Frictions: Europe, America and global Transformations

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in: Research Notes

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by: Joseph Kellner

2022-11-16

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

Image 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

in: Current Debates

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by: Tanja Wagensohn & Paul Vickers

2022-11-16

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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

in: Research Notes

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by: Blaze Joel

2022-08-18

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

in: Essays

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by: Natali Stegmann

2022-08-12

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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?

in: Current Debates

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by: Kathleen Wroblewski

2022-08-10

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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.

in: Research Notes

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by: Richard Butterwick-Pawlikowski

2022-08-10

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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

in: Research Notes

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by: Selbi Durdiyeva

2022-02-03

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

in: Essays

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by: Ulf Brunnbauer

2022-02-03

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Staatlichkeit und das Mantra des Exports im Jugoslawien der 1970er und 1980er Jahre: Wie der Schiffbau zum Kentern eines sozialistischen Staates beitrug

Was haben Schiffe und der Zerfall Jugoslawiens miteinander zu tun? Mehr als man glauben könnte, so argumentiert Ulf Brunnbauer

in: Current Debates

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by: Igor Stipić

2021-12-22

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Current Debates | Igor Stipić: Changing Chile’s Historical Cycle or Radical Comprises?

Will “the cradle of neoliberalism” also become its grave, as the new President of Chile promises? Igor Stipić, doctoral researcher at the Leibniz ScienceCampus, explores the radical compromises Gabriel Borić might need to make as he seeks to guide a society marked by a decade of protests towards democratic stability and fairness.

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in: Current Debates

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by: Verena Baier and Tamara Heger

2021-09-02

Workshop Report | Narrated Lives, Remembered Selves: Emerging Research in Life Writing Studies

How are life writing studies positioned in relation to the spatial, transnational and global turns in cultural studies and area studies? Tamara Heger and Verena Baier discuss these questions in their workshop report.

in: Essays

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by: Ulf Brunnbauer

2021-08-19

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Kicked out of Krapina (Croatia): Emigration Agents and Habsburg Bureaucrats

Was a kosher butcher with a US passport in small-town Croatia part of an international human trafficking ring? Or was he really enjoying the healthy waters? Ulf Brunnbauer explores a life story to consider migration, border and identity regimes in modern Europe and the Americas.

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in: Current Debates

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by: Drivalda Delia, Frederik Lange, Daniela Mathuber, Thalia Prokopiou, Eva-Maria Walther, Vita Zelenska

2021-08-18

Impressions from the Workshop “Unbuilding binaries: Exploring affective and analytical responses to binary divisions as encountered in the field”

How can binaries be effectively unbuilt? How does this impact constructions of identity, conceptual frameworks and scholarly fields? These are some questions explored by the graduate researcher team behind the workshop “Unbuilding binaries”

Frictions: Europe, America and global Transformations

The Collapse of the Soviet Union and the Mormons

The Return of Narratives | Conference Report: Crisis Narratives and the Pandemic

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

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

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

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

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

Staatlichkeit und das Mantra des Exports im Jugoslawien der 1970er und 1980er Jahre: Wie der Schiffbau zum Kentern eines sozialistischen Staates beitrug

Current Debates | Igor Stipić: Changing Chile’s Historical Cycle or Radical Comprises?

Workshop Report | Narrated Lives, Remembered Selves: Emerging Research in Life Writing Studies

Kicked out of Krapina (Croatia): Emigration Agents and Habsburg Bureaucrats

Impressions from the Workshop “Unbuilding binaries: Exploring affective and analytical responses to binary divisions as encountered in the field”

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