Review of: Lustig, Jason: A Time to Gather. Archives and the Control of Jewish Culture. Oxford 2022

in H-Soz-Kult (2023)

Abstractions and Embodiments: New Histories of Computing and Society ed. by Janet Abbate and Stephanie Dick (review)

in Technology and Culture (2023), 64(2), 611-613

Book review of bstractions and Embodiments: New Histories of Computing and Society ed. by Janet Abbate and Stephanie Dick

Sustainable Futures—An Agenda for Action By Raphael Kaplinsky Cambridge: Polity Press, 2021

in Economic Geography (2023)

Rez.: Verschwörungstheorien früher und heute

in Hemecht: Zeitschrift für Luxemburger Geschichte (2023), 75(2), 248-251

Compte-rendu de l'ouvrage de Philippe Stachowski/Jean-Jacques Sitek/Jean-Marie Blaising, Luxembourg-Lorraine au Moyen Âge, Luxembourg/Thionville : Gérard Klopp, 2021 ; 269 p.; ISBN : 978-99959-38-04-8 ; 59 Euros

in Hemecht: Zeitschrift für Luxemburger Geschichte (2023), 3(Jg. 75), 348-351

Rezension von Heinz-Dieter Heimann: Schinkels Brunnen und das Königsgrab an der Saar. Eine Gedächtnisgeschichte und politische Affäre Preußens (= Quellen und Forschungen zur Brandenburgischen und Preußischen Geschichte 56), Duncker& Humblot, Berlin 2022, in: Buchrezensionen zur Geschichte der Saargegend 2023

in Buchrezensionen zur Geschichte der Saargegend (2022)

Rezension zu Jonas Springer, Die Bundeswehr und die Belgischen Streikräfte in Deutschland

in Wissenschaftlicher Literaturanzeiger (2022), 61(2),

Making Sense of AI: Our Algorithmic World, by Anthony Elliott (2022) Polity Press.

in International Journal of Technoethics (2022), 13(1),

How can we understand consequences and make sense of an event when we are in its epicentre? Would it be possible to gain a deep understanding of the situation without putting it into a certain perspective ... [more ▼]

How can we understand consequences and make sense of an event when we are in its epicentre? Would it be possible to gain a deep understanding of the situation without putting it into a certain perspective or broader context? The book Making sense of AI invites us to resist a natural inclination to make fast inferences based on the proximity and salient experiences and instead, engage in slow thinking and pondering on the evolution of human technology. An effortful exercise, as this reading may turn out to be, is worth, nevertheless, undertaking for 21st century students interested in recognizing future opportunities, coping with challenges, and understanding complex phenomena such as AI. [less ▲]

Review Fighters Across Frontiers - Transnational Resistance in Europe, 1936-48

in Francia-Recensio (2022), 2022(2),

Christine Roilo und Pepi Fauster, i.A. Südtiroler Landesarchiv, Verband Südtiroler Musikkapellen (Hrsg.), In Treue fest durch die Systeme. Geschichte der Südtiroler Blasmusik 1918-1948 (= Veröffentlichungen des Südtiroler Landesarchivs, Sonderband 6), Innsbruck: Universitätsverlag Wagner 2021

in The Wind Music Research Quarterly. Mitteilungsblatt der IGEB (2022), 2022(2), 51-53

The Soviet Myth of World War II: Patriotic Memory and the Russian Question in the USSR, by Jonathan Brunstedt,

in Journal of Military History (2022), 68(2), 488-489

Review - Dimensionen der Mittäterschaft. Die europäische Kollaboration mit dem Dritten Reich.

in Hemecht: Zeitschrift für Luxemburger Geschichte (2022), 74(2), 321-374

Bibliographie : Andrew Dickinson and Edwin Peel (dir.), A Conflict of Laws Companion – Essays in Honour of Adrian Briggs, OUP, 2021, 448 p.

in Revue Critique de Droit International Privé (2022)

Rezensionen der Monographie von Kay-Peter Jankrift: Im Angesicht der „Pestilenz“. Seuchen in westfälischen und rheinischen Städten (1349–1600)

in Vierteljahrschrift für Sozial Und Wirtschaftsgeschichte VSWG (2022), 109(1), 116-117

Rez.: Rolf G. Renner, "Peter Handke. Erzählwelten – Bilderordnungen"

in Zeitschrift für Germanistik (2022), 32(1), 239-241

Compte rendu de Dirk Rochtus, Naar de hel met Hitler

in Contemporanea (2021), (4),

Review of Adam Crymble: Technology and the Historian. Transformations in the Digital Age

in H-Soz-Kult: Kommunikation und Fachinformation für die Geschichtswissenschaften (2021)

European port cities in transition

in Journal of Transport Geography (2021), 96

The Handbook of Diverse Economies

in Economic Geography (2021)

Globale Warenketten und ungleiche Entwicklung

in Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftsgeographie (2021)

The Museum of American War Letters

in HSOZKULT - Kommunikation und Fachinformation für die Geschichtswissenschaften (2021)

Prison in Iran, a known unknown, By Nahid Rahimipour Anaraki

in Crime, Law and Social Change (2021), 76(2), 215-218

The Second World War in the Twenty-first Century Museum: From Narrative, Memory, and Experience to Experientiality

in The Military History Journal (2021), 85(1), 293-94

Review of: Tommaso Milani, 'Hendrik de Man and social democracy: The idea of planning in Western Europe, 1914-1940'

in Journal of Belgian History (2021), (1-2), 183-185

Jérôme Denis, Le Travail invisible des données. Éléments pour une sociologie des infrastructures scripturales Paris, Presses des Mines, 2018, 206 pages

in Questions de Communication (2021), 38

Recension de Jérôme Denis, Le Travail invisible des données. Éléments pour une sociologie des infrastructures scripturales, Paris, Presses des Mines, 2018, 206 pages

Marcel Smets. Fundamenten van het stadsontwerp

in De Witte Raaf (2021), 35(210), 41

Compte-rendu de: Faire société au Moyen Âge. Histoire urbaine des anciens Pays-Bas (1100-1600), sous la direction de Claire Billen, Bruno Blondé, Marc Boone et Anne-Laure Van Bruaene (Bibliothèque d’histoire médiévale, 25), Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2021

in Hemecht: Zeitschrift für Luxemburger Geschichte (2021), 73(4), 474-476

Living Wage: Regulatory Solutions to Informal and Precarious Work in Global Supply Chains

in Australian Journal of Labour Law (2021), (3), 235-241

Book review: Die Handschriften der Hofschule Kaiser Karls des Grossen: Individuelle Gestalt und europäisches Kulturerbe

in Hemecht: Zeitschrift für Luxemburger Geschichte (2021), 73(1),

Book review: Saintetés politiques du IXe au XVIIIe siècle: Autour de la Lotharingie-Dorsale catholique

in Moyen Age: Revue d'Histoire et de Philologie (2021), 127(1),

Review of: Romain Hilgert (ed.): Michel Rodange, Renert: De Fuuss am Frack an a Maansgréisst. Komplett Editioun mat historeschen a politeschen Explicatioune, Lëtzebuerg: Éditions Guy Binsfeld, 2020

in Hemecht: Zeitschrift für Luxemburger Geschichte (2021), 73(3), 377-378

Compte rendu de Sébastien Pierre et Ricahrd Jusseret (accord.), Du Piconrue à la Grande Ardenne. Hommage à André Neuberg

in Hemecht: Zeitschrift für Luxemburger Geschichte (2021)

This is a review of a collection of essayas gathered in hommage to André Neuberg,founder of the "Musée en Piconrue" in Bastogne in the early 1980s. Numerous exhibitions have been organised dealing with ... [more ▼]

This is a review of a collection of essayas gathered in hommage to André Neuberg,founder of the "Musée en Piconrue" in Bastogne in the early 1980s. Numerous exhibitions have been organised dealing with aspects of religious history and patrimony in the Ardennes and the Province of Luxembourg. [less ▲]

Rezension zu Winfried Weber, Die Ausgrabungen in der Kurie von der Leyen und der Liebfrauenstraße (Südwest-Bereich). Die Trierer Domgrabung Bd. 2,2 Die Befunde (Kataloge und Schriften des Bischöflichen Dom- und Diözesanmuseums Band 7), Trier 2017

in Hemecht: Zeitschrift für Luxemburger Geschichte (2021), 73(4), 470-471

review of: Jeffrey F. Hamburger / Eva Schlotheuber (Eds.), The Liber ordinarius of Nivelles (Houghton Library, MS Lat 422). Liturgy as Interdisciplinary Intersection. (Spätmittelalter, Humanismus, Reformation, Bd. 111.) Tübingen, Mohr Siebeck 2020

in Historische Zeitschrift (2021), 312(1), 200-201

Review - The Lost Soldier: The Ordeal of a World War II GI from the Home Front to the Hürtgen Forest

in Michigan War Studies Review (2021)

Oumar Ba, States of Justice: The Politics of the International Criminal Court (Cambridge University Press, 2020) 190 pp. ISBN 978 110848 877 8 (Hardback)

in Cross-cultural Human Rights Review (2020), 2(2-3), 97-101

Review of Péter Berta, Materializing Difference, Consumer Culture, Politics and Ethnicity among Romanian Roma, University of Toronto Press, 2019

in Luxury: History, Culture, Consumption (2020), 7(1), 69-71

Book Review: Investigating Cybercrime and A Comparative Study of Cybercrime in Criminal Law: China, US, England, Singapore and the Council of Europe

in SCRIPTed: A Journal of Law, Technology and Society (2020), 17(2), 431-440

Review of: Julia Mandry, Armenfürsorge, Hospitäler und Bettel in Thüringen in Spätmittelalter und Reformation (1300–1600)

in Speculum (2020), 95(3), 864-866

Compte rendu de Henrich-Franke, Christian; Hiepel, Claudia; Thiemeyer, Guido; Türk, Henning, Grenzüberschreitende institutionalisierte Zusammenarbeit von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart

in H-Soz-Kult: Kommunikation und Fachinformation für die Geschichtswissenschaften (2020)

Rezension – Julia Reuter, Markus Gamper, Christina Möller, & Frerk Blome (Hrsg)

in Diskurs Kindheits- und Jugendforschung (2020), 15(3), 343-344

Review of : Benjamin KAPLAN, Reformation and the Practice of Toleration. Dutch Religious History in the Early Modern Era, Brill, Leiden, 2019

in Revue d'Histoire Ecclésiastique (2020)

Andreas Rutz, Die Beschreibung des Raums. Territoriale Grenzziehungen im Heiligen Römischen Reich

in Hemecht: Zeitschrift für Luxemburger Geschichte (2020), 72(3), 378-380

Review of Elizabeth Guffey (2018): Designing Disability: Symbols, Space and Society. London: Bloomsbury.

in Design Issues (2020), 36(1), 100-101

In her pathbreaking book Designing Disability: Symbols, Space and Society, Elizabeth Guffey provides vital insights into decades of social and design processes that ultimately produced the most ubiquitous ... [more ▼]

In her pathbreaking book Designing Disability: Symbols, Space and Society, Elizabeth Guffey provides vital insights into decades of social and design processes that ultimately produced the most ubiquitous symbol of disability—and accessibility—worldwide: The International Symbol of Access (ISA). Building on existing scholarship from a range of disciplines coupled with original historical research, this book uncovers the origins and evolving (largely transatlantic) architectural and design discourse, and several moments of serendipity, that led to its creation. The ISA has since diffused to become part of the built environment in all corners of the world. Richly illustrated and charting at times vitriolic debates, protest activities, and artistic interventions up to the contemporary era, Guffey weaves together activist and aesthetic perspectives into a tapestry of social and design history relating to disability and accessibility. Structured in historical phases, the book’s chapters progress across larger and shorter stretches over more than a century of wheelchair design, social and welfare policies and programs (mostly in the US, UK, and Scandinavia), architectural standards, and symbols relating to barriers and accessibility measures. Guffey engages the reader in what is necessarily a multidisciplinary, multilevel investigation, with unexpected twists and turns. On one level, the book focuses on the politics of highest office, with US Presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt and Dwight D. Eisenhower (who permanently or temporarily used wheelchairs) sketched against the backdrop of the lack of accessible government buildings in Washington, DC, and the social consensus then to hide impairment for fear of stigmatization (shifted marginally by disabled Veterans). On another level, welfare state provisions in the US, UK, and Scandinavia are discussed in light of progressive legislation and the persistent challenges of implementation. Finally, at ground level, the utmost significance of individuals devoted to universal design writ large becomes manifestly evident. Guffey recounts how, in US universities, inspirational figures such as Timothy Nugent (at Illinois), Ron Mace (at North Carolina State), and Viktor Papanek (at Purdue, CalArts, Kansas, etc.), campus planners, and students designed and constructed new worlds on the drawing board and poured in concrete. We follow design professionals, such as architect Selwyn Goldsmith in the UK, who was a strident arbiter of accessibility. Academic initiatives went hand-in-fist with advocacy activities in organizations and protest and artistic actions in the streets. Indeed, to raise general awareness of the ever-present attitudinal and structural barriers—institutionalized discrimination—that disabled people face daily and to secure disability rights, disability protests and cross-national organizing have repeatedly been necessary. The long and bumpy road to universal design extends into the future. Integral to this history of design development, revision, and critiques of various symbols of disability have been international events (world expositions, Olympics & Paralympics) and organizations (Rehabilitation International), artistic inspiration, design competitions, and guerilla art interventions. Tracing the convoluted process of designing what would become the ISA—fifty years ago now—leads to Susanne Koefoed, a Danish design student, and Karl Montan, leader of the Swedish Institute for the Handicapped, but also to international negotiations and chance. The on-going questioning of the official ISA, especially, its “misfit” nature as an amalgam of technical aid and person, emphasizes the shift from invisibility to ubiquity of disability via social change and political activism as well as cultural representations and the need for signs of identity. In the new century, newer initiatives in the US, such as Brendan Murphy’s and the Accessible Icon Project (developed by Sara Hendren and Brian Glenney), have challenged the official ISA, revealing both persistence and change in understandings of disability and accessibility. When integrated into signage, the ISA designates accessible spaces and facilities. If the ISA has become present in public buildings and spaces everywhere, cultural notions of disability and access remain understudied across the social sciences, with especially the Global South remaining a blank page. Research is needed to chart the diverse local interpretations that mirror shifts from exclusion to inclusion of disabled people as the human rights revolution witnessed since the end of WWII continues, but also suffers backlash, even in the Global North. Paradoxically, this global icon refers simultaneously to disability, and its ameliorating factor, accessibility. Yet, the ambivalence and debate surrounding the ISA persist, as Guffey emphasizes especially in the later chapters, focusing on proposed alternatives to the existing ISA, codified as it is in law and conforming to the guidelines of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). Until universal design (and the universalizing social policies likely needed to support it) succeeds in reducing the barriers in environments and in attitudes and in maximizing the usefulness of products and services during the design stage, identity formation processes are among the most positive aspects of the ISA. The icon’s influence and implementation extend far beyond marking modifications to the built environment. Whether taken-for-granted, modified or critiqued, the current ISA has spread globally. It can now be found wherever people move in physical space, finding their way. The symbol testifies to the on-going shift from exclusion, along a slow and winding road, to social inclusion and full participation of disabled people. In sum, Guffey brings scholarship on the ISA to the next stage. It complements studies that chart the influence of disabled peoples’ organizations and of international organizations as they facilitated remarkable shifts in disability paradigms. Yet institutionalized discrimination abounds, with the ISA marking that accessibility and universal design are far from achieved. If a few imprecisions tarnish the literature list, this historical work reconstructing a largely Western process cannot be faulted for not providing a complete global analysis of ISA implementation and adjustment. In that vein, with contributions from Guffey herself, the current exhibition “Viktor Papanek: The Politics of Design” (Kries, Klein & Clarke, 2018) indeed extends the discussion to the Global South and across further disciplines, rightfully embedding the dialogue about symbols of disability and enhancing access within broader contexts. Footnote: Kries, Matteo, Amelie Klein & Alison J. Clarke (eds.) (2018). Viktor Papanek: The Politics of Design. Weil am Rhein, Germany: Vitra Design Museum. ISBN: 978-3-945852-26-2. The exhibition is currently on view at Germany’s Vitra Design Museum (20 September 2018–10 March 2019), then at Barcelona Design Museum (20 October 2019–2 February 2020). [less ▲]

Review of: Rezension von: Tobias Held (2020). Face-to-Interface: Eine Kultur- und Technikgeschichte der Videotelefonie. Marburg: Büchner-Verlag

in H-Soz-Kult: Kommunikation und Fachinformation für die Geschichtswissenschaften (2020)

Compte rendu de Thierry Grosbois (éd.), Les enrôlés de force en Union Soviétique (1941–1955). Actes du colloque du 7 mai 2015

in Hemecht: Zeitschrift für Luxemburger Geschichte (2020), (4), 500-502

compte rendu de l'ouvrage d'Anna Ledwina : Du duo vers le trio amoureux : figures beauvoiriennes de l’altérité. Opole (Pologne) : Uniwersytet Opolski Studia I Monografie, n° 578, 2019, 282 p.

in Literaport (2020), 7

Book review: The Future of EU Criminal Justice Policy and Practice: Legal and Criminological Perspectives, edited by Jannemieke Ouwerkerk, Judit Altena, Jacob Öberg and Samuli Miettinen. (Boston/Leiden: Brill/Nijhoff, 2019.)

in Common Market Law Review (2020), 57(4), 1313-1315

Compte rendu de Lutz Raphael, Jenseits von Kohle und Stahl

in Hemecht: Zeitschrift für Luxemburger Geschichte (2020), (2), 248-251

Book review of : P. Walter, W. Weiss & M. Wriedt (eds.), Ideal und Praxis. Bischöfe und Bischofsamt im Heiligen Römischen Reich 1570-1620, Aschendorff, 2020.

in Francia-Recensio (2020)