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]
Thanksgiving Sunset at the Grand Canyon
The Real Humanities Crisis
Important questions about what is really causing the so-called humanities "crisis" in the New York Times. Or rather, it [our economic system] has a great deal to offer but only for a privileged elite (the cultural parallel to our economic upper class) who have had the...
A Muslimah’s Guide to Rocking the World
A manifesto over on Muslimah Media Watch on social justice, faith and football to name just a few! And a word on action in academia: Academia can carry a sometimes arrogant, inaccessible mystique about it. It may, in fact, be occasionally tempting to undermine the...
Fall Day in Estes Park
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Listening to the train barrier warning bells, the lights flashing, but it’s the St. Vrain rushing by…
Listening to the train barrier warning bells, the lights flashing, but it's the St. Vrain rushing by this time! Haunting. #stvrainflood #boulderflood ?This was posted on Google+
This home in Longmont, CO is not even in the 500 year flood plain. #stvrainflood #boulderflood
This home in Longmont, CO is not even in the 500 year flood plain. #stvrainflood #boulderflood?This was posted on Google+
Looking down Lincoln St; stop sign is at intersection with 1st Ave. Power line is near the railroad …
Looking down Lincoln St; stop sign is at intersection with 1st Ave. Power line is near the railroad tracks. Behind those buildings is Boston Ave; behind Boston Ave lie the normal banks of the St. Vrain. #boulderflood #stvrainflood Longmont, CO?This was posted on...
St. Vrain Greenway at Boston Avenue and Sunset St #stvrainflood #boulderflood
St. Vrain Greenway at Boston Avenue and Sunset St #stvrainflood #boulderflood ?This was posted on Google+
St. Vrain Greenway bike path at Boston Avenue, Longmont, CO #stvrainflood
St. Vrain Greenway bike path at Boston Avenue, Longmont, CO #stvrainflood ?This was posted on Google+
Take advantage of your wandering mind !
Take advantage of your wandering mind !?Three Ways Your Wandering Thoughts Can Actually Be ConstructiveWe tend to hold a wandering mind as a silly, if not bad thing, long-associated with creative types: Thales, the pre-Socratic philosopher, is said to have to been "so...