Ausschreibung für die Internationale Sommerakademie „Conflict and Mobility in...
Im Rahmen des Forschungsprogramms „Europe in the Middle East – the Middle East in Europe“ (EUME) laden das Forum Transregionale Studien Berlin, die Max Weber Stiftung und die École de Gouvernance et...
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by Georges Khalil Photos: Georges Khalil (CC-BY-NC-ND) “Conflict and Mobility: Urban Space, Youth and Social Transformations” is the theme of the International Summer Academy which the Max Weber...
View ArticleHalting in a Space of Total Movement: Politics and Spatial Orders at Tegel...
By Philip Geisler Sometimes, an academic journey begins with rebellion. The transregional is the signature of transition. Transregional studies and trans-aesthetic phenomena include processes of...
View ArticleConflict and Mobility in the City
“Conflict and Mobility: Urban Space, Youth and Social Transformations” is the theme of the International Summer Academy which the Forum Transregionale Studien is conducting currently within the...
View ArticleBombay in Bloom: Urban Space, Territory and Colonial Gardening
By Lucy Jarman In February 2014 Art Histories and Aesthetic Practices at the Forum Transregionale Studien, brought a group of art historians, anthropologists and scholars from neighboring disciplines...
View ArticleCall for Applications: Irmgard Coninx Prize Fellowship for Transregional...
Application Deadline: January 10, 2015 Irmgard Coninx, Self-Portrait, 1927, Copyright Irmgard Coninx Foundation In 2015, for the second time, the Forum Transregionale Studien and the Irmgard Coninx...
View ArticleCall for Applications: Fellowships Art Histories and Aesthetic Practices
Forum Transregionale Studien invites scholars to apply for up to ten postdoctoral fellowships within the framework of the research program Art Histories and Aesthetic Practices. Kunstgeschichte und...
View ArticleCall for Papers: “Middle East – Topics & Arguments”‘s next issue: “Periphery”
The next issue of “Middle East – Topics & Arguments” (META), which will be entitled “Periphery” is looking for submissions. Its focus will be on the spatial differentiation and processes of social...
View Article“I’m happy to be writing from a city that nudges me to think about my work at...
Saima Akhtar is an architect and designer whose research focuses on the relationship between the built environment, corporate enterprise, and labor migrations. She received a PhD in Urban Studies from...
View ArticleIconic Religion in Urban Space
by Kim Knott, Volkhard Krech and Birgit Meyer Special issue of the Journal Material Religion: „Iconic Religion in Urban Space“, 2016, 12:2 ABSTRACT In order to understand current dynamics of...
View Article“Injustice, inequality and power relations were among the questions that...
Himmat Zoubi (هِمَّت زعبي) is a Palestinian researcher and feminist activist. Her dissertation at the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Ben-Gurion University entitled “The Case of Haifa...
View ArticleThe Historical Junkyards of Cairo
By Shehab Ismail The city of Cairo was surrounded by human-made mounds composed of rubbish and debris that had been piling up on the same spots for centuries. This blog post narrates how the author...
View ArticleUrban Neighbourhood Formations: Boundaries, Narrations and Intimacies
By Hilal Alkan and Nazan Maksudyan Hilal Alkan and Nazan Maksudyan (eds.), Urban Neighbourhood Formations: Boundaries, Narrations and Intimacies (Routledge, 2020). Our edited book explores the themes...
View ArticlePort Cities of the Eastern Mediterranean
By Malte Fuhrmann Malte Fuhrmann, Port Cities of the Eastern Mediterranean: Urban Culture in the Late Ottoman Empire, (Cambridge University Press, 2020). Most authors know what goes into the struggle...
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