Before arriving in Spain, Francisco Corselli had developed an important career as opera composer and sacred music when he arrived in Spain in 1733 from Parma thanks to his previous relations with Isabella de Farnese, the future queen of Spain, and with the ducal house of Parma. At the Madrid court, he began his career as ‘maestro de música’ for…[Read more]

Discourse called post-humanism believes that humanism is a phony notion and an excuse for ruling over the other animals — and that it would eventually invite the destruction of the human race. They draw attention to the scientific fact that man is also an ordinary animal and just like other animals and birds is a small part of the huge e…[Read more]

Assyrian imperialism is closely associated with the practice of mass deportation. This practice has been explained by recourse to many different motivations. But can we hope to pinpoint the logic informing deportation rather than merely identifying its advantages? This paper surveys the evidence of deportation in the Levant in the period 745–620 B…[Read more]

Las políticas públicas sobre ciencia, tecnología e innovación tienen la función social de dirigir los procesos de construcción y socialización del conocimiento y los hallazgos científicos. Existe en la literatura científica publicada vacíos de conocimiento que contribuyan a fundamentar las políticas públicas en materia de ciencia, tecnología…[Read more]

The formalization of sound changes as finite state transducers is implicit already in the Neogrammarians. For at least six decades scholars have recognized the potential of transducers for improving the speed and rigor of research in historical linguists, but almost no historical linguists actually use them. This article identifies the obstacles…[Read more]

The foreword of YILLIK: Annual of Istanbul Studies 4 (2022)

This essay endeavors to explain the really important powers, ways of knowing, and characteristics of life that AI can never have. The author takes off his academic hat here and speaks from direct experience.

Before coffee * QRt by PRURITUS MIGRANS * CC: BY-NC-SA

Announcement for the opening of the exhibition “Eden and Everything After” at the University of Stavanger Archaelogical Museum and publication of attendant catalogue.

Save a chicken! * PRURITUS MIGRANS * CC: BY-NC-SA

In the course, I give a basic introduction into some of the recent developments in the field of computational historical linguistics. While this field is predominantly represented by phylogenetic approaches with whom scholars try to infer phylogenetic trees from different kinds of language data, the approach taken here is much broader,…[Read more]

The weblog Computer-Assisted Language Comparison in Practice, published on the Hypotheses platform for scientific blogging (https://calc.hypotheses.org/), offers tutorials and discussion notes on computer-assisted approaches to the history and diversity of languages. A substantial part of its content is contributed as part of the ERC Starting…[Read more]

MAD HARRY! * QRt by PRURITUS MIGRANS * CC: BY-ND

This course provides an introduction to the visual culture and art forms of the Italo-Roman world from the
Early Iron Age to the beginning of Late Antiquity. The course examines the developmental arcs of art
forms in various spheres (public, private, sacred, funereal) and considers key media (sculpture, painting,
mosaic, decorative arts).…[Read more]

From the review of the most significant bibliography, the role that the library plays in the internationalization of the university is analyzed. In order to move forward in this field, it would be very convenient that Spanish academic libraries focus their resources and services in terms of internationalization, investigate the different library…[Read more]