Public History
CRAFTE is committed to the goals of knowledge transfer, open science and making our research accessible to a wider public.
Here you can catch glimpses of our source material, learn about our fascinating interviews, read our notes from the field, have a look into our plans for the project's database, or get a litle taste of our upcoming exhibition.
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Database
CRAFTE is preparing a digital database (housed at IRS, Erkner) of oral testimonies, objects, photographs, letters and grey literature as an ongoing and growing archive that will, for the first time, exclusively make life narratives (in their own voice) of African and Asian interlocutors in the Cold War accessible to a wider global public.
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Exhibition
In 2026, CRAFTE will launch an exhibition tentatively titled Berlin, The Divided City and its Afro-Asian Inhabitants. Relying on archival research, biographical interviews with interlocutors, and ethnographic fieldwork, the exhibition aims to place African and Asian life trajectories on the map of the city's commemoration of its divided past.
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Notes from the Field
Check out the latest updates by CRAFTE scholars on archival trips, fieldwork in different locations,, theoretical and conceptual discussions, and methodological concerns. CRAFTE Notes from the Field brings you closer to our topics, research findings and the questions we wish to engage with.