New Books in German Studies
Interviews with Scholars of Germany about their New Books
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- Interviews with Scholars of Germany about their New Books
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Episodes
| Date | Title & Description | Contributors |
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| 2024-11-23 |
Luisa Weiss, "Classic German Cooking" (Ten Speed Press, 2024) To many, German food is humble comfort food, the kind of food that may not win a beauty award, but more than makes up for it with its power to soothe, nourish and cheer. In Classic German Cooking (Ten Speed Press, 2024), Luisa Weiss—who was born in Ber... |
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| 2024-11-20 |
Owen Ware, "Indian Philosophy and Yoga in Germany" (Routledge, 2023) Indian Philosophy and Yoga in Germany by Owen Ware (Routledge, 2024) takes the reader on a tour through the reception of Yoga philosophies in nineteenth-century German and the early twentieth century. European luminaries like Schlegel, Hegel, von Günde... |
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| 2024-11-16 | Historical Turns: Weimar Cinema and the Crisis of Historicism (University of California Press, 2024) by Dr. Nicholas Baer reassesses Weimar cinema in light of the "crisis of historicism" widely diagnosed by German philosophers in the early twentieth ce... |
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| 2024-11-15 | How do street-level bureaucrats in Austria’s public service deal with linguistic diversity? In this episode of the Language on the Move podcast, Ingrid Piller speaks with Dr Clara Holzinger (University of Vienna) about her PhD research investigating ho... |
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| 2024-11-13 | When we think of Nazi camps, names such as Auschwitz, Bergen-Belsen, and Dachau come instantly to mind. Yet the history of the Holocaust extends beyond those notorious sites. In the former territory of Transnistria, located in occupied Soviet Ukraine a... |
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| 2024-11-11 |
Anne Berg, "Empire of Rags and Bones: Waste and War in Nazi Germany" (Oxford UP, 2024) Paper, bottles, metal scrap, kitchen garbage, rubber, hair, fat, rags, and bones--the Nazi empire demanded its population obsessively collect anything that could be reused or recycled. Entrepreneurs, policy makers, and ordinary citizens conjured up cou... |
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| 2024-11-09 | During World War I, thousands of young African men conscripted to fight for France and Britain were captured and held as prisoners of war in Germany, where their stories and songs were recorded and archived by German linguists. In Knowing by Ear: Liste... |
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| 2024-11-02 | What happens when the elitist space of 'Western' classical music seeks to diversify itself? And what are the social effects worked through diversity discourses in classical music institutions? The Sound of Difference: Race, Class and the Politics of 'D... |
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| 2024-10-30 |
Friederike Baer, "Hessians: German Soldiers in the American Revolutionary War" (Oxford UP, 2022) Between 1776 and 1783, Britain hired an estimated 30,000 German soldiers to fight in its war against the Americans. Collectively known as Hessians, they actually came from six German territories within the Holy Roman Empire. Over the course of the war,... |
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| 2024-10-22 | The Holocaust and New World Slavery: Volume 2Â (Cambridge UP, 2019)Â second volume of the first, in-depth comparison of the Holocaust and new world slavery. Providing a reliable view of the relevant issues, and based on a broad and comprehensive set of d... |
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