Compte rendu de Dirk Richtus, Naar de hel met Hitler

in Contemporanea (2021), (4),

Review of Adam Crymble: Technology and the Historian. Transformations in the Digital Age

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

Tschechen in der deutschen Wehrmacht. Totgeschwiegene Schicksale

in CLIO-online (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)

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)

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.

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

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 - 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)

Marcel Smets. Fundamenten van het stadsontwerp

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

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

in Literaturkritik.de (2021)

O'Dair, Marcus: Distributed Creativity

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

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

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

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)

Compte rendu de: Georges HELLINGHAUSEN, Kleine Diözesangeschichte Luxemburgs

in Revue Belge de Philologie et d'Histoire (2020), 98(4), 572-574

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

in Common Market Law Review (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

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)

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

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

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 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

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 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 ▲]

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

Andreas Rutz, Die Beschreibung des Raums. Territoriale Grenzziehungen im Heiligen Römischen Reich

in Hemecht: Zeitschrift für Luxemburger Geschichte (2020), 72(3), 378-380

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

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

Texte et Image, Dialog/ues. Schrift & Bild, éd. Claude D. Conter & Myriam Sunnen, Centre national de Littérature, 2018

in Hemecht: Zeitschrift für Luxemburger Geschichte (2019), 71(3), 376-378

Recension de Mills, Party Autonomy in Private International Law, CUP 2018

in Revue Critique de Droit International Privé (2019)

Review "Inside Smart Cities – Place, Politics and Urban Innovation"

in disP : The Planning Review (2019)

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 Hiltrud Merten, Die frühchristlichen Inschriften aus St. Maximin bei Trier

in Hemecht: Zeitschrift für Luxemburger Geschichte (2019), 71(2019), 359-360

Rezension von: Michel Krieps (2017). Die 135 jährige Geschichte der Escher Feuerwehr basierend auf historischen Begebenheiten, 1880-2015. Esch/Alzette: Corps des Sapeurs-Pompiers Volontaires

in Hemecht: Zeitschrift für Luxemburger Geschichte (2019), 71(2), 246-247

Discours & pouvoir littéraires des figures féminines

in Acta Fabula: Revue des Parutions en Théorie Littéraire (2019), 20(3),

Rezension Émile Lutgen / Gemeinde Wiltz (eds.), "Durich 200 Joer Weeltzer Geschicht gebleedert".

in Hemecht: Zeitschrift für Luxemburger Geschichte (2019), 71(2), 245

Rezension von: Fouquet, Gerhard / Jan Hirschbiegel Sven Rabeler (Hrsg.), Residenzstädte der Vormoderne. Umrisse eines europäischen Phänomens. 1. Symposium des Projekts „Residenzstädte im Alten Reich (1300-1800)“ der Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen. Kiel, 13.-16. September 2014 (Residenzforschung. Neue Folge: Stadt und Hof, 2), Ostfildern 2016

in Zeitschrift für Historische Forschung (2018), 45(3), 507-509

The wandering thought of Hannah Arendt. Hans‐Jörg Sigwart. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016 Rightlessness in an age of rights. Hannah Arendt and the contemporary struggles of migrants. Ayten Gündoğdu. New York: Oxford University Press, 2015

in Constellations: An International Journal of Critical and Democratic Theory (2018), 25(2), 304-308

Rezension zu: Peter Henrich, mit Beiträgen von Petra Held, Corina Knipper und Kurt W. Alt, Das gallorömische Theater von Dalheim „Hossengronn“ Luxemburg (Dossiers d’archéologie XV Musée national d’histoire et d’art / Centre national de recherche archéologique), Luxembourg 2015

in Hemecht: Zeitschrift für Luxemburger Geschichte (2018), 70(1), 105-108

Achim Hofer, »es möchten manche Leute Vergnügen daran haben« Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdys Ouvertüre für Harmoniemusik op. 24 oder Doberan und die Folgen

in IGEB Mitteilungsblatt (2018), 1-2(2018), 20-22

review of Karel Hruza, ed., Regesten Kaiser Sigismunds (1410–1437)

in Speculum (2018), 93(2), 518