June 20th is designated World Refugee Day by the United Nations to bring awareness to the plight of millions of refugees throughout the world and also to honour their strength and perseverance. Berghahn Books publishes many studies on the lives and the plights of refugees globally. Find our latest titles here along with a selection of classic […]
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Posted 20 June 2023
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On May 18th the worldwide museum community celebrates International Museum Day. This day is an occasion to raise public awareness on how important museums are in the enrichment of cultural exchange, development of society, and cooperation among people. For more information on the theme and calendar of events, visit the International Council of Museums webpage.
Celebrated yearly on April 18th, the International Day for Monuments and Sites, also known as World Heritage Day, encourages local communities and individuals throughout the world to consider the importance of cultural heritage to their lives and to promote awareness of its diversity and vulnerability and the efforts required to protect and conserve it. For […]
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Posted 17 April 2023
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by Vivian Berghahn, Managing Director and Journals Editorial Director The impact on authorship and readership that Berghahn Open Anthro – Subscribe-to-Open has had since the launch of the pilot has been substantial. There has been a 700% increase in downloads from 2019 when content was paywalled to 2022. We have seen a 200% increase by […]
We share what the Berghahn staff is currently reading and a scholarly reading from Berghahn Books we recommend.
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Posted 06 September 2022
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In the 1993, May 15 was declared as International Day of Families by the United Nations to provide awareness of family related issues and to increase the knowledge of the social, economic and demographic processes affecting families. This year’s theme is Demographic Trends and Families. In recognition of the day, Berghahn is pleased to highlight […]
World Water Day is an annual event celebrated on March 22. The day focuses attention on the importance of freshwater and advocates for the sustainable management of freshwater resources. For an opportunity to learn more about water related issues and how to take action to make a difference please visit www.worldwaterday.org Berghahn is pleased to offer a […]
by Vivian Berghahn, Managing Director and Journals Editorial Director
by Vivian Berghahn, Managing Director and Journals Editorial Director In 2021 Berghahn Open Anthro entered its second year as a ground-breaking three-year pilot. In this two-part blog post we will share how its journey has brought together various stakeholders to realize the goal of attaining an equitable path to open access using the subscribe-to-open (S2O) model. Our intention is to outline how stakeholders have supported the pilot: as a researcher by urging their library to maintain subscriptions for the journals they value as a reader and author; as […]
Karen Lauterbach World Refugee Day (20 June) offers a chance to raise awareness of the plight of refugees around the world and of the efforts to protect their human rights. In the spirit of this day, we are featuring an excerpt from “‘A Refugee Pastor in a Refugee Church’: Refugee-Refugee Hosting in a Faith-Based Context” by Karen Lauterbach (published […]
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Posted 20 June 2021
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Also tagged: anthropology, Christianity, displacement, DRC, hospitality, Kampala, migration and society, Open Access, refugee and migration studies, refugee churches, refugee studies, religion, religious studies, Uganda, World Refugee Day