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

in Economic Geography (2023)

Review of Serge Noiret, Mark Tebeau, and Gerben Zaagsma (eds.), Handbook of Digital Public History (Berlin/ Boston: Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2022).

in International Public History (2022), 5(2), 159-161

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

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

Compte rendu : Andréas Pfersmann, La Littérature irradiée. Les essais nucléaires en Polynésie française au prisme de l’écriture, Marseille, la courte échelle. éditions transit, 2021. Suivi d’un extrait du livre de Pfersmann

in Relief: Revue Électronique de Littérature Française (2022), 16(1), 263276

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

Current Tax Treaty Issues, 50th Anniversary of the International Tax Group, G. Maisto (Editor), EC and International Tax Law Series Vol. 18, IBFD. 2020

in Intertax, International Tax Review (2022), 50(3), 4

This is a short review of an important anniversary volume of the "International Tax Group", which has made many significant contributions to international tax law over the last 50 years.

Book review - Adrian Briggs Civil Jurisdiction and Judgments and A conflict of Laws Companion

in International and Comparative Law Quarterly (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

Compte rendu de Dirk Rochtus, Naar de hel met Hitler

in Contemporanea (2021), (4),

Larissa Zakharova, De Moscou aux terres les plus lointaines, Paris, Éditions de l'EHESS, 2020.

in Artefact (2021)

Tschechen in der deutschen Wehrmacht. Totgeschwiegene Schicksale

in CLIO-online (2021)

Compte-rendu de l'ouvrage de C. Brun : Paul Claudel et le monde germanique

in Germanica (2021)

Globale Warenketten und ungleiche Entwicklung

in Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftsgeographie (2021)

Die Ökonomisierung des Raums

in disP : The Planning Review (2021), 57(1), 88-89

The Museum of American War Letters

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

Compte rendu de Jakob Müller, Die importierte Nation

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

Historische Medienwirkungsforschung: Ansätze, Methoden und Quellen.

in MEDIENwissenschaft: Rezensionen, Reviews (2021), 02(2021), 152-154

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

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

O'Dair, Marcus: Distributed Creativity

in Zeitschrift für Urheber- und Medienrecht (2021), (11),

Sabrina Göbel und Lisa Groß besprechen den Sammelband von Karin Jurzyk: Doing und Undoing Family. Konzeptionelle und empirische Entwicklungen

in Zeitschrift für Soziologie der Erziehung und Sozialisation (2021), 1(41), 111-112

Review of: Sacha Pulli (2020). Das gescheiterte Jahrhundertprojekt. Die Geschichte der Atomzentrale in Remerschen von 1973-1979. Luxemburg: Fondation Lydie Schmit

in Hemecht: Zeitschrift für Luxemburger Geschichte (2021), 73(4), 496498

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

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

Vom Vertrag zur Anerkennung : Claudia Nitschkes neue Studie „Anerkennung und Kalkül“ analysiert politische Legitimationsfiguren in der Literatur

in Literaturkritik.de (2021)

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)

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

The Geostationary Ring: Practice and Law, Martha Mejia-Kaiser, Nijhoff/ Brill, Leiden 2020

in Air and Space Law (2021), 46(3), 475-478

The book is a comprehensive analysis of the international regime of the geostationary orbit.

Compte-rendu de « Trotot Caroline, Autoportraits, autofictions de femmes à l’époque moderne - Savoirs et fabrique d’identité, Paris, Classiques Garnier, coll. Masculin/féminin dans l’Europe moderne, 2018 »

in Acta Fabula: Revue des Parutions en Théorie Littéraire (2021)

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

Smoke but no fire, convicting the innocent of crimes that never happened. By Jessica S. Henry (University of California Press)

in Crime, Law and Social Change (2020), 75(4), 411-414

Review of: Marco WEITEN and Tony VACCARO, Tony Vaccaro: Soldier with a Camera. Lions Club Luxembourg-Country 50e anniversaire: 1967–2017. Luxembourg: Lions Club Luxembourg-Country, 2017.

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

Neues zur Politik und Poetik der Restauration : Anna-Lisa Dieters Analyse der „Entstehung des Realismus“ in den frühen Romanen Stendhals

in Literaturkritik.de (2020)

[Rezension] Ivo Ritzer: Medientheorie der Globalisierung

in Zeitschrift für Medienwissenschaft (2020)

Computers and Computing in Society

in NTM (2020)

This review essay aims to highlight some of these recent trends within the history of computing and information technology through the consideration of three recently published books : 1/ Frank Bösch (Ed ... [more ▼]

This review essay aims to highlight some of these recent trends within the history of computing and information technology through the consideration of three recently published books : 1/ Frank Bösch (Ed.) 2018. Wege in die Gesellschaft. Computernutzung in der Bundesrepublik (1955–1990). Geschichte der Gegenwart, Bd. 20. Göttingen: Wallstein, geb.; 2/ Marie Hicks 2017. Programmed Inequality. How Britain Discarded Women Technologists and Lost Its Edge in Computing. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press; 3/ Joy Lisi Rankin 2018. A People’s History of Computing in the United States. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. They are increasingly opening up to approaches that are oriented towards society and actors, whether the latter are producers, regulators, users, or even maintainers. This is achieved with historical rigour by the authors, who highlight the history of a field that is not only scientific, technical, industrial and economic, but also profoundly social, and which is marked by multiple debates, negotiations and power relationships. [less ▲]

Evoluzioni e involuzioni del diritto del lavoro europeo nel prisma di due trattazioni recenti

in Lavoro Diritti Europa (2020), 1

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)

Virginia Mason Vaughan. Shakespeare and the Gods. London: Arden Shakespeare, 2019; and Jonathan Bate. How the Classics Made Shakespeare. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2019.

in Shakespeare Jahrbuch (2020), 156

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)

Compte rendu de C. Devaux, La fabrique du droit du commerce international - Reguler les risques de capture

in Revue Critique de Droit International Privé (2020), (1), 193

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 ▲]

Buchbesprechung Patrick C. Leyens, Informationsintermediäre des Kapitalmarkts

in Rabels Zeitschrift für Ausländisches und Internationales Privatrecht (2020)

Rezension von: Europäische Messegeschichte 9.–19. Jahrhundert, hg. von Markus A. Denzel. Böhlau, Köln–Weimar–Wien 2018. 434 S. ISBN 978-3-412-50794-7

in Mitteilungen des Instituts für Osterreichische Geschichtsforschung (2020), 128(1), 174-176

Compte rendu de Lutz Raphael, Jenseits von Kohle und Stahl

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

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

Rezension - Ewige Ruhe? Grabkulturen in Luxemburg und den Nachbarregionen / Concession à perpétuité? Culture funéraires au Luxembourg et dans les régions voisines, hg. v. Sonja Kmec, Robert L. Philippart, Antoinette Reuter, Luxembourg : Capybarabooks, 2019

in Hemecht: Zeitschrift für Luxemburger Geschichte (2020), 3

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

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

Book review Research Handbook on the EU’s Common Foreign and Security Policy

in Common Market Law Review (2020)

Review of Clara Rauchegger and Anna Wallerman (eds.) The Eurosceptic Challenge: National Implementation and Interpretation of EU Law (Hart 2019)

in European Law Blog (2019)

Book review published on European Law Blog