Visual for the event reading: 4th Annual De Gruyter-Arendt Center Lecture in Political Thinking. Thursday, 23 April 2026, 5-6:45pm Eastern. Multi-Purpose Room, Bard's North Campus Center (33 Robbins Rd). The event will also be live-streamed on YouTube.

We cordially invite you to the fourth annual De Gruyter-Arendt Center Lecture in Political Thinking at @bardcollege.bsky.social next Thursday, where Uday Singh Mehta (@thegraduatecenter.bsky.social) will speak on the topic of militant non-violence. 1/3

With Viktor #Orbán's landslide defeat in Sunday's parliamentary election, #Hungary is being closely watched as a possible bellwether for world politics.

Read up on the historical and contemporary currents shaping the country in our curated picks. You'll find them all on our website!

The Annunciation in the Allegory of the Unicorn Hunt (Erfurt).

Book: "Concepts of Humans and Nature in Historical Perspective" by Jochen Althoff and Alexander Pruß.

Book: "Wild, Jagd und Zähmung" by Julia Weitbrecht.

One of the window grilles at De Gruyter Brill in Berlin.

A day made for medievalists who know a lot about things that don’t—or no longer—exist: #UnicornDay 🦄
Our recommendations:
📍 visually: a visit to Erfurt Cathedral
📚 intellectually: our latest books
🏛 last but not least: stop by to visit us and our own unicorns in Berlin!

#medievalsky

Research is about making connections.
With #GROH, high-quality scholarship meets accessibility and powerful cross-search tools, helping you uncover new links across the ancient world and spark new lines of inquiry.

🎥 Hear more about #GROH from our editor Carlo Vessella!

Visual reading: Empowering Your Research Voice. Visibility Strategies for Women Academics Sign up for our webinar! 26 March 2026, 9 a.m. GMT | 10 a.m. CET

Join our free webinar this Thursday aimed at helping early-career women academics chart their own path to success and promote their work both in person and online.

Register now! marketing.degruyterbrill.com/Webinar_EmpoweringYourRe...

Last week Acquistions Editor Teddi Dols was invited to attend the opening of the art fair TEFAF by Dr Xialing Liu, Chinese University of Hong Kong, a specialist in Asian lacquerware and the editor of a forthcoming Brill volume on this topic.

It was a wonderful opportunity to handle rare treasures.

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Job vacancy: We are looking for an Acquisitions Editor in Medieval and Early Modern Studies. Apply now!
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RIP Jürgen #Habermas, gestorben am Todestag von Karl Marx, viele Jahrzehnte Mitglied im Editorial Board der Deutschen Zeitschrift für Philosophie. Buchsymposium zu seinem letzten Buch "Auch eine Geschichte der Philosophie": www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

What better time is there than #WomensHistoryMonth to showcase our wonderful series 'Women Writers in History'?
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#DGBWomen @degruyterbrill.bsky.social

Are we getting #AI all wrong? 🤖 It’s not just a tool… but is it a social agent? Our old #ethics can’t keep up. This book introduces “inbetweenism” — a bold new framework for the blurry space between machine and moral status 🌍 www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

Happy International Women's Day to all free spirits! #WomensHistoryMonth #DGBWomen #philsky www.degruyterbrill.c...

Cover of: Remembering Revolutionary Women. The Cultural Afterlives of Louise Michel, Emma Goldman and Sylvia Pankhurst by Clara Vlessing

Cover of: Shaping Women Philosophers. Studies on the Archaeology of the Female Intellectual Identity in Early Modern Europe by Sabrina Ebbersmeyer

Cover of: The Biohistory of Feminism. How Evolution Gives Us Women Who Shape Our Cultures by Carol Blakney and Abel Alves

Cover of: Women Proprietors of Copyright in England, 1675–1775 by Leah Orr

Browse our #WomensHistoryMonth collection!
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Woman with a 60s short haircut standing on a sidewalk holding up a poster saying "Women & Typewriters are not Inseperable"

This #WomensHistoryMonth, we recommend "Hierarchies" by Birgit Kolboske on processes of socio-cultural and structural transformation at the @maxplanck.de during the first 50 years of its existence. #DGBWomen @degruyterbrill.bsky.social

Wie verhandelt Literatur queere Zugehörigkeit im Recht?
Diese neue Monographie verbindet Rechts- und Literaturwissenschaft u. liest Texte von Rivas Cherif, Lorca, Goytisolo & Obono als Spiegel und Kritik rechtlicher Diskurse im Spanien des 20. Jahrhunderts.

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Kreativität im Zeitalter von #KI? Zwischen Philosophie, Zukunftsdenken und Kulturkritik stellt dieses Buch die Frage danach, was von Originalität und Identität bleibt, wenn Kultur technologisch replizierbar wird. www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

I’m thrilled to share the news that ELEMENTAL WORLD CINEMA edited by Tiago de Luca and Matilda Mroz has been shortlisted for the Best Edited Collection category at the BAFTSS 2026: www.baftss.org/contenders-p...

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Series webpage: Brill.com/COCI

We invite all critically thinking applied linguists to submit a book proposal to our CRITAL book series, edited by Netta Avineri.

Visit www.degruyterbrill.com/serial/crital-b/html or contact our senior acquisitions editor Natalie Fecher (natalie.fecher@degruyterbrill.com) for more information.

Photo of the author. Text underneath the picture: De Gruyter Conversations. Uncopyable? Creativity and Judgement in the Age of AI

Visual reading: “Whether we continue to think for ourselves, or slowly but surely stop noticing when we do not, may be the decisive question of our time.” Marc Spranger

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With the seemingly human responses of #AI chatbots, many of us cannot help but think that someone is truly there, thinking about our questions and quandaries. But AI has no body, no lived experiences, and doesn't lose any sleep over difficult decisions.

Judith Butler wird heute 70! Die Reihe Philosophische Einstiege bietet unterhaltsame, zugängliche Einführungen in das Denken großer Philosoph*innen – mit Text und Zeichnung💭🖋️
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#philosophischeeinstiege #judithbutler

Alt text: Graphic for a Call for Chapters for Hannah Arendt’s Lectures on Kant’s Political Philosophy, edited by Nicholas Dunn. The design features a navy blue and beige background with a graphic element from the De Gruyter Brill logo. On the left is the cover for the online resource “Works of Philosophy and Their Reception” with an abstract image of stacked books. At the bottom, the text states: “Submit your proposal until 1 April 2026”

Call for Chapters 📢

👉For an edited volume on Hannah Arendt's Lectures on Kant's Political Philosophy, to be published online first in Works of Philosophy and Their Reception.

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#PhilSky #CfP

Schließung des Instituts für Archäologie an der HU-Berlin Die Archäologie gehört seit fast 200 Jahren zur wissenschaftlichen Tradition der Humboldt-Universität. Ihre Schließung bedeutet den Abbruch einer gewachsenen Forschungstradition und eine dauerhafte Sc...

Petition against the planned closure of #Archaeology at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin: weact.campact.de/petitions/sc...

Cover of the book "The Anatomy of Colorism in America"

Cover of the book "Black(ness) in German African Studies"

Cover of the book "Pan-African Aesthetics"

For #BlackHistoryMonth, we're highlighting books on myriad aspects of the African diasporic experience. 1/3

Mouton d'Or 2025 graphic on Berlin blue background with oversized quotation marks from the De Gruyter Brill logo. On the left is the cover of the journal Semiotica. On the right, large text reads: “Yunhee Lee, Winner of Mouton d’Or 2025.” At the bottom, smaller text says the award was given for an article published in Semiotica, volume 2025, issue 266, pages 55–73.

We’re delighted to announce the winner of Mouton d’Or 2025:

Yunhee Lee (Hankuk University of Foreign Studies) has been awarded for her article’s “theoretical originality, methodological rigor, and interdisciplinary contribution to contemporary semiotic studies”.

Congratulations!

#Linguistics

The three panelists at the Humanities for Humans event, sitting on stage under a chandelier

Moderator Irene Kacandes standing before the audience

#Empathy seems to be in short supply nowadays. As such, it deserved all the attention it got at the recent #Humanities for Humans talk, hosted by @1014nyc.bsky.social in New York. 1/3

Cover of the book "Mass Protests in Iran: From Resistance to Overthrow"

Cover of the book "Feminine Visibility in Contemporary Iran: Women, Religion, Culture and the State"

Cover of the book "Iran Is More Than Persia: Ethnic Politics in Iran"

In light of recent events in #Iran, we have reading that will help you understand the country's complex past and present. 1/3

Black and white photo of the victory column in Berlin. Text: New Blog Post! De Gruyter Conversations: "How a Democratic Country Could BEcome a Dictatorial Monster": A Conversation With the Author Behind "Babylon Berlin"

The hit series #BabylonBerlin has much to teach us about the past and present. On our blog, author Volker Kutscher, whose crime novels serve as the basis for the show, discusses its current relevance with historian Hanno Hochmuth (@zzfpotsdam.bsky.social). 1/4

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The cover shows a medieval illustration of Gawain and the Green Knight before the king.

#internationalplaydate Day, but no one has time? Just pick up "Gaming the Medieval English Text" by Julie Nelson Couch and Kimberly K. Bell (Series Ludic Cultures), which is all about multidimensional games with readers!

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📣Feiern Sie mit uns den Auftakt unserer Reihe „Körper – Medien – Kulturen“ von @stcatani.bsky.social und Jonas Nesselhauf! HEUTE im Salon des Amateurs, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, ab 19:00. 🥂Mehr Infos und Anmeldung hier www.mekuwi.hhu.de/kontakt/aktu...

Discover how AI transforms art, heritage & research. This book uncovers fresh views on beauty, truth & trust, showing how humans & machines create together. A must-read for creatives, scholars & anyone exploring our AI-shaped future. 🚀📘
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Richard Robert Wagner Mit der kommentierten zweibändigen Werkauswahl Richard Robert Wagners wird ein wichtiger Beitrag zur Geschichte der Wiener Moderne und gleichermaßen zur aktuellen Auseinandersetzung um Demokratie und ...

📣Herzlichen Glückwunsch an J. Dvorák, S. Lichtenberger & B. Pellar, die mit Ihrem Buch "Richard Robert Wagner"
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den Bruno-Kreisky-Preis für das politische Buch 2025
(Sparte Sonderpreis): „Arbeitswelten – Bildungswelten“ gewonnen haben!!! 🥳