De Gruyter Brill

Hello, world! We're pleased as punch to be sharing our new look with you. Meet the brand-new De Gruyter Brill!   In the coming days, we'll be revealing more and more details—on our new logo, our booth in Frankfurt, and most importantly, our new merch! Keep an eye out and let us know what you think in the comments.   #DeGruyterBrill #BrandReveal #DGBReveal

What's new on De Gruyter Conversations? We caught up with Dr. Alexander Rothenberg, whose new book examines the production of elite bodies, connecting historical practices of slavery to the treatment of 'wonderkids' in the modern-day sports and entertainment industries. 🔗 https://lnkd.in/eJqDwAAz "Elitesklavereien und Profifußball" is out now and in open access! https://lnkd.in/eK43eRFs #DeGruyterBrill #Blog #Interview #Dependency #Slavery #ForcedLabor #Football #Sport #Entertainment #History Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies (BCDSS) Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies The University of Bonn

New in Open Access: Velázquez, Painter & Curator, by Julia Vázquez (Max Planck Institute for Art History).   This richly illustrated book is the first to address the curatorial career of #DiegoVelázquez, painter to King Philip IV of Spain and chamberlain of his royal palace. It investigates the role that Velázquez played in overseeing the display of the Habsburg art collection, then the richest in the western world, and the role, in turn, that this practice played in his creative trajectory between his arrival at the Spanish court in 1623 and his death in 1660. Download this book now at https://lnkd.in/gn2MZvRs. Images: 1) Domenico Tintoretto, Penitent Magdalene, ca. 1590. Gilded frame designed by Diego Velázquez. Courtesy Real Monasterio de San Lorenzo de El Escorial, Madrid.   2)  While in Italy, Diego Velázquez had arranged the production and purchase of a set of twelve bronze sculptures of lions modeled on the Medici lions in the Loggia dei Lanzi. Cast by Matteo Bonuccelli and gilded by Girolamo Ferrer, the sculptures were sent to Spain in 1652, where all twelve were installed as supports for the six porphyry tables that were already in the Royal Palace. Courtesy Museo Nacional del Prado. Madrid.   3) Diego Velázquez, Mercury and Argus, ca. 1659. Only surviving painting in a series of four, designed by Velázquez for the Hall of Mirrors at the Royal Palace. Courtesy Museo Nacional del Prado. Madrid.

🎄 Deck the halls! Many thanks to our team in Boston for the warm welcome last week. After a company update from Carsten Buhr, Josephine Hoppe, Manuela Gerlof, Maurits van den Boogert and Pablo Dominguez Andersen, it was time for holiday cheer galore – with De Gruyter, Paradigm and Brill staff coming together for festive drinks, sliders, and a Celtics game. Need we mention, the Celtics won. Big thanks to our US team for bringing the fun and games to the De Gruyter Brill family. Happy Thanksgiving! 🦃 #DeGruyterBrill #Americas #Boston Paradigm Publishing Services

I'm really pleased to see my chapter on the history of performers' rights is now out in volume 2 of P Sean Smith's epic series on the history of intellectual property, published by De Gruyter Brill Sean is an especially accommodating editor - my chapter runs to 45 pages and was granted its own section! ‘The Pretension Is Nothing; the Performance Everything’: The Origin of Performers’ Rights and the Creation of the Performer as Artist - looks at technology and the development of performers' rights, the developments in the film industry in the interwar period, and the way in which advances in filmmaking technologies, particularly sound, had a particular role to play. There's a sneak preview here https://lnkd.in/e4YDpipM and all the details are here https://lnkd.in/ej-U3AaW The volume has a fantastic array of people and research, available for library purchase soon! More details here https://lnkd.in/eeiCtJ7y Hope you enjoy it.

Yesterday, 20,000 people gathered in The Hague to register their protest against the planned 1-billion-euro cuts to higher education in the Netherlands. The crowd included a vocal contingent from Brill, toting our Humanities Matter placards. #DeGruyterBrill #HumanitiesMatter #StopDeBezuinigingen

We're pleased to announce the De Gruyter Brill-Arendt Center Lecture in Political Thinking keynote will be delivered by Professor Neil Roberts (Williams College) at our spring conference, The Revolutionary Spirit: Hannah Arendt and Black Political Thought, to be held March 27-28, 2025, at Bard College. Please submit abstracts at bit.ly/HACSpring25 by December 1st, 2024. We encourage submissions from early-career scholars. Learn more about the conference at https://lnkd.in/dQzqdaHM #hannaharendt #callforsubmissions #conference Roger Berkowitz

❄ Get a head start on your holiday shopping! Treat yourself or impress the scholar in your life with some choice titles from De Gruyter, Brill and Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht – all while saving 30% until Christmas. Find out more and browse our handpicked suggestions here: https://lnkd.in/ePzJeSk4 #DeGruyterBrill #AcademicBooks #HolidaySale

💡 Calling all senior managers and team leaders who want to enhance their mentorship skills! In two weeks, Aleksandra Nowacka-Leverton (our VP journal operations) and Alison Hope (Karger Publishers) will run a training course on mentoring and coaching in publishing for The Association Of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP). Dates: Mon, Dec 2 and Wed, Dec 4 at 9:30-12:30 EST | 14:30-17:30 GMT | 15:30-18:30 CET. Sign up here! https://lnkd.in/eUSExHx7 #DeGruyterBrill #Publishing #Mentoring #Coaching