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Women matter. They conceive, bear new life, and are mostly responsible for raising their children. So how can it be that it is still mainly men’...

The question of the conditio humana must be posed anew today under the conditions of the almost fantastic dimensions of the media-techn...

Which kind of music do I listen to and which not? Can I go to a classical music concert if I have never been to one? Can I, as a pop music fan, ...

The 1st Austrian Library Congress, which took place in Innsbruck in May 2023, marked a significant milestone in the cooperation between the Asso...

The deaf-blind poet Irene Ransburg (1898-1944) and the blind German philology student Gisela Kaufmann (1907-1941) were two extraordinary women i...

Curiosity and commitment are driving forces of the cultural sciences and anthropology – but they also serve as buzzwords within the Janus-faced ...

The “Handbuch Repositorienmanagement” (Handbook of Repository Management) offers comprehensive help and a working basis for all those who deal w...

The Irreverse is the world we live in. It is a world defined by the inability to go back, undo or rewind. Even when we retrace ou...

The theologian and professor of religious studies F. Claus Schedl CSsR (1914–1984) was not only a renowned scholar and university teacher in Mau...

While the discourse of peace and conflict research is already very broad, the field of academic engagement with the phenomena of peace and confl...

Is depression the companion of the modern individual? Does it predominantly affect the – female – youth? And what role does neoliberalism play i...

This book examines memory cultures within italophone migration literature. Starting with a definition of the genre ‘migration literature’ and it...

The Association of Austrian Librarians will celebrate its 75th anniversary in 2021. On the initiative of Bruno Bauer, articles on the VÖB and it...

The 34th Austrian Librarians’ Conference focused on “artificial intelligence in libraries”. Austrian and international experts reported on and d...