Arts & Humanities #unbezahlt? Vom Widerstand des Akademischen Prekariats Kurzzeitverträge, Niedriglöhne und permanente Überlastung – viele Forschende an deutschen Universitäten arbeiten unter prekären Bedingungen. Doch muss das wirklich so sein?
Arts & Humanities From Justinianic Plague to Covid-19: A Timeless Story? The news of SARS-CoV-2 spreading across the world and quarantine measures bring back to mind the terrible scourges of the past.
Arts & Humanities On the Mutual Fascination between America and Goethe Individuality and sociality meet in a life’s work that can be read as a compendium of the New World.
Arts & Humanities W.G. Sebald and the Natural History of Covid-19 The writer and academic W.G. Sebald (1944–2001) is considered one of the most important literary voices of the late 20th century. Less widely known is the pessimistic philosophy of history that underwrites his books: what might Sebald have said about Covid-19?