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By Lidia Kuzemska This article was simultaneously published by L.I.S.A. – Wissenschaftsportal Gerda Henkel Stiftung. Given the opportunity and resources, displaced Ukrainian scholars aim to contribute to academia and science in both home and host countries, and to play their part in the Ukrainian reconstruction. “Ukrainian Researchers in Germany: Networking…
A turning point? The United Kingdom and the European Parliamentary Elections Act 1999
From William King, German Historical Institute London While democracy consists of more than just elections, at times elections do throw us a curveball. In the 1999 elections to the European Parliament in the United...
Interview with Giorgia Meloni – is Italy’s new PM a Eurosceptic?
From Andrea Carlo Martinez, German Historical Institute Rome Last autumn, Italy’s most outspoken political firebrand – Giorgia Meloni – was appointed as prime minister. The first woman and far-right premier since the end...
Riding on the “Europe train” – The Confederation of British Industry’s strategy to promote Europe
From Katharina Troll, Hamburg Institute of Social Research With the term “Europe train” many people might associate the Eurostar train or the famous Eurotunnel project which, since the 1990s, links the United Kingdom with...
Everyone has a Stake in Morocco’s Football Team
By Brahim El Guabli and Aomar Boum This is a repost with kind permission of The Markaz Review in which the article was published originally. For the millions watching the semi-final World Cup match between France and Morocco, it felt like the ultimate showdown, yet players on both teams fought…
Envisioning Domestic Labor on Instagram: Changing Parameters of Visibility under Neoliberal Digital Capitalism
by Nazlı Özkan #invisiblehousework (#görünmeyenevişleri) first started as an Instagram hashtag and continued with an account of its own under the same name. The hashtag was created by Elif Doğan, or blogcuanne (mom blogger) with her Instagram and blogger handle. She has currently has around 111K followers and lives in…
A New Iran Has Been Born — A Global Iran
Asef Bayat is an author and professor of sociology and Middle East studies at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. This interview with him widely shared by Iranians — and now banned by the Tehran authorities — was published by New Lines in an English translation for the first time. A…
Figuring a Women’s Revolution: Bodies Interacting with Their Images
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research By L[1] Translation by Alireza Doostdar[2] For Zhina, for Niloofar, for Elaheh, for Mahsa, for Elmira, and for those whose names I have yet to call. Is the uprising in Iran a feminist revolution? This essay is an attempt to understand an intuition born…
Normalization of Violence Against Women in Iran
By Nassim Mehran At the time when this text was written, the protests in Iran, with women on the frontline chanting “Woman, Life, Freedom”, were erupting, bringing together people of different social and political strata, unified in solidarity against the state’s systematic oppression of women and the killing of Mahsa…
Normalization of Violence Against Women in Iran
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research By Nassim Mehran At the time when this text was written, the protests in Iran, with women on the frontline chanting “Woman, Life, Freedom”, were erupting, bringing together people of different social and political strata, unified in solidarity against the state’s systematic oppression of…
Everyone say ‘Brexit’…
From David Lawton, German Historical Institute London This post covers our project’s recent presentation of papers for the (De)Constructing Europe London Workshop, hosted at the German Historical Institute London. Presentations took place between Thursday,...
Going against the tide? Sceptical views and alternative visions of European integration
From William King, German Historical Institute London (GHIL) This post covers our recent evening panel event of the (De)Constructing Europe London Workshop, hosted at the German Historical Institute London. It took place at 17.15...
“A New Form of Evil Emerges Now” – A Conversation with Olha Honchar
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research Interview with Olha Honchar by Natasha Klimenko Olha Honchar. Photo by Alina Kindiak. In mid-March of this year, I interviewed Olha Honchar, the head of Territory of Terror Museum in Lviv and the initiator of the Museum Crisis Center. Since the escalation of Russia’s…
Digging Deeper: Contested Livelihoods and Sociocosmological Relations among Artisanal Miners in Laos
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research By Oliver Tappe When I first visited the Lao tin mining area by the river Nam Phathaen (Khammouane province) in 2019, I was struck by the image of local villagers digging small pits and tunnels next to the roaring excavators of a Chinese mining…
Trauma and the 1980s in Arabic Literary Studies
By Anne-Marie McManus What is a literary history of the present? There are many ways to imagine such a project and its debt to Foucauldian genealogy, from accounts of how literature writes history to how the notion of literature is a historical aspect of the present. This essay, part of…
Discussing European identity in Transylvania
From Dr. Olga Gontarska, German Historical Institute Warsaw From 17 to 19 May, the Faculty of History and Philosophy of the Babeș-Bolyai University in Cluj–Napoca (Romania) hosted the international conference “Cultural Pluralism and Identity...