Announcements
19.09.2024 - 20.09.2024 Silvia Vari and Jacopo Francesco Mascoli

We will unravel how visual narratives of migration (such as paintings, photographs, performances, documentaries, features and short films, and comics) may foster alternative visions and shape different imaginaries of the heterogenous issues grounding migratory phenomena. We will bring together an interdisciplinary network of scholars and practitioners to examine how this extensive production of visual narratives works to reconfigure socioeconomic and political challenges through diverse representations of the intimately human experiences of displaced subjects and migrants.

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Reviews
Rez. von Katrin Köster, Research Centre Global Dynamics / Oriental Institute, Leipzig University

Ethnic and religious diversity as well as the resulting dynamics of majority-minority interaction were and continue to be an undeniable driving force of sociopolitical developments in the Middle East. This was especially true for the Ottoman Empire, which was simultaneously a state defined as Sunni Muslim and home to numerous diverse ethnic and religious communities.[1] The past two decades have seen heightened scholarly interest in Ottoman strategies for dealing with this ethno-religious diversity.

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Journals

Worlds of Management: Transregional Perspectives on Management Knowledge, 1950s–1970s

Ed. by Katharina Kreuder-Sonnen, Lukas Becht, Florian Peters, and Vítězslav Sommer

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Articles
Von Victoria Kravtsova, Humboldt Universität Berlin

Between the post-s

Russian theorist Madina Tlostanova describes the ex-Soviet space as a “void”[1] in the structure of global knowledge production, in which the Global South has a symbolic right to postcolonialism and the Global North, to postmodernism. For her, post-socialism or post-communism as a theoretical lens is insufficient to grasp the “postsocialist, postcolonial and post imperial overtones [that] intersect and communicate in the complex imaginary of the ex-Soviet space.”[2] Tlostanova believes that the Soviet approach to creating “its own New Woman in her metropolitan and colonial versions” implied that “the gendered subjects of the ex-colonies of Russia and the USSR are not quite postcolonial and not entirely postsocialist.”[3] However, this specificity, as well as “presocialist local genealogies of women’s struggles and resistance, tend to be erased.”[4]

Postcolonial theory becomes increasingly popular in the post-Soviet contexts as processes of decolonization continue in the former ‘periphery’ of the former USSR.

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Conference Reports
12.10.2023 - 14.10.2023 Cristian Cercel, Institute for Danube Swabian History and Regional Studies, Tübingen; Dietmar Müller, Leipzig University
Von David Borchin, Institut für Interdisziplinäre Studien und Forschungen, Lucian-Blaga-Universität-Sibiu

Have settler colonial studies and Eastern European studies something to tell each other? This was the overarching question that the conference wanted to address, by bringing together the research fields of settler colonial studies and Eastern European history. The conference was thus an exploration of how and whether settler colonial studies can contribute to the study of Eastern Europe and, conversely, what distinctive aspects of Eastern European history could bring significant contributions to the field of settler colonial studies.

The conference was opened by REINHARD JOHLER (Tübingen), who expressed his hope that the research results presented will be able to incorporate the region of Eastern Europe within the main body of research on settler colonialism by emphasizing the specificities of this region.

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