Arts & Humanities

Arts & Humanities

“Stories Provide a Safe Space for Discussion” – A Conversation about African Folktales in Youth Crisis Management

Adolescence means finding your place in the world—facing challenges big and small, even sometimes existential. In times of upheaval, could age-old folktales be part of the answer? In this interview, the editors of a new book on storytelling and youth crisis management in Kenya and Ethiopia make their case.

Arts & Humanities

Humanities in Iran: In Search of Meaning

In recent decades, Iranian universities have been subject to powerful political forces, leading to ongoing pressures on academic progress. What role can the humanities play in a society where academic life itself is so deeply contested?

Arts & Humanities

The Lehrter’s Children: Legacy of a Lost Railway Station

Of all the lost railway stations in Berlin, the Lehrter Bahnhof could be called the least successful from one viewpoint, and the most successful from another. While it seems to have been replaced by Berlin’s Hauptbahnhof, its architectural legacy lives on.

Arts & Humanities

“Wherever You Go, I Will Go”: Queer Readings of the Hebrew Bible

How did texts written thousands of years ago deal with non-normative sexualities? Can we find queerness in the Hebrew Bible and even in the art it inspired? We asked theologian Dr. Karin Hügel.

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