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Rethinking the Historical Connections between Chemical Fertilizer and Food in mid-century Egypt
by Omri Polatsek, MPIWG Berlin, TU Berlin In a report published by the Permanent Council for the Development of National Production in 1955, the regime of Gamal Abdel Nasser articulated for the first time the “economic philosophy of the revolution,” three years after it had seized power in Egypt (figure…
The Pirate, the Sovereign, and the Subject: Old Enemies and New Problems in the Face of Maritime Modernity (1890–1939)
In the last third of the nineteenth century, the seas radically changed. From the end of the 1870s onwards, Western-controlled steam and later diesel shipping established its global hegemony as the driving force of maritime mobility. Ironclad and motorized ships liberated shipping from the vagaries of the currents and monsoon…
Normand Laheld for Svanhild Paust – Exlibris of the Month
An Article Published With the German Exlibris Society’s Weblog Recently, on May 1st, my first German article about Norwegian Exlibris was published in the series “Exlibris des Monats” (Exlibris of the Month) on the website of the German Exlibris Society, D.E.G. e.V. The text is my response to a call…
“You have to understand where you have been to define where you want to go” – Inteview with Sarah Weicksel, Executive Director of the American Historical Association
[gab_log] Geisteswissenschaft als Beruf In recent years, archives have become the focus of political and technological debates. This development is highly relevant for the GHI Washington and its researchers whose work depends on reliable access to historical sources. Sarah Beringer, Benjamin Burtz, and Axel Jansen from the GHI Washington spoke…
A Wandering Leaf between Hilandar, Sinai, and the Vatican: The Case of Ott. gr. 424 and Sinai Slav. 28
A guest post by Aleksandar Anđelović* 1. The manuscript Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Ott. gr. 424 (Diktyon: 65667) is a 9th-century Greek manuscript, now in the Vatican Library, containing the homilies of Gregory of Nazianzus. The manuscript was brought to the Vatican from Sinai,1 and its scattered fragments –…
Jerusalem in Spirit: The Hospitallers and the Sacred Geography of Exile
Matthias Ebejer (Archdiocese of Malta, Valletta) doi: https://doi.org/10.11588/heidok.00038435 The Order of St John of Jerusalem carried the spiritual and symbolic weight of the Holy City in its very name. Following their expulsion from the Holy Land in 1291, the Order redefined what it meant to be ‘of Jerusalem’. No longer…
What We Are Trying to Return Is Stories’
Alia Mossallam and Britta Lange in Conversation with Olga Schubert Olga Schubert (OS): Thank you so much for being here today. You have both done extensive research on two sound archives: the Berlin Sound Archive at Humboldt University Berlin (Lautarchiv) and the Berlin Phonogram Archive at the Ethnological Museum Berlin,…
Understanding Political Thought in the Russian Empire Through Translation: A Research Project and Database of the Max Weber Network Eastern Europe
Gastbeitrag von Vladislav Rjéoutski, Max Weber Netzwerk Osteuropa Homepage of the Corpus of Russian Translations – English Version It was in the eighteenth century that Russian political language was born. The digital project The Corpus of Russian Translations of Social and Political Works of the Eighteenth Century of the Max…
Pressing Matters After Gutenberg: A Review Essay on “The Gutenberg Parenthesis” by Jeff Jarvis (Bloomsbury 2023)
Pressing Matters After Gutenberg: On the Power of the Copy From Print to Digital Media Review essay by Georg Fischer Jeff Jarvis (born 1954) is a longtime journalist. He was a professor of journalism at the City University of New York until 2023 before he moved to Montclair State University…
Conference Report: Vigilance in the Republic of Genoa (1400–1800)
The Republic of Genoa was one of two great Italian maritime republics that survived into the Early Modern period (besides Venice). While Venice has been at the centre of scholarly attention for generations, interest in Genoa is not nearly as constant or widespread. This is not the only reason why…
The Derry Civil Rights Movement: Between Historical Memory and Ongoing Struggle. Combining Archival Research and Fieldwork
My first journey to Derry (or Londonderry, depending on one’s political orientation and identity) brought me directly into the city’s living history. I arrived to attend the annual Think Left conference, held each year on the first weekend of October to commemorate the civil rights march of 5 October 1968,…
Witches, Books, Broomsticks – or: How Instructions Make Reality Go Wrong
In just a few hours, it will be that time again: Walpurgis Night. On April 30, the Harz region around the Brocken transforms into a peculiar in-between world of folk festival and fantasy. By early evening, crowds pour into the villages, many in costume: pointed witch hats, tangled wigs, faces…
When Gender Identity Becomes State Certification
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research By Bhavya Johari On March 30, 2026, a day before International Transgender Day of Visibility and five months after India secured its seventh term on the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) for 2026-2028,[1] the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Amendment Act, 2026, received…
CLICS⁴ as CLLD Web Application
The fourth version of the Database of Cross-Linguistic Colexifications (https://clics.clld.org) was published last year. Now, we launched the accompanying web application that presents the data for interactive inspection and exploration. The study presents the application in brief and discusses also the development of cross-linguistic colexification databases in the future. 1…
Teaching Python programming with DOAJ’s journal dataset
Skip to content Note: This post first appeared on the DOAJ Blog on March 30, 2026 under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial CC-BY-NC license. Open science practices are an important aspect of Digital Humanities. Therefore, open access and the crucial role DOAJ plays for the documentation and dissemination of information…
Est locus iste sacer: The Canons of the Holy Sepulchre and the Memory of the First Crusade in the Twelfth-Century Latin East
Simon John (Swansea University) doi: 10.11588/heidok.00037617 Peregrinationes tres: Saewulf, John of Würzburg and Theodericus, ed. R. B. C. Huygens (Corpus Christianorum Continuatio Mediaevalis 139), Turnhout 1994, pp. 143–197, here p. 156. Translation (Simon John) Est locus iste sacer sacratus sanguine Christi: per nostrum sacrare sacro nichil addimus isti. Sed domus…