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Systems of Conflictivity

TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research By Andréa Gill This article is a repost from Rewriting Peace and Conflict, where this text was originally published. Beyond the state-centric categories of war/peace, the ongoing genocide against Indigenous and African-descendent populations on the continent which Lélia Gonzalez renamed ‘Améfrica Ladina’ – recognised…

Containers: A Proposition for a Preposition

Maja-Lisa Müller - “Let us not reify containers”. Archaeologist John Robb begins his short article Contained within history with this statement. His approach may seem a little curious, given the key role of containers as material artefacts in history, archaeology and art history.

Impulses for Thought from Budapest

At the end of March, more than a fortnight before the – as would soon become apparent – momentous parliamentary elections, three junior project members paid a visit to Budapest. Our prime goal was seeing the Attila exhibition at the Hungarian National Museum (an exhibition review will be published on…

#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…

1887: Follower of Desiderio da Settignano, Princess of Urbino (c. 1465)

The so-called Princess of Urbino is a Renaissance bust whose refined execution is countered by a complex and contested provenance. Presumed to originate in Urbino, the sculpture has undergone shifting attributions, illicit export, and war-related damage. This article traces its artistic, legal, and political trajectories – revealing how the bust…

Hidden Legacies, Untidy Endings. Notes from the InechO Conference in Florence.

What happens to an international organization after it has ceased to exist? On 23 and 24 April 2026, the Alcide De Gasperi Research Centre at the European University Institute in Florence convened a conference of the InechO project (International Organizations and their European Consequences and Hidden Outcomes) on precisely this…

The Dervish and the DJ: Sufi Trance and Electronic Music’s Search for the Sacred

Somewhere in Almaty, Bukhara, or Istanbul. Candles burning, a circle of men beginning to sway. The air smells of incense. Someone is chanting Allah, Allah, Allah, and the repetition has been going on long enough that it no longer sounds like a word. Time has softened at the edges. A…

The Life of an Academic Does Not Have to be Confined to Sitting Behind a Desk ‒ 5in10 with Jacquelyn Veraldi

TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research Jacquelyn Veraldi is a Junior Research Fellow at the Central European University Democracy Institute (Budapest). Her research interests include EU constitutional, in particular the values of democracy and the rule of law. She is also a Scholar at The Good Lobby. Jacquelyn holds a…

Touching and smelling Covid-19 through music writing

As a violinist and music historian, I frequently shift between two states. The liveness of the present musical moment – the ‘now’ – in which fingers trill in haste, the bow quivers, and sweat drips from brow to the stagefloor. It is a moment that could be ruptured in a…

Mistakes in academia: to be avoided, or to be handled?

What do the flight industry, nuclear power plants and academia have in common? All of these institutions have to deal with mistakes and their consequences as part of their normal mode of operation. To err is human, and as a result, human mistakes will continue to be a part of…

Are Migrants’ Rights (still) Human Rights? Protection & Exclusion amid the Crisis of Liberalism in the Americas

By Farid Dabour An international group of scholars researching Latin American migration politics convened on February 12–13, 2026 at the Latin American Institute (LAI-FU), with participants from UNLA (Argentina), Freie Universität Berlin, UNU-CRIS, TU Berlin, Bielefeld University, the University of Bristol, Durham University, Leuphana University Lüneburg, CONICET, SOAS, Stiftung Wissenschaft…

Between Control and Emancipation: Youth Work with the Second Generation of Post-Colonial Immigrants in 1970s and 1980s London

German Historical Institute London Blog ‘The Fire Next Time’—with this alarming subtitle, the British Commission for Racial Equality (CRE) published a report on ‘youth in multi-racial society’. It stressed that the children of post-colonial migrants from India, Pakistan, and the Caribbean faced disadvantages in education and the labour market. Spending…

Word counts don’t work as progress trackers for academic writing

I think we have all seen unending amounts of advice on how to write more efficiently. As you know, I have been on a journey to improve my academic writing, and I guess with that also comes writing more efficiently. I’m using AI to help with that to a certain…

“Delicate and Fluid:” Gender and Civil War in Late Antiquity

On a hot, sweltering day in August 389 CE, the Senate House in Rome was packed. Clad in their shiny white toga, a carefully folded and rather uncomfortable woolen robe, often adorned with a broad purple stripe, the Roman senators had come to listen to an honored speaker praise the…

Cynical Uses of Suffering: Gaza, Antisemitism, & the New Digital Right

TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research By Aya Labanieh By the estimation of most academics, journalists, and medical experts, the Covid-19 pandemic was a mass radicalization event—one that unfolded almost entirely on the Internet.1 As a global crisis in public health, the pandemic brought with it an equally global surge…