Matthias Middell, Professor of Cultural History at the University of Leipzig, spent a semester at NIAS in 2010/11, exploring the role of technology in the interaction between European and non-European societies from 1850 to the present. One of the results: a theme issue of Comparativ on the invention of the European.
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