Halting in a Space of Total Movement: Politics and Spatial Orders at Tegel...
By Philip Geisler Sometimes, an academic journey begins with rebellion. The transregional is the signature of transition. Transregional studies and trans-aesthetic phenomena include processes of...
View ArticleLanguage, Science and Aesthetics. Summer Academy in Beirut
The International Summer Academy “Language, Science and Aesthetics – Articulations of Subjectivity and Objectivity in the Modern Middle East, North Africa, South and Southeast Asia” is organized by...
View ArticleBombay in Bloom: Urban Space, Territory and Colonial Gardening
By Lucy Jarman In February 2014 Art Histories and Aesthetic Practices at the Forum Transregionale Studien, brought a group of art historians, anthropologists and scholars from neighboring...
View ArticleCall for Applications: Fellowships Art Histories and Aesthetic Practices
Forum Transregionale Studien invites scholars to apply for up to ten postdoctoral fellowships within the framework of the research program Art Histories and Aesthetic Practices. Kunstgeschichte und...
View ArticleThe Guardian about Berlin and its Controversial Prussian Palace
The rebuilding of the Prussian royal palace started in 2013. It will be open its doors in 2019. This giant project is Europe’s most expensive cultural endeavor and will be the premises of the...
View ArticleDoes the Nationality of Artists Matter? Some Thoughts on Koryŏ Buddhist...
by Yoonjung Seo (Art Histories Fellow 2014/15, Forum Transregionale Studien) This is an edited excerpt of a paper presented at the conference “Transnational Cultural Interactions between Korea and...
View Article“Scholarship as such is not a Western model”– Interview with Jas’ Elsner
Why do we absolutely need to talk about cultural history in the context of colonization? How can we find grown-up ways to developing non-european structures of thinking so that they are able to...
View Article“Globale Kunstgeschichte” und Kulturerbe – die Debatte geht weiter…
Wie können Kunstwerke, Artefakte oder Gegenstände aus der ganzen Welt heute ausgestellt werden, ohne in umstrittene Kategorien wie „Europa“ und „das Andere“ zu fallen? Wie kann man West African Art...
View ArticleTagungsbericht »Global Modernisms: Infrastructures, Contiguities and...
von Helene Bongers (Art Histories and Aesthetic Practices) Unter dem Titel „Global Modernisms: Infrastructures, Contiguities and Aesthetic Practices“ präsentierte sich die Jahrestagung 2015 des...
View ArticleAesthetics of the Threshold. Thoughts on the Morphology and Topology of Port...
By Hannah Baader and Gerhard Wolf (both Art Histories and Aesthetic Practices and Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz, Max-Planck-Institut) This text is an excerpt from the essay “Aesthetics of...
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