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Rita Singer deposited Von Hay-on-Wye nach Blaenau Ffestiniog: Elmar Schenkels Reisen in Wales, 1974–2010 in the group
Global & Transnational Studies on Humanities Commons 5 years, 4 months agoDie Geschichte kontinentaleuropäischer Reiseliteratur über Wales wurde erst kürzlich als Kooperation zwischen Bangor University, dem University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies und Swansea University im interdisziplinären Forschungsprojekt European Travellers to Wales, 1750-2010 beleuchtet. Dabei entstand die Datenbank Acc…[Read more]
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Rita Singer deposited Leisure, refuge and solidarity: messages in visitors’ books as microforms of travel writing in the group
Global & Transnational Studies on Humanities Commons 5 years, 4 months agoVisitors’ books not only trace developments in modern tourism, but they also reveal changes in the socio-cultural and language attitudes of travellers from all walks of life over prolonged periods of time. This article investigates messages in visitors’ books from Wales from the mid-nineteenth century up to the present and argues for their rec…[Read more]
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Rita Singer deposited Through Wales in the Footsteps of William Gilpin: Illustrated Travel Accounts by Early French Tourists, 1768–1810 in the group
Global & Transnational Studies on Humanities Commons 5 years, 4 months agoTaking the development of picturesque tourism in Wales since the publication of William Gilpin’s Observations on the River Wye (1782) as point of departure, this article examines three Anglophone illustrated travel accounts by French tourists during the Romantic period, focusing on the co-occurrence of text and images as they may confirm, d…[Read more]
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Jonathan Basile deposited Other Matters: Karen Barad’s Two Materialisms and the Science of Undecidability in the group
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 5 years, 4 months agoKaren Barad’s Meeting the Universe Halfway relies on mutually incompatible grounding gestures, one of which describes the relationality of an always already material-discursive reality, while the other seeks to ground this relation one-sidedly in matter. These two materialisms derive from the gesture she borrows from the New Materialist (and o…[Read more]
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Felipe Furtado Guimaraes deposited Internationalization and the Covid-19 Pandemic: Challenges and Opportunities for the Global South in the group
Global & Transnational Studies on Humanities Commons 5 years, 4 months agoThe aim of this study is to reflect on how internationalization can take place in these challenging times of the Covid-19 pandemic, from the perspective of researchers of a university in the Global South. So as to foreground the discussion, the locus of enunciation of researchers in a Brazilian university is exposed and a meta-analysis of 10…[Read more]
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Samuel Johnson started the topic MLA 2021 Sessions in the discussion
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 5 years, 4 months agoHi all,
I am interested in proposing a just-in-time session for MLA 2021 concerning forest fires and ecological crisis. I think a round-table format on media, teaching, and the role of the humanities in teaching/researching ecological crisis would be timely and work well for these new sessions. My research is centered in South America and…[Read more]
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A. David Lewis deposited CFP – Graphic Medicine at PCA 2021 in the group
Graphic Medicine on Humanities Commons 5 years, 4 months agoIn conjunction with the Popular Culture Association (PCA) holding their 2021 conference in Boston, contributors and attendees of the New England Graphic Medicine (NEGM) Virtual Summit are proposing a slate of programming that now is welcoming additional participants.
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Maciej Junkiert deposited Grecja i jej historia w twórczości Cypriana Norwida in the group
Global & Transnational Studies on Humanities Commons 5 years, 4 months agoThe book is dedicated to the presence of Greek history in the works of Cyprian Norwid. According to the poet, the Greek origins contributed to the creation of mechanisms that make it possible to diagnose the spiritual condition of the contemporary times through analyzing its relation to the Greek myth of the “Golden Age”. Ideologization of the way…[Read more]
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Maciej Junkiert deposited The Polish History of Literature as a Lieu de Mémoire in the group
Global & Transnational Studies on Humanities Commons 5 years, 5 months agoThe article contains an analysis of the genealogy of 19th-century Polish research in the field of literary history. My inquiry contains a comparison between literary research in Germany and in Poland. From this point of view, literary history was an important factor in the process of building a modern nation. Furthermore, literary historians also…[Read more]
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Bernard SIONNEAU deposited HUMANISME ET ORGANISATIONS in the group
Global & Transnational Studies on Humanities Commons 5 years, 5 months agoPrésentation de l’article « Humanisme et Organisations »
par Bernard Sionneau
In Humanisme et Entreprise, numéro spécial 200/201, Octobre 1993, pp. 51-115
Près de trois décennies se sont écoulées depuis la rédaction de cet article. Accepté pour être présenté en mars 1993 au cours de la 5ème conférence de la Society for the Advancement of So…[Read more] -
Marina Tedesco deposited Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano: uma análise do cânone a partir do gênero in the group
Red de Investigación Mujeres en el Cine Latinoamericano on Humanities Commons 5 years, 5 months agoO Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano (NCL), movimento cinematográfico mais conhecido da história do cinema da América Latina, começou a ter seu cânone gestado já em seus primeiros anos (trabalhamos os anos de 1967 e 1985 como marcos inicial e final do movimento). Tiveram participação decisiva nesta construção, e influenciaram fortemente a bibliogra…[Read more]
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James L. Smith deposited Learning an Inclusive Blue Humanities: Oceania and Academia through the Lens of Cinema in the group
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 5 years, 5 months agoHollywood films such as Pixar’s Moana (2016) and Warner Brothers’ Aquaman (2018) have drawn on the aesthetics and stories of the island cultures of Oceania to inform their narratives. In doing so, these works have both succeeded and failed to respect and engage with oceanic cultural knowledge, providing a cultural vehicle to expand com…[Read more]
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A. David Lewis deposited Graphic Medicine Quantified: An Annotated Bibliography in the group
Graphic Medicine on Humanities Commons 5 years, 5 months agoA challenge for Graphic Medicine is its being juxtaposed alongside biomedical and scientific fields of work that operate largely in the realm of statistics and quantifiable analytics. Often, the scholarship in Graphic Medicine comes without numbers. It is anecdotal, experiential, aesthetic/literary, or theoretical, customarily, and only…[Read more]
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Fabio Andrés Díaz Pabón deposited Beyond Agreements: Management tools to support peace agreements In the case of displaced populations In Colombia in the group
Global & Transnational Studies on Humanities Commons 5 years, 6 months agon this chapter, I demonstrate that simulation models, and in particular system dynamics models, could be a cheap and efficient way of examining policies that could allow public servants and service providers to learn and evaluate the different scenarios they are facing in delivering transitional justice remedies. In particular, I concentrate on…[Read more]
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Fabio Andrés Díaz Pabón deposited The ‘great regression’ and the protests to come in Latin America in the group
Global & Transnational Studies on Humanities Commons 5 years, 6 months agoLatin America was in turmoil in 2019. Protests raged across different countries and against governments across the political spectrum. Widespread mobilisation from social organisations denounced corruption and voiced various demands, including greater political freedoms, better and affordable public services, and the urgent need to tackle…[Read more]
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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA started the topic Pandemic literature in the discussion
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 5 years, 6 months agoGoing with the times, and with the classics too, as ‘nihil novum sub sole’, I suggest going back to some classics of the literature of plagues, pestilences, virulent epidemics, and pandemics. Here is my suggestion today: a fragment from Mary Shelley’s The Last Man (1826). Many (hopefully not too many) episodes in the novel ring a bell with the…[Read more]
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Stephanie Leite deposited Earth Focus no. 16: Power to the People in the group
Global & Transnational Studies on Humanities Commons 5 years, 6 months agoEarth Focus is a forum for discussion and a catalyst for action for young people of all ages. We deal with issues concerning our environment, community and culture at all levels. Issue 16, titled “Power to the People”, includes the sections: Energy, Discover Solar Systems, Pedal for Progress, Become a Fossils expert, Solar Cooker invasion, etc.
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Stephanie Leite deposited Earth Focus no. 16: Power to the People in the group
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 5 years, 6 months agoEarth Focus is a forum for discussion and a catalyst for action for young people of all ages. We deal with issues concerning our environment, community and culture at all levels. Issue 16, titled “Power to the People”, includes the sections: Energy, Discover Solar Systems, Pedal for Progress, Become a Fossils expert, Solar Cooker invasion, etc.
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Stephanie Leite deposited Biopiracy: Student Edition in the group
Global & Transnational Studies on Humanities Commons 5 years, 6 months ago‘Biopiracy: Student Edition’ is based on the book ‘Biopiracy’ by Vandana Shiva. This edition was created by an international team of interns, volunteers, and students at Bija Vidyapeeth, Navdanya’s organic farm and seed college in Doon Valley, India.
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Stephanie Leite deposited Biopiracy: Student Edition in the group
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 5 years, 6 months ago‘Biopiracy: Student Edition’ is based on the book ‘Biopiracy’ by Vandana Shiva. This edition was created by an international team of interns, volunteers, and students at Bija Vidyapeeth, Navdanya’s organic farm and seed college in Doon Valley, India.
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