"All Things Transregional" Interview with Monica Juneja (Heidelberg) & Matthias Middell (Leipzig)

Over at the new blog of the Forum Transregionale Studien in Berlin, our colleagues have continued their own interview series with two new conversations with Monica Juneja (Heidelberg) and Matthias Middell (Leipzig).

The interviews–in English with Juneja and in German with Middell–extend on an earlier feature with Sebastian Conrad, Professor for Global History at the Freie Universität zu Berlin. Juneja discusses the challenges and opportunities of applying a transnational or global lens to art history, while Middell comments on the development of the field more generally and several examples of recent work that have impressed–like, for example, his colleague Kerstin Lange's just-out Tango in Paris und Berlin. Eine transnationale Geschichte der Metropolenkultur um 1900 (Tango in Paris and Berlin. A Transnational History of Metropolitan Culture Around 1900), which treats the "import" of an Argentine dance form to two European capitals.

Check out the interviews (linked in the first paragraph of this post)–and keep watching the Forum's blog for more stimulating conversations on the development of the field!