Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky is a historian of global migration and forced displacement and Associate Professor of Global Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His research examines Muslim refugee migration and its role in shaping the modern world. He is the author of Empire of Refugees: North Caucasian Muslims and the Late Ottoman State (Stanford University Press, 2024), which received nine book prizes in the fields of global history, migration studies, Middle Eastern history, and Russian, Eastern European, and Eurasian history. He is currently a EUME Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation at the Forum Transregionale Studien. 

Claudia Derichs is Professor of Transregional Southeast Asian Studies at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. She has studied Japanese and Arabic in Bonn, Tokyo and Cairo, holds a PhD in Japanology (1994, U Bonn, Germany) and in Political Science (2004, U Duisburg-Essen, Germany).  She assumed professorships in Political Science at the universities of Hildesheim and Marburg before moving to HU Berlin and fully committing to the field of Area Studies. Her research covers gender, religion, and political violence in Japan, Southeast Asia and the Middle East/West Asia, looking particularly at transregional connections in and beyond the “long 1960s”. She is a board member of the Forum Transregionale Studien, and works towards new orientations in Area Studies. 
 

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Please register in advance via eume(at)trafo-berlin.de. Depending on approval by the speaker(s), the Berliner Seminar will be recorded. All audio recordings of the Berliner Seminar are available on SoundCloud.