TY - JOUR A1 - Annemarie, Ambühl A1 - Weiss, Irene M. A1 - Schierl, Petra A1 - Schmitzer, Ulrich A1 - Kirichenko, Alexander A1 - Heinemann, Matthias A1 - Weiß, Adrian A1 - Esposito, Paolo A1 - Grewing, Farouk F. A1 - Merli, Elena A1 - Feichtinger, Barbara A1 - Seng, Helmut A1 - Wieber, Anja A1 - Schollmeyer, Patrick A1 - Kranzdorf, Anna A1 - Werner, Eva A1 - Wöhrle, Georg A1 - Brinker, Wolfram A1 - Di Rocco, Emilia A1 - Wesselmann, Katharina A1 - Löbcke, Konrad A1 - Benedetti, Ginevra ED - Ambühl, Annemarie T1 - tessellae – Birthday Issue for Christine Walde T2 - thersites N2 - This special birthday issue for Christine Walde, co-founder and co-editor of thersites, features contributions from colleagues and friends. The articles, essays, and book reviews, centering around the honoranda’s research interests as well as focusing on core topics of thersites, form a thematically varied mosaic (tessellae): innovative constructions of literary genres and poetics (especially bucolic, elegy, epic, and epigram), images of the city of Rome and its counterparts, sleep and dreams, history of classical scholarship, gender studies, and classical reception studies. Y1 - 2020 U6 - https://doi.org/10.34679/thersites.vol11 SN - 2364-7612 VL - 2020 IS - 11 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Bièvre-Perrin, Fabien A1 - Briand, Michel A1 - Jouteur, Isabelle A1 - Pampanay, Élise A1 - Besnard, Tiphaine Annabelle A1 - Costanzo, Daniela A1 - Renault, Manon A1 - Saura-Ziegelmeyer, Arnaud A1 - Scapin, Mathieu A1 - González Vázquez, Mateo A1 - Mihanovic, Andelko ED - Bièvre-Perrin, Fabien ED - Carlà-Uhink, Filippo ED - Rollinger, Christian ED - Walde, Christine T1 - Antiquipop – Chefs d’œuvres revisités T2 - thersites N2 - This special issue hosts the proceedings of a workshop that took place in Lyon in 2019, dedicated to discussing the modern receptions of some "masterpieces" from ancient Greek art. Y1 - 2021 U6 - https://doi.org/10.34679/thersites.vol13 SN - 2364-7612 VL - 2021 IS - 13 PB - Universitätsverlag Potsdam CY - Potsdam ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Boeker, Sonja A1 - Hermanussen, Michael A1 - Scheffler, Christiane ED - Scheffler, Christiane ED - Koziel, Slawomir ED - Hermanussen, Michael ED - Bogin, Barry T1 - Westernization of self-perception in modern affluent Indonesian school children T2 - Human Biology and Public Health N2 - Background Subjective Social Status is used as an important predictor for psychological and physiological findings, most commonly measured with the MacArthur Scale (Ladder Test). Previous studies have shown that this test fits better in Western cultures. The idea of a social ladder itself and ranking oneself “higher” or “lower” is a concept that accords to the Western thinking. Objectives We hypothesize that in a culture where only the elites have adapted to a Western lifestyle, the test results reflect a higher level of accuracy for this stratum. We also expect that self-perception differs per sex. Sample and Methods We implemented the Ladder Test in a study of Indonesian schoolchildren aged between 5 and 13 years (boys N = 369, girls N= 364) from non-private and private schools in Kupang in 2020. Results Our analysis showed that the Ladder Test results were according to the Western expectations only for the private school, as the Ladder Scores significantly decreased with age (LM: p = 0.04). The Ladder Test results are best explained by “Education Father” for the non-private school pupils (p = 0.01) and all boys (p = 0.04), by “School Grades” for the private school cohort (p = 0.06) and by “Household Score” for girls (p =0.09). Conclusion This finding indicates that the concept of ranking oneself “high” or “low” on a social ladder is strongly implicated with Western ideas. A ladder implies social movement by “climbing” up or down. According to that, reflection of self-perception is influenced by culture. KW - self-perception KW - social status KW - westernization KW - cultural dependence Y1 - 2021 U6 - https://doi.org/10.52905/hbph.v1.4 SN - 2748-9957 VL - 2021 IS - 1 SP - 1 EP - 13 PB - Universitätsverlag Potsdam CY - Potsdam ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Bogin, Barry ED - Scheffler, Christiane ED - Koziel, Slawomir ED - Hermanussen, Michael ED - Bogin, Barry T1 - Social-Economic-Political-Emotional (SEPE) factors regulate human growth T2 - Human Biology and Public Health N2 - Background There is a recurring and seamless interaction between the biology of human development and the social-economic-political-emotional (SEPE) environment. The SEPE environment influences the quality of the material conditions for human biology and, simultaneously, human growth in height and other dimensions provide social and moral signals that provide information to community networks. Objectives This article reviews the role of SEPE factors in human growth, especially skeletal growth. Sample and Methods The meaning of SEPE is defined and shown to be related to individual and group prestige, to social identity, and to ego and task motivation. These influence dominance or subordination of communities and the material and moral conditions of societies. Historical and contemporary examples of SEPE effects on skeletal size are presented. Results Membership in a SEPE community impacts skeletal size in height and breadth. Higher SEPE classes are taller, lower SEPE classes are broader. In elite level sport the winners have more growth stimulation via the hormone IGF-1 even before the contest. These findings are explained in terms of dominance versus subordination and the Community Effect in Height hypothesis. Conclusions SEPE factor regulation of human growth is shown to be a more comprehensive explanation for plasticity in height than traditional concepts such as socioeconomic status and simple-minded genetic determinism. People belonging to upper SEPE class communities, the elites, know that they are superior and are treated as such by the non-elites. The material and moral condition for life operating through these community social networks provide positive stimulation for the elites and negative stimulation for the lower SEPE classes. These differences maintain the gradients in height between SEPE communities in human societies. KW - prestige KW - dominance-subordination KW - social identity KW - ego motivation KW - material and moral conditions KW - community effects Y1 - 2021 U6 - https://doi.org/10.52905/hbph.v1.10 SN - 2748-9957 VL - 2021 IS - 1 SP - 1 EP - 20 PB - Universitätsverlag Potsdam CY - Potsdam ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Carlà-Uhink, Filippo A1 - Gori, Maja A1 - de Libero, Loretana A1 - Avalli, Andrea A1 - Pintucci, Alessandro A1 - Clementi, Jessica A1 - Chrysafis, Charalampos I. A1 - Gardner, Chelsea A. M. A1 - Klein, Jonas A1 - González-Vaquerizo, Helena A1 - Mihanovic, Andelko A1 - Agbamu, Samuel A1 - Dubbini, Rachele A1 - Almagor, Eran ED - Carlà-Uhink, Filippo ED - Gori, Maja T1 - Modern Identities and Classical Antiquity T2 - thersites N2 - Studies on the “uses of the past” have steadily and consistently advanced over the past twenty years. Following the seminal studies by Hobsbawm and Ranger and Benedict Anderson on the role of narratives of the past in constructing (national) identities, and thanks the always more widespread practice of reception studies, the attention for cultural memory and lieux de mémoire, and following, many publications have investigated the role of nearer and further time layers in defining and determining structures of identity and senses of belonging across the world. Didactics of history has also contributed a great deal to this field of studies, also thanks to the always more refined methodologies of school book analysis. Classical Antiquity has obviously not been neglected, and multiple studies have been dedicated to its role in the development and reinforcement of modern identities. Yet, not only some areas of the world have remained less considered than others, but most attention has been dedicated to national identities, nationalistic discourses, and their activation through historical narratives. This special issues of thersites wants to contribute further to research on the role of Classical Antiquity within modern identities, asking scholars to focus especially on areas that have been less strongly represented in scholarship until now. Y1 - 2020 U6 - https://doi.org/10.34679/thersites.vol10 SN - 2364-7612 VL - 2019 IS - 10 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Corbett, Tim A1 - Siegel, Björn A1 - Thulin, Mirjam A1 - Csáky, Moritz A1 - Hödl, Klaus A1 - Kasper-Marienberg, Verena A1 - Berkovich, Ilya A1 - Czakai, Johannes A1 - Maślak-Maciejewska, Alicja A1 - Stechauner, Martin A1 - Dodou, Lida-Maria A1 - Heimann-Jelinek, Felicitas A1 - Nasr, Omar T. A1 - Halbinger, Monika A1 - Jánošíková, Magdaléna A1 - Keßler, Katrin A1 - Kauders, Anthony D. A1 - Piskačová, Zora A1 - Arnold, Rafael D. A1 - Schulz, Michael K. A1 - Shapira, Elena A1 - Sidky, Sean A1 - Sun, Cheuk Him Ryan A1 - Tirosh-Samuelson, Hava A1 - Tusan, Michelle A1 - Weigand, Susanne ED - Siegel, Björn ED - Thulin, Mirjam ED - Corbett, Tim T1 - Intersections between Jewish Studies and Habsburg Studies T2 - PaRDeS : Journal of the Association for Jewish Studies in Germany T2 - PaRDeS : Zeitschrift der Vereinigung für Jüdische Studien e. V. N2 - In the aftermath of the Shoah and the ostensible triumph of nationalism, it became common in historiography to relegate Jews to the position of the “eternal other” in a series of binaries: Christian/Jewish, Gentile/Jewish, European/Jewish, non-Jewish/Jewish, and so forth. For the longest time, these binaries remained characteristic of Jewish historiography, including in the Central European context. Assuming instead, as the more recent approaches in Habsburg studies do, that pluriculturalism was the basis of common experience in formerly Habsburg Central Europe, and accepting that no single “majority culture” existed, but rather hegemonies were imposed in certain contexts, then the often used binaries are misleading and conceal the complex and sometimes even paradoxical conditions that shaped Jewish life in the region before the Shoah. The very complexity of Habsburg Central Europe both in synchronic and diachronic perspective precludes any singular historical narrative of “Habsburg Jewry,” and it is not the intention of this volume to offer an overview of “Habsburg Jewish history.” The selected articles in this volume illustrate instead how important it is to reevaluate categories, deconstruct historical narratives, and reconceptualize implemented approaches in specific geographic, temporal, and cultural contexts in order to gain a better understanding of the complex and pluricultural history of the Habsburg Empire and the region as a whole. T3 - PaRDeS : Zeitschrift der Vereinigung für Jüdische Studien e.V. - 29 KW - Habsburg Studies KW - Jewish Studies KW - Intersections KW - Central Europe KW - Habsburg Empire KW - Habsburgstudien KW - Jüdische Studien KW - Überschneidungen KW - Zentraleuropa KW - Habsburgisches Reich Y1 - 2024 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-622072 SN - 978-3-86956-574-3 SN - 1614-6492 SN - 1862-7684 IS - 29 PB - Universitätsverlag Potsdam CY - Potsdam ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Cromwell, Jennifer A1 - Brück, Alexander A1 - Unceta Gómez, Luis A1 - Carlà-Uhink, Filippo A1 - Freitag, Florian A1 - Hanisch, Xenia A1 - Dix, Sophie A1 - Klohr, Silvia A1 - Brilke, Clara A1 - Klooster, Jacqueline A1 - Fischer, Jens A1 - Loconte, Riccardo A1 - Weiß, Adrian A1 - Vitello, Eugenia ED - Ambühl, Annemarie ED - Carlà-Uhink, Filippo ED - Rollinger, Christian ED - Walde, Christine T1 - Spring Issue T2 - thersites Y1 - 2022 U6 - https://doi.org/10.34679/thersites.vol14 SN - 2364-7612 VL - 2022 IS - 14 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Demske, Ulrike A1 - Sütterlin, Sabine A1 - Rost, Sophia A1 - Zimmermann, Matthias A1 - Kampe, Heike A1 - Eckardt, Barbara A1 - Horn-Conrad, Antje T1 - Portal Wissen = Borders BT - The Research Magazine of the University of Potsdam N2 - The new edition of the Potsdam Research Magazine “Portal Wissen” approaches the subject “Borders” from different perspectives. As a linguist, this headline makes me think of linguistic borders and the effects that might result from the contact of two languages at a particular border. There is, for instance, ample evidence of code-switching, i.e. the use of material from at least two languages in a single utterance. The reasons for code-switching can be manifold. On the one hand, code-switching may result from a limited language competence, for example if a speaker lacks a particular word in a nonnative language. On the other hand, code-switching may be a matter of prestige if the speaker wants to demonstrate his or her affiliation to a certain social group by switching languages. If code-switching does not only occur sporadically but involves whole language communities over a longer period of time, it can result in significant changes of the involved languages. Which language “gives” and which one “takes” is determined by sociolinguistic factors. It is, hence, quite easy to predict that German varieties spoken in language islands in South and Eastern Europe as well as in North and Latin America will absorb more and more language material from their neighbouring languages until they disappear unless political will strives to preserve these language varieties. Increasing mobility of modern societies has multiplied the extent and the intensity of language contact and certainly comprises a large number of different contact situations besides the one most commonly known, i.e. the contact between German and English. From a historic point of view, German witnesses a strong influence of various Romance languages such as Latin, French and Italian. In Potsdam, one cannot help being reminded of the French influence during the 18th century. Overcoming language borders becomes also apparent in the everyday life of an international research university. In March this year, the Annual Conference of the German Linguistic Society took place in Potsdam, with more than 500 participants. Lingua franca of this conference was English. Compared to previous conferences, this further increased the number of international participants. The articles in this edition illustrate various approaches to the topic “Borders”: On the trail of “Boundary Surveys”, we follow the Australian explorer Ludwig Leichhardt. “Travellers Across Borders” is focussed on articles dealing with the literature of the colonial Caribbean or with the work of an Italian geologist deep beneath the earth’s surface, for example. Looking for the “Boundless”, our authors follow scientists who discuss questions like “Why love hurts?”. The present issue of “Portal Wissen” also takes into account “Drawing Up Borders” in an article that is concerned with the limits of workrelated stress. Instances of successful “Border Crossing” are provided by the “Handkerchief Lab” as well as by new biotechnological applications. I would like to wish you inspiring border experiences, hoping that you will get many impulses for crossing professional borders in your field of expertise. Prof. Ulrike Demske Professor of the History and the Varieties of the German Language Vice President International Affairs, Alumni and Fundraising T3 - Portal Wissen: The research magazine of the University of Potsdam [Englische Ausgabe] - 02/2013 Y1 - 2013 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-441430 SN - 2198-9974 IS - 02/2013 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Diner, Hasia A1 - Krah, Markus A1 - Rabin, Shari A1 - Schwartz, Yitzchak A1 - Thulin, Mirjam A1 - Czendze, Oskar A1 - Schmidt, Imanuel Clemens A1 - Cooperman, Jessica A1 - Gallas, Elisabeth A1 - Rürup, Miriam A1 - Heyde, Jürgen A1 - Meyer, Thomas A1 - Ries, Rotraud A1 - Ullrich, Anna A1 - Geißler-Grünberg, Anke A1 - Schulz, Michael Karl A1 - Arnold, Rafael D. A1 - Sinn, Andrea A. ED - Diner, Hasia ED - Krah, Markus ED - Siegel, Björn T1 - PaRDeS : Journal of the Association for Jewish Studies in Germany = Foreign Entanglements: Transnational American Jewish Studies T2 - PaRDeS : Journal of the Association for Jewish Studies in Germany T2 - PaRDeS : Zeitschrift der Vereinigung für Jüdische Studien N2 - The field of American Jewish studies has recently trained its focus on the transnational dimensions of its subject, reflecting in more sustained ways than before about the theories and methods of this approach. Yet, much of the insight to be gained from seeing American Jewry as constitutively entangled in many ways with other Jewries has not yet been realized. Transnational American Jewish studies are still in their infancy. This issue of PaRDeS presents current research on the multiple entanglements of American with Central European, especially German-speaking Jewries in the 19th and 20th centuries. The articles reflect the wide range of topics that can benefit from a transnational understanding of the American Jewish experience as shaped by its foreign entanglements. T3 - PaRDeS : Zeitschrift der Vereinigung für Jüdische Studien e.V. - 27 KW - American history KW - modern Jewish history KW - European Jewish history KW - transnational history KW - migration KW - interfaith dialogue KW - education KW - rabbinical seminaries KW - publishing history KW - book history KW - cultural history KW - modern Judaism KW - history and memory KW - Galicia KW - 19th century KW - 20th century KW - cultural pluralism KW - historiography KW - moderne jüdische Geschichte KW - USA KW - 19. Jahrhundert KW - 20. Jahrhundert KW - deutsch-jüdische Geschichte KW - transnationale Studien KW - Migration Y1 - 2021 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-519333 SN - 978-3-86956-520-0 SN - 1614-6492 SN - 1862-7684 IS - 27 PB - Universitätsverlag Potsdam CY - Potsdam ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Düvel, Pia A1 - Ehmig, Ulrike A1 - McCall, Jeremiah A1 - Unceta Gómez, Luis A1 - Bakogianni, Anastasia A1 - Fischer, Jens A1 - Serrano Lozano, David A1 - Ambühl, Annemarie A1 - Matz, Alicia A1 - Brinker, Wolfram A1 - Mach, Jonas Konstantin A1 - Mancini, Mattia A1 - Werner, Eva ED - Ambühl, Annemarie ED - Carlà-Uhink, Filippo ED - Rollinger, Christian ED - Walde, Christine T1 - Spring Issue T2 - thersites KW - history textbooks KW - textbook research KW - historical consciousness KW - Spartacus KW - slavery KW - history teaching KW - Anfänge der systematischen lateinische Epigraphik KW - Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum KW - Archiv KW - Reproduktion von Inschriften KW - history KW - video games KW - agents KW - historiography KW - Jonathan Muroya KW - Greek mythology KW - classical reception KW - cartoons Y1 - 2024 U6 - https://doi.org/10.34679/thersites.vol18 SN - 2364-7612 VL - 2024 IS - 18 ER -