Multimedia | book, full-text
Bear and Human: Facets of a Multi-Layered Relationship from Past to Recent Times, with Emphasis on Northern Europe
The full three volumes of a comprehensive work on the relationship between humans and bears.
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Multimedia | book, full-text
Responding to the Anthropocene: Perspectives from Twelve Academic Disciplines
In this book, scholars and scientists from twelve disciplines write about the Anthropocene.
Arcadia
“Too Much Loose Sand”: Narrating Coastal Erosion in Southeast Ireland
An exploration of Colm Tóibín’s literary responses to the coastal erosion of Ireland’s County Wexford.
Multimedia | journal article
“Earthworm”
The earthworm becomes a muse in creativity and writing as Sumana Roy’s poem takes on the perspective of the invertebrate.
Exhibition chapter
Further Readings | Oceans in Three Paradoxes
Bibliography for the virtual exhibition Oceans in Three Paradoxes by Helen M. Rozwadowski.
Exhibition chapter
„Du bist, was du isst“ – Dummes Gemüse und der Reiz des Neuen und Anderen | Fleischloser Humor
While English satire magazines mocked vegetarianism since the 1840s, the first German caricatures appeared some 30 years later. Early drawings often imagined that a vegetarian would gradually transform into a plant. Other recurring topics are the assumed correlation between (meatless) nutrition and (peaceful, fragile) physical appearance and character, as well as the debate over whether a meat-rich or a meat-free diet was better for human health. This is from the German version of “Satirical Glimpses of the Cultural History of Vegetarianism.” For the English-language version of this exhibition, click here.
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Mensch, Tier und Natur – Vorstellungen natürlicher, harmonischer (Ko-)Existenz | Fleischloser Humor
In the nineteenth century, there was much debate about the question of which way of living could be regarded as “natural.” Caricatures on vegetarianism mock ideas of the “natural” relationship between animal and man, and draft utopian as well as dystopian visions of a vegetarian future. This is from the German version of “Satirical Glimpses of the Cultural History of Vegetarianism.” For the English-language version of this exhibition, click here.
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Fleischverbot: Lust und Frust, Askese und Doppelmoral | Fleischloser Humor
Since vegetarian societies began to spread and organize events in Germany, their missionary attitude and their supposed moral superiority have been ridiculed. Caricatures mocked the rigid rules of the vegetarians and their societies, accusing them of hypocrisy or of reinterpreting the self-imposed prohibitions according to their own needs and weaknesses. This is from the German version of “Satirical Glimpses of the Cultural History of Vegetarianism.” For the English-language version of this exhibition, click here.
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Zeitgemäßer Lebensstil: Soziale Normen und Reformen | Fleischloser Humor
In the early phase of the vegetarian movement, satirists playfully imagined how this diet and worldview affected different aspects of culture. Other cartoons make fun of the fact that vegetarianism quickly became a trend that was seen as sign of the Zeitgeist of the 1880s. Surprisingly, they overlooked the fact that vegetarianism was indeed intended as a sociocultural reform that could contribute to social and gender equality. This is from the German version of “Satirical Glimpses of the Cultural History of Vegetarianism.” For the English-language version of this exhibition, click here.
Exhibition chapter
“You Are What You Eat”: Stupid Vegetables and the Charm of the New | Satirical Glimpses of the Cultural History of Vegetarianism
While English satire magazines mocked vegetarianism since the 1840s, the first German caricatures appeared some 30 years later. Early drawings often imagined that a vegetarian would gradually transform into a plant. Other recurring topics are the assumed correlation between (meatless) nutrition and (peaceful, fragile) physical appearance and character, as well as the debate over whether a meat-rich or a meat-free diet was better for human health.