Free University Of Berlin Research Articles

The Cold War in pharmacology: a bibliometric analysis of Berlin’s contributions to Naunyn‑Schmiedeberg’s Archives of Pharmacology (1947–1974)

After World War II, Berlin was divided into the West, controlled by The United States, the UK, and France, and the East, controlled by the Soviet Union, resulting in a Cold War for decades. This bibliometric study analyzes the influence of the Cold War on pharmacological research in Berlin by evaluating publication patterns in Naunyn-Schmiedeberg’s Archives of Pharmacology from 1947 to 1974 (n = 383). The publications highlight the political disparities in scientific output, exacerbated by the founding of the Free University of Berlin (FUB) as a countermeasure to Soviet repression, promoting academic freedom in West-Berlin. Researchers in West-Berlin published many more papers in Naunyn-Schmiedeberg’s Archives of Pharmacology than researchers in East-Berlin and received much more citations. West-Berlin adopted English as a scientific language much more rapidly than East-Berlin. West-Berlin and East-Berlin focused on totally different research topics. This paper demonstrates how political freedom, financial support, and internationalization boosted research productivity in West-Berlin. In contrast, political suppression, financial scarcity, and restricted international ties hindered scientific development in East-Berlin.

The history of the Vienna Protocol on dealing with Holocaust era human remains and its resonance with ethical considerations in African American bioarcheology.

The Vienna Protocol on How to Deal with Holocaust Era Human Remains describes what to do when possibly Jewish human remains are found. Based on Jewish medical ethics, it responds to the 2014-2017 discoveries of human remains stemming from biomedical contexts of the Nazi period. Among the finding sites were the Dahlem campus of the Free University of Berlin, the Medical University of Strasbourg, and Max Planck Institute archives. The Vienna Protocol is unique among similar recommendations on Nazi era human remains in its representation of the voices of those who suffered violence and were targeted as victims by Nazi persecution. In addition to discussing the ethics of dealing with physical human remains, these recommendations address the use of images (i.e., visual data) from the bodies of victims of Nazi violence. This paper presents the historical background of the Vienna Protocol and its impact. It also offers a first analysis as to why, at the time of the protocol's formulation, its authors were unaware of its resonance with ethical considerations from African American bioarcheology and a new ethical culture in bioanthropology. Potential reasons for this disconnect may include the historic marginalization of the voices of black scholars in anthropology within the wider scientific community. However, more detailed studies are needed to analyze similarities and differences between the histories and continuities of antisemitism and racism in Europe and the U.S.A., and their ties with scientific theories and practices of disciplines that gain knowledge from human remains.

Global trends and research status in ankylosing spondylitis clinical trials: a bibliometric analysis of the last 20 years.

Ankylosing spondylitis (AS) is a rheumatic and autoimmune disease associated with a chronic inflammatory response, mainly characterized by pain, stiffness, or limited mobility of the spine and sacroiliac joints. Severe symptoms can lead to joint deformity, destruction, and even lifelong disability, causing a serious burden on families and society as a whole. A large number of clinical studies have been published on AS over the past 20 years. This study aimed to summarize the current research status and global trends relating to AS clinical trials through a bibliometric analysis. The Web of Science Core Collection database was searched for publications related to AS clinical trials published between January 2003 and June 2023. Bibliometric analysis and web visualization were performed using CiteSpace, VOSviewer, and a bibliometric online analysis platform (https://bibliometric.com), which included the number of publications, citations, countries, institutions, journals, authors, references, and keywords. 1,212 articles published in 201 journals from 65 countries were included in this study. The number of publications related to AS clinical trials is increasing annually. The United States and the Free University of Berlin, the countries and institutions, respectively, that have published the most articles on AS, have made outstanding contributions to this field. The author with the most published papers and co-citations over the period covered by the study was Desiree Van Der Heijde. The journal with the most published and cited articles was Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases. The keywords: "double-blind," "rheumatoid arthritis," "efficacy," "placebo-controlled trial," "infliximab," "etanercept," "psoriatic arthritis" and "therapy" represent the current research hotspots regarding AS. This is the first study to perform a bibliometric analysis and visualization of AS clinical trial publications, providing a reliable research focus and direction for clinicians. Future studies in the field of AS clinical trials should focus on placebo-controlled trials of targeted therapeutic drugs.

Academic legacy of Professor Sergei V.Valdaytsev

This article shows the main stages of the creative path of St. Petersburg State University professor Sergei Vasilievich Valdaitsev (1951–2012), who made a significant contribution to the creation and development of the domestic school of economics, science and innovation. The features of the Soviet stage of the emergence of scientific studies and the economics of scientific and technological progress, the origins of the formation of the first scientific and technical complexes in the Soviet Union are characterized. The problems of the first studies in this area are shown: the history of science and technology, the subject of the economics of science, the peculiarities of labor in the scientific field, the forms of combining science and production. The contribution of scientists from Leningrad State University in the formation of the national school of economics, science and innovation is noted. The article focuses on the contribution of S.V.Valdaitsev to the transformation of domestic innovation in a market economy. After completing a year-long internship at the Free University of Berlin, Sergei Vasilyevich was able to formulate the basic principles of the transition of domestic scientific studies to a market-oriented approach. In just a few years, the educational process at the Department of Economics of Research and Development of Leningrad State University was restructured: the courses taught began to reflect market realities in the field of science and technology. A process of consulting domestic scientific organizations and high-tech enterprises of the city of Leningrad regarding the transition to market relations was established. Thanks to the efforts of S.V.Valdaytsev, the domestic school quickly caught up with the level of foreign research and began to contribute to the achievements of the global economy of innovative activity. The article reveals the content of the most important scientific works of Sergei Vasilievich, shows his contribution to reforming the educational process in the training of managers of innovative projects and the management system of the innovation process in the Russian Federation.

Klaus Holzkamp smiled: Soviet psychology in the Federal Republic of Germany in the Cold War era.

This article understands the reception of Soviet psychology in the Federal Republic of Germany as a contribution to a transnational Soviet psychology that is closely linked to a "Western Communist culture," broadly understood, and further elaborates on this term, which is borrowed from Luciano Nicolás García. Critical Psychology (Kritische Psychologie) was developed at the Free University of Berlin starting in the late 1960s by the Marxist psychologist Klaus Holzkamp and others and represents a central focus of this form of appropriating the writings of Soviet psychologists. However, there has also been intense interest in Soviet psychology in West Germany beyond this Communist culture. This article reconstructs several different lines of reception to sketch a more complex picture of Soviet psychology in West Germany than that offered by previous one-sided narratives. In any case, reconstructive efforts in this field of investigation must take the historical situation of the Cold War era and its important influence on the discipline of psychology into account. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved).

Децентрализация и интернационализация на докторантското обучение в Германия по примера на Свободния университет в Берлин

Abstract: Germany is an attractive research destination for PhD students and young scientists from Europe and around the world. With its innovative research achievements, the country ranks among the top in the European Union. The country's higher education institutions offer a wide range of courses for young researchers, some of which can be studied in a foreign language. The main questions concern the regulations on doctoral studies in Germany at the level of the federal state and the constituent states on the basis of decentralised self-government, the procedure for admission to and completion of doctoral studies at the Free University of Berlin, and the principle of internationalisation at the same university, which are also the subject of the article. А study of the legal framework, strategic documents on doctoral degree and education is made in the article. The methods used are content analysis and secondary data analysis. Conclusions and generalizations are made and presented in summary form in tables. The article has a practical-applied character as it presents practices from Germany that may be useful in other countries and universities. Keywords: Germany, Free University Berlin, PhD study, young researchers, regulatory framework, research achievements, decentralization, internationalization

The violence of collecting

AbstractPractices of collecting have been integral to archaeology as well as to anthropology more generally since the inception of the disciplines. From the history of collecting in the later nineteenth and twentieth centuries, it is clear that although the degree of coercion varied, the practices of collecting inevitably took place in contexts of starkly unequal power relations and associated forms of violence. More than just the act of collecting, it is also the ways collections are handled, made available (or not), curated, and discarded that are imbued with different kinds of violence. This article draws on the case of human and other remains recovered in excavations on the campus of the Free University of Berlin (Germany) and examines the ways in which the amassing, use, and discard of collections are entwined with violent practices.

Editorial: Variability of Discourses of Modern Reality in the Linguistic Dimension

IntroductionIn the conditions of a new digital reality, the linguistic and literary world has become even richer of a great variety of discourses. The studies presented in this issue cover a wide scope of subjects, including research on the communicative and linguistic features of the political, public, philosophical, comic, marketing and advertising discourses; analysis of the significance of emotions in human communication; investigation of the role of relationships between sign systems and communication in audiovisual culture; research on the specific features and breadth of the mode of understanding certain cultural, folklore and historical phenomena at the intersection of various humanities and social sciences. The fact that the authors of the publications conducted their research at different levels of the national languages (phonological, phonetic, grammatical, morphological, stylistic and syntactic) also attracts attention to this issue.Thus, these studies demonstrate how changing the thinking of a modern person and as a consequence the entire system of communication and the variety of discourses in its meaningful depths. The authors of these scientific publications evidentially note the growth trend the of discourse-based approaches in the social sciences and humanities which have been gaining popularity throughout the last decades. These researches will be useful for everyone who is interested in the field of media, political science, psychology, linguistics, culture, philosophy and in general to those who, hoping for answers, constantly wander through the changing labyrinths of globalization processes.Guest Editorial BoardGuest Editors-in-ChiefMariia Kryvoshei, Scientific Alliance, UkraineMariia Kryvoshei is a Leading Researcher at the Scientific Alliance, Ukraine. Her research interests lie in semiotics, human perception of language, language competence. Her studies focus on language as a means of communication in different aspects of human life, with special attention being paid to public and philosophical discourses. She believes humans encode and decipher the world through language, and linguistic dimension is one way to perceive and understand reality.Liudmyla Mashtaler, MetaScience, UkraineShe studies the specifics of discourse in education and media, technical means to provide better communication. Her research covers specifics of language and literature studying, learner and teacher identities and their communication skills while touching upon aspects of cultural environment and language choice.MembersDamian Osatiuk, Kamianets-Podіlskyi National Ivan Ohiienko University, UkraineElisa Hercz, Stockholm University, SwedenJūratė Anamov, Mykolas Romeris University, LithuaniaKrzysztof Steve, University of Warsaw, PolandLuke Krause, Free University of Berlin, GermanyMegan Wilson, Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu, RomaniaNadiia Kolesnyk, Lviv Polytechnic National University, UkraineNoah Ikhsan, Ben-Gurion University & Achvah Academic College, IsraelRostyslav Orban, Lviv National Academy of Arts, Ukraine

Syberiada Żydów polskich: Losy uchodźców z Zagłady [The Siberian odyssey of Polish Jews: The fates of the refugees from the Shoah

<i>Syberiada Żydów polskich: Losy uchodźców z Zagłady</i> [The Siberian odyssey of Polish Jews: The fates of the refugees from the Shoah

Bibliometric analysis of global research trends on post-stroke pneumonia: Current development status and research Frontiers.

BackgroundAs one of the most common complications of stroke, post-stroke pneumonia significantly increases the incidence of adverse outcomes, mortality, and healthcare costs for patients with stroke. As the field of post-stroke pneumonia has gained interest in the recent years, there has been an increasing number of publications on post-stroke pneumonia research worldwide. Therefore, a more comprehensive understanding of the field is needed now. This paper is intended to analyze the research status and detect the research frontiers in this field.MethodsVOS viewer, CiteSpace, and the online scientometric platform (https://bibliometric.com/) were the main visualization tools used in this paper. They were used to perform citation analysis of countries/institutions, co-citation analysis of authors/journals/references, co-authorship analysis of authors, co-occurrence analysis of keywords, and citation bursts analysis of references.ResultsThe number of publications in this field has increased rapidly since 2010 and is expected to continue to increase in the next few years. The countries contributing most to post-stroke pneumonia research were the USA, China, and Germany. The most productive institution was Harvard University, followed by Humboldt University of Berlin, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, and Free University of Berlin from Germany. Meanwhile, the German authors Meisel A, Meisel C, and Dirnagl U, who have contributed significantly to this field, were all associated with these three German institutions. The high-quality and high output journal was STROKE. In the coming years, the hot topic keywords “risk & risk-factors,” “outcome & impact,” “management & guidelines,” and “predictors” will gain more attention in this field. Finally, hot keywords were grouped into four clusters in this paper: cluster 1 (risk-factors studies of post-stroke pneumonia), cluster 2 (clinically relevant studies of post-stroke pneumonia), cluster 3 (mechanism studies of post-stroke pneumonia), and cluster 4 (care studies of post-stroke pneumonia).ConclusionThis study shows the knowledge structure and evolution of the field of post-stroke pneumonia research and predicts research trends through visualization analysis. The future trend of post-stroke pneumonia research will gradually shift from clinical and mechanistic studies to treatment and prevention studies.

Interview with Prof. Dr. Benjamin List: Nobel Laureate in Chemistry 2021.

In an interview with Benjamin List, winner of the 2021 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, members of the Young Chemists' Network (JCF) of the German Chemical Society (GDCh) asked him about his science, his career, and the academic system. Benjamin List, Director at the Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung in Germany, was awarded the Nobel Prize together with David W. C. MacMillan (Princeton University, USA) for the development of asymmetric organocatalysis. After studying chemistry at the Free University of Berlin, he received his doctorate from Goethe University in Frankfurt. He discovered the amino acid proline to be an efficient catalyst and thus co-founded the field of organocatalysis. In 2016, he received the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize, which is considered the most important research award in Germany.

Art, Science, and the Paradox of Knowledge: Decolonizing the European Avant-Garde

Art, Science, and the Paradox of Knowledge:Decolonizing the European Avant-Garde Thomas O. Haakenson (bio) The 2021 GSA Distinguished Lecture In the Thick of German Studies: The GSA Distinguished Lecture Series As part of the German Studies Association's cooperation with the Free University of Berlin's Program for Advanced German and European Studies, it was both an honor and a pleasure to launch our winter semester 2020/21 with the GSA Distinguished Lecture by Thomas O. Haakenson, Associate Professor in Critical and Visual Studies at the California College of the Arts on October 20, 2021. In his timely contribution, Art, Science, and the Paradox of Knowledge: Decolonizing the European Avantgarde, Professor Haakenson offered critical reflections on the European avant-garde's role in conceptualizing Western knowledge since the mid-nineteenth century. Haakenson's presentation was the ninth in our annual Distinguished Lecture Series. Initiated by GSA long-time Executive Director David Barclay, the series is designed to feature outstanding research by GSA members at Free University of Berlin and to strengthen ties between scholars working in these fields. We have had the privilege of hosting distinguished speakers on a broad array of subjects and it was David Barclay who delivered the first lecture on "Old Glory und Berliner Bär. Die USA und West-Berlin 1948–1994" in 2013. Suzanne Marchand followed in 2014 exploring "Orientalism and the Classical Tradition in Germany." For 2015, Joy Calico spoke on "Arnold Schoenberg's A Survivor from Warsaw in Postwar Europe: Musical Remigration and Holocaust Commemoration." Irene Kacandes took up another timely subject in 2016 and examined possibilities for "Memory Work for/ in the 21st Century." In her 2017 intervention "The Proletarian Prometheus," Sabine Hake applied the notion of cultural appropriation to examine the working class's use of bourgeois cultural tropes for political empowerment. Exploring the statue of a Hawaiian female deity in Berlin's ethnological collection, H. Glenn Penny engaged with the public controversies around ethnological museums in Europe in his 2018 contribution "Kihawahine: German Ethnology and its Histories of the World." Another compelling matter was taken up by Johannes von Moltke in 2019 who explored "The Meme is the Message: Alt-Right/Neue Rechte and the Political Affordances of Social Media." A strong case for considering Europe as a progressive alternative to Trump's America was made by historian Konrad H. Jarausch in his 2020 lecture "Embattled Europe: A Progressive Alternative." [End Page 329] The GSA Distinguished Lecture Series has given us much food for thought in the last decade and has served the program's central mission, to deepen the understanding of Germany and Europe in an exemplary way. Karin Goihl, Berlin Program Academic Coordinator, Free University of Berlin [End Page 330] The Wonderful World of Words My aunt Hiede Miyazaki was born in Kumamoto, Japan, on March 10, 1931. She was an excellent student, preparing at the end of World War II for college when her father passed away from cancer (Figure 1). At seventeen years old, she became the family's primary provider, often working several jobs and going hungry to support her mother, four siblings, and herself. Eventually, Hiede's English-language skills led to a position with the US Armed Forces at Camp Kumamoto and later on at both Itazuke Air Base in Fukuoka and Johnson Air Base in Tokyo. She continued her creative practice at the same time and became a skilled, much-sought-after Japanese Sumi-E artist, exhibiting widely and teaching classes in mainland Japan, the United States, Canada, and Germany. In the early 1960s, my Aunt Hiede met, and shortly thereafter married, my Uncle Gene. They were together for almost fifty-eight years. My first encounter with Germany, with German culture and the German language, was made possible thanks to my Aunt Hiede. In 1987, when I was fifteen years old, I flew to Germany to visit her and my Uncle Gene, who at the time lived in a small town in southern Germany near a US military base. I traveled alone transatlantically, with no German language skills and, quite frankly, a rather limited grasp of the English language as well. It was only my second time aboard an...

Evolution of research topics on the Tibetan Plateau environment and ecology from 2000 to 2020: a paper mining.

The Tibetan Plateau works as an important environmental and ecological barrier for the Asian continent. The researches on Tibetan environment and ecology are becoming extensive, but there is no systematic summary of research hotspots and trends in this field. Here, we analyzed 9180 publications retrieved from the WOS and CNKI during 2000 ~ 2020. The characteristics of publication, keywords with a 5-year interval and co-occurrence analysis were carried out so as to reveal the evolution and development trends of topics. The results show that articles increase dramatically since 2012. Except for common concerns like evolution, climate change, and precipitation, diversity was been studied more by Chinese scholars, while the USA, Germany, UK, and Australia researchers focused more on adaptability, basin western Tibet, lake, barley, and ore-related themes, respectively. Besides, China closely collaborated with the USA, Australia, and Germany in topics of evolution, climate change and degradation, precipitation, and diversity. The institutions located in Chinese different economic regions focused on different research keywords, such as vegetation, growth, trace elements, and geochemistry. The CAS contributed the most articles with 4254, showed advantages both in quantity and quality. Few articles were published by researchers affiliated to Free University of Berlin but with higher citations. It is the only one institute outside of China in the top 20. Main research hotspots include climate change, geology, and diversity. In future researches, ecological management and rehabilitation of mining area and tailings ponds, waste disposal, and changes of soil and water quality are worthy of attention and funding.

A personal obituary for Prof. Dr. med. Giancarlo Biamino

A personal obituary for Prof. Dr. med. Giancarlo Biamino

«В БЕЗУМНОМ МИРЕ ЗУМА КАЖДЫЙ ОКАЗАЛСЯ В ДВОЙНОЙ РОЛИ – ЗРИТЕЛЯ И АКТЕРА ОДНОВРЕМЕННО»

Oksana Bulgakowa is a researcher of visual culture, a film critic, a screenwriter, a director, and a professor at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz. She has taught at the Humboldt University of Berlin, the Leipzig Graduate School of Music and Theater, the Free University of Berlin, Stanford University and the University of California Berkeley. Author of the books “FEKS: Die Fabrik des exzentrischen Schauspielers” (1996), “Sergei Eisenstein – drei Utopien. Architekturentwürfe zur Filmtheorie” (1996), “Sergej Eisenstein. Eine Biographie” (1998), “The Gesture Factory” (2005, a renewed edition to be published by NLO publishing house in 2021), “The Soviet hearing eye: cinema and its sensory organs” (2010), “The Voice as a cultural phenomenon”(2015), “SINNFABRIK/FABRIK DER SINNE” (2015), “The Fate of the Battleship: The Biography of Sergei Eisenstein” (2017). Author of the network projects “The Visual Universe of Sergei Eisenstein” (2005), “Sergei Eisenstein: My Art in Life. Google Arts and Culture” (in collaboration with Dietmar Hochmuth, 2017–2018), and the films “Stalin – eine Mosfilmproduktion” (in collaboration with Enno Patalas, 1993), “Different Faces of Sergei Eisenstein” (in collaboration with Dietmar Hochmuth, 1997). In this issue of P&amp;amp;I, Oksana Bulgakowa talks about medial giants and midgets, obscene gestures of Elvis Presley, “voice-over discourse” of TV presenters, and the birth of Eisenstein’s “Method” from psychosis and neurosis. Interview by Ekaterina Maksimova. Photo by Dietmar Hochmuth.

Self-report on motivation.

Teo et al. (2021, p. 217) have asked me "to locate [myself] epistemologically and politically and identify [my] position in…institutional and departmental struggles…to allow a reader to contextualize [my] reconstructions." Therefore, I provide information on my political and scientific orientation, my position at the Free University of Berlin, and my relationship to Klaus Holzkamp. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved).

Book Reviews

Zerrin Özlem Biner, States of Dispossession: Violence and Precarious Coexistence in Southeast Turkey, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020, 264 pp., (ISBN 9780812251753). Salih Can Açıksöz, Sacrificial Limbs: Masculinity, Disability, and Political Violence in Turkey, Oakland: University of California Press, 2020, 272 pp., (ISBN: 9780520305304). Reviewed by Marlene Schäfers, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom Andrew Bush, Between Muslims: Religious Difference in Iraqi Kurdistan, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2020, 240 pp., (ISBN: 9781503611436). Reviewed by Metin Atmaca, Social Sciences University of Ankara, Turkey Mneesha Gellman, Democratization and Memories of Violence: Ethnic minority rights movements in Mexico, Turkey, and El Salvador, London and New York: Routledge, 2018, 226 pp., (ISBN: 9781138597686). Reviewed by Vera Eccarius-Kelly, Siena College, United States Seevan Saeed, Kurdish Politics in Turkey: From the PKK to the KCK, London and New York: Routledge, 2017, 150 pp., (ISBN: 978-1-138-19529-5 (hbk); 978-1-315-63848-5 (ebk)). Reviewed by Michael M. Gunter, Tennessee Technological University Mohammedali Yaseen Taha, Media and Politics in Kurdistan. How Politics and Media are Locked in an Embrace, London: Lexington, 2020, 145 pp., (ISBN: 9781793611031). Reviewed by Kerem Schamberger, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Germany. Philip G. Kreyenbroek and Yiannis Kanakis, "God First and Last": Religious Traditions and Music of the Yaresan of Guran. Volume I: Religious Traditions, by Philip G. Kreyenbroek, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2020. XIV+188 pp., (ISBN 9783447114240). Reviewed by Martin van Bruinessen, Utrecht University, Netherlands Seyedeh Behnaz Hosseini, The Yārsān of Iran, Socio-Political changes and Migration, Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020, 229 pp., (ISBN 978-981-15-2634-3). Reviewed by Hamidreza Nikravesh, Free University of Berlin, Germany Mohammed Ihsan, Nation building in Kurdistan: Memory, Genocide and Human Rights, New York: Routledge, 2017, 194 pp., (ISBN: 9781472466792). Reviewed by Ugur Ümit Üngör, NIOD Institute, University of Amsterdam

THE LIBRARY OF THE FREE UNIVERSITY OF BERLIN. ENVIRONMENTAL FRIENDLINESS AS A RESPONSE TO MODERN CHALLENGES

Objective. The article deals with the functional organisation and design of the Free University Library in Berlin, which has become not only an information centre, but also a centre for supporting research, supporting and providing education and training with a green space. Methods. The article is the result of the thorough study of the Internet resources about “green” libraries and the Philological Library of the Free University of Berlin. Conclusion.The library is an example of how to implement the philosophy of sustainability in all processes of the organisation's life, without detracting from the importance of scientific and information support for the teaching and research process. Results. The article was an attempt to describe the ways in which modern technologies go hand in hand with resource-saving policy, which could be implemented in the university libraries ofUkraine.

Evaluation in an Emergency: Assessing Transformative Energy Policy amidst the Climate Crisis

Sam Hampton is a researcher at the Environmental Change Institute, Oxford University and freelance sustainability consultant. His research focuses on the governance of the energy transition. He specializes in energy policy evaluation, low carbon innovation, and sustainability for small and medium-sized enterprises. Tina Fawcett is a researcher at the Environmental Change Institute, Oxford University. Her research concerns energy use by households and organizations and uses a multi-disciplinary approach to understand current patterns of use and to identify opportunities and policies for reducing energy use and carbon emissions. Jan Rosenow is Director of European Programmes at Regulatory Assistance Project (RAP); Honorary Research Associate at Oxford University’s Environmental Change Institute, an Associate Fellow at Sussex Energy Group of SPRU, University of Sussex and at Free University of Berlin. His work focuses on energy and climate policy and regulation and market design. Charlie Michaelis is Director of Strategy Development Solutions. He has over 25 years’ experience of assisting government and the public sector to evaluate policies and programs. He specializes in energy efficiency, renewable energy, environment, business support, and transport. Ruth Mayne is a senior researcher at Oxfam GB currently working on climate justice and how change happens. Sam Hampton is a researcher at the Environmental Change Institute, Oxford University and freelance sustainability consultant. His research focuses on the governance of the energy transition. He specializes in energy policy evaluation, low carbon innovation, and sustainability for small and medium-sized enterprises. Tina Fawcett is a researcher at the Environmental Change Institute, Oxford University. Her research concerns energy use by households and organizations and uses a multi-disciplinary approach to understand current patterns of use and to identify opportunities and policies for reducing energy use and carbon emissions. Jan Rosenow is Director of European Programmes at Regulatory Assistance Project (RAP); Honorary Research Associate at Oxford University’s Environmental Change Institute, an Associate Fellow at Sussex Energy Group of SPRU, University of Sussex and at Free University of Berlin. His work focuses on energy and climate policy and regulation and market design. Charlie Michaelis is Director of Strategy Development Solutions. He has over 25 years’ experience of assisting government and the public sector to evaluate policies and programs. He specializes in energy efficiency, renewable energy, environment, business support, and transport. Ruth Mayne is a senior researcher at Oxfam GB currently working on climate justice and how change happens.

Bohdan Osadczuk jako rzecznik europejskiego dialogu cywilizacyjnego

The life and activity of the publicist, journalist and researcher Bohdan Osadchuk is a meaningful example of activities for the inter-civilisation dialogue. He was born in Galicia, which belonged to the Second Polish Republic, and he always treated Polish and Ukrainian cultures as his own. Osadchuk’s efforts to strengthen Polish-Ukrainian relations and understanding, as well as his cooperation with Jerzy Giedroyc, editor-in-chief of the Paris-based journal Kultura [Culture], which was unique in terms of content and influence, were of particular importance. The author of this article has collected and analysed little-known and so far undiscovered facts and previously unavailable archival documents. Bohdan Osadchuk grew up in a multicultural environment. Professing liberal values, he condemned all chauvinism. He managed to combine the identity of a Ukrainian emigrant with that of a European democrat. For seventy years, he lived in Berlin (1941–2011), where he graduated from the university and became recognised as a journalist Alexander Korab. He was known under this pseudonym to readers of German newspapers and the oldest Swiss daily newspaper Neue Zürcher Zeitung for decades. For over half a century, he wrote for this authoritative newspaper about the events in the Soviet Union, Poland, Ukraine and the countries of the socialist bloc. Moreover, when actively cooperating with German radio and television, he introduced Polish and Ukrainian issues to the media discourse. The communist special services of the People’s Republic of Poland and the Soviet Union hunted Bohdan Osadchuk, watched him and tried to recruit him. But he was playing his own game and was not fooled. This article also describes Osadchuk’s scientific achievements that he gained as a professor at the Free University of Berlin (Freie Universität Berlin) and the Ukrainian Free University in Munich, as well as the author of fundamental publications. Moreover, the circumstances of the last years of Osadchuk’s life, which ended in Poland, are presented for the first time.