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Erin McGuirl started the topic Call for Fellowship Applications from the BSA: Deadline October 1, 2021 in the discussion
Textual Scholarship on Humanities Commons 4 years, 6 months agoIn keeping with the central value the Society places on bibliography as a critical framework, the BSA funds a number of fellowships to promote inquiry and research in books and other textual artifacts in both traditional and emerging formats.Bibliographical projects may range chronologically from the study of clay tablets and papyrus rolls to…[Read more]
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Carlotta Paltrinieri started the topic Renaissance Society of American Annual Meeting – Dublin 2022 in the discussion
Digital Humanists on Humanities Commons 4 years, 6 months agoDear Colleagues, please consider sending an abstract for the panel:”What’s a Dilettante? Non-Professional Artists and Literati in Early Modernity (1500-1650)”.
Contributions to this panel will explore the phenomenon of dilettantismo between the 1500s and 1650s and consider some of the following key questions:
Who was the dilettante? How d…[Read more]
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Hélène Huet deposited Carrying on in a Pandemic: The Case of the Florida Digital Humanities Consortium (FLDH) in the group
Digital Humanists on Humanities Commons 4 years, 7 months agoFor this poster, we propose to highlight how the Florida Digital Humanities Consortium (FLDH) used the virtual environment necessitated by the COVID-19 pandemic to reinvent itself through the creation of new content and outreach opportunities.
FLDH is a collective of 16 institutions in the State of Florida that seeks to highlight the digital…[Read more]
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Brandon Walsh deposited Building Community And Generosity In The Context Of Graduate Education in the group
Digital Humanists on Humanities Commons 4 years, 7 months agoThe academy trains students in complex intellectual work and tends to reward the performance of one’s own intelligence, both in coursework and in conferences. But in collaborative digital projects, this sort of focus on the individual is detrimental to the group dynamic, which necessarily needs to take shape around more than just the individual.…[Read more]
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Froilán Ramos R. deposited Hoy Venezuela. Ensayos para entender un país complejo in the group
Historiography on Humanities Commons 4 years, 7 months agoThis is an academic book that share essays about Venezuela, in different topics: economy, defense policy, human rights, and others.
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Froilán Ramos R. deposited Hoy Venezuela. Ensayos para entender un país complejo in the group
Digital Humanists on Humanities Commons 4 years, 7 months agoThis is an academic book that share essays about Venezuela, in different topics: economy, defense policy, human rights, and others.
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Froilán Ramos R. deposited Book Review: Luis Rothkegel. Luis. Proceso de profesionalización de los ejércitos de Argentina y Chile Período 1895-1938. Santiago: CESIM, 2018. in the group
Historiography on Humanities Commons 4 years, 7 months agoLuis Rothkegel. Proceso de profesionalización de los ejércitos de Argentina y Chile Período 1895-1938. Santiago: CESIM, 2018.
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Tom Mosterd replied to the topic OA Policy Statements from Presses in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 4 years, 7 months agoHi John,
I’ve had a read through and think it is a really thoughtful and well-balanced vision and policy considering some of the current challenges and opportunities for opening up books. I’m not too familiar with similar visions and policies, some of the fully OA publishers do have a clear vision statement and the University of Michigan Press…[Read more]
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Marcelo R. S. Ribeiro deposited Tarzan, um negro: para uma crítica da economia política do nome de “África” in the group
Postcolonial Studies on Humanities Commons 4 years, 7 months agoDesde 1912, inúmeros textos – romances, programas de rádio, histórias em quadrinhos, seriados de televisão, filmes – produziram e articularam representações da África em narrativas envolvendo Tarzan, criado pelo estadunidense Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875-1950). Tomando o nome de “África” como referência, os textos que orbitam e habitam o nome d…[Read more]
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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA deposited “Ghost in the Shell (2): Innocence” — Nostalgia de la experiencia inmediata in the group
Digital Humanists on Humanities Commons 4 years, 7 months agoSpanish Abstract: De la conjunción de ‘Neuromante’ y de ‘Blade Runner’, con un toque de ́Matrix ́, surgen el manga y serie de películas de animación ‘Ghost in the Shell’. El dilema de ‘Ghost in the Shell (2): Innocence’ versa sobre la identidad personal: si es replicable, si es imitable, si consiste en signos, ¿dónde está la esencia de la humanid…[Read more]
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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA deposited Zapatero y la importancia de las humanidades in the group
Digital Humanists on Humanities Commons 4 years, 7 months agoSpanish abstract: Un comentario sobre la reforma en curso de la estructura de titulaciones de la educación universitaria en España, bajo la administración de José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero y el ministerio de Educación del PSOE (2005), y sobre sus implicaciones para los estudios de la macroárea de Humanidades. ______…[Read more]
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John Sherer started the topic OA Policy Statements from Presses in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 4 years, 7 months agoHello all,
Here at the University of North Carolina Press we’ve just published an OA Policy on our web site.
I’m curious whether other publishers (for whom OA is only a part of their program) have done this. In preparing this, I did some scans of publisher web sites…[Read more]
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Lucy Barnes replied to the topic bOokmArks events – Open Conversations about Open Access Books in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 4 years, 7 months agoThe recording of our boOkmArks event with Janneke Adema, Marcell Mars & Toby Steiner of the COPIM Project on experimental OA book publishing is now available! Many thanks to our speakers for a fascinating session & to the audience for coming and bringing your questions: https://youtube.com/watch?v=V5mbp48ZXIw
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Jacek Ben Silberstein deposited In defence of science – non sole in the group
Digital Humanists on Humanities Commons 4 years, 7 months agoAbstract: The freedom of research is a cornerstone of our civilisation; in many ways it can even be seen as a human right. However, freedom of research does not mean the liberty to cheat. Cheating in science – deliberate falsification of evidence to support a hypothesis – is not only academic misconduct; it is also a crime against society and the…[Read more]
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D. De Rentiis deposited “Chresiology”, short description (part 2) (version 2) in the group
Digital Humanists on Humanities Commons 4 years, 7 months agoShort description (video lecture) of what you can do, when you “do chresiology”, part 2 (slides).
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Donald Guadagni deposited Modern Domestic Relations Civil Debt in the United States Human Rights Considerations in the group
Digital Humanists on Humanities Commons 4 years, 7 months agoThe evolution and development of modern domestic relations civil debt collections in the United States have become a serious threat to individual human rights over the last 50 years. The civil debt collections laws and mechanisms have the capacity to seriously and personally affect individuals in a manner which is mutually inconsistent human…[Read more]
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Gregory Tate deposited Arthur Hugh Clough’s Pedigree in the group
Victorian Studies on Humanities Commons 4 years, 7 months agoThe writings of Arthur Hugh Clough display a sustained interest in the relations between an individual, his or her generation, and the processes of historical change that distinguish and demarcate one generation from another. As someone who spent much of his life as a student and teacher, Clough was self-consciously aware of his location within an…[Read more]
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Paul W. Nash deposited Scaleboard: the material of interlinear spacing before ‘leading’ in the group
Printing History on Humanities Commons 4 years, 7 months agoScaleboard, thin strips or leaves of wood, was used in printing for various purposes, notably to provide interlinear spacing, as well as in bookbinding. This article explores the nature, manufacture and history of scaleboard, and its uses inside and outside the printing industry from the late medieval period to the turn of the twentieth century.
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Lucy Barnes replied to the topic bOokmArks events – Open Conversations about Open Access Books in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 4 years, 7 months agoTomorrow at 3pm BST/4pm CEST/10am EDT is our last Open Cafe before we take a couple of months off to plan the next year of events and activities at the OABN. Do please join us with your beverage of choice to let us know your thoughts — are there particular topics you want us to cover, different formats we should try, something we did well,…[Read more]
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Eric Hellman replied to the topic Announcements in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 4 years, 7 months agoWe’ve opened the Free Ebook Foundation Open Access Monographs Fund! https://blog.unglue.it/2021/07/02/the-ebook-turns-50-fef-monographs-fund/
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