Jan Vömel
@janvoemel.bsky.social
Historian | contemporary Turkey & Indonesia | Global History, intellectual & cultural history, Islamism & revivalism | researching civilizational worldmaking in 🇹🇷 & 🇮🇩 @DÉCRIPT / Inalco, Paris PDFs of my articles: https://inalco.academia.edu/JanVomel
Luca Di Blasi - Flucht aus der gemeinsamen Welt: Peter Thiels apokalyptischer Postlibertarismus February 2026 DOI:10.12857/AZP.910510120 www.researchgate.net/publication/...
(PDF) Flucht aus der gemeinsamen Welt: Peter Thiels apokalyptischer Postlibertarismus
PDF | On Feb 1, 2026, Luca Di Blasi published Flucht aus der gemeinsamen Welt: Peter Thiels apokalyptischer Postlibertarismus | Find, read and cite all the research you need on ResearchGate
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Sinem nails down the broader implications of the "mutlak butlan" moment in Turkey: a new attempt to form regime cohesion with a tacit agreement of oligarchic sharing
Sinem Adar@sinemadar.bsky.social · 2mo agoThe text can be accessed at the link below: www.ipg-journal.de/regionen/eur...
New critical perspectives on Turkish Islam and Islamic intellectuals, join us in Paris, June 1st - with İlker Aytürk, Ceren Lord, Brett Wilson, and more @cetobac.bsky.social @ehess.fr
What do Middle Powers want? Dossier for @internationalepolitik.de on Indonesia, Turkey, Brazil, and South Africa internationalepolitik.de/de/was-mitte...
Was Mittelmächte möchten
Vom Großmächte- Ringen zwischen den USA und China könnten am Ende ganz andere Länder profitieren.
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After Modi, postcolonialism finally arrived with the AKP as well... www.aa.com.tr/tr/analiz/in...
İnsanın yükü: Yeni bir uzlaşı imkanı
Net şekilde görüyoruz ki 20. yüzyılın 2. yarısından itibaren küreselleşen insan hakları söylemi, tüm gösterişli önermelerine rağmen "beyaz adamın yükü" retoriğinden öteye geçemedi, hatta sömürünün ve ...
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Coming soon to university libraries near you... History of historiography, pol-sci approaches, anthropology, etc. Berna Pekesen, ed.: The Making of Turkish Contemporary History
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Inalco@inalco.fr · 3mo ago[Dans les médias] 📻 RFI x Programme DÉCRIPT Lætitia Bucaille, professeure de sociologie politique à l'Inalco, et Jan-Markus Vömel (@janvoemel.bsky.social), chercheur postdoctoral du programme DÉCRIPT, étaient au micro de "Géopolitique" pour discuter des discours narratifs d'Israël et de la Turquie.
Avec Laetitia Bucaille et Sophia Mahroug, j'étais sur Radio France Internationale @rfi.fr pour parler du #civilisationnalisme, politique et récits #civilisationnels au Moyen-Orient, sur l'axe #Turquie - #Israël - #Iran. Un grand merci à Marie France Chatin. www.rfi.fr/fr/podcasts/...
Géopolitique - Les paradigmes de civilisation à la lumière du Moyen-Orient
Depuis la fin de la guerre froide, une idée s’est imposée pour expliquer les tensions du monde : celle d’un affrontement entre civilisations. Une idée popularisée par l’Américain Samuel Huntington, se...
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Hybrid seminar session, open to all registered: *Thinking and Performing « Civilization » in the Late Ottoman Empire and the Kemalist Republic* Speakers: Dilek Sarmış & Emmanuel Szurek DÉCRIPT Program, @inalco.fr Registration: www.inalco.fr/en/events/th...
Great piece, clever and thoughtful as usual on Selim's substack. "if you have the misfortune of following Turkish politics closely..." Tabii, residual Türk milliyetçi duyguları yaşamadan da herkesi "Ciddi"ye almak zorunda değiliz.
Selim Koru@selimkoru.bsky.social · 4mo agoA new piece on the strange psychology of writing about your own country for foreigners. kulturkampftr.substack.com/p/a-serious-...
Two attractive PhD positions on civilizationism / civilizational narratives 1) in Africa and 2) in the Middle East with DÉCRIPT, Paris - doctorate to be pursued with a supervisor in one of the partner institutions. Deadline: June 11th, 2026 Please share widely. www.inalco.fr/institut/con...
DECRIPT// Appel à candidatures/ Contrat doctoral | Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales
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Two attractive PhD positions on civilizationism / civilizational narratives 1) in Africa and 2) in the Middle East with DÉCRIPT, Paris - doctorate to be pursued with a supervisor in one of the partner institutions. Deadline: June 11th, 2026 Please share widely. www.inalco.fr/institut/con...
DECRIPT// Appel à candidatures/ Contrat doctoral | Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales
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New publication: An essay on the Turkish state's attempts to depoliticize Islam, why they failed, different criticisms, and possible alternative scenarios for the religious bureaucracy / state-managed Islam... Let me know if you don't have access. link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
(Un)Political Islam? Contesting the Turkish State’s Depoliticisation of Islam
This chapter argues that (de)politicised religion lies at the heart of Turkey’s modernising project. Different approaches to this cleavage demarcated entire worldviews and political fault l...
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Tomorrow - open to all 📑 "Civilisation” as a Concept of Power: Genealogies of Modernity and the Politics of Universalism in Nineteenth-Century Arabic Dr. Wael Abu 'Uksa Programme DÉCRIPT @inalco.fr Seminar Series Near and Middle East 17/02/2026 14:00 Paris Time www.inalco.fr/en/events/ci...
"Civilisation” as a Concept of Power: Genealogies of Modernity and the Politics of Universalism in Nineteenth-Century Arabic | Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales
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DÉCRIPT in dialogue | with Amitav Acharya "The Once and Future World Order" @inalco.fr @fondationmsh.bsky.social www.eventbrite.fr/e/billets-de...
Two opportunities (research funding and short-term stays) to work on #civilizationism in different regions of the world with a great team @ Programme DÉCRIPT, @inalco.fr, Paris... ⤵️ Feel free to get in touch if interested. For details, see the PDF here ➡️ www.inalco.fr/en/job-offer...
Job offers and financing opportunities | Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales
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La @fondationmsh.bsky.social et le Programme DÉCRIPT lancent un nouveau RDV consacré aux grandes voix de la recherche internationale. Le politologue Amitav Acharya inaugurera ce cycle le 22/01 avec une discussion animée par Catherine Porter (NYT). Infos et inscription : https://swll.to/tsqIu
Job opportunity with the LSE Middle East Center @lsemiddleeast.bsky.social www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPT377/r...
Research Officer at London School of Economics and Political Science
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Two opportunities (research funding and short-term stays) to work on #civilizationism in different regions of the world with a great team @ Programme DÉCRIPT, @inalco.fr, Paris... ⤵️ Feel free to get in touch if interested. For details, see the PDF here ➡️ www.inalco.fr/en/job-offer...
Job offers and financing opportunities | Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales
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The “free speech” and “cancel culture” panics have led to overt state censorship because that was always their purpose. (Gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Hi All, Timothy Snyder and I held a Substack Live a little while ago, and ranged widely on the Russo-Ukraine war. It ended up being divided into two parts. Here is part one where we talk about views of Russia, Ukraine and war in 2022. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...
On the Russo-Ukrainian War with Phillips OBrien
A recording from Phillips P. OBrien and Timothy Snyder's live video
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Wie Paris in 10 Jahren seine Luft um 40% verbesserte und so vorzeitige Todesfälle durch Smog halbieren konnte, ist so eine krasse Erfolgsgeschichte. 2019 litten 400.000 Menschen an schlechter Luft. 2023 nur noch 5.000 und nächstes Jahr sollen es Null sein. Für eine 🇪🇺 Großstadt ist das beispiellos❤️
Though I do like this response on US attacks regarding 'freedom of speech' in Europe.
I re-read the 2017 Trump I National Security Strategy and the differences to the 2025 strategy are really striking. This reads like a document from different times trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/wp-content/u...
In „Zerstörungslust“ fragen @camlinger.bsky.social und @onachtwey.bsky.social nach den Ursachen für die destruktiven Tendenzen der Gegenwart, die Wut auf die liberale Demokratie und den Vormarsch rechter Bewegungen. @jensbisky.bsky.social hat das Buch rezensiert: www.soziopolis.de/einladung-zu...
📣 Publication alert! "Writing Conceptual Histories" ed. by Jani Marjanen and Pasi Ihalainen offers a great sample of theories, methods, and case studies. It also demonstrates the many ways to write conceptual histories and encourages scholars to experiment with new approaches! bit.ly/wch_25
