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The Rule of Law Restoration in Poland – Legal and Political Challenges

This is a repost with kind permission of the authors and Review of Democracy, in which the conversation was published originally. In this conversation with RevDem editor and a re:constitution fellow Kasia Krzyżanowska, Krzysztof Izdebski (Batory Foundation) and Bartosz Pilitowski (Court Watch Poland) discuss all the current challenges the Polish…

Fairness and discrimination, PhD Course, #9 Mitigation, Pre-processing and In-processing

Finally, after defining (and quantifying) “group fairness“ and “individual fairness“, we can now start to discuss the idea of mitigating a possible discrimination. Here, we will see, how based on some data that were initially collected, and a model (a pricing model), it is possible to remove the discrimination in…

Writing, Unfinished: Academic text as borderland work, or writing as speaking truthfully.

By Pedro Oliveira, LIAS Artist Fellow What forms of knowledge production are possible that would invite a reflection beyond the holding together of established „truths“? How to move the writing of theory away from its stabilizing ethos and invite ambiguity, hyper-locality, and poetics, albeit without losing grip to that which…

On the Art and Politics of Chairing Panels

I have considered chairing panels at academic conferences for a while as a topic for a potential blog post. This aspect of academic life isn’t self-evident and there are only a few guides on how to do it. But here’s more: chairing is a political act that nobody talks about.…

Contesting Objects: Sites, Narratives, Contexts – Transregional Academy on Latin American Art V, 2024 in Lima

The German Center for Art History (DFK Paris, Max Weber Foundation), the Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max Planck Institute for Art History in Rome (BHMPI), and the Museo de Arte de Lima (MALI) invite doctoral candidates and postdoctoral researchers in the field of art history and allied disciplines to apply for…

Reading Fever and Samizdat Translations

The photograph of me sitting in the Lotus position on the shores of the Black Sea in Crimea is a document of my youth. Like my photo portrait, it was taken in 1979, just before I met Iosif Gol’din and started regularly coming to his ‘salon’ in Iuzhin Lane. Along…

The Waqf: Where Religion Meets Urbanity

— Elyse Semerdjian Historians have long studied the institution of pious endowments(waqf, pl. awqaf) as an impactful instrument of urban development in Islamic cities. In the case of the Ottoman Empire, it is estimated that more than 35,000 endowments were established in the imperial capitol (Isin 2011, 222-223). More endowments…

Competition between Profit and Principles: The ‘Natural’ Market Niche in 1980s Britain

Below are findings that are part of my research for my doctoral thesis on the entanglement of commercial business and moral responsibility in the 1970s and 1980s. My access to archives across England, and specifically London, was made possible by the opportunity to stay at the German Historical Institute London…

Queries from a well-read database user

by Caroline Flick Die erste und deutsch-sprachige Veröffentlichung des Artikels finden Sie hier: / The first and German-language publication of the article can be found here: https://retour.hypotheses.org/3050 The publication of a list of artworks on 24 January 2024 by the OFP Project on lootedart.com gives rise to a number of…

Is there a right to silence? Silence as a reason for vigilance during the war in Ukraine

von Kateryna Yeremieieva One particular reason to be vigilant When does silence as an absence of statements become a cause for vigilance? At what moment is public attention directed toward silence and not only toward statements? We can see this in challenging crises like war when dividing people into insiders…

A Brief History of Multicultural London

Panikos Panayi While migration may have become key to understanding the modern world, the former British imperial capital of London, the first truly global city, has a unique history of interacting with people from beyond its shores. Its development into the largest city in the world by the early nineteenth…

The Science around Alcoholism or How to Banish Alcohol from the Turkish Society

By Elife Biçer-Deveci [1] Historical analysis of scientific debates on alcohol provides insights into power relations, political tensions, and hidden aspects of the nation-building process. In the case of early twentieth-century Turkey, scientists shaped the narrative of drinking as an alien element of the Turkish nation. Alcohol consumption is a…

The unsolved non-uniqueness problem and the dilemma of theoretical p-linguistics

Structural analyses of grammatical patterns are often non-unique, as was classically observed by Chao (1934): Different analyses often work equally well, to all appearances. This would not be a problem if linguists did not typically work with the background assumption that there is only one true analysis, which will lead…

From a letter to an oppressive symbol – notes on >Z

— Claudine Moulin This is the English translation and revised text of an essay published in German in the Journal Aptum. Zeitschrift für Sprachkritik (H2/3 2023, Themenheft: Krieg in der Ukraine. Essayistische Notizen zum Diskurs, 201-209 [printed 1/2024]; DOI: 10.46771/9783967693843_12). The English version was written and discussed with colleagues during…

How to Visualize Colexification Networks in Cytoscape (How to Do X in Linguistics 14)

The ability to visualize data in an intelligible way is an important skill for scientists. In linguistics, especially in lexical semantics, data are often visualized using graphs, i.e., networks. For example, in the web app for the Database of Cross-Linguistic Colexifications (CLICS), we use networks to illustrate that a lexical…
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