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

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

BOOK REVIEW: Inna GANSHOW, 100 Jahre Russen in Luxemburg. Geschichte einer atomisierten Diaspora.

in Hemecht: Zeitschrift für Luxemburger Geschichte (2022), 1(74), 110-112

"L’immigration russe au Luxembourg est directement liée aux soubresauts de la crise internationale induite par la chute de l’empire tsariste, de la révolution bolchévique, de la répression soviétique ... [more ▼]

"L’immigration russe au Luxembourg est directement liée aux soubresauts de la crise internationale induite par la chute de l’empire tsariste, de la révolution bolchévique, de la répression soviétique, puis de l’éclatement imprévu de l’URSS. L’ouvrage nous rappelle, en ces temps actuels où l’immigration est souvent présentée comme un danger identitaire, au point de criminaliser les passages aux frontières, que ce phénomène a existé tout au long de l’Histoire de l’Humanité et qu’il fait partie, en réalité, de la nature humaine." [less ▲]

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

in International and Comparative Law Quarterly (2022)

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.

Compte rendu de Dirk Richtus, 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)

European port cities in transition

in Journal of Transport Geography (2021), 96

The Handbook of Diverse Economies

in Economic Geography (2021)

Achim Hofer, Lucian Schiwietz (Hrsg.), Wilhelm Wieprecht (1802-1872). Korrespondenz, Schriften und Dokumente zu Leben und Wirken, Studio Verlag im Verlag Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2020

in The Wind Music Research Quarterly. Mitteilungsblatt der IGEB (2021), 2(2021), 69-71

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

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: 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

Historische Medienwirkungsforschung: Ansätze, Methoden und Quellen.

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

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 ▲]

Marcel Smets. Fundamenten van het stadsontwerp

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

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

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

Florence Descamps, Archiver la mémoire. De l’histoire orale au patrimoine immatériel Paris, Éd. de l'EHESS, 2019, 241 pages

in Questions de Communication (2021), 38

Recension de l'ouvrage de Florence Descamps, Archiver la mémoire. De l’histoire orale au patrimoine immatériel, Paris, Éd. de l'EHESS, 2019, 241 pages

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)

Tiffany Stern, ed. Rethinking Theatrical Documents in Shakespeare’s England. London: The Arden Shakespeare, 2020.

in Shakespeare Jahrbuch (2021), 157

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 zu: PAULKE, Matthias: Archäologischer Rundgang durch Luxemburg (Livret du Patrimoine du CNRA, Bd. 2), Luxemburg 2019, in: Hémecht 72/3 (2020), S. 366-367.

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

Rezension zu: Adel und Mehrsprachigkeit in der Frühen Neuzeit. Ziele, Formen und Praktiken des Erwerbs und Gebrauchs von Fremdsprachen, hg. von Helmut Glück, Mark Häberlein und Andreas Flurschütz da Cruz. Wiesbaden 2019

in Mitteilungen der Residenzen-Kommission der Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen. Neue Folge: Stadt und Hof (2020), (9), 89-91

Book review: Marguerite Figeac-Monthus (Hg.), Éducation et culture matérielle en France et en Europe du XVIe siècle à nos jours (Didactiques des lettres et des cultures, 5), Paris 2018.

in Francia-Recensio (2020), 2

Book review of : Jonas VAN TOL, Germany and the French Wars of Religion, 1560-1572, Brill, Leiden, 2018

in Tijdschrift voor Geschiedenis (2020), 133/1

Virginie BABY-COLLIN, Sylvie MAZZELLA, Stéphane MOURLANE, Céline REGNARD et Pierre SINTÈS, Migrations et temporalités en Méditerranée. Les migrations à l’épreuve du temps (XIXe-XXe siècle), Editions Karthala, 2017.

in Revue des mondes musulmans et de la Méditerranée (2020), 147(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)

Reading the history of society through the lens of a history of sexuality

in Andererseits: yearbook of transatlantic German studies (2020), 7/8(2018/2019), 393-396

Compte rendu de Lutz Raphael, Jenseits von Kohle und Stahl

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

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

in Lavoro Diritti Europa (2020), 1

The Jew In Czech And Slovak Imagination, 1938-89: Antisemitism, The Holocaust, And Zionism,

in Marginalia Historica : Časopis pro Dějiny Vzdělanosti a Kultury (2020)

review of Simon Maclean, Ottonian Queenship, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017, xiv + 247 p.; ISBN 978-0-19-880010-1: 65$

in Hemecht: Zeitschrift für Luxemburger Geschichte (2020), 72(3), 370-373

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 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 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

Compte rendu de Herbert Ruland, Der Erste Weltkrieg und die Menschen im Vierländerland

in Contemporanea (2019), XXXVIII(3),

Book Review: Citizenship Education and Global Migration. Implications for Theory Research, and Teaching, James A. Banks, Washington 2017

in Journal of Borderlands Studies (2019), 35(1), 165166

[Rezension] Lars Nowak (Hg.): Medien - Krieg - Raum

in MEDIENwissenschaft: Rezensionen, Reviews (2019), 1(2019), 24-27

Compte rendu de Bischoff/Jahr/Mrowka, Thiel, éds, “ Belgium is a Beautiful City” ? Resultate und Perspektiven der historischen Belgienforschung

in Revue Belge de Philologie et d'Histoire (2019), 97(2), 649-650

Rezension zu Esclaves et maîtres dans le monde romain. Expressions épigraphiques de leurs relations

in Latomus: Revue d'Études Latines (2019), 78

Discussion Note on The Rationality of Perception (Siegel)

in Grazer Philosophische Studien (2019), 96(2),