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EJ Thomas started the topic Alt-Ac Job Posting: Partner and User Support Specialist ITHAKA (JSTOR/Artstor) in the discussion
Academic Job Market Support Network on Humanities Commons 3 years, 8 months agoHello all! I’m a former academic and now the manager of the Partner and User Support Team at ITHAKA. We support resources you are probably familiar with, including JSTOR, Artstor, JSTOR Forum and Portico. We’re currently hiring for our Partner and User Support Specialist role, the role I started in 6 years ago when I made the decision to leave my…[Read more]
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Francesca Falk deposited Einleitung in the group
History on Humanities Commons 3 years, 9 months ago1970 wurde die Schwarzenbach-Initiative nur knapp verworfen. Sie war der Auftakt zu einer bis heute anhaltenden Reihe von «Überfremdungsinitiativen», die Generationen von Menschen mit Migrationsgeschichte traumatisiert haben. In diesem Buch sprechen Zeitzeug:innen der Schwarzenbach-Initiative über ihr Leben im Provisorium. Sie erzählen von prek…[Read more]
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Anna-Mari Vesterinen started the topic CfP on the impact of pandemics – Helsinki University Press in the discussion
History on Humanities Commons 3 years, 9 months agoCall for book proposals
Helsinki University Press (HUP) is soliciting proposals for original research, across multiple disciplines, on the cultural, economic, social, and political dimensions of pandemics. We welcome proposals for monographs, short monographs, and edited volumes. Dissertations and conference proceedings will not be considered.We…[Read more]
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Rita Singer deposited “The Devil may take Snowdon”, or: inscribing touristic disappointment in Victorian visitors’ books in the group
History on Humanities Commons 3 years, 9 months agoHistorically, tourism in Wales was invigorated by the reinvention of mountain scenery during the Romantic period when travellers gained new perspectives of the terrain from higher ground. It is also during this period that inns and guesthouses began keeping visitors’ books in which guests evaluated their surroundings and their hosts’ good ser…[Read more]
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Norberto Barreto Velázquez started the topic Convocatoria 1er Congreso Latinoamericano de Estudios Sobre Estados Unidos in the discussion
History on Humanities Commons 3 years, 9 months agoConvocatoria1er Congreso Latinoamericano de Estudios Sobre Estados UnidosFecha: 21 y 22 de septiembre de 2022Modalidad online La Red Latinoamericana de Estudios sobre Estados Unidos RELAESE, en cooperación con la Universidad Nacional de Colombia, lo invitan cordialmente a participar en el Primer Congreso Latinoamericano de Estudios sobre Es…[Read more]
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Cara Jordan started the topic How to Write a Cover Letter for an Academic Job in the discussion
Academic Job Market Support Network on Humanities Commons 3 years, 9 months agoApplying for an academic job? The process can often be opaque and, unless your advisor is particularly helpful, you might feel alone in the process.
Never fear! In a recent blog post, former art history professor and department chair Matt Shoaf tells you how to research, write, and avoid common mistakes when applying for jobs as a…[Read more]
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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA deposited La Segunda República, Beevor la Guerra Civil in the group
Historiography on Humanities Commons 3 years, 9 months agoSpanish abstract: La Segunda República española duró no del 31 al 36, sino del 31 al 39, aunque la etapa de la guerra civil (1936-1939) tiene otro carácter, y quizá haya que llamarla a ésa la tercera república. Es normal por tanto que una historia de la guerra civil empiece con una historia de la República. Vemos aquí la perspectiva que sobre el…[Read more]
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Lawrence K Wang deposited GREEN INNOVATIONS IN FLOTATION, PROTEIN SEPARATION, FLUE GAS REUSE, NEW PROCESS SYSTEMS, SULFIDE PRECIPITATION, CHROMIUM REMOVAL, AND TANNERY WASTE TREATMENT in the group
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 3 years, 9 months agoWang, LK and Wang, MHS (2022). Green innovations in flotation, protein separation, flue gas reuse, new process systems, sulfide precipitation, chromium removal, and tannery waste treatment. In: “Evolutionary Progress in Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics (STEAM)”, Wang, LK and Tsao, HP (eds.), 4 (7E), STE…[Read more]
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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA deposited La vida es sólo fantasía: La crisis y la autoinvención humana in the group
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 3 years, 10 months agoSpanish abstract: Una reflexión evolucionista y cognitivista sobre el papel de la imaginación y de la autorrepresentación en la identidad humana, en la creación de verdades, y en la gestión de las crisis—en el seno de una realidad humana, realidad interaccional y comunicativa, que siempre ha tenido mucho de realidad virtual (avant la lettre y avan…[Read more]
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Luis de Orueta deposited Las Hermanas Livermore in the group
History on Humanities Commons 3 years, 10 months agoEspaña, a finales del siglo XVIII, todavía era un imperio colonial. El comercio con las provincias de ultramar estimulaba la venida de irlandeses, prusianos, suecos, holandeses, marselleses y sobre todo ingleses, que fundaban Casas de Comercio con españoles. Pero con la aparición de Napoleón en la escena europea, Inglaterra impuso el “blo…[Read more]
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Manuel Loyola deposited 200 años después. Los Andes en la encrucijada de las Independencias. Panamá, Colombia, Ecuador, Perú, Bolivia, Chile, España in the group
Historiography on Humanities Commons 3 years, 10 months agoEntre los años 2020-2022 se han llevado a cabo diversos eventos conmemoratorios de las independencias nacionales, regionales o locales, sin que se haya efectuado un encuentro que los englobara. Este fue el objetivo del Seminario Internacional 200 años después. Los Andes en la encrucijada de las Independencias (Sevilla, diciembre 2021) que ahora da…[Read more]
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Manuel Loyola deposited Jorge Insunza Becker. Escritos políticos e ideológicos 1960-2012. Medio siglo de pensamiento comunista, T.4 in the group
History on Humanities Commons 3 years, 10 months agoJorge Insunza Becker (21 de abril de 1936-17 de marzo de 2019) fue uno de los principales dirigentes del Partido Comunista chileno desde los años 60. Ingresó a las Juventudes Comunistas en 1954. En 1962 fue promovido al Comité Central del PC y desde 1965 fue parte de su Comisión Política, aquella que encabezó el triunfo de Salvador Allende de 19…[Read more]
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Manuel Loyola deposited Jorge Insunza Becker. Escritos políticos e ideológicos 1980-2015, T.3 in the group
Historiography on Humanities Commons 3 years, 10 months agoJorge Insunza Becker (21 de abril de 1936-17 de marzo de 2019) fue uno de los principales dirigentes del Partido Comunista chileno desde los años 60. Ingresó a las Juventudes Comunistas en 1954. En 1962 fue promovido al Comité Central del PC y desde 1965 fue parte de su Comisión Política, aquella que encabezó el triunfo de Salvador Allende de 19…[Read more]
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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA deposited ‘Solar’: Irremediable historicidad in the group
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 3 years, 10 months agoSpanish abstract: ¿Llegará a tiempo la energía solar sostenible? ́Solar ́ de Ian McEwan trata los ribetes picarescos de la ciencia occidental, con un tema casi cósmico de trasfondo, y con una vida complicada en primer plano. El protagonista, encarnación de la ciencia actual, es un pícaro moderno, que reúne en sí todos los extremos de la condición…[Read more]
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Anita Savo started the topic CFP for New England Medieval Consortium 2022: Medieval Ecologies in the discussion
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 3 years, 10 months agoNew England Medieval Consortium 2022: Medieval Ecologies
October 8, 2022
Colby College
Waterville, METhis conference will provide an opportunity for medievalists working across a range of disciplines and geographic areas to join in conversation about premodern ecologies and their literary historical representations, as well as their material…[Read more]
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Patrick Eisenlohr deposited Atmospheric citizenship: Sonic movement and public religion in Shi‘i Mumbai in the group
Place Studies on Humanities Commons 3 years, 10 months agoIn Mumbai the sonic dimensions of place‐making and religious life are deeply connected to the right to the city. For Twelver Shi‘i Muslims, who are marginal to both the city and the nation, public religious rituals and processions have long played very important roles in staging claims to the city. Investigating the sonic aspects of urban pla…[Read more]
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Froilán Ramos R. deposited Latinoamérica y el Caribe. Miradas historiografía in the group
History on Humanities Commons 3 years, 10 months agoThis chapter attempts to analyze the historiographical debate around agency/structure, especially focused on two current historians, Mary Fulbrook and Peter Burke. Likewise, the conception and relationship of the State within the historiography of the Cold War, seen from the perspective of structure/agent, is presented as a case study. In sum,…[Read more]
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Froilán Ramos R. deposited Latinoamérica y el Caribe. Miradas historiografía in the group
Historiography on Humanities Commons 3 years, 10 months agoThis chapter attempts to analyze the historiographical debate around agency/structure, especially focused on two current historians, Mary Fulbrook and Peter Burke. Likewise, the conception and relationship of the State within the historiography of the Cold War, seen from the perspective of structure/agent, is presented as a case study. In sum,…[Read more]
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André Francisco Pilon deposited The Pope, the University, the Elderly and the Flood: Dimensions and Responses to Current Conflicts in the group
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 3 years, 10 months agoComparing the present time with those times in which God decided to extinguish corrupted humanity through the flood, Pope Francis recently recalled that, in those eras, there was still a just man on Earth and, therefore, God reconsidered his decision and helped Noah building an ark to save his creation. The pope added that Noah, due to his…[Read more]
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