TY - JOUR A1 - Cristini, Marco ED - Ambühl, Annemarie ED - Carlà-Uhink, Filippo ED - Rollinger, Christian ED - Walde, Christine T1 - The Fall of Two Cities: Troy and Gondolin JF - thersites 15 N2 - 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. KW - Tolkien KW - reception of Vergil KW - Aeneid KW - Troy KW - Gondolin Y1 - 2022 U6 - https://doi.org/10.34679/thersites.vol15.200 VL - 2022 IS - 15 SP - 1 EP - 24 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Matz, Alicia A1 - Paprocki, Maciej ED - Ambühl, Annemarie ED - Carlà-Uhink, Filippo ED - Rollinger, Christian ED - Walde, Christine T1 - There and Back Again: Tolkien and Greco-Roman Antiquity JF - thersites 15 N2 - 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. KW - Tolkien KW - classical reception Y1 - 2022 U6 - https://doi.org/10.34679/thersites.vol15.228 SN - 2364-7612 VL - 2022 IS - 15 SP - i EP - xii ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Matz, Alicia A1 - Paprocki, Maciej A1 - Cristini, Marco A1 - Pezzini, Giuseppe A1 - Capra, Elena Sofia A1 - Kambo, Kevin A1 - Oughton, Charles W. A1 - Chinn, Christopher A1 - Thompson, Phoebe A1 - Praet, Raf A1 - Stutz, Kathryn H. A1 - Keen, Tony A1 - Beck, Christian ED - Ambühl, Annemarie ED - Carlà-Uhink, Filippo ED - Rollinger, Christian ED - Walde, Christine T1 - There and Back Again: Tolkien and the Greco-Roman World T2 - thersites Y1 - 2022 U6 - https://doi.org/10.34679/thersites.vol15 SN - 2364-7612 VL - 2022 IS - 15 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Stutz, Kathryn H. ED - Ambühl, Annemarie ED - Carlà-Uhink, Filippo ED - Rollinger, Christian ED - Walde, Christine T1 - G. B. Smith’s “Elzevir Cicero” and the Construction of Queer Immortality in Tolkien’s Mythopoeia JF - thersites 15 N2 - 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. KW - John Ronald Reuel Tolkien KW - Geoffrey Bache Smith KW - hauntology KW - queer theory KW - mythopoeia Y1 - 2022 U6 - https://doi.org/10.34679/thersites.vol15.225 SN - 2364-7612 VL - 2022 IS - 15 SP - 253 EP - 284 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Praet, Raf ED - Ambühl, Annemarie ED - Carlà-Uhink, Filippo ED - Rollinger, Christian ED - Walde, Christine T1 - The Throne of the King BT - The Throne Room in Minas Tirith and Late Antique Ruler Ideology JF - thersites 15 N2 - 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. KW - late antique palace architecture KW - Chrysotriklinos KW - allegory and applicability KW - sub-creation KW - Christ the King Y1 - 2022 U6 - https://doi.org/10.34679/thersites.vol15.210 SN - 2364-7612 VL - 2022 IS - 15 SP - 232 EP - 252 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Matz, Alicia ED - Ambühl, Annemarie ED - Carlà-Uhink, Filippo ED - Rollinger, Christian ED - Walde, Christine T1 - Quis enim laesos impune putaret esse deos?: Ents, Sacred Groves, and the Cost of Desecration JF - thersites 15 N2 - 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. KW - sacred trees KW - Ents KW - Tolkien KW - Saruman KW - Julius Caesar Y1 - 2022 U6 - https://doi.org/10.34679/thersites.vol15.215 SN - 2364-7612 VL - 2022 IS - 15 SP - 204 EP - 231 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Chinn, Christopher A1 - Thompson, Phoebe ED - Ambühl, Annemarie ED - Carlà-Uhink, Filippo ED - Rollinger, Christian ED - Walde, Christine T1 - Tolkien’s Ithilien and the Landscape of the Ancient Mediterranean JF - thersites 15 N2 - 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. KW - Tolkien KW - Vergil KW - ecocriticism KW - Ithilien KW - flora Y1 - 2022 U6 - https://doi.org/10.34679/thersites.vol15.211 SN - 2364-7612 VL - 2022 IS - 15 SP - 163 EP - 203 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Beck, Christian ED - Ambühl, Annemarie ED - Carlà-Uhink, Filippo ED - Rollinger, Christian ED - Walde, Christine T1 - Review of Hamish Williams: Tolkien and the Classical World BT - Walking Tree Publishers (Zurich/Jena 2021) (= Cormarë Series No. 45), 414 pp . ISBN: 978-3-905703-45-0, 44 € JF - thersites 15 Y1 - 2022 U6 - https://doi.org/10.34679/thersites.vol15.230 SN - 2364-7612 VL - 2022 IS - 15 SP - 314 EP - 320 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Cantenar, Ömer Faruk A1 - Kozera, Cyprian Aleksander T1 - Fighting ISIS in Syria BT - Operation Euphrates Shield and the lessons learned from the al-Bab Battle JF - Small wars & insurgencies N2 - 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. KW - Operation Euphrates Shield KW - Turkish military in Syria KW - al-Bab Battle KW - ISIS KW - proxy force KW - urban warfare Y1 - 2022 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1080/09592318.2021.1875308 SN - 0959-2318 SN - 1743-9558 VL - 33 IS - 3 SP - 350 EP - 381 PB - Routledge CY - Basingstoke ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Jagtiani, Sharinee L. A1 - Wellek, Sophia T1 - In the Shadow of Ukraine BT - India's choices and challenges JF - Survival N2 - 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. KW - China KW - Galwan Valley KW - democracy KW - India KW - Jawaharlal Nehru KW - non-alignment; KW - Pakistan KW - Quadrilateral Security Dialogue KW - Quad KW - Indo-Pacific KW - Russia KW - Ukraine war KW - United Nations Y1 - 2022 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1080/00396338.2022.2078045 SN - 126962024X SN - 1468-2699 VL - 64 IS - 3 SP - 29 EP - 48 PB - Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group CY - Abingdon ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Schenck, Marcia C. A1 - Wetzel, Johanna M. T1 - Shifting the means of (knowledge) production BT - teaching applied oral history methods in a global classroom JF - World history connected : the ejournal of learning and teaching ; WHC Y1 - 2022 U6 - https://doi.org/10.13021/whc.v19i3.3327 SN - 1931-8642 VL - 19 IS - 3 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Wienfort, Monika T1 - James Gregory. The Royal Throne of Mercy and British Culture in the Victorian Age. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2020. Pp. 288. $115.00 (cloth). JF - Journal of British studies Y1 - 2022 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1017/jbr.2022.133 SN - 0021-9371 SN - 1545-6986 VL - 61 IS - 4 SP - 1060 EP - 1061 PB - Cambridge Univ. Press CY - Cambridge ER - TY - BOOK A1 - Schenck, Marcia C. T1 - Remembering African Labor Migration to the Second World BT - Socialist Mobilities between Angola, Mozambique, and East Germany. T3 - Palgrave Macmillan Transnational History Series N2 - 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. KW - Open access KW - Third World KW - Second World KW - East Germany KW - Angola KW - Mozambique KW - Socialism KW - Labor Migration Y1 - 2022 SN - 978-3-031-06775-4 SN - 978-3-031-06778-5 SN - 978-3-031-06776-1 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-06776-1 SN - 2634-6273 SN - 2634-6281 PB - Palgrave Macmillan CY - Cham ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Yael, Attia A1 - Lapidot, Elad A1 - Tzuberi, Hannah T1 - 60 Years after the Algerian War BT - Interculturality in the Postcolonial Age N2 - 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. Y1 - 2022 UR - https://intellectualdiaspora.org/de/culture-of-difference_culture-of-difference-interculturality-in-the-postcolonial-age/ PB - Katholische Akademie Berlin CY - Berlin ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Zakrzewski, Tanja T1 - 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 JF - Comparativ: Zeitschrift für Globalgeschichte und vergleichende Gesellschaftsforschung Y1 - 2022 UR - https://www.comparativ.net/v2/article/view/3241/2941 SN - 0940-3566 VL - 2 SP - 289 EP - 291 PB - Universitätsverlag CY - Leipzig ER - TY - JOUR A1 - la Grange, Anna T1 - Afrikaner-sondebok? Die lewe van Hans van Rensburg, Ossewabrandwagleier JF - South african journal of cultural history Y1 - 2022 U6 - https://doi.org/10.54272/sach.2022.v36n2a12 VL - 36 IS - 2 SP - 197 EP - 198 PB - South African Society for Cultural History CY - Pretoria ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Wyrwa, Ulrich T1 - Music for the "Axis". German-Italian music relations under Hitler and Mussolini until 1943 JF - Quest-issues in contemporary jewish history Y1 - 2022 U6 - https://doi.org/10.48248/issn.2037-741X/13762 SN - 2037-741X IS - 22 SP - 222 EP - 225 PB - Fondazione Centro Documentazione Ebraica Contemporanea CY - Milano ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Scianna, Bastian Matteo ED - Bartrop, Paul R. T1 - Directing the war from triumph to disaster BT - the German and Italian cases JF - The Routledge History of the Second World War N2 - After the Second World War, Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini were singled out as evil geniuses who misled the masses and plunged them into an “unwanted war.” In relation to their armed forces, this narrative argued that the generals under their command had been demoted to powerless tools in the hands of the dictators, having to follow orders and with no sway over decision-making. It was further asserted that Germany and Italy had not been able to secure a victory due to the dictators’ meddling. Yet, as this chapter shows, there are important differences between the German and Italian cases. The chapter compares both the command structures in which the dictators operated as well as their grand strategies and how they cooperated during the war. Their personal relationship will be also analyzed, as it is impossible to look at the Axis without understanding the complex personal relationship at the very top. The strategies of both Hitler and Mussolini will be looked at and how each leader behaved in terms of working with their closest ally, together with some examples of cooperation on the lower military rungs. Y1 - 2022 SN - 9780429455353 U6 - https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429455353-16 SP - 181 EP - 194 PB - Routledge CY - Abingdon ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Schenck, Marcia C. A1 - Harisch, Immanuel R. A1 - Dietrich, Anne A1 - Burton, Eric T1 - Introduction BT - Moorings and (Dis)Entanglements between Africa and East Germany during the Cold War JF - Navigating Socialist Encounters Y1 - 2021 SN - 978-3-11-062354-3 SN - 978-3-11-062231-7 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110623543-001 SP - 1 EP - 58 PB - de Gruyter CY - Oldenburg ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Schenck, Marcia C. A1 - Raposo, Francisca T1 - Socialist Encounters at the School of Friendship JF - Navigating Socialist Encounters Y1 - 2021 SN - 978-3-11-062354-3 SN - 978-3-11-062231-7 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110623543-009 SP - 235 EP - 246 PB - de Gruyter CY - Oldenburg ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Alberto, Ibraimo A1 - Schenck, Marcia C. T1 - Paths Are Made by Walking BT - Memories of Being a Mozambican Contract Worker in the GDR JF - Navigating Socialist Encounters Y1 - 2021 SN - 978-3-11-062354-3 SN - 978-3-11-062231-7 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110623543-010 SP - 247 EP - 262 PB - de Gruyter CY - Oldenburg ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Scianna, Bastian Matteo T1 - Book Review: Goeschel, Christian: Mussolini and Hitler – The forging of the fascist alliance and Adolf Hitler. - Yale University Press: New Haven, CT, 2018; X + 400 pp. - ISBN: 978-0-30017-883-8. - Schieder, Wolfgang: Adolf Hitler. Politischer Zauberlehrling Mussolinis. - De Gruyter Oldenbourg: Berlin, 2017; VIII + 228 pp.: ISBN: 978-3-11052-975-3 JF - War in history Y1 - 2021 SN - 978-0-30017-883-8 SN - 978-3-11052-975-3 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1177/0968344520979471d SN - 0968-3445 SN - 1477-0385 VL - 28 IS - 1 SP - 228 EP - 229 PB - Sage CY - London ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Wyrwa, Ulrich T1 - Rezension zu: D’Antonio, Emanuele: Il sangue di Giuditta. Antisemitismo e voci ebraiche nell’Italia di metà Ottocento. - Roma: Carocci editore, 2020. - 157 S. - ISBN 978-88-290-0329-7 JF - Quest : Issues in Contemporary Jewish History ; journal of Fondazione CDEC T2 - The blood of Judith. Anti-Semitism and Jewish voices in Italy in the mid-nineteenth century Y1 - 2021 U6 - https://doi.org/10.48248/issn.2037-741X/13161 SN - 2037-741X IS - 20 SP - 207 EP - 210 PB - Fondazione Centro di Documentazione Ebraica Contemporanea CY - Milano ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Drephal, Maximilian T1 - Rezension zu: Bradford, James Tharin: Poppies, politics, and power: Afghanistan and the global history of drugs and diplomacy. - Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2019. xii + 281 pp. - ISBN: 978-1-5017-3976-7 JF - Business history review Y1 - 2021 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1017/S0007680521000507 SN - 0007-6805 SN - 2044-768X VL - 95 IS - 3 SP - 596 EP - 599 PB - Cambridge Univ. Press CY - Cambridge ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Carlà-Uhink, Filippo T1 - The impact of Roman Roads on Landscape and Space BT - the case of republican Italy T2 - The Impact of the Roman Empire on Landscapes Y1 - 2021 SN - 978-90-04-41144-9 SN - 978-90-04-41143-2 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004411449_005 SP - 69 EP - 91 PB - Brill CY - Leiden & Boston ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Carlà-Uhink, Filippo T1 - Rez. zu: Stephen L. Dyson; Archaeology, ideology and urbanism in Rome from the grand tour to Berlusconi. - Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2019, 327 p. - ISBN 978-0-521-87459-5 JF - Anabases : traditions et réception de l'Antiquité Y1 - 2021 U6 - https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.4000/anabases.12253 SN - 1774-4296 SN - 2256-9421 IS - 33 SP - 283 EP - 285 PB - ERASME CY - Toulouse ER - TY - JOUR A1 - D'Aprile, Iwan-Michelangelo T1 - Transfer and Popularization of Knowledge BT - Brockhaus‘ Conversations-Lexikon in the Early 19th Century JF - Translation and Transfer of Knowledge in Encyclopedic Compilations 1680-1830 Y1 - 2021 SN - 978-1487508906 PB - Toronto University Press CY - Toronto ER - TY - BOOK ED - Burton, Eric ED - Dietrich, Anne ED - Harisch, Immanuel R. ED - Schenck, Marcia C. T1 - Navigating Socialist Encounters BT - Moorings and (Dis)Entanglements between Africa and East Germany during the Cold War N2 - This edited volume examines entanglements and disentanglements between Africa and East Germany during and after the Cold War from a global history perspective. Extending the view beyond political elites, it asks for the negotiated and plural character of socialism in these encounters and sheds light on migration, media, development, and solidarity through personal and institutional agency. With its distinctive focus on moorings and unmoorings, the volume shows how the encounters, albeit often brief, significantly influenced both African and East German histories. KW - GDR KW - East Germany KW - Cold War KW - Migration KW - Global History Y1 - 2021 SN - 978-3-11-062354-3 SN - 978-3-11-062231-7 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110623543 PB - De Gruyter CY - Oldenburg ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Jaeschke, Victor T1 - Rezension zu: Gehler, Michael; Loth, Wilfried (ed.): Reshaping Europe. Towards a Political, Economic and Monetary Union, 1984–1989. - Baden-Baden: Nomos, 2020. - 524 S. - ISBN 978-3-8487-6674-1 JF - Francia recensio Y1 - 2021 U6 - https://doi.org/10.11588/frrec.2021.2.81990 IS - 2 SP - 1 EP - 3 PB - DeutschenHistorischen Institut Paris CY - Paris ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Schenck, Marcia C. T1 - Rezension zu: Guthrie, Zachary Kagan: Bound for Work: Labor, Mobility, and Colonial Rule in Central Mozambique, 1940–1965. - Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2018. vii + 240 pp. - ISBN 978-0-8139-4154-7 JF - Labor: studies in working-class history of the Americas KW - Arbeit KW - Mobilität KW - Migration KW - Kolonialismus KW - Mosambik Y1 - 2021 SN - 978-0-8139-4154-7 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1215/15476715-8849376 SN - 1558-1454 SN - 1547-6715 VL - 18 IS - 2 SP - 120 EP - 121 PB - Duke University Press CY - Durham, NC ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Geppert, Dominik Nicolas T1 - Emotions and gender in Margaret Thatcher and Helmut Kohl’s Cold War JF - Diplomacy and statecraft N2 - Although German Federal Chancellor Helmut Kohl and British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher were on the same side in the Cold War, as well as in the same family of moderate centre-right parties, despite being roughly the same age and sharing a fundamental market-economic and Atlanticist orientation, they were not in harmony emotionally. This analysis demonstrates how different genders, incompatible conceptions of nation, history, and regional origins, as well as experiences of mutual frustration eclipsed their ideological commonalities and counteracted against the 'emotional regimes' of 'the West' in the Cold War. It breaks new ground in several respects. First, it does not examine strong feelings that blotted out all others but rather a range of more ambivalent and nuanced emotions. Second, it links the themes of gender and feeling by enquiring about the male or female manifestations and attributions of certain emotions. Third, it focuses on not only men and women at the top but considers their entourages as either amplifiers or 'shock absorbers' of the leaders' feelings. Finally, it explores the scope and limits of the notion that the Cold War was an 'emotional regime'. Y1 - 2022 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1080/09592296.2021.1996719 SN - 0959-2296 SN - 1557-301X VL - 32 IS - 4 SP - 766 EP - 788 PB - Taylor & Francis Group CY - Philadelphia ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Schenck, Marcia C. A1 - Mohamed Zakaria, Abdalla A1 - Ndiritiro, Richesse A1 - Omar, Shaema A1 - Rer, Samson A1 - Reed, Kate A1 - Teferra, Gerawork T1 - Opportunities and challenges of oral history research through refugee voices, narratives, and memories BT - history dialogues T2 - Global South scholars in the Western Academy N2 - While academic mobility has generally been positioned in the literature as a ready, at-will movement of people and ideas, this chapter demonstrates how the conditions of mobility and immobility “all at once” impact knowledge production and exchange. By offering a more nuanced window into the experiences of scholars in exile, this chapter challenges dominant discourses of academic mobility and draws on lessons learned from within liminal spaces of knowledge production to elicit more response within higher education communities. Context-rich examples reveal the interpersonal tensions and cultural shifts—including gender, ethnic and race-based stereotypes and discrimination—that affect intellectual outputs, further problematizing the conceptualization of knowledge production in human capital terms. Lessons gleaned from Scholars at Risk (SAR) and related programmes suggest support structures that amplify scholars’ agency; more broadly, higher education should consider ways of adapting to its diverse knowledge producers, rather than supporting the acclimation to its current environment. KW - Refugees KW - Global South Researchers KW - Global History Dialogues Project Y1 - 2021 SN - 978-0-367-62582-5 SN - 978-1-003-10980-8 SN - 978-0-367-62584-9 U6 - https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003109808-18 SP - 171 EP - 185 PB - Routledge CY - New York ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Kotthaus, Jochem A1 - Schäfer, Matthias A1 - Stankovic, Nikola A1 - Weitzel, Gerrit T1 - How soccer becomes politics BT - a case study on the communication of a transnational popular media event JF - International journal of sport communication N2 - 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. KW - banal nationalism KW - digital media KW - everyday life KW - prosumer KW - racism Y1 - 2021 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1123/ijsc.2020-0320 SN - 1936-3915 SN - 1936-3907 VL - 14 IS - 3 SP - 428 EP - 447 PB - Human Kinetics Publ. CY - Champaign ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Menachem Zoufala, Marcela A1 - Dyduch, Joanna A1 - Glöckner, Olaf T1 - Jews and muslims in Dubai, Berlin, and Warsaw BT - interactions, peacebuilding initiatives, and improbable encounters JF - Religions N2 - 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. KW - Jews and Muslims KW - Dubai KW - Berlin KW - Warsaw KW - multi-faith projects KW - The Abrahamic Family House KW - The House of One KW - The Community of Conscience; KW - cultural hybridisation KW - Abraham Accords Y1 - 2021 U6 - https://doi.org/10.3390/rel13010013 SN - 2077-1444 VL - 13 IS - 1 PB - MDPI CY - Basel ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Colbert, Vivian ED - Rollinger, Christian T1 - Queen Zenobia’s ‘Campaign’ for British Women’s Suffrage JF - thersites 12 N2 - 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. KW - Zenobia KW - reception studies KW - British suffrage movement KW - nineteenth century KW - feminism Y1 - 2021 U6 - https://doi.org/0.34679/thersites.vol12.186 SN - 2364-7612 VL - 2020 IS - 12 SP - 71 EP - 94 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Carlà-Uhink, Filippo ED - Rollinger, Christian T1 - Interview with Alana Jelinek JF - thersites 12 N2 - 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. KW - classical archaeology KW - art history KW - installation art KW - classical receptions Y1 - 2021 U6 - https://doi.org/10.34679/thersites.vol12.163 SN - 2364-7612 VL - 2020 IS - 12 SP - 95 EP - 103 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Steffensen, Nils A1 - Ursin, Frank A1 - Colbert, Vivian A1 - Carlà-Uhink, Filippo A1 - Brilke, Clara A1 - Werner, Eva A1 - Warnking, Pascal A1 - Potter, Amanda A1 - Reinard, Patrick ED - Rollinger, Christian T1 - Spring Issue T2 - thersites Y1 - 2021 U6 - https://doi.org/10.34679/thersites.vol12 SN - 2364-7612 VL - 2020 IS - 12 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Bièvre-Perrin, Fabien ED - Bièvre-Perrin, Fabien ED - Carlà-Uhink, Filippo ED - Rollinger, Christian ED - Walde, Christine T1 - “Everything is a copy of a copy of a copy” BT - Preface JF - thersites 13: Antiquipop – Chefs d’œuvres revisités N2 - 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 déjà-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. Y1 - 2021 U6 - https://doi.org/10.34679/thersites.vol13.191 SN - 2364-7612 VL - 2021 IS - 13 SP - i EP - v ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Brilke, Clara A1 - Werner, Eva ED - Rollinger, Christian T1 - I am not sure that I feel like singing, thanks very much for asking! BT - Interview with Natalie Haynes JF - thersites 12 N2 - 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. KW - Women in Ancient Myth KW - Classical Reception KW - Classics in Popular Culture Y1 - 2021 U6 - https://doi.org/10.34679/thersites.vol12.189 SN - 2364-7612 VL - 2020 IS - 12 SP - 104 EP - 115 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Potter, Amanda ED - Rollinger, Christian T1 - Review of Meredith E. Safran (ed.): Screening the Golden Ages of the Classical Tradition BT - Edinburgh University Press (Edinburgh 2019), 329 pp ., ISBN: 9781474440844 , £ 80.00 ( b, also available as pb and e-book) including filmography, bibliography and index JF - thersites 12 KW - Review of Safran KW - Screening the Golden Ages of the Classical Tradition Y1 - 2021 U6 - https://doi.org/thersites.vol12.123 SN - 2364-7612 VL - 2020 IS - 12 SP - 136 EP - 139 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Pampanay, Élise ED - Bièvre-Perrin, Fabien ED - Carlà-Uhink, Filippo ED - Rollinger, Christian ED - Walde, Christine T1 - The Nike of Samothrace’s presences during the XX and XXI centuries: mysteries and victories JF - thersites 13: Antiquipop – Chefs d’œuvres revisités N2 - 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. KW - Nike of Samothrace KW - sculpture KW - polychromy KW - victories KW - modern art Y1 - 2021 U6 - https://doi.org/10.34679/thersites.vol13.146 SN - 2364-7612 VL - 2021 IS - 13 SP - 71 EP - 83 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 - Mihanovic, Andelko ED - Bièvre-Perrin, Fabien ED - Carlà-Uhink, Filippo ED - Rollinger, Christian ED - Walde, Christine T1 - Review of Patrick Gray: Shakespeare and the Fall of the Roman Republic: Selfhood, Stoicism and Civil War BT - Edinburgh University Press (Edinburgh 2019) (Edinburgh Critical Studies in Shakespeare and Philosophy), pp. xii + 308. ISBN: 978 I 4744 2745 6 (hardback), £80 JF - thersites 13: Antiquipop – Chefs d’œuvres revisités N2 - 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. Y1 - 2021 U6 - https://doi.org/10.34679/thersites.vol13.195 SN - 2364-7612 VL - 2021 IS - 13 SP - 213 EP - 218 ER - TY - BOOK A1 - Kay, Alex James T1 - Empire of destruction BT - a history of Nazi mass killing N2 - 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. Y1 - 2021 SN - 978-0-300-23405-3 PB - Yale University Press CY - New Haven ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Kay, Alex James ED - Žuravlev, Sergej Vladimirovič T1 - The holocaust in the USSR BT - international scholarship and research findings T2 - Historia Russica T2 - Der Zweite Weltkrieg und der Große Vaterländische Krieg: zum 75. Jahrestag seines Endes. Materialien der internationalen wissenschaftlichen Konferenz N2 - 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. KW - Soviet History KW - Second World War KW - Russian History KW - Nazi Germany KW - Holocaust Y1 - 2020 UR - https://www.academia.edu/67857379/The_Holocaust_in_the_USSR_International_Scholarship_and_Research_Findings SN - 978-5-8055-0403-8 SP - 155 EP - 164 PB - Institut für russische Geschichte (RAN) CY - Moskau ER - TY - BOOK A1 - Kay, Alex James T1 - Empire of destruction BT - a history of Nazi mass killing N2 - 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. Y1 - 2021 SN - 978-0-300-23405-3 SN - 978-0-300-26253-7 PB - Yale University Press CY - New Haven ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Schenck, Marcia C. T1 - Small Strangers at the School of Friendship: Memories of Mozambican School Students of The German Democratic Republic JF - German Historical Institute Washington Bulletin / Supplement KW - migration, school of friendship, German Democratic Repubic, Mozambique Y1 - 2020 UR - https://perspectivia.net/servlets/MCRFileNodeServlet/pnet_derivate_00003158/schenk_strangers.pdf IS - 15 SP - 41 EP - 59 PB - Max Weber Stiftung – Deutsche Geisteswissenschaftliche Institute im Ausland ER - TY - BOOK ED - Pschichholz, Christin T1 - The First World War as a Caesura? BT - demographic concepts, population policy, and genocide in the Late Ottoman, Russian, and Habsburg spheres T3 - Gewaltpolitik und Menschenrechte ; 3 N2 - During the phases of mobile warfare, the ethnically and religiously very heterogeneous population in the border regions of the multi-ethnic empires suffered in particular. Even if the real military situation in the course of the war hardly gave cause for concern, the image of disloyal ethnic and national minorities was widespread. This was particularly the case when ethnic groups lived on both sides of the border and social and political tensions had already established themselves along ethnic or religious lines of conflict before the war. Displacements, deportations and mass violence were the result. The genocide of the Armenian population is the most extreme example of this development. This anthology examines the border regions of the Ottoman, Russian and Habsburg empires during the First World War with regard to radical population policy and genocidal violence from a comparative perspective in order to draw a more precise picture of escalating and deescalating factors. Y1 - 2020 SN - 978-3-428-18146-9 SN - 978-3-428-58146-7 PB - Duncker & Humblot CY - Berlin ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Kranzdorf, Michael T1 - Secrecy is the essence of successful warfare. Publicity is the essence of successful journalism' : Public Discourses on Intelligence in Britain 1900 - 1927 JF - Cultures of intelligence in the era of the world wars Y1 - 2020 SN - 978-0-19-886720-3 SP - 233 EP - 254 PB - University Press CY - Oxford ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Strachan, Laura M. A1 - Winkel, Carmen T1 - The reclamation of an Arabian tradition BT - using oral history to teach humanities and social sciences in Saudi Arabia JF - The oral history review : journal of The Oral History Association N2 - For more than thirty years, collecting oral histories has been recognized as an effective teaching strategy in the West. Although it is rare in Gulf Cooperative Council (GCC) countries, the authors adopted it to bridge knowledge gaps they observed in their Saudi Arabian students. The reclamation of familial stories and tribal information using oral history methodologies reconnected students to their past while facilitating a unique learning experience. This paper describes how an oral history project was created for female undergraduate students in Saudi Arabia to help them move beyond the hard science approach supported in the Arabian world to one that embraces a narrative-based methodology. Historically, oral histories - an important pillar of Arabian society - were used to transfer significant tribal information, customs, traditions, and stories from one generation to the next. Since the discovery of oil, the kingdom has undergone dramatic societal and lifestyle transformations resulting in the loss of some traditions. The fundamental goal for this project was to improve the students' comprehension of humanities and social science courses by reconnecting them to their past using historical methods. KW - Saudi Arabia KW - oral history KW - teaching method KW - folklore KW - humanities and social science KW - cross-cultural education Y1 - 2020 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1080/00940798.2020.1786415 SN - 0094-0798 SN - 1533-8592 VL - 47 IS - 2 SP - 291 EP - 307 PB - Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group CY - Abingdon ER -