TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research

Der TRAFO-Blog dient als Diskussions- und Informationsplattform für Wissenschaftler:innen, die sich für transregionale Forschung interessieren. Auf dem TRAFO-Blog werden Forschungsergebnisse und Beiträge aus dem Bereich der transregionalen Studien und der Area Studies zugänglich gemacht. Wir veröffentlichen Ausschreibungen sowie Interviews mit Wissenschaftler:innen und kündigen Veranstaltungen an, die disziplinäre und regionalwissenschaftliche Forschung verbinden. Darüber hinaus bildet der TRAFO-Blog die gemeinsamen Aktivitäten des Forum Transregionale Studien und der Max Weber Stiftung ab.

TRAFO ist hierbei ein Akronym für »Transregionale Forschung«, bietet aber auch eine weitere Bedeutung an: »Trafo« im Sinne eines Umspannwerks, das auf die Übersetzungsleistung und Maklerfunktion des Forum Transregionale Studien, der Max Weber Stiftung und des Kooperationspartners CrossArea e.V. anspielt. Der Blog wurde im Rahmen des Verbundprojekts »Transregionale Forschung« aufgebaut, das von 2013 bis 2020 eine Förderung des Bundesministeriums für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF) erhielt.

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Ausgewählte Blogbeiträge und -reihen:

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Znaien, Nessim

“Les raisins de la domination. Une histoire sociale de l’alcool en Tunisie à l’époque du Protectorat (1881-1956)” – An Interview with Nessim Znaien

TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 2023

TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research

TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research

Ausgewählte Blogbeiträge und -reihen:

“Les raisins de la domination. Une histoire sociale de l’alcool en Tunisie à l’époque du Protectorat (1881-1956)” – An Interview with Nessim Znaien

“Photographers are very eloquent speakers” – A Conversation with Jessica Zychowicz and Mariia Kravchenko

Identity Migration of Orthodox Churches During the War in Ukraine (Since 2014)

Ex-Syrian Prisoners Reunite with Music as their Balm

Cats in the Street Art of LBWS CAT UKRAINE: Constructing Cultural Memory in Wartime

Cuerpos de Agua – Perspektiven aus Aktivismus und Kunst zur Bedeutung von Wasser in Lateinamerika und Europa

Tragedy and Normalcy: Documenting Russia’s War on Ukraine – An Interview with Photographer Brendan Hoffman

‘Woman, Life, Freedom:’ Decoding the Political Poetics of a Woman-led Revolutionary Movement

Ukrainian Forcefully Displaced Persons in Germany: To Stay or to Leave?

“Humanities and social sciences, as earlier, is the cornerstone for building a conception of the world, understanding and analyzing social changes” – 5in10 with Tetiana Kalenychenko and Denys Brylov

Re-connect. Kunst und Kampf im Bruderland

Militarized Cancer: People with a Diagnosis and the War in Ukraine

“Somewhere on a subconscious level, I continued to evaluate and perceive the outbreak of the war through analogies with WWII” – 5in10 with Denys Shatalov

DGO-Jahrestagung »Flucht und Exil im östlichen Europa. Macht und Ohnmacht«, 15.-16. Juni 2023, Berlin

“Why people move, or, rather, why some move and others stay always intrigued me” – 5in10 with Lidia Kuzemska

The ‘Emergency Grab Bag’ of Memory, or the Tonalities of News Headlines About the War in Ukraine – Part Twо

“We need humanities to deal with processes, which are not instantly visible, but call for the in-depth analyses to understand them” – 5in10 with Alina Mozolevska

“This is a significant time for the social sciences and humanities, which explore the world of ideas and beliefs.” – 5in10 with Yuliia Soroka

The Wondrous World of Omar El-Zeenni

Өмә – Die Kolonialgeschichte Russlands schreiben

“It was precisely the total absence of reports on the situation on the ground that attracted my attention” – 5in10 with Aleksandra Jolkina

Muhtelif – Zümrüdüanka

On Rosenthal (Comics Zine)

Unearthing the Substrata of Images – Interview with Sanaz Sohrabi

The Power of Maps and Geographic Imagery in Digital Communication: Narrating Russia’s War in Ukraine

“In time of war, memory becomes a powerful resource” – 5in10 with Olha Haidamachuk

Moving Through Space, Sheltering Across Time: Alternate Realities in Contemporary Arabic Fiction of (Forced) Displacement

“I would resist the temptation of exceptionalising the times we are living in” – 5in10 with Kaoutar Ghilani

African Activists in a Decolonising World: The Making of an Anticolonial Culture, 1952–1966

Sindibād in Trap: A Youthful Revolutionary of Hope and Resilience

Reclaiming Spaces from the Streets to the Gutter: Sketching Feminisms in Contemporary Arab Graphic Narratives

From a Pilfered Nail to a Stolen Tank: The Role of a Media Event in the Consolidation of the Ukrainian Political Nation

Від поцупленого цвяха до вкраденого танка: роль медіа-події в консолідації Української політичної нації

The Modern Arabic Bible: Translation, Dissemination and Literary Impact – an Interview with Rana Issa

“War pushes the trivial out of memory” – 5in10 with Mykola Homanyuk

Postcolonial People: The Return from Africa and the Remaking of Portugal – an Interview with Christoph Kalter

The ‘Emergency grab bag’ of Memory, or the Tonalities of News Headlines About the War in Ukraine – Pt 1

Kahramanmaraş Earthquake: How the Syrian Regime is Instrumentalising the Natural Catastrophe

What the Telegram Channels of Ukrainian Migrants in Germany ‘Talk’ and ‘Keep Silent’ About

“I was intrigued by how a familiar space, when destroyed, reveals both its essence and the nature of the war” – 5in10 with Vadym Ilin

The “Chronicler of a Generation” – Serhij Zhadan at Kulturbahnhof Kamea (Frankfurt/Oder)

Egypt Every Day: The Photography of Yasser Alwan

History Teacher of the People: Volodymyr Zelensky, Vasyl Holoborodko and his Displaced Colleagues

Carnal Feasting and Literary Scandal – How Ahmad al-Shidyaq Theorized the Literary

„Das Schreiben eines historischen Textes erfordert immer noch eine gewisse zeitliche Distanz“

“Why Queer? Don’t you have something more important than this to talk about?” – 5in10 with Razan Ghazzawi

“It’s necessary for researchers, driven by ethical values, to establish historical perspective in times of crisis” – 5in10 with Olha Labur

The Birth of Culture from the Spirit of Revolution

Envisioning a Homoeroticized Cityscape Through Work

“The question is rather if it is possible for disciplines as institutions to carve out a place that is truly anti-authoritarian” – 5in10 with Önder Çelik

The Egyptian Coffeehouse: Culture, Politics and Urban Space

Merging in Space: The Ongoing War and Previous Wars in Ukraine

“If earlier you had a problem finding relevant information, now it’s a challenge to choose useful and non-misleading material from the huge flow of it” – 5in10 with Taisiia Ratushna

“But knowledge is not only desire; it is also necessary to commit to what we know” – 5in10 with Eman Elnemr

War, Migration and Memory: An Introduction

Messy Surroundings: Calligrapher at Work

»Endliness is an Irritating, but Genuinely Modern and Ubiquitous Time Regime« – 5in10 with Erik Martin

Memory and the Repressed: The Possibility of Therapeutic Histories of the 1980s

Rethinking East European Studies in Times of Upheaval: Some Reflections on Ukrainian Studies in Germany (and Not Only)

Picturing the Labor Landscape: The Silahtarağa Power Plant and Istanbul’s Electrical Infrastructure

Faith without Compulsion: Reflections on Iran

How Iran’s Rich Literature Can Help You Better Understand the Protests of Today

Ukrainian Comics and War in Ukraine

Turkish Literature as World Literature – Book Review

The Military Destruction of Late Soviet Urban Space in Ukraine and the Demise of the Soviet Man

Ukraine: Between West and Different Easts

Nothing New in the East? What the West Overlooked – Or Ignored

Ever-Present Tobacco Dust: Women’s Labor Conditions at the Cibali Tobacco Factory

Digging Deeper: Contested Livelihoods and Sociocosmological Relations among Artisanal Miners in Laos

Touche pas à ma UGTT: The Syndical Movement as a ‘Secular Sacred’ Value

The Rational Factory, Labour, and the Fordist Visual Imaginary

Trauma and the 1980s in Arabic Literary Studies

Philology and Microhistory: A Conversation with Carlo Ginzburg

Notes from Another Exodus: The Four-Month Struggle to Evacuate Afghan Poets and Scholars

The Digital Threat to Science and Academic Freedom

Women and a Multiplicity of Life Forms in El Meya’s Paintings: An Interview

Before the Invasion: Conversation with Vasyl Cherepanyn