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“You have to understand where you have been to define where you want to go” – Inteview with Sarah Weicksel, Executive Director of the American Historical Association

[gab_log] Geisteswissenschaft als Beruf In recent years, archives have become the focus of political and technological debates. This development is highly relevant for the GHI Washington and its researchers whose work depends on reliable access to historical sources. Sarah Beringer, Benjamin Burtz, and Axel Jansen from the GHI Washington spoke…

#MWSvernetzt: Insights into a fellowship at DHI Washington

The MWS Networking Fellowships enable MWS employees to get to know other locations of the foundation during a stay lasting several weeks. In the series ‘#MWSvernetzt’, fellows talk about their experiences. In this episode, Deepanwita Dutta from the Max Weber Forum in Delhi reports on her experiences at the German…

Tracing Objects from Archives to Museum Deposits

This article reflects on the first workshop of the Mapping Dissonant Objects project as a laboratory for rethinking archives, collections, mobility, and museum storage spaces. Rather than treating objects as stable entities, it follows their trajectories across classificatory regimes, institutional settings, and practices of visibility and concealment. By moving from…

Tracing Objects from Archives to Museum Deposits

This article reflects on the first workshop of the Mapping Dissonant Objects project as a laboratory for rethinking archives, collections, mobility, and museum storage spaces. Rather than treating objects as stable entities, it follows their trajectories across classificatory regimes, institutional settings, and practices of visibility and concealment. By moving from…

Holy Men, Unholy Fun: Why Late Antique Priests Couldn’t Go to the Circus

In the late fourth century, the church father Jerome – patron saint of righteous irritation – wrote to a Roman aristocrat named Oceanus. ‘Yesterday a catechumen, today a priest; yesterday in the arena, today in the church; in the evening in the circus, in the morning at the altar; formerly…

Towards a Unified Conversion Table for Semitic Transcriptions and Transliterations

In this study we present a preliminary conversion table that can be used for transcriptions and transliterations across different Semitic languages. We introduce the basic idea behind the table, show how it can be used, and explain how we hope to expand it in the future. 1 Introduction Transcription and…

Divided States, Divisive Memories

Lingering legacies of Japanese imperialism in East Asia By Dolf-Alexander Neuhaus and Torsten Weber May 8, 1945, is a tragic day for the residents of Imabari. On that Tuesday morning, the Japanese city on...

Elizabeth Harvey: Domesticating conquest – German women and the Nazi empire in eastern Europe from expansion to defeat

Vortrag am DHI Warschau | 4. Februar 2025, 18 Uhr Studien über die nationalsozialistische Besatzung in Osteuropa haben zwei Dimensionen des deutschen Projekts der Unterwerfungs- und Ausbeutungsprojekts der besetzten Gebiete des “Ostens” festgestellt: sowohl...

Report on “How to deal with China - A Dialogue between European and Japanese experts on China”, DIJ Tokyo, 4 April 2024

[gab_log] Geisteswissenschaft als Beruf Event Website Report by Torsten Weber, DIJ Tokyo The impressive rise of China has had a major impact on the world economy. There has been a strong belief or hope that China’s economic development and its increasing integration into the world economy would also spur political…

readme.txt: From continuity to change: Soviet and Russian government attitudes on climate change (1989–2009)

[gab_log] Geisteswissenschaft als Beruf Lesen, Schreiben und Publizieren sind die Essenz von „Geisteswissenschaften als Beruf“. In der Rubrik readme.txt stellen wir die Publikationen der Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler der Max Weber Stiftung vor. Vier kurze Fragen und Antworten machen Lust aufs Lesen! In dieser Folge von readme.txt beantwortet Dr. Ben Beuerle…

“China – Norms, Ideas, Practices” conference 2022

China and the Chinese people are diverse and took shape through a historical process; an understanding of this process and diversity would help us to achieve more distinct analyses and to avoid drawing and spreading confused pictures of China. Translators must meet the challenge of addressing certain geographical, historical and…

Why European History – Why not European History?

Yuki Ikari / Hideto Hiramatsu This short essay explores some motives behind the study of European history and historical studies of European interactions with the Japanese in Japan. To discuss the encounter between the West and the East since the very beginning of the modernisation of Japan, we discern three…

Archiving Absence and Loss: Amili Manuscripts in Libraries Worldwide

This is a digital image of an Amili manuscript that falls today under the custody of Süleymaniye Library: Muhadarāṭ al-Kafʻamī, aw, Hadīqat al-Nufūs wa Hijlat al-’Arūs.  Süleymaniye Library, Oriental manuscripts collection, no. 897, Digitized image of the original, Mohammad Taqi Faqih Personal Collection. Fatima Al-Bazzal My project tackles an under-represented and highly dispersed…

Narrating religious change: Christianity in Ottoman Mardin and the Life of Eliya the Priest

Title page of the Life of Eliya the Priest and what befell him (USJ 30 (18th c.?), ff. 1v-2r). Rosemary Maxton In around 1700 CE, in the town of Mardin (current-day southeast Turkey), a priest decided to abandon his Syriac Orthodox faith and embrace Catholicism.[1] Though little else can be…