Issue 8 | June 2017

Special Feature: Sustainability & Innovation

• Introduction by Maria Höhn and Nicole Shea

Research

• “Actually, Architecture Can Play Well With Others” by Tobias Armborst

• “The Vision and Practice of Biophilic Cities” by Tim Beatley

• “From Interinstitutional Competition to Interinstitutional Collaboration” by Stéphane Charitos, Christopher Kaiser, and Nelleke Van Deusen-Scholl

Commentary

• “Reading Turgenev in a Time of Terror” by Morten Høi Jensen

• “Collaboration in Refugee Education: Field Notes from Bard College Berlin” by Kerry Bystrom with Marion Detjen

• “Encircling the Now” by Felix Meyer-Christian

• “From Collaboration to Strategic Coordination: Creating LCTL Partnerships Across the Big 10 Academic Alliance” by Christopher P. Long, Susan Gass, and Koen Van Gorp

Poetry

• Three Poems by Zhu Zhu, translated from the Chinese by Dong Li

Fiction

• City of Ulysses by Teolinda Gersão, translated from the Portuguese by Jethro Soutar and Annie McDermott

Nonfiction

• Arabia Felix: The Danish Expedition 1761-1767 by Thorkild Hansen, translated from the Danish by James McFarlane and Kathleen McFarlane

The Borders Project

• (Introduction)  The Borders Project: Sarajevo Writers’ Workshop + Atlanta’s Narrative Collective  by Stacy Mattingly

• (Fiction) Tangle by Kulović Selma, translated from the B/C/S by Mirza Purić

• (Poetry) “Alva Goes to the Neuro-Ophthalmologist”  by L.S. McKee

• (Poetry) “January” by Zerina Zahirović, translated from the B/C/S by  Mirza Purić

Reviews

• The Euro and the Battle of Ideas, reviewed by Alexandros Kyriakidis

• Germany’s Energy Transition: A Comparative Perspective, reviewed by Louise Fitzgerald

• Europe Isn’t Working, reviewed by Lucia Quaglia

Interviews

• “An Existential Question of Terrestrial Habitability and Human Survivability: An Interview with Peter Droege” by Sherman Teichman

• “‘Five Voices, Three Countries, One Goal:’ An Interview with Hans-Jochen Schiewer” by Nicole Shea

Visual Art

• From the Power of Colors to Empowered Communities: Refugee Camp Transformations, an art series curated by Nicole Shea

• Performative Polyphonies, an art series curated by Felix Meyer-Christian

Campus

• “The Vassar Refugee Solidarity Initiative” by Anish Kanoria

• “A Different Doctor: Reimagining the Humanities PhD for a Changing World” by Kevin Boettcher

Editor’s Pick

• European Values: Trends and Divides Over Thirty Years, edited by Pierre Bréchon and Frédéric Gonthier

• The Russian Challenge to the European Security Environment, edited by Roger E Kanet

• European Citizenship After Brexit: Freedom of Movement and Rights of Residence, by Patricia Mindus

• The Classical Debt: Greek Antiquity in an Era of Austerity, by Johanna Hanink

• After Europe, by Ivan Krastev