Syllabus for English 2Z03: Nature, Literature, Culture: An Introduction to the Environmental Humanities at McMaster University in the 2022 winter semester. This course used a form of contract grading, and this document includes the Contract Grading FAQ provided to students ahead of/during the course.

Before coffee * QRt by PRURITUS MIGRANS * CC: BY-NC-SA

Announcement for the opening of the exhibition “Eden and Everything After” at the University of Stavanger Archaelogical Museum and publication of attendant catalogue.

Save a chicken! * PRURITUS MIGRANS * CC: BY-NC-SA

This is the first translation of the two graffiti texts found at the exit of Wadi el-Ḥôl (“Wadi of Terror”) in the Qena bend area of Egypt. Their signs represent a transitional stage between Minoan Phaistos Disk and Linear A. These texts were found by John and Deborah Darnell during their 1993-94 excavation season (Darnell, and all 2005). Th…[Read more]

यह पुस्तक बहुजन साहित्य की अवधारणा पर केंद्रित है। यह अवधारणा सभी वंचित तबकों के साहित्य में उनकी सामाजिक पृष्ठभूमि के आधार पर साझेपन की तलाश करती है। किंतु, यह सामाजिक पृष्ठभूमि के साथ-साथ लेखक विचारों को भी संज्ञान में लेती है। इस प्रकार, बहुजन साहित्य भारतीय संदर्भ में दलित, आदिवासी, अन्य पिछड़ा वर्ग, पसमांदा मुसलमान, धुमंतू जाति…[Read more]

In the course, I give a basic introduction into some of the recent developments in the field of computational historical linguistics. While this field is predominantly represented by phylogenetic approaches with whom scholars try to infer phylogenetic trees from different kinds of language data, the approach taken here is much broader,…[Read more]

The proliferation of work by autistic writers continues apace, defying a long and multidisciplinary tradition of constructing autistic people as lacking the capacity for narration. To study neurodivergent literature, then, is to witness the refusal of these exclusionary narrative conventions, and to register the ideological presuppositions that…[Read more]

The weblog Computer-Assisted Language Comparison in Practice, published on the Hypotheses platform for scientific blogging (https://calc.hypotheses.org/), offers tutorials and discussion notes on computer-assisted approaches to the history and diversity of languages. A substantial part of its content is contributed as part of the ERC Starting…[Read more]

MAD HARRY! * QRt by PRURITUS MIGRANS * CC: BY-ND