@article{MartinezJimenez2023, author = {Mart{\´i}nez Jim{\´e}nez, Javier}, title = {Lycaon and classical versipelles in MTV's Teen Wolf}, series = {thersites 17}, volume = {2023}, journal = {thersites 17}, number = {17}, editor = {Potter, Amanda and Gardner, Hunter H.}, issn = {2364-7612}, doi = {10.34679/thersites.vol17.248}, pages = {212 -- 244}, year = {2023}, abstract = {The modern conception of the werewolf is heavily influenced by Gothic reinterpretations of medieval European stories. This kind of werewolf is the one that has appeared on screen and written fiction for decades, but MTV's Teen Wolf, a re-boot of the 1980s film which aired between 2011 - 17, is different. In this young adult supernatural drama, werewolves descend directly from Lycaon, and a substantial proportion of the show's werewolf lore derives from Graeco-Roman stories about wolf-shifters and versipelles. This paper wants to explore the extent of the use in the show of the myth of Lycaon in particular, of Classical versipelles in general, the significance of these two references for the narrative, and the degree of innovation in modern supernatural fiction of this adaptation of Greek and Roman stories.}, language = {en} } @article{Maurice2023, author = {Maurice, Lisa}, title = {From Olympian to Christ-figure: Lucifer (2016 - 2021)}, series = {thersites 17}, volume = {2023}, journal = {thersites 17}, number = {17}, editor = {Potter, Amanda and Gardner, Hunter H.}, issn = {2364-7612}, doi = {10.34679/thersites.vol17.244}, pages = {245 -- 272}, year = {2023}, abstract = {On the surface the television series Lucifer (2016 - 21) is a simple police procedural but, in actuality, the criminal cases in the show serve merely as window-dressing and structure for the deeper consideration of issues, such as guilt, shame, love, and even the meaning of life on both an individual and universal level. These topics are explored through the ever-developing character of Lucifer himself, who, like other recent anti-hero depictions, is initially presented in a manner that is very different from traditional portrayals of the Devil, and is, in fact, far closer to that of the Greek Olympian gods. Over the course of six seasons, the depiction of Lucifer alters, however, as he becomes a figure that is in many ways Christ-like, but with a 21st century twist that places the individual in an exalted position that is superior to that of divinity.}, language = {en} } @article{Potter2023, author = {Potter, Amanda}, title = {Classical Monsters and Hero(ines) in InSEXts, Eros/Psyche and Porcelain}, series = {thersites 17}, volume = {2023}, journal = {thersites 17}, number = {17}, editor = {Potter, Amanda and Gardner, Hunter H.}, issn = {2364-7612}, doi = {10.34679/thersites.vol17.247}, pages = {96 -- 124}, year = {2023}, abstract = {This paper applies Monster Theory to the use of Greek mythology in three creator-owned comic series by female writers: InSEXts (2016 - 2017) by American comic writer Marguerite Bennett and Indonesian artist working in America Ariela Kristantina as well as Eros/Psyche (2021) and Porcelain (2021) by Maria Llovet, a comic writer and artist from Barcelona. In the first volume of InSEXts, set in Victorian London, there are allusions to the Furies and Pandora, linked with the discourse of the repression of women. In the second volume, set in the late nineteenth century Paris art world, the representation of classical subjects in art becomes a means to repress women, and a goddess with a Gorgon-like appearance takes revenge on the male repressors. In Eros/Psyche the story of Eros and Psyche and broken statues forms the backdrop and context for a tale of love and deception at a girls' school, and in Porcelain a girl is faced with a choice of paths towards Eros or Thanatos, like Herakles at the crossroads choosing between the paths of virtue and vice. With reference to Cohen's seven theses of Monster Culture I examine how Bennett and Lovett subvert the idea of the monster and the hero.}, language = {en} } @article{Toscano2023, author = {Toscano, Margaret Merrill}, title = {Varieties of Supernatural Depictions}, series = {thersites 17}, volume = {2023}, journal = {thersites 17}, number = {17}, editor = {Potter, Amanda and Gardner, Hunter H.}, issn = {2364-7612}, doi = {10.34679/thersites.vol17.249}, pages = {2 -- 31}, year = {2023}, abstract = {This article proposes several conceptual frameworks for examining the widespread use of classical intertexts depicting the supernatural in popular media. Whether the supernatural is viewed as reality or simply a trope, it represents the human capacity and desire to explore worlds and meanings beyond the obvious and mundane. Representations of classical gods, heroes, and monsters evoke the power of mythic stories to probe and explain human psychology, social concerns, philosophical questions, and religious beliefs, including belief about the paranormal and supernatural. The entertainment value of popular media allows creators and audiences to engage with larger issues in non-dogmatic and playful ways that help them negotiate tensions among various beliefs and identities. This paper also gives an overview of the other articles in this journal issue, showing overlapping themes and patterns that connect with these tensions. By combining knowledge of classical myths in their original contexts with knowledge about contemporary culture, classical scholars contribute unique perspectives about why classical intertexts dominate in popular media today.}, language = {en} } @article{Foster2023, author = {Foster, Frances}, title = {Gods and Magic in Megan Whalen Turner's The Thief}, series = {thersites 17}, volume = {2023}, journal = {thersites 17}, number = {17}, editor = {Potter, Amanda and Gardner, Hunter H.}, issn = {2364-7612}, doi = {10.34679/thersites.vol17.242}, pages = {32 -- 54}, year = {2023}, abstract = {Megan Whalen Turner's series The Queen's Thief (1996 - 2020) centres on the political intrigues in a group of countries which are at once very like - but also very unlike - Bronze Age and archaic Greece threatened by a powerful Persian Empire. The first book in the series, The Thief (1996), begins as a political adventure haunted by stories of the gods. When those gods directly influence the action, the narrative changes from present political intrigue to a fantasy from the distant past. The mythology in The Thief reflects, imitates and distorts archaic Greek creation myths - stories about how the earth and sky were formed, the divine pantheon and heroes. I examine the presentation of this divine pantheon against the narratives about the gods in Hesiod, the Homeric hymns and Homer's epics. I evaluate how the supernatural element interacts with the largely political narrative of The Thief. In so doing, I explore how the text blends a 'classical supernatural' with a world that is like - but in many ways very unlike - Bronze Age and archaic Greece.}, language = {en} } @article{Lovatt2023, author = {Lovatt, Helen}, title = {Resurrecting the Argo}, series = {thersites 17}, volume = {2023}, journal = {thersites 17}, number = {17}, editor = {Potter, Amanda and Gardner, Hunter H.}, issn = {2364-7612}, doi = {10.34679/thersites.vol17.254}, pages = {55 -- 95}, year = {2023}, abstract = {This paper analyses the relationship between the figure of the Argo (ship and character) and the supernatural in the mythic fantasy of Robert Holdstock's Merlin Codex. It shows how Holdstock's re-writing of the Argonautica draws on various versions from the Argonautic tradition, including Euripides' Medea, Apollonius, Valerius Flaccus, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry Treece and the 1963 film Jason and the Argonauts. It sets Holdstock's Argo alongside other representations, as divine herself, possessed by divinity, and a channel of communication with the divine, and in the context of Holdstock's previous work, particularly Mythago Wood, Lavondyss and Merlin's Wood. The paper argues that Holdstock uses the Argo as a reflection of myth itself, a version of the forest in Mythago Wood, as well as a metapoetic image for the challenges and complexities of adapting a well-known story, bringing multiple mythological traditions (Arthurian, Finnish and Argonautic) together. It reflects on Holdstock's relationship to the ancient genres of epic and tragedy, as well as Argo as plot facilitator and mechanism of transformation and transition. Holdstock's relationship with ancient literature is richer and deeper than previously acknowledged; his self-conscious plays reveal a deep understanding of the polymorphous nature of mythical traditions.}, language = {en} } @article{Strong2023, author = {Strong, Anise K.}, title = {The Persistence of Memory}, series = {thersites 17}, volume = {2023}, journal = {thersites 17}, number = {17}, editor = {Potter, Amanda and Gardner, Hunter H.}, issn = {2364-7612}, doi = {10.34679/thersites.vol17.255}, pages = {125 -- 142}, year = {2023}, abstract = {The 2017 Pixar film Coco and the 2021 Disney film Encanto form a small part of an increasing modern wave of media focused on parent-child conflicts caused by intergenerational trauma and rejection. Other recent works in this genre include the video game Hades, the films Turning Red and Everything Everywhere All At Once, and the television series Ms. Marvel. The traumas in all these films, some directed explicitly at a younger audience and some pitched more broadly, serve as a distinct set of meditations on the immigrant experience, even while not necessarily focusing on literal immigration. They also all invoke imagery of ghosts and death, both echoing specific classical Mediterranean motifs and tropes and incorporating a wide variety of other cultures' supernatural traditions. These works' concern with familial traumas of separation, culture shock, and loss of ancestral memories and connections contrasts sharply with the individual-focused myth of the American Dream common to earlier generations of American media, in which a lone individual typically emigrates, assimilates, and succeeds in a new culture, forming a new family and set of myths. However, themes of assimilation and questions of cultural imperialism also form a bridge between ancient Roman and modern North American anxieties and traditions.}, language = {en} } @article{Siegel, author = {Siegel, Janice}, title = {Guillermo del Toro's Hellboy: A Kinder, Gentler, More Modern Heracles}, series = {thersites 17}, volume = {2023}, journal = {thersites 17}, number = {17}, editor = {Potter, Amanda and Gardner, Hunter H.}, issn = {2364-7612}, doi = {10.34679/thersites.vol17.253}, pages = {143 -- 182}, abstract = {In Hellboy (2004, Sony Pictures), Guillermo del Toro presents a mythic hero (half human/half demon) seemingly made from the same mold as the classical hero Heracles (Hercules). Hellboy's modern world is shaped by a cosmology not unlike that of Greek mythology, and as is true for Heracles, his unique pedigree and superior physicality empower him to mediate between the forces of supernaturality and humanity. Hellboy's experiences evoke comparison with most characters and exploits in the Heraclean mythological corpus; his good character precludes comparison with others. Hellboy must contend with his own versions of Hera, Eurystheus, and a Nemean Lion/Hydra-like monster. He, too, relies on his own superhuman strength, innate cunning and an Athena-like protector to be successful at his job. Both heroes navigate a difficult path to their very different destinies. But in the end, Hellboy's compassion, humility, unerring moral compass, and genuinely altruistic motivations make him both a better man and a better mythic hero, one worthy even of being loved.}, language = {en} } @article{BlomeierGironRieck2019, author = {Blomeier, Hans-Hartwig and Gir{\´o}n, Patricio Garza and Rieck, Christian E.}, title = {Mehr als Mauern}, series = {International Reports Of the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung}, journal = {International Reports Of the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung}, number = {1}, publisher = {Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung e.V.}, address = {Berlin}, pages = {73 -- 84}, year = {2019}, abstract = {If Germany and Europe turned their attention to Latin America, they could extend the transatlantic partnership by adding new partners and focussing on new issues without breaking ties with Washington. However, the countries of the region have differing views of Europe. Mexico is a special case in Latin America because of its close ties with the US, and the economic, political, and strategic interests that it shares with Europe. There is a need for Europe and the US to work together more closely in order to counterbalance China's growing influence.}, language = {en} } @article{KotthausSchaeferStankovicetal.2021, author = {Kotthaus, Jochem and Sch{\"a}fer, Matthias and Stankovic, Nikola and Weitzel, Gerrit}, title = {How soccer becomes politics}, series = {International journal of sport communication}, volume = {14}, journal = {International journal of sport communication}, number = {3}, publisher = {Human Kinetics Publ.}, address = {Champaign}, issn = {1936-3915}, doi = {10.1123/ijsc.2020-0320}, pages = {428 -- 447}, year = {2021}, abstract = {In this case study, the authors elaborate on the narrative structure of transnational popular media events. Drawing from Dayan and Katz's concept of media events and Julia Sonnevend's exceptional work on iconic global media events, they argue that fundamental changes in the way occurrences are being reported on and news is structured must be considered. Allowing for recent technological advancements, the role of the consumer and the compression of time in media use, the authors develop a methodological and theoretical framework fitting a more mundane and everyday life-based approach. They derive their results from the analysis of the "Podgorica Media Event," a news cycle emerging from a racist incident during an international soccer game between England and Montenegro. Based on the body of 250 international news pieces, they identify a primary mother narration and a distinctive narration as the typical ways of storytelling on a transnational level. While differing greatly in content, aspects of transnational popular media events serve to protect and reify the cultural background they are grounded in on a national level. Thus, we assume that sport, or, more specifically, soccer, may become political in media communication not by the impact of state government but by the consumers themselves choosing and developing a popular media event in the first place.}, language = {en} } @article{Rieck2022, author = {Rieck, Christian E.}, title = {Strange New Worlds}, series = {European Strategic Approaches to the Indo-Pacific}, volume = {2021}, journal = {European Strategic Approaches to the Indo-Pacific}, number = {1}, publisher = {Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung}, address = {Singapore}, issn = {0119-5204}, pages = {39 -- 53}, year = {2022}, abstract = {The Indo-Pacific is fast becoming the main arena for great power competition. After explaining the regional power hierarchy, the paper describes how the EU defines like-mindedness as an explicit partnership category in the Indo-Pacific and which of the countries qualify. Finally, the paper also examines the structural problems the EU faces when projecting power into a faraway region such as this one. The paper argues that for China's rise to remain peaceful and in the absence of fully regional security arrangements, other Asian actors are increasingly looking for new regional structures that combine elements of cooperation, competition and containment vis-{\`a}-vis China - including a more pronounced EU role in the region.}, language = {en} } @article{PotterGardner2023, author = {Potter, Amanda and Gardner, Hunter H.}, title = {Classics and the Supernatural in Modern Media}, series = {thersites 17}, volume = {2023}, journal = {thersites 17}, number = {17}, editor = {Potter, Amanda and Gardner, Hunter H.}, issn = {2364-7612}, doi = {10.34679/thersites.vol17.256}, pages = {1 -- 1}, year = {2023}, abstract = {Short preface to the special edition of Thersites.}, language = {en} } @article{Brechenmacher2020, author = {Brechenmacher, Thomas}, title = {The Potsdam Conference and the Jewish Organisations}, series = {Potsdam Conference 1945 : Shaping the World}, journal = {Potsdam Conference 1945 : Shaping the World}, editor = {Luh, J{\"u}rgen}, publisher = {Sandstein}, address = {Dresden}, isbn = {978-3-95498-547-0}, pages = {142 -- 155}, year = {2020}, language = {en} } @misc{LiedhegenerKoestersBrechenmacher2019, author = {Liedhegener, Antonius and K{\"o}sters, Christoph and Brechenmacher, Thomas}, title = {Catholicism}, series = {Historisches Jahrbuch}, volume = {139}, journal = {Historisches Jahrbuch}, publisher = {Herder}, address = {Freiburg Breisgau}, issn = {0018-2621}, pages = {601 -- 618}, year = {2019}, language = {en} } @article{Goese2009, author = {G{\"o}se, Frank}, title = {European aristocrats in the early modern age}, issn = {0044-2828}, year = {2009}, language = {en} } @article{Goese2005, author = {G{\"o}se, Frank}, title = {The intellectual states at the end of the Ancient Empire : Essay on a balance sheet}, issn = {0044-2828}, year = {2005}, language = {en} } @article{Schenck2022, author = {Schenck, Marcia C.}, title = {A different class of refugee: university scholarships and developmentalism in late 1960s Africa}, series = {Africa Today}, volume = {69}, journal = {Africa Today}, number = {1-2}, editor = {Schenck, Marcia C. and Njung, George N.}, publisher = {Indiana Univ. Press}, address = {Bloomington}, issn = {1527-1978}, doi = {10.2979/africatoday.69.1_2.07}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-569066}, pages = {134 -- 161}, year = {2022}, abstract = {Using documents assembled in connection with the 1967 Conference on the Legal, Economic and Social Aspects of African Refugee Problems, this article discusses African refugee higher-education discourses in the 1960s at the level of international organizations, volunteer agencies, and government representatives. Education and development history have recently been studied together, but this article focuses on the history of refugee higher education, which, it argues, needs to be understood within the development framework of human-capital theory, meant to support political pan African concerns for a decolonized continent and merged with humanitarian arguments to create a hybrid form of humanitarian developmentalism. The article zooms in on higher-education scholarships, above all for refugees from Southern Africa, as a means of support for human-capital development. It shows that refugee higher education was both a result and a driver of increased international exchanges, as evidenced at the 1967 conference.}, language = {en} } @misc{Huebener1996, author = {H{\"u}bener, Kristina}, title = {lusatia (Lausitz)}, year = {1996}, language = {en} } @article{MenachemZoufalaDyduchGloeckner2021, author = {Menachem Zoufala, Marcela and Dyduch, Joanna and Gl{\"o}ckner, Olaf}, title = {Jews and muslims in Dubai, Berlin, and Warsaw}, series = {Religions}, volume = {13}, journal = {Religions}, number = {1}, publisher = {MDPI}, address = {Basel}, issn = {2077-1444}, doi = {10.3390/rel13010013}, pages = {21}, year = {2021}, abstract = {What is the nature of interactions between Jews and Muslims in contemporary Dubai, Berlin, and Warsaw? The purpose of the three presented case studies is to evaluate the state of affairs and identify newly emerging trends and patterns in the given trans-urban context. The methodology is based on qualitative anthropological research, emphasising an emic perspective that centralises respondents' own lived experiences and worldviews. The main research's findings made evident that interactions between Muslims and Jews in each examined location are, to various extents, acknowledged, and in some cases, also embody a formative part of public discourses. Perhaps the most visible manifestations of these relations are represented by the ambitious interfaith projects that were recently established in each geographical area in focus. The Abrahamic Family House (UEA), The House of One (GE), and The Community of Conscience (PL) reveal the aspirations of multi-faith religious leaders to overcome polarising dichotomies and search for common ground. One of the conclusive outcomes of the study is a somewhat diminishing impact of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict on the Jewish-Muslim relations; however, the extent differs in each destination in focus. Finally, an unpredicted observation can be made. A surfacing inclination towards embracing a joint Muslim-Jewish Middle Eastern identity was perceived.}, language = {en} } @article{Keen2022, author = {Keen, Tony}, title = {Legolas in Troy}, series = {thersites 15}, volume = {2022}, journal = {thersites 15}, number = {15}, editor = {Amb{\"u}hl, Annemarie and Carl{\`a}-Uhink, Filippo and Rollinger, Christian and Walde, Christine}, issn = {2364-7612}, doi = {10.34679/thersites.vol15.223}, pages = {285 -- 313}, year = {2022}, abstract = {The Lord of the Rings movies were a cinematic phenomenon, extremely popular. They are not often considered as works of Classical Reception. These films' influence on subsequent ancient world movies has been understudied, and undervalued. A common model of cinematic Greece and Rome in the twenty-first century looks solely back to Gladiator. Undoubtedly Gladiator, and its commercial success, is important to how ancient world movies developed; but focussing solely on Gladiator does not explain a move away from Roman history towards Greek mythology, culminating in a flurry of movies about Greek mythological heroes. Lord of the Rings is an overlooked factor. Already in Troy two LOTR stars are in key roles, and the battle scenes seek to imitate those of Jackson's trilogy. 300 mythologizes far beyond Frank Miller's graphic novel, adding several monsters; LOTR's influence is at play here. LOTR's influence was one factor in a complex process that saw ancient world movies change in the twentyfirst century. LOTR fed into an atmosphere that moved ancient world movies towards Greece, away from Rome, through promoting the appeal of a combination of epic and the fantastic.}, language = {en} } @article{Grewing2020, author = {Grewing, Farouk F.}, title = {A Saturnalian poet as a literary critic}, series = {thersites = tessellae - Birthday Issue for Christine Walde}, volume = {2020}, journal = {thersites = tessellae - Birthday Issue for Christine Walde}, number = {11}, editor = {Amb{\"u}hl, Annemarie}, issn = {2364-7612}, doi = {10.34679/thersites.vol11.170}, pages = {176 -- 204}, year = {2020}, abstract = {This paper analyzes a specific section of Martial's Apophoreta (Book 14), the 'list' of fourteen literary works that the poet-persona suggests to the reader as potentially suitable presents to give to friends on the occasion of the Saturnalia. It focuses strictly on the literary aspects of the poems and their underlying carnivalesque poetics. This includes an assessment of the logic of the poems' arrangement and alleged inconsistencies. It is suggested that the section be read as a complex statement of Martial's on various works and genres of Greek and Roman literature. The last couplet of the section (14.196), a certain Calvus' work 'On the use of cold water' (De aquae frigidae usu), which is unidentifiable, receives particular attention, for previous scholarship has wasted a lot of ink on guessing what kind of work this may have been, thereby losing touch with the rich (meta-)poetics the couplet actually conveys.}, language = {en} } @misc{Loebcke2020, author = {L{\"o}bcke, Konrad}, title = {Review of Jesse Weiner, Benjamin E. Stevens \& Brett M. Rogers (eds.): Frankenstein and Its Classics. The Modern Prometheus from Antiquity to Science Fiction}, series = {PaRDeS : Zeitschrift der Vereinigung f{\"u}r J{\"u}dische Studien = Transformative Translations in Jewish History and Culture}, volume = {2020}, journal = {PaRDeS : Zeitschrift der Vereinigung f{\"u}r J{\"u}dische Studien = Transformative Translations in Jewish History and Culture}, number = {11}, editor = {Amb{\"u}hl, Annemarie}, issn = {2364-7612}, doi = {10.34679/thersites.vol11.180}, pages = {385 -- 391}, year = {2020}, language = {en} } @misc{Wesselmann2020, author = {Wesselmann, Katharina}, title = {Review of Rachel Bryant Davies: Victorian Epic Burlesques. A Critical Anthology of Nineteenth-Century Theatrical Entertainments after Homer}, series = {PaRDeS : Zeitschrift der Vereinigung f{\"u}r J{\"u}dische Studien = Transformative Translations in Jewish History and Culture}, volume = {2020}, journal = {PaRDeS : Zeitschrift der Vereinigung f{\"u}r J{\"u}dische Studien = Transformative Translations in Jewish History and Culture}, number = {11}, editor = {Amb{\"u}hl, Annemarie}, issn = {2364-7612}, doi = {10.34679/thersites.vol11.181}, pages = {379 -- 384}, year = {2020}, language = {en} } @misc{DiRocco2020, author = {Di Rocco, Emilia}, title = {Review of Silvio B{\"a}r \& Emily Hauser (eds.), Reading Poetry, Writing Genre. English Poetry and Literary Criticism in Dialogue with Classical Scholarship}, series = {PaRDeS : Zeitschrift der Vereinigung f{\"u}r J{\"u}dische Studien = Transformative Translations in Jewish History and Culture}, volume = {2020}, journal = {PaRDeS : Zeitschrift der Vereinigung f{\"u}r J{\"u}dische Studien = Transformative Translations in Jewish History and Culture}, number = {11}, editor = {Amb{\"u}hl, Annemarie}, issn = {2364-7612}, doi = {10.34679/thersites.vol11.183}, pages = {370 -- 378}, year = {2020}, language = {en} } @misc{Heinemann2020, author = {Heinemann, Matthias}, title = {Review of Eran Almagor and Lisa Maurice (eds.), The Reception of Ancient Virtues and Vices in Modern Popular Culture. Beauty, Bravery, Blood and Glory}, series = {PaRDeS : Zeitschrift der Vereinigung f{\"u}r J{\"u}dische Studien = Transformative Translations in Jewish History and Culture}, volume = {2020}, journal = {PaRDeS : Zeitschrift der Vereinigung f{\"u}r J{\"u}dische Studien = Transformative Translations in Jewish History and Culture}, number = {11}, editor = {Amb{\"u}hl, Annemarie}, issn = {2364-7612}, doi = {0.34679/thersites.vol11.111}, pages = {392 -- 400}, year = {2020}, language = {en} } @article{Colbert2021, author = {Colbert, Vivian}, title = {Queen Zenobia's 'Campaign' for British Women's Suffrage}, series = {thersites 12}, volume = {2020}, journal = {thersites 12}, number = {12}, editor = {Rollinger, Christian}, issn = {2364-7612}, doi = {0.34679/thersites.vol12.186}, pages = {71 -- 94}, year = {2021}, abstract = {This article focuses on the feminist reception of Zenobia of Palmyra in Great Britain during the long nineteenth century and the early twentieth century. A special focus lies on her reception by the British suffragettes who belonged to the Women's Social and Political Union. Even though Zenobia's story did not end happily, the warrior queen's example served to inspire these early feminists. Several products of historical culture - such as books, pieces of art, newspaper articles and theatre plays - provide insight into the reception of her as an historical figure, which is dominated by the image of a strong and courageous woman. The article will shed light on how exactly Zenobia's example was instrumentalised throughout the first feminist movement in Britain.}, language = {en} } @article{CarlaUhink2021, author = {Carl{\`a}-Uhink, Filippo}, title = {Interview with Alana Jelinek}, series = {thersites 12}, volume = {2020}, journal = {thersites 12}, number = {12}, editor = {Rollinger, Christian}, issn = {2364-7612}, doi = {10.34679/thersites.vol12.163}, pages = {95 -- 103}, year = {2021}, abstract = {Alana Jelinek is an art historian and artist — "an artist making art, and also writing about art", in her words — , a former European Research Council artist in residence at the Museum of Anthropology and Archaeology at the University of Cambridge, and currently teaching in the School of Creative Arts at the University of Hertfordshire. Her art has revolved mostly around the issues of post- and neocolonialism and their connections with neoliberalism — a more implicit topic in her works from the 1990s on the "tourist gaze" developed into an interest in museums, collecting and ethnography throughout the past two decades. In this interview, she talks to thersites about the role of classical heritage and ancient art in her own work.}, language = {en} } @misc{SteffensenUrsinColbertetal.2021, author = {Steffensen, Nils and Ursin, Frank and Colbert, Vivian and Carl{\`a}-Uhink, Filippo and Brilke, Clara and Werner, Eva and Warnking, Pascal and Potter, Amanda and Reinard, Patrick}, title = {Spring Issue}, series = {thersites}, volume = {2020}, journal = {thersites}, number = {12}, editor = {Rollinger, Christian}, issn = {2364-7612}, doi = {10.34679/thersites.vol12}, year = {2021}, language = {en} } @article{BievrePerrin2021, author = {Bi{\`e}vre-Perrin, Fabien}, title = {"Everything is a copy of a copy of a copy"}, series = {thersites 13: Antiquipop - Chefs d'œuvres revisit{\´e}s}, volume = {2021}, journal = {thersites 13: Antiquipop - Chefs d'œuvres revisit{\´e}s}, number = {13}, editor = {Bi{\`e}vre-Perrin, Fabien and Carl{\`a}-Uhink, Filippo and Rollinger, Christian and Walde, Christine}, issn = {2364-7612}, doi = {10.34679/thersites.vol13.191}, pages = {i -- v}, year = {2021}, abstract = {A quote from Fight Club (Chuck Palahniuk, 1996) may seem unusual for a Classicist. Nevertheless, this famous sentence summarises the contents of this special issue of thersites perfectly. As specialists in classical reception frequently witness, there is a sort of d{\´e}j{\`a}-vu effect when it comes to the presence of Antiquity within popular culture. In 2019, to try to better understand the phenomenon, Antiquipop invited researchers to take an interest in the construction and semantic path of these "masterpieces" in contemporary popular culture, with a particular focus on the 21st century.}, language = {en} } @article{BrilkeWerner2021, author = {Brilke, Clara and Werner, Eva}, title = {I am not sure that I feel like singing, thanks very much for asking!}, series = {thersites 12}, volume = {2020}, journal = {thersites 12}, number = {12}, editor = {Rollinger, Christian}, issn = {2364-7612}, doi = {10.34679/thersites.vol12.189}, pages = {104 -- 115}, year = {2021}, abstract = {In her writings on ancient myth, the British author Natalie Haynes moves women to the centre of attention. Her two latest books, A Thousand Ships and Pandora's Jar - a fiction novel and a non-fiction one - approach this topic from two different perspectives. This interview takes stock of Haynes' motives and methodology as well as of the challenges she faces in the process of writing.}, language = {en} } @article{Potter2021, author = {Potter, Amanda}, title = {Review of Meredith E. Safran (ed.): Screening the Golden Ages of the Classical Tradition}, series = {thersites 12}, volume = {2020}, journal = {thersites 12}, number = {12}, editor = {Rollinger, Christian}, issn = {2364-7612}, doi = {thersites.vol12.123}, pages = {136 -- 139}, year = {2021}, language = {en} } @article{Pampanay2021, author = {Pampanay, {\´E}lise}, title = {The Nike of Samothrace's presences during the XX and XXI centuries: mysteries and victories}, series = {thersites 13: Antiquipop - Chefs d'œuvres revisit{\´e}s}, volume = {2021}, journal = {thersites 13: Antiquipop - Chefs d'œuvres revisit{\´e}s}, number = {13}, editor = {Bi{\`e}vre-Perrin, Fabien and Carl{\`a}-Uhink, Filippo and Rollinger, Christian and Walde, Christine}, issn = {2364-7612}, doi = {10.34679/thersites.vol13.146}, pages = {71 -- 83}, year = {2021}, abstract = {Despite its fame, the Winged Victory of Samothrace keeps on fascinating not only every visitor of the Louvre museum, but also the eye of the connoisseur. Despite its recent restoration in 2014, some of its mysteries might indeed never be solved, like the identity of its sculptor. But this fascination also comes from the statue itself, its majestic aesthetics and lack of head, in a similar fashion perhaps to the loss of the Venus of Milo's arms. Since her discovery more than 150 years ago by Charles Champoiseau, she's been on the throne at the top of the Daru stairs at the Louvre Museum. This hellenistic masterpiece, that Champoiseau called a "mousseline de marbre", became a must see in the Paris museum, together with the Mona Lisa and its other chefs d'oeuvre. But this statue's fate is not set in stone. Many modern artists, like Omar Hassan or Xu Zhen, have tried to make it their own and give it a new depth. Recently, Beyonce and Jay-Z also offered a new perspective by including this Louvre masterpiece, among others, in their political masterstroke, the video clip "Apeshit". This paper seeks to decode the meanings and symbolism of these new versions of the Nike.}, language = {en} } @misc{BievrePerrinBriandJouteuretal.2021, author = {Bi{\`e}vre-Perrin, Fabien and Briand, Michel and Jouteur, Isabelle and Pampanay, {\´E}lise and Besnard, Tiphaine Annabelle and Costanzo, Daniela and Renault, Manon and Saura-Ziegelmeyer, Arnaud and Scapin, Mathieu and Gonz{\´a}lez V{\´a}zquez, Mateo and Mihanovic, Andelko}, title = {Antiquipop - Chefs d'œuvres revisit{\´e}s}, series = {thersites}, volume = {2021}, journal = {thersites}, number = {13}, editor = {Bi{\`e}vre-Perrin, Fabien and Carl{\`a}-Uhink, Filippo and Rollinger, Christian and Walde, Christine}, publisher = {Universit{\"a}tsverlag Potsdam}, address = {Potsdam}, issn = {2364-7612}, doi = {10.34679/thersites.vol13}, year = {2021}, abstract = {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.}, language = {en} } @misc{Mihanovic2021, author = {Mihanovic, Andelko}, title = {Review of Patrick Gray: Shakespeare and the Fall of the Roman Republic: Selfhood, Stoicism and Civil War}, series = {thersites 13: Antiquipop - Chefs d'œuvres revisit{\´e}s}, volume = {2021}, journal = {thersites 13: Antiquipop - Chefs d'œuvres revisit{\´e}s}, number = {13}, editor = {Bi{\`e}vre-Perrin, Fabien and Carl{\`a}-Uhink, Filippo and Rollinger, Christian and Walde, Christine}, issn = {2364-7612}, doi = {10.34679/thersites.vol13.195}, pages = {213 -- 218}, year = {2021}, abstract = {The article is a review of Patrick Gray's latest monograph: Shakespeare and the Fall of the Roman Republic: Selfhood, Stoicism and Civil War. Gray analyzes Shakespare's and his characters' representation of the 'self' in Julius Caesar and Antony and Cleopatra, with Coriolanus used for comparative purposes. The book induced a lively discussion of its content in academic community.}, language = {en} } @article{Cromwell2022, author = {Cromwell, Jennifer}, title = {From Pyramids to Obscure Gods}, series = {thersites 14}, volume = {2022}, journal = {thersites 14}, number = {14}, editor = {Amb{\"u}hl, Annemarie and Carl{\`a}-Uhink, Filippo and Rollinger, Christian and Walde, Christine}, issn = {2364-7612}, doi = {10.34679/thersites.vol14.199}, pages = {1 -- 40}, year = {2022}, abstract = {Within Persona 5's modern Tokyo setting, imagined worlds are created that represent the cognitive processes of various characters. These 'palaces' allow the player to explore locations far removed from the game's real-world, contemporary backdrop. One episode creates an ancient Egyptian world. This article examines how this world has been produced and the different transmedial tropes and other influences that its developers have drawn upon. Many references are recognisable to a broad audience (pyramids, gods, hieroglyphs), while others reflect Japanese pop-cultural trends (in various manga and anime), including the mention of an obscure Egyptian god, Medjed. The intentionally fictitious nature of these 'palaces' means that the Egypt that appears in this game is not bound by the need to replicate an 'accurate' landscape. Instead, the developers were free to design a gamescape that combines multiple and diverse receptions of ancient Egypt.}, language = {en} } @misc{CromwellBrueckUncetaGomezetal.2022, author = {Cromwell, Jennifer and Br{\"u}ck, Alexander and Unceta G{\´o}mez, Luis and Carl{\`a}-Uhink, Filippo and Freitag, Florian and Hanisch, Xenia and Dix, Sophie and Klohr, Silvia and Brilke, Clara and Klooster, Jacqueline and Fischer, Jens and Loconte, Riccardo and Weiß, Adrian and Vitello, Eugenia}, title = {Spring Issue}, series = {thersites}, volume = {2022}, journal = {thersites}, number = {14}, editor = {Amb{\"u}hl, Annemarie and Carl{\`a}-Uhink, Filippo and Rollinger, Christian and Walde, Christine}, issn = {2364-7612}, doi = {10.34679/thersites.vol14}, year = {2022}, language = {en} } @misc{Klooster2022, author = {Klooster, Jacqueline}, title = {Review of Sophia Xenophontos and Katerina Oikonomopoulou: Brill's Companion to the Reception of Plutarch}, series = {thersites 14}, volume = {2022}, journal = {thersites 14}, number = {14}, editor = {Amb{\"u}hl, Annemarie and Carl{\`a}-Uhink, Filippo and Rollinger, Christian}, issn = {2364-7612}, doi = {10.34679/thersites.vol14.197}, pages = {160 -- 167}, year = {2022}, language = {en} } @misc{Vitello2022, author = {Vitello, Eugenia}, title = {Review of Emilio Zucchetti \& Anna Maria Cimino (eds.): Antonio Gramsci and the Ancient World}, series = {thersites 14}, volume = {2022}, journal = {thersites 14}, number = {14}, editor = {Amb{\"u}hl, Annemarie and Carl{\`a}-Uhink, Filippo and Rollinger, Christian and Walde, Christine}, issn = {2364-7612}, doi = {10.34679/thersites.vol14.203}, pages = {188 -- 196}, year = {2022}, language = {en} } @article{Pezzini2022, author = {Pezzini, Giuseppe}, title = {(Classical) Narratives of Decline in Tolkien: Renewal, Accommodation, Focalisation}, series = {thersites 15}, volume = {2022}, journal = {thersites 15}, number = {15}, editor = {Amb{\"u}hl, Annemarie and Carl{\`a}-Uhink, Filippo and Rollinger, Christian and Walde, Christine}, issn = {2364-7612}, doi = {10.34679/thersites.vol15.213}, pages = {25 -- 51}, year = {2022}, abstract = {The paper investigates Tolkien's narratives of decline through the lens of their classical ancestry. Narratives of decline are widespread in ancient culture, in both philosophical and literary discourses. They normally posit a gradual degradation (moral and ontological) from an idealized Golden Age, which went hand-in-hand with increasing detachment of gods from mortal affairs. Narratives of decline are also at the core of Tolkien's mythology, constituting yet another underresearched aspect of classical influence on Tolkien. Such Classical narratives reverberate e.g. in Tolkien's division of Arda's history into ages, from an idealized First Age filled with Joy and Light to a Third Age, described as "Twilight Age (…) the first of the broken and changed world" (Letters 131). More generally, these narratives are related to Tolkien's notorious perception of history as a "long defeat" (Letters 195) and to that "heart-racking sense of the vanished past" which pervades Tolkien's works - the emotion which, in his words, moved him "supremely" and which he found "small difficulty in evoking" (Letters 91). The paper analyses the reception of narratives of decline in Tolkien's legendarium, pointing out similarities but also contrasts and differences, with the aim to discuss some key patterns of (classical) reception in Tolkien's theory and practice ('renewal', 'accommodation', 'focalization').}, language = {en} } @article{Kambo2022, author = {Kambo, Kevin}, title = {Platonic Tripartition and the Peoples of Middle-Earth}, series = {thersites 15}, volume = {2022}, journal = {thersites 15}, number = {15}, editor = {Amb{\"u}hl, Annemarie and Carl{\`a}-Uhink, Filippo and Rollinger, Christian and Walde, Christine}, issn = {2364-7612}, doi = {10.34679/thersites.vol15.219}, pages = {90 -- 122}, year = {2022}, abstract = {Tolkien's The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings employ traditional races from fairy tales: elves, men and dwarves. These peoples are differentiated principally by their dominant desires, but also by their speech, diet, and realms. I argue that these three races are significantly inspired by the three aspects that characterize the Republic's tripartite soul—logistikon, thumoeides, and epithumetikon—along with their respective principal desires: desire for truth, greatness, and material goods. For Tolkien, therefore, these races have a corporate or political psychology that explains who they are as peoples in the history of Middle-earth. I offer a comprehensive view of the major races, connecting the dwarves with the appetitive artisans of the Republic, humans with the honour- and glory-seeking auxiliaries, and elves with the ruling guardians. This treatment explains the artisanal dwarves, as well as the battle-loving men (and women) of Rohan and Gondor, and the nostalgic, 'anamnetic' condition of exile that distinguishes the elves. Indeed, the condition of elves in many descriptions recalls a Platonic philosopher returned to the Cave, as well as the Neo-Platonic sagacity pictured in the biographies of Plotinus and Proclus.}, language = {en} } @article{Capra2022, author = {Capra, Elena Sofia}, title = {"Orfeo out of Care"}, series = {thersites 15}, volume = {2022}, journal = {thersites 15}, number = {15}, editor = {Amb{\"u}hl, Annemarie and Carl{\`a}-Uhink, Filippo and Rollinger, Christian and Walde, Christine}, issn = {2364-7612}, doi = {10.34679/thersites.vol15.209}, pages = {52 -- 89}, year = {2022}, abstract = {The paper focuses on an example of multiple-step reception: the contribution of the classical story of Orpheus and Eurydice and the mediaeval lay Sir Orfeo to Tolkien's work. In the first part, I compare the lay with Virgilian and Ovidian versions of Orpheus' myth. This comparison shows the anonymous author's deep knowledge of the ancient texts and complex way of rewriting them through stealing and hybridization. The lay was highly esteemed by Tolkien, who translated it and took inspiration from it while describing the Elven kingdom in The Hobbit and building the storyline of Beren and L{\´u}thien in The Silmarillion. Through this key tale, Orpheus/Orfeo's romance has a deep influence also on Aragorn and Arwen's story in The Lord of the Rings. The most important element that Tolkien takes from the Sir Orfeo figuration of the ancient story is undoubtedly the insertion of political theme: the link established between the recovery of the main character's beloved and the return to royal responsability. The second part of the paper is, thus, dedicated to the reception of Sir Orfeo and the classical myth in Tolkien. It shows how in his work the different steps of the tradition of Orpheus' story are co-present, creating an inextricable substrate of inspiration that nourishes his imagination.}, language = {en} } @article{Oughton2022, author = {Oughton, Charles W.}, title = {Roman Heroes at Helm's Deep?}, series = {thersites 15}, volume = {2022}, journal = {thersites 15}, number = {15}, editor = {Amb{\"u}hl, Annemarie and Carl{\`a}-Uhink, Filippo and Rollinger, Christian and Walde, Christine}, issn = {2364-7612}, doi = {10.34679/thersites.vol15.214}, pages = {123 -- 162}, year = {2022}, abstract = {This article analyzes Tolkien's narrative of the Battle of Helm's Deep as a retelling of the Horatius Cocles episode from Livy's AUC, which contains descriptions of the defenses and the bridge, a rally encouraged by Horatius, his bold stand both with his companions and alone, and the honors paid to him after the battle. Tolkien's Battle of Helm's Deep contains the same elements split across two narratives: the defense of the causeway leading to the gates of the Deep by Aragorn, {\´E}omer, and Gimli; and, after the fall of the Deeping wall, Aragorn's defiant stand alone on the stairway leading to the inner doors of the Hornburg. Aragorn's double action demonstrates a fulfillment of Livy's exemplary arc. Tolkien's knowledge of Macaulay's "Horatius" provides a possible intermediary that accounts for various additions to the story. However, the larger structure of Tolkien's narrative as well as the imagery that resonates throughout the text distinctly evoke the vivid descriptions of Livy. While both sets of heroes make brave stands against their enemies, Tolkien's warriors represent a civilizing force in their efforts to build and restore their defenses while Livy's Roman heroes destroy the bridge to save their state.}, language = {en} } @article{Cristini2022, author = {Cristini, Marco}, title = {The Fall of Two Cities: Troy and Gondolin}, series = {thersites 15}, volume = {2022}, journal = {thersites 15}, number = {15}, editor = {Amb{\"u}hl, Annemarie and Carl{\`a}-Uhink, Filippo and Rollinger, Christian and Walde, Christine}, doi = {10.34679/thersites.vol15.200}, pages = {1 -- 24}, year = {2022}, abstract = {Vergil was a fundamental source of inspiration for Tolkien, not only when writing the Lord of the Rings, but also at the beginning of his "world-building". The Fall of Gondolin, written in 1916, was modeled upon the Aeneid, whose second book shares many similarities with the description of Gondolin's last day. For instance, the attack that seals the fate of the city takes place during a feast in both works, whereas both protagonists (Aeneas and Tuor) leave wives and sons to fight the enemy and witness deaths of their kings (Priam/Turgon). Other analogies include the topos of the fall of the tallest tower of the city as well as the scenes of Creusa/Idril clasping the knees of her husband and begging him not to go back to the battle. Tolkien chose the Aeneid as his main model because, in his opinion, the Aeneid and The Fall of Gondolin evoked the air of antiquity and melancholy. Vergil's nostalgia for a "lost world" conveyed in the Aeneid greatly resembles the nostalgia pervading both Tolkien's writing and life.}, language = {en} } @article{MatzPaprocki2022, author = {Matz, Alicia and Paprocki, Maciej}, title = {There and Back Again: Tolkien and Greco-Roman Antiquity}, series = {thersites 15}, volume = {2022}, journal = {thersites 15}, number = {15}, editor = {Amb{\"u}hl, Annemarie and Carl{\`a}-Uhink, Filippo and Rollinger, Christian and Walde, Christine}, issn = {2364-7612}, doi = {10.34679/thersites.vol15.228}, pages = {i -- xii}, year = {2022}, abstract = {The following introduction sketches the status questionis of the research on the influence of Greco-Roman antiquity on the works of Tolkien and provides details about the volume's theoretical impetus and its broad themes. The editors discuss Tolkien's complicated and indirect relationship with classical models, underscoring certain emergent themes in volume's contributions, such as decline, multifocal reception and relationship with nature.}, language = {en} } @misc{MatzPaprockiCristinietal.2022, author = {Matz, Alicia and Paprocki, Maciej and Cristini, Marco and Pezzini, Giuseppe and Capra, Elena Sofia and Kambo, Kevin and Oughton, Charles W. and Chinn, Christopher and Thompson, Phoebe and Praet, Raf and Stutz, Kathryn H. and Keen, Tony and Beck, Christian}, title = {There and Back Again: Tolkien and the Greco-Roman World}, series = {thersites}, volume = {2022}, journal = {thersites}, number = {15}, editor = {Amb{\"u}hl, Annemarie and Carl{\`a}-Uhink, Filippo and Rollinger, Christian and Walde, Christine}, issn = {2364-7612}, doi = {10.34679/thersites.vol15}, year = {2022}, language = {en} } @article{Stutz2022, author = {Stutz, Kathryn H.}, title = {G. B. Smith's "Elzevir Cicero" and the Construction of Queer Immortality in Tolkien's Mythopoeia}, series = {thersites 15}, volume = {2022}, journal = {thersites 15}, number = {15}, editor = {Amb{\"u}hl, Annemarie and Carl{\`a}-Uhink, Filippo and Rollinger, Christian and Walde, Christine}, issn = {2364-7612}, doi = {10.34679/thersites.vol15.225}, pages = {253 -- 284}, year = {2022}, abstract = {Following the death of J. R. R. Tolkien in 1973, an obituary appeared in The Times quoting Tolkien as having said that his "love for the classics took ten years to recover from lectures on Cicero and Demosthenes." This contentious relationship between Tolkien and the Greco-Roman past contrasts with the work of unabashedly classicizing poet Geoffrey Bache Smith, a school friend of Tolkien's who was killed in the Great War. When Tolkien collected Smith's poems for posthumous publication, this paper shows, Smith's engagements with the ancient world became part of Tolkien's own philosophy of immortality through literary composition. Within his 1931 poem "Mythopoeia," and his 1939 speech "On Fairy-Stories," Tolkien articulated a unified method of mythmaking by looking back to his lost friend's understanding of mythology as a type of ancient story-craft that enabled poets to preserve the dead against the ravages of time. By tracing a triangular path through the relationships between Tolkien, Smith, and the classical past inhabited by figures like Cicero, this paper argues that Tolkien not only recovered a "love for the classics," but used classical texts to "recover" his lost friend, granting Smith a queer, classical immortality in return.}, language = {en} } @article{Praet2022, author = {Praet, Raf}, title = {The Throne of the King}, series = {thersites 15}, volume = {2022}, journal = {thersites 15}, number = {15}, editor = {Amb{\"u}hl, Annemarie and Carl{\`a}-Uhink, Filippo and Rollinger, Christian and Walde, Christine}, issn = {2364-7612}, doi = {10.34679/thersites.vol15.210}, pages = {232 -- 252}, year = {2022}, abstract = {A conspicuous feature of Tolkien's description of the city of Minas Tirith in The Return of The King is the depiction of two thrones in the Great Hall; one empty throne reserved for the king, and one seat for the steward of Gondor. This paper aims to ascertain the late antique and mediaeval sources of inspiration behind Tolkien's creation of the throne room in Minas Tirith. As a starting point, we shall compare the setting of the two thrones in Minas Tirith with a motive in Christian iconography, the hetoimasia, and its architectural expression in the Chrysotriklinos, the throne room in the Byzantine Great Palace in Constantinople. Next, we shall show that Tolkien intentionally obscured his appropriation of the Byzantine throne room to create a multi-layered image of rulership, in accordance with his aesthetics of applicability and allegory. In conclusion, we shall formulate some remarks on the interpretation of the association between the Byzantine Chrysotriklinos and the Gondorian Great Hall. As a form of Tolkien's literary process of sub-creation, the description of the throne room in Minas Tirith serves to emphasise the significance of The Return of the King as a retelling of Christ's restoration of the fallen world, placing the work of Tolkien in the context of a strong personal Catholic piety.}, language = {en} } @article{Matz2022, author = {Matz, Alicia}, title = {Quis enim laesos impune putaret esse deos?: Ents, Sacred Groves, and the Cost of Desecration}, series = {thersites 15}, volume = {2022}, journal = {thersites 15}, number = {15}, editor = {Amb{\"u}hl, Annemarie and Carl{\`a}-Uhink, Filippo and Rollinger, Christian and Walde, Christine}, issn = {2364-7612}, doi = {10.34679/thersites.vol15.215}, pages = {204 -- 231}, year = {2022}, abstract = {Seneca the Younger, in his Letters, describes a sacred grove as a "thick grove of ancient trees which rise far above the usual height and block the view of the sky with their umbrella of intertwining branches" (Seneca the Younger, Letters 41.3). Fangorn Forest is clearly a sacred site as defined by Seneca, made even more sacred by the presence of the Ents. Thus, to violate it would be a terrible act of desecration, not unlike Lucan's narrator's shock at Caesar's desecration of the sacred grove at Massilia (Lucan BC 3.447 - 8, quoted in the title of this paper). After exploring the relationship between Ents and sacred groves, the paper will compare the fate of Caesar to that of Saruman, who violated Fangorn Forest. Just as Augoustakis (2006) argues that the violation of the grove foreshadows Caesar's death, so too Saruman's death at the hands of Wormtongue becomes a fitting punishment for his violation of Fangorn.}, language = {en} } @article{ChinnThompson2022, author = {Chinn, Christopher and Thompson, Phoebe}, title = {Tolkien's Ithilien and the Landscape of the Ancient Mediterranean}, series = {thersites 15}, volume = {2022}, journal = {thersites 15}, number = {15}, editor = {Amb{\"u}hl, Annemarie and Carl{\`a}-Uhink, Filippo and Rollinger, Christian and Walde, Christine}, issn = {2364-7612}, doi = {10.34679/thersites.vol15.211}, pages = {163 -- 203}, year = {2022}, abstract = {This paper examines the intertext between Tolkien's Ithilien episode in Two Towers and artistic presentations of plants in the art and literature of Augustan Rome. We argue that the evident 'superbloom' depicted in the ekphrasis of the flora of Ithilien recalls both Vergilian botanical adynata (especially in the Georgics) and Roman wall paintings of the Augustan period.}, language = {en} } @misc{Beck2022, author = {Beck, Christian}, title = {Review of Hamish Williams: Tolkien and the Classical World}, series = {thersites 15}, volume = {2022}, journal = {thersites 15}, number = {15}, editor = {Amb{\"u}hl, Annemarie and Carl{\`a}-Uhink, Filippo and Rollinger, Christian and Walde, Christine}, issn = {2364-7612}, doi = {10.34679/thersites.vol15.230}, pages = {314 -- 320}, year = {2022}, language = {en} } @misc{SanchezSanzLaudenbachWeissetal.2023, author = {Sanchez Sanz, Arturo and Laudenbach, Beno{\^i}t and Weiß, Adrian and Werner, Eva and Stachon, Markus and Anders, Friedrich and Barthel, Christian and Berrens, Dominik and Avalli, Andrea and Vandewalle, Alexander and Ferrara, Pasquale and Pohl, Patrik}, title = {Spring Issue}, series = {thersites}, volume = {2023}, journal = {thersites}, number = {16}, editor = {Amb{\"u}hl, Annemarie and Carl{\`a}-Uhink, Filippo and Rollinger, Christian and Walde, Christine}, issn = {2364-7612}, doi = {10.34679/thersites.vol16}, year = {2023}, language = {en} } @misc{PotterGardnerToscanoetal.2023, author = {Potter, Amanda and Gardner, Hunter H. and Toscano, Margaret Merrill and Foster, Frances and Lovatt, Helen and Strong, Anise K. and Siegel, Janice and Skibinski, Connie and Mart{\´i}nez Jim{\´e}nez, Javier and Maurice, Lisa}, title = {Classics and the supernatural in modern media}, series = {thersites}, volume = {2023}, journal = {thersites}, number = {17}, editor = {Potter, Amanda and Gardner, Hunter H.}, issn = {2364-7612}, doi = {10.34679/thersites.vol17}, year = {2023}, language = {en} } @article{CarlaUhinkGarciaMorcillo2024, author = {Carl{\`a}-Uhink, Filippo and Garc{\´i}a Morcillo, Marta}, title = {Discursive constructions of corruption in Ancient Rome}, series = {Cultural History}, volume = {13}, journal = {Cultural History}, number = {1}, publisher = {Edinburgh University Press}, address = {Edinburgh}, issn = {2045-290X}, pages = {1 -- 11}, year = {2024}, language = {en} } @article{CantenarKozera2022, author = {Cantenar, {\"O}mer Faruk and Kozera, Cyprian Aleksander}, title = {Fighting ISIS in Syria}, series = {Small wars \& insurgencies}, volume = {33}, journal = {Small wars \& insurgencies}, number = {3}, publisher = {Routledge}, address = {Basingstoke}, issn = {0959-2318}, doi = {10.1080/09592318.2021.1875308}, pages = {350 -- 381}, year = {2022}, abstract = {This paper analyses the Operation Euphrates Shield (OES) al-Bab battle and presents the lessons learned. OES started with a mixed force of Free Syrian Army, Turkish special forces and armoured units. During the operation, the aims and the force structure gradually changed, yet not the command structure. When OES aimed to capture al-Bab, ISIS employed conventional active defence strategy. The OES commander's insistence on employing special forces increased own casualties and al-Bab was seized only after resorting to a conventional urban attack. OES presents tactical and operational lessons for the militaries on structure and execution of operations against an irregular adversary employing conventional means.}, language = {en} } @article{Schoeps2005, author = {Schoeps, Julius H.}, title = {The (non)-assuming legacy : the debate on German-Jewish memorial culture}, year = {2005}, abstract = {This essay shows how Jewish identity in pre-1933 Germany defined itself and how the widely known concept of German-Jewish symbiosis came into question after the organized murder of the European Jews. The search for a German- Jewish legacy in postwar Germany as well as in the countries in which the Jewish emigres found a new home will be explored. Moreover, the Eastern European cultural roots of Jews who migrated from Russia to Germany in the 1990s will also be discussed}, language = {en} } @article{Schoeps2000, author = {Schoeps, Julius H.}, title = {The Images of germany held by russian jews : trends and developments in jewish migration to the federal republic of germany}, year = {2000}, language = {en} } @book{Schoeps1997, author = {Schoeps, Julius H.}, title = {Theodor Herzl and the Zionist dream}, publisher = {Thames and Hudson}, address = {London}, pages = {223 S.}, year = {1997}, language = {en} } @article{Schoeps1996, author = {Schoeps, Julius H.}, title = {From Anti-Judaism to Anti-Semitism : on Structure, Function, and Effect of a Prejudice}, year = {1996}, language = {en} } @article{Schoeps1996, author = {Schoeps, Julius H.}, title = {The Jewish Museum in Vienna : a place to rediscover Austrian Jewish History}, year = {1996}, language = {en} } @article{Schoeps1996, author = {Schoeps, Julius H.}, title = {Yiddish culture : Proposals for institutional co-operation}, year = {1996}, language = {en} } @article{Schoeps1992, author = {Schoeps, Julius H.}, title = {Under the influence of Heinrich Heine : Aron Bernstein as a writer and literary critic}, year = {1992}, language = {en} } @techreport{FaberTipold, author = {Faber, Eike and Tipold, Marc}, title = {Justice carved into the body}, address = {Potsdam}, language = {en} } @misc{OPUS4-63119, title = {Discursive Constructions of Corruption in Ancient Rome}, series = {Cultural History}, volume = {13}, journal = {Cultural History}, number = {1}, editor = {Carl{\`a}-Uhink, Filippo and Garc{\´i}a Morcillo, Marta}, publisher = {Edinburgh University Press}, address = {Edinburgh}, issn = {2045-290X}, doi = {10.3366/cult.2024.0293}, year = {2024}, language = {en} } @misc{DuevelEhmigMcCalletal.2024, author = {D{\"u}vel, Pia and Ehmig, Ulrike and McCall, Jeremiah and Unceta G{\´o}mez, Luis and Bakogianni, Anastasia and Fischer, Jens and Serrano Lozano, David and Amb{\"u}hl, Annemarie and Matz, Alicia and Brinker, Wolfram and Mach, Jonas Konstantin and Mancini, Mattia and Werner, Eva}, title = {Spring Issue}, series = {thersites}, volume = {2024}, journal = {thersites}, number = {18}, editor = {Amb{\"u}hl, Annemarie and Carl{\`a}-Uhink, Filippo and Rollinger, Christian and Walde, Christine}, issn = {2364-7612}, doi = {10.34679/thersites.vol18}, year = {2024}, language = {en} } @article{JagtianiWellek2022, author = {Jagtiani, Sharinee L. and Wellek, Sophia}, title = {In the Shadow of Ukraine}, series = {Survival}, volume = {64}, journal = {Survival}, number = {3}, publisher = {Routledge, Taylor \& Francis Group}, address = {Abingdon}, issn = {126962024X}, doi = {10.1080/00396338.2022.2078045}, pages = {29 -- 48}, year = {2022}, abstract = {In 2022, India captured global attention over its response to the war in Ukraine. While calling for both parties' return to diplomacy, India abstained from several United Nations resolutions condemning Russian aggression. For a country that ostensibly subscribes to the values of democracy and territorial integrity, its response appeared frustrating and contradictory, but it is broadly consistent with its long-standing policy of non-alignment. Although India's relationship with China is increasingly contentious, New Delhi is not yet fully convinced that it is in India's interest to swing westwards. The country's relations with Russia and China are deep, complex and substantive. In addition to the military and economic benefits it derives from its connection with Russia, New Delhi and Moscow share an avowed preference for a more equal, multipolar world. India will eventually have to reflect on the extent to which it can sustain its balancing act.}, language = {en} } @misc{Kay2019, author = {Kay, Alex James}, title = {Rezension: Ian Rich, Holocaust Perpetrators of the German Police Battalions: The Mass Murder of Jewish Civilians, 1940-1942. - London: Bloomsbury, 2018}, series = {Holocaust and Genocide Studies}, volume = {33}, journal = {Holocaust and Genocide Studies}, number = {3}, publisher = {Oxford Univ. Press}, address = {Cary}, issn = {8756-6583}, doi = {10.1093/hgs/dcz055}, pages = {447 -- 449}, year = {2019}, abstract = {Despite its rather broad title, this book—based on the author's Ph.D. thesis at Royal Holloway, University of London—focuses first and foremost on a distinct group of junior police officers, namely the company and platoon leaders of Police Battalions 304 and 314, who played a prominent role in the implementation of German anti-Jewish policy in Poland and Ukraine from 1940 to 1942. Battalion 304 comprised overwhelmingly men from Saxony, while most members of Battalion 314 came from Vienna. The young officers in question were part of the first Hitler Youth generation, that is, those born between 1915 and 1922. This generation was unique in its exposure from an early age to Nazi indoctrination, and had virtually no prior experience of alternative political or...}, language = {en} } @article{Kay2019, author = {Kay, Alex James}, title = {Speaking the Unspeakable}, series = {Holocaust Studies: A Journal of Culture and History}, volume = {27}, journal = {Holocaust Studies: A Journal of Culture and History}, number = {2}, publisher = {Routledge}, address = {Abingdon, Oxon}, doi = {10.1080/17504902.2019.1637492}, pages = {187 -- 200}, year = {2019}, abstract = {This article discusses the filmic representation of the infamous Wannsee Conference, when fifteen senior German officials met at a villa on the shore of a Berlin lake to discuss and co-ordinate the implementation of the so-called final solution to the Jewish question. The understanding reached during the course of the ninety-minute meeting cleared the way for the Europe-wide killing of six million Jews. The article sets out to answer the principal challenge facing anyone attempting to recreate the Wannsee Conference on film: what was the atmosphere of this conference and the attitude of the participants? Moreover, it discusses various ethical aspects related to the portrayal of evil, not in actions but in words, using the medium of film. In doing so, it focuses on the BBC/HBO television film Conspiracy (2001), directed by Frank Pierson, probing its historical accuracy and discussing its artistic credibility.}, language = {en} } @book{Kay2021, author = {Kay, Alex James}, title = {Empire of destruction}, publisher = {Yale University Press}, address = {New Haven}, isbn = {978-0-300-23405-3}, pages = {xix, 376}, year = {2021}, abstract = {Nazi Germany killed approximately thirteen million civilians and other noncombatants in deliberate policies of mass murder, overwhelmingly during the war years. Almost half the victims were Jewish, systematically destroyed in the Holocaust, the core of the Nazis? pan-European racial purification program.00Alex Kay argues that the genocide of European Jewry can also be examined in the wider context of Nazi mass killing. For the first time, Kay considers Europe?s Jews alongside all other major victim groups: captive Red Army soldiers, the Soviet urban population, unarmed civilian victims of preventive terror and reprisals, the mentally and physically disabled, the European Roma, and the Polish intelligentsia. He shows how each of these groups was regarded by the Nazi regime as a potential threat to Germany?s ability to successfully wage a war for hegemony in Europe. This groundbreaking work combines the full quantitative scale of the killings with the individual horror.}, language = {en} } @article{Kay2020, author = {Kay, Alex James}, title = {Crimes of the Wehrmacht}, series = {Journal of Perpetrator Research}, volume = {3}, journal = {Journal of Perpetrator Research}, number = {1}, publisher = {University Press}, address = {Manchester}, issn = {2514-7897}, doi = {10.21039/jpr.3.1.29}, pages = {95 -- 127}, year = {2020}, abstract = {Of the up to eighteen million men who served in the Wehrmacht during the Second World War, ten million were deployed at one time or another between 1941 and 1944 in the conflict against the Soviet Union, a theatre of widespread and sustained mass violence. In order to determine how extensive complicity in Nazi crimes was among the mass of the regular German soldiers, it is necessary first of all to define what constitutes a criminal undertaking. The sheer brutality of the German conduct of war and occupation in the Soviet Union has overshadowed many activities that would otherwise be rightly held up as criminal acts.}, language = {en} } @misc{Kay2017, author = {Kay, Alex James}, title = {Disagreement is fine. Misrepresentation is not}, series = {The international history review}, volume = {39}, journal = {The international history review}, publisher = {Routledge, Taylor \& Francis Group}, address = {Abingdon}, issn = {0707-5332}, doi = {10.1080/07075332.2017.1354547}, pages = {929 -- 930}, year = {2017}, language = {en} } @inproceedings{Kay2021, author = {Kay, Alex James}, title = {The holocaust in the USSR}, series = {Historia Russica}, booktitle = {Historia Russica}, editor = {Žuravlev, Sergej Vladimirovič}, publisher = {Institut f{\"u}r russische Geschichte (RAN)}, address = {Moskau}, isbn = {978-5-8055-0403-8}, pages = {155 -- 164}, year = {2021}, abstract = {This paper sketches the current status of international scholarship on the subject of the Holocaust in the USSR and its place in the wider military conflict of the Second World War. Research on this topic over the last 20 to 30 years has been truly international and the findings of this research cannot be sketched here without pointing to the contributions made by German, American, Russian, Israeli, British and Australian historians. Historians from these countries have made important contributions to our understanding of key questions relating to this subject. These questions address, among other things, pre-invasion orders issued to German units; the radicalisation of German policy, culminating in the root-and-branch extermination of Soviet Jewry; the network of ghettos set up on Soviet territory; the nature of the killing and the methods used to murder these victims; the total death toll of the Holocaust in the USSR; and the relationship between war and extermination, in which genocide can be regarded as an actual strategy of warfare pursued by the German Reich.}, language = {en} } @inproceedings{Kay2024, author = {Kay, Alex James}, title = {Holocaust Research in Germany}, series = {Hurb{\´a}n Foly{\´o}irat}, volume = {2}, booktitle = {Hurb{\´a}n Foly{\´o}irat}, publisher = {Holokauszt Eml{\´e}kk{\"o}zpont - Holocaust Memorial Center}, address = {Budapest}, organization = {Holocaust Documentation Center and Memorial Collection Public Foundation}, issn = {3004-023X}, pages = {22 -- 28}, year = {2024}, language = {en} } @book{Kay2021, author = {Kay, Alex James}, title = {Empire of destruction}, publisher = {Yale University Press}, address = {New Haven}, isbn = {978-0-300-23405-3}, pages = {xxi, 376}, year = {2021}, abstract = {The first comparative, comprehensive history of Nazi mass killing - showing how genocidal policies were crucial to the regime's strategy to win the war. Nazi Germany killed approximately 13 million civilians and other non-combatants in deliberate policies of mass murder, mostly during the war years. Almost half the victims were Jewish, systematically destroyed in the Holocaust, the core of the Nazis' pan-European racial purification programme. Alex Kay argues that the genocide of European Jewry can be examined in the wider context of Nazi mass killing. For the first time, Empire of Destruction considers Europe's Jews alongside all the other major victim groups: captive Red Army soldiers, the Soviet urban population, unarmed civilian victims of preventive terror and reprisals, the mentally and physically disabled, the European Roma and the Polish intelligentsia. Kay shows how each of these groups was regarded by the Nazi regime as a potential threat to Germany's ability to successfully wage a war for hegemony in Europe. Combining the full quantitative scale of the killings with the individual horror, this is a vital and groundbreaking work.}, language = {en} } @incollection{WetzelReedSchenck2023, author = {Wetzel, Johanna M. and Reed, Kate and Schenck, Marcia C.}, title = {"Writing with my professors"}, series = {Writing Together: Kollaboratives Schreiben mit Personen aus dem Feld}, volume = {45}, booktitle = {Writing Together: Kollaboratives Schreiben mit Personen aus dem Feld}, publisher = {Transcript Verlag}, address = {Bielefeld}, isbn = {978-3-8394-6399-4}, doi = {10.14361/9783839463994-002}, pages = {31 -- 53}, year = {2023}, abstract = {Kollaboratives Forschen quer zu hegemonialen Wissensordnungen gilt als wichtiger Baustein dekolonialer Wissenspraxis. Gemeinsame Schreibprozesse von Wissenschaftler*innen und ihren nicht-wissenschaftlichen Forschungspartner*innen sind allerdings selten und eine methodologische und forschungspraktische Reflexion fehlt. Die Beitr{\"a}ger*innen widmen sich diesen L{\"u}cken, indem sie erfolgreiche, aber auch gescheiterte Projekte kollaborativer Textproduktion zwischen Universit{\"a}t und Feld vorstellen und auf ihr Potenzial als transformative und dekoloniale Wissenspraxis befragen. So entsteht eine praktische Orientierungshilfe, die gleichzeitig die interdisziplin{\"a}re Diskussion anregt.}, language = {en} } @misc{AnnemarieWeissSchierletal.2020, author = {Annemarie, Amb{\"u}hl and Weiss, Irene M. and Schierl, Petra and Schmitzer, Ulrich and Kirichenko, Alexander and Heinemann, Matthias and Weiß, Adrian and Esposito, Paolo and Grewing, Farouk F. and Merli, Elena and Feichtinger, Barbara and Seng, Helmut and Wieber, Anja and Schollmeyer, Patrick and Kranzdorf, Anna and Werner, Eva and W{\"o}hrle, Georg and Brinker, Wolfram and Di Rocco, Emilia and Wesselmann, Katharina and L{\"o}bcke, Konrad and Benedetti, Ginevra}, title = {tessellae - Birthday Issue for Christine Walde}, series = {thersites}, volume = {2020}, journal = {thersites}, number = {11}, editor = {Amb{\"u}hl, Annemarie}, issn = {2364-7612}, doi = {10.34679/thersites.vol11}, year = {2020}, abstract = {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.}, language = {en} } @article{KlessmannSabrow1997, author = {Kleßmann, Christoph and Sabrow, Martin}, title = {Contemporary history in Germany after 1989}, year = {1997}, language = {en} } @article{SchenckWetzel2022, author = {Schenck, Marcia C. and Wetzel, Johanna M.}, title = {Shifting the means of (knowledge) production}, series = {World history connected : the ejournal of learning and teaching ; WHC}, volume = {19}, journal = {World history connected : the ejournal of learning and teaching ; WHC}, number = {3}, issn = {1931-8642}, doi = {10.13021/whc.v19i3.3327}, pages = {39}, year = {2022}, language = {en} } @misc{Kay2023, author = {Kay, Alex James}, title = {Never again?}, volume = {4}, number = {April 2023}, publisher = {Prospect Publishing Limited}, address = {London}, issn = {1359-5024}, pages = {63 -- 65}, year = {2023}, abstract = {The Holocaust was the most terrible atrocity of the 20th century. In many ways, it was also unprecedented in the history of atrocities: for its comprehensiveness and systematic nature; for the fanaticism with which its perpetrators scoured an entire continent in their pursuit of Jews; for the awful potency of the Nazis' insinuation that the victims represented a pernicious and existential threat. Collectively, we have spent decades—and published millions of words—trying to understand what happened and why.}, language = {en} } @book{Schenck2022, author = {Schenck, Marcia C.}, title = {Remembering African Labor Migration to the Second World}, series = {Palgrave Macmillan Transnational History Series}, journal = {Palgrave Macmillan Transnational History Series}, publisher = {Palgrave Macmillan}, address = {Cham}, isbn = {978-3-031-06775-4}, issn = {2634-6273}, doi = {10.1007/978-3-031-06776-1}, pages = {XXVII, 377}, year = {2022}, abstract = {This open access book is about Mozambicans and Angolans who migrated in state-sponsored schemes to East Germany in the late 1970s and throughout the 1980s. They went to work and to be trained as a vanguard labor force for the intended African industrial revolutions. While they were there, they contributed their labor power to the East German economy.  This book draws on more than 260 life history interviews and uncovers complex and contradictory experiences and transnational encounters. What emerges is a series of dualities that exist side by side in the memories of the former migrants: the state and the individual, work and consumption, integration and exclusion, loss and gain, and the past in the past and the past in the present and future. By uncovering these dualities, the book explores the lives of African migrants moving between the Third and Second worlds.  Devoted to the memories of worker-trainees, this transnational study comes at a time when historians are uncovering the many varied, complicated, and important connections within the global socialist world.}, language = {en} } @inproceedings{YaelLapidotTzuberi2022, author = {Yael, Attia and Lapidot, Elad and Tzuberi, Hannah}, title = {60 Years after the Algerian War}, publisher = {Katholische Akademie Berlin}, address = {Berlin}, year = {2022}, abstract = {Over the six decades since it officially ended, the Algerian War has become a key event for marking, retrospectively, the beginning of a new era in European, Western and global history. This new era is characterized by the proclaimed end of Western hegemony - by the proclaimed end of European history as global, universal history. This era, our era, understands itself as the time after the domination of the West, a time or multiple times of "post": the time of postcolonialism, but also postmodernity, postsecularism, posthumanism. The times of "post" are characterized by a fundamental reconfiguration of the relations between European civilization and its Others, first and foremost by the proclaimed split between Europe and its Others, and more generally by the disintegration, disruption and dispersion of the - allegedly - unified space of culture, knowledge and discourse. The postcolonial era is an era of diversity and difference, an era of dispersions and diasporas, where the space of culture is a space of multiple cultures, a space of in-between, of "inter": the space of the intercultural, but also the interreligious, interethnic, interracial and inter-epistemic. This conference will reflect on the "inter" in the time of "post". We invited scholars, thinkers, intellectuals and artists to discuss various aspects and models of intercultural dynamics that have been developed and articulated in the aftermath of the Algerian War or of other events that marked the decline of Western hegemony, such as the Second Vatican, May 1968 or the Vietnam War. How did the age of decolonization reshape the discourse and practice of intercultural relations? To what extent interculturality itself is a sign or a site of decolonization? To what extent, on the contrary, intercultural relations may reproduce colonial or generate neocolonial patterns? Contributions examine the emergence of intercultural notions and practices in various intellectual traditions, European or non-European; the development of new categories and constellations of identity, otherness and dialogue; the interrelations between epistemic, cultural, discursive, religious and political aspects; as well as reactions to these new developments and various forms of critique and resistance. We are especially interested in how this reflection may shed light on socio-political and cultural phenomena, trends and concerns of the present time.}, language = {en} } @misc{Zakrzewski2022, author = {Zakrzewski, Tanja}, title = {Rezension zu: Poettering, Jorun: Migrating Merchants - Trade, Nation, and Religion in Seventeenth-Century Hamburg and Portugal . - Berlin: De Gryter, 2018. - 397 S. - ISBN: 978-3-11-047001-7}, series = {Comparativ: Zeitschrift f{\"u}r Globalgeschichte und vergleichende Gesellschaftsforschung}, volume = {2}, journal = {Comparativ: Zeitschrift f{\"u}r Globalgeschichte und vergleichende Gesellschaftsforschung}, publisher = {Universit{\"a}tsverlag}, address = {Leipzig}, issn = {0940-3566}, pages = {289 -- 291}, year = {2022}, language = {en} } @misc{BoeschSu2020, author = {B{\"o}sch, Frank and Su, Phi Hong}, title = {Competing contexts of reception in refugee and immigrant incorporation}, series = {Zweitver{\"o}ffentlichungen der Universit{\"a}t Potsdam : Philosophische Reihe}, journal = {Zweitver{\"o}ffentlichungen der Universit{\"a}t Potsdam : Philosophische Reihe}, number = {21}, issn = {1866-8380}, doi = {10.25932/publishup-54300}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-543007}, pages = {21}, year = {2020}, abstract = {Scholars have long recognised the importance of contexts of reception in shaping the integration of immigrants and refugees in a host society. Studies of refugees, in particular, have examined groups where the different dimensions of reception (government, labour market, and ethnic community) have been largely positive. How important is this merging of positive contexts across dimensions of reception? We address this through a comparative study of Vietnamese refugees to West Germany beginning in 1979 and contract workers to East Germany beginning in 1980. These two migration streams converged when Germany reunified in 1990. Drawing on mixed qualitative methods, this paper offers a strategic case for understanding factors that shape the resettlement experiences of Vietnamese refugees and immigrants in Germany. By comparing two migration streams from the same country of origin, but with different backgrounds and contexts of reception, we suggest that ethnic networks may, in time, offset the disadvantages of a negative government reception.}, language = {en} } @article{BoeschSu2020, author = {B{\"o}sch, Frank and Su, Phi Hong}, title = {Competing contexts of reception in refugee and immigrant incorporation}, series = {Journal of ethnic and migration studies}, volume = {47}, journal = {Journal of ethnic and migration studies}, number = {21}, publisher = {Routledge, Taylor \& Francis Group}, address = {Abingdon}, issn = {1369-183X}, doi = {10.1080/1369183X.2020.1724418}, pages = {4853 -- 4871}, year = {2020}, abstract = {Scholars have long recognised the importance of contexts of reception in shaping the integration of immigrants and refugees in a host society. Studies of refugees, in particular, have examined groups where the different dimensions of reception (government, labour market, and ethnic community) have been largely positive. How important is this merging of positive contexts across dimensions of reception? We address this through a comparative study of Vietnamese refugees to West Germany beginning in 1979 and contract workers to East Germany beginning in 1980. These two migration streams converged when Germany reunified in 1990. Drawing on mixed qualitative methods, this paper offers a strategic case for understanding factors that shape the resettlement experiences of Vietnamese refugees and immigrants in Germany. By comparing two migration streams from the same country of origin, but with different backgrounds and contexts of reception, we suggest that ethnic networks may, in time, offset the disadvantages of a negative government reception.}, language = {en} } @article{CarlaUhink2024, author = {Carl{\`a}-Uhink, Filippo}, title = {'He had thoughtlessly accepted certain gifts'}, series = {Cultural History}, volume = {13}, journal = {Cultural History}, number = {1}, publisher = {Edinburgh University Press}, address = {Edinburgh}, issn = {2045-290X}, doi = {10.3366/cult.2024.0296}, pages = {52 -- 70}, year = {2024}, abstract = {It has been highlighted many times how difficult it is to draw a boundary between gift and bribe, and how the same transfer can be interpreted in different ways according to the position of the observer and the narrative frame into which it is inserted. This also applied of course to Ancient Rome; in both the Republic and Principate lawgivers tried to define the limits of acceptable transfers and thus also to identify what we might call 'corruption'. Yet, such definitions remained to a large extent blurred, and what was constructed was mostly a 'code of conduct', allowing Roman politicians to perform their own 'honesty' in public duty - while being aware at all times that their involvement in different kinds of transfer might be used by their opponents against them and presented as a case of 'corrupt' behaviour.}, language = {en} } @article{Kay2024, author = {Kay, Alex James}, title = {The extermination of Red Army soldiers in German captivity, 1941-1945}, series = {Journal of Slavic Military Studies}, volume = {37}, journal = {Journal of Slavic Military Studies}, number = {1}, publisher = {Taylor \& Francis}, address = {London}, issn = {1556-3006}, doi = {10.1080/13518046.2024.2340839}, pages = {80 -- 104}, year = {2024}, abstract = {Captive Red Army soldiers made up the majority of victims of Nazi Germany's starvation policy against Soviet civilians and other non-combatants and thus constituted the largest single victim group of the German war of annihilation against the Soviet Union. Indeed, Soviet prisoners of war were the largest victim group of all National Socialist annihilation policies after the European Jews. Before the launch of Operation Barbarossa, it was clear to the Wehrmacht planning departments on exactly what scale they could expect to capture Soviet troops. Yet, they neglected to make the necessary preparations for feeding and sheltering the captured soldiers, who were viewed by the economic staffs and the military leadership alike as direct competitors of German troops and the German home front for precious food supplies. The number of extra mouths to feed was incompatible with German war aims. The obvious limitations on their freedom of movement and the relative ease with which large numbers could be segregated and their rations controlled were crucial factors in the death of over 3 million Soviet POWs, the vast majority directly or indirectly as a result of deliberate policies of neglect, undernourishment, and starvation while in the 'care' of the Wehrmacht. The most reliable figures for the mortality of Soviet POWs in German captivity reveal that up to 3.3 million died from a total of just over 5.7 million captured between June 1941 and February 1945 — a proportion of almost 58 percent. Of these, 2 million were already dead by the beginning of February 1942. In English, there is still neither a single monograph nor a single edited volume dedicated to the subject. This article now provides the first detailed stand-alone synthesis in that language addressing the whole period from 1941 to 1945.}, language = {en} } @incollection{CarlaUhink2024, author = {Carl{\`a}-Uhink, Filippo}, title = {'Per voler del primo amor ch'i' sento'}, series = {Representing Rome's emperors: historical and cultural perspectives through time}, booktitle = {Representing Rome's emperors: historical and cultural perspectives through time}, publisher = {Oxford University Press}, address = {Oxford}, isbn = {978-0-19-286926-5}, doi = {10.1093/oso/9780192869265.003.0008}, pages = {195 -- 213}, year = {2024}, language = {en} } @article{Ulična2020, author = {Uličn{\´a}, Lenka}, title = {Amulets Found in Bohemian Genizot}, editor = {Denz, Rebekka and Rudolf, Gabi}, publisher = {Universit{\"a}tsverlag Potsdam}, address = {Potsdam}, isbn = {978-3-86956-470-8}, doi = {10.25932/publishup-47095}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-470952}, pages = {69 -- 80}, year = {2020}, language = {en} }