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Who gets remembered as an intellectual and who disappears into the footnotes? Gertrúd Bortstieber published her radical translations as “the wife of György Lukács.” Their story challenges the idea of the academic “power couple”.

"Now that her papers are accessible to researchers, the task of identifying her own voice from those documents is not merely a biographical corrective", writes Anna Nakai ⬇️

https://couples.hypotheses.org/656

#Philosophy #PowerCouples #hypoverse

Anna Nakai, Beyond “Power Couple” —The Case of György Lukács and Gertrúd Bortstieber

György Lukács is an iconic Hungarian philosopher whose name most people encounter within the context of Marxist theory and literary and art criticism. For the history of twentieth-century Hungary, he fulfilled a peculiar role: his trajectory illustrated a pattern of how a young Communist developed his intellectual gifts through the critical transformation of European society…

Power Couples?
de.hypothesesMay 29

Projects die. Data survives.

While sustainability debates in digital humanities often focus on formats, metadata, and archives, Joudy Sido Bozan asks: who maintains the code, the website, the expertise, and the community once the funding ends?

https://ctg.hypotheses.org/617

#DigitalHumanities #ResearchInfrastructure #DH #DFG #hypoverse

de.hypothesesMay 29

Constitutional courts are often the last line of defence for democracy. Dukagjin Abdyli reflects on European legal standards, judicial independence, academic mobility, and on the role of courts in strengthening democratic resilience in the Western Balkans. Read the full interview on the #Trafo blog ⬇️

https://trafo.hypotheses.org/65714

#RuleOfLaw #EuropeanLaw #ConstitutionalCourt #WesternBalkans #hypoverse

Constitutional Law is Ultimately About People’s Lived Experiences – 5in10 with Dukagjin Abdyli

Dukagjin Abdyli is a distinguished legal expert specializing in European Law, Constitutional Law, and International Law. He holds a Doctor of Legal Sciences degree from Karl Franzens University of Graz, where his research focused on the interaction between European and international legal frameworks. Dukagjin has held key positions in Kosovo’s public institutions, with a particular focus on constitutional and European integration processes. During his tenure at the Ministry of European Integration, he played a crucial role in the legal approximation process, ensuring the harmonization of Kosovo’s legislation with the EU acquis.

TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research
de.hypothesesMay 22

Telegram once helped organise resistance in Belarus. Today, state authorities use it to circulate confession videos and enforce political control.

Aryna Dzmitryieva asks what happens when tools of dissent are absorbed by authoritarian regimes ⬇️

https://digitalwar.hypotheses.org/1433

#Belarus #HumanRights #DigitalPolitics #hypoverse #Telegram

de.hypothesesApr 23

"The question was never only what was forbidden. It was who, when, and in whose interest decided what counted as a crime, an illness, a moral failure, or a threat to the state."

Two TV series, #Fartsa and #SovietJeans, reveal how Soviet law served as in instrument of state power. Gevorg Avetikyan reads the two series side by side and shows how coercion worked in practice - and how the grey market became part of the system itself. ⬇️

https://justimino.hypotheses.org/1175

#SovietHistory #ColdWar #hypoverse

de.hypothesesApr 20

On a hot, sweltering day in August 389 CE, Latinius Pacatus Drepaniu was faced with a difficult task: Priasing a triumphant victory in a civil war in front of an audience that included many who had supported the loser. In a true masterstroke, he turned defeat into contrast and victory into legitimacy, writes Susanna Elm⬇️

https://stasis.hypotheses.org/2088

#Antiquity #AncientHistory #Classics #hypoverse

“Delicate and Fluid:” Gender and Civil War in Late Antiquity

On a hot, sweltering day in August 389 CE, the Senate House in Rome was packed. Clad in their shiny white toga, a carefully folded and rather uncomfortable woolen robe, often adorned with a broad purple stripe, the Roman senators had come to listen to an honored speaker praise the recent victory of their emperor […]

Stasis
de.hypothesesApr 10

How do photographs and films produced by repressive regimes change once the regimes themselves collapse?

Natalija Arlauskaitė views archives not as neutral repositories, but as visual systems of knowledge, power, and loyalty. Focusing on artistic practices of de- and re-archiving, she analyzes how images participate in the production of subjectivity, agency, and citizenship.

https://decentarch.hypotheses.org/2579

#VisualHistory #Gulag #PostSovietStudies #DecenteredArchive #hypoverse

How to Look at File Photographs: Archive, Optical Citizenship, and Documentary Art

How are film and photographic documents produced by various repressive regimes used in their own context and later reinterpreted? As a researcher in visual studies, I analyze archives and their evolution somewhat differently than...

The Decentered Archive
de.hypothesesApr 2

‘...as if roasting coffee beans until they are intensely burnt…’

A minor scribal note, left on a copy of a craft handbook ascribed to the Yemeni Rasulid ruler al-Muẓaffar Yūsuf, bears witness to a user’s engagement with craft knowledge.

While seemingly insignificant, comments such as these attest to the ongoing vibrancy of craft recipes, which continued to be used, modified, and transmitted long after first being written down, writes Leonie Böttiger 👇

https://arabicrecipes.hypotheses.org/377

#hypoverse

Roast it Like Coffee Beans: A Copyist’s Practical Tips for Ink-Making

Scholars are still reconstructing the exact process by which coffee entered the everyday life of populations across the Islamicate world, but, as Cemal Kafadar writes, “the earliest users who regularized its consumption as a social beverage, to the best of our knowledge, were Sufis in Yemen at the turn of the fifteenth century.” Coffee barely… Continue reading Roast it Like Coffee Beans: A Copyist’s Practical Tips for Ink-Making

Premodern Arabic Recipes
de.hypothesesMar 17

What does it take to become successful in academia? Publish early in a top journal, co-author with a well-known (and highly cited) scholar, and be affiliated with an elite institution. That's what the statistics say.

Sarah Lang breaks them down and reflects on her decisions, which went completely against this advice (including starting a research blog!) 👇

https://epigrammetry.hypotheses.org/6257

#Academia #hypoverse

de.hypothesesFeb 24

“Industrious” Chinese and British “drunkards and scoundrels”:

In 1908, maritime labour debates were shaped by sharp stereotypes. In the pages of The Seaman, Chinese sailors were cast as a “yellow peril” and British workers as unreliable drunkards. Michelle Watzig shows what these stereotypes reveal about the status of British seamen in the early 19th century 👇

https://ghil.hypotheses.org/7839 via #GHILondon

#MaritimeHistory #hypoverse

‘Industrious’ Chinese and British ‘Scoundrels’: Stereotypes of Asian and British Seamen in the 1908 Issues of The Seaman

Introduction: Competition on the Labour Market ‘A Carnival of Calumny’1—that was how The Seaman, the journal of the National Sailors’ and Firemen’s Union, described the situation facing its readers in the early twentieth century. The journal was dominated by a campaign claiming that Chinese seamen, who earned lower wages than European seafarers, were the main … Continue reading ‘Industrious’ Chinese and British ‘Scoundrels’: Stereotypes of Asian and British Seamen in the 1908 Issues of The Seaman

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