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Eileen A. Fradenburg Joy deposited Veritas and Copyright: The Public Library in Peril in the group
Cultural Studies on Humanities Commons 3 years, 3 months agoA response to the decision of Wiley Global to “disappear” 1,300+ of their ebooks in the ProQuest catalog at the beginning of the Fall 2022 term without any communication to university libraries at all, thus taking libraries by surprise and indicating Wiley’s move away from libraries as repositories and lenders of their ebooks, passing on costs to…[Read more]
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Dora Apel deposited Podcast interview on my book Beautiful Terrible Ruins: Detroit and the Anxiety of Decline, with Thomas Hill for The Library Cafe at Vasser College in the group
Cultural Studies on Humanities Commons 3 years, 3 months ago“In Beautiful Terrible Ruins: Detroit and the Anxiety of Decline, Dora Apel goes on the offensive against the myriad myths and delusions peddled about the Motor City; not only that, she rebuffs the blame and shame that have traditionally been directed at the Detroit citizenry, and redirects our attention to the corporations and bureaucrats who…[Read more]
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Luis Ernesto Paz Enrique deposited La práctica de música coral en la Universidad Central «Marta Abreu» de Las Villas in the group
Cultural Studies on Humanities Commons 3 years, 4 months agoIntroducción: En el artículo se identifica la presencia de la práctica coral en el centro de la educación superior. En Cuba el movimiento coral jugó un importante papel con el nacimiento del movimiento de artistas aficionados. La consolidación de una agrupación coral en la Universidad Central «Marta Abreu» de Las Villas no fue posible hasta el…[Read more]
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Kit Yee Wong started the topic Two open access medical humanities articles available for download in the discussion
Medical Humanities on Humanities Commons 3 years, 4 months agoDear all
The two open access articles I published in 2021 may be of interest to the group:
Illness, Aesthetics, and Body Politics: Forging the Third Republic in Émile Zola’s La Faute de l’abbé Mouret
https://olh.openlibhums.org/article/id/4724/
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Degenerate Bodies: Max Nordau’s Degeneration and Émile Zola’s La Débâcle…[Read more]
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Stefan Fisher-Høyrem deposited Rethinking Secular Time in Victorian England in the group
Victorian Studies on Humanities Commons 3 years, 4 months agoThis open access book draws on conceptual resources ranging from medieval scholasticism to postmodern theory to propose a new understanding of secular time and its mediation in nineteenth-century technological networks. Untethering the concept of secularity from questions of ‘religion’ and ‘belief’, it offers an innovative rethinking of the his…[Read more]
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Kit Yee Wong deposited Illness, Aesthetics, and Body Politics: Forging the Third Republic in Émile Zola’s ‘La Faute de l’abbé Mouret’ in the group
Medical Humanities on Humanities Commons 3 years, 4 months agoThis article examines the political role of illness in Émile Zola’s ‘La Faute de l’abbé Mouret’ (‘The Sin of Father Mouret’, 1875) in articulating the difference between a religious and a secular body. Published in the early French Third Republic (1870–1940), this novel shows the Zolian body as the nexus upon which religious and republi…[Read more]
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Kit Yee Wong deposited Degenerate Bodies: Max Nordau’s ‘Degeneration’ and Émile Zola’s ‘La Débâcle’ in the group
Medical Humanities on Humanities Commons 3 years, 4 months agoIn ‘Degeneration’ (1892), Max Nordau included Émile Zola in his theory that fin-de-siècle artists were a danger to society. According to Nordau, the ‘false science’ in Zola’s Naturalist novels would erode social progress in their alleged preoccupation with disease, sexual deviancy and amorality. This article proposes that degeneration is, how…[Read more]
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Ernesto Priego started the topic Deadline Extended for the Conjuring a New Normal Special Collection [15/01/2023] in the discussion
Medical Humanities on Humanities Commons 3 years, 4 months agoCall for Papers: Conjuring a New Normal: Monstrous Routines and Mundane Horrors in Pandemic Lives and Dreamscapes. A Special Collection for The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship.
Special Collection Editors: Alexandra Alberda, Anna Feigenbaum, Julia Round (Bournemouth University, UK). With support from the journal editorial…[Read more]
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Andreia Nunes replied to the topic Suggestions on programs to analyse data from children’s books in the discussion
Children's literature and digital humanities on Humanities Commons 3 years, 4 months agoHi Meredith!
Thank you so much 🙂 I have chosen some categories I would like to analyze like physical characteristics (hair, beard), adjectives, professions, household tasks, etc. to see how male/female characters are represented. But they are still very open – to see what I will find in the books. Some will repeat itself so I use numbers as…[Read more]
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Vitus Angermeier deposited Epidemien im vormodernen Südasien? Kollektives Leid durch Umwelteinflüsse und Adharma in the group
Medical Humanities on Humanities Commons 3 years, 4 months agoIm Ayurveda bedarf die Entstehung von Epidemien einer gesonderten Erklärung, da sie nicht mit dem dort gültigen allgemeinen Verständnis der Krankheitsentstehung in Einklang zu bringen ist. Das Grundkonzept sieht vor, dass Menschen je nach Konstitution, Ernährung, Körperkraft, Gewöhnung,
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Vitus Angermeier deposited Epidemien im vormodernen Südasien? Kollektives Leid durch Umwelteinflüsse und Adharma in the group
Cultural Studies on Humanities Commons 3 years, 4 months agoIm Ayurveda bedarf die Entstehung von Epidemien einer gesonderten Erklärung, da sie nicht mit dem dort gültigen allgemeinen Verständnis der Krankheitsentstehung in Einklang zu bringen ist. Das Grundkonzept sieht vor, dass Menschen je nach Konstitution, Ernährung, Körperkraft, Gewöhnung,
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Meredith Hale replied to the topic Suggestions on programs to analyse data from children’s books in the discussion
Children's literature and digital humanities on Humanities Commons 3 years, 4 months agoThis sounds like a great project. Good programs depend a little on how your data is formatted, but I’d recommend seeing if OpenRefine might be a good fit for your project – https://openrefine.org/download.html
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Andreia Nunes started the topic Suggestions on programs to analyse data from children’s books in the discussion
Children's literature and digital humanities on Humanities Commons 3 years, 4 months agoHi everyone! My name is Andreia Nunes and I am doing my Phd in sociology, investigating about gender stereotypes in Portuguese contemporary children’s literature. I’ve been working on my analysis grid and my categories and I have around 100 books to analyse! I am wondering about the best program to use to insert data! Anyone working on something…[Read more]
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Oscar Perea-Rodriguez deposited Mito y realidad en la vida de Mencía de Mendoza, Condesa de Haro (ca. 1421-1499) in the group
Cultural Studies on Humanities Commons 3 years, 4 months agoEspigando el diverso y abigarrado contenido del primer artículo dedicado a la biografía de Mencía de Mendoza, es bastante curioso el hecho de que su humilde y opaco autor, que no se atrevió a firmar la pieza, otorgase veracidad a una supuesta conversación entre la dama y su marido. Según este relato, en una de las ocasiones en que el noble guerr…[Read more]
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Dr Jen Baker deposited Minor Hauntings: Chilling Tales of Spectral Youth in the group
Victorian Studies on Humanities Commons 3 years, 4 months agoFrom living dolls to spirits wandering in search of solace or vengeance, the ghostly youth is one of the most enduring phenomena of supernatural fiction, its roots stretching back into the realms of folklore and superstition. In this spine-tingling new collection Jen Baker gathers a selection of the most chilling hauntings and encounters with…[Read more]
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Dr Jen Baker deposited Guardian Hosts and Custodial Witnesses: In loco parentis in Women’s Ghost Stories, 1852–1920 in the group
Victorian Studies on Humanities Commons 3 years, 4 months agoIn the mid nineteenthcentury, a subgenre of ghost stories emerged that had roots in a hybrid tradition of institutional religious doctrine and oral folkloric expressions of anxiety over the fate of the child’s soul in the afterlife. Given the persistently high infant mortality rates and increased public awareness of child abuse across the c…[Read more]
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Dr Jen Baker deposited Death (un)Personified: Pronouns, Patriarchy, and the Child Ghost in the group
Victorian Studies on Humanities Commons 3 years, 4 months agoin Vision, Contestation and Deception: Interrogating Gender and the Supernatural in Victorian Shorter Fiction, ed. Oindrila Ghosh (Avenel Press, 2021), pp.51-58
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Luis Ernesto Paz Enrique deposited Desarrollo, medios públicos y políticas latinoamericanas de comunicación in the group
Cultural Studies on Humanities Commons 3 years, 5 months agoLas dinámicas de concentración de la propiedad en los medios de comunicación constituyen una muestra de poder en las sociedades latinoamericanas y de apego a una concepción de desarrollo economicista. Por ello, las expresiones críticas de los grupos sociales que reclaman verse representados en el diseño de los mensajes son obviadas o minim…[Read more]
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Luis Ernesto Paz Enrique deposited Constructivismo y fomento del aprendizaje autónomo para la enseñanza a distancia en el bachillerato in the group
Cultural Studies on Humanities Commons 3 years, 5 months agoEl constructivismo como perspectiva psicopedagógica constituye un marco referencial para llevar a cabo el proceso de enseñanza y aprendizaje. Ofrece las herramientas necesarias para que el estudiante se autogestione su conocimiento, siendo oportuno para la educación a distancia. El presente artículo tiene como propósito identificar las pote…[Read more]
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Oscar Perea-Rodriguez deposited Sobre la espiritualidad del ‘buen amor’ de Juan Ruiz, Arcipreste de Hita, en los cancioneros cuatrocentistas castellanos in the group
Cultural Studies on Humanities Commons 3 years, 5 months agoNo creo que haya mejor ocasión que este homenaje alcalaíno al maestro Alberto Blecua para vencer las reticencias y dudas del neófito que, en palabras de Márquez Villanueva, ha de pisar por vez primera los “senderos de alto riesgo” por los que camina el Libro de buen amor. Por motivo de mi admiración y reconocimiento al homenajeado, voy a dejarme…[Read more]
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