Die Einbürgerung von Deutschen in Elsass-Lothringen nach dem Ersten Weltkrieg – Dieser Beitrag erschien erstmalig in der aktuellen Ausgabe unseres Magazins „Weltweit vor Ort“ 02/21. Wenn Menschen sich aufmachen, um sich in einer anderen Region oder in einem anderen Land niederzulassen, spricht man von „Migration“. Doch es können auch Staatsgebiete in Bewegung kommen: Elsass-Lothringen wechselte in der Geschichte mehrfach die Staatszugehörigkeit…
In this conversation Michael Allan and Gauri Viswanathan discuss connections among philology, literary history, and religion, drawing from writers such as Edward Said, B.R. Ambedkar, Zora Neale Hurston, Louis Massignon, and Kumud Pawde.
From Prof. Dr. Philipp Müller, Project coordinator, Hamburg Institute for Social Research Current historical research on resistance to European integration has to deal with concepts and theories that have been used in discussions among...
From Andrea Carlo Martinez, PhD researcher at the German Historical Institute Rome The European Union is in the midst of a profound crisis, as huge swathes of its population – harnessed by powerful political...
Der Soziologe und langjährige Leiter des Max-Planck- Instituts in Köln, Wolfgang Streek hat unter dem Titel “Zwischen Globalismus und Demokratie” ein neues, Themas einschlägiges Buch veröffentlicht, welches sich mit der von ihm diagnostizie…
Interview with Pierre France What question can the reader of your book answer after reading it?There are two questions. One could be framed as a response to a classic debate in comparative political science…
By Marietheres Pirngruber In my second blog post about the US Suffrage movement, I ‘m taking a closer look at one of the sources: The Scrapbooks of Elizabeth Smith Miller and Anne Fitzhugh Miller. After sharing short biographies of both women, I will present and analyze the sources. Elizabeth Smith Miller and her daughter, Anne Fitzhugh Miller, were both active advocates and financial supporters of the women’s rights movement. Elizabeth Smith Miller was the only daughter of famous abolitionist landowner and Congressman Gerrith Smith … Continue reading The Scrapbooks of Elizabeth Smith Miller and Anne Fitzhugh Miller
By Bashshar Haydar. It is not uncommon for people working in the humanities to feel the need to demonstrate the significance or, even, the relevance of their disciplines. There is not a matching pressure in the fields of natural sciences, whether applied or theoretical.
By Sandra Richter. The history of the university and the history of academic freedom are intertwined but not identical. In certain historical situations they have even differed radically – whether it be for political, economic, or administrative reasons, or because of personal failure.
Participation politique en Allemagne au XXe siècle | Cycle de tables rondes de l’Institut historique allemand et de la Maison Heinrich Heine Depuis l’an 2000, les visiteurs du Reichstag à…
By Marcus Meer. Almost two weeks later, recordings and photographs of the attack on the Capitol are still making newspaper headlines, flicker across screens, and fill the feeds on social media. Countless commentators described the attack as an extraordinary event in t…
In the preface to the 50th anniversary edition of his Pulitzer prize winning study, The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution, the Harvard historian Bernard Bailyn reflects back on his book’s original argument of 1967, one based on an unprecedented attention to the language and rhetoric of the manifold political pamphlets that circulated in the American colonies between 1760 and 1776. Towards the end of his retrospection, Bailyn underlines …
By Žilvinas Švedkauskas. As rightly noted by Dr. Anna Hofmann in the introduction to this TRAFO series, the boundary between Europe and its neighborhood has historically been and remains highly ambiguous, though little questioned.
von Matthias Lemke. Dieser Beitrag erschien erstmalig in der aktuellen Ausgabe unseres Magazins “Weltweit vor Ort” 02/20.
Weltpolitisch haben sich seit Anfang 2020 infolge der Ausbreitung des Coronavirus die Ereignisse überschlagen. Die Ausrufung des globalen Gesundheitsnotstands durch die Weltgesundheitsorganisation am 30. Januar löste eine…
Lesen, Schreiben und Publizieren sind die Essenz von “Geisteswissenschaften als Beruf”. In dieser Folge von readme.txt beantwortet Zoé Kergomard, wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin am Deutschen Historischen Institut in Paris, vier Fragen zu ihrem neuen Buch „Wahlen ohne Kampf? Schweizer Parteien auf Stimmenfang, 1947–1983“.
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