Open to anyone with an interest in historical and contemporary movements of people, ideas, cultures and goods across boundaries. The aim is to encourage interdisciplinary conversations on a wide range of topics of transnational and global significance. These may include but are not necessarily limited to migration, trade, development, empire, consumption, food, sport, languages, literature, religion, technology, sexuality, law, health and environment.
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Gabriela Méndez Cota deposited Eurocentrismo in the group
Global & Transnational Studies on Humanities Commons 1 week, 1 day ago
Entrada sobre Eurocentrismo en el Diccionario de Injusticias editado por Carlos Pereda. // Dictionary Entry on Eurocentrism (in Spanish), my contribution to the Diccionario de Injusticias (A Dictionary of Injustices) edited by Carlos Pereda
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Joachim Berger deposited Regimes of territoriality. Overseas conflicts and inner-European relations, c. 1870–1930 in the group
Global & Transnational Studies on Humanities Commons 1 month ago
This essay focuses on territorial conflicts between European masonic bodies outside Europe, and on the impact of these conflicts on inner-European masonic relations. The period between c. 1870 and c. 1930 marks the height of the European expansion respectively the age of ‘high imperialism’. It also marks the first wave of decolonization. The tid…[Read more]
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Joachim Berger deposited Between universal values and national ties: Western European freemasonries face the challenge of ‘Europe’, 1850–1930 in the group
Global & Transnational Studies on Humanities Commons 1 month ago
How did (Western) European freemasonries on a transnational level came to terms with the idea of a closer union of the European peoples? Concepts of “Europe” and “Europeanness” were the background music of the formation of masonic pan-European networks, building on transnational encounters either by individual freemasons (in the Universala Framaso…[Read more]
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Sonia D. Andras deposited Fashioning simultaneous migrations: Sonia Delaunay and inter-war Romanian connections in the group
Global & Transnational Studies on Humanities Commons 1 month, 2 weeks ago
This article analyses the connections between the worlds of fine art and fashion through the complex interconnections between the Parisian-Eastern European creative exile. It follows the common threads between Ukrainian-Jewish artist and fashion designer Sonia Delaunay (1885–1979) and prominent inter-war Parisian Romanians: namely, Tristan T…[Read more]
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Joachim Berger deposited The great divide: transatlantic brothering and masonic internationalism, c. 1870–c. 1930 in the group
Global & Transnational Studies on Humanities Commons 1 month, 2 weeks ago
This article demonstrates the interplay between national, international and transatlantic dimensions within fraternalism. From the late nineteenth century, masonic lodges took part in the broader push towards the formation of transnational organisations and institutions. They were mainly based in western and southwestern Europe. However,…[Read more]
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Egas Moniz Bandeira deposited Creating a Constitutional Absolute Monarchy: Li Jiaju, Dashou, and Late Qing Interpretations of the Japanese Parliament in the group
Global & Transnational Studies on Humanities Commons 2 months, 3 weeks ago
This paper explores interpretations of the Japanese parliament by governmental actors in the Qing empire, most importantly the commissioners for constitutional research Li Jiaju 李家駒 (1871–1938) and Dashou 達壽 (1870–1939). It shows that, within a theoretical framework formed in dialogue with their Japanese constitutionalist colleagues, these actors…[Read more]
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Joachim Berger deposited »une institution cosmopolite«? Rituelle Grenzziehungen im freimaurerischen Internationalismus um 1900 in the group
Global & Transnational Studies on Humanities Commons 3 months, 3 weeks ago
The period of masonic internationalism in the last third of the 19th and first third of the 20th centuries saw the most visible – and controversial – attempts to organisationally model the “cosmopolitan imperative” of freemasonry. The various freemasonries in Europe saw themselves as links in a world-spanning “chain of brothers” forged by the…[Read more]
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Fazil Jamal deposited Between law and politics: Reflections on the Nord Stream gas pipeline in the group
Global & Transnational Studies on Humanities Commons 5 months, 2 weeks ago
With US economic sanctions against Russia in recent years, the Nord Stream Gas Pipeline project in Europe that links Russia and Germany via the Baltic Sea came under considerable global attention. Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine has only increased uncertainties around the Project, arguably one of the world’s most consequential submarine pip…[Read more]
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Fazil Jamal deposited Transit of energy via cross-border pipelines: A study on the limits of GATT article V in the group
Global & Transnational Studies on Humanities Commons 5 months, 2 weeks ago
The freedom of transit in international trade law originally involved the movement of goods across borders without any arbitrary or unnecessary hindrance. In this era of network-bound energy systems requiring the permanent establishment of fixed installations such as gas pipelines and high voltage power transmission grids to facilitate access to…[Read more]
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Sam Rose deposited Interpreting Art in the group
Global & Transnational Studies on Humanities Commons 5 months, 2 weeks ago
How do people make sense of works of art? And how do they write to make others see the same way? There are many guides to looking at art, histories of art history and art criticism, and accounts of various ‘theories’ and ‘methods’, but this book offers something very unlike the normal search for difference and division: it examines the general…[Read more]
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Joachim Berger deposited “Une œuvre internationale d’un caractère humanitaire”: The Appeal to Humanity in International Masonic Relations in the group
Global & Transnational Studies on Humanities Commons 5 months, 2 weeks ago
Freemasons often referred to an ideal of “humanité” (Humanität, umanità, humanity) in order to bridge all differences separating mankind. In doing so, they rendered these differences all the more visible, especially in the international arenas. This was definitely the case when freemasons tried to deduce from this ideal “universal” standards…[Read more]
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Joachim Berger deposited Gretchenfrage oder Nebensache? Zur konzeptionellen Verortung von ›Religion‹ in Überblicksdarstellungen zur euro-päischen Geschichte des 19. Jahrhunderts in the group
Global & Transnational Studies on Humanities Commons 5 months, 2 weeks ago
The article outlines how comprehensive works on the history of Europe conceptually deal with religion – with regard to the relationship between religion, society and culture, the handling of the theory of secularisation and the significance of religion for the construction of Europe.
Der Beitrag skizziert, wie Gesamtdarstellungen zur Geschichte…[Read more]
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Fazil Jamal deposited The Legal Designing of Regional Gas Pipelines: An Appraisal in the group
Global & Transnational Studies on Humanities Commons 5 months, 2 weeks ago
This paper seeks to identify and understand the legal framework and models that undergird the regional gas pipeline networks being established in our times, against the backdrop of the evolving legal norms and business practices. It further seeks to examine the ways in which the competing rights and interests of different stakeholders in the…[Read more]
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Stacy Fahrenthold deposited Return migration and repatriation: Myths and realities in the interwar Syrian mahjar in the group
Global & Transnational Studies on Humanities Commons 5 months, 2 weeks ago
The concept of return is an intoxicating analytic for scholars, for several reasons. The idea that migrants return home creates opportunities to reclaim them from the hegemony of the bordered nation-state. For diaspora theorists, return works as a rebuttal to the field’s preoccupations with exile and loss. Migrants return home all the time, t…[Read more]
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Fazil Jamal deposited Rights of the Child under International Law in the group
Global & Transnational Studies on Humanities Commons 5 months, 2 weeks ago
Government of India: Ministry of Education,
National Mission on Education through ICT, e-Pathshala PG Programme, Course on International Human Rights Law,
Module on Rights of the Child under International Law
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Behnam M. Fomeshi deposited Mostafa Abedinifard, Omid Azadibougar, Amirhossein Vafa (eds.). Persian Literature as World Literature in the group
Global & Transnational Studies on Humanities Commons 5 months, 3 weeks ago
Persian literature used to be visibly worldly when Persian was a lingua franca in a vast space from Balkan to China. With the British colonialism in the India and the rise of nation states in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Persian lost its status and became more national in various contexts. In Iran it only got worsened with sanctions,…[Read more]
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Nicholas S.M. Matheou deposited Hegemony, Counterpower & Global History. Medieval New Rome & Caucasia in a Critical Perspective in the group
Global & Transnational Studies on Humanities Commons 5 months, 3 weeks ago
This chapter analyses Global Byzantium by situating the medieval empire of New Rome in the history of statehood’s generalisation worldwide. Arguing that statehood remains the implicit mental furniture of History at a macro-civilizational scale, and so more or less at the micro too, the chapter proposes the dual concepts of hegemony and c…[Read more]
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Steve McCarty deposited Peace Dialogue among Religions: Influence of Religions on Laws and Moral Values in the group
Global & Transnational Studies on Humanities Commons 6 months ago
Illustrated script of a stage play created by the author, a peace dialogue among an American Christian, an Israeli Jew, a Saudi Arabian Muslim, and a Japanese Buddhist. It draws from the conflict resolution process pioneered by Johan Galtung and practiced in Peace Studies classes taught by the author and others at Osaka Jogakuin University. It…[Read more]
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Stephanie Leite deposited ReDesigning the Future—Mastery Project in the group
Global & Transnational Studies on Humanities Commons 6 months, 1 week ago
[COMPLETE OPEN-ACCESS CURRICULUM INCLUDED] ReDesigning the Future is the second project in the ReImagining the Future series launched by Greenbacker Capital and Global Citizenship Experience Lab School. By asking “how can we design a sustainable future?,” the purpose of this project is to understand the grand challenges we must overcome to achieve…[Read more]
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Steve McCarty deposited Encountering famous East-West bridge persons across the U.S. to Japan in the group
Global & Transnational Studies on Humanities Commons 6 months, 3 weeks ago
This 23-minute presentation at the University of Hyogo in Kobe goes more deeply into the biography of Steve McCarty than appears in his long chapter in the new book A Passion for Japan: A Collection of Personal Narratives. Formative influences discussed include Hermann Hesse’s Siddhartha, Tibetan yoga, and Zen. Places include Boston, the Taos P…[Read more]
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