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and politically pressured. Against this background, the question is not whether a transformation of modern societies will take place but rather whether this change is predominantly enforced by circumstance [...] whether transformation takes place "by design or by disaster". But how is it possible to transform modern societies in a selective way? Certainly, such a complex process of transformation requires far more
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Digital Society Socio-theoretical analysis of the contemporary describe a current transition from a modern, disciplinary industrial society to a postmodern, individualized, digital knowledge and network society [...] assess current processes of change more appropriately. Social Differentiation and Social Inequality In modern society, different spheres such as politics, economics, law, but also art, religion and education [...] have become separated into independent, relatively unrelated fields and systems. At the same time, modern society reproduces a high degree of social inequality every day, which manifests itself in different
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organised by Prof. Dr. Hedwig Wagner (EUF, European Media Studies) and Prof. Dr. Iulia Patrut (EUF, Modern German Literature in a European Context) organized in cooperation with the University of Luxembourg’s
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scientific and technical developments in their societal contexts is an integral part of one's literacy in modern Europe. The acquisition of scientific knowledge is a prerequisite for choosing a lot of occupational
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Columbia Encyclopedia of Modern Drama . Ed. Gabrielle H. Cody and Evert Sprinchorn. New York: Columbia, 2007. Vol. 1: 111-12. "Drew Hayden Taylor." The Columbia Encyclopedia of Modern Drama . Ed. Gabrielle [...] (forthcoming). "Ground Zero Fiction: Literarische Erinnerungen an 9/11." Kulturgeographie der USA: Eine moderne Landeskunde. Ed. Werner Gamerith and Ulrike Gerhard. Heidelberg: Springer, 2015 (forthcoming). "'Back [...] Robert Nunn. Toronto: Guernica, 2008. 190-206. "Drew Hayden Taylor." The Columbia Encyclopedia of Modern Drama . Ed. Gabrielle H. Cody and Evert Sprinchorn. New York: Columbia, 2007. Vol. 2: 1331-32.
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issue of the James Joyce Quarterly on "Joyce and the Non-Human," and a forthcoming collection on Modernism in Wonderland (Bloomsbury 2022) . Her current research interests include 19th- and 20th-century
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Listen "Modern Scholarship" Excellence in Teaching Award, University of Basel, Switzerland, 2019 Nominations for Excellence in Teaching Awards, University of Basel, Switzerland (Categories: Modern Scholarship;
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Monash University, Melbourne (Australia), 5 November 2014. "Vision, Discovery, Conquest: Immigrants as Modern-Day Columbuses," Guest Lecture, University of Siegen, 22 November 2011. "‘Pomp, Pageantry and Pa [...] Work of ‘Talker Remakes,’" Conference "Managing Mass Culture: Serialization, Standardization and Modernity, 1880-1940," Leibniz University Hannover, 23–25 April 2015. "Hollywood Remaking and Media-Generational [...] Yezierska’s Hungry Hearts on the Silver Screen," University of Göttingen, 17 December 2009. "‘The Modern Heirs of Columbus’: Identity Construction and the Invention of a Transatlantic Past in the Era of
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Point "Work life balance", "family friendliness" or "family-oriented human resources management" are modern buzzwords in the discussion about the compatibility of professional and private spheres of life.
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of (re)contextualisation and intermediality of pre-modern culture that has become so fundamental in medieval studies and the research of the early modern period. Conference programme Thursday, September [...] like a wildfire in the Middle Ages, constantly fascinating readers and listeners until the early modern period. This fascination seems to be unbroken even nowadays. Of the sea voyages of Brendan which [...] adaptation processes as well as with a comparatively astounding intermediality concerning the pre-modern era. The dissemination of the text(s) from Ireland over most parts of Europe and the repeatedly language