The Editors: Jürgen Barkhoff is Associate Professor in the Department of Germanic Studies at the University of Dublin, Trinity College. His main research interests focus on German literature and anthropology around 1800, eco-literature, Swiss contemporary literature, and the theory and history of networks of culture.Helmut Eberhart is Associate Professor for History of European Ethnology and Folklore Studies at the University of Graz. His research interests centre on the history of European ethnology and folklore studies, folk piety (pilgrimage), the development of rural areas after 1945 and the history and culture of Albania.

• Contents: Jürgen Barkhoff/Helmut Eberhart: Introduction – Robert J. Holton: Network Theories and Network Types – René Sigrist: Scientific Networks and Frontiers in the Golden Age of Academies (1700-1830). An essay with new data – Natalia Tikhonov-Sigrist: Academic Migrations to Switzerland 1870-1914. The networks behind the numbers – Inge Knudsen: Pushing Gender Boundaries. Radical Intellectual Networks around Mary Wollstonecraft – Gábor Barna: Crossing the Borders. The Meeting of Religions and Shaping the Sacred in the Age of Globalization and the Internet – László Mód/Timo J. Virtanen: Vanishing Borders, Expanding Networks. Backgrounds, questions and targets for the Finnish-Hungarian Banat project – Susanne Österlund-Pötzsch: Finland-Swedes. In-between and in-betwixt – Kirsten Patent: The Difficult Relationship between East and West Germans. Examples from ethnological field research – Gillian Wylie: Trafficking in Women. Networks of Knowledge and the Cultural Construction of Europe – Simonetta Grilli/Fabio Mugnaini: Badanti on the Edge. Networks beyond frontiers in domiciliary eldercare. An ethnographic study of migrant women workers and contemporary families in Italy – Niall O Dochartaigh: Conflict, Territory and online Boundaries. Drawing wider Lessons from a Belfast Case Study – Kathrin Pöge-Alder: Storytelling across Borders. Networks of Patterns and Organizations – Jeanne Riou: Aesthetic Imagination as Network? Approaches to Thought and Death in Rilke and Richard Beer-Hofmann – Isidro López-Aparicio Pérez: Networking Across Borders and Frontiers. A graphic metaphor.

The Editors: Jürgen Barkhoff is Associate Professor in the Department of Germanic Studies at the University of Dublin, Trinity College. His main research interests focus on German literature and anthropology around 1800, eco-literature, Swiss contemporary literature, and the theory and history of networks of culture.Helmut Eberhart is Associate Professor for History of European Ethnology and Folklore Studies at the University of Graz. His research interests centre on the history of European ethnology and folklore studies, folk piety (pilgrimage), the development of rural areas after 1945 and the history and culture of Albania.

• Contents: Jürgen Barkhoff/Helmut Eberhart: Introduction – Robert J. Holton: Network Theories and Network Types – René Sigrist: Scientific Networks and Frontiers in the Golden Age of Academies (1700-1830). An essay with new data – Natalia Tikhonov-Sigrist: Academic Migrations to Switzerland 1870-1914. The networks behind the numbers – Inge Knudsen: Pushing Gender Boundaries. Radical Intellectual Networks around Mary Wollstonecraft – Gábor Barna: Crossing the Borders. The Meeting of Religions and Shaping the Sacred in the Age of Globalization and the Internet – László Mód/Timo J. Virtanen: Vanishing Borders, Expanding Networks. Backgrounds, questions and targets for the Finnish-Hungarian Banat project – Susanne Österlund-Pötzsch: Finland-Swedes. In-between and in-betwixt – Kirsten Patent: The Difficult Relationship between East and West Germans. Examples from ethnological field research – Gillian Wylie: Trafficking in Women. Networks of Knowledge and the Cultural Construction of Europe – Simonetta Grilli/Fabio Mugnaini: Badanti on the Edge. Networks beyond frontiers in domiciliary eldercare. An ethnographic study of migrant women workers and contemporary families in Italy – Niall O Dochartaigh: Conflict, Territory and online Boundaries. Drawing wider Lessons from a Belfast Case Study – Kathrin Pöge-Alder: Storytelling across Borders. Networks of Patterns and Organizations – Jeanne Riou: Aesthetic Imagination as Network? Approaches to Thought and Death in Rilke and Richard Beer-Hofmann – Isidro López-Aparicio Pérez: Networking Across Borders and Frontiers. A graphic metaphor.

The Editors: Jürgen Barkhoff is Associate Professor in the Department of Germanic Studies at the University of Dublin, Trinity College. His main research interests focus on German literature and anthropology around 1800, eco-literature, Swiss contemporary literature, and the theory and history of networks of culture.Helmut Eberhart is Associate Professor for History of European Ethnology and Folklore Studies at the University of Graz. His research interests centre on the history of European ethnology and folklore studies, folk piety (pilgrimage), the development of rural areas after 1945 and the history and culture of Albania.

• Contents: Jürgen Barkhoff/Helmut Eberhart: Introduction – Robert J. Holton: Network Theories and Network Types – René Sigrist: Scientific Networks and Frontiers in the Golden Age of Academies (1700-1830). An essay with new data – Natalia Tikhonov-Sigrist: Academic Migrations to Switzerland 1870-1914. The networks behind the numbers – Inge Knudsen: Pushing Gender Boundaries. Radical Intellectual Networks around Mary Wollstonecraft – Gábor Barna: Crossing the Borders. The Meeting of Religions and Shaping the Sacred in the Age of Globalization and the Internet – László Mód/Timo J. Virtanen: Vanishing Borders, Expanding Networks. Backgrounds, questions and targets for the Finnish-Hungarian Banat project – Susanne Österlund-Pötzsch: Finland-Swedes. In-between and in-betwixt – Kirsten Patent: The Difficult Relationship between East and West Germans. Examples from ethnological field research – Gillian Wylie: Trafficking in Women. Networks of Knowledge and the Cultural Construction of Europe – Simonetta Grilli/Fabio Mugnaini: Badanti on the Edge. Networks beyond frontiers in domiciliary eldercare. An ethnographic study of migrant women workers and contemporary families in Italy – Niall O Dochartaigh: Conflict, Territory and online Boundaries. Drawing wider Lessons from a Belfast Case Study – Kathrin Pöge-Alder: Storytelling across Borders. Networks of Patterns and Organizations – Jeanne Riou: Aesthetic Imagination as Network? Approaches to Thought and Death in Rilke and Richard Beer-Hofmann – Isidro López-Aparicio Pérez: Networking Across Borders and Frontiers. A graphic metaphor.