TRANSAREANew Paradigms iN area studies

16.11.2015, 18 uhr ct: Ottmar Ette (Universität Potsdam):

„TransArea Studies: Translationen und Transformationen zwischen Afrika, Asien, Amerika und Europa“

Casino 1.801 (Renate-von-Metzler-Saal), Campus Westend

11.01.2016, 6 – 8 pm: Matthias Middell (Leipzig University):

“New Spatial Formats and the Emergence of Transregional Studies“

Casino 1.801 (Renate-von-Metzler-Saal) , Campus Westend

01.02.2016, 18 uhr ct: Doris Bachmann-Medick (Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen):

„Modelle kultureller Übersetzung: Impulse für trans regionale Forschung?“

Casino 1.801 (Renate-von-Metzler-Saal), Campus Westend

03.12.2015, 6 – 8 pm: Kai Kresse (Columbia University, New York):

“Travelling as Learning Ethnography: Provisional Thoughts on the Study of Transregional Littoral Society“

Casino 1.812, Campus Westend

In a rapidly globalizing world, area studies have often come to be regarded as a somewhat old-fashioned relic of the Cold War era and as an attempt to squeeze complex cultural, social and political ensembles into narrowly defined re-

gional containers. In response to this critique, a new array of theories has sought to recon-ceptionalize area studies from a transregional perspective. The interdisciplinary lecture series „TransArea: New Paradigms in Area Studies“

presents new approaches to transregional area studies developed in literary and cultural stu-dies, anthropology, philosophy, history and the social sciences.

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