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Celebrating International Museum Day

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. Joining the celebration, Berghahn […]

AUTHOR INTERVIEW: Viola Castellano and ‘Set to See Us Fail’

Viola Castellano’s new book Set to See Us Fail looks at how on how inequalities are reproduced, measured, managed, and contested within the child welfare system of New York. Here she tells us what drew her to this complex issue and what her work has revealed. Thank you for joining us Dr. Castellano. Before we […]

AUTHOR ARTICLE: Witches and Demons

Jean La Fontaine’s Witches and Demons: A Comparative Perspective on Witchcraft and Satanism just enjoyed its seventh anniversary. And since it remains as popular – and as timely – as ever we asked Jean if she would take a look back at her Berghahn classic (available in paperback and eBook). So many thanks to Jean […]

EDITOR INTERVIEW: Representing 21st-Century Migration In Europe

ANA BELÉN MARTÍNEZ GARCÍA is Associate Professor at ISSA School of Applied Management, University of Navarra (Pamplona, Spain). She teaches Business Communication, Academic Writing, and World Literatures in English. In this exclusive interview, in conversation with her intern Arantza Morales (final year in Literature and Creative Writing undergraduate at the University of Navarra), Ana Belén […]

Introducing the Berghahn Migration and Development Studies collection

Berghahn Books is proud to be partnering with Knowledge Unlatched to present the Berghahn Migration and Development Studies collection. Every year until 2023 we are adding 20 front-list titles to the collection, covering the topics of international migration and movement as well as the social implications of economic and environmental change for communities. As libraries […]

Spring Paperbacks!

Unique studies at budget-friendly prices, these March and April paperbacks are great for adoptions and reading lists. If you want to evaluate their usefulness on a course you teach, please request a digital examination copy: just click through and look for the green ‘Request a review or examination copy’ button. Open Access titles are, of course, freely available […]

Berghahn Books and the German Historical Institute Washington Announce New Open Access Agreement

April 26, 2023, Brooklyn, New York, and Washington, D.C.—The German Historical Institute Washington (GHI) and Berghahn Books are pleased to announce that we have reached an agreement to transition the Studies in German History series to Open Access. GHI Director and Series Editor Simone Lässig commented on the agreement: “In the last several years, the GHI […]

Celebrating the Life and Career of Reinhart Koselleck

Reinhart Koselleck (23 April 1923 – 3 February 2006), a German historian widely considered one of the most influential European theorists of history and historiography in the twentieth century. Constantly probing and transgressing the boundaries of mainstream historical writing, he created numerous innovative approaches and exposed himself to a large range of impulses from other […]

Celebrating International Day for Monuments & Sites, also known as World Heritage Day!

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 […]

The Berghahn Open Anthro Journey: Embarking on a discipline-driven equitable open access initiative, Part III

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 […]

Affiliated Blogs

We invite you to explore these blogs affiliated with our press. Our affiliate blogs are managed by independent editors associated with the connected journal and do not reflect the thoughts or opinions of Berghahn Books or its staff. Berghahn’s role is a technical one - the press is not responsible for each site's content or views.

EnviroSociety

Rising from the Ashes: Rural Communities in Portugal’s Fiery Landscapes

On June 17th, 2017, Ferraria de São João (hereafter Ferraria), a small-sized village in central Portugal remotely located at the top of a hill, was encircled by flames. The two available fire engines, one at each end of the village, were unable to refill with water at some point. There were no ... Continue reading →

FocaalBlog

Pablo Semán and Ariel Wilkis: Rebellion of the bastards: the rise of the extreme right in Argentina

The growth of extreme right-wing forces in the Argentine political process expresses the combination of global trends and specific trends associated with local political history. It also expresses the need to understand the embeddedness of these political preferences in the social experiences ... Continue reading →

Recollectus

CALL FOR PAPERS: (DE)COMMEMORATION

EDITED BOOK IN THE BERGHAHN BOOKS “Worlds of Memory” SERIES (DE)COMMEMORATION Making sense of the contemporary calls for tearing down statues and renaming places Editors Sarah Gensburger, French National Center […] ... Continue reading →

AJEC Blog

Pnina Werbner: an Obituary

Claudia Liebelt, Free University of Berlin Professor Pnina Werbner, 3 December 1944 – 17 January 2023 Pnina Werbner was a British social anthropologist, a brilliant thinker and engaged intellectual renowned for her prolific contributions to debates on Sufi Islam, multiculturalism ... Continue reading →

Digital Archaeology

An Enchantment of Digital Archaeology – A Visual Introduction

Shawn Graham's Introduction to An Enchantment of Digital Archaeology (July 2020) Aptly using sonic and visual digital tools to introduce An Enchantment of Digital Archaeology, Shawn Graham invites us to take part in what he has dubbed a “practical digital ... Continue reading →

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