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Tue 02 Nov 2021

Entanglements of the Maghreb: Cultural and Political Aspects of a Region in Motion

Book presentation by Imen Louati and Julius Dihstelhoff, members of the editorial group »MECAM«, on our TRAFO Blog. Also …

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Fri 15 Oct 2021

Back to the Roots – Erstes Fellows’ Exchange Meeting 2021/22

Interlinked Values – Interlinked Problems and Solutions? Protecting Fundamental Rights in the Shadow of Rule of Law …

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Tue 12 Oct 2021

The Forum Transregionale Studien Welcomes 61 Fellows from 25 Countries

As fellows, they will have the opportunity to work on their own projects and to exchange ideas and network within the …

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Thu 30 Sep 2021

EUME Berliner Seminar Winter Term 2021/2022

In the Winter Term 2021/2022, the Berliner Seminar will be continued under the theme »Standpoints and Beginnings«.

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Wed 29 Sep 2021

The Un/Executed Renaissance: Ukrainian Soviet Modernism and its Legacies

By Bohdan Tokarsky: Essay No. 8 in our Essays of the Forum Transregionale Studien series

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Tue 28 Sep 2021

New TRAFO Blog Series »Digital Humanities Interface« launched

It is edited by Ninja Steinbach-Hüther (Leibniz-Institute for Regional Geography (IFL) and SFB 1199, Leipzig University) …

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Thu 23 Sep 2021

10 Fellowships within the Framework of the “Academy in Exile”

The Volkswagen Foundation has announced a special funding for refugee scholars and scientists from Afghanistan

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Tue 21 Sep 2021

The Politics of the Female Body in Contemporary Turkey: Reproduction, Maternity, Sexuality

By Ayşe Dayı and Hilal Alkan in our TRAFO Blog series »New Books«

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Tue 21 Sep 2021

The African Refugee Equilibrium

By George Njung in our TRAFO Blog series »Histories of Refuge«

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Tue 14 Sep 2021

Shadows of Empires: Imperial Legacies and Mythologies in East Central Europe

Prisma Ukraïna’s Transregional Academy is starting in Sofia, Bulgaria. It is organized in cooperation with CAS Centre …

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Mon 13 Sep 2021

EUME Fellows 2021/22

The research program Europe in the Middle East — The Middle East in Europe (EUME) welcomes its Fellows of 2021/2022.

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Wed 08 Sep 2021

Palestine Potash Limited: Industrial Development in Mandatory Palestine and the Infrastructure of Zionism

New article by Mona Bieling in our TRAFO Blog series »Infrastructures and Society in (Post-)Ottoman Geographies«

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Mon 30 Aug 2021

Spaces of Participation: Dynamics of Social and Political Change in the Arab World

Randa Aboubakr, Ulrike Freitag, and Sarah Jurkiewicz introducing their new book on our TRAFO Blog

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Wed 25 Aug 2021
Mon 12 Jul 2021

The Strange Case of Portugal’s Returnees

By Christoph Kalter (Universitetet i Agder) in our TRAFO Blog series »Histories of Refuge«

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Still from Portuguese Returnees from Angola (1975).
Mon 28 Jun 2021

Material Determinations and Workers’ Identity: An Analysis of an Argentinian Steelworks

By Mariana Stoler in our TRAFO Blog series »Factory Reloaded«

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Fig. 1: Establecimientos Metalúrgicos Santa Rosa airview, La Matanza, Argentina, 1960. Source: Cóndor Steelcable Brochure, ©Establecimientos Metalúrgicos Santa Rosa.
Thu 24 Jun 2021

Cultivating Flowers and Loyal Subjects: A Case Study of the Işkodra Municipal Garden

By Berin Gölönü in our TRAFO Blog series »Infrastructures and Society in (Post-)Ottoman Geographies

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Mon 14 Jun 2021