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by: Timothy Nunan
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Turning Points, Hidden Treasures and Touchdowns: One month in Ann Arbor

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.
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by: Nargiza Kilichova & Thalia Prokopiou

2nd Graduate Workshop 2023 Report | Competing Sovereignties: Intertwinement, Contestation, Evolution

Learn more about the multiscalar and reflexive approaches to the contested concept of sovereignty developed in this 2021 workshop
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by: Ulf Brunnbauer
Ulf Brunnbauer

Congealed Labor, Canned Fish: From the Adriatic towards a global history of the oil sardine

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
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by: Igor Stipić
Photo 1: A poster with members of Mapuche people in a classroom of Liceo de Aplicación with the question: Community?Igor Stipić / poster based on creative commons images

People from the Land: A High school story of the Mapuche Indigenous people in Chile

How are radical high school protests, environmental extractivism and indigenous identities entangled in Chile? Igor Stipić offers insights based on his ethnographic research
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by: Melanie Hussinger & Hajo Raupach
Melanie Hussinger

Photo Essay | Herbst der Erinnerung. Partizipatives Gedenken an den Großen Terror | The Autumn of Memory: Participatory Remembrance of the Great Terror (Moscow, October 2021)

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
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by: Joseph Kellner
Hare Krishnas in Moscow, 1990. Image courtesy of Katharina Kucher and her extraordinary image collection, perestroika.visual-history.deImage courtesy of Katharina Kucher and perestroika.visual-history.de

The Collapse of the Soviet Union and the Mormons

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
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by: Tanja Wagensohn & Paul Vickers
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The Return of Narratives | Conference Report: Crisis Narratives and the Pandemic

What can multiscalar area studies tell us about the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic around the world? Read more in this report
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by: Blaze Joel
IMAGO / Pacific Press Agency / Jorge Sanz

Commemorating National Martyrdom through Re-Creating the Past: Vukovar, Prijedor, Derry/Londonderry, and Gernika/Guernica

How do performative recreations across European post-conflict societies help antagonistic memories retain a multi-generational appeal? Berkeley doctoral researcher Blaze Joel investigates
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by: Natali Stegmann
IMAGO / agefotostock

Traditionen europäischer Sozialpolitiken und deren Nicht-Berücksichtigung am Ende des Kalten Krieges: Eine Spurensuche entlang von Arbeit und Gender

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?
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by: Kathleen Wroblewski
Leon Wyczółkowski, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Silent Rebels and the Resurrection of the Polish Nation | Exhibition analysis by Kathleen Wroblewski

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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by: Richard Butterwick-Pawlikowski
IMAGO / ZUMA Wire

Tadeusz Kościuszko, Poland-Lithuania and the Age of Atlantic Revolutions

How were efforts to secure US and Polish-Lithuanian independence linked in the Age of Atlantic revolution? And in what ways were attempts to free slaves and emancipate peasants connected? Richard Butterwick-Pawlikowski takes us on a transatlantic journey with Tadeusz Kościuszko at the helm
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by: Selbi Durdiyeva
Selbi Durdiyeva

Theorizing binaries through auto-ethnography, method, and commoning: Reflections from the field

Revisiting her fieldwork at a Russian memorial site, the author offers autoethnographic reflections on moving away from imposing academic authority towards the common production of knowledge alongside subjects
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by: Sasha Shestakova
IMAGO/ Kirill Kukhmar/TASS

Racial Capitalocene Binaries: Approaching environmental destruction in the Russian context

Sasha Shestakova explores intersections of climate change, extractivism and the destruction of indigenous cultures in Russia’s Far North, querying human/nature and North/South binaries while tracing colonialism’s long-term legacies.
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by: Chloé Chaudet
IMAGO / agefotostock

Transatlantic Circulations of Conspiracy Fiction: From Europe to the United States

Conspiracy theories are often in the (fake) news today. Although they are closer to fiction than reality, Chloé Chaudet, a recent visiting researcher at the ScienceCampus, shows that cultural and literary studies lack the tools to develop a transmedial narratology of conspiracy discourses which could investigate them in their historical and transatlantic dimensions.
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by: Jana Stöxen
Jana Stöxen

Post-socialism in Passing: Impressions from field research conducted off the beaten track | Postsozialismus im Vorbeigehen: Eindrücke einer Feldforschung abseits der großen Straßen

Jana Stöxen, winner of the inaugural Regensburg Prize for Prize for Outstanding Master's Theses, presents a photo essay based on her ethnographic field research conducted in Bucharest. She traced the ways post-socialism forms part of everyday life, shaping the community in a block of flats in the Berceni district of the Romanian capital. The texts are in English and German.
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by: Verena Baier
Verena Baier

Sometimes the Past is Just Around the Corner: Impressions from Berkeley

In the 1980s Berkeley was one of the centers of US-Americans’ Nicaragua solidarity work, which supported the Sandinista Revolution. Today remnants from back then can not only be found in UC Berkeley’s extensive archives but also hidden throughout the city. PhD researcher Verena Baier explored them while on a research fellowship there in 2019/20.
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by: Joanna Moszczyńska

Workshop Report: Migration, Mediality, Liminality

In collaboration with international partners from U Michigan and U Arizona, the ScienceCampus explored how migration experiences, in the past and today, are mediated through a variety of formats, giving expression to the liminality of global and regional mobilities.
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