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:

Prisma Ukraïna
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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

TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research

TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research

Ausgewählte Blogbeiträge und -reihen:

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

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

We Didn’t Start the Fire: Military Interventions from Kosovo to Kiev

“Resisting Multiple Pressures – Perspectives on Academic Freedom in Europe” – Side Note on the re:constitution Seminar

Future | Cinema | Archive: On Appropriation Processes of Protest Videos

Chomsky Is No Friend of the Syrian Revolution

Comics as Witness and Testimony: An Interview with Jennifer Howell

« S’alarmer face aux mécanismes de la vérité » : une conversation avec Montassir Sakhi

“I’m Staying in Ukraine to Understand What is Happening” – Interview with Artist Alevtina Kakhidze

Review: Islam, Ethnicity, and Conflict in Ethiopia: The Bale Insurgency, 1963-1970 by Terje Østebø

Unicorns in the Real World: Triple Discrimination within a Neoliberal Education System

Science Fiction and the Anticipation of the Future: On a Public Talk by Kawthar Ayyed

Whose History is it? The Challenges and Paradoxes of Studying Queer History in a Neoliberal and Nationalist Context

Doing Research “Out of Vengeance” — Interview

Writing the Histories of Death and Empire in Alexandria: A Conversation

Cripping the Neoliberal University – We Need a Politics of Care

The Promise of Education

Can Images Shape the Future? A Conversation with Director Abou Bakar Sidibé

Racism in German Public Institutions – Interview with Matthias Middell

Reporting Corona

Dealing with Sexual Harassment and Violence in the Neoliberal University

On the Margins of the University: Academics in the Face of Power in post-2016 Turkey

Gods and Outcasts: Ambivalent Attitudes towards Health Workers in India during the Coronavirus Pandemic

God in Times of Uncertainty

Ottoman Roads to the Present: Infrastructure Development in Southeast Europe

Heterodox Philology

Navigating Socialist Encounters: Moorings and (Dis)Entanglements between Africa and East Germany during the Cold War

Egypt’s Football Revolution: Emotion, Masculinity, and Uneasy Politics

Retracing Professional Mobility: Historical Network Analysis through CERD

Affective Readings: Emotion and Society in/of Egyptian Literature, 1990 to 2020

The Digital Humanities Interface – An Introduction

Islam and Heritage in Europe: Pasts, Presents and Future Possibilities

The African Refugee Equilibrium

A Small Rift in the United States Regarding Palestine: A Shift in Rhetoric, But What About Foreign Policy?

Refugees and Religion

Essentialism and the Making of African Refugees

Congo’s White ‘Refugees’

Disassembling Fordism from the Inside: Transnational Radicals in Detroit and Turin in the 1960s

Infrastructures of the Self in Late Ottoman Iraq