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Urban Eyes
No full textExile through the camera's eye in New York When the National Socialists came to power, New York became a major city of arrival and a new base for German-speaking photographers. At this time, photography was undergoing a radical transformation as it sought to establish itself as an art form. The migrants, in turn, brought with them a broad spectrum of professional training and photographic skills. The camera served as a medium for engaging with the metropolis, reflecting on the experience of migration, building networks and simply surviving economically. In order to comprehensively analyse the complex relationships between photography and exile in the context of the metropolis of New York, Helene Roth takes a closer look at the creative achievements and heterogeneous perspectives, but also the setbacks of migrated photographers. From a transnational perspective, she engages with the socio-cultural, political and artistic developments of the 1930s and 1940s. The German edition of 'Urban Eyes' (Wallstein Verlag, 2025) was awarded the Gold Medal in the category 'Photography Theory Textbook' by the jury of the German Photo Book Award 2025/2026. The dissertation on which this monograph is based received the Claus-Dieter Krohn Prize (2024)
Digital Education: Shaping Sustainable Lifelong Learning for All in the Era of AI
No full textThis open access book constitutes the proceedings of the 9th European MOOCs Stakeholders Summit, EMOOCs 2025, which took place in Paris, France, during June 30-July 2, 2025. The 20 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 79 submissions. They deal with the ongoing transformation and critical challenges in online education — particularly in the context of artificial intelligence (AI) and sustainable lifelong learning
Praziquantel
No full textThis open-access book provides a comprehensive reference on the discovery and development of praziquantel. It presents the full research and development (R&D) journey of this essential anthelmintic drug, combining foundational science with practical insights. The book covers a wide range of topics, including a brief history of pharmaceutical industry, unmet medical needs, parasitic flatworm biology, and strategies for schistosomiasis control and elimination. Both human and animal health applications are addressed. Additional chapters explore chemical and manufacturing aspects, drug targets, biomarkers, toxicology, clinical efficacy, regulatory pathways, and Intellectual Property considerations. Rich illustrations, expert commentary, and clear summaries enhance the educational value of the text. Designed for students, academics, and industry professionals alike, this volume serves as a valuable addition to any scientific library. It also supports the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 3 (Good Health and Well-being) by contributing to the global fight against schistosomiasis and other Neglected Tropical Diseases
Low Fertilities in the Past and Present
No full textSustained population studies of fertility over the last two centuries have come to question the extent to which trends in low fertility may be understood as universal. Improved knowledge of variations within countries and between communities has revealed heterogeneity in reproductive behaviours at sub-national levels – whether before, during, or after the so-called ‘fertility transition’. Population studies have also come to give more attention to the role of structural inequalities, including around family, class, gender, and health, and of people’s diverse and changing reproductive strategies that underpin varying low fertilities at sub-national levels. This collection develops compositional demography approaches to address the advancements in sub-national variations. It brings together studies in anthropology, demography, history, and sociology, that have together developed an analytical lens for examining the low fertility phenomenon not as a mere average but as a composite of different reproductive behaviours and regimes. The volume is among the first to collect historical patterns of low fertilities and their underlying structural conditions in a long-term comparative perspective. It is also the first to detail comprehensively the compositional demography approach, which can be also applied to the study of various demographic phenomena around fertility, mortality, ageing, migration, and other population issues
Nait Soez’n
No full textDe Groninger Studentenbond (GSb) werd opgericht in 1971. Dat kwam niet uit de lucht vallen. Belangenbehartiging en maatschappelijke betrokkenheid waren al veel langer de kurken waarop de studentenbeweging dreef. Vooral vanaf de jaren zestig toen nieuwe groepen studenten de universiteiten gingen bevolken en een nieuwe jongerencultuur gestalte kreeg. Dit boek beschrijft die ontstaansgeschiedenis en laat zien welk (actie)gewicht de GSb in de jaren zeventig in de schaal wist te leggen. Het laat ook zien hoe tenslotte (eind jaren zeventig) twijfels ontstonden en neergang werd ingezet en het concept van de ‘politieke vakbond’ aan de kant werd gezet. Het is een inspirerend verhaal over organisatiekracht en vastberadenheid. Ook voor iedereen die zich nu inzet voor een betere positie van studenten, tegen klimaatverandering en voor internationale solidariteit. Redactie en bijdragen Henk van der Velde en Rob de Kof
Understanding displacement aesthetics
No full textWith the rise of humanitarianism and the international refugee regime in the twentieth century, visual representations of refugees and their forced displacement permeated the cultural sphere. Understanding displacement aesthetics offers a groundbreaking analysis of the role of visual culture, art, and art museums in shaping ideas about people forced to flee. The book identifies the refugee as a cultural figure, analysing the history of visual tropes across multiple visual arenas and their endurance in the present day. Addressing contemporary contexts, the book investigates how displaced artists face distinct barriers that manifest aesthetic outcomes. Language, identity, and labour also appear as critical factors informing how art is made, curated, collected, and publicly understood. Advancing the new concept of ‘displacement aesthetics’ – a negotiation between representation, lived experience, and institutions – this book offers a major interdisciplinary analysis that intervenes in cultural history, art history, and museum studies. Combining archival research, analysis of art, and collaborative co-curation with artists and museums, the book presents new insights into the role of art and culture in mediating this pressing social and political issue in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries
Rome's Visceral Reactions
No full textIn ancient Rome, the Latin word viscera denoted the inner parts of the body, where physical sensations related to fear and anger could be felt and whose injury meant certain death. Viscera were also entangled with religious, political, and reproductive imagery: the word could refer to cuts of sacrificial meat, the inner workings of a governing body, a mother’s fertile womb, and the offspring she has carried. It appears in scientific descriptions of human anatomy, in elaborations of violent deaths, accusations of political conspiracy, and the laments of parents who must watch their children die. The sudden expansions of viscera into vivid metaphors for the body politic, the violated womb, and the desecrated sacrifice materialized in parallel with watershed moments in Roman history, reflecting urgent contemporary anxieties about politics, reproduction, and succession. Rome’s Visceral Reactions traces and interprets the semantic history of viscera, whose progressive acquisition of new meanings offers a compelling case for the dynamic interaction between body metaphor, semantic change, and political crisis at Rome. Caitlin Hines follows the history of viscera from its earliest attestations through the end of the Julio-Claudian period and considers the works of Lucretius, Cicero, Vergil, Livy, Ovid, Seneca, and Lucan. Applying theories of embodied cognition and semantic change, Hines demonstrates how Roman authors influenced the development of their language through the invention, reception, and affirmation of innovative meanings and how pressing political and cultural crises could shape, and be shaped in return, by the sophisticated linguistic games of the Roman literary elite