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Louise Bethlehem deposited Stenographic fictions: Mary Benson’s At the Still Point and the South African political trial in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 6 years, 9 months agoFrom the mid-1960s onward, compilations of the speeches and trial addresses of South African opponents of apartheid focused attention on the apartheid regime despite intensified repression in the wake of the Rivonia Trial. Mary Benson’s novel, At the Still Point, transposes the political trial into fiction. Its “stenographic” codes of repre…[Read more]
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Louise Bethlehem deposited Stenographic fictions: Mary Benson’s At the Still Point and the South African political trial in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 6 years, 9 months agoFrom the mid-1960s onward, compilations of the speeches and trial addresses of South African opponents of apartheid focused attention on the apartheid regime despite intensified repression in the wake of the Rivonia Trial. Mary Benson’s novel, At the Still Point, transposes the political trial into fiction. Its “stenographic” codes of repre…[Read more]
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Waliya Yohanna Joseph deposited ZeroDeath in the group
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 6 years, 9 months agoZeroDeath is a digital poem that is conceived from the transhumanism philosophy of defeating death by technology. Though, digital revolution makes everything possible but the poet remains attached to Yahweh
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Waliya Yohanna Joseph deposited Véritologie in the group
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 6 years, 9 months agoVéritologie est un poème numérique qui explique la vraie origine de la vérité.
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Waliya Yohanna Joseph deposited Truthology in the group
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 6 years, 9 months agoTruthology is a digital poem that explains the genuine origin of the truth.
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Waliya Yohanna Joseph deposited Cyberpoésies d’engagement in the group
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 6 years, 9 months agoCyberpoésies d’engagement est une collection de deux poèmes numériques: Ifrikiya lève-toi! et Lettre aux Nations Unies. Bien que le dernier poème ait été publié sur Core, celui-ci reste la version définitive.
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Waliya Yohanna Joseph deposited Lettre A Union Africaine in the group
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 6 years, 9 months agoLettre à Union Africaine est un poème numérique qui exprime la philosophie de la supranégritude. Il dénonce le joue de blâmer les Colons au lieu de diriger bien les citoyens.
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Waliya Yohanna Joseph deposited Letter to the African Union in the group
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 6 years, 9 months agoLetter to the African Union is a digital poem which expresses supranegritude philosophy that denounces the game of pushing blame on colonial masters instead of working for the compatriots.
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Waliya Yohanna Joseph deposited Jesus is above Croesus and Zeus in the group
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 6 years, 9 months agoThis is Christian digital poem which is written in French and English to present Jesus Christ above Croesus and Zeus.
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Waliya Yohanna Joseph deposited Cyberpoetry for activism in the group
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 6 years, 9 months agoCyberpoetry for activism is a collection of two digital poems: Arise Africa! and Letter to the United Nations. The later was published in this Core repository before the official publication date . The poems communicate justice and encouragement.
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Waliya Yohanna Joseph deposited Homosalus in the group
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 6 years, 9 months agoHomosalus is a digital poem that suscitate the culture of saving humanity. It is written in French and English to foster a philosophy of people first before me.
Homosalus est un poème numérique qui suscite la culture de sauver notre humanité. Il est écrit en anglais et français afin de projecter une philosophie de considérer d’autrui d’abord.
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Waliya Yohanna Joseph deposited Momenta in the group
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 6 years, 9 months agoMomenta is a digital poem for Africans. It is written in two languages-French and English. The poem aims at bringing hope in the continent.
Momenta est un poème numérique pour les Africains. Il est rédigé en deux langues-anglais et français. Le poème excite l’esproir.
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James L. Smith deposited Medieval Water Studies: Past, Present and Promise in the group
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 6 years, 9 months agoThe articles in this Special Collection engage directly with the realities of water as they simultaneously explore its intellectual potential in various genres of medieval writing, from crusade chronicles to medieval romance. In this way they shed new light not only on the literature and history they explore but also on medieval conceptions of…[Read more]
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Carla Sassi deposited Sir Walter Scott and the Caribbean: Unravelling the Silences in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 6 years, 9 months agoMy essay interrogates the striking silences in Scott’s oeuvre in relation to Scotland’s involvement as a partner of the British Empire in the colonization of the Caribbean and in the exploitation of slavery in this region. By drawing from narratological theories (especially those articulated by Robyn R. Warhol and Ruth Rosaler), I treat Scott’s…[Read more]
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Edwige Tamalet Talbayev deposited CFP: Re-membering Hospitality in the Mediterranean International Conference (Toulouse, March 26-27, 2020) in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 6 years, 9 months agoWe are inviting proposals for the forthcoming “Re-membering Hospitality in the Mediterranean” International Conference that will be held on March 26-27, 2020 in Toulouse, France (Université Toulouse Jean Jaurès).
Abstracts (300 words) are due by September 15, 2019 to yasser elhariry (yasser.elhariry@dartmouth.edu), Isabelle Keller-Privat (isa.…[Read more] -
Daniel Fisher deposited Living by the Book: The Jewish Bible and the Everyday Power of Text in the group
Public Humanities on Humanities Commons 6 years, 9 months agoAn exhibition catalog from Living by the Book: The Jewish Bible and the Everyday Power of Text at UC Berkeley’s Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life. Bringing together scrolls, ritual objects, clothing, furniture, ephemera, and tourist memorabilia, the exhibition showcased the ways the Bible serves as an archive and a powerful platform for s…[Read more]
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Daniel Fisher deposited Goals of the Publicly Engaged Humanities in the group
Public Humanities on Humanities Commons 6 years, 9 months agoThis essay outlines five goals of publicly engaged humanities work. It was originally published in 2018 on the Humanities for All website, an initiative of the National Humanities Alliance Foundation. With the support of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Humanities for All documents and promotes publicly engaged humanities work in U.S. higher…[Read more]
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Daniel Fisher deposited A Typology of the Publicly Engaged Humanities in the group
Public Humanities on Humanities Commons 6 years, 9 months agoThis essay outlines five types of publicly engaged humanities work. It was originally published in 2018 on the Humanities for All website, an initiative of the National Humanities Alliance Foundation. With the support of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Humanities for All documents and promotes publicly engaged humanities work in U.S. higher…[Read more]
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Philippa Carter started the topic CfP Waste not, Want not: Food and thrift from antiquity to the present in the discussion
Public Humanities on Humanities Commons 6 years, 10 months agoThe Cambridge Body and Food Histories group is delighted to announce the call for papers for its second annual conference:
‘WASTE NOT WANT NOT: FOOD AND THRIFT FROM ANTIQUITY TO THE PRESENT’.
THURSDAY 12TH & FRIDAY 13TH SEPTEMBER 2019. ENGLISH FACULTY, UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE.
This day-and-a-half conference will bring together academics and…[Read more]
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Nicholas Rinehart deposited Richard Wright’s Globalism in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months agoThis essay takes a long view of Wright’s work, arguing that his racial consciousness always extended beyond national boundaries and was forged from a globalist perspective. This outlook is not, as some critics have maintained, a late-stage development in Wright’s career, but rather the predominant theme that unites his oeuvre with a single con…[Read more]
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