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The Renaissance Society of America on Humanities Commons 5 years, 5 months agoThose interested in Critical Race Theory, Shakespeare, and Teaching will want to investigate two videos in the Folger Institute’s Critical Race Conversations series: https://www.youtube.com/user/FolgerLibrary/featured.
In July, these two free events addressed how college faculty can and should integrate critical race studies into their…[Read more]
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited Chapter 1, Chinese Shakespeares: Two Centuries of Cultural Exchange (Columbia University Press, 2009, 2011, 2015). Modern Language Association Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary Studies in the group
The Renaissance Society of America on Humanities Commons 5 years, 6 months agoThis chapter, “Owning Chinese Shakespeares,” pursues the critical concept of localization and critiques the fidelity-derived discourse about cultural ownership. How were Chinese Shakespeares used as a kind of staged utopia of modernity?
Underlying this study are three related lines of inquiry united by what might be called locality criticism, t…[Read more]
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited Preface, The Shakespearean International Yearbook Volume 18 in the group
The Renaissance Society of America on Humanities Commons 5 years, 6 months agoThanks to Karl Marx’s references in his political treatises, Shakespeare held a significant place in a number of communist and other left-authoritarian countries, including China and the USSR. And although there were themes in Shakespeare that turned out to be inconvenient for communist ideology, other Shakespearean plays were put into service. I…[Read more]
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Anne Leader deposited Architectural Collaboration in the Early Renaissance: Reforming the Florentine Badia in the group
The Renaissance Society of America on Humanities Commons 5 years, 6 months agoIn the late 1420s, Abbot Gomezio di Giovanni initiated a major building campaign to reform the Benedictine monastery of the Florentine Badia. Designed to provide its community with an orderly space in which to pursue the Benedictine Observance, the compound rises around the so-called Orange Cloister, long considered to be an early work of Bernardo…[Read more]
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Robin Rolfhamre deposited Informed Play: Approaching a Concept and Biology of Tone Production on Early Modern Lute Instruments in the group
The Renaissance Society of America on Humanities Commons 5 years, 6 months agoInformed Play presents a conceptual understanding of tone production based on extensive historical research on primary sources, modern literature and handbook reviews, physical and psychological perspectives as well as on technology. As the first volume in English to discuss and contextualise the topic of tone production on Early Modern lute…[Read more]
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Alexander J McNair deposited Pasillo del Cid Campeador: un curioso pliego suelto del siglo XIX in the group
The Renaissance Society of America on Humanities Commons 5 years, 6 months agoEn su edición del Romancero del Cid de 1871, un compendio de todos los romances del Cid disponibles en versiones impresas de los siglos XVI y XVII, Carolina Michaëlis incluyó un apéndice para demostrar la vitalidad de la tradición cidiana en pleno siglo XIX. Michaëlis escribe: “Para muestra del género de romances populares que aun hoy dia en A…[Read more]
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Cesare Pastorino deposited Compasso Geometrico e Militare (measures and data for weights) – Early Science and Medicine (forthcoming) in the group
The Renaissance Society of America on Humanities Commons 5 years, 6 months agoData set of measures from Galileo Galilei’s Compasso Geometrico e Militare and comparison of the weights of substances with data in Kepler’s table of specific gravities in MesseKunst Archimedis. Data associated with a forthcoming article in Early Science and Medicine, titled “Johannes Kepler and the Exploration of the Weight of Substances in the…[Read more]
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Carla Zecher replied to the topic Thinking about Careers for Scholars of Renaissance Studies in the discussion
The Renaissance Society of America on Humanities Commons 5 years, 6 months agoI was thinking about this again yesterday. I’m going to take a guess that the educational divisions of arts organizations are going to be the most stable units with respect to employment, because those efforts can continue even when the venue itself is closed.
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Carla Zecher replied to the topic Thinking about Careers for Scholars of Renaissance Studies in the discussion
The Renaissance Society of America on Humanities Commons 5 years, 7 months agoBlogs might suggest some answers? https://blog.americansforthearts.org/
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Ashley "Aley" O'Mara replied to the topic Thinking about Careers for Scholars of Renaissance Studies in the discussion
The Renaissance Society of America on Humanities Commons 5 years, 7 months agoI’m curious about the outlook for careers in theater administration, given the pandemic. I’ve noticed layoffs and cancellations of job searches. Any sense of which areas of theater admin might recover soonest?
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Jessica Wolfe replied to the topic Doing Research in Renaissance Studies in the Age of COVID-19 in the discussion
The Renaissance Society of America on Humanities Commons 5 years, 7 months agoAnother suggestion for Kristin Bezio: sometimes, university libraries are willing to foot the bill for a faculty member or graduate student at that university to order a scanned reproduction of one or more documents, so long as you promise to deposit it in the library collection once you have finished using it. You might see whether there are…[Read more]
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Richard Freedman started the topic Welcome to the RSA Humanities Commons Group! in the discussion
The Renaissance Society of America on Humanities Commons 5 years, 7 months agoPlease join the RSA Humanities Commons group!
The Renaissance Society of America is the largest international academic society devoted to the study of the era 1300-1700. Founded in 1954, the RSA includes thousands of members around the world. Learn more about the RSA at https://www.rsa.org.
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Carla Zecher replied to the topic Doing Research in Ren Studies in the Age of COVID-19 in the discussion
The Renaissance Society of America on Humanities Commons 5 years, 7 months agoThree posts came in while we were still in the process of setting up this discussion topic. Pasting them in here.
From Kristin Bezio:
“At some point, I need access to an MS at the British Library that isn’t part of their digital collection… not sure how I’m going to accomplish that!”
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Reply from Stephen Merriam Foley:
“I was pleas…[Read more]
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Carla Zecher started the topic Doing Research in Renaissance Studies in the Age of COVID-19 in the discussion
The Renaissance Society of America on Humanities Commons 5 years, 7 months agoLet’s share questions about research strategies and suggestions for workarounds. How will we progress in our research and writing this summer without being able to travel to libraries, archives, and historical sites? What sorts of help do researchers need?
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Carla Zecher started the topic Thinking about Careers for Scholars of Renaissance Studies in the discussion
The Renaissance Society of America on Humanities Commons 5 years, 7 months agoPublishing and editing, translating, consulting, curating, public engagement, digital humanities, creative industries: What questions do scholars of the Renaissance have about these different career paths, and more? What suggestions do scholars at mid-career and beyond have for emerging scholars just starting out?
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Carla Zecher started the topic Teaching the Renaissance Virtually and Finding Guest Speakers in the discussion
The Renaissance Society of America on Humanities Commons 5 years, 7 months agoWhat are the challenges and rewards of teaching courses online in your field? What is working well? What sorts of help do you need? Would you be willing to volunteer to be a guest speaker in an online course taught by a colleague at another institution? Would you like to have a guest speaker for a course that you will be teaching?
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