Recent Publications
Maria Stehle and Beverly Weber. “Decolonial Queer Futures in No Hard Feelings [Faraz Shariat, Futur Drei 2020].” EuropeNow. Special Feature on European Culture and the Moving Image. Eds. Ipek Çelik Rappas, Michael Gott and Randall Halle. Sec. Research. No. 43, September 2021. https://www.europenowjournal.org/2021/09/13/decolonial-queer-futures-in-no-hard-feelings-faraz-shariat-futur-drei-2020/
Carrie Smith, Maria Stehle and Beverly Weber. “Intimate Collaborations and Feminist Gatherings: A Manifesto for a Coalitional Academy.” Feminist German Studies, vol. 36, no. 1, University of Nebraska Press, June 2020, pp. 128–43. https://doi.org/10.1353/fgs.2020.0010 .
Beverly Weber. “Intersectionality and Refugee Justice: Feminist Approaches to Insecurity and Precarity.” The Routledge Handbook of Transformative Global Studies. Eds S. A. Hamed Hosseini, James Goodman, Sara Motta, and Barry K. Gills. Routledge, 2020: pp. 444-459.
Maria Stehle and Beverly Weber. “Gifts of Welcome: Precarity, Intimacy, and the Gift in Die Farbe des Ozeans (Peren, 2011) and Welcome (Lioret, 2009).” Northern Lights: Film & Media Studies Yearbook, edited by Temenuga Trifonova, vol. 18, 2020: pp. 69-83. https://doi.org/10.1386/nl_00014_1
Beverly Weber. “Islamophobia East-West and the Politics of Hospitality in Contemporary Germany.” Journal of Contemporary European Studies, vol. 28, no. 1, 2020: pp. 44-56. https://doi.org/10.1080/14782804.2019.1651700 (Online publication 2019)
“Refugees and Islam: Representing Race, Rights, Cohabitation.” Journalism, Gender and Power. Eds. Cynthia Carter, Linda Steiner and Stuart Allan. Routledge, 2019.
“Introduction: Precarity/Heimatlosigkeit.” Seminar, A Journal of Germanic Studies, vol. 54, no. 4, 2018: pp. 411 – 417. With Gabi Kathöfer. [read more]
“Heimat, Sustainability, Community: A Conversation with Karina Griffith and Peggy Piesche.” Seminar, A Journal of Germanic Studies, vol. 54, no. 4, 2018: pp. 418 – 427. With Gabi Kathöfer. [read more]
“Precarious Intimacies: Politics and Solidarities in Emine Sevgi Özdamar’s Die Brücke vom Goldenen Horn.” Gegenwartsliteratur: A German Studies Yearbook, vol. xvii, 2018. pp. 115-113. [read more]
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“They informed some people that stereotypes were rare and told others that stereotypes were common, …
"They informed some people that stereotypes were rare and told others that stereotypes were common, then asked for their perceptions of women. Those who read that stereotypes were common rated women as significantly less career-oriented and more family-oriented....
Reasons You Were Not Promoted That are Totally Unrelated to Gender
Reasons You Were Not Promoted That are Totally Unrelated to Gender You don’t smile enough. People don’t like you. You smile too much. People don’t take you seriously. You’re abrasive, for example that time whe... This was posted on...
Is the Professor Bossy or Brilliant? Much Depends on Gender – NYTimes.com
Is the Professor Bossy or Brilliant? Much Depends on Gender - NYTimes.com An interactive chart of words taken from millions of student reviews of their instructors offers a vivid illustration of unconscious gender bias. This was posted on...
Gender, race, religion, faith? Rethinking intersectionality in German feminismsDespite the recent …
Gender, race, religion, faith? Rethinking intersectionality in German feminisms. European Journal of Women's Studies. Despite the recent wave of scholarship on intersectionality, as well as a surge in feminist scholarship on Islam in German feminist studies, feminist...
Science Shows Something Surprising About People Who Love to Write – Mic
No matter the quality of your prose, the act of writing itself leads to strong physical and mental health benefits, like long-term improvements in mood, stress levels and depressive symptoms. In a 2005 study on the emotional and physical health benefits of expressive...
Racism at Universities
[These issues of racism at universities] "must be seen by administration not singularly, but as part of the institutional fabric, formulated within a national fabric sickened by white supremacy, misogyny, heteropatriarchy, and old-fashioned elitism. It's a matter of...
Terrorism and its Legacies in German Visual Culture
https://www3.csj.ualberta.ca/imaginations/?p=5751 ? 5-2 | Terrorism and its Legacy in German Visual Culture | Table of Contents : ImaginationsArticle Abstracts. Anja Katharina Seiler | Aussteigen (getting out) Impossible—Montage and Life Scenarios in Andres Veiel's...
On CNN: Reza Aslan Teaches 10 Minute Seminar on Bigotry
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Denver Students Walk Out Of School Over Board’s Proposal That Would ‘Censor’ History
Denver Students Walk Out Of School Over Board's Proposal That Would 'Censor' HistoryARVADA, Colo. (AP) — Hundreds of students walked out of classrooms around suburban Denver on Tuesday in protest over a conservative-led school board proposal to focus history education...