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The Forum Transregionale Studien and the Max Weber Stiftung − Deutsche Geisteswissenschaftliche Institute im Ausland (MWS) offer scholarly platforms through <link en forum explorative-instruments explorative-workshops.html internen link im aktuellen>Explorative Workshops and Transregional Academies designed to enable the problem-oriented collaboration of scholars, inviting them to identify, test and develop innovative research questions and projects from a transregional perspective. Via an open call we invited postdoc scholars to apply.

The winners of the 2016 competition to co-organize Transregional Workshops are:

“All you can do with Catalogs: Accessing, Organizing, Disseminating Local and Global Knowledge, (15th-19th Centuries)” lautet der Themenvorschlag von Paola Molino (Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral fellow an der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München). The workshop will be organized together with Martina Siebert (Berlin State Library — East Asia Department/Independent scholar), Guy Burak (New York University) and Dagmar Riedel (Columbia University) and will center on questions of the systematization and categorization of knowledge in premodern societies.

Gerrit J. Schenk (Technical University Darmstadt) and Martin Bauch (German Historical Institute Rom) will scrutinize global climate change in a workshop project titled “The Crisis of the 14th Century: ‘Teleconnections’ between Environmental and Societal Change”.

Sarah Ruth Sippel (Centre for Area Studies at the University of Leipzig) asks in her workshop “Envisioning the Future of Food Across North-South Divides: Transregional Food Networks and Movements” how agriculture and food should be organised and secured within societies.

Moreover, it was decided on the topic for a Transregional Academy:

Leyla Dakhli (Centre Marc Bloch, Berlin) aims to re-formulate the Mediterranean space in the group of early career and senior scholars within a framework of a Transregional Academy titled “De-Framing the Mediterranean from the 21^st Century. Places, Routes and Actors.”

We promote collegial dialogue among scholars at various stages of their academic careers as well as the intensive processing of a research theme in an international and multidisciplinary context. We offer open and flexible formats and strong scholarly networks as well as support in terms of conceptual development, practical organization, communication and funding.

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