A trip down memory lane:

👉 https://ghil.hypotheses.org/1658

Annika Stendebach explores Northern Ireland's capital Belfast in the footsteps of people who grew up in Ireland in the 1960s and 1970s. Walking interview with Kevin McGlinchey, who experienced the Troubles as a teenager, featured on the ➡ German Historical Institute London Blog.

#hypoverse #YouthHistory #HistYouth #NorthernIrelandConflict #Belfast #TheTroubles #OralHistory #ContemporaryHistory

#Latvia suspended the right to seek asylum and authorized pushbacks of refugees on the border with #Belarus, leaving asylum seekers trapped in the forest for months, legal scholar Aleksandra Jolkina reports.

Read more about her reseach, which compares Latvian, Lithuanian and Polish responses to the situation at the EU’s border with Belarus, at ➡ TRAFO Blog:

https://trafo.hypotheses.org/47364

#hypoverse #TRAFOblog #refugees #asylumlaw

UrbRel strands scholars on a remote island! 🎙 #Podcast hosts Corinna Riva (University College London) and Anne Murphy (UBC Vancouver) interview UrbRel research group members. Each scholar has to bring a book, a song and a film in order to survive. The podcast provides insights into research on the mutual formation of urbanity and religion from antiquity to the present in a fun and relaxed atmosphere. 🌊🏝️🎶📚🎥🌊

https://urbrel.hypotheses.org/category/podcast

#dehypoPodcasts #hypoverse #UrbRel #Religion

In the last few years, Casco Art Institute in #Utrecht has been developing the project commons.art, a platform which facilitates and supports the creative and social caretaking of art as a way of generating new commons.

In this blog post at ➡ Reclaim Your Archive, Claartje Rasterhoff explores what the notion of commons brings us when it comes to issues around digital art and heritage.

https://reclaim.hypotheses.org/754

#hypoverse #digitalArt #digitalHumanities #ReclaimYourArchive

„all types and forms of conspiracies are loosely combined – without regard to logic, business interests and an explicit political strategy – maybe except for calculated provocation“

https://haitblog.hypotheses.org/3996

At the blog ➡ Denken ohne Geländer Maximilian Kreter deals with the processing of the Corona crisis in the field of German White Power Music using the example of the band "Zillertaler Virenjäger" (The Zillertal Virus Hunters)

#hypoverse #ConspiracyTheories #PoliticalExtremism #Covid

How President Zelensky was pushed into the role of the nation's history teacher, a role he had initially tried to avoid and which he had once played on television:

https://trafo.hypotheses.org/45375

Viktoria Sereda at the ➡ TRAFO blog

„The shock of disruption turned history back into Ukrainians’ discussions about sense of belonging, especially for those who, under the brutal Russian threat, increasingly identify with the Ukrainian cause.“

#hypoverse #Ukraine #HistoryTeachers #Zelenskyy (...)

The diet of Worms or how a capital W can be important:

"In the sixteenth century, ‘diet’ could refer to a person’s nutrition or digestion (...) or describe an ‘assembly’ in political contexts, especially an assembly of Estates in the Holy Roman Empire."

https://ghil.hypotheses.org/1325

At the ➡ GHIL Blog, Jonas Bechtold examines whether there was a linguistic differentiation between the various assemblies of the Holy Roman Empire in 16th C England.

#hypoverse #EarlyModern #InternationalRelations

The artwork "Uncomfortable Objects" by Mexican artist Mariana Castillo Deball takes us on a journey to the past, as she assembles pieces of naturalia and archaeological heritage, and pulls them to the rugged and relief-like surface of the picture plane.

For the blog ➡ Bilderfahrzeuge, Castillo Deball commented on her work:

https://bilderfahrzeuge.hypotheses.org/6806

#hypoverse
#Bilderfahrzeuge #Iconology

Stefanie Wallbraun shows at the ➡ HCA Graduate Blog how in the US firearm ownership is understood as part of social identity and how it contributes to political polarisation:

„Gun Culture Supremacy is characterized by an absolutist approach to gun rights that leaves no room for compromise. It disables political debate as it puts gun rights over reasonable demands and interests of other groups and limits the debate to the individual rights level.“

https://hcagrads.hypotheses.org/4420

#hypoverse (...)

“It all starts with a distortion of the past”.

➡ TRAFO Blog interviews Ukrainian historian Olha Labur about her research on the hidden stories of migrant women, how the Russian invasion of Ukraine influenced her research and on the role of the humanities and social sciences in times of upheaval, fragmented publics, and authoritarian transgressions:

https://trafo.hypotheses.org/44799

#hypoverse #GenderStudies #WarinUkraine #womeninacademia

Anyone who reads Reinhart Koselleck’s texts in German will be aware of two striking features in the ways he uses language: first, a frequent recourse to certain metaphorical expressions, and second, an extensive use of a limited number of rather peculiar words, or, contrariwise, of familiar words in an idiosyncratic way.

At ➡ Geschichtstheorie am Werk, Willibald Steinmetz applies historical semantics to one of its founders:

https://gtw.hypotheses.org/11421

#hypoverse #Koselleck100

In trying to explain the draw of fanatical social movements and clandestine groups, journalists often call on the expertise of "cult-busters", who explain the "brainwashing" strategies of movements like QAnon, MAGA, etc.

But these "cult-busters" often have no credentials, engage in problematic practices, and "brainwashing" stands on scientifically shaky ground.

Read Jo Banks' fascinating take on cult-busters at ➡ Marginalien:

https://marginalie.hypotheses.org/2519

#religiousstudies #hypoverse

"Blessing Is Not for Everyone":

At the blog ➡"New Age in Russia", Nestor Manichkin shares insights from his field research on the Bata Chygaruu Ritual in Kyrgyzstan, a practice of blessings given by reputable and respected people is known as bata beruu (‘to give bata, to bless’). It remains a vital ritual component of traditional and modernized urban life.

https://newageru.hypotheses.org/6825

#hypoverse #ReligiousStudies #NewAge

📷 Nestor Manichkin

At the ➡ #GHILondon blog, Martin Kristoffer Hamre traces the history of The London Congress of the ‘Nationalist International’ in July of 1935. British responses to the rise of the Third Reich in the 1930s were many and varied, and not always necessarily hostile, he observes.

Promoting German Nazism in the Heart of the British Empire:

https://ghil.hypotheses.org/1278

#NSGeschichte #hypoverse

Ever wondered if big philanthropists really cure the world? Turns out, they do make a difference!

In this piece at the HCA Graduate Blog, Swetha Ananth and Natalie Rauscher explore the Gates Foundation's activities to combat HIV/AIDS, including points of criticism which the foundation has faced and addressed:

https://hcagrads.hypotheses.org/4285

➡ Founded by grad students at the Heidelberg Center for American Studies, the HCA blog is worth a read for anyone interested in #AmericanStudies!

#hypoverse

At de.hypotheses, the majority of bloggers are German-speaking. Nonetheless, roughly forty percent of our blogs are written in English to reach a broader audience.

Giving these blogs the credit which they are due, we will highlight select articles in English with the hashtag #hypoverse (because the de.hypotheses universe is as diverse as it is well-versed!)