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  • 09/14/2023

    Ines-Jacqueline Werkner (Ed.): Stimmen zum Krieg in der Ukraine. Reaktionen jenseits der westlichen Welt

    In its first resolution, the United Nations General Assembly condemned the Russian invasion of Ukraine by a clear majority just a few days after the war began and called on Moscow to end its aggression. What at first glance looks like a worldwide condemnation of the Russian war does not stand up to a differentiated view. A closer look shows that it is not the international community of states that disapproves of the Russian aggression, but primarily the West. The volume focuses on the positions of the BRICS states, the MENA region, the post-Soviet space, and various regional organizations.

  • 07/21/2023

    Detlef Junker: Germany and the USA 1871–2021

    Now also available in English: Detlef Junker's comprehensive look at 150 years of transatlantic relations between Germany and the USA, published in 2021.

  • 09/29/2022

    Frederike van Oorschot und Selina Fucker (Eds.): Framing KI. Narrative, Metaphern und Frames in Debatten über Künstliche Intelligenz

    Saviour or threat: New developments in the digital world demand new descriptions, new linguistic images, metaphors and narratives. They shape our understanding of these technologies and pave the way for social debates. The volume combines case studies of these frames, narratives and metaphors with a reflection on the associated ethical questions under the task of an imagination-sensitive ethics.

  • 08/29/2022

    Johannes Bosch, Jakob Fesenbeckh und Katja Patzel-Mattern (Hrsg.): Studienbuch Körpergeschichte

    The body has a history: this realization constitutes the starting point for a history of the body, with several related approaches emerging in the 1970s in various disciplines of the humanities and social sciences. This book presents six theoretical approaches that conceive of the body as a historical and cultural object.

  • 07/14/2022

    Benjamin Held, Thomas Kirchhoff, Frederike van Oorschot, Philipp Stoellger und Ines-Jacqueline Werkner (Hrsg.): Coronafolgenforschung

    „Corona als Riss (Corona as a Rift)” was the title of the first volume of the "FEST kompakt" series published in 2020. Two years on, corona is still a global challenge whose consequences will occupy us for a long time to come. Against this background, the authors in this volume take a look at the complex topic of corona impact assessment from various disciplinary perspectives.

  • 06/30/2022

    Ines-Jacqueline Werkner, Madlen Krüger und Lotta Mayer (Hrsg.): Krieg in der Ukraine. Hintergründe - Positionen – Reaktionen

    The authors of this edited volume examine the background of the war in Ukraine and the constellation of conflict parties. Furthermore, they analyze positions based on ethics of peace as well as those of the church, and highlight Western reactions to the war.

  • 04/21/2022

    Vincent Heuveline und Nina Bisheh (Eds.): E-Science-Tage 2021. Share Your Research Data

    Transparency, efficient collaboration and quality assurance - sharing research data has many advantages. But it also harbours risks. The volume on the E-Science-Tage 2021 examines the topic across disciplines from the concept level to concrete implementation in the respective sience communities.

  • 04/07/2022

    Lisa Horstmann: Ikonographie in Bewegung. Die Überlieferungsgeschichte der Bilder des ›Welschen Gastes

    How are medieval books transmitted with pictures and text and how do these change in the course of copying processes? Lisa Horstmann explores this question and examines the transmission of pictures of the 'Welsche Gast', a doctrine of behaviour written in 1215/1216, from an art historical perspective with the help of philological approaches.

  • 02/03/2022

    Ulrich Blanché (Ed.): Stencil Stories. A Stencil History of Street Art / Geschichte des Schablonen-Graffiti

    The stencil graffiti of the artist Banksy are world famous. Street art researcher Ulrich Blanché has studied the history of this technique together with students from the University and the PH Heidelberg. Beginning with stencils for use from 1870, through propaganda and resistance stencils before 1945, protest stencils from May 1968, Pop Art and Conceptual Art stencils, from punk stencils and pochoirists to street art stencils.

  • 01/21/2022

    Anastasia Eckert, Felicitas Julia Hübner, Fabienne Kathrin Knittel, Rüdiger Thomsen-Fürst (Hrsg.): Valses de l’université de Heidelberg für Klavier zu zwei Händen.

    The Valses de l'université de Heidelberg for piano two hands are the work of the Geneva piano dealer F. C. Kohlenberger (1814‒1895). Besides the musical text, the volume also contains extensive commentaries devoted to the composer's biography, the history of the waltz in the 19th century, and the dance in the academic context of the University of Heidelberg.

  • 12/10/2021

    Stephan Nicolussi-Köhler (Hg.): Change and Transformation of Premodern Credit Markets. The Importance of Small-Scale Credits

    There were already well-functioning credit markets in the Middle Ages and early modern times. They mostly covered the population's need for small-scale credit. The authors of this book discuss how the financial needs of the people involved and the transformation of institutions affected access to capital markets and the practice of money lending.

  • 12/02/2021

    Adrian Kuhl, Silke Leopold, Dorothea Redepenning (Hrsg.): Über das Marionettentheater (hinaus). Musik und Puppen

    „Die Puppen tanzen lassen. Über das musikalische Marionettentheater“ is the title of the symposium that gave rise to this book. In addition to a historical tour of the relationship between puppets and music, this volume focuses on the one hand on the performance of opera with puppets in the 18th century and musicalised puppet theatre in the middle of the 20th century, and on the other hand on the integration of puppet themes in the subject, aesthetics and staging of opera with real singers.

  • 11/17/2021

    Benjamin Held und Frederike van Oorschot (Hrsg.) Digitalisierung: Neue Technik – neue Ethik.

    The volume, produced in interdisciplinary research at FEST, discusses what is "new" in and through digital technologies in different fields of science and society: What is truly new? Is something "new" recognizable or do existing questions continue in other medial forms?

  • 11/11/2021

    Susan Richter (Hrsg.): Amo te solo. Briefe der Kurfürstin Elisabeth Augusta an den Herzog Clemens Franz in Bayern 1743–1770

    Electress Elisabeth Augusta maintained an intimate and also erotic relationship with her brother-in-law Clemens Franz von Paula, Duke in Bavaria, for many years. Their correspondence reflects the close relationship, duties and limits, boredom and hopes, occasional weariness with court life as well as their understanding of their princely role, thus providing an interesting insight into the princely everyday life.

  • 11/11/2021

    Klaus Lieberz, Lucie Adamek, Bertram Krumm (Hrsg.): Die Richtlinien-Psychotherapie. Expeditionen in einem dunklen Kontinent

    The book deals with the still unresolved questions of therapist selection, psychosomatic-psychotherapeutic/psychiatric diagnostics, indication and differential indication with regard to various psychotherapeutic procedures, assessment of disease severity and prognostic prospects under the naturalistic conditions of psychotherapeutic practice within the framework of guideline psychotherapy.

  • 09/24/2021

    Susanna Werger: Le Caractère destructeur dans l'art. Poétique, musique et performance des mouvements d'avant-garde autour de la première guerre mondiale

    Susanna Werger looks for repetitions in the intellectual history of the avant-garde to find moments of continuity or rupture. The focus on the common denominator of destructiveness serves to identify a central facet of the style of the time. The rousing slogan of destructiveness unites the creative foundations of avant-garde art and touches on its inevitable paradox: destruction implies creative aspects; the space that has been freed up soon wants to be filled again.

  • 09/17/2021

    Klaus-Peter Schroeder: Die Heidelberger Universität auf dem Weg in das "Dritte Reich". Arnold Paul Ruge, Philipp Lenard – Emil Julius Gumbel

    “Fellow students – the wind of pestilence that is the Jewish Rule is blowing against you!” – These words formed the headline of a leaflet published in 1920, penned by the Heidelberg lecturer Arnold Ruge. Using the example of the "cases" of Arnold Ruge, Philipp Lenard and Emil Gumbel, which caused a sensation far beyond Heidelberg, Klaus-Peter Schroeder exemplifies the path of Heidelberg's Ruperto Carola into the catastrophe of the Third Reich.

  • 09/08/2021

    Detlef Junker: Deutschland und die USA 1871–2021

    Detlef Junker's latest book is the first comprehensive look at 150 years of transatlantic relations between Germany and the USA. The founding director of the Heidelberg Center for American Studies (HCA) presents various of his own earlier publications and supplements them with a current essay that leads up to the immediate present and the end of Donald Trump's presidency.

  • 09/08/2021

    Dietrich Harth: José Rizals Kampf um Leben und Tod. Facetten einer kolonialismuskritischen Biografie

    The physician and author José Rizal (1861-1896) wrote against the colonialist despotism of the Spanish over his Philippine-Tagal homeland. Convicted and executed by a Spanish military court for inciting rebellion, Rizal is still revered as a national hero today. Dietrich Harth provides the first comprehensive presentation of Rizal's life and work in German, wich seeks to approach Rizal's way of thinking in a direct way, by translating it from Filipino Spanish.

  • 08/06/2021

    Sarah Jäger: Jenseits des Patriachats. Ansätze feministischer Theologie

    "If God is male, then the male is God" - this is how the American feminist theologian Mary Daly put it in 1973. Much has happened since then. Sarah Jäger presents the central course of development of feminist theologies from their beginnings to the present day. At the same time, she outlines an own approach that explores the chances of a contemporary queer gender-conscious theology.

  • 06/24/2021

    Sebastian Starystach and Kristina Höly (Eds.): The Silence of Organizations. How Organizations Cover up Wrongdoings

    Child abuse in the Catholic Church, manipulation of transplant lists or the current Dieselgate affair: Scandals repeatedly shake our trust in organizations. In this anthology, international researchers from various disciplines explain how and why rule-breakings and crimes are regularly swept under the organisational carpet.

  • 12/16/2020

    Christine Nawa, Christoph Meinel (Hrsg.): Von der Forschung gezeichnet

    The university drawing teacher Friedrich Veith drew them all - the instruments and apparatus of the great researchers at Heidelberg University in the 19th century. These include experimental setups by the chemist Robert Bunsen, the physicist Gustav Kirchhoff and the physiologist Hermann Helmholtz. Building on a portfolio of drawings comprising a good 50 sheets from the years 1856 to 1891 "Von der Forschung gezeichnet" provides insights into the experimental culture of the time.

  • 12/09/2020

    Ladislaus Ludescher: Vergessene Welten und blinde Flecken

    "How realistically do media portray the world?" is one of the crucial issues of media studies. In his long-term study "Vergessene Welten und blinde Flecken" (Forgotten Worlds and Blind Spots), Ladislaus Ludescher evaluated over 5,000 reports in the Tagesschau as well as selected leading media from Deutschlandfunk and the Washington Post to Le Monde and came to the conclusion that the countries of the Global South are massively neglected in reporting.

  • 11/27/2020

    Gernot Burkhardt: Minor Planet Names with Ties to Heidelberg

    Not all the planets in this excerpt from the Dictionary of Minor Planet Names database are as obviously related to Heidelberg as the Heidelberga discovered in 1892. Gernot Burkhardt explains for 169 minor planets what connects them with the city on the Neckar. He thus provides an update to the Heidelberg University Science Atlas, which was published on the occasion of the 625th anniversary of the university in 2011 and which already lists 97 names of minor planets.

  • 11/19/2020

    Ernst G. Jung: Haut. Kultur und Geschichte

    The skin is our largest organ and also an important part of our appearance. It should be healthy and beautiful. But what is healthy and what is beautiful? Ernst G. Jung takes the reader on a journey through the history of skin, its significance, care and design from early myths to the present day.

  • 09/25/2020

    Corona als Riss. Perspektiven für Kirche, Politik und Ökonomie

    The corona pandemic has changed our everyday life, politics and economy in a way that was previously unimaginable. What was previously taken for granted no longer applies – cracks have appeared in the continuity of our worldview and way of life. How can we react to the pandemic and the problems and dilemmas it causes? How can we embrace the emerging opportunities? The authors of „Corona als Riss“ develop perspectives for the time with and after Corona.

  • 08/27/2020

    „Rezessive“ Information in Sprache. Ein probabilistisches Informationsmodell als Grundlage informationslinguistischer und systemlinguistischer Ansätze

    Eike U. Decker embarks on a search for the recessive, the unnoticed, information in language. He presents a linguistic model based on information and system-theoretical analyses, on the basis of which language can be represented and new language technology developed.

  • 04/03/2020

    The "Kalendrier la Royne" by Wilhelm von Saint-Cloud

    A calendar structures time and makes it plannable. And it is a testimony to its time of origin. The Kalendrier la Royne by the Parisian astronomer William of Saint-Cloud from 1296 impressively illustrates both the state of knowledge of astronomy and computistics of its time and the shift of medieval science from a clerical culture to a lay culture.

  • 03/27/2020

    Data to Knowledge: The E-Science Days 2019

    In almost all sciences, research data is digitally archived with the help of modern information systems. The participants of the E-Science Days 2019 asked themselves how the enormous collective knowledge of our time must be documented and structured so that it can be put to good use.

  • 02/27/2020

    Now online: Opera - Southwest

    On the occasion of the 70th birthday of Silke Leopold, head of the research centre "History of Southwest German Court Music" at the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, the anniversary publication highlights selected aspects of court opera in the German southwest of the 18th and early 19th centuries.

  • 02/21/2020

    Dirty Skirts: Body Politics and Coming-of-Age in Feminist Fiction of the Caribbean Diaspora

    In her study Wiebke Beushausen examines coming of age novels by authors with Caribbean roots. Their works deal critically with the relationship between body, subject and society. This book shows how feminist, political writing gives visibility to marginalized bodies, identities and stories. The bodies described in the novels fulfil a social, cultural and historical function, thus imagining and documenting the political discourses of our time.

  • 02/20/2020

    Aegidus Romanus. About the lordship (ca. 1277-1279)

    The Fürstenspiegel De regimine principum by Aegidius Romanus was not only the most widely distributed work of its genre in the late Middle Ages, but also one of the most widely read secular writings of all. It was translated into almost all the vernacular languages of Western Christendom. Dr. Volker Hartmann is the first to publish it in a modern bilingual edition.

  • 09/27/2019

    Just come out: Book about Minorities and Work in the 19th and 20th Century

    There are few topics that divide opinions in social contexts so much as "minorities" and "work". The current interdisciplinary anthology focuses on this complex history of relationships and explores processes of minority inclusion and exclusion in the history of work throughout the 19th and 20th century.

  • 09/27/2019

    New on heiBOOKS: La grand et la parfit overaigne de geomancie

    The Flemish clergyman Wilhelm von Moerbeke is one of the most important authors of medieval geomancy. "La grand et la parfit overaigne de geomancie", the 14th century translation of his Latin geomantic treatise, probably written in 1269, is the subject of this critical text edition and lexical analysis by Theresa Ruperti Repilado.

     
  • 05/28/2019

    Now online: Castrum Virtuale, the catalogue of the exhibition in the Museum of the University

    In memory of the outstanding ancient historian and epigraphist Geza Alföldy, an exhibition entitled "Castrum Virtuale" will take place at the Heidelberg University Museum from 26 April to 30 June 2019. It shows the reconstruction of a late antique site in Keszthely-Fenékpuszta on Lake Balaton. The exhibition catalogue, edited by Orsolya Heinrich-Tamáska and Roland Prien, is freely accessible online on heiBOOKS.

     

  • 03/15/2019

    Exhibition catalogue about Marie Luise Gothein: Now online on heiBOOKS

    Marie Luise Gotheins not only composed the standard work on the history of garden and landscape art ("Geschichte der Gartenkunst", 1914), the female scholar also became known through her English and cultural-historical studies. Among other things, the catalog "Es ist schon eine wunderbare Zeit, die ich jetzt lebe" includes letters and texts by Max and Marianne Weber and Edgar Salin and presents Gothein's life, work and travels in an overall view.

  • 12/06/2018

    New publication: Sigrid Böge, Orthogonale Gruppen und der Satz von Minkowski-Siegel

    Orthogonale Gruppen und der Satz von Minkowski-Siegel arose from a course Sigrid Böge gave during the winter term 2016/17 at the University of Heidelberg. In Orthogonale Gruppen Böge accomplishes to show that the formula of Minkowski-Siegel in Siegel‘s paper from 1935 is equivalent to the statement that the Tamagawa number of the orthogonal group 2, which is proven here in detail for the first time.

  • 11/22/2018

    New on heiBOOKS: Die Zukunft im Blick. 150 Jahre Universitäts-Augenklinik Heidelberg

    Die Zukunft im Blick. 150 Jahre Universitäts-Augenklinik Heidelberg by Gerd Uwe Auffarth (ed.) and Frank Krogmann illuminates the eventful history of Universitäts-Augenklinik Heidelberg, where countless students, doctoral candidates, teaching assistants and professors have been learning as well as teaching ophthalmology from its inauguration in 1868 to the present day.

  • 10/22/2018

    Open Access Week @UniHeidelberg: 22.10.18-26.10.18

    If you are interested in publishing open access come visit us at the International Open Access Week from October 22nd - October 26th in the "Handschriftenlesesaal" of the University Library Heidelberg (starting at 1 pm)!

  • 10/05/2018

    New on heiBooks: Sara Springfeld, Modi di cantar sonetti

    In the volume Modi di cantar sonetti the musicologist Sara Springfeld concentrates on Italian sonnets from Francesco Petrarca to Giambattista Marino, which became popular text sources for the Frottola, the Madrigal and accompanied solo song in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

  • 07/12/2018

    New: Heidelberger Physiker berichten, vol. 4 and 5

    Volumes 4  and 5 are the last volumes of the series “Heidelberger Physiker berichten”.  While the focus of the fourth volume lies on important applications that have been derived from Physics, the  fifth volume is a detailed documentation of the entire spectrum of its practice in Heidelberg. The documentation ranges from the largest dimensions of our cosmos to its fundamental elementary particles. From the greatest energies of powerful accelerators to the smallest energies of ultracold neutrons. And lastly, from the seemingly simple systems of the nucleon to the most complex systems of our environment and the human brain.

  • 04/26/2018

    New book out: „Russischsprachige Bevölkerung in Osteuropa – von der Titularnation zur Minderheit“

    The democratic transformation in the successor states of the Soviet Union had a deep impact on the social position of the Russian-speakers living there. Despite forming a big group and neither having a strong homogeneity nor acting as a political or social cohort, they are often perceived as a minority, hence partly placed in disadvantage both juridically and socioeconomically. The aim of this study by Anne Jürgens is to address this problem by comparison of the development in the Baltic States, specifically in Estonia, and in Ukraine.

  • 02/27/2018

    Exhibition catalogue "Christians and Muslims along the Nile" is online

    Using Greek, Coptic and Arabic papyrus and archaeological objects, the exhibition catalogue illustrates the changes and continuities within Egypt's Early Arabic period after the Arabic request.