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This is a factual story of an academic journey of three-decades told by the author about how she thrived in her research on Chinese Overseas in Europe. The author was among few academics from prc who went to study in Amsterdam in the mid-1980s. Ill-prepared and bewildered, she received help from Chinese Overseas. The experience marked the beginning of her life-long academic interest in Chinese Overseas. She was trained as a historian at Xiamen University specializing in Chinese in Indonesia for her ma, and she completed her doctoral degree in sociology at the University of Amsterdam specializing in Chinese migrants in Europe. She spent years conducting field work to study Chinese communities in different European countries. She became a Professor at Xiamen University, China, and published many papers and books on Chinese in Europe.

The purpose of the article is to analyze the oral history collection of the Holocaust sources at the Yahad-In Unum scientific institution (Paris, France) on the example of the Nazi-occupied territories of the Volhynia-Podolia General District of Reichskommissariat Ukraine. The research methodology is based on the principles of historicism and scientific objectivity. Analysis of oral history sources is the main method of the research. Scientific novelty: For the first time in historiography, the oral history Holocaust sources of the Yahad-In Unum scientific institution were analyzed based on the example of the Volhynia-Podolia General District. The conclusions prove that the oral history sources of Yahad-In Unum have powerful potential for Holocaust studies. They have exclusive information that is not found in other sources. German and Soviet documents cannot fully shed light on Holocaust history. Instead, the stories of witnesses provide an opportunity to examine this topic in a multifaceted way.

We live in a present of multiple and conflicting sacralities. How do we account for the persistence and remarkable adaptability of traditional forms of the Christian sacred? How do we explain the ongoing allure of instrumentalizing the sacred for political purposes? And what do we make of the spread of nature spiritualities that have been so pertinent over the last half century? This volume seeks to reflect upon how these multiple sacralizations can be studied and understood in historical and cross-disciplinary perspective

Theprocess of European integration is posing a challenge to scholars in the humanities and the social sciences to rethink their frames of analysis. The once dominant nation-state has lost relevance while transnational processes and exchanges are receiving greater attention. This is not only true for the social sciences and economics, but also for history. The closer the European states are integrated, the more questions about Europe's past are asked. But what is European history, and upon which methods and units of analysis can it be built? Is it the sum of national histories, just as the EU is a union of nation-states, or is it something more? Since no one subject of European history can possibly encompass all countries on the continent, it is clear that independent of the general topic there needs to be a certain selection of studies about more than one local or national case. If those studies, no matter whether they cover political, social, or cultural history, are to be synthesized on a European level, comparisons need to be made at a certain stage of any given work. The same holds true for the history of Central Europe, an area with a particularly high degree of internal differentiation.

Report covers fiscal year. ; Mode of access: Internet. ; Vols. for 1965-1972 compiled by the Historical Unit, U.S. Army Medical Dept.; 1973-1974 by the Medical History Division, U.S. Army Center of Military History; 1975 by Medical History Branch, U.S. Army Center of Military History.

'Der Beitrag ist an der Schnittstelle von Demokratie- und Parteienforschung zu europäischer Integration angesiedelt. Ausgehend von einer funktionalistischen Perspektive werden Parteien als Bindeglied zwischen staatlichen Institutionen und Bürgerinnen, die Repräsentation und Regieren in sich vereinen, behandelt. Ob, mit welchen Themen und wie nationale Parteien diese linkage-Funktion auch im europäischen Mehrebenenkontext wahrnehmen, ist die zentrale Frage dieses Beitrages. Inhaltsanalytisch werden in Wahlkampftexten (Wahlprogramme, Plakate, TV-Diskussionen) der Nationalratswahl 2006 die thematische und diskursive Hereinnahme der europäischen Dimension in den nationalen Parteienwettbewerb unter dem Blickwinkel demokratischer Repräsentation und elektoraler Verantwortlichkeit untersucht. Mit diesem Zugang wird der Fokus auf Parteien als Trägerinnen zentraler Funktionen gelegt und damit eine Brücke zur EU-Demokratieforschung geschlagen.' (Autorenreferat)