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Personal papers such as diaries or memoirs are established sources for historical, cultural and literary research. Special archival collections have been built up over the past decades. Depending on the focus of the content, these collections are composed very differently. With an intersectional approach, some of these differences are presented in this article: Are women and men documented differently in collections of personal papers from artists, scientists or politicians? How is the gender comparison in collections with an everyday history approach? Are women and men possibly represented here with different auto/biographical formats? And what about members of different social classes? Are there also diaries of workers or servants in the archives? The systematic comparison exposes structural inequalities in archival collections and thus shows the direct effects of documentation policies that have a lasting influence on which sources are ultimately available to research – and which are not. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The debate on gender-inclusive and discrimination-sensitive use of language, that has taken place in German-speaking universities for many years, raises fundamental ethical questions. This paper discusses the possibilities of acting in and with langu- age and examines the individual responsibility of language use. The paper argues for a reflexive and thoughtful approach to language preconditions, that leads to a deeper understanding of the importance of gender representations in language. It proclaims language as a central field of action for gender equality and antidiscrimination work at universities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article "President's Greeting" reports on the position paper on equal opportunities and diversity of the German Mathematical Society (DMV). The DMV presidency emphasizes the importance of a diverse, respectful, and inclusive community. It is mentioned that the discussion about a possible renaming of the DMV has resurfaced, but no name change has taken place so far. The presidency has established a specialist group for gender, diversity, and sustainability in mathematics and proposes a participatory process to shape the discussion about the name of the DMV. Furthermore, reference is made to a paper adopted by various mathematical and scientific societies, condemning antidemocratic and nationalist approaches in Germany. It is emphasized that science requires openness, international cooperation, democracy, and the rule of law. [Extracted from the article]

Defining desire generally remains quite a cumbersome task due to the multiplicity and versatility of its conceptual nuances. Although queer theory has debunked many of the fundamental assumptions underlying continuities between categories such as sex, gender, sexual practice and desire as discursive-linguistic constructs, material dimensions concerning desire have yet to be adequately investigated. This paper portrays an autoethnographic journey through landscapes of desire and links personal experience to several approaches that the authors came across in the course of their research. Incorporating creative strategies of knowledge production into a queer-feminist reading of new materialisms can widen perceptions of desire and offer valuable insights into how and where desire might occur. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper deals with this question: which techniques and interpretation patterns construct »good parents« through housework examples in psychiatric report within infanticide files. Parenthood is conceptualized as a caring relationship. Starting from a discourse-analytical framework, expanded by aspects of knowledge sociology, the paper focuses specifically on one infanticide case. This case of a mother who was accused of infanticide twice is interesting for the normative negotiation of good parenting because she lived in an alternative family form: What gender-related and personal responsibility strategies emerge in the patterns of interpretation? And which techniques are used to qualify men and women as good parents in the psychiatric report? The paper shows that the reports are not neutral factual matters. Rather, they show that parental facts, in a way, are brought forth. Furthermore, the results indicate that psychiatric experts in the criminal field can be understood as constructors of good parenting. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Up to now research and professional practice do not have any consistent theoretical concept of parenthood. Therefore they can only fall back on unquestioned ideas which they try to systemize and amend with theoretical fragments. Instead of improving a theoretical perspective they unwillingly fuel the normative discourse on parenthood. This paper now lines out a theoretical approach to parenthood, based on the process theory by Norbert Elias. Parenthood is not only understood as a psycho-social process of individuals but at the same time as a long-term psycho-social process of societies, in which individuals are socio-historically embedded via their networks. Through this indispensable core-process of parenthood societies ensure generativity and mold standards, ideals and habitus of parenthood. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article is part of the wider project Grammatica Balkanica, the intentions of which have already been mentioned in previous publications. The present study is based on standard languages and its focus is laid less on historical than on typological aspects. Before dealing with the Balkan languages, a similar approach on the Romance languages was conducted. The present paper discusses the differences and similarities in the formation of the grammatical number in the standard Balkan languages. Formation models will be delivered based on examples. The same approach should be applied to all Slavic languages. The aim of the whole project is to examine the differences and similarities between languages regarding the morphological and syntactic formation patterns, the phenomena of their convergence and divergence, the extent to which these factors are connected to cultural history and cognitive development. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]