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14. December 2019
Good bye and into the future!
After being funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) since 2006, the Cluster of Excellence "Cultural Foundations of Social Integration” concluded its work in October of 2019. Over the course of these 13 years, almost 500 researchers worked on diverse perspectives on the cultural...
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25. November 2019
New release: Making Peace in an Age of War. By Mark Hengerer
Emperor Ferdinand III (1608–1657)
English-language translation of "Kaiser Ferdinand III. (1608–1657). Eine Biographie" (Wien: Böhlau 2012)
West Lafayette, Indiana: Purdue University Press 2019 -
14. October 2019
New release: Dag Hammarskjöld, the United Nations and the Decolonisation of Africa. By Henning Melber
London: Hurst Publishers 2019
Oxford: Oxford University Press 2019 -
5. September 2019
New release: Resignification of Borders. Edited by Nina Frieß and Konstantin Kaminskij
Eurasianism and the Russian World
Series: Ost-West-Express. Kultur und Übersetzung, Volume 37
Berlin: Frank & Timme 2019 -
5. August 2019
New release: Conflictual Aesthetics. By Oliver Marchart
Artistic Activism and the Public Sphere
Berlin: Sternberg Press 2019
Audio and Video
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6. June 2017
Interview with Judith Beyer about her book “The force of Custom in Kyrgyzstan”
refer to podcast episode on Sean’s Russia Blog Podcast
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27. July 2015
“The average […] is really where the challenge lies.”
In his Wolfgang Iser Lecture 2015, literary historian Franco Moretti focusses on an reatively underexamined textual segment: the paragraph as a worthwile object of study. Refer to the video
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6. August 2013
Lectures of this year's Meisterklasse ”Crisis and Collapse“ online now
You can now watch the lectures held by Karl Heinz Bohrer, Karin Knorr Cetina, Saskia Sassen, and Richard Sennett