Books
Bolzano, Bernard. 2023. Essays on Beauty and the Arts, edited by Dominic McIver Lopes. Indianapolis: Hackett.
Hitzer, Bettina. 2022. The History of Cancer and Emotions in Twentieth-Century Germany. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Suter, Mischa. 2021. Bankruptcy and Debt Collection in Liberal Capitalism: Switzerland, 1800–1900. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.
Frevert, Ute. 2020. The Politics of Humiliation. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Journal Articles
Bertram, Georg. 2025. “Beyond Autonomy and Heteronomy: Art as Improvisation.” Zeitschrift für Ästhetik und Allgemeine Kunstwissenschaft 70, no. 1: 59–70.
Bertram, Georg. 2024. “The Heterogeneity of the Arts: Rethinking Hegel’s System of the Arts.” Revue Internationale de Philosophie 309, no. 3: 13–28.
Beddies, Thomas. 2023. “Reconstruction without Reform? Child and Adolescent Psychiatry in Berlin after 1945.” Totalitarismus und Demokratie 20, no. 1: 53–74.
Meyer, Sarah, and Johannes Richter. 2023. “Separation as Policy and Experience: Interim Findings of the Hamburg Research Project on Sent-away Children.” Totalitarismus und Demokratie 20, no. 1: 93–118.
Bertram, Georg. 2021. “Art and the Possibility of Failure.” Studi di estetica 19: 25–39.
Hitzer, Bettina. 2020. “The Odor of Disgust: Contemplating the Dark Side of 20th-Century Cancer History.” Emotion Review 12, no. 3: 156–67.
Suter, Mischa. 2019. “Moral Economy as a Site of Conflict: Debates on Debt, Money, and Usury in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century.” Geschichte und Gesellschaft 26: 75–102.
Grossmann, Till. 2019. “Moral Economies of Love and Labor in the GDR: Family Values and Work Ethics in Advice Correspondence, circa 1960.” Geschichte und Gesellschaft 26: 213–38.
Suter, Mischa. 2017. “Usury and the Problem of Exchange ander Capitalism: A Late Nineteenth-Century Debate on Economic Rationality.” Social History 42, no. 4: 501–23.
Mersch, Dieter. 2017. “Art, Knowledge, and Reflexivity.” Artnodes 20: 33–38.
Brauer, Juliane. 2016. “Empathy as an Emotional Practice in Historical Pedagogy.” Miscellanea Anthropologica et Sociologica 17, no. 4: 27–44.
Schnädelbach, Sandra. 2015. “The Jurist as Manager of Emotions: German Debates on Rechtsgefühl in the Late 19th and Early 20th Century as Sites of Negotiating the Juristic Treatment of Emotions.” InterDisciplines 2: 47–73.
Eitler, Pascal. 2014. “Animal History as Body History: Four Suggestions from a Genealogical Perspective.” Body Politics 2 (4): 259–74.
Book Chapters
Bertram, Georg. 2025. “Critiquing Gadamer’s Aesthetics: Hermeneutics and the Specificity of the Aesthetic.” In Gadamer on Art and Aesthetic Experience: Rethinking Hermeneutical Aesthetics Today, edited by Stefano Marino and Elena Romagnoli, 93–110. State University of New York Press.
Borodziej, Włodzimierz, Sabina Ferhadbegović, and Joachim von Puttkamer. 2023. Introduction to The Routledge History Handbook of Central and Eastern Europe in the Twentieth Century, Volume 2: Statehood, edited by Włodzimierz Borodziej, Sabina Ferhadbegović, and Joachim von Puttkamer, xv–xvii. Routledge.
Mersch, Dieter, Anton Rey, and Thomas Grunwald. 2023. Introduction to Actor and Avatar: A Scientific and Artistic Catalog, edited by Dieter Mersch, et al., 4–22. Transcript.
Mersch, Dieter. 2023. “A Brief Avatar-Network Theory.” In Actor and Avatar: A Scientific and Artistic Catalog, edited by Dieter Mersch, et al., 214–23. Transcript.
Hitzer, Bettina. 2022. “History before Corona: Memory, Experience, and Emotions.” In Feeling Dis-ease in Modern History: Experiencing Medicine and Illness, edited by Rob Boddice and Bettina Hitzer, 61–84. Bloomsbury.
Ankele, Monika. 2022. “From a Patient’s Point of View: A Sensual-Perceptual Approach to Bed Treatment.” In Feeling Dis-ease in Modern History: Experiencing Medicine and Illness, edited by Rob Boddice and Bettina Hitzer, 237–54. Bloomsbury.
Mersch, Dieter. 2022. “Performance Art and Improvisation.” In The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy and Improvisation in the Arts, edited by Alessandro Bertinetto and Marcello Ruta, 515–29. Routledge.
Omodeo, Pietro Daniel. 2021. “Rethinking Leonardo for the Anthropocene.” In Leonardo’s Intellectual Cosmos, edited by Jürgen Renn, Matteo Valleriani, Sabine Hoffmann, and Antonio Becchi, 323–29. Max Planck Institute for the History of Science.
Reichardt, Sven. 2020. “Fascist Communities of Action and Violence.” In Beyond the Fascist Century, edited by Constantin Iordachi and Aristotle Kallis, 51–71. Palgrave Macmillan.
Mersch, Dieter. 2020. “Artistic Composition as Research.” In Architectures of Embodiment: Disclosing New Intelligibilities, edited by Alex Arteaga, 226–64. Diaphanes.
Laukötter, Anja. 2020. “‘One Feels So Much in These Times!’ Emotional Education and the Construction of New Subjectivities: Sex Education Films in Early 1960s GDR.” In Body, Capital, and Screens: Visual Media and the Healthy Self in the 20th Century, edited by Christian Bonah and Anja Laukötter, 205–30. Amsterdam University Press.
Borodziej, Włodzimierz. 2020. “Poland, the German Question, and German Unification, 1989–1991.” In From Revolution to Uncertainty: The Year 1990 in Central and Eastern Europe, edited by Joachim von Puttkamer, Włodzimierz Borodziej, and Stanislav Holubec, 245–58. Routledge.
Brauer, Juliane and Martin Lücke. 2020. “Emotion.” In The Routledge Handbook of Reenactment Studies Key Terms in the Field, edited by Vanessa Agnew, Jonathan Lamb, and Juliane Tomann, 53–56. Routledge.
Schmidt, Anne, et al. 2019. “World War I and the Emergence of Modern Propaganda.” In The Handbook of European Communication History, edited by Klaus Arnold, Paschal Preston, and Susanne Kinnebrock, 97–114. Wiley Blackwell.
Brauer, Juliane. 2019. “‘Stille Nacht’ Time and Again: Christmas Songs and Christmas Feelings.” In The Public Work of Christmas: Difference and Belonging in Multicultural Societies, edited by Pamela Klassen and Monique Scheer, 60–87. McGill–Queen’s University Press.
Brauer, Juliane. 2019. “Music, Body and Emotion between Well-Being, Manipulation and Torture in the Twentieth Century.” In The Routledge Companion to Music, Mind, and Well-being, edited by Jacomien Prins, et al., 149–61. Routledge.
Arndt, Agnes. 2019. “Entrepreneurs: Encountering Trust in Business Relations.” In Encounters with Emotions: Negotiating Cultural Differences since Early Modernity, edited by Benno Gammerl, Philipp Nielsen, and Margrit Pernau, 110–32. Berghahn.
Wels, Volkhard. 2019. “Melanchthon’s Logic and Rhetoric and the Methodology of Chemical Knowledge in Libavius’s Alchymia.” In Natural Knowledge and Aristotelianism at Early Modern Protestant Universities, edited by Pietro Daniel Omodeo and Volkhard Wels, 11–28. Harrassowitz Verlag.
Mersch, Dieter. 2018. “Obfuscated Transparency.” In Transparency, Society and Subjectivity, edited by Emmanuel Alloa and Dieter Thomä, 259–82. Palgrave Macmillan.
Mersch, Dieter. 2016. “Aesthetic Difference: On the ‘Wisdom’ of the Arts.” In Recomposing Art and Science: Artists in Labs, edited by Irene Hediger and Jill Scott, 235–50. De Gruyter.
Schmidt, Anne and Christian Conrad. 2016. “The Role of Emotions in the Production of Capitalist Subjects: An Introduction.” In Bodies and Affects in Market Societies, edited by Anne Schmidt and Christian Conrad, 1–22. Mohr Siebeck.
Schmidt, Anne. 2016. “From Thrifty Housewives to Shoppers with Needs: On a Capitalist Program of Education.” In Bodies and Affects in Market Societies, edited by Anne Schmidt and Christian Conrad, 167–88. Mohr Siebeck.
Brauer, Juliane. 2015. “Disciplining Young People’s Emotions in the Soviet Occupation Zone and the Early German Democratic Republic.” In Childhood, Youth and Emotions in Modern History, edited by Stephanie Olsen, 178–97. Palgrave Macmillan.
Berlin Review
Haberkorn, Tobias and Samir Sellami. 2025. „One Day.“ Berlin Review 12.
Schüttpelz, Erhard. 2025. “Liberation Day.” Berlin Review 11.
Haberkorn, Tobias and Samir Sellami. 2025. “The Slide into Fascism.” Berlin Review 10.
Michaels, Ralf. 2025. “The Quiet Power of International Law.” Berlin Review 9.
Kalleck, Wolfgang. 2025. “International Law versus Good Business.” Berlin Review 9.
Gollasch, Christoph. 2024. “Antisemitism without Context.” Berlin Review 6.
Marwecki, Daniel. 2024. “Calculated Reconciliation.” Berlin Review 4.
Other Publications
Krajewski, Markus. 2020. „The Structure of (Information) Infrastructure: Origins, History, and Theory of the Flow Chart.“ Seminar für Medienwissenschaft, Universität Basel (Basel Media Culture and Cultural Techniques Working Papers, 1).
von Puttkamer, Joachim. 2018. „And What if the Orthodox Jew Was in Fact a Catholic Bishop? Art-Historical Ambiguities and the POLIN Museum.“ Taxis Magazine (March 15, 2018).
Makhotina, Ekaterina. 2018. „Nostalgia, Pride, and Shame: The Many Faces of Stalin in Contemporary Russia.“ Cultures of History Forum (January 23, 2018).
Scheller, Jörg. 2018. „‚What if the fighting is the reason we’re making progress?‘ Irritation and Innovation in The Big Bang Theory and Ludwik Fleck’s The Genesis and Development of a Scientific Fact.“ In With: A Bookazine on Collaboration between Cultures, Art Forms, and Disciplines, hrsg. Nuria Krämer und Patrick Müller. Zürich: Zürcher Hochschule der Künste.
Four texts in Witt-Dorring, Christian und Janis Staggs, hrsg. 2017. Wiener Werkstätte 1903–1932: The Luxury of Beauty. Ausstellungskatalog. New York: Ronald S. Lauder Neue Galerie, Museum for German and Austrian Art.
Mersch, Dieter. 2017. „Art as Research sui generis: The Compositions of Alvin Lucier.“ In Alvin Lucier—Illuminated by the Moon, edited by Bernhard Rietbrock, et al., 27–32. Zürich: Zürcher Hochschule der Künste.