De Gruyter Conversations

Digital humanities are a hot topic nowadays, but what about digital linguistics? How can digital language data be used in other areas of research? To tackle these complex questions, we invited Prof. Andreas Witt and Dr. Darja Fišer to talk to us about De Gruyter’s new series “Digital Linguistics” and its first volume “CLARIN. The Infrastructure for Language Resources,” which the two co-edited...

Films not only entertain – they also probe social injustices and tell  marginalized stories. Against a backdrop of increasing economic  inequality, more and more people today are experiencing precarious  living situations, poverty, and social exclusion. The book “Precarity in  European Film: Depictions and Discourses” is a major new contribution  to research into the representation of class in contemporary visual  culture. 

In this book talk, Dr...

Over the last few years, the misuse of contested terms such as “critical race theory” and “white privilege” have exacerbated social rifts – especially since these terms are often misunderstood or not clearly defined in the first place. What’s to be done? Can we counteract polarization by creating a better understanding of these concepts? Perhaps the answers lurk behind the doors of a historic townhouse at 1014 Fifth Avenue in New York City...

For two decades, Rockstar Games have been making games that interrogate and represent the idea of America, past and present. Commercially successful, fan-beloved, and a frequent source of media attention, Rockstar’s franchises are positioned as not only game-changing, ground-breaking interventions in the games industry, but also as critical, cultural histories on America and its excesses.

In an interview with acquisitions editor Rabea Rittgerodt, Dr...

Why do decent people in positions of power do dreadful things in certain circumstances? Why do some leaders carve out a different moral path when faced with challenging situations? Why do some people become ethical leaders in morally challenging and complex social environments?

Aidan McQuade, who consults on ethical leadership and campaigns against modern slavery, explores these important questions in his new book “Ethical Leadership: Moral Decision-Making under Pressure”, which is...

Wie geht man ein derart komplexes und tabuisiertes Thema, wie die vielfältigen Verbindungen von Gewalt und Sexualität, an? Warum ist es notwendig, ein Buch darüber zu schreiben? Gibt es tatsächlich einen Unterschied zwischen "sexueller Gewalt" und "sexualisierter Gewalt"? 

Dr. Gerhard Schreiber ist Akademischer Rat am Institut für Theologie und Sozialethik der TU Darmstadt und hat zurzeit die Vertretungsprofessur für Systematische Theologie an der Universität Bonn inne...

Kann Mathematik Spaß machen? Für Norbert Herrmann ist das überhaupt keine Frage. In unserem Book Talk sprechen wir mit ihm über rechnende Hunde, Ziegen in Spielshows, das Interesse von Geheimdiensten an Primzahlen und noch vieles mehr.

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What does it mean to be a digital scholar? The answers to this seemingly simple question are probably as diverse as the interdisciplinary field of digital humanities itself. To learn more about the ins and outs of the emerging research area, we invited Prof. Valérie Schafer from the Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C2DH) for an interview...

In his latest book, Phil De Luna, PhD, delves into the complexity of Automated Discovery. To learn more about the future of scientific development, we sat down with Phil for a book talk...

What does it mean to be human? How can other forms of being, such as non-human animals or algorithms, help us understand what makes humanity unique? Such questions are central to posthumanist research, which has been proliferating in recent years across the humanities and social sciences...