By Alena Sander. Coming towards the end of my doctoral journey, my initial optimism about an academic career quickly faded as I began to look into the world of post-docs and further academic career options and realized: it is going to be harder than I thought. One of the main reasons for this is that I identify and am read as a mother*.
By Éva Fodor, Anikó Gregor, Júlia Koltai and Eszter Kováts The Gendered Effects of COVID-19: A Deluge of Social Problems The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic immediately brought up several...
Oraib Toukan is an artist and scholar. She holds a PhD in Fine Arts from Oxford University, Ruskin School of Art. Until Fall 2015, she was head of the Arts...
Part of the TRAFO series “Reconstructing Neighborhoods of War” By Zoya Masoud Heritage experts around the globe are continuously highlighting the importance of safeguarding the architecture of Aleppo, as one...
By Anindita Majumdar Once identified as an emerging transnational industry, the commercial surrogacy arrangement in India was more than mere commerce. It also involved the birth of kin and relationships...
A Wissenschaftskolleg Focus Group’s Views of a West African Family – After Six Months Work By Carola Lentz, Isidore Lobnibe, and Stanislas Meda Our focus group’s work at the Wissenschaftskolleg...
A Wissenschaftskolleg Focus Group’s Views of a West African Family By Carola Lentz, Isidore Lobnibe, and Stanislas Meda Family history as family enterprise: this is the title under which the...
Jürgen Dinkel studied History and Slavic Philologies and graduated with a PhD from the University of Gießen in 2013. He was a wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter (similar to a assistant professor) at...
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