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The Political Redefinition of Memory: The Problem of Studying History in Contemporary Iraq
By Haidar Lashkry in our TRAFO Blog series »The Humanities in the 21st Century: Perspectives from the Arab World and …
From the Niger to the Nile
By Madina Thiam in our TRAFO Blog series »Histories of Refuge« curated by Marcia Schenck (Universität Potsdam)
Nationalism on the Shop Floor: The Silahtarağa Electric Power Plant in the Early 1920s
By Nurçin İleri in our TRAFO Blog series »Factory Reloaded«
Re-shaping the “Socialist Factory” in Egypt in the Late 1960s–1970s
By Malak Labib in the TRAFO Blog series »Factory Reloaded«
Asynchronicities in Europe: Research Program “Europäische Zeiten / European Times”
The joint research project “Europäische Zeiten/European Times – A Transregional Approach to the Societies of Central and …
Africa’s Forgotten Refugee Convention
First article in our TRAFO Blog series »Histories of Refuge« by Marcia C. Schenck (University of Potsdam)
EUME Fellow Iman Mersal wins prestigious Sheikh Zayed Book Award
For her book “Fee Athar Enayat Al Zayyat” (In the Footsteps of Enayat Al Zayyat), the Egyptian author, poet and …
New Fellows have joined the research program 4A Laboratory
Melis Taner and Judith Elisabeth Weiss have started to work on their projects in the research program 4A Laboratory.
The National Frame: Art and State Violence in Turkey and Germany
Read on our TRAFO Blog: Banu Karaca introduces her new book
Keeping the Distance: Why Europeans Find it so Difficult to Learn from East Asia
By Marina Rudyak, Maximilian Mayer and Marius Meinhof in our TRAFO Blog thread #DossierCorona
Refugees in African History
An interview with Marcia Schenck (University of Potsdam) on her new H-Net cross-network project “Refugees in African …
EUME Berliner Seminar Summer Term 2021
In the Summer Term 2021, the Berliner Seminar will be continued under the theme »Universals and Fragments II«.
New TRAFO Blog Series: »Infrastructures and Society in (Post-)Ottoman Geographies«
Curated by İlkay Yilmaz (EUME Fellow 2019/2020)
2021 NEA Literature Translation Fellowship awarded to EUME Fellow Mona Kareem
Congratulations to Mona Kareem (EUME Fellow 2018/19) for winning a 2021 National Endowment for the Arts Literature …
The Historical Junkyards of Cairo
New article by Shehab Ismail about human-made mounds composed of rubbish growing on the outskirts of Cairo for …
On Dersim and the Banality of Evil: The Diary of Yusuf Kenan Akım
Article by Zeynep Türkyilmaz (EUME Fellow 2017-23) on TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research
Dossiers: New open access format launched
The first Dossier »Social Disappearance. Explorations Between Latin America and Eastern Europe« emerges from a workshop …
New TRAFO Blog series »Trajectories of Change«
The series presents new research projects on transformation processes in the countries of the so-called European …