Die “Kirchliche Arbeit Alpirsbach” veranstaltet regelmässig Gregorianische Wochen, auf denen neben anspruchsvollen theologischen Studienzeiten die Praxis des gemeinsamen monastischen Stundengebets gepflegt wird, eingeübt und gesungen in einer in langen Jahren sorfältig enwickelten Form des gregorianischen Gesangs in deutscher Sprache. Den Ab…[Read more]

While the common perception of the digital is as a global, democratic environment, there are countless ways that digital environments are inaccessible and oppressive. One way we witness the fallacy of the global digital is through the nationalism of many DH pedagogies. With Silicon Valley, the pervasiveness of US capital, and US imperialism, the…[Read more]

This forum invites scholars, creative practitioners, activists, and community members to collectively discuss and develop strategies for refusing the damaging colonialities too often perpetuated within digital humanities teaching, learning, and research practices. Some of the topics that we hope to touch on in this discussion include:  1) how…[Read more]

At a summer 2018 convening, a group project and public performance called #OurDhIs brought to life the continuities and collaborations within race, social justice, and DH scholarship. #OurDhIs served as a call-for-action hashtag to extend the political origins of the previously successful #myDHis organizing into a community-centred praxis around…[Read more]

While the common perception of the digital is as a global, democratic environment, there are countless ways that digital environments are inaccessible and oppressive. One way we witness the fallacy of the global digital is through the nationalism of many DH pedagogies. With Silicon Valley, the pervasiveness of US capital, and US imperialism, the…[Read more]

Abuna Paulos was for twenty years the patriarch of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church with its 40 million members. Elected in 1992 after the downfall of the communist Derg regime, he was an energetic, though controversial leader active as an advocate for peace in his country and in the region, ecumenically engaged on a global scale, and deeply…[Read more]

Der volle Titel meiner Ende 1960 eingereichten Basler Doktordissertation lautete: „Formen der Auslegung von Matthäus 16, 13-18 im Lateinischen Mittelalter.“ Als „Teildruck“ behandelt das als Privatdruck veröffentlichte Zentralkapitel unter dem Titel, „Der Kirchenfels,“ lediglich die altkirchliche und mittelalterliche Interpretation des Jesuswort…[Read more]

Machiavelli is often characterized as a radical political thinker. This essay doesn’t challenge this view directly, but approaches Machiavelli’s originality through a new lens by considering the role of moderation in his political thought. Drawing upon The Prince, the Discourses and The History of Florence, it treats moderation as a binding…[Read more]

Review of Faces of Moderation: The art of Balance in an age of Extremes by Aurelian Craiutu, Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017

Review of Les Forces de la modération. Ligne politique ou accommodements raisonnés dans les crises politico-religieuses européennes (XVIe–XIXe siecle). Edited by Olivier Andurand and Albane Pialoux. (Pour une histoire nouvelle de l’Europe, 13.) Pp. x + 400. Brussels: Peter Lang, 2020