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Photo: ©Olha Labur Olha Labur is a historian from Kyiv who researches women’s experiences in the 20th century. She works as an associate professor in the Department of History of Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute. Since 2017, she teaches the post-graduate course “The Gender History of Ukraine”. She is a…
Odenheimer & Fink Wine Wholesaler and Distillery
The Odenheimer & Fink Wine Wholesaler and Distillery was entered into the Berlin commercial register in 1921 and could be found in the Schöneberg district of Berlin, at Eisenacherstraße 103. Initially, the company had been called the Fränkische Weinkellerei B. & D. Silbermann but the name was changed on the…
Winged Horses and Snail-shaped Dolphins: A Broader Perspective on Drawings after the Antique in the Census Database
A sketchbook in Oxford dating to the first half of the 16th century (Ashmolean Museum inv. KP 668) is an intriguing work, not only because of its images of winged horses and dolphins with spiral-shaped tailfins, but also because of the art-historical questions it raises. The author of this codex,…
Converso Unbelief in Fortalitium Fidei by Friar Alonso de Espina
Thomas Hendrik Kaal, Queen Mary University London Zusammenfassung: In seinem Werk Fortalitium Fidei (c. 1464) entwirft der Franziskanermönch Alonso de Espina eine neue Konzeption der Häresie des Judaisierens. Anstatt Judaisieren lediglich als klandestine Fortführung jüdischer Glaubensvorstellungen und Praktiken zu verstehen, sah er darin eine noch schlimmere häretische Verirrung. Den judaisierenden conversos warf er vor, jedwede…
Computational Approaches to Understanding Narrative
Narrative sind mehr als nur Erzählstrukturen in fiktionalen Texten. Sie spiegeln gesellschaftliche Werte und kulturelles Erbe wider. Narrative können helfen, Themen und Standpunkte leichter zu vermitteln und aufzunehmen, was gleichzeitig zu Manipulation und Desinformation führen kann. Die Forschungsgruppe von Professor Mark A. Finlayson beschäftigt sich mit dem automatischen Erkennen und…
The life span of a light bulb. Thoughts on the preservation and decay of a changing object
Marcus Wystub - Is a new light bulb on its way to replace the broken one seen in the photograph of the sewing room at the Wäschefabrik Museum in Bielefeld? The lamps in the background apparently provided the workstations of the seamstresses with light until the 1980s. A look at…
How Dukhan made Doha. Urban history and the political economy of post-Protectorate Qatar
Sheikh Ali bin Abdullah Al Thani, emir of Qatar (r. 1949-1960) arriving at Umm Said to be condecorated with the Insignia of Knight Commander of the British Empire in 1954. His rule was characterized by the first steps in the development of an oil industry, the start of many social,…
Chapter 31. Vulgar hermeneutics
In Goethe’s Götz von Berlichingen one can find – assuming one has the explicit version – one of German literatures most famous quotes: „Mich ergeben! Auf Gnad und Ungnad! Mit wem redet Ihr! Bin ich ein Räuber! Sag deinem Hauptmann: Vor Ihro Kaiserliche Majestät hab ich, wie immer, schuldigen Respekt. Er aber,…
The Religious Poetry of El‘azar ha-Bavli Baghdad, 13th Century
Wout van Bekkum, Groningen In 2007 I published an edition of the Dīwān of the Baghdadi poet and paytan, El‘azar ha-Bavli, on the basis of two larger manuscripts. The first of these, containing 67 folios, is in New York and catalogued as EN Adler No. 881 and was edited by…
Beringia’s Biome Puzzle: Unraveling the Role of Environment in the Peopling of the Americas
The early peopling of the Americas is a complex and multi-faceted topic, with ongoing research providing new insights and information. More particularly, the human settlement of Beringia, the land bridge that connected Asia and...
Envisioning a Homoeroticized Cityscape Through Work
By Ezgi Sarıtaş In 1963, Istanbul Ansiklopedisi (the Encyclopaedia of Istanbul) published a letter to the editor from Istanbul resident Mustafa Cihanbeyli about a quatrain that the encyclopaedia had published in one of its earlier fascicles.[1] Written by Tâhirü’l-Mevlevî (1877-1951), a Sufi dede and poet also known by his official…
Botany in Time and Space: The Chelsea Physic Garden
When I sent a fellow doctoral candidate in the history of botany some pictures from the Chelsea Physic Garden, she asked me if I had encountered any ghosts of the much-admired botanists that shaped this famous institution and its networks. While I had to answer in the negative, I noticed…
How to Best Campaign for Sexual Reform: Karl Heinrich Ulrichs, Karl Maria Kertbeny and their Fiery Correspondence in the 1860s*
Veronika Settele (she/her) is lecturer at Universität Bremen and recently turned to the history of sexuality in nineteenth century Germany, France and the U.S. She is currently researching ego-documents and keeps wondering why we know much more about homosexuality than about heterosexuality. If you have ideas on how to change…
A Female Aristocrat Memoirist’s Account of the French Court’s Struggle for Survival (1789-1792)
In 1832, Pauline de Tourzel, countess of Béarn, composed her memoirs entitled Souvenirs de 40 ans (1789-1830): Récit d’une dame de Madame la dauphine (published in 1861), a major portion of which consists of...
The Shengjing weichang quantu 盛京圍場全圖, or the “Complete illustrations of the Shengjing hunting grounds”
The library of Chinese studies of the Collège de France holds an album describing a Manchu hunting ground. The Shengjing weichang quantu – or the “Complete illustrations of the Shengjing hunting grounds” – is an...
Fan Studies: “You can do a PhD on that?!”
By Christina Wurst Why study (Anglophone) fan cultures? When you mention that you are writing a PhD on fan cultures, people’s first question is often “You can do a PhD on that?”. The term ‘fans’ typically calls to mind screaming girls at a boy band concert, football fans going on…