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Travis Proctor deposited Environmental Change, the Acts of John, and Shifting Cultic Landscapes in Late Antique Ephesus in the group
Second Century Christianity on Humanities Commons 4 years, 6 months agoThe city of Ephesus experienced a marked civic transformation in Late Antiquity. After having centered its settlements and economic fortunes on its proximity to a deep-water harbor for over a millennium, late antique Ephesus gradually shifted to an inland, fortified settlement on Ayasoluk Hill. While several factors undoubtedly informed this civic…[Read more]
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Travis Proctor deposited Environmental Change, the Acts of John, and Shifting Cultic Landscapes in Late Antique Ephesus in the group
Late Antiquity on Humanities Commons 4 years, 6 months agoThe city of Ephesus experienced a marked civic transformation in Late Antiquity. After having centered its settlements and economic fortunes on its proximity to a deep-water harbor for over a millennium, late antique Ephesus gradually shifted to an inland, fortified settlement on Ayasoluk Hill. While several factors undoubtedly informed this civic…[Read more]
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Thomas Dabbs started the topic A Talk with Janelle Jenstad, Map of Early Modern London (MoEML) in the discussion
Digital Humanists on Humanities Commons 4 years, 6 months agoThis is a talk with Janelle Jenstad of the Univ. of Victoria about how to maintain digital projects over time (and indeed keep them alive and well) and the benefits of linked data platforms: https://youtu.be/LED4gGHeb_I.
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Lloyd Graham deposited The iconography on the Paphos IAEW-amulet may draw upon the apotropaic ‘All-Suffering Eye’ motif in the group
Late Antiquity on Humanities Commons 4 years, 6 months agoThe paper proposes that the Egyptian-style design on a 5-6th century CE magical amulet discovered at Nea Paphos in Cyprus (Inv. no. PAP/FR 44/2011) draws upon an apotropaic design against the Evil Eye known as the “All-Suffering Eye,” which dates back to the time of the early Roman Empire and is common on Byzantine “Holy Rider” medallions. [No…[Read more]
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Lloyd Graham deposited The iconography on the Paphos IAEW-amulet may draw upon the apotropaic ‘All-Suffering Eye’ motif in the group
Byzantine Studies on Humanities Commons 4 years, 6 months agoThe paper proposes that the Egyptian-style design on a 5-6th century CE magical amulet discovered at Nea Paphos in Cyprus (Inv. no. PAP/FR 44/2011) draws upon an apotropaic design against the Evil Eye known as the “All-Suffering Eye,” which dates back to the time of the early Roman Empire and is common on Byzantine “Holy Rider” medallions. [No…[Read more]
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Michael Lyons deposited “Excavating AI” Re-excavated: Debunking a Fallacious Account of the JAFFE Dataset in the group
Digital Humanists on Humanities Commons 4 years, 6 months agoTwenty-five years ago, my colleagues Miyuki Kamachi and Jiro Gyoba and I designed and photographed JAFFE, a set of facial expression images intended for use in a study of face perception. In 2019, without seeking permission or informing us, Kate Crawford and Trevor Paglen exhibited JAFFE in two widely publicized art shows. In addition, they…[Read more]
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Ricky Broome deposited Columbanus: Life and Legacy in the group
Early Medieval on Humanities Commons 4 years, 6 months agoThis is the uncorrected proofs version of my review for Peritia of three volumes by Alexander O’Hara:
with Ian Wood (trans), Jonas of Bobbio, Life of Columbanus, Life of John of Réomé, and Life of Vedast;
(ed.), Columbanus and the Peoples of Post-Roman Europe;
Jonas of Bobbio and the Legacy of Columbanus: Sanctity and Community in the Seventh C…[Read more] -
Evina Steinova deposited Two Carolingian Redactions of Isidore’s Etymologiae from St. Gallen in the group
Early Medieval on Humanities Commons 4 years, 6 months agoThe Abbey of St. Gallen was the foremost centre for the study of the Etymologiae of Isidore of Seville in the Carolingian period. Not only can more than twenty early medieval manuscripts transmitting material from the Etymologiaebe associated with Carolingian St. Gallen, but its scriptorium also produced two scholarly redactions of Isidore’s e…[Read more]
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Evina Steinova deposited Two Carolingian Redactions of Isidore’s Etymologiae from St. Gallen in the group
Digital Humanists on Humanities Commons 4 years, 6 months agoThe Abbey of St. Gallen was the foremost centre for the study of the Etymologiae of Isidore of Seville in the Carolingian period. Not only can more than twenty early medieval manuscripts transmitting material from the Etymologiaebe associated with Carolingian St. Gallen, but its scriptorium also produced two scholarly redactions of Isidore’s e…[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, 6 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, 6 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
Digital Humanists on Humanities Commons 4 years, 6 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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Christian Cooijmans deposited Traversing the Inner Seas: Contacts and Continuity in and around Scotland, the Hebrides, and the North of Ireland in the group
Early Medieval on Humanities Commons 4 years, 7 months agoThroughout the medieval period, the ‘Inner Seas’ linking Scotland, the Hebrides, and the north of Ireland represented a confluence and crucible of identity. The region’s myriad islands served as stepping stones in a maritime network across which people, property, and perceptions travelled freely and purposefully. Encompassing three main theme…[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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Nick Posegay deposited “A Survey of Personal-Use Qurʾan Manuscripts Based on Fragments from the Cairo Genizah” in the group
Early Medieval on Humanities Commons 4 years, 7 months agoThe Cairo Genizah is a repository of texts spanning more than a millennium of Jewish history, including thousands of Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic manuscripts now held in collections around the world. Among these are fragments from at least 25 separate Qur’an manuscripts in Arabic script, all of which lack any traces of Hebrew writing. Their…[Read more]
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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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