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Jeff Hayton: Culture from the Slums. Punk Rock in East and West Germany (Review)

Jeff Hayton’s monograph on punk culture in the Federal Republic and GDR could have become the standard historiographical work were it not for the many small and serious shortcomings and scholarly carelessness that undermine almost every positive aspect of the work. In fact, there is a lack of historical studies…

How to obtain an official postgraduate in a Spanish University without leaving your city?

The establishment of postgraduate studies related to the Spanish language and cultures is of potential interest to Vietnamese students and society in their current circumstances. Here I dig into the motivations for these studies in Vietnam, sketch the general process for establishing postgraduate studies, the main challenges, and introduce a…

New Exhibition: “Drawing on Arabian Nights”

An exhibition of Orientalist works from The Courtauld’s Prints and Drawings collection selected and curated by Emily Christensen (Courtauld) and our Bilderfahrzeuge colleague Ambra D’Antone at The Courtauld Gallery Project Space, London,  22.02 – 03.06.2023. Alexandre Gabriel Decamps, Young Oriental Woman in an Interior, 19th century, Bodycolour on paper, 13.4 cm x 9.8 cm,…

Urban Temporalities (City Walk 9)

— Sara Keller (ORCID 0000-0002-2506-2887) Time and space are essential dimensions of the human existence, yet difficult to grasp and define. While science and technology aim at defining a universal time and space that can be measured physically (Euclidian space and astronomical calendar), artists, poets, religious actors and philosophers have…

Three Memorable Excursions with Reinhart Koselleck

Jeffrey Andrew Barash - In 1982 I took the initiative to write to Reinhart Koselleck, although I had never met him, to ask if he would be willing to serve as the sponsor of my application for an Alexander von Humboldt-Fellowship. I had just defended my doctoral dissertation at the…

ChatGPT teaches open science

I asked ChatGPT to talk about open science. This post is the full conversation.

The Sevilla Dance Palace – Arthur Lefebre

At Christmas time in 1927 the “most elegant amusement establishment of the South” opened its doors at Oranienstraße 68, near the Moritzplatz. Arthur Lefebre, born in 1899, was the owner of the Sevilla, while his father, Wilhelm, owned the building.[1] Initially, the dance hall was booming, with up to 400…

The Emperor’s Diet or the Empire’s Reichstag? Sixteenth-Century English Wordplay on the ‘Diet’ and its Heuristic Use

German Historical Institute London Blog On 10 January 1547, Thomas Thirlby, first and last bishop of Westminster and Henry VIII’s envoy to Emperor Charles V, informed his master ‘that th[e] Emperour gothe to Ulmes [Ulm], thear to take the diet for the cure of his gowt, and as some hathe…

The Political Importance of Printing Banknotes in Exile

Printing several tonnes of paper money in British exile, storing it there temporarily and shipping it back home after the end of the war – this may seem very bizarre at first. On closer inspection, however, this process offers an anecdotal insight into an area of responsibility of a finance…

Note: Data-mining mineralogy

How to navigate a museum database of more than 200.000 stones? Can we “data-mine” the minerals collection of the museum for natural history in Berlin? This historical label in the mineralogy collection of the museum for natural history in Berlin contains a variety of information. Some of it related to...

“China – Norms, Ideas, Practices” conference 2022

China and the Chinese people are diverse and took shape through a historical process; an understanding of this process and diversity would help us to achieve more distinct analyses and to avoid drawing and spreading confused pictures of China. Translators must meet the challenge of addressing certain geographical, historical and…

“Why Queer? Don’t you have something more important than this to talk about?” – 5in10 with Razan Ghazzawi

Razan Ghazzawi received their PhD in Gender and Sexuality Studies from the University of Sussex, Brighton. They also hold an MA in Gender, Sexuality, and the Body from the University of Leeds, UK, and an MA in Comparative Literature from Balamand University in Lebanon. In their thesis “Pedagogies of Everyday…

Cross-Linguistic Colexifications with Body Concepts: Metaphor, Metonymy, Analogy

 Colexification describes the relation between two meanings that are expressed with the same form in a given language. A colexification is established based on a linguistic analysis of word meanings in the same language. While the term is a cover term for different semantic relations (i.e., vagueness, polysemy, homophony), the…

Platemarks and Papermarks. Inquiring the Counterproof’s (Absent) Matrix

Abstract: Platemarks and papermarks can bear witness to the production process of a counterproof. In the example of an 18th-century print series, they allow conjectures on the appreciation of the counterproof’s (absent) matrices. A counterproof is a print of a print. As this involves printing from paper on paper the…

Imperial Commoners in Brazil and West Africa (1640–1822): A Global History from a Correspondence Network Perspective

By Agata Bloch and Demival Vasques Filho After a couple of attempts, we have finally received the exciting news that our project has been recommended for funding by the Polish National Science Center! Over the next four years, we will study the communication patterns of imperial commoners (non-elite actors) who…

Note: Why I will not use Graphcommons.com anymore

This is a short note on why I will not use Graph Commons for publishing data visualization in my research anymore. And also why I find it to have a misleading name. I have used it to map the early art trade at the Hôtel Drouot in the 1850s, and...
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