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Anne Donlon replied to the topic Introductions in the discussion
Spanish Civil War Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years, 6 months agoSo glad that you all are here! My own work has circled around African Americans and the Spanish Civil War. I edited a chapbook of correspondence and poems: Langston Hughes, Nancy Cunard & Louise Thompson: Poetry, Politics & Friendship in the Spanish Civil War. I’ve also written about Cunard’s SCW scrapbook, and have some writing in the works a…[Read more]
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Kathryn Anne Everly replied to the topic Collections of SCW materials / images in the discussion
Spanish Civil War Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years, 6 months agoGerda Taro’s photographs of the SPW at the International Center for Photography.
https://www.icp.org/search-results/Gerda%20Taro/all/all/relevant/0
Also, the Abraham Lincoln Brigade archives at NYU are fantastic for US participation in the war.
http://www.nyu.edu/library/bobst/research/tam/alba_guides.html
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Kathryn Anne Everly replied to the topic Introductions in the discussion
Spanish Civil War Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years, 6 months agoHello all! My interests are women in photography, literature and film dealing with the SPW from historical as well as contemporary perspectives.
We are very much looking forward to Lisa Kirschenbaum’s visit to Syracuse U. this fall! Great to see you in this group. And thanks for starting up this conversation, Anne.
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John Levin replied to the topic Collections of SCW materials / images in the discussion
Spanish Civil War Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years, 6 months agoA couple of open data sets relating to Francoist represion:
Graves of victims of Francoism:
http://vidascontadas.org/ with data at: https://github.com/VidasContadas/datasets
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John Levin replied to the topic Introductions in the discussion
Spanish Civil War Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years, 6 months agoAlthough I’m doing a PhD at Sussex University on debtors’ sanctuaries in c18th London, I have a strong interest in Spain & Spanish history, which I’d like to develop more seriously.
Especially interested in digitial history, and using computational techniques on historical data.
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Lisa Kirschenbaum replied to the topic Collections of SCW materials / images in the discussion
Spanish Civil War Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years, 6 months agoThe Russian State Archive of Socio-Political History (RGASPI) has digitized much of the Comintern’s materials on the International Brigades (fond 545). The site is most easily navigated if you can read Russian, but there is some English translation, and the archives are in many languages.
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Lisa Kirschenbaum posted an update in the group
Spanish Civil War Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years, 6 months agoThanks, Anne, for putting this group together. My book International Communism and the Spanish Civil War was published by Cambridge in 2015. It explores the personal and political lives of international communists, centering on the SCW as a key moment in the history of communism and communist life histories.
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Anna Girling posted an update in the group
Spanish Civil War Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years, 6 months agoHi all – and many thanks Anne for setting up this group and inviting me to join. I’m very glad to be here! My interest in the Spanish Civil War began with my grandparents – who both went there as volunteers from the UK. I started a blog last year (http://redthirties.wordpress.com/) with the aim of looking at some of the archival materials that I…[Read more]
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Anne Donlon replied to the topic Suitcase of SCW photos in the news in the discussion
Spanish Civil War Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years, 6 months agoThis article doesn’t require a login: “La Guerra Civil, vista por un cuáquero inglés“
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Anne Donlon replied to the topic Collections of SCW materials / images in the discussion
Spanish Civil War Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years, 6 months agoA start:
“The digital Archive of the Spanish Civil War and the Francoist Dictatorship is an initiative of UCSD in collaboration with several Spanish civic associations, such as the ARMH (Asociación para la Recuperación de la Memoria Histórica), the Asociación de Ex-presos y Represaliados Políticos, the Federación Estatal de Foros por la Memoria…[Read more]
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Laura Hartmann-Villalta replied to the topic Introductions in the discussion
Spanish Civil War Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years, 6 months agoHello! I work on SCW visual culture and women’s writing. I am a happy panel contributor and collaborator.
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Anne Donlon started the topic Introductions in the discussion
Spanish Civil War Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years, 6 months agoPlease introduce yourself! Share your interests and previous / current / future work related to the Spanish Civil War, as well as any other info you’d like to put out there.
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Anne Donlon started the topic Collections of SCW materials / images in the discussion
Spanish Civil War Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years, 6 months agoDo you have any favorite (digital) collections of SCW-related materials?
Searching for public domain images for the header & group avatar, I was trying to think of good places to search. The V&A had a number of posters, but weren’t easy to download for image use. (Suggestions about our cover/group image, send them my way.)
Do you know of online…[Read more]
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Anne Donlon started the topic Suitcase of SCW photos in the news in the discussion
Spanish Civil War Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years, 6 months agoAnother suitcase of SCW photographs emerges: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/lost-photographs-of-the-spanish-civil-war-found-in-a-suitcase-9c25d3pzv
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Ferdinand Stenglein deposited Um/Bildungen und die Pädagogisierung des Politischen in the group
Anarchism on Humanities Commons 8 years, 6 months agoZusammenfassung und Aufruf zur Teilnahme an einem Workshop auf dem Kritischen Kongress der Geographie September 2017, Tübingen.
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Oscar Martinez-Peñate deposited El Salvador Cultura del Guanaco o Posmodernismo in the group
Anarchism on Humanities Commons 8 years, 6 months agoEste nuevo trabajo, dentro de la fecunda labor intelectual de Oscar Martínez Peñate,
alcanza un doble objetivo: por una parte nos recuerda el déficit en la construcción de
nuestra identidad cultural, entendida ésta más allá de la “madeja de significados”
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Oscar Martinez-Peñate deposited El Salvador Ministerio de Obras Públicas Transparencia vs corrupción in the group
Anarchism on Humanities Commons 8 years, 6 months agoEl Ministerio de Obras Públicas, Transporte y de Vivienda
y Desarrollo Urbano (MOP)1 es una de las instituciones
del Estado que históricamente ha sido señalada por
la ciudadanía como centro de corrupción y, como otra
dependencia más del Poder Ejecutivo que no cumplía
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Oscar Martinez-Peñate deposited El Salvador Sociología General in the group
Anarchism on Humanities Commons 8 years, 6 months agoEsta obra coordinada por el Máster Oscar Martínez Peñate reúne los puntos de vista y la experiencia de connotadas personalidades de la vida nacional, quienes, en conjunto, aportan una visión crítica, importante para arribar a la comprensión de la sociedad salvadoreña, de cómo está organizada, de cuáles son sus intereses, intenciones y proyectos,…[Read more]
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Oscar Martinez-Peñate deposited El Salvador el Soldado y la Guerrillera in the group
Anarchism on Humanities Commons 8 years, 6 months agoCon esta obra el autor pretende que se conozca la historia vista desde los de abajo, es una nueva perspectiva de analizar los hechos desde dos puntos de vista, los que dieron las órdenes y los que las acataron.
Se describen hechos que por su crueldad y salvajismo resultan más que repugnantes; difíciles de creer que hayan sucedido, por otra pa…[Read more] - Load More