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Tue 15 Dec 2020

The Forum will host another scholar at risk thanks to a Philipp Schwartz grant

Through the Philipp Schwartz Initiative, the Forum Transregionale Studien has the opportunity to grant a fellowship to …

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Tue 08 Dec 2020

“In the face of a systematic erosion of memory, I was intrigued by the preservation of what was gone”

TRAFO Blog: 5in10 Interview with Sana Tannoury-Karam (EUME Fellow 2020/21)

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Tue 08 Dec 2020

Whoever Owns Heritage is a Temporary Custodian

Interview with Lebanese film maker and artist Akram Zaatari on our TRAFO Blog

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Akram Zaatari. Against Photography, 2017. Courtesy of the artist.
Tue 03 Nov 2020

New audio recordings published

Audio recordings of the talks recently held in the framework of the virtual EUME Berliner Seminar (Winter Term 2020/21) …

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Mon 02 Nov 2020

»Freiheit« by Yassin Al-Haj Saleh now available open access

The essay »Freiheit. Heimat, Gefängnis, Exil und die Welt« is now available open access at perspectivia.net.

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Tue 13 Oct 2020

EUME Berliner Seminar Winter Term 2020/21

Under this winter term’s main theme »Universals and Fragments«, our fellows and other scholars will discuss their …

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Wed 09 Sep 2020

EUME Fellows 2020/2021

The research program Europe in the Middle East — The Middle East in Europe (EUME) welcomes its Fellows of the academic …

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Tue 16 Jun 2020

Research in Times of Restricted Civil and Academic Freedom

Through the Philipp Schwartz Initiative, the Forum Transregionale Studien has the opportuniy to grant a fellowship to …

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[Translate to Englisch:] Philipp Schwartz
Tue 09 Jun 2020

Transnational Solidarities: Will the Pandemic Change Ways of Social and Political Struggle?

Article by Sana Tannoury-Karam in our TRAFO Blog series #DossierCorona — #solidaritymatters

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Wed 22 Apr 2020

Freiheit: Heimat, Gefängnis, Exil und die Welt

Just published and hot off the press: Yassin Al-Haj Saleh on freedom and exile.

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Mon 20 Apr 2020

Imagining Futures – Dealing with Disparity / Rechercher des perspectives d'avenir face aux inégalités

Merian Centre for Advanced Studies in the Maghreb (MECAM) to be established at the Université de Tunis

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[Translate to Englisch:] MECAM Tunis
Tue 07 Apr 2020

Beyond Trauma/Resilience: Surviving and Becoming in Today’s World

Listen back to Lamia Moghnieh's talk at the Art Histories Symposium “Beyond Trauma? A Transregional Perspective on …

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Tue 24 Mar 2020

“It Is Actually My Students Who Repeatedly Explain My Research to Me”

TRAFO Blog: 5in10 Interview with Oraib Toukan (EUME Fellow 2019/20)

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Wed 18 Mar 2020

“It Is Interesting to Investigate How Modern Ideas of Security and Geopolitics Were Manipulated Through Global Entanglement”

TRAFO Blog: 5in10-Interview with İlkay Yılmaz (EUME Fellow 2019/2020) on the TRAFO Blog

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Ilkay Yilmaz
Wed 11 Mar 2020

“A Major Task is to Challenge our own Positionality on an Ongoing Basis”

TRAFO Blog: Interview with Mohammed Bamyeh (University of Pittsburgh & Arab Council for the Social Sciences, ACSS)

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Mohammed Bamyeh
Tue 18 Feb 2020

Fatal Friends, National Trauma, Accountability

Video of the EUME Lecture held by Khaled Fahmy (University of Cambridge) on December 4th, 2019 in Berlin

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Tue 14 Jan 2020

Recollecting a Shared Polyphony: Popular Culture, Media Technologies and Heritagization of Music across the Mediterranean

EUME Workshop, 23–24 January 2020 | Convened by Diana Abbani (EUME Fellow 2018–20) and Yektan Türkyilmaz (EUME Fellow …

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Wed 18 Sep 2019

EUME Berliner Seminar Winter Term 2019/20

Under this winter term’s main theme »Past as Present«, our fellows and other guest researchers will discuss their …

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Poster Berliner Seminar Winter Term 2019/20
Wed 18 Sep 2019

EUME Fellows 2019/20

The research program Europe in the Middle East—The Middle East in Europe (EUME) welcomes its Fellows of 2019/2020.

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Collage of the EUME Fellows 2019/20
Tue 03 Sep 2019

ERC Starting Grant awarded to the Forum Transregionale Studien

The European Research Council – ERC announced today that the literary scholar Dr. Anne-Marie McManus together with the …

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