April 2023 issue of the Cultural History journal

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The new issue (12.1) of the Cultural History journal has been published. Articles:

  • ‘Cultivating Love towards the Prophet in the Early Modern Ottoman Period: Arguments and Practice’, by Dženita Karić
  • ‘Black and White Comedy: Trade and Race in Bredero’s Moortje (1617)’, by Marrigje Paijmans
  • ‘Fears of Enchantment: Advertising Theory in Britain and the Making of a Modern Myth’, by Anat Rosenberg
  • ‘”A Final Solution for Humanity”? Modern Design and the Ambivalence of Redemption in Post-War West Germany’, by Natalie Scholz
  • ‘Greyhounds in a Sin City: Animal Welfare under Macao’s Gambling Culture’, by Catherine S. Chan
  • 2022 ISCH Essay Prize Winner: ‘Sirens, Narrative Ethics, and Christina Rosenvinge’s “Mi vida bajo el agua”‘, by Marika Ahonen

Reviews:

  • Detlef Siegfried, Bogensee – Weltrevolution in der DDR 1961–1989, reviewed by Mario Kessler
  • Craig Griffiths, The Ambivalence of Gay Liberation: Male Homosexual Politics in 1970s West Germany, reviewed by Tobias de Fønss Wung-Sung

Cultural History journal promotes the work and aims of the International Society for Cultural History which was founded in 2008. It generates discussion and debate on the nature of cultural history and current trends, and advances theoretical and methodological discussions relating to the field. Cultural History promotes new and innovative questions about the past and invites contributions from both advanced and junior scholars. Annual membership of the ISCH includes two online issues of the journal. If you need help accessing the journal, contact the ISCH secretary. For more information about the journal, see here.

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Yvonne Liao

Ph.D. in Musicology, King's College London; Assistant Professor in Musicology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Website: https://www.arts.cuhk.edu.hk/~music/people-detail/40           

Global and material histories of western classical music in historiography and creative writing (particularly in East Asia and port cities); global and postcolonial legacies of empire across print and film; human and more-than-human creative ecologies; archival data modeling and technologies 

 

Maria S. Adank

Tenure-track Researcher, University of Udine (Italy)

Academia.edu 

Early modern Italian history; Gender and material culture; Family and household history; Venice and the Venetian mainland

Satu Sorvali

PhD in Cultural History, Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Turku, Finland.
History of emotions, Modern history (from the late 19th century to the late 1990s), Press history, Reader letters, Digital methods

Website: https://www.utu.fi/en/people/satu-sorvali

 

 

Noora Kallioniemi

Ph.D. in Cultural History, Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Turku.

Popular culture studies; film and television history; entertainment; audiovisual culture; digitized newspaper materials; environmental history and animal studies; film history of the Second World War.

Website: https://research.utu.fi/converis/portal/detail/Person/936427 

 

Pälvi Rantala

Ph. D. in Cultural History, Senior lecturer in Cultural history (University of Lapland), Title of Docent in Applied Cultural History (University of Turku)

Website:
https://research.ulapland.fi/fi/persons/p%C3%A4lvi-rantala
https://purorantala.com/

Cultural history of everyday life, contemporary history, history of sleep and sleeplessness, Northern cultural history, creative writing

 

Daniel Gicu

Researcher at “Nicolae Iorga” Institute of History, Romanian Academy, Bucharest

Popular culture in the nineteenth century; High and low culture in modern Romania; Cultural exchange in modern Romania; Cultural history of folk and fairy tales

 

Josephine Hoegaerts

Professor of European Culture after 1800, University of Amsterdam (the Netherlands)

Prof. dr. J.A.I. (Josephine) Hoegaerts - Universiteit van Amsterdam

History of sound and voice, gender history, history of parliament, 19th cent cultural history, history of the senses, disability history

Liisa-Maija Korhonen

Doctoral researcher at the University of Helsinki

Website.

Histories of colonialism and migration; History of emotions and senses; Latin American history (especially Argentina)

Anna-Leena Perämäki

Ph.D. in Cultural History, Postdoctoral researcher at the University of Turku

Website.

Cultural history of writing, autobiographical sources, everyday life during World War II, women and children at war, holocaust

Jasmin Lukkari

Ph.D. in History, Postdoctoral researcher at the University of Helsinki

Website.

History of ancient Greece and Rome, cultural identity, international relations, Hellenistic kings, the Roman Republic, ancient historiography, historical narratives, narratology

Dana Weber

Associate Professor of German, Florida State University, Tallahassee, USA. (Please add this link as hyperlink to the words "Associate Professor of German": https://mll.fsu.edu/person/alina-dana-weber)

Co-editor of Studies for the International Society for Cultural History (Routledge)" (please add this hyperlink to the word “Routledge”: https://www.routledge.com/Studies-for-the-International-Society-for-Cultural-History/book-series/SISCH)

19th and 20th-century German literature, cinema, and popular culture in a historical-cultural context

Cultural transfers, hybridity in performance and film

Folklore and festivals in historical and contemporary German culture

Dr. Cathleen Sarti

Post-Doctoral Associate in the ERC-Project The European Fiscal-Military System 1530-1870, University of Oxford

Personal Website; Academia.edu; Twitter

Political Culture; Northern Europe in 16th/17th century; Royal Studies; Depositions; Counsel