De Gruyter Brill Conversations

Gib Hedstrom speaks with Jennifer Mason (Chief Sustainability Officer and EVP EHS&S at J.M. Huber Corporation) about his new book "Navigating Sustainable Growth: A Roadmap for Boards and Corporate Leaders." Gib Hedstrom has 30 years’ experience advising boards of directors on sustainable growth at the intersection of environment, strategy, and governance.His book explores how companies can thrive in a future defined by decarbonization and dematerialization. Drawing on 300 examples from 180 global leaders, it offers strategies for investors, citizens, students, and educators, while guiding executives and boards to turn climate risks into opportunities.

In this Book Talk Dr. Tremblay tells us what personal situations during his early academic career made him consider writing about the Pink Triangle in the first place and how looking at the topic in global and transregional perspective helped shape his research and understanding of history. In the following discussion he and the series editors Dr. Sabrina Mittermeier and Dr. Bodie Ashton discuss looking at history through a “queer lens”, and how being mindful of language and heritage is a chance and problem for historical researchers on a global scale. The book "A Badge of Injury. The Pink Triangle as Global Symbol of Memory" analyses gay and lesbian transregional cultural communication networks from the 1970s to the 2000s, focusing on the importance of National Socialism, visual culture, and memory in the queer Atlantic. Provincializing Euro-American queer history, it illustrates how a history of concepts which encompasses the visual offers a greater depth of analysis of the transfer of ideas across regions than texts alone would offer. It also underlines how gay and lesbian history needs to be reframed under a queer lens and understood in a global perspective. A Badge of Injury pinpoints the roles of cultural memory and power in the creation of gay and lesbian transregional narrativ. ► Link to the book ► Contact us

Today, more than twenty oligarchs serve as heads of state or government in countries such as Russia, South Africa, Lebanon and El Salvador. Many have a net worth in excess of $1 billion, and they all – whether directly or indirectly – impact our daily lives. Who are the oligarchs and how have they come to dominate our world? What difference does gender make? Is there something “good” to be found in them, or are they just “bad”? And what is it like to interview an oligarch and glimpse their human side? In this book talk, the authors of The Oligarchs’ Grip: Fusing Wealth and Power talk to Stefan Giesen, Editorial Director Business & Economics at De Gruyter. Entrepreneurship expert David Lingelbach and oligarch researcher Valentina Rodríguez Guerra draw upon more than 25 years of research (including conversations with Vladimir Putin and other oligarchs), 16 case studies, and dozens of historical examples in The Oligarchs’ Grip. They develop the first-ever model that reveals the strategies employed by oligarchs to fuse wealth and power and transition between the two. David Lingelbach is Professor of Entrepreneurship at the Merrick School of Business, University of Baltimore. He was educated at MIT, London School of Economics and Political Science, and the University of Exeter, where he earned his Ph.D. Prior to becoming an academic, David served in senior roles in finance and international development, including as CEO of Bank of America’s businesses in the former Soviet Union. He was a Fulbright Scholar (Myanmar/Burma, 2018-19) and Fulbright Specialist (Colombia, 2021) and has been nominated twice for an Andrew Carnegie Fellowship. Valentina Rodríguez Guerra is an author, oligarch researcher, and graduate student in business administration, Facultad de Ciencias Económicas, Universidad Nacional de Colombia. She has received awards for her work from NASA and the Colombian Ministry of Education. Together, they are regular opinion contributors to The Hill on Vladimir Putin and other oligarchs. Link to the book ► https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783111028255/html Contact us ► https://www.degruyter.com/publishing/about-us/contact?lang=en FOLLOW US ► Website: https://www.degruyter.com/ ► Blog: https://blog.degruyter.com/ ► Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/degruyter.publishers ► LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/de-gruyter ► Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/degruyter_official ► Twitter: https://twitter.com/degruyter_pub ► YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/DegruyterPublishers ► SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/user-869529439 #DeGruyter #oligarch #oligarchy

Grün stimmt hoffnungsvoll, ein kühles Blau lässt uns frösteln. Farben beeinflussen unsere Stimmung, unser Verhalten und sogar körperliche Empfindungen. Die Welt durch unsere Augen ist bunt, doch welche Eindrücke entstehen im Sehapparat und welche im Gehirn? Sind Farben überhaupt „real“? Nicht immer können wir unseren Augen trauen, sagt der Chemiker und Autolackdesigner Werner Rudolf Cramer. In seinem neuen Buch „Lila macht kleine Füße“ beschreibt er moderne Erkenntnisse der Farbwahrnehmung und betrachtet sie sowohl aus physikalischer als auch aus physiologischer Sicht. In unserem aktuellen Book Talk hatte Ute Skambraks, Content Editor STEM bei De Gruyter, die Gelegenheit mit Werner Rudolf Cramer in die faszinierende Welt der Farben einzutauchen. Link zum Buch ► https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110793918/htmlContact us ► https://www.degruyter.com/publishing/about-us/contact?lang=enSubscribe ► https://www.youtube.com/c/DegruyterPublishers FOLLOW US► Website: https://www.degruyter.com/► Blog: https://blog.degruyter.com/► Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/degruyter.publishers► LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/de-gruyter► Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/degruyter_official► Twitter: https://twitter.com/degruyter_pub► SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/user-869529439 #DeGruyter #WernerRudolfCramer #Farben #Farbwahrnehmung #Autolackdesign

„Gesund beginnt im Mund“ besagt eine bekannte Volksweisheit, der wir in unserem neusten Book Talk mit Dr. Diana Kessler auf den Grund gehen wollten. Im Interview fühlten wir der Expertin auf den Zahn und sprachen mit ihr über die „Milliardenstadt“ in unserem Mund ­– das orale Mikrobiom – sowie über Zahnarztangst und vieles mehr. Dr. Kessler ist seit 1991 in Mannheim als Zahnärztin tätig und beschäftigt sich schon lange mit dem Zusammenhang zwischen Mund- und Allgemeingesundheit. Sie hält Vorträge zu dem Thema und ist seit 10 Jahren Teil des Teams der Diabetes-Tagesklinik des St. Josefskrankenhaus in Heidelberg. Seit 2016 organisiert sie außerdem regelmäßig die interdisziplinären Fortbildungen „Ärzte und Zahnärzte im Dialog“. In ihrem neuesten Buch „Von Mund zu Gesund. Wie ein gesunder Mund vor Krankheiten schützt“ nimmt sie uns mit auf die Reise durch die faszinierende Welt unserer Mundhöhle und führt uns auch in weiter entfernte Regionen unseres Körpers, die damit in Beziehung stehen. Ihr ist es wichtig den Menschen, auch über den Bereich der Zahnmedizin hinaus, als funktionierendes Ganzes zu begreifen. In Anlehnung an Paracelsus – „Der Arzt verbindet deine Wunden. Dein innerer Arzt aber wird dich gesunden.“ – erläutert sie darüber hinaus, wie wir unsere Mundhöhle gesund halten können. Kristin Berber-Nerlinger, Senior Acquisitions Editor bei De Gruyter, sprach mit Diana Kessler über ihr Buch. (Und es hat gar nicht weh getan!) Link to the book ► https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783111026299/html Contact us ► https://www.degruyter.com/publishing/about-us/contact?lang=en FOLLOW US ► Website: https://www.degruyter.com/ ► Blog: https://blog.degruyter.com/ ► Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/degruyter.publishers ► LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/de-gruyter ► Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/degruyter_official ► Twitter: https://twitter.com/degruyter_pub ► YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/DegruyterPublishers ► SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/user-869529439 #DeGruyter #DianaKessler #Zahngesundheit #Mundgesundheit

One of the first professional women authors of the Middle Ages, Italian-French writer, strategist and historian Christine de Pizan (1364–c.1429) possessed extensive knowledge of military tactics and advocated for women’s equality centuries before the feminist movement. Last year, De Gruyter published her highly influential military and warfare treatise, “Le livre de faiz d’armes et de chevallerie” (Book of Deeds of Arms and Chivalry, 1410) together with its contemporary German translation. On the occasion of Women’s History Month, we take a look back on the life and work of this extraordinary figure with Pizan experts Earl Jeffrey Richards and Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski. Prof. Dr. phil. (em.) Earl Jeffrey Richards is Professor of Romance Literatures at the Bergische Universität Wuppertal. In 1982, he translated The Book of the City of Ladies by Christine de Pizan and has been actively writing about her and her works ever since. Prof. Dr. phil. (em.) Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski is Distinguished Professor Emerita at the University of Pittsburgh and was President of the Medieval Academy of America in 2020/2021. Her research focuses on French medieval literature and culture, in particular Christine de Pizan. Alexandra Koronkai-Kiss is Editorial Communications Manager at De Gruyter. She holds degrees from the University of St Andrews and the University of Edinburgh and has worked in the art world across Europe, specializing in online communication and digital strategy. Link to the book ► https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110717105/html Contact us ► https://www.degruyter.com/publishing/about-us/contact?lang=en FOLLOW US ► Website: https://www.degruyter.com ► Blog: https://blog.degruyter.com/ ► Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/degruyter.publishers ► LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/de-gruyter ► Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/degruyter_official ► Twitter: https://twitter.com/degruyter_pub ► YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/DegruyterPublishers #DeGruyter #WomensHistoryMonth #DeGruyterWHM

Digital humanities are a hot topic nowadays, but what about digital linguistics? How can digital language data be used in other areas of research? To tackle these complex questions, we invited Prof. Andreas Witt and Dr. Darja Fišer to talk to us about De Gruyter’s new series “Digital Linguistics” and its first volume “CLARIN. The Infrastructure for Language Resources,” which the two co-edited. Andreas Witt is Professor of Computational Humanities and Text Technologies at the University of Mannheim and heads the department of Digital Linguistics at the Leibniz Institute for the German Language in Mannheim. Furthermore, he is the series editor of “Digital Linguistics”. Darja Fišer is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana and Senior Research Fellow at the Department of Knowledge Technologies, Jožef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana. She has recently been appointed CLARIN Vice Executive Director. With De Gruyter Acquisitions Editor Svetoslava Antonova Baumann, they talked about their motivation for publishing the book, the use of language data outside of linguistics, as well as the importance of the diversity of languages and language resources for the digital humanities. Link to the book ► https://www.degruyter.com/document/isbn/9783110767377/html Contact us ► https://www.degruyter.com/publishing/about-us/contact FOLLOW US ► Website: https://www.degruyter.com ► Blog: https://blog.degruyter.com/ ► Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/degruyter.publishers ► LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/de-gruyter ► Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/degruyter_official ► Twitter: https://twitter.com/degruyter_pub ► Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/DegruyterPublishers #DeGruyter #DigitalLinguistics #CLARIN #AndreasWitt #DarjaFišer

For two decades, Rockstar Games have been making games that interrogate and represent the idea of America, past and present. Commercially successful, fan-beloved, and a frequent source of media attention, Rockstar’s franchises are positioned as not only game-changing, ground-breaking interventions in the games industry, but also as critical, cultural histories on America and its excesses. In an interview with acquisitions editor Rabea Rittgerodt, Dr. Esther Wright, author of the newly published book “Rockstar Games and American History. Promotional Materials and the Construction of Authenticity”, talked about historical authenticity in video games, what makes “Red Dead Redemption” and “L.A. Noire” great examples to show subjective versions of history, and what researching video games in academia as a woman is like. Esther Wright is a Lecturer in Digital History at Cardiff University (School of History, Archaeology and Religion), and formerly an Early Career Fellow at the University of Warwick’s Institute of Advanced Study (IAS). She is also a co-convenor of the Historical Games Network, which aims to bring together academics, game makers and other cultural workers to explore the relationship between history and games of all kinds. Link to the book ► https://www.degruyter.com/document/isbn/9783110716610/html Contact us ► https://www.degruyter.com/publishing/about-us/contact FOLLOW US ► Website: https://www.degruyter.com  ► Blog: https://blog.degruyter.com/ ► Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/degruyter.publishers  ► LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/de-gruyter  ► Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/degruyter_official  ► Twitter: https://twitter.com/degruyter_history ► SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/user-869529439 #DigitalHistory #RockstarGames #RedDeadRedemption #LANoire #EstherWright

Wie geht man ein derart komplexes und tabuisiertes Thema, wie die vielfältigen Verbindungen von Gewalt und Sexualität, an? Warum ist es notwendig, ein Buch darüber zu schreiben? Gibt es tatsächlich einen Unterschied zwischen "sexueller Gewalt" und "sexualisierter Gewalt"?  Dr. Gerhard Schreiber ist Akademischer Rat am Institut für Theologie und Sozialethik der TU Darmstadt und hat zurzeit die Vertretungsprofessur für Systematische Theologie an der Universität Bonn inne. Mit seinem Buch "Im Dunkel der Sexualität" möchte er für das Thema sensibilisieren und dazu beitragen den Überlebenden von "sexueller*sexualisierter" Gewalt Gehör zu verschaffen. Zudem gibt der Autor seinen Leserinnen und Lesern ein begriffliches Instrumentarium an die Hand, um sich mit den verschiedenen Facetten von Gewalt sprachmächtig auseinandersetzen zu können. Darüber und über vieles mehr spricht Katrin Mittmann, Content Editor aus dem Fachbereich Theologie und Religion bei De Gruyter, im Interview mit dem Autor. Link zum Buch: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110717648 Besuchen Sie auch unseren Blog De Gruyter Conversations: https://blog.degruyter.com/

What does it mean to be a digital scholar? The answers to this seemingly simple question are probably as diverse as the interdisciplinary field of digital humanities itself. To learn more about the ins and outs of the emerging research area, we invited Prof. Valérie Schafer from the Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C2DH) for an interview. Valérie Schafer has been a Professor in Contemporary European History at the C2DH since 2018, where she does research on the history of the Internet and the Web, the history of European digital cultures and infrastructures, and born-digital heritage. Previously, she worked at The French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS). She is furthermore one of the co-editors of the book series “Studies in Digital History and Hermeneutics”. With De Gruyter acquisitions editor Rabea Rittgerodt, she talked about her own path in the digital humanities, shared passions among digital scholars, cultural changes as well as the importance of preserving our digital heritage in times of crises. *** Book series “Studies in Digital History and Hermeneutics” ➡️  https://www.degruyter.com/serial/sdhh-b/html You might also be interested in our new Open Access “Journal of Digital History”, a joint initiative of the Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C²DH) and De Gruyter ➡️  https://www.degruyter.com/journal/key/jdh/html

What does it mean to be human? How can other forms of being, such as non-human animals or algorithms, help us understand what makes humanity unique? Such questions are central to posthumanist research, which has been proliferating in recent years across the humanities and social sciences. Yet they are anything but new: as Erika Quinn and Holly Yanacek show in their recent book “Animals, Machines, and AI“, philosophy, literature, and the visual arts have been fascinated by non-human forms of life and interrogated received understandings of the human for centuries. Myrto Aspioti sat down for a virtual chat with the volume editors on the challenges of writing a book about our relationship to machines and animals just as Covid-19 hit, forcing us all behind screens and in the sole company of our beloved pets. Link to the book: doi.org/10.1515/9783110753677 The editors: Dr. Erika Quinn is Professor of History at Eureka College. Her research interests lie in Central European cultural history, focusing on subjectivity and the history of emotions. Her book, Franz Liszt: A Story of Central European Subjectivity, was published by Brill in 2014. She has also published articles on twentieth-century war widowhood and gender in the Journal of First World War Studies, the Women in German Yearbook, and elsewhere. Dr. Holly Yanacek is Assistant Professor of German at James Madison University. Her research focuses on emotion, narration, gender, ethics, and the non-human in 19th- to 21st-century Germanophone literature and culture. Her previous research has been supported by grants from Fulbright, the German Historical Institute, and the DAAD, and she has recently published articles in German Life and Letters, Monatshefte, and Novel: A Forum on Fiction. Yanacek co-edited (with Colin MacCabe) the collaborative book Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary (Oxford University Press, 2018). Check out our blog De Gruyter Conversations: blog.degruyter.com

Die Philosophin Olivia Mitscherlich-Schönherr beschäftigt sich mit Grenzsituationen des Lebens. Im neusten De Gruyter Book Talk spricht sie über den Einfluss disruptiver Biotechnologien auf unser Selbstverständnis als Mensch. Dr. Olivia Mitscherlich-Schönherr ist Dozentin an der Hochschule für Philosophie  München. Dort beschäftigt sie sich in Forschung und Lehre mit  Grenzsituationen des menschlichen Lebens, insbesondere dem Sterben, der  Geburt und dem Verhältnis zur Technik. Darüber hinaus ist sie  Mitherausgeberin der Buchreihe "Grenzgänge". Link zum Buch: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110756432 Link zur Reihe: www.degruyter.com/serial/gspa-b/html Besuchen Sie auch unseren Blog De Gruyter Conversations: https://blog.degruyter.com/