Department of Managent, Philosophy and Politics

I hundredåret for stadfæstelsen af fundatsen for Louis Petersens Legat har legatets bestyrelse fundet det rigtigt at udgive en publikation, der beskriver legatstifteren, papirhandler Louis Petersen, og redegør for hovedpunkterne i legatets virksomhed gennem de 100 år. Bestyrelsen har i samråd med Copenhagen Business School bedt ph.d. Liv Egholm Feldt om at påtage sig at skrive legatets historie. Liv Egholm Feldt har naturligvis haft uhindret adgang til legatets arkiver og selv fastlagt værkets indhold.

Mikrohistoriens historie
Termen mikrohistorie er ikke lige udbredt i alle lande. Den stammer oprindeligt fra den italienske historikerverden i slutningen af 1970'erne, men der er ingen tvivl om, at de samme tendenser er på spil i andre lande.

In recent years the concepts of culture has been used for various endeavors of society. Integration of the other into society, explanation of differentness out there, and as a description of how to rightly engage with and handle the others in both society and business - endeavors all based on a rather essentialist use of the concept of culture as something you are instead of something you do and use as a strategic resource. ...

Saturday November 13 1999 the network fir History of Theory held a conference at Odense University, The conference was to initiate and stimulate the discussion on microhistory in Denmark. Therefore practical, methodogical and epistemological approaches were chosen to ensure different perspectives of microhistoty. This working paper consists of some of the papers that were presented at the conference.

Ludovico de Vartema på rejse hos de andre 1500-1507

Begrebet ”kulturmøder” har gennem de seneste årtier vundet mere og mere plads i både den offentlige og den faglige debat. At vi definerer specifikke møder som kulturmøder, rejser spørgsmålet om, hvad der klassificerer et møde som et kulturmøde, samt hvilken forståelse af kulturbegrebet det forudsætter.

Egholm, Liv “Travel Accounts as Cultural Signs. A microhistorian analysis about the meaning of the “meeting” in theory and praxis.” Journal of Microhistory. 1 no.1. 2006

Summary in English.
The dissertation;”Travel Accounts as Cultural Signs. A microhistorian analysis about
the meaning of the “meeting” in theory and praxis” explores a theoretical as well as a
specific practical problematique.

Chapter 1 gives an account of the two “problem descriptions”, their reasons and the
connection between them and also of the reasons why, I have structured the dissetation in a different way than normally done. In different terms the theoretical and practical problem descriptions are based on each other and the dissertation will therefore show not only how they relate to each other but also how the different practical hypotheses are combined. This is shown through a processual manier de écrire

The theoretical “problem description” is based on the post-structual critique, which
problemize the correspondence between a given historic source and the past, as well as the illusion of the language as a transparent medium. “The linguistic turn” has
established a critical agenda with regards to the basis of the science of history, and the question about the relation of language to the world and its formative role has been raised. On this background the dissertation will discuss the idea of the historical source and status of the historical narrative in the microhistorical theories and methodologies which is used in the practical analyses of the dissertation. Furthermore, the question whether microhistory (microstoria) as a new methodology can offer a possible mode for the writing of history in the period of the linguistic turn, will be explored.

In every practical historical research the questions about the source and the status of
the narrative are accentuated, even though these relations not always has been
discussed so tensed. This is why the microhistorical treatment of these subjects will be explored through a practical microhistorical analysis of a case-study.
The practical “problem describtion” explores how the idea of being a secularised
civilised human being could be established through the “meeting” with “the strange”
in the beginning of the Italian renaissance. This is primarily illuminated through a
microhistorian analysis of the travel account, Itinerario by Ludovico de Varthema,
from 1510.

Summary of chapter 2-9  see:  2004, Egholm, Liv
https://www.sdu.dk/da/forskning/phd/phd_skoler/phd_humaniora/ph,-d-,d,-d-,-afhandlinger

In the last decade, researchers have shown that MNCs need to reverse knowledge transfer to secure their competitiveness in the global market. Lately this has been studied through re/expatriates. This study presents two exemplary cases from a study of 64 interviews conducted in 5 of the largest Danish MNCs. The purpose of this paper is twofold. First, to understand the role identity work plays in the ability and willingness of expatriates to learn and transfer knowledge. Second, to introduce Life Course Theory as an important methodological contribution with which to capture the entangled relationship between agency and structure within reverse knowledge transfer. Third, to develop and extend the current theoretical and methodological frame that govern the research of knowledge transfer. The present study indicates that institutionally generated organisational frames and work organising practices develop and feed certain power structures and communities, which influence the possibili...

The objective of the conference was to unravel and explain the growing interactions between Korea and the principal countries in Asia, either at a bilateral level or at a multilateral, regional level. Asia included more narrowly the major economies of East Asia, South East Asia and South Asia. Interaction and integration were confined mainly to three broad areas. These were (1) region-based, geopolitical relationships, (2) economic, business and technological engagements with Asia, and (3) Korea's responses to emergent challenges and opportunities associated with Korea's ongoing engagement with the region. The keynote speaker was Dr. Sang-Woo Nam, Dean of the KDI School of Public Policy and Management, and the Executive Secretary of the OECD-Korea Policy Center, who gave the presentation 'Quo Vadis? The Perils and Hopes of the Korean Economy' and opened the conference. 15 Korea specialists from Asia, Australia, and Europe participated and presented their research papers in four different panels. After each panel there was time for a 'Q&A' session where the presenters could answer questions from their fellow-presenters and the audience. In addition to the presenters, representatives of Danish businesses, Danish Foreign Ministry, the Korean Embassy, and students were present at the conference.

Сryptic species of Anopheles messeae sensu lato (Diptera: Culicidae), their identification, features and nomenclature The paper describes the change in perspective in the composition of the A. messeae taxonomic unit. Initially, based on the disequilibrium of natural populations, the species was differentiated into A and B forms using chromosomal inversions as markers. The positive assortative mating, as well as the ecological features and geographical distribution of these forms, made it possible to give them the status of species in statu nascendi. Later, we additionally investigated the EcoRI restriction fragments of the genomic DNA and the ITS2 nucleotide sequences in the A and B A. messeae species. Unambiguous differences between the species in the former marker and semi-quantitative differences in the latter one, alongside with the absence of hybrids in the populations studied, led us to conclude that A. messeae s.l. is comprised of two homosequential cryptic species with parallel chromosomal polymorphisms. Unequivocal parallels between A. lewisi Ludlow, 1920 and A. messeae B in regards to their features, as well as the identity of A. daciae Linton et al., 2004 to A. messeae A in its ITS2 sequence, and to A. messeae Fall. in diagnostic chromosomal inversions, allowed us to consider A.

The aim of this research was to study the effect of the ethylene inhibitor "silver nitrate (AgNO3)" and vitamin B9 "folic acid" in different concentrations combined with cytokinin BA as well as the antioxidant thiol compound "L-glutathione reduced (GSH)" in different concentrations simultaneously with auxins (IBA+NAA) on micropropagation efficiency of the endemic Sideritis syriaca L. subsp. syriaca (Hellenic mountain tea of Crete/ Malotira) using shoot tip explants. The culture medium used was the MS supplemented with 30 g/l sucrose. The simultaneous application 5 μM AgNO3 + 2.2 μM BA promoted best the initial shoot induction stage exhibiting 4.5 shoots/ explant and 100% shoot multiplication (5 weeks). Folic acid applied at 0.25 mg/l in combination with 0.5 mg/l BA exhibited the highest shoot multiplication percentage (90%) (4 weeks). GSH at 10 μM with 10.7 μM NAA + 4.92 μM IBA gave the greatest root length (13.68 mm), at 25 μM caused a 3-fold increase in rooting (90%) and 250 μM GSH raised by 20% shoot multiplication (80%). An 89% final survival rate of rooted microplants to ex vitro unheated greenhouse conditions was recorded within 8 weeks period during mid-late spring. Thus, the acclimatization and hardening process was successfully completed.

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Political actors and research perspectives currently identify civil society as a resource that is not fully exploited-an observation that, with some strategic adjustments, could incite a revitalization of several essential issues. From this viewpoint, "bringing civil society back in" to the political agenda could contribute to a revitalization of the welfare state, democracy, equality, and social cohesion. Moreover, civil society could potentially become the space needed for a critique of current developments-on national, European, and global levels. We can, however, recognize that civil society, as a resource that many commentators strongly believe in, is not mobilized and used to the extent people envision. Why is this the case? We suggest that there are two reasons for the lack of engagement. One reason is related to the current political moment. The other reason is related to a particular conceptual and theoretical discourse on civil society. Concerning the first issue, the current political moment has become complex and, more importantly, loaded with paradoxes. Today, we can observe the prominent coexistence of apparently contradictory political ideologies, governance mechanisms, economic developments, and political and cultural clashes on multiple levels: between, first, the local and the national; second, the national and the global; and third, the secular and the religious. These developments have been with us for a while, but we now seem to experience these contradictions and paradoxes as the "normal" and not the "exception." In this landscape, we find more invocations of "globalization," as in a global financial crisis, a global pandemic, global trade and production patterns, and global refugee problems-together with more economic nationalism (in East Asia, the USA, and even the European Union), political-ideological nationalism (Brexit, "America First," Hungary, and Poland), and nationalist reactions against immigrants, to mention a few. Other paradoxes have become more pronounced during the last thirty years: There is a growing interdependence between a bigger and more forceful global market and more influential states. And as we realized that we were living in an increasingly secular society, we discovered that secularization came with a reinforcement of religions. This paradoxical world has spurred new crossroads, conflicts,