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Modern Germany in transatlantic perspective
Modern Germany in Transatlantic Perspective celebrates the extraordinary life and scholarly career of Konrad H. Jarausch, whose monumental work as a teacher, mentor, and builder of scholarly institutions, helped to inspire conversations about everything from the rise of Nazism to the history of the two Germanys.
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Supporting migrants and refugees with posttraumatic stress disorder: development, pilot implementation, and pilot evaluation of a continuing interprofessional education for healthcare providers
Background
Refugees and migrants face an increased risk of developing posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Adequate care can be insufficient due to language barriers, cultural differences, and knowledge deficits of health service providers. Therefore, professional associations requested that healthcare providers to be educated to provide culturally sensitive care. An evidence-based educational intervention in the form of a continuing interprofessional education (CIPE) for healthcare providers on the topic of PTSD in migrants and refugees was developed, pilot-implemented, and evaluated according to the first two levels of the Kirkpatrick evaluation model (reaction and learning).
Methods
The development of a curriculum for the CIPE intervention was based on a narrative literature review. Its content was validated by experts (
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= 17) in an online survey and analyzed using both the Content Validity Index and a thematic analysis. The evaluation of the CIPE intervention was performed by conducting a pilot study with a quasi-experimental single group, using a pre-posttest design. In total, there were 39 participants distributed among three pilot courses. We collected and analyzed data on satisfaction, knowledge, and feasibility.
Results
The curriculum for a half-day course, consisting of 8 modules, showed almost excellent content validity (S-CVI = 0.92). In the pilot-implementation phase, participants were “very satisfied” with the pilot courses and a positive effect on their knowledge was detected. No correlation between satisfaction and knowledge gain was found.
Conclusions
The CIPE intervention can be considered feasible and seems promising in its effects on satisfaction and knowledge. The insights gained in this study can be used to adapt and optimize the educational intervention, whereby the feedback from course attendees is particularly useful. Future studies need to further examine the effects in larger samples and more robust study designs.
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Writing on Death: Plague Narratives. A Review Essay
This essay discusses several books, ancient and recent, on plagues to ask the question: Can we face death without turning away from it through historical narration? Can we write about death, which only afflicts individuals, without stripping death of its individuality? After briefly addressing these questions, I discuss five books, one from the ancient period (Thucydides’s Peloponnesian War), one from the late medieval period (Giovanni Boccaccio’s The Decameron), one from the early modern period (Daniel Defoe’s A Journal of the Plague Year), and two from the modern period (Mary Shelley’s The Last Man, and Frank Snowden’s Epidemics and Society). These books not only come from different eras but also reflect different written responses to death—ancient history, story/fable, reportage, futuristic novel, and contemporary history. The essay concludes by considering a counterargument to its focus on death, an argument developed by Baruch Spinoza which claims that humans should think nothing less than of death.
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Heidegger's Metapolitics
This essay, “Heidegger's Metapolitics,” argues that Martin Heidegger is a philosopher of the city; he is an inherently political philosopher. His account of the centrality of the city in the Introduction to Metaphysics (1953) makes this abundantly clear. But it also asserts in a striking manner the importance of violence in political life. Heidegger's reading of Antigone emphasizes the essential violence of philosophy, which unsettles and undermines the conventions of the city to the extent that it retains its relation to Being as estranging, displacing openness. Like other creative discourses, however, philosophy risks being transformed into convention or routine. Philosophy must insist on violence, on a return to the open beginning, if it is to keep the city vibrant and active, now, in the age of planetary technology. Heidegger does not forsake commitment to a politics of violence even after the end of World War II. Indeed, his commitment to philosophy as a salvific, revolutionary, discourse—as the only discourse capable of saving us from the rule of planetary technology—does not waver. To the very end, Heidegger seeks to propitiate the decisive, apocalyptic moment in which the rule of planetary technology will be broken in a new beginning.
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Jewish Space in Contemporary Poland
In a time of national introspection regarding the country's involvement in the persecution of Jews, Poland has begun to reimagine spaces of and for Jewishness in the Polish landscape, not as a form of nostalgia but as a way to encourage the pluralization of contemporary society. The essays in this book explore issues of the restoration, restitution, memorializing, and tourism that have brought present inhabitants into contact with initiatives to revive Jewish sites. They reveal that an emergent Jewish presence in both urban and rural landscapes exists in conflict and collaboration with other remembered minorities, engaging in complex negotiations with local, regional, national, and international groups and interests. With its emphasis on spaces and built environments, this volume illuminates the role of the material world in the complex encounter with the Jewish past in contemporary Poland.
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Shattered Spaces
After the Holocaust, the empty, silent spaces of bombed-out synagogues, cemeteries, and Jewish districts were all that was left of Jewish life in many German and Polish cities. What happened to this scarred landscape after the war, and how Germans, Poles, and Jews encountered these ruins over the past sixty years, is the story this book tells.
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Effects of Visual Signaling in Screenshots: An Eye Tracking Study
Purpose: Screenshots are an important means of visualization in software documentation. One question technical communicators need to address when dealing with screenshots is whether visual signaling elements, such as arrows or frames, should be added in order to highlight relevant
information. This article reports the results of an experimental study that examined whether signaling elements successfully guide visual attention of readers to relevant screenshot information as intended. A second goal was to find out whether visual signaling has a positive impact on how
accurate and fast users execute the tasks which the screenshots support.
Method: Two versions of a software tutorial were constructed that included screenshots with or without signaling elements. Participants' eye movements were recorded while they studied the tutorial and
executed the tasks described therein. In addition to eye movement measures, accuracy of task execution and time to complete the tasks were determined as measures of overall success on the tasks.
Results: Participants working with tutorials that used visual signaling executed
more tasks correctly. No differences were found regarding the time needed to complete the tasks. Analysis of the eye tracking data showed that participants fixated relevant screenshot areas longer and more often if highlighted by signaling elements.
Conclusions: The results
provide evidence that adding signaling elements to screenshots is an effective means to guide the visual attention of users. As predicted by the Cognitive Theory of Multimedia Learning, visual signaling does not simply increase interest in pictures but helps users to select relevant information.
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Silences about Sarrazin’s Racism in Contemporary Germany
Meng argues that economist Thilo Sarrazin's racism is difficult to notice partly because the prejudices against migrants that he repeats have increasingly become normalized in German society and partly because the issue he purports to raise--integration--is discursively framed as a sacrosanct matter of Germany's sovereignty as a liberal democracy; the seemingly innocuous and righteous idioms of sovereignty and democracy efface already obscured prejudices. Moreovei the postwar myth that race and racism have largely been purged from German democracy further hinders one from noticing certain forms of racism, as may also be the case in other countries with racist histories. With the collapse of racial states in Nazi Germany, Jim Crow America, and apartheid South Africa, the myth of \"postracialness\" seems to underscore triumphant narratives about the apotheosis of liberal democracy in certain parts of the world.
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Monuments of Ruination in Postwar Berlin and Warsaw: The Architectural Projects of Bohdan Lachert and Daniel Libeskind
This essay provides an interpretation of parallel attempts to represent ruination in the cities of Warsaw and Berlin after the Holocaust—the architectural projects of Bohdan Lachert and Daniel Libeskind. Lachert strove to represent the ruination of Jewish life in Warsaw through a modernist housing project, whereas Libeskind sought to represent Jewish ruination in a museum. While these two projects might seem different, they come together around a shared aspiration: to represent absence and ruination. Both projects endeavored to create a new kind of memorial that moved away from the conventional form. Rather than turning away from ruination and suffering as the conventional monument has done, Libeskind and Lachert sought to develop a new, non-salvific kind of monument that would reflect on death, suffering, and emptiness. This essay emphasizes the novelty of their attempts to create a different relationship to the absence that is the past, while it also explores some of the central challenges—both historical and theoretical—that both architects faced in implementing their artistic visions.
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