Interviewed by Elizabeth B. Jones
The difference between the tree and the forest is the same as that between the individual and society.
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Interviewed by Zsuzsanna Varga
An architect and a filmmaker trace their respective journeys to placemaking activism.
Interviewed by Carl J. Strikwerda
The reaction to the war in Ukraine has done the opposite of what Putin intended, moving the EU and NATO toward greater unity.
Interviewed by Luke Forrester Johnson
Shield focuses on the tensions and ambiguities that plague attempts to mediate race and sexuality in Europe.
Interviewed by Arina Rotaru
Kim’s work invites us to imagine European studies from non-western angles.
Interviewed by Hélène B. Ducros
This photography project places homelessness at the heart of a global network of cities.
Interviewed by Anastasia Paparis
Culture always reflects what occurs in the world, and sometimes art and culture even function as a “seismometer” for future development. It is unimaginable that future European Capitals of Culture not embody Europe’s disillusion about never engaging in war again.
Interviewed by Anastasia Paparis
In all our cultural development activities, networking, or educational projects, we have striven to support the inhabitants in their initiatives and to improve their skills and capacities.
Interviewed by Anastasia Paparis
Culture is not an EU “competency.” Arts and cultural policies and related topics are the prerogative of national governments. The EU can only intervene in cultural affairs by linking them to other EU policies.
Interviewed by Arina Rotaru
My interest in silent films has been nourished by their black and white aesthetics and interhuman communication beyond spoken language.
Interviewed by Hélène B. Ducros
Kim Vaz-Deville addresses the “making of” art exhibitions and the value of cross-cultural collaborations to confront difficult histories.
Interviewed by Katrin Sieg
Part of reorienting ourselves is to build spaces of care.
Interviewed by John Haberstroh
We learn about the continuing relevance of ancient myths, the power of opera, and the potential of virtual reality productions.
Interviewed by Angela Cacciarru
Bieler analyzes how struggles for reclaiming a fundamental common good are carried out and unveils the thread that links these struggles.
Interviewed by Hélène B. Ducros
We talked with one of the founders of historical ecology, who is also trained in an array of social and Earth sciences.
By Francesca Ferrando, Rohan Hassan, and Hélène B. Ducros
The first insight that Posthumanism gives us to understand what it means to be human…
Interviewed by Elizabeth B. Jones
Botanical artists are positioned very well to mediate new conversations about plants and understandings, in particular the connections between natural sciences, the humanities, and the public
Interviewed by Maria Höhn and Nicole Shea
After the collapse of Communism in 1989, the city of Berlin, just ten years later, again became the capital of a newly, re-unified Germany.
Interviewed by Sanders Isaac Bernstein
Rather than understand the growing strength of the so-called far right as a matter of political program championed by distant extremists, Strick argues that we need to consider how they transform the emotional climate of everyday life.
Interviewed by Elizabeth B. Jones
Germany’s military and police forces have come under scrutiny for their failure to root out right-wing sympathizers in their ranks…
Interviewed by Elizabeth Jones
Migration to the EU has created pressure on governments to ensure safe entry of migrants & establish the credentials of those in legal limbo.
Interviewed by Laura Bartley
The recent events sparked by the murder of George Floyd, the disproportionate effect of…
Interviewed by Hélène B. Ducros
The history of eugenics intersects the history of racism from its inception. Most eugenicists, particularly the “founders” of the eugenic movements across the world, from England to Greece, and from Romania to the US, were also supporters of racial ideas of white/European superiority.
Interviewed by Hélène B. Ducros
Ralph Lister is a man with a passion: to bring creative Europe beyond its usual metropolitan frontiers.
Interviewed by Nicole Shea
Migration has always played a major part in creating a European identity, derived from a thriving pluralistic space.
Interviewed by Juliane Mendelsohn
It can take a long time, if one is brought up in a place foreign to one’s artistic sensibilities to discover other artists that speak your language.
Interviewed by Friederike Eigler
We built an international network that includes some participants who have experienced displacement and some who have not but who collaborate at all levels in a multilingual and transdisciplinary manner.
Interviewed by Hélène B. Ducros
Focusing on the role of critical scholars in effecting change.
Interviewed by Alice R. Bertram
When dealing with gender-based violence, there is baggage. Looking at it from a corruption perspective doesn’t have the same baggage.
Interviewed by Kathryn Crim
At the center of Berlin-based Australian artist and writer Alex Martinis Roe’s work is the concept of feminist genealogies.
Interviewed by Matthew Brill-Carlat
In today’s world, repressive and authoritarian governments across the globe are an increasing threat to intellectuals and civil society.
By Julie K. Allen, Chunjie Zhang, and Sabine Zimmermann
Inspired by an actual hunger strike conducted by African asylum seekers in Berlin in 2012, and published just as the Syrian refugee wave peaked in 2015, Erpenbeck’s novel centers on Richard, a recently retired Classics professor in Berlin, who befriends a group of African men trying to get the Berlin Senate to consider their applications for asylum and becomes gradually aware of the many challenges they face in trying to start their lives over in Europe.
Interviewed by David Leupold
Today more than ever, the call for building and restoring trust dominates all spheres of social and political life.
Interviewed by Rusudan Zabakhidze
Only specific migration policies and cultural attitudes do anything to reduce health inequalities between natives and immigrants.
Interviewed by Hélène B. Ducros
We tend to think that modernity and progress allow us to resolve issues of waste through technology and increased efficiency.
Interviewed by Hélène B. Ducros
While food waste has long been considered in European media and regulations, until recently the issue of pre- and post-consumer textile waste had mobilized less public attention.
Interviewed by Susan Sgorbati
I was being persecuted because of signing a peace petition entitled “We will not be a party to this crime,” along with over 1,100 academics.
Interviewed by Melanie Evans
Good translation is reading at glacial speed and writing in sync with a voice that isn’t yours but is nevertheless coming from you.
Interviewed by June Brawner
I started this project by working with the few remaining photographs of Paul made shortly before my grandmother and her family left Europe for America. These provided actual evidence of this man, the missing person in my family’s narrative. I combined these family snapshots into a single piece titled Every Paul, presenting an accumulation of all visual evidence we still have of this man.
Interviewed by Hélène Ducros
In endorsing social and environmental justice causes dear to them, athletes recognize their potential as change agents.
Interviewed by Peter Debaere
The appropriation and transfer of virtual water can also be associated with the acquisition of agricultural land instead of “just” crops.
Interviewed by Hélène B. Ducros
What really interests me in this emerging field is that it has pushed geography into a new empirical territory and critical agenda.
Interviewed by Christopher P. Gillett
Between June 9th and October 7th, 2018, the Palace Green Library of Durham University hosted the exhibition “Bodies of Evidence: How science unearthed Durham’s dark secret.” This display forms part of a much larger, interdisciplinary research project investigating the remains of seventeenth-century Scottish prisoners of war discovered in the grounds of the cathedral square in November 2013.
Interviewed by Kelly McKowen
I feel that the phenomenon of surveillance has completely gotten out of hand and is going to continue to.
Interviewed by Hélène Ducros
The neuroscientist explains how “the industry” and the “big business” side of food optimize and improve the quality of the food supply.
Interviewed by Hélène B. Ducros
Food is an enormous business and food companies want to sell as much food as they can, regardless of its health consequences.
By Christine Aubry and Baptiste Grard
Through this conversation, we can see that urban agriculture is an open door to delve into many issues around the functioning and development of urban environment: food provisioning, habitat fragmentation, soil waterproofing, waste recycling, well-being, social linkages, etc.
Interviewed by Sarah Wilma Watson
Strakhov is committed to challenging the artificial boundaries of national literary canons, periodization, and discipline.
Interviewed by Sherman Teichman
A world-renowned expert on what he has termed the “Global Cold War,” he is an analyst of contemporary international history.
Interviewed by Kelly McKowen
Who are the makers behind the “Made in Italy” label prized by the world’s fashion-conscious consumers? In Prato, a small Tuscan city with a long history of textile production, the makers come increasingly from a growing community of transnational Chinese migrants.
Interviewed by Eszter Gantner
Kaschuba has been addressing key issues of post-modern urban European life for decades.
Interviewed by Mara-Katharina Thurnhofer
European migration research has been shining a spotlight on various global and local trends.
Interviewed by Ida Bencke
Short periods of time spent in Norway have proven generative for engaging Norwegian as literary material for my lack of fluency.
By Pamela Feldman-Savelsberg and Alma Gottlieb
The lives, status, and images of immigrants may constitute the single-most urgent human issue.
Interviewed by Sherman Teichman
The current conflicts in Africa are concentrated in specific regions, but they are intense, volatile, and some pose great challenges to both regional and global governance and stability.
Interviewed by Sherman Teichman
Liberal democracy has been the bulwark against authoritarianism, ever since the end of World War II.
Interviewed by Morten Høi Jensen
In democratic nations there is usually a multitude of narratives about people in power, but in these one-man dictatorships there’s just one, and its usually very warped and far-fetched. So I was very interested in the idea of Ceaușescu’s narrative in Romania, and of how one’s own narrative about one’s life clashes with that larger, overpowering official narrative. And then, of course, there’s the fact that, from a storytelling perspective, in a world in which these very rigid rules are imposed on you there’s much more at stake.
Interviewed by Lillian Klein
We have seen a lot of criticism being voiced against approaches to multiculturalism, especially for reinforcing cultural hierarchies.
Interviewed by Lillian Klein
At that time—right after the fall of the Berlin Wall—many Bulgarians started traveling freely, and a lot of us young musicians chose to study abroad. But many of us still felt deeply connected to Bulgaria, so we started a Bulgarian concert series in New York.
Interviewed by Sherman Teichman
Nikos argues that the best way out of the downward spiral for Greece, is to analyze the crisis in terms of violations of human rights.
Interviewed by Sakeef Karim
Santos explains how Europe and the New World intersect due to contemporary migratory processes and the echoes of the past.
Interviewed by Hélène B. Ducros
Darkness transforms the world, narrows it down by creating new sorts of convivialities and intimacies.
Interviewed by Daniela Irrera
Realism is certainly helpful in making sense of the recent return of great-power tensions. However, many important aspects of world politics today require close attention to domestic institutions and political processes—I’m thinking of the revolt against globalization and the rise of populism in Britain, the USA, France, Italy, and the Netherlands.
Interviewed by Lillian Klein
Gender equality and women’s rights are deemed to be a luxury that can only be afforded in times of plenty. But research shows that gender equality also produces economic benefits.
Interviewed by Matteo Laruffa
There is a popular myth that Europe grows through crisis and that it strengthens in the face of adversity. I don’t buy it. European integration progresses despite these things.
Interviewed by Sherman Teichman
Droege discusses the urgency and feasibility of attaining 100% renewable energy.
Interviewed by Nicole Shea
The long-term goal of our cross-border university alliance focuses on innovation and transformation.
Interviewed by Camilla Carlesi
Drawing from the main academic interests of its founders, this interview particularly focuses on the connection between environmental problems and the fields of law, the economy and energy transition.
Interviewed by Lillian Klein
Munich was called the capital of amnesia as it took the city very long to put up memorials dedicated to the victims of the Third Reich.
Interviewed by Özden Ocak
Based on ethnic profiling, dozens of people have been arrested by the police around the train stations in the Calais and Lille areas.
Interviewed by Morten Høi Jensen
Indeed, many of Zagajewski’s poems strive to rescue moments of apparent insignificance from the weight of history.
Interviewed by Jake Purcell
Our discussions vacillate between various conceptions of the region as a geo-political construct, a shared culture across small nations, or a group of fierce individuals resistant to any idea of a shared culture.
Interviewed by Mount Saint Mary College
The challenges of forced migration and displacement are at front and center of our political and social tensions.
Interviewed by Kayla Maiuri
The PhD candidate aims to discover what the world needs to look like in order for the seemingly bizarre to make sense.
Interviewed by Özden Ocak
Fischer discusses France’s policies on immigration, the political climate after the terrorist attacks in Paris, and the possibility of a far-right victory in the elections.
Interviewed by Kayla Maiuri
The PhD candidate discusses the roadblocks minority asylum seekers face, and the narrow patterns and behaviors they must conform to in order to be granted safety.
