This essay examines the memorialization of two pivotal nuclear catastrophes – the atomic bombing of Hiroshima in 1945 and the Chornobyl nuclear disaster in 1986 – through the lens of testimonial writings and Maurice Blanchot’s concept of “the disaster.” Drawing on Japanese hibakusha testimonies and Chornobyl survivors’ accounts, the essay contrasts political memory, which seeks closure and national integration, with cultural memory, which preserves trauma, ambiguity, and unresolved loss. Testimonial writings, rather than commemorating a concluded past, emerge from within the disaster itself, articulating a reality that defies assimilation into redemptive historical narratives.
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Florence Fröhlig
April 23, 2026
Abstract [en] This dissertation, Care to Live, offers an in-depth ethnographic study of well-educated single mothers navigating everyday life in Kaunas, […]
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Florence Fröhlig
April 14, 2026
Places of Remembrance examines the cultural functions served by the Hungarian (1909–), Polish (1932–), and Czech-Slovak (1926–) pavilions in the Venice […]
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Florence Fröhlig
April 14, 2026
Abstract [en] This thesis breaks with tradition by reading Salomon Maimon’s Lebensgeschichte as a work of philosophy. Rather than the mere re-telling […]
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Florence Fröhlig
April 14, 2026
Abstract [en] This thesis investigates contemporary practices focused on facilitating the integration of those who, for various reasons, are perceived […]
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Florence Fröhlig
April 14, 2026
Abstract [en] In the 1790s, many post-Kantian German philosophers attempted to lay a new foundation for the historiography of philosophy. […]
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Florence Fröhlig
December 16, 2025
Abstract [en] In the classical Western aesthetic tradition, from Aristotle onwards, ’nature’ and ’art’ are conceptualised in relation to each […]
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Florence Fröhlig
December 16, 2025
Abstract [en] This thesis examines the persistent political fragmentation of post-war Bosnia and Herzegovina, focusing on the role of the […]
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Florence Fröhlig
December 16, 2025
Abstract [en] This dissertation takes as its focus the question of credibility in sustainable marketing: why it is both necessary […]
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Florence Fröhlig
December 16, 2025
Abstract [en] This thesis unpacks the empirical puzzle that banks suspected of involvement in money laundering may nevertheless be deemed […]
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Florence Fröhlig
December 16, 2025
Issue 2026, 1: 
Baltic Worlds covers; the Baltic Sea Region, Eastern Europe, Russia, CentralAsia, Caucasus and the Balkan area.