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Women’s Equality Day

Women’s Equality Day is celebrated each year on August 26th to commemorate the 19th Amendment to the Constitution, granting women the right to vote. Today the observance of Women’s Equality Day has grown to mean much more than just sharing the right to the vote, but also calls attention to women’s continuing efforts toward full equality. Numerous […]

Author Article: Servants of Culture: Paternalism, Policing, and Identity Politics in Vienna, 1700-1914

Ambika Natarajan discusses her new book, Servants of Culture: Paternalism, Policing, and Identity Politics in Vienna, 1700-1914, which provides an account of Habsburg servant law since the eighteenth century and uncovers the paternalistic and maternalistic assumptions and anxieties which turned the interest of socio-political players in improving poor living and working conditions into practices that […]

¶ Posted 26 June 2023 † Berghahn Journals § Blog ‡ Comments Off ° Also tagged: austria, austrian and habsburg studies, gender history, gender studies, Gender studies and Sexuality, Habsburg Empire, hungary, Refugee & Migration Studies, refugee studies, surveillance, women's studies

Celebrating Pride

Pride Month celebrates the LGBTQ community internationally in June, in honor of the Stonewall Riots in 1969.

¶ Posted 01 June 2023 † Berghahn Journals § Blog ‡ Comments Off ° Also tagged: anthropology, binary, film and media studies, gender identity, gender studies, lgbtq, Pride, Pride Month, queer, queer studies, transgender

Berghahn Books and the German Historical Institute Washington Announce New Open Access Agreement

April 26, 2023, Brooklyn, New York, and Washington, D.C.—The German Historical Institute Washington (GHI) and Berghahn Books are pleased to announce that we have reached an agreement to transition the Studies in German History series to Open Access.

¶ Posted 25 April 2023 † Berghahn Journals § Blog ‡ Comments Off ° Also tagged: 20th Century History, German Historical Institute, german history, Germany, modern history, Open Access, social history

Celebrating the Life and Career of Reinhart Koselleck

Reinhart Koselleck (23 April 1923 – 3 February 2006), a German historian widely considered one of the most influential European theorists of history and historiography in the twentieth century. Constantly probing and transgressing the boundaries of mainstream historical writing, he created numerous innovative approaches and exposed himself to a large range of impulses from other […]

¶ Posted 20 April 2023 † Berghahn Journals § Blog ‡ Comments Off ° Also tagged: 20th Century History, European history, European intellectual historian, German historian, german history, Historiography, intellectual historians, Intellectual history, Reinhart Koselleck, theorist of history

Celebrating International Day for Monuments & Sites, also known as World Heritage Day!

Celebrated yearly on April 18th, the International Day for Monuments and Sites, also known as World Heritage Day, encourages local communities and individuals throughout the world to consider the importance of cultural heritage to their lives and to promote awareness of its diversity and vulnerability and the efforts required to protect and conserve it. For […]

¶ Posted 17 April 2023 † Berghahn Journals § Blog ‡ Comments Off ° Also tagged: anthropology, archaeology, Berghahn Open Anthro, cultural heritage, cultural studies, heritage studies, international day for monuments and sites, lgbtq, Memory studies, monuments and sites, Open Access, religion, world heritage day

AUTHOR INTERVIEW(part 1): Anna Odland Portisch on A MAGPIE’S TALE

ANNA ODLAND PORTISCH has taught at the School of Oriental and African Studies and Brunel University. In her new book A Magpie’s Tale: Ethnographic and Historical Perspectives on the Kazakh of Western Mongolia she recounts her time living with a Kazakh family in a small village. It’s fascinating (“Can you imagine a stranger showing up on […]

¶ Posted 31 January 2023 † Berghahn Journals § Blog ‡ Comments Off ° Also tagged: anthropology, asia, author interview, crisis, ethnography, family, kazakh, migration studies, mongolia, new book releases, sociology

International Translation Day

According to the United Nations, International Translation Day is “an opportunity to pay tribute to the work of language professionals, which plays an important role in bringing nations together, facilitating dialogue, understanding and cooperation.”

¶ Posted 30 September 2022 † Berghahn Books § Blog § Events ‡ Comments Off ° Also tagged: anthropology, film and media studies, German translation, sociology, translation

What the Berghahn team recommends

We share what the Berghahn staff is currently reading and a scholarly reading from Berghahn Books we recommend.

¶ Posted 06 September 2022 † Berghahn Journals § Blog ‡ Comments Off ° Also tagged: anthropology, archaeology, Berghahn Open Anthro, books, currently reading, fiction, film and media studies, heritage studies, live arts, museum studies, national read a book day, non-fiction, Open Access, Shakespeare, sociology, women's history, women's studies

Excerpt: The German Marshall Fund of the United States

This year the German Marshall Fund marks its 50th anniversary and the 75th anniversary of the Marshall Plan. On June 5, 1972 former German Chancellor Willy Brandt announced the founding of the German Marshall Fund of the United States at Harvard University. Founded by Guido Goldman through a gift from Germany as a tribute to […]

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