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

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

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

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

Referat: Goten, Angela van der: Im Gespaltenen Zauberland. Oswald Spengler und die Aneignung des Fremden. Heidelberg: Winter, 2015

in Germanistik : Internationales Referatenorgan mit bibliographischen Hinweisen (2019), 60(1-2), 410

Discussion Note on The Rationality of Perception (Siegel)

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

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

in disP : The Planning Review (2019)

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

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

Fragmente einer neuen Sprache des Rechts : Die nachgelassenen Reflexionen eines Philologen über die Grundlagen der Gerechtigkeit

in Literaturkritik.de (2019)

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

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

« La double démocratie. Une Europe politique pour la croissance » (Michel Aglietta et Nicolas Leron, 2017)

in Journal of European Integration History (2018)

Ce texte receille des notes de lecture critiques relatives à l'analyse interdisciplinaire réalisée par Michel Aglietta et Nicolas Lerron dans leur ouvrage « La double démocratie. Une Europe politique pour ... [more ▼]

Ce texte receille des notes de lecture critiques relatives à l'analyse interdisciplinaire réalisée par Michel Aglietta et Nicolas Lerron dans leur ouvrage « La double démocratie. Une Europe politique pour la croissance », récemment publié aux Éditions du Seuil. Les auteurs placent leur analyse dans une perspective historique, avec l’objectif d’expliquer pourquoi l’Europe est plus vulnérable que les autres région du monde et d’identifier les moyens de donner de nouvelles impulsions au projet européen. Le constat des auteurs est sans appel : l’Union européenne et la zone euro sont aujourd’hui en impasse. Parmi les principales causes, ils identifient l’impuissance publique, les interdépendances négatives entre les États membres et le caractère incomplet de l’UEM. Ils mettent également en lumière une crise de la méthode de l’intégration européenne, vu que le postulat de l’engrenage, ou encore celui des petits pas prôné par Jean Monnet semblent avoir épuisé toutes leurs potentialités. [less ▲]

ROLF HANDROW: Berühmte Posaunen-Virtuosen. Friedrich August Belke. Carl Traugott Queisser. Albert Robert Müller. Joseph Serafin Alschausky & Posaunisten des Gewandhausorchesters Leipzig

in IGEB Mitteilungsblatt (2018), (1),

Rezension zu: Archaeologia Luxemburgensis – Bulletin du Centre National de Recherche Archéologique

in Hemecht: Zeitschrift für Luxemburger Geschichte (2018), 70(1), 103-105

Robert Triffin, a 'personal equation'

in The Journal of European Economic History (2018)

Robert Triffin (1911-1993), a Belgian-born economist who spent much of his career in America, had a major influence on 20th-century economic thinking. He is particularly known for his monetary approach ... [more ▼]

Robert Triffin (1911-1993), a Belgian-born economist who spent much of his career in America, had a major influence on 20th-century economic thinking. He is particularly known for his monetary approach. His intellectual legacy revolves ariund the 'Triffin dilemma' or 'Triffin paradox'. Triffin accurately predicted the end of the Bretton Woods system, though not for the right reasons. Triffin stuck by his monetary theory that it was much harder to achieve sound international economic management with flexible exchange rates and that best practices were by no means a guarantee of global stability if they were not accompanied by genuine international coordination. Triffin was also a committed European. He was close to Jean Monnet and Pierre Werner and worked alongside them from the early 1960's onwards in favour of European monetary integration. [less ▲]

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

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

Urban Policy in the Time of Obama

in DISP Dokumente und Informationen zur Schweizerischen Orts-, Regional- und Landesplanung (2018), 54(212/1), 76

Review of: "Martin Bauch / Julia Burkhardt / Tomáš Gaudek / Václav Žůrek (eds.): Heilige, Helden, Wüteriche. Herrschaftsstile der Luxemburger (1308–1437)"

in Hemecht: Zeitschrift für Luxemburger Geschichte (2018), 70(1), 118-121

Compte-rendu de l’ouvrage de C. Patzelt: Sprachdynamiken in modernen Migrationsgesellschaften

in Vox Romanica (2018), 77

Compte-rendu de l'ouvrage de Bernhard Pöll : Französisch ausserhalb Frankreichs

in Vox Romanica (2018)

Poválečná rekonstrukce Židovských komunity v zemích středovýchodní, jihovýchodní a východní Evropy

in Marginalia Historica : Časopis pro Dějiny Vzdělanosti a Kultury (2018), 4(1), 190

Notes de lecture : Utopies réelles, Erik Olin Wright, traduit par Vincent Farnea et João Alexandre Peschanski,

in Revue Internationale de l'Économie Sociale: Recma (2018), 348

Buchbesprechung von: Quellen zur Landesgeschichte der Rheinprovinz im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert. Teil 2: Oberpräsidium und Regierungsbezirk Koblenz.

in Hemecht: Zeitschrift für Luxemburger Geschichte (2018), 70(4), 109-110

Suburban Planet

in Local Environment (2018)

Recensie van: Anne Morelli (red.), "Le Bruxelles des révolutionnaires, de 1830 à nos jours" & Joseph Van Wassenhove, "Bruxelles: la vie quotidienne au XIXe siècle par les écrivains de l’époque"

in Contemporanea (2018), (1),

Rez. v. Carlos Spoerhase: Das Format der Literatur : Praktiken materieller Textualität zwischen 1740 und 1830. Göttingen 2018

in Scientia Poetica (2018), 22

Möglichkeiten und Grenzen der Einrichtung von Unionsagenturen von Andreas Orator

in Die Verwaltung (2018), 51

Rezension zu Lisa Kaaren Bailey, The Religious Worlds of the Laity in Late Antique Gaul, London/New York 2016

in Historische Zeitschrift (2018)

Review: Paul Théberge, Kyle Devine & Tom Everrett (Hg.) (2015). Living Stereo: Histories and Cultures of Multichannel Sound. New York/London: Bloomsbury

in Technikgeschichte (2018), 85(3), 235-236

Review of Meyer, Heinz-Dieter (2017): The Design of the University: German, American, and “World Class”. Abingdon: Routledge

in Comparative Education Review (2018), 62(3), 451-454

By and large, we take our universities for granted. Indeed, the oldest have outlived political regimes of all kinds. This stimulating historical and comparative study exemplifies the importance of in ... [more ▼]

By and large, we take our universities for granted. Indeed, the oldest have outlived political regimes of all kinds. This stimulating historical and comparative study exemplifies the importance of in-depth experience and engagement with the cultural and structural environments in which some of the world’s greatest universities have over centuries incrementally developed and been embedded. This is crucial if we hope to understand the sources of their authority and myriad contributions to scientific knowledge and human flourishing. A neo-institutionalist scholar and multicultural citizen who fruitfully contributes to dialogues exploring core institutions in education and society on both sides of the Atlantic, Heinz-Dieter Meyer is uniquely placed to grapple with the complex processes of institutional learning and design that have made the German and American universities among the globally most productive. He also shows how they have influenced each other via the complex, yet crucial flows of inspired scholars and students carrying key idea(l)s with them for interpretation and application back home. The contributions of key actors, but also the outcomes of choices at critical junctures, such as the failure to establish a national state-funded university in the United States, take center stage in this engaging account of how the leaders of American universities adapted the German model, joining diverse concepts to design what has become the greatest uni-versity system in the world, yet one that remains nearly impossible to emulate due to the unique constellation of actors and institutional environment in which it developed. In eighteen chapters in four parts, The Design of the University: German, American, and “World Class” takes us from Göttingen and Berlin to Boston and to the world level as the scientific enterprise—and competition between scientists and the most crucial organizational form in which they conduct their experiments and make their arguments, the research university—becomes ever more global. Contributing to and inviting debate, Meyer’s main argument is that the American university has suc-ceeded based upon an institutional design—or, perhaps, a non-design—that on multiple levels facil-itates self-government and the identification of a niche within an extraordinarily large and differen-tiated higher education system. This is not a full-fledged historiographic treatment of a subject fa-vored by academics (permanently searching for reputational gains) and policymakers (as they in-creasingly launch research funding programs and evaluation systems to foster competition). Rather than a full-fledged sociology of science, this book creatively sketches the trajectories of German and American university development, emphasizing affinities as well as crucial differences, to ulti-mately argue that in fact “Humboldt’s most important ideas flourished in the American atmosphere of unrestricted institutional experimentation and vigorous self-government” (xiii). Interrogating what he calls the “design thinking” of eminent thinkers Adam Smith and Wilhelm von Humboldt, among others, Meyer traces the challenging, complex, and contingent learning processes in the adaptation of the German research university model to the American context, eventually becoming the most differentiated and “world-class” higher education system in the world. Asking about the reasons for the American university’s success, especially in comparison to the recent insti-tutional crisis of the German research university, albeit still extraordinarily productive, Meyer argues that this American meritocratic success story has institutional design (of self-government) at its heart. Enjoying the patronage of not one, but three major institutions—state, church, and market—the American university attained true autonomy and global preeminence through unparalleled wealth of patronage and an intricate system of checks and balances. In this line of argument, chart-ing the ascendancy from humble origins of what can hardly be called a system due its extraordinary diversity, Meyer concurs with David Labaree (2017), who’s A Perfect Mess [1] is a highly-suitable com-panion piece grounded in the history of American higher education. Contemporary architects of higher education policy globally, driven by the fantasy of “world class” labels, Meyer warns, have completely underestimated the “institutional, social, and political prerequisites that excellence in research and teaching require” (p. 4). Meyer begins his treatise, appropriately, in Göttingen, the site of Georgia Augusta University, where many leaders of American higher education, first and foremost Boston Brahmin George Ticknor, learned by doing, ensconced in a cosmopolitan center of learning and intellectual enlightenment. The blueprint included professionalized scholarship, the unification of research and teaching in seminars and lectures, freedom to choose among academic offerings, a vast library of scientific knowledge, and academic standing based on perpetual production of cutting-edge research judged by peers (p. 19). Instead of Adam Smith’s preferred instruments of competition, choice, and tuition-dependence, Wilhelm von Humboldt’s “design revolution” proposed “three unities” whose powerful integration could surpass the utilitarian logic prevalent then and now: “teaching and research; scien-tific discovery and moral formation (Bildung); scholarly autonomy and scholarly community” (p. 40). The book’s second part, on institutional learning, charts the institutional migration of the blueprint; the contested design options of Gymnasium, college, and graduate school (the latter ultimately the key to global preeminence); the lasting influence of Protestantism (here Meyer follows the arguments of Max Weber, Robert K. Merton, and Joseph Ben-David) and extraordinary educational philanthropy; the battle between those who would centralize, by establishing a national university, and those committed to local control; and finally the contrasting answers to the eternal question of vocational-ism—e.g., how should business be treated, as a sibling to medicine and law or as their distant cousin? The more education-enamored, democratically-inclined patrician elites of the American East Coast were, Meyer argues, radically different institution-builders than German scholars, French state nobility, or even Chinese mandarins: “No other class combined their respect for, and grand vision of, the civilizing role of learning with their economic resources and the realism needed to put their plans into practice” (p. 113). Building on philosophical and historical elaboration, the book’s third part on achieving self-government discusses the six American moves leading to institutional innovation. At organizational level, the German chair and institute give way to departments and discipline, the university presi-dent is no longer figurehead but chief executive, and independent boards of trustees, not govern-ment officials, have ultimate authority. The implications for individuals and organizations of these “design shifts” cannot be overstated. Anyone seeking to understand American higher education, with its phenomenal vertical and horizontal differentiation and on-going academic drift (“a snake-like procession” as David Riesman, to whom the book is dedicated, calls it), and its self-organized autonomy—supported by many philanthropists without the limiting control of a few state bureau-crats—will find this analysis illuminating. Embedded in civil society, “vigorous self-government is the historic design contribution of the American university” (p. 209)—and an achievement that must be guarded in an era in which university autonomy is at risk. In concluding, Meyer’s American opti-mistic and laudatory tone shifts back to Germanic critique and foreboding, identifying challenges and the contemporary struggles that threaten the unintentional masterpiece of institutional learning and diversity. Such justified hopes and fears must now give way to empirical studies of the extraor-dinary outputs in terms of scientific production and societal capabilities and well-being brought about by the continuous process of university Bildung—in Germany, the United States, and around the world. [1] David Labaree (2017), A Perfect Mess: The Unlikely Ascendancy of American Higher Education. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. [less ▲]

Rezension von: Jochen Plikat, Fremdsprachliche Diskursbewusstheit als Zielkonstrukt des Fremdsprachenunterrichts. Eine kritische Auseinandersetzunt mit der Interkulturellen Kompetenz

in Fremdsprachen Lehren und Lernen (2018), 47(Heft 1), 127-129

Rezension des Werkes von Alexander Hilpert, Archäologie im Grenzraum Saar-Lor-Lux. Altertumsforschung, Vernetzung und Identitätskonstruktion in den regionalen Geschichtsvereinen des 19. Jahrhunderts

in Hemecht: Zeitschrift für Luxemburger Geschichte (2018), 66

Review: Karl Pichol (2016). Geschichte(n) rund ums Papier. Ahlen: Eigenverlag

in Technikgeschichte (2018), 85(2), 136

Buchbesprechung von: Karsten Igel, Thomas Lau (dir.), Die Stadt im Raum. Vorstellungen, Entwürfe und Gestaltungen im vormodernen Europa

in Revue de l’Institut français d’histoire en Allemagne (2017), http://ifha.revues.org/8811

Rezension von: Möller, Kurt / Grote, Janne / Nolde, Kai / Schuhmacher, Nils: "Die kann ich nicht ab!" – Ablehnung, Diskriminierung und Gewalt bei Jugendlichen in der (Post-)Migrationsgesellschaft. Wiesbaden: Springer VS 2016.

in Erziehungswissenschaftliche Revue (2017), 16(3),

Book Review. Kulczycki, John J. Belonging to the Nation. Inclusion and Exclusion in the Polish-German Borderlands 1939-1951

in Slavonic and East European Review (2017), 95

Rezension: Christian Voß / Wolfgang Dahmen (Ed.): Babel Balkan? Politische und soziokulturelle Kontexte von Sprache in Südosteuropa (= Südosteuropa-Jahrbuch Band 40), München: Ottos Sagner (2014)

in Zeitschrift für Balkanologie (2017), 53/2

Michael Zeuske: Sklavenhändler, Negreros und Atlantikkreolen. Eine Weltgeschichte des Sklavenhandels im atlantischen Raum.

in Zeitschrift für historische Studien (2017), 16(1),

Bernhard Leubolt (2015) Transformation von Ungleichheitsregimes: Gleichheitsorientierte Politik in Brasilien und Sudafrika.

in Global Labour Journal (2017), 8(3),

Compte rendu de Sebastian Bischoff/Christoph Jahr/Tatjana Mrowka/Jens Thiel (Hrsg.): Belgica terra incognita? Resultate und Perspektiven der Historischen Belgienforschung

in Journal of Belgian History (2017), 48(2/3), 259-262

Buchbesprechung von: Marie Ulrike SCHMIDT, Regesten zum Nikolaihospital. Die Urkunden aus dem Stadtarchiv Lüneburg (1251–1530) (Forschungen zum Nikolaihospital in Bardowick, 2; Quellen und Darstellungen zur Geschichte Niedersachsens, 137/2) Wehrhahn, Hannover 2015

in Mitteilungen des Instituts für Osterreichische Geschichtsforschung (2017), 125(2), 417-419

"The Politics of Suffering: Syria’s Palestinian Refugee Camps", Nell Gabiam, Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 2016

in Antipode (2017)

Review of 'Environmental Publics' by Sally Eden

in Local Environment (2017)

Compte rendu de l'ouvrage de J-F Delile: L’invocabilité des accords internationaux devant la Cour de justice de l’Union européenne et le Conseil d’Etat français

in Annuaire de Droit Européen (2017)

Recension "Moustir Hassan, El Hani Jamal Eddine, Al-Khodja Mourad, Des Lieux de culture. Altérités croisées, mobilités et mémoires identitaires, Presses Universitaires de Laval, 2016, 241 p."

in Le français à l’université (2017)

Book Review: Policy Analysis of Structural Reforms in Higher Education

in Zeitschrift Hochschule und Weiterbildung (2017), 2

Making other worlds possible

in Local Environment (2017), 22(7), 908-910

review of: Lucien Czuga, Rout Wäiss Bloen Damp. 200 Joer Lëtzebuerger Tubakswelt, Differdange: Editions Revue, 2015

in Hemecht : Zeitschrift für Luxemburger Geschichte = Revue d'Histoire Luxembourgeoise (2017), 69(1), 129-130

Disparaître pour résister

in Acta Fabula: Revue des Parutions en Théorie Littéraire (2016), 17(4),

Eine Geschichte von zwei Monotheismen : Jan Assmanns "Exodus. Die Revolution der Alten Welt"

in Literaturkritik.de (2016)