TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research
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.
Ausgewählte Blogbeiträge und -reihen:
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
Kravchenko, Mariia; Schmäing, Sophie; Zychowicz, Jessica
“Photographers are very eloquent speakers” – A Conversation with Jessica Zychowicz and Mariia Kravchenko
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 2023
Kalenychenko, Tetiana; Brylov, Denys
Identity Migration of Orthodox Churches During the War in Ukraine (Since 2014)
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 2023
El-Hitami, Hannah
Ex-Syrian Prisoners Reunite with Music as their Balm
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 2023
Stodolinska, Yuliya
Cats in the Street Art of LBWS CAT UKRAINE: Constructing Cultural Memory in Wartime
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 2023
Sieber, Judith und Jacqueline Wagner
Cuerpos de Agua – Perspektiven aus Aktivismus und Kunst zur Bedeutung von Wasser in Lateinamerika und Europa
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 2023
Hoffman, Brendan
Tragedy and Normalcy: Documenting Russia’s War on Ukraine – An Interview with Photographer Brendan Hoffman
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 2023
Shams, Fatemeh
‘Woman, Life, Freedom:’ Decoding the Political Poetics of a Woman-led Revolutionary Movement
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 2023
Zaitseva-Chipak, Natalia
Ukrainian Forcefully Displaced Persons in Germany: To Stay or to Leave?
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 2023
Brylov, Denys; Kalenychenko, Tetiana
“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
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 2023
Sieber, Judith
Re-connect. Kunst und Kampf im Bruderland
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 2023
Labur, Olha
Militarized Cancer: People with a Diagnosis and the War in Ukraine
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 2023
Shatalov, Denys
“Somewhere on a subconscious level, I continued to evaluate and perceive the outbreak of the war through analogies with WWII” – 5in10 with Denys Shatalov
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 2023
Schmäing, Sophie & Ricarda Fait
DGO-Jahrestagung »Flucht und Exil im östlichen Europa. Macht und Ohnmacht«, 15.-16. Juni 2023, Berlin
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 2023
Kuzemska, Lidia
“Why people move, or, rather, why some move and others stay always intrigued me” – 5in10 with Lidia Kuzemska
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 2023
Haidamachuk, Olha
The ‘Emergency Grab Bag’ of Memory, or the Tonalities of News Headlines About the War in Ukraine – Part Twо
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 2023
Mozolevska, Alina
“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
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 2023
Soroka, Yuliia
“This is a significant time for the social sciences and humanities, which explore the world of ideas and beliefs.” – 5in10 with Yuliia Soroka
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 2023
Tannoury-Karam, Sana
The Wondrous World of Omar El-Zeenni
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 2023
Sieber, Judith
Өмә – Die Kolonialgeschichte Russlands schreiben
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 2023
Jolkina, Aleksandra
“It was precisely the total absence of reports on the situation on the ground that attracted my attention” – 5in10 with Aleksandra Jolkina
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 2023
İleri, Nurçin
Unearthing the Substrata of Images – Interview with Sanaz Sohrabi
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 2023
Mozolevska, Alina
The Power of Maps and Geographic Imagery in Digital Communication: Narrating Russia’s War in Ukraine
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 2023
Haidamachuk, Olha
“In time of war, memory becomes a powerful resource” – 5in10 with Olha Haidamachuk
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 2023
Bianco, Annamaria
Moving Through Space, Sheltering Across Time: Alternate Realities in Contemporary Arabic Fiction of (Forced) Displacement
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 2023
“I would resist the temptation of exceptionalising the times we are living in” – 5in10 with Kaoutar Ghilani
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 2023
Milford, Ismay
African Activists in a Decolonising World: The Making of an Anticolonial Culture, 1952–1966
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 2023
Abdelrahman, Sanabel
Sindibād in Trap: A Youthful Revolutionary of Hope and Resilience
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 2023
Chatta, Rasha
Reclaiming Spaces from the Streets to the Gutter: Sketching Feminisms in Contemporary Arab Graphic Narratives
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 2023
Homanyuk, Mykola and Janush Panchenko
From a Pilfered Nail to a Stolen Tank: The Role of a Media Event in the Consolidation of the Ukrainian Political Nation
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 2023
Гоманюк, Микола і Панченко, Януш
Від поцупленого цвяха до вкраденого танка: роль медіа-події в консолідації Української політичної нації
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 2023
Issa, Rana and Georges Khalil
The Modern Arabic Bible: Translation, Dissemination and Literary Impact – an Interview with Rana Issa
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 2023
Homanyuk, Mykola
“War pushes the trivial out of memory” – 5in10 with Mykola Homanyuk
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 2023
Kalter, Christoph & Jacqueline Wagner
Postcolonial People: The Return from Africa and the Remaking of Portugal – an Interview with Christoph Kalter
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 2023
Haidamachuk, Olha
The ‘Emergency grab bag’ of Memory, or the Tonalities of News Headlines About the War in Ukraine – Pt 1
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 2023
Daniaud, Elise
Kahramanmaraş Earthquake: How the Syrian Regime is Instrumentalising the Natural Catastrophe
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 2023
Ratushna, Taisiia
What the Telegram Channels of Ukrainian Migrants in Germany ‘Talk’ and ‘Keep Silent’ About
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 2023
Ilin, Vadym
“I was intrigued by how a familiar space, when destroyed, reveals both its essence and the nature of the war” – 5in10 with Vadym Ilin
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 2023
Grineva, Ekaterina
The “Chronicler of a Generation” – Serhij Zhadan at Kulturbahnhof Kamea (Frankfurt/Oder)
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Studies, 2023
Zamir, Shamoon
Egypt Every Day: The Photography of Yasser Alwan
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 2023
Sereda, Viktoria
History Teacher of the People: Volodymyr Zelensky, Vasyl Holoborodko and his Displaced Colleagues
TRAFO - Blog for Transregional Research, 2023
Issa, Rana
Carnal Feasting and Literary Scandal – How Ahmad al-Shidyaq Theorized the Literary
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 2023
Judith Sieber im Gespräch mit Andrii Portnov
„Das Schreiben eines historischen Textes erfordert immer noch eine gewisse zeitliche Distanz“
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 2023
Ghazzawi, Razan
“Why Queer? Don’t you have something more important than this to talk about?” – 5in10 with Razan Ghazzawi
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 2023
Labur, Olha
“It’s necessary for researchers, driven by ethical values, to establish historical perspective in times of crisis” – 5in10 with Olha Labur
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 2023
Cherepanyn, Vasyl and Kinga Lendeczki
The Birth of Culture from the Spirit of Revolution
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 2023
Sarıtaş, Ezgi
Envisioning a Homoeroticized Cityscape Through Work
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 2023
Önder Çelik
“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
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 2023
Burcu Alkan
The Egyptian Coffeehouse: Culture, Politics and Urban Space
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 2023
Shatalov, Denys
Merging in Space: The Ongoing War and Previous Wars in Ukraine
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 2023
Ratushna, Taisiia
“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
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 2023
Elnemr, Eman
“But knowledge is not only desire; it is also necessary to commit to what we know” – 5in10 with Eman Elnemr
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 2022
Sereda, Viktoriya
War, Migration and Memory: An Introduction
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 2023
Micklewright, Nancy
Messy Surroundings: Calligrapher at Work
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 2022
Martin, Erik
»Endliness is an Irritating, but Genuinely Modern and Ubiquitous Time Regime« – 5in10 with Erik Martin
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 2022
Jebari, Idriss
Memory and the Repressed: The Possibility of Therapeutic Histories of the 1980s
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 2022
Portnov, Andrii
Rethinking East European Studies in Times of Upheaval: Some Reflections on Ukrainian Studies in Germany (and Not Only)
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 2022
İleri, Nurçin
Picturing the Labor Landscape: The Silahtarağa Power Plant and Istanbul’s Electrical Infrastructure
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 2022
Kundos, Zahiye
Faith without Compulsion: Reflections on Iran
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 2022
Nanquette, Laetitia
How Iran’s Rich Literature Can Help You Better Understand the Protests of Today
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 2022
Pidoprygora, Svitlana
Ukrainian Comics and War in Ukraine
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 2022
Dogangun, Simla
Turkish Literature as World Literature – Book Review
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 2022
Ilin, Vadym
The Military Destruction of Late Soviet Urban Space in Ukraine and the Demise of the Soviet Man
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 2022
Portnov, Andrii
Ukraine: Between West and Different Easts
Oxford Centre for Intellectual History, 2022
Portnov, Andrii
Nothing New in the East? What the West Overlooked – Or Ignored
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 2022
Atasoy, Zehra Betül
Ever-Present Tobacco Dust: Women’s Labor Conditions at the Cibali Tobacco Factory
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 2022
Tappe, Oliver
Digging Deeper: Contested Livelihoods and Sociocosmological Relations among Artisanal Miners in Laos
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 2022
Miller, Alyssa
Touche pas à ma UGTT: The Syndical Movement as a ‘Secular Sacred’ Value
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 2022
Halpern, Rick
The Rational Factory, Labour, and the Fordist Visual Imaginary
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 2022
McManus, Anne-Marie
Trauma and the 1980s in Arabic Literary Studies
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 2022
Ginzburg, Carlo and Islam Dayeh
Philology and Microhistory: A Conversation with Carlo Ginzburg
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 2022
Shams, Fatemeh
Notes from Another Exodus: The Four-Month Struggle to Evacuate Afghan Poets and Scholars
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 2022
Kunz, Raffaela
The Digital Threat to Science and Academic Freedom
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 2022
El Meya and Katarzyna Falęcka
Women and a Multiplicity of Life Forms in El Meya’s Paintings: An Interview
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 2022
Cherepanyn, Vasyl and Inga Lāce
Before the Invasion: Conversation with Vasyl Cherepanyn
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 2022
Ristić, Katarina
We Didn’t Start the Fire: Military Interventions from Kosovo to Kiev
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 2022
Detre, László
“Resisting Multiple Pressures – Perspectives on Academic Freedom in Europe” – Side Note on the re:constitution Seminar
TRAFO - Blog for Transregional Research, 2022
Strohmaier, Alena
Future | Cinema | Archive: On Appropriation Processes of Protest Videos
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 2022
al-Haj Saleh, Yassin
Chomsky Is No Friend of the Syrian Revolution
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 2022
Howell, Jennifer & Rasha Chatta
Comics as Witness and Testimony: An Interview with Jennifer Howell
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 2022
Sakhi, Montassir and Johannes Frische
« S’alarmer face aux mécanismes de la vérité » : une conversation avec Montassir Sakhi
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 2022
Kakhidze, Alevtina and Philipp Hindahl
“I’m Staying in Ukraine to Understand What is Happening” – Interview with Artist Alevtina Kakhidze
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Studies, 2022
Engel, Ulf
Review: Islam, Ethnicity, and Conflict in Ethiopia: The Bale Insurgency, 1963-1970 by Terje Østebø
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 2022
Wilkinson, Jennifer
Unicorns in the Real World: Triple Discrimination within a Neoliberal Education System
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 2022
Pepe, Teresa
Science Fiction and the Anticipation of the Future: On a Public Talk by Kawthar Ayyed
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 2022
Foit, Mathias
Whose History is it? The Challenges and Paradoxes of Studying Queer History in a Neoliberal and Nationalist Context
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 2022
Amayed, Aymen and André Weißenfels
Doing Research “Out of Vengeance” — Interview
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 2022
Auji, Hala and Shana Minkin
Writing the Histories of Death and Empire in Alexandria: A Conversation
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 2022
Heise-von der Lippe, Anya
Cripping the Neoliberal University – We Need a Politics of Care
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 2022
Rabing, Angela
Can Images Shape the Future? A Conversation with Director Abou Bakar Sidibé
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Studies, 2022
Middell, Matthias
Racism in German Public Institutions – Interview with Matthias Middell
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 2022
Wälty, Tanja
Dealing with Sexual Harassment and Violence in the Neoliberal University
TRAFO - Blog for Transregional Research, 2022
Mestci, Alihan
On the Margins of the University: Academics in the Face of Power in post-2016 Turkey
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 2022
Liu, Gautam
Gods and Outcasts: Ambivalent Attitudes towards Health Workers in India during the Coronavirus Pandemic
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 2022
Embaby, Khadija Mohamed and Amira Mittermaier
God in Times of Uncertainty
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 2021
Riedler, Florian and Nenad Stefanov
Ottoman Roads to the Present: Infrastructure Development in Southeast Europe
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 2021
Allan, Michael and Gauri Viswanathan
Heterodox Philology
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 2021
Harisch, Immanuel R.
Navigating Socialist Encounters: Moorings and (Dis)Entanglements between Africa and East Germany during the Cold War
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 2021
Rommel, Carl
Egypt’s Football Revolution: Emotion, Masculinity, and Uneasy Politics
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 2021
Pelzer, Thorben
Retracing Professional Mobility: Historical Network Analysis through CERD
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 2021
Junge, Christian
Affective Readings: Emotion and Society in/of Egyptian Literature, 1990 to 2020
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 2021
Steinbach-Hüther, Ninja and Thomas Efer
The Digital Humanities Interface – An Introduction
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 2021
Puzon, Katarzyna
Islam and Heritage in Europe: Pasts, Presents and Future Possibilities
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 2021
Karam, Jeffrey G.
A Small Rift in the United States Regarding Palestine: A Shift in Rhetoric, But What About Foreign Policy?
in: TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 7 July 2021
Jaji, Rose
Essentialism and the Making of African Refugees
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 2021
Pizzolato, Nico
Disassembling Fordism from the Inside: Transnational Radicals in Detroit and Turin in the 1960s
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 2021
Cole, Camille
Infrastructures of the Self in Late Ottoman Iraq
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 2021
İnal, Onur
Tracks of Change: Labor, Nature, and the Izmir-Aydın Railroad
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 2021
İleri, Nurçin
Ambitious yet Ambivalent: Electrical Infrastructure and Inequality in Early Republican Turkey
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 2021
Nuha Alshaar, Beate La Sala, Jenny Oesterle and Barbara Winckler (eds.)
The Humanities in the 21st Century: Perspectives from the Arab World and Germany — New TRAFO Blog Series
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 2021
Alkan, Hilal & Nazan Maksudyan (eds.)
Urban Neighbourhood Formations
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 2021
Fellows of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin
Academic Freedom — New TRAFO Blog Series
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 2021
Akgöz, Görkem; Nurcin Ileri; Malak Labib
Factory Reloaded: Transregional Perspectives on the Industrial Workplace
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 2021
Melike Uyar, Yaprak
On Cultural Omnivorousness: Reinvention of Anatolian Pop as Turkish Psychedelic
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 2021
Özbek, Egemen
Refugee Routes: Telling, Looking, Protesting, Redressing – An Academy in Exile Book
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 2021
Wöll, Steffen
The West and the Word: Imagining, Formatting, and Ordering the American West in Nineteenth-Century Cultural Discourse
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 2021
Tannoury-Karam, Sana
The League Against Imperialism: Lives and Afterlives (Interview with Sana Tannoury-Karam)
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 2021
Türkyilmaz, Zeynep
On Dersim and the Banality of Evil: The Diary of Yusuf Kenan Akım
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 2021
Nattermann, Ruth
Jewish Women in the Early Italian Women’s Movement
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 2020
Hofmann, Anna / ZEIT-Stiftung (Hg.)
Neue Serie auf dem TRAFO-Blog: »Trajectories of Change«
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 2020
Schielke, Samuli
Migrant Dreams: Egyptian Workers in the Gulf States
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 2020
Tannoury-Karam, Sana
In the face of a systematic erosion of memory, I was intrigued by the preservation of what was gone – 5in10 with Sana Tannoury-Karam
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 2020
Sbaiti, Nadya
Teaching Science Fiction While Living It in Lebanon
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 2020
Chedouki, Jihane
Postcolonial Legal Systems Embody the Paradoxes of Decolonisation – 5in10 with Jihane Chedouki
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 2020
Noor, Farish A.
Crisis and Future: On the Demise of Dreams of Connectivity and Mobility
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 2020
Pahwa, Sonali
Theaters of Citizenship. Aesthetics and Politics of Avant-Garde Performance in Egypt
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 2020
Peter, Sabina García, Nina Lawrenz and Tanja Wälty (eds.)
#DossierCorona #transnationalfeminisms
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 2020
Hegedüs, Daniel
The European Commission’s Missed Rule-of-Law Opportunity
The German Marshall Fund of the United States, 2020
Naguib, Rim
The Leader as Groom, the Nation as Bride: Patriarchal Nationalism under Nasser and Sisi
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Studies, 2020
Tzoreff, Avi-Ram
Beyond the Boundaries of “The Land of the Deer”
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Studies, 2020
Weinberg, Nyasha; Pagliari, Claudia
Covid-19 reveals the need to review the transparency and independence of scientific advice
UK Constitutional Law Association, 2020
Meinema, Erik
‘Quarantine is Godly’, but in the Fight against Corona, ‘the Devil is in the Details’
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 2020
Dijkstra, Veerle
Going Online: How Corona Transforms Christian Worship
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 2020
Ibrahim, Murtala
“Coronavirus is a Ghost of the West”: Conspiratorial Explanations of the Covid-19 Pandemic among some Religious Leaders in Nigeria
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 2020
Gölz, Olmo
Ten Revolutionary Nights in Tehran: On the Significance of the Poetry at the dah shab for the ‘1979 Moment’ in Iran
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 2020
Ahmad, Zubair
On Colonial Aphasia in the Study of German Orientalism
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 2020
Nguyen, Hoai-Thu
The ultra vires decision of the German Constitutional Court
Jacques Delors Centre, 2020
Toniol, Rodrigo
Temporalities of the Pandemic and a Proposed Research Agenda About Religion
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 2020
Middell, Matthias
The Coronakrise and Moments of Respatialization
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 2020
Sidaway, James D. and Franz Waldenberger
Comparing Comparisons – New TRAFO Blog Series
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 2020
Working Futures Network
Introducing #DossierCorona #workingfutures
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 2020
Shaw, Wendy
Reenchantment: From the Facts of Orientalism to the Sustenance of Storytelling
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 2020
Zysset, Alain
“I Became Intrigued by the Relationship Between Disciplines and Their Different Answers to the Same Question” – 5in10 with Alain Zysset
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 2020
Pannewick, Friederike
The ‘1979 Moment’ in Syrian Theatre: From Politicization to an ‘Inward Turn’?
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Studies, 2020
Kirmse, Stefan
The Lawful Empire: Legal Change and Cultural Diversity in Late Imperial Russia
TRAFO - Blog for Transregional Research, 2020
Toukan, Oraib
“It Is Actually My Students Who Repeatedly Explain My Research to Me”
TRAFO - Blog for Transregional Research, 2020
Zachariah, Benjamin
What I Learned From My Grandparents, and Other Stories: Fragments of Biography, Autobiography and a History of Calcutta
TRAFO - Blog for Transregional Research, 2020
Andronikashvili
Landna(h)me Georgien – Interview with Zaal Andronikashvili
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 2020
Zeidan, Diana
Rebuilding Pride and the Technocratic Fantasy in South Lebanese Villages and Neighborhoods
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 2020
Yılmaz, İlkay
“It Is Interesting to Investigate How Modern Ideas of Security and Geopolitics Were Manipulated Through Global Entanglement”
TRAFO - Blog for Transregional Research, 2020
Vidal Martí, Neus
“There are Always More Questions to be Asked” – 5in10 with Neus Vidal Martí
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 2020
Meyer, Birgit
What is “Religion” in Africa? Relational Dynamics in an Entangled World
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 2020
Posunko, Andriy
The Eclectic Nature of the Cossack Myth: Report from the Prisma Ukraïna Workshop
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 2020
Leşanu, Alexandru
“Sugar Beets Were Not Only an Alternative to the Sugar Cane but They Also Structured a New Set of Labor Relations”
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 2020
Abbani, Diana and Yektan Türkyilmaz
Recollecting a Shared Polyphony – Interview
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 2020
Savkić, Sanja (ed.)
Indigenous Visual Cultures and Aesthetic Practices in the Americas’ Past and Present
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 2020
Arshi, Javid
Texture of Loss: Tapestry of a Withered Neighborhood from Kashmir
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 2020
Shatalov, Denys
The Cossack Myth in Eastern Europe – Interview with Denys Shatalov
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 9 December 2019
Mossallam, Alia
Archiving the Nile: A Look and “Ear” Into Nubian Historiography of an Undammed River
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 2019
Meyer, Birgit
Remapping our Mindset Towards a Transregional and Pluralistic Outlook
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 2019
Ramadhini, Tika and Pinto Barbosa, Thiago
Workshop Report: Women and the Transregional Circulation of Knowledge, 1800–1950
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 15 October 2019
Myshlovska, Oksana
Regionalism without Regions: Reconceptualizing Ukraine’s Heterogeneity
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 10 October 2019
Abu-Remaileh, Refqa
Mapping/Tracing National Literature without a Nation-state: Interview with Refqa Abu-Remaileh
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 8 October 2019
Asseraf, Arthur
New Books: Electric News in Colonial Algeria
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 23 September 2019
Frysztacka, Clara, Ramme, Jennifer and Valdivia, Pablo
Postcolonial Critique – Interview with Conveners
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 18 September 2019
Korduba, Piotr
The Reconstruction of Warsaw: Between Abhorrence and Acceptance
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 18 September 2019
Haidar, Mazen
Neighbors at War in 1975-77 Beirut
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 11 September 2019
Conrad, Sebastian, Juneja, Monica, Middell, Matthias et al.
»All Things Transregional?« Interview Series
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 2015-2019
Chanchani, Nachiket
5in10 with Nachiket Chanchani
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 21 August 2019
Tworek, Heidi
News from Germany: The Competition to Control World Communications, 1900–1945
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 14 August 2019
Benzaquen-Gautier, Stéphanie and Afonso Dias Ramos
Convener Report: Beyond Trauma? A Transregional Perspective on Trauma and Aesthetics
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 7 August 2019
Sahakyan, Naira
“Even history that happened centuries ago can cause problems for the people you are working with”
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 30 July 2019
yamomo, meLê
“Echoing Europe – Postcolonial Reverberations”
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 14 July 2019
Benaissa, Salwa
The Feminist Novel is on the Rise in the Arab Gulf: An Interview with Mona Kareem
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research / Words without Borders, 16 July 2019
Sereda, Viktoria
“Rethinking Ukrainian Studies”: Interview with Viktoria Sereda
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 15 July 2019
Davari, Arash
Covering Iran: Leftist Continuities and Discontinuities, from Propaganda to PR
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 11 July 2019
Brixius, Dorit; Urquiza, Nayeli
Healing Hands: Sickness, Healthcare, and Remedies from the Colonial Period to Today
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 10 July 2019
Schindel, Estela; Gatti, Gabriel
Workshop Report: Social Disappearance. Explorations around a travelling concept from Latin America to Eastern Europe
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 4 July 2019
Zulfiqur Rahman, Mirza
‘Pickled’ infrastructure and connectivity
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 2 July 2019
Rybka, Antonina
Conference Report: Rethinking Ukrainian Studies: Locally, Regionally, Transnationally
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 1 July 2019
Gottschalk, Sebastian
Colonialism and Islam: German and British Rule in West Africa (1900–1914)
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 25 June 2019
Hawas, May
How is World Literature Pedagogy for the Public?
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 20 June 2019
Vömel, Jan-Markus
Green was the Name of my Civilization: Turkish Islamism in the Late 1970s
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 13 June 2019
Hanoosh, Yasmeen
The Chaldeans: Politics and Identity in Iraq and the American Diaspora
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 30 April 2019
Onaran, Burak
“Authoritarian regimes apply the epithet ‘historic’ to every simple policy.” Interview with Burak Onaran
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 18 April 2019
Braun, Lesley
Cape Verde and the Atlantic: Crossroads of People, Goods and Capital Investments (1460–1610)
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 16 April 2019
Majumdar, Anindita
Transnational Commercial Surrogacy and the (Un)Making of Kin in India
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 8 April 2019
Bellan, Monqiue; von Maltzahn, Nadia
The Art Salon in the Arab Region
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 1 April 2019
Tzoreff, Avi-ram
Provincializing European Jewry: R. Yosef Hayyim of Baghdad and Ottoman Modernity – Interview with Avi-ram Tzoreff
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 6 March 2019
Curanović, Alicja
Book review: New Conservatives in Russia and East Central Europe
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 27 February 2019
Kynan-Wilson, William
Book Review: The Medieval Invention of Travel
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 14 February 2019
El-Ariss, Tarek
Leaks, Hacks, and Scandals: Arab Culture in the Digital Age
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 5 February 2019
Mishchenko, Kateryna
5in10 with Kateryna Mishchenko
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 21 December 2018
Chimee, Ihediwa Nkemjika
African Historiography and the Challenges of European Periodization
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 31 July 2018
Omerika, Armina
Islamic Intellectual Thought of the Modern Times can be Described as Already ‘Europeanized’
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 27 June 2018
Wang, Ching-Ling and Ning Yao
From Depot to Museum: Recovering a Monumental Masterpiece from the Qing Dynasty
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 25 June 2018
Linkiewicz, Olga
“I want to explore the contribution of Eastern Europeans to the debates on colonialism and racism” – 5in10 with Olga Linkiewicz
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 2018
Gezen, Ela
Brecht, Turkish Theater, and Turkish-German Literature: Reception, Adaptation, and Innovation after 1960
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 29 May 2018
Di-Capua, Yoav and Litvin, Margaret
A Conversation on the Arab Sartre, Existentialism and Decolonization
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 15 May 2018
Moosavi, Amir
Looking Back at the “1979 Moment” in the Middle East
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 2 May 2018
Moosavi, Amir, et al.
Blog Series: The “1979 Moment” in the Middle East
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 2018-2019
Wöll, Steffen
Globe, Region, and Periphery: The Spatialization of the American West in Nineteenth-Century US Literature
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 10 April 2018
Butticci, Annalisa
African Pentecostals in Catholic Europe: The Politics of Presence in the Twenty-First Century
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 27 March 2018
Christensen, Peter
Germany and the Ottoman Railways: Art, Empire and Infrastructure
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 20 March 2018
The reemergence of history in Ukrainian elections: An interview with Alexandr Osipian
TRAFO - Blog for Transregional Research, 5 September 2017
Ghazaleh, Pascale
5in10 with Pascale Ghazaleh
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 27 February 2018
Dabrowska, Ewa and Litvin, Margaret
Workshop Report: Soviet Dormitories as a Prism for Interpreting Cultural Ties Between the Soviet Union and the World
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 21 February 2018
G. Halabi, Zeina
The Unmaking of the Arab Intellectual: An Interview with Zeina G. Halabi
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 16 February 2018
Maddipati, Vanugopal
One’s own Present, and the 18th Century Present
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 5 January 2018
Corey, Pamela N.
Speech, the Still Image, and their Silent Returns in Vandy Rattana’s MONOLOGUE (2015)
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 5 December 2017
Buyskykh, Iuliia
“I plead for a dispassionate dialogue on memory” – Interview with Iuliia Buyskykh
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 2017
Dirgantoro, Wulandani
Workshop Report: Histories of Art and Art as History in Contemporary Southeast Asia
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 24 August 2017
Toyosawa, Nobuko
Impressions of the Workshop “Landscapes of the Long 18th Century: Mediating Places, Powers and Pasts in South Asia and Beyond”
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 15 August 2017
Dirantoro, Wulandani, Sarada Natarajan and Márton Orosz
Art Histories Research Travel Report
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 3 August 2017
Maddipati, Venugopal
5in10 with Venugopal Maddipati
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 1 August 2017
Novikov, Anna
The Visual Language of Neo-Nationalism: Patriotic Fashion in East-Central Europe and Central Asia
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 4 July 2017
Boatcă, Manuela
Modernity, Citizenship and Occidentalist Epistemology in Max Weber and Beyond
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 22 June 2017
Murtic, Aida and Anna Sawerthal
Reports: Negotiating Cultural Heritage. Making, Sustaining, Breaking, Sharing. A Conversation
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 22 May 2017
Moosavi, Amir
Reading the “1979 Moment” in the Middle East – Interview with Amir Moosavi
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 16 May 2017
Baader, Hannah
Introduction: Why Benin?
Blog “From Traditional to Contemporary Aesthetic Practices in West Africa, Benin and Togo”, 2016
Akhtar, Saima and David H. Colmenares
The Slaving Port of Ouidah and Monumental Discourse around the Atlantic Perimeter
Blog “From Traditional to Contemporary Aesthetic Practices in West Africa, Benin and Togo”, 2016
Art Histories and Aesthetic Practices
Translative Textiles: Interview with Yves Kpede
Blog “From Traditional to Contemporary Aesthetic Practices in West Africa, Benin and Togo”, 2016
Art Histories and Aesthetic Practices
“There is an earthquake in your mind when you see the art” – Interview with Marie-Cécile Zinsou
Blog “From Traditional to Contemporary Aesthetic Practices in West Africa, Benin and Togo”, 2016
Gnonhouevi, David
La Récupération dans l’Art Contemporain Béninois de 1990 à 2012
Blog “From Traditional to Contemporary Aesthetic Practices in West Africa, Benin and Togo”, 2016
Kynan-Wilson, Wiliam
Stories and Storytellers: The Naming of Textiles in West Africa
Blog “From Traditional to Contemporary Aesthetic Practices in West Africa, Benin and Togo”, 2016
Gutpa, Atreyee and Verena Rodatus
Cyprien Tokoudagba and Dominique Kouas: Querying the Place of the ‘Vernacular’ in Contemporary Béninois Visual Arts
Blog “From Traditional to Contemporary Aesthetic Practices in West Africa, Benin and Togo”, 2016
Elshahed, Mohamed and Priyani Roy Choudhury
Constructions of Islam in Contemporary West Africa
Blog “From Traditional to Contemporary Aesthetic Practices in West Africa, Benin and Togo”, 2016
Eckert, Andreas
Abwind, Aufwind, oder gar kein Wind? Bemerkungen zur Lage der Area Studies
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 22 June 2016
Moussavi-Aghdam, Combiz
Modern Trends in Pre-Revolutionary Iranian Art and the Question of Alternative Modernism
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 7 June 2016
Baader, Hannah and Gerhard Wolf
Aesthetics of the Threshold
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 11 April 2016
Akhtar, Saima
Conference Review “Global Modernisms: Contiguities, Infrastructures and Aesthetic Practices”
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 8 April 2016
Ouaissa, Rachid
Verortungen und Vergleiche in der Politikwissenschaft in Deutschland
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 18 March 2016
Sasunkevich, Olga
Winter Academy: “Beyond History and Identity”
Transregional Academies Blog, 15 March 2016
Bongers, Helene
Tagungsbericht „Global Modernisms: Infrastructures, Contiguities and Aesthetic Practices“
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 15 March 2016
Dayeh, Islam
“Philological Encounters” – Introduction
TRAFO - Blog for Transregional Research, 3 March 2016
Portnov, Andrii
Winter Academy “Beyond History and Identity”
Transregional Academies Blog, 29 February 2016
Leese, Daniel
Sinologie in Deutschland: »Transregionale Fragestellungen bleiben auf die Qualität regionaler Forschung angewiesen«
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 24 February 2016
Pannewick, Friederike
Nah- und Mitteloststudien: Cultural Mobility sollte schon im Studium »mit der Muttermilch aufgesogen werden«
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 8 February 2016
Mangold, Anna Katharina
Transnationale Rechtswissenschaft und die Notwendigkeit methodologischer Selbstvergewisserung
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 20 January 2016
Al-Bahloly, Saleem
“Freedom in the non-structure” – Saleem Al-Bahloly in conversation with Nada Shabout
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 15 January 2016
Gupta, Atreyee and Ming Tiampo
“It is difficult to change the DNA of a museum”
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 18 December 2015
Fabrykant, Marharytha
Arts and Scholarship: Experiencing Change with Ukrainian Authors
Transregional Academies Blog, 15 December 2015
Baader, Hannah
Neue Impulse für die Kunstgeschichte gerade aus nicht-europäischen Ländern
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 6 October 2015
Doughan, Yazan, Moumtaz, Nada and Sadek, Karim
Workshop Report: “Authority, Tradition and Critique in the Modern State”
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 23 September 2015
Seo, Yoonjung
Does the Nationality of Artists Matter? Some Thoughts on Koryŏ Buddhist Paintings in Japan
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 6 August 2015
Seo, Yoonjung
Conference Review: Transnational Cultural Interactions between Korea and Japan
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 20 July 2015
Kovacs, Hajnalka
5in10 with Hajnalka Kovacs
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 21 January 2015
Abu-Remaileh, Refqa
Longing for Haifa in Haifa: Exile in the Homeland?
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 4 December 2014
Derichs, Claudia
Reflections: Normativities in Area Studies and Disciplines
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 2014
Jarman, Lucy
Bombay in Bloom: Urban Space, Territory and Colonial Gardening
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 10 September 2014
Geisler, Philip
Halting in a Space of Total Movement: Politics and Spatial Orders at Tegel Airport
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 2 September 2014
Abreu, Maria José de
The Byzantine Icon in the Era of Electronic Media
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 13 August 2014
Tchibozo, Romuald
L’ex-RDA et les pays africains: entre légitimation artistique et solidarité idéologique, le cas du musée ethnographique de Leipzig
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 8 July 2014
Barreto, José-Manuel
5in10 with José-Manuel Barreto
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 26 June 2014
El-Houri, Walid
Revolutions Beyond Failure and Success
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 2 May 2014
Elshahed, Mohamed
Regal Cinema and Mumbai’s Art Deco
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 22 April 2014
Ray, Sugata
Whose Religion? Whose Speech? Whose Freedom?
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research, 8 April 2014