I couldn’t repress to parallelize this blogpost with the former one, be it only for the irony of it. As a matter of fact, it really sounds at first like a contradiction in terms to compare the strategies of a tycoon who reigned over literary destinies and their wallet for...
Today, I had the pleasure to host a guest lecture by Anna Kinder in my class. She has been coordinating the Suhrkamp-Forschungskolleg for several years. No one could better than her give an overview of the development of Suhrkamp (a major publishing house when it comes to literary texts), as well as...
The conference on Henriette Herz ended today in the Mendelssohn-Remise, a location situated opposite the Academy of Sciences and only two houses away from the place where Rahel Levin received her friends. The city center of Berlin is full of historical places, especially around the Gendarmenmarkt, which is unanimously praised in...
During the #dhiha6 conference, we tried out different formats in order to foster exchanges. One of them were the Lounges, which I mentioned in an earlier post. In the lounges, participants could actively contribute to predetermined setups by commenting texts, answering questions, letting ideas emerge. This setting was interesting in that it allowed...
At the #dhiha6 conference, I was in charge of the Open Peer Review Lounge together with Pierre Mounier. We had transfered all the blog posts written in the context of the #dhiha6 blog carnival to the Open Peer Review blog platform hypothes.is and opened them to comments. The visitors could...
Am 15. Juni 2015 fand die erste Verleihung des DH-Berlin-Preises statt. Dies ist der Text meiner Laudatio für den Nachwuchspreis. ———– Meine sehr verehrten Damen und Herren, mir kommen die Ehre und das Vergnügen zu, Ihnen den Nachwuchspreis und dessen diesjährigen Träger vorzustellen. Ich stelle Ihnen weder eine Open-Access-Dienstleistung noch...
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