[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…
Max Weber Stiftung · [gab_log] Geisteswissenschaft als Beruf
[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…
Max Weber Stiftung · [gab_log] Geisteswissenschaft als Beruf
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…
Sheikh Ali bin Abdullah Al Thani, emir of Qatar (r. 1949-1960) arriving at Umm Said to be condecorated with the Insignia of Knight Commander of the British Empire in 1954. His rule was characterized by the first steps in the development of an oil industry, the start of many social,…
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…
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…
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…
Scholarship on the transformation of gender norms and women’s emancipation in the twentieth century has largely relied on the fundamental tools of historical work: archival research and close reading of primary sources. But in an increasingly digital world, where massive archives of newspapers, magazines, and even parliamentary debates can be…
Graham Auman Pitts Capitalism had it seasons in late-Ottoman Mount Lebanon. Each spring, the families that tilled orchards of mulberries purchased the eggs they needed on credit. Mulberry leaves nourished the eggs, which hatched and began to spin their cocoons once the temperature was reliably above 16° Celsius. In June,…
We regularly introduce scholars that work in the project by letting them answer three short questions. Today, we talk to Maya Caspari. Maya is Curator at the German Historical Institute in London. She is also Postdoctoral Research and Engagement Fellow at the University of Leeds. What will you be working…
Max Weber Stiftung · TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research
By Mustafa Emir Küçük People have used green spaces for recreational purposes throughout history, yet the concept of the park as a designed green space for people’s recreation in the middle of the city developed on an international scale in the nineteenth century. In Istanbul, the construction of urban parks…
Max Weber Stiftung · TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research By Ayşe Nur Akdal Today, one can find it bizarre to come across a rural element in cities. However, historically, there was not a clear distinction between urban and rural. Agricultural and urban space existed together. Due to a lack of sufficient preservation and…
Max Weber Stiftung · TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research
By Graham Auman Pitts Capitalism had it seasons in late-Ottoman Mount Lebanon. Each spring, the families that tilled orchards of mulberries purchased the eggs they needed on credit. Mulberry leaves nourished the eggs, which hatched and began to spin their cocoons once the temperature was reliably above 16° Celsius. In…
Max Weber Stiftung · TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research
By Benan Grams On June 30th, 1903 Sultan Abdulhamid II approved a project to bring potable water to Damascus from the Ein el-Fijeh spring.1 The project was presented to the central government by Nazim Pasha, the governor of Syria, during a persistent cholera epidemic that afflicted Damascus throughout that year.…
Max Weber Stiftung · TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research
By Nükhet Varlık Plague is an infectious disease caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis. It is known to have affected human societies for at least the last five thousand years. During its long history, it sparked countless local epidemics and three known pandemics, which spread the bacterium to practically every…
Max Weber Stiftung · [gab_log] Geisteswissenschaft als Beruf
The institutes of the Max Weber Foundation (MWS) regularly present their research to an interested public and contribute to the exchange with the scientific community in the host countries. Due to the COVID‑19 pandemic, they now implement their lectures, seminars, book presentations and panel discussions as virtual formats. In this…
