Wie verabschiedet man sich (in einem Trauerprozess) nicht nur von liebgewonnenen Dingen, sondern auch von sozialem Gerümpel und alten emotionalen Mustern?
Dorothea Rohde spricht mit Dorothee Emsel (Lektorin im Programmbereich Psychologie, Psychotherapie und Beratung) über ihr neues Buch "Die Magie der Dinge und die Kunst des Loslassens", erschienen bei Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht/De Gruyter Brill.
Über die Autorin: Dorothea Rohde ist Gründerin des Start-ups „Good Rooms – Aufräumen und Wohnen in Zeiten der Veränderung“ und Geschäftsführerin der Agentur „Soul Marketing“, die sich auf Bauen und Wohnen spezialisiert. Darüber hinaus engagiert sie sich als ehrenamtliche Sterbe- und Trauerbegleiterin.
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Gib Hedstrom speaks with Jennifer Mason (Chief Sustainability Officer and EVP EHS&S at J.M. Huber Corporation) about his new book "Navigating Sustainable Growth: A Roadmap for Boards and Corporate Leaders."
Gib Hedstrom has 30 years’ experience advising boards of directors on sustainable growth at the intersection of environment, strategy, and governance.
His book explores how companies can thrive in a future defined by decarbonization and dematerialization. Drawing on 300 examples from 180 global leaders, it offers strategies for investors, citizens, students, and educators, while guiding executives and boards to turn climate risks into opportunities.
In her book, Women of Chinese Modern Art, Doris Sung talks about how women artists shaped the terrain of the modern art world. In the book talk she also talks with Senior Acquisitions Editor History Rabea Rittgerodt about how she, as an artist, got into academia, how important art history is to understanding the change of a society fro empire to republic and how education and art can help empower women and shape feminist approaches and international cooperation. Doris Sung is Assistant Professor of Art History and Asian Art at the University of Alabama. ► Link to the Book
In this Book Talk Dr. Tremblay tells us what personal situations during his early academic career made him consider writing about the Pink Triangle in the first place and how looking at the topic in global and transregional perspective helped shape his research and understanding of history. In the following discussion he and the series editors Dr. Sabrina Mittermeier and Dr. Bodie Ashton discuss looking at history through a “queer lens”, and how being mindful of language and heritage is a chance and problem for historical researchers on a global scale. The book "A Badge of Injury. The Pink Triangle as Global Symbol of Memory" analyses gay and lesbian transregional cultural communication networks from the 1970s to the 2000s, focusing on the importance of National Socialism, visual culture, and memory in the queer Atlantic. Provincializing Euro-American queer history, it illustrates how a history of concepts which encompasses the visual offers a greater depth of analysis of the transfer of ideas across regions than texts alone would offer. It also underlines how gay and lesbian history needs to be reframed under a queer lens and understood in a global perspective. A Badge of Injury pinpoints the roles of cultural memory and power in the creation of gay and lesbian transregional narrativ. ► Link to the book
Ruhig statt hektisch, lang statt kurz, wort- statt bildlastig, langsam statt schnell, diskursiv statt plakativ: Podcasts sind das ideale Format, um geisteswissenschaftliche Fragen und Thesen zeitgemäß zu kommunizieren — aber wie?!
Podcast-Macher*innen aus den Geisteswissenschaften sehen sich einer Reihe ähnlicher Herausforderungen gegenüber: Der Podcast-Markt ist übersättigt. Die Aufwände sind hoch, die Produktion erfordert vielfältiges Know-How. Denn Podcasting ist deutlich mehr, als einfach nur zwei Leute vor ein Mikrofon zu setzen. Und: Selbst der beste Podcast will vermarktet werden und braucht oft einen langen Atem, um sein Publikum zu finden.
Zum Abschluss der ersten Staffel unseres Wissenschaftspodcasts WAGNIS WISSEN haben wir mit drei Expertinnen zu diesem Thema diskutiert.
Auf dem Podium sprachen:
- Isabel Woop - Head of Production, ACB Stories
- Dr. Kristiane Hasselmann - Geschäftsführerin Sonderforschungsbereich Episteme in Bewegung, Produzentin Wissenschaftspodcast Hinter den Dingen
- Franziska Walser - Journalistin, Moderatorin, Podcastentwicklerin, EINS.STUDIO, rbb, ARD
Die Aufzeichnung ist Teil des rbb Medienmagazins vom 26.02.2024 (Autor: Philipp Nitzsche). Die komplette Sendung ist hier zu hören.
Dr. Na Li is associated researcher and chair of Public History at the University of Vienna. She is a public historian and urban planning scholar. Her research focuses on public history and urban preservation. During her decade-long work in China, Na Li has pioneered the field of public history in China. In this book talk, she and De Gruyter's history acquisitions editor Rabea Rittgerodt talk about her recent publication Seeing History: Public History in China which came out in late 2023 in the DG series Public History in International Perspectives. Both talk about the challenges and gains of doing public history in China and academia in general and Prof. Li gives solid advice to young scholars thinking about stepping into the field of history/public history. ► Link to the book ► Contact us
Today, more than twenty oligarchs serve as heads of state or government in countries such as Russia, South Africa, Lebanon and El Salvador. Many have a net worth in excess of $1 billion, and they all – whether directly or indirectly – impact our daily lives.
Who are the oligarchs and how have they come to dominate our world? What difference does gender make? Is there something “good” to be found in them, or are they just “bad”? And what is it like to interview an oligarch and glimpse their human side? In this book talk, the authors of The Oligarchs’ Grip: Fusing Wealth and Power talk to Stefan Giesen, Editorial Director Business & Economics at De Gruyter. Entrepreneurship expert David Lingelbach and oligarch researcher Valentina Rodríguez Guerra draw upon more than 25 years of research (including conversations with Vladimir Putin and other oligarchs), 16 case studies, and dozens of historical examples in The Oligarchs’ Grip. They develop the first-ever model that reveals the strategies employed by oligarchs to fuse wealth and power and transition between the two.
David Lingelbach is Professor of Entrepreneurship at the Merrick School of Business, University of Baltimore. He was educated at MIT, London School of Economics and Political Science, and the University of Exeter, where he earned his Ph.D. Prior to becoming an academic, David served in senior roles in finance and international development, including as CEO of Bank of America’s businesses in the former Soviet Union. He was a Fulbright Scholar (Myanmar/Burma, 2018-19) and Fulbright Specialist (Colombia, 2021) and has been nominated twice for an Andrew Carnegie Fellowship.
Valentina Rodríguez Guerra is an author, oligarch researcher, and graduate student in business administration, Facultad de Ciencias Económicas, Universidad Nacional de Colombia. She has received awards for her work from NASA and the Colombian Ministry of Education.
Together, they are regular opinion contributors to The Hill on Vladimir Putin and other oligarchs.
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How do we produce knowledge? How do we present it? How can we better understand our societies, past and present? And, ultimately, what is it that makes us us? The study of Modern Languages tackles nothing short of these fundamental questions, exploring the very foundations of what it means to be human.
Moreover, the field is inherently dynamic. Artificial Intelligence tools, such as ChatGPT, have rapidly changed our perspective on language as something uniquely human. Social media have created new ways of reading and consuming information. Concurrently, emerging forms of scholarship are reshaping the way we approach Modern Languages.
We wanted to learn more about the discipline in an ever-changing and increasingly digital world, so we sat down with Professors Andy Byford and Claudia Nitschke from Durham University, UK. Andy Byford holds the position of Professor of Russian Studies, while Claudia Nitschke is a Professor of German at Durham’s School of Modern Languages and Cultures. Both have authored numerous publications and are serving as editors of the upcoming “Handbook of Modern Languages”, to be published by De Gruyter in 2024.
Alexandra Koronkai-Kiss, Editorial Communications Manager at De Gruyter, conducted the interview, which is also available as a video and podcast.
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Grün stimmt hoffnungsvoll, ein kühles Blau lässt uns frösteln. Farben beeinflussen unsere Stimmung, unser Verhalten und sogar körperliche Empfindungen. Die Welt durch unsere Augen ist bunt, doch welche Eindrücke entstehen im Sehapparat und welche im Gehirn? Sind Farben überhaupt „real“?
Nicht immer können wir unseren Augen trauen, sagt der Chemiker und Autolackdesigner Werner Rudolf Cramer. In seinem neuen Buch „Lila macht kleine Füße“ beschreibt er moderne Erkenntnisse der Farbwahrnehmung und betrachtet sie sowohl aus physikalischer als auch aus physiologischer Sicht.
In unserem aktuellen Book Talk hatte Ute Skambraks, Content Editor STEM bei De Gruyter, die Gelegenheit mit Werner Rudolf Cramer in die faszinierende Welt der Farben einzutauchen.
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Wie wäre es, wenn Software-Pionierin Ada Lovelace aus dem 19. Jahrhundert in der Jetztzeit landet und ihrem Freund Charles Babbage, einem Computer-Vorreiter aus England, Briefe schreibt? Darin erklärt sie alles, was man über das Thema Digitalisierung wissen muss – verständlich für jede und jeden. Es geht um Nullen und Einsen, um Verschlüsselung und virtuelle Realität, um Bitcoin und Blockchain, um Handys und Hypertext. Genau das macht Anna. Unter dem Pseudonym Ada L. startet sie einen Blog über das, was die digitale Welt im Innersten zusammenhält. Die digitale Nomadin arbeitet in Thailand und Australien, im Elektrobus reist sie durch Europa. Auf ihrer Tour knüpft sie Kontakte, verliebt sich und kommt üblen Machenschaften auf die Spur. Dabei gerät sie selbst in Gefahr. Hilfe kommt von Freunden, von Fremden – und immer wieder von Hühnern. Hinter Anna wiederum stecken Magdalena Kayser-Meiller, Zeitungsredakteurin bei den Nürnberger Nachrichten, und Dieter Meiller, Professor für Medieninformatik an der OTH Amberg-Weiden. Sie sind die Autoren des Buchs “Unterwegs im Cybercamper: Annas Reise in die digitale Welt” . In unserem neuesten Book Talk durfte Ute Skambraks, Content Editor STEM bei De Gruyter, mit den beiden in Annas Welt eintauchen.
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„Gesund beginnt im Mund“ besagt eine bekannte Volksweisheit, der wir in unserem neusten Book Talk mit Dr. Diana Kessler auf den Grund gehen wollten. Im Interview fühlten wir der Expertin auf den Zahn und sprachen mit ihr über die „Milliardenstadt“ in unserem Mund – das orale Mikrobiom – sowie über Zahnarztangst und vieles mehr. Dr. Kessler ist seit 1991 in Mannheim als Zahnärztin tätig und beschäftigt sich schon lange mit dem Zusammenhang zwischen Mund- und Allgemeingesundheit. Sie hält Vorträge zu dem Thema und ist seit 10 Jahren Teil des Teams der Diabetes-Tagesklinik des St. Josefskrankenhaus in Heidelberg. Seit 2016 organisiert sie außerdem regelmäßig die interdisziplinären Fortbildungen „Ärzte und Zahnärzte im Dialog“. In ihrem neuesten Buch „Von Mund zu Gesund. Wie ein gesunder Mund vor Krankheiten schützt“ nimmt sie uns mit auf die Reise durch die faszinierende Welt unserer Mundhöhle und führt uns auch in weiter entfernte Regionen unseres Körpers, die damit in Beziehung stehen. Ihr ist es wichtig den Menschen, auch über den Bereich der Zahnmedizin hinaus, als funktionierendes Ganzes zu begreifen. In Anlehnung an Paracelsus – „Der Arzt verbindet deine Wunden. Dein innerer Arzt aber wird dich gesunden.“ – erläutert sie darüber hinaus, wie wir unsere Mundhöhle gesund halten können. Kristin Berber-Nerlinger, Senior Acquisitions Editor bei De Gruyter, sprach mit Diana Kessler über ihr Buch. (Und es hat gar nicht weh getan!)
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Early on in the Arab Spring, a blog that had already existed for several years went viral: A Gay Girl in Damascus by Amina Arraf, a Syrian-American Muslim woman, who wrote about the uprisings in Syria and her life as a lesbian in Damascus. In June 2011, the world was shocked to learn that Amina had allegedly been abducted by the secret police. But the real surprise was yet to come. Not long after, journalists and activists realized that Amina Arraf was a hoax, invented and impersonated by Thomas “Tom” MacMaster, a forty-year-old straight white American man who studied medieval history in Scotland.
What made McMaster so successful in deceiving the blog’s readers? Specifically, why were educated and politically engaged westerners so susceptible to believing a falsified account of the Syrian revolution? And how did the western need for self-validation as anti-racist, LGBTQ-friendly and anti-imperialist come into play?
Andrew Orr, Professor of Military History and Security Studies at Kansas State University, has delved into these questions in his newly published book, “The Gay Girl in Damascus Hoax.” To shed some light on what we can learn from this incredible story, and how queer theory helps understand history, we invited him for this book talk. The interview was conducted by Rabea Rittgerodt, Senior Acquisitions Editor History at De Gruyter.
Dr. Andrew Orr is Professor of Military History and Security Studies at Kansas State University. His work focuses on the 19th and 20th centuries and explores the boundaries of civilian and military identity.
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One of the first professional women authors of the Middle Ages, Italian-French writer, strategist and historian Christine de Pizan (1364–c.1429) possessed extensive knowledge of military tactics and advocated for women’s equality centuries before the feminist movement.
Last year, De Gruyter published her highly influential military and warfare treatise, “Le livre de faiz d’armes et de chevallerie” (Book of Deeds of Arms and Chivalry, 1410) together with its contemporary German translation.
On the occasion of Women’s History Month, we take a look back on the life and work of this extraordinary figure with Pizan experts Earl Jeffrey Richards and Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski.
Prof. Dr. phil. (em.) Earl Jeffrey Richards is Professor of Romance Literatures at the Bergische Universität Wuppertal. In 1982, he translated The Book of the City of Ladies by Christine de Pizan and has been actively writing about her and her works ever since.
Prof. Dr. phil. (em.) Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski is Distinguished Professor Emerita at the University of Pittsburgh and was President of the Medieval Academy of America in 2020/2021. Her research focuses on French medieval literature and culture, in particular Christine de Pizan.
Alexandra Koronkai-Kiss is Editorial Communications Manager at De Gruyter. She holds degrees from the University of St Andrews and the University of Edinburgh and has worked in the art world across Europe, specializing in online communication and digital strategy.
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Nanomaterials are an emerging technology increasingly portrayed in science fiction. But what are these mysterious materials in reality about? How are they made? And what are they used for? To answer these questions and more we invited co-editors Prof. Xuan Grace Wang, Prof. Sajid Bashir, and Prof. Jingbo Louise Liu to chat about their new book, “Nanochemistry: From Theory to Application for In-Depth Understanding of Nanomaterials” with De Gruyter Acquisitions Editor Dr. Christene Smith.
Xuan Grace Wang is an Instructional Assistant Professor Texas A&M Higher Education at McAllen, where she holds appointments in the College of Science. Currently, she devotes her efforts to leadership roles, such as the Chair of the South Texas Local Chapter of the American Chemical Society.
Sajid Bashir is a Full Professor at Texas A&M University-Kingsville and the American Chemical Society, Energy and Fuels Division Technical Secretary. Moreover, he collaborates with local law enforcement as a consultant in forensic chemistry.
Jingbo Louise Liu is a Full Professor at Texas A&M University-Kingsville and Director of the Center of Teaching Effectiveness. She is also affiliated with the Texas A&M Energy Institute and Councilor of the Energy and Fuels Division in ACS. Among many other awards, she received the 2021 Women in Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Award by IUPAC.
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Digital humanities are a hot topic nowadays, but what about digital linguistics? How can digital language data be used in other areas of research? To tackle these complex questions, we invited Prof. Andreas Witt and Dr. Darja Fišer to talk to us about De Gruyter’s new series “Digital Linguistics” and its first volume “CLARIN. The Infrastructure for Language Resources,” which the two co-edited.
Andreas Witt is Professor of Computational Humanities and Text Technologies at the University of Mannheim and heads the department of Digital Linguistics at the Leibniz Institute for the German Language in Mannheim. Furthermore, he is the series editor of “Digital Linguistics”.
Darja Fišer is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana and Senior Research Fellow at the Department of Knowledge Technologies, Jožef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana. She has recently been appointed CLARIN Vice Executive Director.
With De Gruyter Acquisitions Editor Svetoslava Antonova Baumann, they talked about their motivation for publishing the book, the use of language data outside of linguistics, as well as the importance of the diversity of languages and language resources for the digital humanities.
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Films not only entertain – they also probe social injustices and tell marginalized stories. Against a backdrop of increasing economic inequality, more and more people today are experiencing precarious living situations, poverty, and social exclusion. The book “Precarity in European Film: Depictions and Discourses” is a major new contribution to research into the representation of class in contemporary visual culture.
In this book talk, Dr. Pablo Dominguez Andersen, communications director at De Gruyter, meets the volume’s three editors — Elisa Cuter, Guido Kirsten, and Hanna Prenzel — to discuss questions of precarity in European cinema. What does precarity mean exactly? Is class still a relevant issue today? And can we identify common themes in these films, selected from across Europe?
The volume brings together renowned scholars and early career-researchers in mapping the ways in which European cinema — whether mainstream or arthouse, fictional or documentary, traditional or experimental — engages with phenomena of precarity, poverty, and social exclusion. It looks at how the filmic traditions of different countries reflect the socioeconomic conditions of precarity, and it illuminates similarities in the iconography of precarious lives across cultures.
The three editors are members of the Emmy Noether Research Group on Cinematic Discourses of Deprivation at the Film University Babelsberg Konrad Wolf in Potsdam. The book “Precarity in European Film” is the first volume in the new De Gruyter series “Film, Class, Society.”
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Over the last few years, the misuse of contested terms such as “critical race theory” and “white privilege” have exacerbated social rifts – especially since these terms are often misunderstood or not clearly defined in the first place. What’s to be done? Can we counteract polarization by creating a better understanding of these concepts? Perhaps the answers lurk behind the doors of a historic townhouse at 1014 Fifth Avenue in New York City.
Founded in 2017 upon the initiative of the German Federal Foreign Office and the Goethe-Institut, the non-profit organization 1014 – space for ideas aims to facilitate transatlantic relationships through talks, performances, and exhibitions. Their latest venture is the conversation series “Humanities for Humans,” presented in collaboration with the Walter de Gruyter Foundation. In eight virtual and in-person events over two years, renowned scholars from a variety of disciplines and from both sides of the Atlantic will take a deeper look at the polarizing issues of our era.
According to Dr. Irene Kacandes, Professor of German and Comparative Literature at Dartmouth College and curator of the series, the lectures aim to bring out the “human” in the humanities and to contribute to a level-headed debate among the general public. In the run-up to the first event on September 27, De Gruyter’s director of communications Dr. Pablo Dominguez Andersen spoke to Irene about the origins of the series, the vital role of the humanities in times of crisis, and her plans for the future.
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For two decades, Rockstar Games have been making games that interrogate and represent the idea of America, past and present. Commercially successful, fan-beloved, and a frequent source of media attention, Rockstar’s franchises are positioned as not only game-changing, ground-breaking interventions in the games industry, but also as critical, cultural histories on America and its excesses.
In an interview with acquisitions editor Rabea Rittgerodt, Dr. Esther Wright, author of the newly published book “Rockstar Games and American History. Promotional Materials and the Construction of Authenticity”, talked about historical authenticity in video games, what makes “Red Dead Redemption” and “L.A. Noire” great examples to show subjective versions of history, and what researching video games in academia as a woman is like.
Esther Wright is a Lecturer in Digital History at Cardiff University (School of History, Archaeology and Religion), and formerly an Early Career Fellow at the University of Warwick’s Institute of Advanced Study (IAS). She is also a co-convenor of the Historical Games Network, which aims to bring together academics, game makers and other cultural workers to explore the relationship between history and games of all kinds.
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Why do decent people in positions of power do dreadful things in certain circumstances? Why do some leaders carve out a different moral path when faced with challenging situations? Why do some people become ethical leaders in morally challenging and complex social environments?
Aidan McQuade, who consults on ethical leadership and campaigns against modern slavery, explores these important questions in his new book “Ethical Leadership: Moral Decision-Making under Pressure”, which is the second title in the new book series “De Gruyter Transformative Thinking and Practice in Leadership and Its Development”.
In an interview with Steve Hardman, Senior Acquisitions Editor at De Gruyter, Aidan McQuade explains how his extensive experience in humanitarian work in Africa has influenced his thinking and understanding of how leaders behave when faced with difficult choices.
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Wie geht man ein derart komplexes und tabuisiertes Thema, wie die vielfältigen Verbindungen von Gewalt und Sexualität, an? Warum ist es notwendig, ein Buch darüber zu schreiben? Gibt es tatsächlich einen Unterschied zwischen "sexueller Gewalt" und "sexualisierter Gewalt"?
Dr. Gerhard Schreiber ist Akademischer Rat am Institut für Theologie und Sozialethik der TU Darmstadt und hat zurzeit die Vertretungsprofessur für Systematische Theologie an der Universität Bonn inne. Mit seinem Buch "Im Dunkel der Sexualität" möchte er für das Thema sensibilisieren und dazu beitragen den Überlebenden von "sexueller*sexualisierter" Gewalt Gehör zu verschaffen. Zudem gibt der Autor seinen Leserinnen und Lesern ein begriffliches Instrumentarium an die Hand, um sich mit den verschiedenen Facetten von Gewalt sprachmächtig auseinandersetzen zu können.
Darüber und über vieles mehr spricht Katrin Mittmann, Content Editor aus dem Fachbereich Theologie und Religion bei De Gruyter, im Interview mit dem Autor.
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