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This collection of papers covers subjects from obstacles women face due to cultural understandings to the thoughts of prominent philosophers on certain issues related to the diverse aspects of gender distinction. Taking up a variety of topics related to the problem of discrimination against women, the papers implicate the woman question as a “question for humanity.” Accordingly, the author argues that, to grasp discrimination against women as a problem for humanity is not only critical for the over-all well-being, but more importantly, is inescapable for an adequate conceptualization of the human and hence of human rights.

Contributions for this volume are based on the conference'Rethinking Public Governance'held in Budapest at Hungary's National University of Public Service within the framework of the Transatlantic Policy Consortium (TPC) in 2015. The papers cover a range of topics, including the importance of education and of efficient management of government resources for successful democracy building processes, analysis of formality and informality in public administration, and analysis of select ethnic minority problems. The papers represent various approaches connecting research and policy.

The necessity of studying Arabic dialects has attracted more attention in the recent years. Qatar University chose to support the growing academic interest and research in the field by hosting the Association Internationale de Dialectologie Arabe (AIDA) conference on 11 - 13 November 2013. The AIDA10 conference and the tenth volume of AIDA proceedings show that a good deal of change and development in the field is occurring. Fewer papers deal on hitherto unknown dialects as the white spots on the map of Arabic dialects have significantly shrunk. More papers focus on syntactical issues because we now possess more and larger text collections. Papers using'change'in their titles indicate that Arabic dialectology has a long history. Perhaps the time has come to re-examine the studies of the 1940s, 50s and 60s concerning the dialects of certain regions.

This volume is a collection of papers highlighting recent researches on Syriac Christianity in China and Central Asia. The topics range from artifacts to texts and their historical contexts, covering the period from the 7th to the 18th century. As the studies on Syriac Christianity in China and Central advance, focus has shifted from a general historical survey and textual translation to a more micro and meticulous study of specific concepts and terms and particular names of persons and places.

What are the connections between the polity of the church and church unity - or division? Does the polity of churches serve or obstruct the missional nature of the church? These questions were the focus of the Third Conference of the International Protestant Church Polity Study Group (IPCPSG), held in Princeton, New Jersey in April 2016. The authors of the essays in this volume probe these questions from a variety of angles. The conference intended to model close attention to and reflection on the theological import and value of church order and polity. Attendees of the conference came from churches and denominations in the Reformed tradition, gathering from across the United States and around the world. They included scholars of church order and polity, and practitioners with depth of knowledge and experience gained through the exercise of polity in a variety of settings and contexts. Conference papers, discussions, and informal conversations turned from theological reflection to practice and back.

The book presents the results of a long research into the life and work of the German theologian and teacher Fritz Jahr (1895–1953) from Halle an der Saale, who was the first to use the term'bioethics', as early as 1926. It is a revised history of bioethics with an overview of all 22 of Jahr's known published papers. The analysis follows the diffusion after 1997 of the discovery of Fritz Jahr worldwide and particularly the contribution of Croatian bioethicists to it.

This volume is the documentation of a workshop at the'Dietrich Bonhoeffer Centre for Public Theology'in Kigali, that took place in February 2018 and discussed what can be gained from Bonhoeffer's theology for contextual theologies in Africa as well as in Europe. The core feature of the workshop in February 2018 was a competition in which students from Butare/Huye presented the findings of their examination of Dietrich Bonhoeffer's life and work. The prize-winning contributions are documented in this volume. Papers from the European perspective were contributed by doctoral candidates and students of the Ruhr University Bochum, and the chairing and commentary of the event was shared amongst Dr Clemens Wustmans (Berlin), Dr Christine Schliesser (Bern), the President of the Presbyterian Church in Rwanda, Dr Pascal Bataringaya (Kigali), the Dean of the Theological Faculty of the Protestant Institut of Arts and Social Sciences, Olivier Munyansanga, Ph.D. (Huye/Rwanda), and Prof. Dr Traugott Jähnichen (Bochum).

Volume 17/18 begins with a section containing original Huxley documents: Below the Equator, an unpublished film story collaboration by Isherwood and Huxley, edited by James Sexton and Bernfried Nugel, to be followed by two pieces rediscovered and edited by James Sexton, viz. The Heroes, William R. Cox's screenplay adaptation of a lost Huxley story, and the translation of a 1960 interview held in French by the Canadian writer Hubert Aquin. Then Huxley nephew Piero Ferrucci kindly opens his family archives of original Huxley letters and photographs and contributes a remarkable essay on his coming of age with Aldous Huxley. Rounding off this section, Peter Wood introduces an unknown 1934 letter Huxley wrote to Ren'e Schickele, a forgotten German author in the writers'community at Sanary. The second section presents a further selection of papers from the Sixth International Aldous Huxley Symposium held at Almer'a in April 2017 as well as other critical articles.

During the 1970s the todays Austrian Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research (Bundesministerium für Bildung, Wissenschaft und Forschung, BMBWF) supported the founding of the Center for Austrian Studies at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis and the Austrian Chair at Stanford University in California. These foundings were the initial incentives for the world wide'spreading'of similar institutions; currently nine Centers for Austrian and Central European Studies exist in seven states on three continents. The funding of the Ministry enables to connect senior with young scholars, to help the latter, to participate and benefit from the scientific connection of the former, as the Austrian say, `to sniff the scientific air', and to get in touch with the respective national scientific community, to avoid prejudices, and to spread a better understanding and knowledge about Austria and Central Europe. This volume contains the annual reports (2016/2017) of the Center Director's and the presented papers of their PhDs, which discuss various topics on (East-)Central European History from various perspectives and in different centuries.

This volume provides a record of the response, by eight expert scholars in the field of medieval monastic studies, to the question'To what extent did abbots and abbesses contribute as a `human resource'to the development of reformed monastic communities in the ninth- to twelfth-century west?'Covering a broad geographical area, papers consider one or several of three key points of interest: the direct contribution of abbots and abbesses to the shaping of reformed realities; their influence over future modes of leadership; and the way in which later generations of monastics relied upon the memory of a leader's life and achievements to project current realities onto a legitimizing past.

This volume contains Pulitzer Prize-winning stories and pictures about five U.S. neighbor countries. The Bahamas are represented by articles showing the connections between Gamblers and Criminals, and the country also is characterized as an Offshore Tax Paradise, based on the so-called Panama Papers. Reports on Canada analyse the Social-Economic System and describe the main Resources and Industries. The Cuba book chapter discusses the brutal Batista government and discloses Fidel Castro's Soviet Policy. There are articles on Richness and Poorness in Haiti and photos from the End of the Military Rule. Finally, Mexico's Drug Corruption Chains are unveiled as well as the country's strange Criminal Justice System.

Volume 16 presents a miscellany of uncollected Huxley essays, edited by James Sexton, to be followed by a first selection of papers from the Sixth International Aldous Huxley Symposium held at Almería in April 2017. This section opens with an essay that fills a blank spot on the map of Huxley criticism, James Sexton's study of Huxley and architecture. The volume continues with several articles (including one not from Almería) on Brave New World and its wider context and closes with essays on Huxley's lifelong struggle with his deficient eye-sight and on his view of the art of dying.

Crossing boundaries is a key issue in EFL teaching and Postcolonial Studies. It is an objective not only for the foreign language classroom that is facing increasingly global influences in terms of more heterogeneous societies, but also with a view to the growing heterogeneity in the literature, media and materials used in teaching and research. Because the intersections between Postcolonial Studies and TEFL are not only manifold but also highly significant, this volume brings together papers that explore, perform and theorize various kinds of crossovers, be they disciplinary, thematic or intermedial ones.

Volume 14 of Aldous Huxley Annual begins with the presentation of Hux­ley's 1961 diary covering his trip to Europe. It continues with his role in the editing of a book by his wife Laura and the story of the Huxley Tapes, a collection of recorded lectures and readings from his late career. Further critical articles on particular aspects of Huxley's work follow, including a second selection of papers from the Oxford Symposium in 2013. The volume closes with the third Peter Edgerly Firchow Memorial Essay by Julian Piras (Belgium).

Volume 12/13 of Aldous Huxley Annual begins with a discussion of a lecture Huxley gave in Italian, an appraisal of his never-completed project of a novel on Catherine of Siena, and his recently re-discovered drawings for'Leda.'Further critical articles on particular aspects of Huxley's work follow, together with the second Peter Edgerly Firchow Memorial Prize Essay by Hisashi Ozawa of King's College London. A painting by Carolyn Mary Kleefeld ushers in the second part of the issue, which contains a first selection of papers from the Oxford Symposium held in 2013.

This book provides Pentecostals with the necessary equipment and motivation to contribute to one of Africa's important ethical challenges, LGBTIQ+ people and Africa's homophobic reaction to them. The study is aimed at Christian believers and pastors, to empower them with relevant information about the issue. The issue is discussed in terms of existing biological, psychological, anthropological, sociological, philosophical and queer theory knowledge, along with a study of the biblical texts, in order to answer the question, what should a responsible African Pentecostal response be towards the LGBTIQ+ issue, and what should Pentecostals'attitude be towards such people?

The relatively peaceful interreligious relations in Indonesia seem to be shattered ever since Suharto's fall in 1998. Religious cleavages grew and quickly became sources of conflict. Exclusive religious truth claims have led people to support interreligious violence. Yet, benevolent religious values continue to encourage people for mutual solidarity and to shy away from violence. Religious minority groups are often perceived as a threat by the religious majority. Although living side by side allows different groups to develop positive interreligious contacts, this may differ for religious majority and minorities. This study scrutinizes the role of religion in interreligious conflicts in Indonesia.

The preacher's weekly assignment is brutally repetitive: Fill the blank page by Sunday, at least twice a month, if not, even more. This book offers a biblical, theological and empirical grounding to support the preacher's self-reflective, listening, and sermonizing practices in order for the preacher to be aware of his/her spirituality of listening and discernment.

Polish contemporary literature is not a closed book to European and world readers. Those not involved professionally in the production or study of literature may well have heard of Stanisaw Lem, Witold Gombrowicz, Czesaw Miosz, Wisawa Szymborska or the recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature for 2018, Olga Tokarczuk. The situation is different with Polish literature of earlier periods, including the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century novel. Our book attempts to change this perspective and poses the question as to whether another - expanded and more inclusive - literary canon is possible.

Ausgehend von den sozialen und zeitdiagnostischen Überlegungen Rudolf Steiners rekonstruiert Leonhard Weiss Konzepte und Praxen der Waldorfpädagogik aus der Perspektive einer philosophischen'Theorie der Anerkennung'. Dabei zeigt sich, dass die Waldorfpädagogik als eine konkrete Ausgestaltung einer'Pädagogik der Anerkennung'verstanden werden kann. Damit eröffnet die Studie nicht nur neue Interpretationsmöglichkeiten einer der erfolgreichsten reformpädagogischen Bewegungen, sondern stellt zugleich auch einen Beitrag zum Diskurs über'Anerkennung'als wichtiger bildungstheoretischer Kategorie dar.

Vision reports occupy large space in the Book of Ezekiel and the texts put special emphasis on the details of receiving a vision. In Thailand, Buddhist monks or Hindu priests also have seen visions. Mediums travel to distant places in visions and meet with spirits. Christian churches set goals for the future and call them visions. This study takes a closer look at visions both in the Book of Ezekiel and in the Thai context by focusing on the Thai translation of Hebrew terms for visions. Besides that, it compares the Hebrew concepts behind visions with the Thai understanding.

Jan-Olav Henriksen investigates the close relationship between God and human beings via an understanding of religion as clusters of practices that relate humans to ultimacy by different types of representation. Christian religion articulates its belief in God as creator (manifest in the power to be) and redeemer (represented in the life and ministry of Jesus Christ. Christ thus is the primary representation of God as the ultimate reality of love. He is also the true image of God, and the model for how humans are also called to represent God in love. The human features of desire and vulnerability, as these express elements that shape, form, and articulate challenges for human life, present humans with the need for orienting themselves, and for different types of transformation. Christian religion articulates a specific mode of how to cope with these challenges presented by desire and vulnerability: by living in love. Against this backdrop, Henriksen argues that neither how one understands religion, God, nor how to live a life that relates to ultimacy, can be tasks fulfilled as long as history goes on.

Medical devices include objects, substances and software that are used for therapeutic or diagnostic purposes for humans. However, the main intended effect, in contrast to medicinal products, is not primarily pharmacological, metabolic or immunological, but usually physical or physicochemical. The innovation cycles for many modern implantable medical devices are estimated to be about 18 months, for software even shorter. It is obvious that the evaluation of the performance, the effectiveness, the benefits and risks of a medical devices is very different compared to medicinal products. The recent EU-Regulation on medical devices asks for very requirements regarding the systematic evaluation of medical devices in humans and the procedures for granting the CE mark. The recent volume of the series MEDICAL ETHICS addresses the ethical, legal, methodological, and practical challenges arising from the Regulation regarding the development and use of medical devices.

Muslim reflection on the Cross is dominated by the notion of a substitute being crucified in Jesus'place - something never mentioned in the Qur'an. Reliant on repetition of decontextualized, lexicographical readings, it does scant justice to the spiritual depth and hermeneutical finesse of the Qur'an. Failing to note the ironic trope of the text, it conceptualizes the supremacy of God in merely this-worldly terms, reducing divine mystery to the mythical and the banal. Far from explaining Qur'an 4:157, Substitutionism obscures and distorts it.

Dieses Buch widmet sich auf einfühlsame Weise den vielfältigen Lebenslagen und psychosozialen Herausforderungen von psychoseerfahrenen Menschen, indem es den Betroffenen Raum bietet, eigene Antwortschwerpunkte zu setzen. Vor dem Hintergrund der Betroffenenperspektive analysiert das vorliegende Werk das Spannungsfeld von gelingender Partizipation und gesellschaftlichen Erwartungen. Im Zuge einer interdisziplinären Positionsbestimmung werden Verortungen der Selbstbestimmungsidee vorgenommen und innovative Zugänge nachgezeichnet. Schwerpunkte bilden Konzepte wie Empowerment, Recovery, Trialog sowie Peer-Support.

Albert Einstein ist als Vater der Relativitätstheorie bekannt, er war jedoch auch einer der bedeutendsten Pazifisten der ersten Hälfte des zwanzigsten Jahrhunderts. Mithilfe seines pragmatischen Pazifismus versuchte er, den Dilemmata und Problemen die Stirn zu bieten, die aus den politischen Verhältnissen seiner Zeit herrührten: der Beginn des Großen Kriegs, die Schaffung und das Versagen des Völkerbunds, das Aufkommen totalitärer Regimes, der Ausbruch des Zweiten Weltkriegs, die Eskalation des Kalten Kriegs, die Einrichtung der Vereinten Nationen mit ihren institutionellen Schwächen.

In the past seventy years, education and training have evolved from side issues of political cooperation to political priorities of the EU. For three decades within this period, they were promoted implicitly to enable the mobility of workers in the internal market. Later on, a European dimension of education and training has developed through mobility and cooperation programs and through the lifelong learning discourse. Today, a European policy space of education and training is unfolding, which the EU is coordinating by the means of soft governance arrangements.

Der Fachbereich Liturgiewissenschaft und Sakramententheologie feierte im Jahr 2017 sein 50-jähriges Bestehen an der Katholisch-Theologischen Fakultät der Universität Wien. In diesem Band sind Aufsätze versammelt, die dazu Rückblicke auf die Geschichte, Einblicke in die gegenwärtigen Forschungen und die Methodenvielfalt sowie Ausblicke in die Zukunft des Faches bieten. Neben Kurt Kardinal Koch kommen ehemalige und gegenwärtige MitarbeiterInnen sowie mit dem Lehrstuhl verbundene WissenschafterInnen zu Wort.

Discourses on'radical Islam', on'Islamic extremism', or on'religious violence'in Islamic contexts are en vogue - in and beyond academia. But in view of the highly contested topic of political Islam, the challenge starts already with the preferred terminology. What actually are we talking about when we talk about'salafism','jihadism','Islamic terrorism', etc.? This edited volume provides a collection of contributions that due to their respective academic cultures and disciplinary locations display a multifaceted variety of approaches to the research field and its subject.

The present volume consists of articles dealing with a broad range of multilingual practices in Finno-Ugric literatures, in a variety of sociopolitical contexts from Central Europe to Western Siberia. Literature can strengthen the voices of minority communities, enhance the prestige of languages and encourage their creative use. Today's Finno-Ugric literatures give valuable insights into the everyday realities of multilingualism and cultural diversity, showing the performativity of cultures in multicultural and transcultural settings.

The book highlights facets of people's experiences since the 19th century with Atlantic space and the design of their stay on board ships. The contributions range from the perspective of pleasure-seeking tourists, who used ships as a temporary, luxurious homes to the perspective of military personnel, who perceived the Atlantic Passage as a transition between homeland security and potentially dangerous professional operations - the risks of sea voyages even on technically sophisticated ocean liners, whose interiors and services often include grand hotels in the metropolises of the late 19th and 20th century, were discreetly ignored by the passengers. The charm of the Atlantic and the ship, unthinkable in earlier times, should not be decimated in any way.

Africa is on the move. New geopolitical constellations have prompted individuals and groups to escape war, authoritarian regimes, environmental crises, and poverty. This has led to multiple migration patterns and complex mobilities of African people within and outside of Africa. This volume demonstrates that there is no unifying way to conceptualise the multiple nature of African mobilities. Some authors have conceptualised mobility on a metaphorical level while others provide analyses along spatial movement. This volume offers a vast portrayal of the diversity, innovation and richness of African mobile experiences through geographical, linguistic and socio-political domains. Providing nuanced and complex analyses offered by African Studies scholars of various disciplines, this book aims to contribute to new insights into African mobile experiences and to a repositioning of how Africa is represented globally.

Cet ouvrage pr'esente huit nouvelles'etudes empiriques sur diverses traditions discursives entre oral, oralit'e mise en scene et'ecrit. Elles couvrent une large gamme de m'edias audio-visuels (presse, bande dessin'ee, radio, t'el'evision, film et chanson) et tous les niveaux linguistiques (phonologie, morphologie, syntaxe, s'emantique, pragmatique), en tenant compte du contact de langues et de vari'et'es. Ces'etudes ont toutes en commun d'adopter une perspective diachronique et couvrent la p'eriode du XIX emeau XXI emesiecle. L'ouvrage constitue ainsi une contribution importante a l'ecriture du chapitre actuel de l'histoire de la langue francaise et a une connaissance plus d'etaill'ee des concepts de la linguistique des m'edias.

Dieser Band stellt die gesellschaftliche Wirkung von Bund und Bündnis im späten Mittelalter in den Mittelpunkt. Bündnisse sind Resultate und Ausgangspunkte politischen Handelns zugleich. Damit richtet sich die Aufmerksamkeit auf die Akteure, welche zum Mittel des Bündnisses griffen, im Bündnis handelten und vom Bündnis betroffen waren, und deren Leben durch das Bündnis geprägt war. Die gemeinsame Betrachtung von Trägern, Mitteln und Zielen zeigt die erhebliche soziale Wirkungskraft und die Dynamik politischer Bünde im Mittelalter.

The Vatican II was an event of a new facelift for the entire edifice of the Catholic ecclesiology. It called for the renewal in the universal Catholic Church. This book deals with the question: How can the Catholic Church in India accept the council's challenge for renewal and become truly Indian in its being and essence? Undertaking a systematic examination of the post-conciliar ecclesiological development in the Indian Catholic Church, in its existential multi-religious and multi-cultural context, the author attempts to develop an ecclesiological reflection for the Indian context.

The following articles were selected by colleagues of New Testament scholar Vasile Mihoc from Sibiu to honour his contributions to theological scholarship in Romania, which places particular emphasis on the spiritual context of church life as a prerequisite for exegesis.

Collective myths shape and frame contemporary communication processes as well as the collective subconscious. International contributors from the humanities and social sciences focus on interdependencies between collective myths and decivilizing processes in China and the United States, global economics, and recent technological advances. They highlight long-term de-/civilizing processes also for the globally important survival units India and Turkey, and the violently contested border areas of Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Die Haltung und Politik der EU in der Kosovo-Frage stehen im Zentrum dieses Buches. Die EU versuchte über viele Jahre, die Unabhängigkeit der früher autonomen Provinz zu verhindern. Die Kosovoalbaner sahen dagegen in der Loslösung von Restjugoslawien die einzige Lösung. Erst durch die NATO-Intervention im März 1999 und die damit verbundene militärische Zuspitzung des Konfliktes geriet die Kosovo-Frage auf die Agenda der EU-Politik. Das Engagement der EU im Kosovo schärfte zudem ihr außen- und sicherheitspolitisches Profil und trug so zur Lösung der Statusfrage bei. Die Mehrzahl der EU-Mitgliedstaaten erkannte zu Beginn des Jahres 2008 den Kosovo als souveränen Staat an, während fünf EU-Staaten die Anerkennung zunächst nicht vollzogen und an ihrer Position auch nach dem Gutachten des Internationalen Gerichtshofs in Den Haag (2010) festhielten. Für den Kosovo ist die noch ausstehende Anerkennung durch die fünf Mitgliedsländer der EU von zentraler Bedeutung. Denn ein europäisches Kosovo ist für die EU genauso wichtig, wie die EU für Kosovo von zentraler Bedeutung ist.

This volume contains many aspects of sports journalism in daily newspapers, bundled in these main chapters: Professional Sports - Boxing Fights, Yacht Races, Horse Racing, Car Racing, Football, Baseball etc. College Sports - Sports Agents, lce Hockey, Football Coaches, Basketball Cheatings, etc. Sports Celebrities - Famous Jockey, Boxing Champion, Baseball ldol, Outstanding Golfer, etc. Sports Television - Munich Olympics, Los Angeles Olympics, Barcelona Olympics, Sochi Winter Olympics, etc. Sports Photos - Football Player, Baseball Hero, Barcelona Olympics, Boston Marathon Bombings etc. Sports Cartoons - Criticism about several Olympic Summer and Winter Games.

Volume 19 is dedicated to the memory of Prof Lothar Fietz (University of Tübingen) in appreciation of his merits as an outstanding Huxley scholar, as a Founding Member and Curator of the Aldous Huxley Society and as a true friend (see the In Memoriam above). The volume opens with a sequence of hitherto unpublished Huxley writings, starting with the three extant versions from 1949 of his dramatization of Ape and Essence (1948), thematically linked with two texts treating the physical survival of mankind and three contrasting texts discussing the question of spiritual survival. This section is followed by Huxley's draft for an introduction of Edna St. Vincent Millay at one of her poetry readings in 1938 and an autograph letter to Seabury Edwardes that he wrote shortly after the publication of The Doors of Perception (1954). The volume closes with several critical articles on Huxley's relationship with D. T. Suzuki, his Sanary period and his view and practice of literary utopias.

ForscherInnen unterschiedlicher Disziplinen widmen sich in diesem Werk der weiblichen Perspektive von Kriegen - als Opfer wie Täterin, als Friedens-Bertha und Flinten-Uschi, als Publizistinnen und Rezipientinnen, als Pazifistinnen und Kriegsbefürworterinnen und nicht zuletzt als treibende Arbeitskraft der Kriegsmotoren. Auf Grundlage der neuesten Forschung werden in diesem Band Mythen, Legenden und Stereotype beleuchtet und nicht zuletzt die Rolle der Medien und Kriegspropaganda von und für Frauen analysiert - vom Ersten Weltkrieg bis heute, in Monarchie, Diktatur, Demokratie und Kalifat, vom Herzen Europas über die Türkei, den Nahen Osten bis hin zu Westsahara und Vietnam.

Die australische Freihandelspolitik in Ozeanien folgt globalen Imperativen und wird sicherheitspolitisch instrumentalisiert. Eine auf ökonomischem Zwang basierende Restauration regionaler Ordnungshierarchien ist jedoch nicht nachhaltig, wenn eine (chinesische) Alternative besteht. Deshalb erscheint es ratsam, dass die gegenwärtige Politik einer konfliktiven Sicherheit durch Abhängigkeit wieder zu einer kooperativen Sicherheit durch Zugeständnisse wird, die sich am Wohle der in Ozeanien lebenden Menschen orientiert. Dazu sollte sich Australien seiner Verantwortung im Rahmen einer resonsibility to support bewusst sein.

Multilateral organizations - the United Nations (UN) in particular - have played, and continue to play, an important role in shaping the security sector reform (SSR) agenda, both in terms of policy development and the provision of support to a wide range of national SSR processes. This volume presents a variety of perspectives on UN support to SSR, past and present, with attention to policy and operational practice. Drawing from the experience of UN practitioners combined with external experts on SSR, this volume offers an in-depth exploration of the UN approach to SSR from a global perspective.

During World War 2 (WW2) Nazi Germany established 500 camps in occupied Norway. In May 1945 these camps quickly became symbols of terror and death. At war's end war criminals and collaborators had to be arrested pending their trials, in a time marked by revenge. This book examines new perspectives on the scope and fate of the Nazi camps in Norway during WW2. One of the most symbol-laden sites in Norwegian war history is in focus. The SS camp Falstad in central Norway was an arena of Nazi abuses from 1941-1945. After the war, it was made into a prison and played a key part in the Norwegian post-war trials.

The volume analyses major strategic and policy issues. How to make Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) Policies relevant for inclusive growth strategies in Africa so that socio-economic transformation strategies will take off. The first part discusses the issues of human skills development as part of STI policies, based on visions, strategic plans and country cases (for Cameroon, Nigeria and Mauritania). The second part looks at STI Policies for Economic Transformation, focussing on country case studies (for Egypt and Tunisia). A third part presents book reviews and book notes.

Wie lassen sich Prozesse und Produkte ästhetischen Gestaltens evaluieren? Diesen Fragen widmete sich ein im Schnittfeld von Kunst und Wissenschaft verortetes'Sparkling Science'-Projekt, das Schülerinnen und Schüler zweier Salzburger Schulen mit einem an der Universität Mozarteum verankerten Team aus Musikpädagogik und Musikwissenschaft zusammenführte, sowie eine internationale Tagung, die im Juni 2019 an der Universität Mozarteum Salzburg abgehalten wurde. Der Band bündelt Ergebnisse aus pädagogischer, kunst- und musikpädagogischer Perspektive.

This issue of the Berliner Chinahefte/Chinese History and Society deals with cultural exchanges between China and the outside world and with their impact, mostly in terms of questions regarding tradition and modernity. China is understood more as an area composed of certain cultural elements which may include the Chinese (and Taiwanese) diaspora, where a sense of belonging still exists, and which exerts influence on everyday culture and habits.

Aus evolutionärer Sicht sind Städte ein Experiment, ob es der Spezies des Homo Sapiens gelingt, nachhaltig in hoher Dichte miteinander zu leben, ohne seine Lebensgrundlagen zu zerstören. Ein Experiment mit fraglichem Ausgang. Mit der Beschleunigung durch die Nutzung fossiler Energie für Maschinen entstand ein neuer, nicht mehr an den Menschen angepasster Rhythmus des Lebens, der das Denken und damit die Städte zunehmend veränderte. Nicht in der physischen, sondern der geistigen Mobilität liegt die Zukunft auch der Städte. Die Lösung der Probleme liegt daher im Kopf. Eine Anregung zum Nach- und Überdenken.