Jutta Allmendinger: “Education pays off”
An introduction to the keynote of Jutta Allmendinger by Ellen von den Driesch In contrast to the increasing value of education regarding employment and income, most EU member states continue to have...
View ArticleRecommendation: “Global Intellectual History beyond Hegel and Marx”
by Gesche Schifferdecker and Helen May “Global history” has become a prominent subject in North American and European academia claims Sanjay Subrahmanyam from the University of California in his essay...
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Workshop “Vital Conjunctures – Gender in Times of Uncertainty”, March 6-7,...
By Nadine Sieveking The anthropologist Jennifer Johnson-Hanks (UC Berkeley) introduced the notion of ‘vital conjunctures’ in her keynote. (Photo: private) How are conditions of uncertainty affecting...
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Workshop “Provincializing the Social Sciences” at Freie Universität Berlin
Copyright: BGSMCS The three-day workshop “Provincializing the Social Sciences” will take place from 4 – 6 May 2015 at the Freie Universität Berlin. Venue: Freie Universität Berlin, Henry Ford Building,...
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Achille Mbembe “Decolonizing Knowledge and the Question of the Archive”
In his lecture “Decolonizing Knowledge and the Question of the Archive”, Achille Mbembe, Professor at the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research (WISER), University of the Witwatersrand in...
View ArticleIsabel Feichtner: Chancen und Herausforderungen der Pluralisierung des Rechts
Interview im Kontext der Arbeitstagung “Reimers Konferenzen Revisited” (7./8. Juni 2015 am Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften in Bad Homburg) Isabel Feichtner (Goethe Universität Frankfurt) berichtet...
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New Discussion Series on TRAFO: Provincializing Epistemologies
Provincializing Epistemologies – Reflections on Hegemonies of Knowledge Production and the Politics of Disciplinary Divisions This article is part of the TRAFO Series “Provincializing Epistemologies”....
View ArticleTIPP: Sebastian Conrad: “Die Welt von gestern”– Migration und...
Der Berliner Historiker Sebastian Conrad berichtet in der Frankfurter Allgemeinen Zeitung vom 4. Januar 2016 über die historische Einordnung, Entstehung und Charakteristika des heutigen Migrations-...
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Replacing the Yardstick and Changing Perspective
To overcome methodological nationalism means to ensure that the determination of the space of relevance becomes part of every new research project. Ravi Ahuja (photo: Florian Müller for Volkswagen...
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Book review: New Conservatives in Russia and East Central Europe
By Alicja Curanović Katharina Bluhm and Mihai Varga, New Conservatives in Russia and East Central Europe (London, New York: Routledge, 2019) Conservatism seems to be the new black among experts on...
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