Book Review: Language Management: From Bricolage to Strategy in British Companies

in International Journal of Cross Cultural Management (2022)

Making Sense of AI: Our Algorithmic World, by Anthony Elliott (2022) Polity Press.

in International Journal of Technoethics (2022), 13(1),

How can we understand consequences and make sense of an event when we are in its epicentre? Would it be possible to gain a deep understanding of the situation without putting it into a certain perspective ... [more ▼]

How can we understand consequences and make sense of an event when we are in its epicentre? Would it be possible to gain a deep understanding of the situation without putting it into a certain perspective or broader context? The book Making sense of AI invites us to resist a natural inclination to make fast inferences based on the proximity and salient experiences and instead, engage in slow thinking and pondering on the evolution of human technology. An effortful exercise, as this reading may turn out to be, is worth, nevertheless, undertaking for 21st century students interested in recognizing future opportunities, coping with challenges, and understanding complex phenomena such as AI. [less ▲]

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

Friedrich Anzenberger i.A. des Österreichischen Blasmusikverbands, Chronik Österreichischer Blasmusikverband 1951-2021, Spittal an der Drau, Eigenverlag ÖBV: 2021

in The Wind Music Research Quarterly. Mitteilungsblatt der IGEB (2022), 2022(2), 49-50

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)

Bibliographie : Andrew Dickinson and Edwin Peel (dir.), A Conflict of Laws Companion – Essays in Honour of Adrian Briggs, OUP, 2021, 448 p.

in Revue Critique de Droit International Privé (2022)

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)

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)

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

Globale Warenketten und ungleiche Entwicklung

in Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftsgeographie (2021)

Compte rendu de: Irène Dietrich-Strobbe: La Charité à Lille à la fin du Moyen Âge. Sauver les riches, Paris: Classiques Garnier 2020, in: sehepunkte 21 (2021), Nr. 5 [15.05.2021]

in Sehepunkte (2021), 21 (2021)(5),

Compte rendu de Jakob Müller, Die importierte Nation

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

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:Claude D. CONTER, Daniela LIEB, Marc LIMPACH, Sandra SCHMIT, Jeff SCHMITZ, Josiane WEBER (Hg.), Luxemburg und der Zweite Weltkrieg. Literarisch-intellektuelles Leben zwischen Machtergreifung und Epuration

in Hemecht: Zeitschrift für Luxemburger Geschichte (2021), (4), 489-491

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

Book review of : Alain Atten, D'Hobitz. Novell (Kanephora, 9), Luxembourg: Kremart Edition, 2020 ; 174 p.

in Hemecht: Zeitschrift für Luxemburger Geschichte (2021), 73(4), 509-510

Historische Medienwirkungsforschung: Ansätze, Methoden und Quellen.

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

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

in Shakespeare Jahrbuch (2021), 157

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

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 ▲]

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

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

Questioning the foundations of public law, edited by Michael A. Wilkinson and Michael W. Dowdle, Oxford and Portland, Hart Publishing, 2018.

in Jurisprudence (2021), 12(1), 100-108

O'Dair, Marcus: Distributed Creativity

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

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

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)

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 ▲]

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

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

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

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 ▲]

compte rendu de l'ouvrage d'Anna Ledwina : Du duo vers le trio amoureux : figures beauvoiriennes de l’altérité. Opole (Pologne) : Uniwersytet Opolski Studia I Monografie, n° 578, 2019, 282 p.

in Literaport (2020), 7

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

in Lavoro Diritti Europa (2020), 1

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

Compte rendu de Thierry Grosbois (éd.), Les enrôlés de force en Union Soviétique (1941–1955). Actes du colloque du 7 mai 2015

in Hemecht: Zeitschrift für Luxemburger Geschichte (2020), (4), 500-502

Review of: Rezension von: Tobias Held (2020). Face-to-Interface: Eine Kultur- und Technikgeschichte der Videotelefonie. Marburg: Büchner-Verlag

in H-Soz-Kult: Kommunikation und Fachinformation für die Geschichtswissenschaften (2020)

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

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

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

Thomas Vercruysse (dir.), Luxembourg – Ville créative, Capybara Books 2015, 269 p.

in Hemecht: Zeitschrift für Luxemburger Geschichte (2019), 3

Luxembourg – Ville créative est un ouvrage riche du regard pluridisciplinaire des universitaires et experts en sémiotique, philosophie, littérature, histoire et cinéma. C’est aussi un ouvrage éclectique ... [more ▼]

Luxembourg – Ville créative est un ouvrage riche du regard pluridisciplinaire des universitaires et experts en sémiotique, philosophie, littérature, histoire et cinéma. C’est aussi un ouvrage éclectique puisque le concept de ville créative n’est véritablement opérant que dans le cadre de certaines contributions, pour analyser les conséquences et manifestations de certains développements métropolitains (e.g. développement du quartier du Limpertsberg et, en creux, l’urbanisation du plateau du Kirchberg). Les contributions plus littéraires proposent davantage des regards s’inspirant de la géocritique donnant à montrer comment la (mé)connaissance d’un lieu participe à la construction d’une représentation. [less ▲]

Julie Maeck et Matthias Steinle (dir.) L’image d’archives. Une image en devenir Rennes, PUR , 2016, 340 p.

in Annales: Histoire, Sciences Sociales (2019), 74(3-4), 818-821

Karlheinz Weber, Ihre Majestät, die Posaune. Eine Entdeckungsreise, crescendo-brass, Würzburg 52017 (12009), illustrations, index, bibliography.

in IGEB Mitteilungsblatt (2019), 2019(2 / Spring), 4

The author, Karlheinz Weber is one of only a few orchestral musicians and teachers who also approaches his instrument scientifically. The book, a reference work, has now been published in its fifth ... [more ▼]

The author, Karlheinz Weber is one of only a few orchestral musicians and teachers who also approaches his instrument scientifically. The book, a reference work, has now been published in its fifth edition. The subdivision into three main chapters is logically coherent. With 148 pages, the most comprehensive first chapter deals with the trombone’s development in a broad historical context, beginning with Ancient Egypt. [less ▲]