One of the main topics of the SFB 1288 is currently the discussion of the continuation proposal, which means a lot of thinking, writing and communication work internally. Accordingly, events and lectures will restart in May. Guests at the SFB colloquium will be, for example, Matthew Specter (Berkeley) and Michael Sauder (Iowa), who will talk about realism and comparing and the logic of quantification—more information can be found on the SFB website under "Events".

The article in Spiegel about Blumenbach and comparing, based on a conversation with the SFB 1288-associated doctoral researcher Malin Wilckens (see news article from November 2019), has been translated into French and can be found here.

You can listen to a conversation at Deutschlandfunk Kultur between the historian Birte Förster (who is working at the Department of History at Bielefeld University since January 2020 and is also currently supporting the SFB) and René Aguigah about historical comparisons in the political field: What does the Weimar Republic have to do with the AfD and how useful is this analogy? Listen to the conversation via DLF Kultur.

You can also listen to the latest episode of the science podcast "Praktisch Theoretisch" with subproject B02-postdoctoral researcher Susana Rocha Teixeira, which deals with the topic of presidential elections, the staging of masculinity and, again and again, with comparisons and comparing.