De Gruyter Conversations

Gib Hedstrom speaks with Jennifer Mason (Chief Sustainability Officer and EVP EHS&S at J.M. Huber Corporation) about his new book "Navigating Sustainable Growth: A Roadmap for Boards and Corporate Leaders." [https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783111548852/html] Gib Hedstrom has 30 years’ experience advising boards of directors on sustainable growth at the intersection of environment, strategy, and governance. His book explores how companies can thrive in a future defined by decarbonization and dematerialization. Drawing on 300 examples from 180 global leaders, it offers strategies for investors, citizens, students, and educators, while guiding executives and boards to turn climate risks into opportunities.

In her book, Women of Chinese Modern Art, Doris Sung talks about how women artists shaped the terrain of the modern art world. In the book talk she also talks with Senior Acquisitions Editor History Rabea Rittgerodt about how she, as an artist, got into academia, how important art history is to understanding the change of a society fro empire to republic and how education and art can help empower women and shape feminist approaches and international cooperation. Doris Sung is Assistant Professor of Art History and Asian Art at the University of Alabama. ► Link to the Book [https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110798920/html] ► Contact us [https://www.degruyter.com/publishing/about-us/contact]

In this Book Talk Dr. Tremblay tells us what personal situations during his early academic career made him consider writing about the Pink Triangle in the first place and how looking at the topic in global and transregional perspective helped shape his research and understanding of history. In the following discussion he and the series editors Dr. Sabrina Mittermeier and Dr. Bodie Ashton discuss looking at history through a “queer lens”, and how being mindful of language and heritage is a chance and problem for historical researchers on a global scale. The book "A Badge of Injury. The Pink Triangle as Global Symbol of Memory" analyses gay and lesbian transregional cultural communication networks from the 1970s to the 2000s, focusing on the importance of National Socialism, visual culture, and memory in the queer Atlantic. Provincializing Euro-American queer history, it illustrates how a history of concepts which encompasses the visual offers a greater depth of analysis of the transfer of ideas across regions than texts alone would offer. It also underlines how gay and lesbian history needs to be reframed under a queer lens and understood in a global perspective. A Badge of Injury pinpoints the roles of cultural memory and power in the creation of gay and lesbian transregional narrativ. ► Link to the book [https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783111067711/html] ► Contact us [https://www.degruyter.com/publishing/about-us/contact?lang=en]

Ruhig statt hektisch, lang statt kurz, wort- statt bildlastig, langsam statt schnell, diskursiv statt plakativ: Podcasts sind das ideale Format, um geisteswissenschaftliche Fragen und Thesen zeitgemäß zu kommunizieren — aber wie?! Podcast-Macher*innen aus den Geisteswissenschaften sehen sich einer Reihe ähnlicher Herausforderungen gegenüber: Der Podcast-Markt ist übersättigt. Die Aufwände sind hoch, die Produktion erfordert vielfältiges Know-How. Denn Podcasting ist deutlich mehr, als einfach nur zwei Leute vor ein Mikrofon zu setzen. Und: Selbst der beste Podcast will vermarktet werden und braucht oft einen langen Atem, um sein Publikum zu finden. Zum Abschluss der ersten Staffel unseres Wissenschaftspodcasts WAGNIS WISSEN [https://open.spotify.com/show/3aDpCn83aagsMhiPcKlLuK] haben wir mit drei Expertinnen zu diesem Thema diskutiert. Auf dem Podium sprachen: - Isabel Woop - Head of Production, ACB Stories - Dr. Kristiane Hasselmann - Geschäftsführerin Sonderforschungsbereich Episteme in Bewegung, Produzentin Wissenschaftspodcast Hinter den Dingen - Franziska Walser - Journalistin, Moderatorin, Podcastentwicklerin, EINS.STUDIO, rbb, ARD Die Aufzeichnung ist Teil des rbb Medienmagazins vom 26.02.2024 (Autor: Philipp Nitzsche). Die komplette Sendung ist hier [https://www.ardaudiothek.de/episode/medienmagazin/rundfunkbeitrag-oder-topdocs-oder-buergertalk-oder-alex-berlin-oder-wissenschaftspodcasts-oder-oerr-oder-kef-pk/radioeins/13182211/] zu hören.

Dr. Na Li is associated researcher and chair of Public History at the University of Vienna. She is a public historian and urban planning scholar. Her research focuses on public history and urban preservation. During her decade-long work in China, Na Li has pioneered the field of public history in China. In this book talk, she and De Gruyter's history acquisitions editor Rabea Rittgerodt talk about her recent publication Seeing History: Public History in China which came out in late 2023 in the DG series Public History in International Perspectives. Both talk about the challenges and gains of doing public history in China and academia in general and Prof. Li gives solid advice to young scholars thinking about stepping into the field of history/public history. ► Link to the book [https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110983098/html] ► Contact us [https://www.degruyter.com/publishing/about-us/contact?lang=en]