Was Historiker:innen und historisch Arbeitende ihrem jüngeren Ich raten würden Kannst Du in drei Sätzen Dein Projekt vorstellen und sagen, was speziell der digitale Anteil daran war? Ich berichte mal von dem Projekt, das mir den meisten Stoff zum Thema…
Was Historiker:innen und historisch Arbeitende ihrem jüngeren Ich raten würden Kannst Du in drei Sätzen Dein Projekt vorstellen und sagen, was speziell der digitale Anteil daran war? In meiner Dissertation habe ich zu Konsum und materieller Kultur im f…
Occasional notes on calls, events, publications, and more that caught our attention. Please email us your own items. Grants Gerda Henkel Tandem Fellowships for the Global History of Ideas (Forschungszentrum Gotha der Univ. Erfurt) – Deadline: 31 July 2024 Thanks to the Gerda Henkel Foundation, the Gotha Research Centre at the University of Erfurt is … Continue reading Knowledge Notes
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Was Historiker:innen und historisch Arbeitende ihrem jüngeren Ich raten würden Kannst Du in drei Sätzen Dein Projekt vorstellen und sagen, was speziell der digitale Anteil daran war? Das Deutsche Historische Institut (DHI) in Washington D.C. sammelt Br…
Parabolic Dining On February 11, 1971, NASA food experts from Houston’s Manned Spacecraft Center climbed aboard a KC-135 plane to undergo short periods of near weightlessness.1 The KC-135 was unique in that it enabled researchers to test equipment under the rigors of a zero-gravity environment during a series of flights on parabolic paths. With Apollo … Continue reading Floating Food/Filming Knowledge: Creating Food Knowledge above the Clouds
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Von Jonathan Baum Editorial note: With the participation of the GHI Washington in the NFDI 4Memory Consortium, an initiative dedicated to the creation of a long-term and sustainable research data infrastructure in Germany, we’ve re-conceptualized our…
Was Historiker:innen und historisch Arbeitende ihrem jüngeren Ich raten würden Friederike Schmitt hat die Fragen beantwortet Kannst Du in drei Sätzen Dein Projekt vorstellen und sagen, was speziell der digitale Anteil daran war? Auf den Webseiten europ…
Why Virtues? The concept of “virtue” has a long and controversial history. Aristotle supposed that virtue could make an individual know what is a “good thing to do.” Machiavelli highlighted the masculine connotations of the Latin virtus (lit. manliness) and claimed that adopting the “virtù (Italian for virtue)” was a precondition for a “good prince” … Continue reading Virtues as a Lens: Exploring Science, Scholarship, and Politics under Soviet Domination
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On May 29, 1793, Göttingen anthropologist Johann Friedrich Blumenbach received a Georgian woman’s skull. It would later become the most prominent representation of the so-called Caucasian variety of humankind. His Russian skull supplier, Georg Thomas von Asch, emphasized the “coincidence”1 of finding this specific skull. Only due to her sudden death had the deceased woman … Continue reading ‘Collecting’ and Comparing – Skulls, Transatlantic Knowledge Production, and Racial Science
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Hans A. was 72 years old and in good shape when he was admitted to the Eglfing-Haar Mental Institution in March 1944.1 This Bavarian asylum was notorious at the time for its high mortality rate, and Hans A. died there within two months without having shown any signs of serious illness prior to his admission. … Continue reading Everyday Knowledge, Science, and Psychiatric Committals during Germany’s Age of Extremes
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Occasional notes on calls, events, publications, and more that caught our attention. Please email us your own items. Calls for Papers: The History of Intellectual Culture (HIC) International Yearbook of Knowledge and Society seeks contributors and/or guest editors for its 2025 volume. Research articles should be around 8,000 words; theoretical contributions, review essays, etc., can … Continue reading Knowledge Notes
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That Germans love bread seems to be one stereotype that is largely accurate. Given Germany’s rich baking culture, it is perhaps not surprising that it also has a long tradition of producing challot, braided loaves eaten during Shabbat. There were many expressions for challah, including Datscher, Challe, and Striezel.1 The most common terms, Barches and … Continue reading For the Love of Bread and Barches – The Very German-Jewish Challah Knife
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For a German version of this call, please visit Geschichte der deutsch-jüdischen Diaspora . Deadline: January 31, 2024. The Moses Mendelssohn Center for European-Jewish Studies is seeking authors for a digital platform. It is dedicated to the lifeworlds of German-speaking Jewish women and men who emigrated or fled from their countries of origin beginning in … Continue reading Call for Proposals to Online Source Portal ‘History of the German-Jewish Diaspora’
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