So teaching this course and others this semester (on the welfare state, war and peace, decolonization) is perhaps what comes closest from my perspective to what the German sociologist Hartmut Rosa calls “resonance”. To be continued!!

Also there has been hardly a better place for me than this room of open academic discussion with smart and engaged people on pressing issues of our day. With all the noise and irrationality surrounding us, there is hope in this.

Why? One lesson is that as historians I think we can and we should contribute more substantially to the discussions on technology and AI and point to the political nature of these issues more than we generally do, in a debate dominated by a lot of presentism and determinism.

To discuss topics like the future of work, automation Luddism and Neo-Luddism, bullshit jobs, technooptimism, and so much more with a highly engaged group of students has been extremely rewarding.

All of that has proven to produce great results and from what I can see also great fun to most. And the various disciplinary and cultural backgrounds of the students has turned out to be treasure chest for everyone's learning experience.

It has been special because of the challenge to work myself into new territory, because of the cooperative design of the course - students work continuously in groups on presentations and a podcast with the professional support from our great media people at @HF:Studio.

Ja, und mit der Forschung zur Verkehrssicherheit im lässt sich getrost korrigieren: es muss heißen: MEHR Ideologie, WENIGER Sicherheit für alle. So einfach ist das. Grrrr. Es beleidigt einfach den Verstand! Ernsthafte Frage: wessen Interessen stehen dabei eigentlich im Vordergrund?

Beautifully said. 😂

The latter one includes the nicest compliment I have ever received for my writing: "This well-researched, engaging and elegantly written book is hard to put down, capturing the reader's attention even at the expense of sleep." 😃 🤩 Totally blown away by that. From now on that's my yardstick!

Allein längere #Arbeitszeiten ≠ mehr Wirtschaftswachstum oder Produktivität.
Eher: Mehr Überlastung, erhöhte Fehlzeiten & #Burnout.

Besser:
➡️ Wahl-Arbeitszeiten
➡️ Verlängerung der Elterngeld-Partnermonate
➡️ Anerkennung und Wertschätzung von #Sorgearbeit

Mehr:
🎧 www.boeckler.de/de/podcasts-...

The "contributions to this volume reveal the complexities, variations, and motivations behind the instrumentalization of famine by political actors and regimes, and how the politics of perpetrating hunger and the politics of relieving it have often been intertwined"

The volume takes fresh and timely historical perspectives into how "famines result from political decision-making, and how the threat, occurrence, relief, or memory of famine is instrumentalized as a political and military tool."

It unites a great panel of scholars dealing with a broad range of cases as well as an afterword on "Famines and Power, Past and Present" by Alex de Waal. I was honored having been asked to contribute with a chapter on Quaker relief to Germany after the First World War.

This year's meeting is special because of the historical moment as the ILO is trying to maintain its relevance by entering a debate on a new labour standard on decent work in the platform economy. It was great to get a glimpse of it, share some historical knowledge and feel the engagement.