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Über das Leben Raffaels von Urbino - Die Göttinger Vorlesung aus dem Jahr 1841
(2019)
Presenting the previously unpublished lecture notes of ‘Über das Leben Raffaels von Urbino’ by Carl Wilhelm Friedrich Oesterley, a lecture series given in spring 1841 at the University of Göttingen, this edition sheds light ...
Forstleute im Widerstand gegen Adolf Hitler - Eine Spurensuche
(2020)
Wer vor hundert Jahren in Deutschland Forstwirtschaft studierte, der kam häufig aus gutbürgerlichen Verhältnissen oder entstammte einer Adelsfamilie. Diese jungen Männer fühlten sich in aller Regel den militärischen ...
Thinking about Christian Life in the Turmoil Times of the Middle East - Insights and Reflections from East and West
(2020)
"Studies in the Middle East" is a one-year programme at the Near East School of Theology in Beirut (NEST). In honour of its 20th anniversary, academics and teachers from the NEST and from Germany met at Georg-August ...
Dänischwerden und Dänischsein im Landesteil Schleswig - Zugehörigkeiten und Verortungsprozesse
(2020)
Pointing at ambivalences and inconsistencies, contradictory expectations, nationalistic and pragmatic points of view, this study shows parts of the becoming, being and remaining (or not) Danish in Germany. Using qualitative ...
European Studies and Europe: Twenty Years of Euroculture
(2020)
In 1998, the Master’s programme Euroculture started with the aim to offer, amid the many existing programmes that focused on European institutional developments, a European studies curriculum that puts the interplay of ...
Amtsmißbrauch
(2012)
Das Phänomen des Mißbrauchs von Amtsbefugnissen ist in sämtlichen Gesellschaften verbreitet. Im Gegensatz zum deutschen hat der italienische Gesetzgeber den Amtsmißbrauch in Artikel 323 codice penale unter Strafe gestellt. ...
Allegorische Andachtsbücher in Antwerpen
(2015)
Die bei Plantin-Moretus um 1600 in Antwerpen gedruckten, von Jan David SJ verfassten und durch Theodoor Galle aufwendig illustrierten Andachtsbücher werden erstmals vollständig und systematisch, unter Berücksichtigung der ...
An Uncertain Future
(2018)
The discovery of oil in Uganda in 2006 ushered in an oil-age era with new prospects of unforeseen riches. However, after an initial exploration boom developments stalled. Unlike other countries with major oil discoveries, ...
Alles zum Wohle des Kindes?
(2012)
This volume contains the lectures of the 2nd Family Law Forum in Göttingen, July 2nd, 2011. Major topic is Child Safety Law and the threats of child's well-being.
Amtshaftung
(2017)
Should court officers cause damage to third parties in performance of their duties, these damages are often claimed as public law cases in which the responsibilities are transferred to the state. The liability of public ...
Armut und Gesundheit
(2016)
Der Zusammenhang von Armut und Krankheit, bzw. mangelnder Gesundheit, ist immer schon klar ersichtlich gewesen. In einer Vorlesungsreihe stellten Vertreter verschiedener Disziplinen, die sich im Göttingen International ...
The Izala Movement in Nigeria
(2020)
On the basis on solid fieldwork in northern Nigeria including participant observation, interviews with Izala, Sufis, and religion experts, and collection of unpublished material related to Izala, three aspects of the ...
Aktuelle Probleme des Wissenschaftsrechts
(2011)
Wissenschaft meint seit jeher nicht nur theoretische Reflexion, sondern immer auch gesellschaftliche Praxis. Heute steht diese Praxis, die Welt der modernen Wissenschaften und ihrer institutionellen Formen mitten im Strom ...
Aktuelle Probleme des Wissenschaftsrechts
(2011)
Wissenschaft meint seit jeher nicht nur theoretische Reflexion, sondern immer auch gesellschaftliche Praxis. Heute steht diese Praxis, die Welt der modernen Wissenschaften und ihrer institutionellen Formen mitten im Strom ...
Akademische Strenge und künstlerische Freiheit
(2013)
Die Kunstsammlung der Universität Göttingen ist vor allem für ihren Bestand an Niederländischer Kunst des 17. Jahrhunderts bekannt. Dass sie darüber hinaus auch eine Kollektion von Gemälden des 19. Jahrhunderts umfasst, ...
Interpretive Social Research - An Introduction
(2018)
This volume is a clear introduction to methods of data collection and analysis in the social sciences, with a special focus on interpretive methods based on a logic of discovering hypotheses and grounded theories. The chief ...
Projekt ‚Integration‘ - Berliner Stadtteilmütterprojekte als Aushandlungsraum städtischer Integrationspolitik
(2018)
Integration ist ein umkämpftes und von vielfältigen Rassismen geprägtes Thema. Dies zeigt sich sowohl in gesellschaftlichen Debatten als auch in der Umsetzung politischer Maßnahmen. In ihrer ethnografischen Fallstudie ...
KindersoldatInnen im Kontext - Biographien, familien- und kollektivgeschichtliche Verläufe in Norduganda
(2018)
Lange vor „IS“ und „Boko Haram“ galt die messianisch-christliche „Lord’s Resistance Army“ (LRA) in Uganda als die vielleicht brutalste Rebellengruppe Afrikas oder der Welt – und als eine, die sich sehr klar auf die Entführung, ...
Transfer von Expertenwissen in der Frühen Neuzeit - Gelehrte Diskurse in der volkssprachigen Praxis
(2018)
The transfer of expert knowledge to an unlearned audience is a highly complex process. It is not only dependant on subject-specific requirements, but also on institutional and media requirements. The early modern period ...
Forschung und Lehre als identitätsstiftendes Ideal - Die Darstellung der Universität aus der Innen- und Außenperspektive von 1999–2014
(2018)
How has the university been discussed between scientific mission, study and education since the beginning of the Bologna reform? The study examines this question using 1130 articles published in the weekly newspaper DIE ...
Das Prinzip Enthusiasmus - Wandlungen des Begriffs im Zeitalter der Aufklärung und der Französischen Revolution
(2018)
Auf einer breiten Basis maßgeblicher deutscher und französischer Texte gelingt es Jürgen Schramke nachzuweisen, welch bedeutende Rolle dem Konzept Enthusiasmus in den unterschiedlichen Strömungen der Aufklärung zukommt. ...
Annals of the History and Philosophy of Biology 17/2012
(2015)
The name DGGTB (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Geschichte und Theorie der Biologie; German Society for the History and Theory of Biology) reflects recent history as well as German tradition. The Society is a relatively late ...
Polizist*in werden
(2021)
In public discourses in Germany, the police as an institution is presented on the one hand as our “friend and helper” and the guarantor of law and order, and on the other hand as an organization with a monopoly on violence ...
Erhard Weigel (1625-1699) und seine Schüler
(2016)
Erhard Weigel (1625-1699) was a German mathematician, astronomer, educator, philosopher, and inventor. He was professor of mathematics at Jena University and is considered a key figure in the development of the mathematical ...
Die Gemeinsame Stelle nach dem ElektroG
(2016)
The Electrical and Electronic Equipment Act (ElektroG) that took effect in 2005 follows an independent method as opposed to the conventional execution carried out by state authorities with regards to the legal execution. ...
Der Briefwechsel Hasse
(2016)
Katholische Juden?
(2016)
This ethnography focuses on the descendants of Majorca´s forcedly baptized Jews, the so called Xuetes. Well into the 20th century these catholic Majorcans were marginalized and persecuted as Jews by the majority population. ...
Soziale Sicherung im Spannungsfeld gesellschaftlicher Transformation
(2016)
As other Pacific Islands Countries, Fiji is shaped by processes of social transformations and global environmental change. This study utilises ethnographic ideals for enhancing cultural and social geographic research in ...
Kindbettgeschenke
(2016)
The term childbed presents is understood to mean gifts that were presented to the mothers of new-born babies in childbed. Presents for the new mother given for example during visits by relatives, friends and neighbours, ...
Musik
(2016)
Music always mirrors and acts as a focal point for social paradigms and discourses surrounding political and national identity. The essays in this volume combine contributions on historical and present-day questions about ...
Consumer data protection in Brazil, China and Germany
(2016)
The rapid development of new information and communication technologies has changed people’s everyday life and consumption patterns significantly. The worldwide spread of those technologies provides many innovations for ...
Transkulturelle Begegnungen
(2016)
(De)formierte Körper 2
(2014)
Familiale Tradierungsprozesse in einer Drei-Generationen-Perspektive
(2014)
In this qualitative study, familial mediation and appropriation processes are examined in a three-generation perspective, taking into account the in-family development of social development processes in two neighboring ...
Die Stellung der Frau in der afghanischen Verfassungsordnung im Spannungsverhältnis zwischen islamischem Recht und Völkerrecht
(2014)
After the fall of the Taliban, the new Afghan constitution of 2004 marks a fundamental beginning for the status of women – at least from a normative perspective. Art. 22 of the Afghan constitution contains: “The citizens ...
Regierung des Raumes
(2015)
Das "Janusgesicht" der Menschenwürde
(2014)
This book documents the inaugural public lecture of Honorary Professor Dr. Murad Erdemir, held on May 28th 2014 in the auditorium of the University of Göttingen. Murad Erdemir is the Vice Director and General Counsel in ...
Kollektivierung und Opt-Out
(2015)
The German Copyright Law grants an absolute right to authors, i.e., any use of protected works requires the author's prior consent. This concept is known as opt-in. In this doctoral thesis the author examines five models ...
Eisenbahn Spielen!
(2016)
Die strafrechtliche Behandlung gefährlicher Straftäter
(2015)
The thesis analyzes a treatment of dangerous criminals on society with viewpoint of comparative criminal law in Germany and South Korea. In particular, with a focus on "preventive detention" as a "measure of improving and ...
Umweltgeschichte und Umweltzukunft
(2009)
Global climate change, the extinction of species, animal pests and natural catastrophes dominate debates on the future of the earth. Often these phenomena are considered as something new, which they are not, and many of ...
Beiträge zum Göttinger Umwelthistorischen Kolloquium 2008
(2009)
This annual yearbook presents essays in environmental history based on lectures given at the Göttingen study group “Environmental History” by external authors. As previous yearbooks it is dedicated to the plurality of ...
Beiträge zum Göttinger Umwelthistorischen Kolloquium 2010
(2011)
This annual yearbook presents essays in environmental history based on lectures given at the Göttingen study group “Environmental History” by external authors. As previous yearbooks it is dedicated to the plurality of ...
Beiträge zum Göttinger Umwelthistorischen Kolloquium 2004
(2007)
Ever since its establishment 25 years ago the 'Göttingen Environmental Colloquium' has developed into an institution that bundles the various activities on the subject here and from all other areas in the German-speaking ...
Beten, Impfen, Sammeln
(2007)
The collection covers the presentations held at the workshop on „Challenge: Securing Resources - Animal Diseases and Pest Control in the 18th and 19 Century“ held in Goettingen on 21 and 22 June 2006 by the graduate school ...
Europe
(2013)
Europe - Space for Transcultural Existence? is the first volume of the new series, Studies in Euroculture, published by Göttingen University Press. The series derives its name from the Erasmus Mundus Master of Excellence ...
Handeln in Hungerkrisen
(2012)
"Fit im Forst"
(2013)
Beiträge zum Göttinger Umwelthistorischen Kolloquium 2007
(2008)
This annual yearbook presents essays in environmental history based on lectures given at the Göttingen study group “Environmental History” by external authors. As previous yearbooks it is dedicated to the plurality of ...
Beiträge zum Göttinger Umwelthistorischen Kolloquium 2009
(2010)
This annual yearbook presents essays in environmental history based on lectures given at the Göttingen study group “Environmental History” by external authors. As previous yearbooks it is dedicated to the plurality of ...
Präventive Tendenzen in Staat und Gesellschaft zwischen Sicherheit und Freiheit
(2014)
How can the tension between security and personal freedom be solved in the risk society of today? This publication discusses exemplary problems and develops solutions at the level of constitutional law, public international ...
Systematics 2008
(2008)
The Göttingen conference „Systematics 2008“ is the first joint meeting of the Gesellschaft für Biologische Systematik (GfBS) and the German Botanical Society, section Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology (DBG), being the ...
Youth at the crossroads
(2014)
Based on eleven months of field work (2009-2011), this book analyzes the situation of youth in urban Gulu, Northern Uganda, in the aftermath of the war between the Lord’s Resistance Army and the Ugandan Government (1986-2006). ...
Natur und Gesellschaft
(2014)
Capability as a Yardstick for Flexicurity
(2014)
Flexicurity is a European policy agenda seeking to increase both flexibility and security in the labour-market. This book argues that it needs a revision: Although flexicurity is set out to change the way Europeans work ...
Wilde und verweigerte Bilder
(2014)
Ludwig Prandtl
(2014)
When Ludwig Prandtl took up the Chair of Applied Mechanics at Göttingen University in 1904, the small university town became the cradle of modern fluid mechanics and aerodynamics. Not only did Prandtl found two research ...
Das Pflegekindverhältnis
(2014)
Transkulturelle Verflechtungen
(2016)
Having elicited much attention in the humanities in recent years, transcultural phenomena will, in all probability, remain a topic of debate in the near future. Being the product of a collaborative act of writing involving ...
Hungerkrisen
(2016)
For the people in the Early Modern Age, famines were regularly recurring phenomena. So not less than eight of these crises happened in the areas of Lower Saxony between 1690 and 1750, which had a lasting impact on various ...
Gilly
(2016)
Central Asian Sources and Central Asian Research
(2016)
In October 2014 about thirty scholars from Asia and Europe came together for a conference to discuss different kinds of sources for the research on Central Asia. From museum collections and ancient manuscripts to modern ...
Reformation und Gegenwart
(2016)
The meaning of "reformatory theology" is often summarised by a number of "alone"-statements: Christ alone (solus Christus) by grace alone (sola gratia) through faith alone (sola fide) on the basis of the Scripture alone ...
Zwangsbehandlung bei Selbstgefährdung
(2016)
This book presents the lectures of the 14th Göttingen Workshop on Family Law, which took place on 13th November 2015 and was organized in cooperation with the Center for Medical Law of the University of Göttingen. It deals ...
Engagement oder Rückzug?
(2008)
Schauplätze und Themen der Umweltgeschichte
(2009)
"Scenes and Topics of the History of Ecology" is the third workshop report presenting selected places of importance for the history of ecology, that can be recommended as travel destinations. Some topics could be attributed ...
Johann Friedrich Blumenbach
(2010)
This bibliography documents the printed works of Johann Friedrich Blumenbach (1752–1840) and makes them accessible for research purposes.
Blumenbach was Professor of Medicine and Natural History at the University of ...
"... die Kunst zu sehn"
(2013)
