De Gruyter Brill

25/07/2025

Our CEO Carsten Buhr was thrilled to fulfill his lifelong dream of becoming a chef by speaking to the Scholarly Kitchen's Chefs de Cuisines series. Find out more about his trajectory in academic publishing and what's cooking at De Gruyter Brill.

Bon appétit and enjoy! 🔗 https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/07/25/robert-harington-talks-to-carsten-buhr-ceo-of-de-gruyter-brill-in-this-series-of-perspectives-from-some-of-publishings-leaders-across-the-non-profit-and-for-profit-sectors-of-our-industry/

Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP)

25/07/2025

Summertime is conference time! Our editors are packing their bags to bring you our best books, meet with authors and hear about your latest book ideas.

What exactly happens at these conferences? Follow Ancient Studies acquisitions editor Carlo Vessella and communications manager Sandra Koronkai-Kiss as they attend the recent Classical Association Conference at the University of St Andrews in sunny Scotland.

What are you up to this summer? No matter your destination, check out the summer sale in our bio and save 40% off our titles!

🔗 https://marketing.degruyterbrill.com/summersale2025?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social-post&utm_campaign=discount&utm_term=SummerSale25

25/07/2025

Is the Metaverse just a game – or a new form of society?
In "Society Without People", Pieper and Nelson introduce the theory of Gamism – where the logic of gaming could become our dominant ideology.
This book explores how emerging technologies like AI and virtual reality will reshape identity, institutions, and what it means to live in community.
For readers of tech, culture, and social change: https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783111236162/html

22/07/2025

The latest issue of Journal of Central Asian History (JCAH) is out now!

More details here: https://brill.com/view/journals/jcah/4/1/jcah.4.issue-1.xml

– Table of Contents –

“The Boundary Disputes of Villagers”: the Qing Empire and the Micropolitics of the Pamirs
Author: David Brophy

Hybridizing Folklore Theories and Methods in 1950s and 1960s Tajikistan
Authors: Nicholas Seay and Benjamin Gatling

‘History,’ ‘Biography,’ and Framing a Central Asian Identity in a Turkic Tīmūr-nāma from Early Eighteenth-Century Khwārazm
Author: Devin DeWeese

Warnings Ignored? Soviet Post-war Economic Debates and the Violent Collapse of the USSR
Author: Giovanni Cadioli

Rewriting the Perestroika from the South
Author: Anna Whittington

Переписывая распад Советского Союза: центральноазиатская перспектива
Rewriting the Collapse of the Soviet Union: A Central Asian Perspective
Author: Сергей Абашин

Тajikistan at the End of the USSR: Destabilization, Violence, and Moscow’s Ongoing Role
Author: Isaac McKean Scarborough

22/07/2025

☀️ Summer sale at De Gruyter Brill! Save 40% on our books and eBooks through August. Whether you're prepping for fall courses or expanding your personal library, now's the perfect time to save big.

Browse our recommended reads and get shopping now! 🔗 https://marketing.degruyterbrill.com/summersale2025?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social-post&utm_campaign=discount&utm_term=SummerSale25

18/07/2025

🙈 Happy weekend! Ready for some monkey business? An article from our journal Behaviour is making the rounds on CNN, Vice and other media.

Enjoy! 🔗 https://www.sciencealert.com/chimpfluencers-are-sticking-grass-in-their-ears-and-butts-in-latest-viral-trend

Find the full study here in open access: https://brill.com/view/journals/beh/162/6-8/article-p459_2.xml

If chimpanzees had access to TikTok, the platform might soon be flooded with videos of 'chimpfluencers' wearing grass in their ears and butts – the latest trend going around a chimp sanctuary in Africa.

16/07/2025

Congratulations to our author Ursula Krechel on winning the Georg Büchner Prize, one of the most prestigious awards in the German-speaking literary world. Her forthcoming book with us, "Schlüssel, Pass, Fluchtboot" ("Key, Passport, Escape Boat"), is out in October. Preorder it now on our website: https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/isbn/9783112210215/html

The Büchner Prize was first awarded in 1923 during the Weimar Republic. With Ursula Krechel, this year’s jury chose to honor "an author who in her poems, plays, radio plays, novels and essays provides a counterweight to the devastation of German history and the hardening of the present with the power of her literature."

Read the jury’s full statement here (in German): https://www.deutscheakademie.de/de/aktuell/2025-07-15/georg-buechner-preis

Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung

11/07/2025

😎 Yesterday's office party in Berlin had it all: delicious bites, bespoke cocktails, a special strategy exhibition, summery tunes, and kitchen karaoke!

Many thanks to everyone who came, the company choir for their uplifting harmonies, and Ivica Masic, Mine Öksüz and team for organizing!

Our favorite wish on the team wish tree? "More parties, so we can all hang out more with each other." 🫶

11/07/2025

Devil with a blue dress, blue dress…

Due next month: https://brill.com/edcollbook/title/39586.

11/07/2025

A topic dear to our hearts.

https://brill.com/edcollbook/title/72034

09/07/2025

Five books from our arts and architecture roster have been named among the most beautiful in Austria and Germany. Congratulations to the winners!

Austria

"Architektur in Niederösterreich im 20. Jahrhundert nach Friedrich Achleitner" (Birkhäuser): https://birkhauser.com/en/book/9783035627084

"Iconic Auböck" (Birkhäuser): https://birkhauser.com/en/book/9783035629057

"Ricarda Denzer – ganz ohr / all ears" (De Gruyter Arts, Edition Angewandte): https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783111342238/html

"Territorial Urbanism Now!" (JOVIS Verlag): https://www.jovis.de/de/book/9783986120634

Germany

"Constructive Disobedience. An Experimental Methodology in Architecture" (Birkhäuser): https://birkhauser.com/en/book/9783035628302

Explore the full lists of winners here:

🔗 https://schoenstebuecher.at/preistraeger-2024/

🔗 https://www.stiftung-buchkunst.de/news-events/die-schoensten-deutschen-buecher-2025/

08/07/2025

🧐 Like it or leave it, social media seems here to stay. But what about its use among academics? We polled 1,800 scholars in an extensive survey. Read about the findings on our blog and download the full report under the article for even more insights.

Has everyone you know left X? Do you prefer emails and in-person events these days? Let us know in the comments below!

🔗 https://blog.degruyter.com/where-next-for-academic-social-media-how-scholars-are-rethinking-the-platforms-they-use-and-why