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But we are proud to say that Mélanie Sadozaï contributed 26 entries already.
Mélanie Sadozaï examines how the 2024 LISER conference on “disruptive borderlands” highlighted borders as sites of both crisis and resilience, openness and restriction, urging a shift towards inclusive, cross-border cooperation in policy.
UR historian Timothy Nunan reflects on a month in Ann Arbor and how it enriched his research on Shi’a Islamist transformations of the world in the late 1970s.
Ulf Brunnbauer takes us on a journey from the Adriatic to the Pacific, tracing the interconnections of human, environmental and animal actors who shape the global history of capitalism on multiple scales
How are radical high school protests, environmental extractivism and indigenous identities entangled in Chile? Igor Stipić offers insights based on his ethnographic research
How did participatory remembrance of the Great Terror, from family memory to civil society endeavours, fit in Moscow’s urban and mnemonic landscape shortly before the war against Ukraine? This photo essay offers moving insights
How did the attractiveness of the Mormon embodiment of US utopian, spiritual and material ideals shift in the turbulent realities of post-Soviet Russia? U Georgia historian Joseph Kellner investigates
What can multiscalar area studies tell us about the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic around the world? Read more in this report
How do performative recreations across European post-conflict societies help antagonistic memories retain a multi-generational appeal? Berkeley doctoral researcher Blaze Joel investigates
How were labour and social relations transformed at the end of the Cold War? What did neoliberal models and the effacement of progressive traditions mean for gender relations?
Part of the Law and Justice (PiS) government’s soft power agenda, this recent exhibition features artworks that could undermine its efforts to promote a singular, martyrdom-focused politics of history and national identity.
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