In the 1920s, ‘Eldorado’ was much more easily reachable than myths and legends had suggested for centuries. Marlene Dietrich had found her way there. So had Ernst Röhm.1 Situated neither in the thick, feverish jungle along the Amazon nor on some remote, dizzying...
In international law, the category of “violence against women” has been assembled through different legal instruments, interpretive practices and institutional responses, including the CEDAW Committee General Recommendations (GR), UN declarations, and regional...
This blog carnival features six contributions from participants in the 2026 Critical Times summer school on ‘Bodies’, which took place in Lucerne in early July. Prompted by Caroline Bynum’s famous mid-90s provocation, “why all the fuss about the body?”, attendees...
