgit Meyer This article was published open access as part of a special issue of the journal »Religion« on The Future of the Study of Religion/s. The ‘future of...
The contributions of the blog series »All Things Transregional?« are now available in an open access volume on perspectivia.net and in print. Scholars from various disciplines discuss about the issues,...
Work on the relaunch of the German History in Documents and Images website begins in April 2018. We talked with project manager Kelly McCullough about the history of this project,...
This contribution is part of the TRAFO series “Emerging Topics. Insights from ‘Behind the Scenes’”. Today, we put the spotlight on the Explorative Workshop “Acoustic Histories/Historiographies in the Asia Pacific“...
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