englisch"The Whole World, the Whole Man" was the name of an international conference held at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities to mark Alexander von Humboldt's 250th birthday. The results of this conference are collected in this volume, which is a panorama of international [...]

englischThis volume takes a closer look at women’s perspectives on (post-)migration and explores the uncertainties, frictions, struggles and opportunities emerging from that context. It revolves around African and Afrodescendant female writers and artists and refers to the uncomfortable stories they [...]

englischIn this dissertation, all surviving letters, letter fragments and supplementary documents that Alexander von Humboldt exchanged with the Berliners Heinrich Wilhelm Dove, Carl Ferdinand Schneider and Jakob Philipp Wolfers on the subjects of meteorology and climatology in the period from 1830 [...]

englischThere is hardly a political, economic or aesthetic phenomenon that could be understood or described today without reference to 'social networks'. This fact is not new to sociology, history, and art history: these disciplines have a suitable, traditional theoretical foundation. In contrast, [...]

englischThe increasingly globalized circulation and interdependence of literary practices calls for a revision of the history of national and continental genres. This volume focuses attention from a transareal perspective on the growing diversity of genres in the move towards cultural globalization. [...]

englischWithin the USA, New Orleans has long been considered the ‘un-American’ city, seen as exotic and different, even as a ‘socio-geographical accident’. It is a crossroads not only for the influences of different colonial cultures but also for the routes of the Atlantic slave trade and [...]