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Heather McKnight deposited ‘The Oceans are Rising and So Are We’: Exploring Utopian Discourses in the School Strike For Climate Movement in the group
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 3 years, 3 months agoThis article offers some provisional analyses of the discourses presented by participants in the School Strike for Climate movement, which (since it began in 2018) has been organised variously under the banners Fridays for Future, Youth for Climate and School Strike 4 Climate.1 This paper contends that the movement goes beyond just…[Read more]
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Pramod Ranjan deposited Providing a voice to the dispossessed majority – Interview with Pramod Ranjan in the group
Cultural Studies on Humanities Commons 3 years, 3 months agoIn this interview with The Hindu, Pramod Ranjan shared his view on Dalits and OBCs in Indian newsrooms, Phule-Ambedkarism, Bahujan literature, Dalit literature, Mahishasura Movement and the role of myth in a caste-based society.
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Paul Michael Kurtz deposited A Historical, Critical Retrospective on Historical Criticism in the group
Cultural Studies on Humanities Commons 3 years, 3 months agoThis chapter examines how historical and critical modalities of reading sacred scripture became central to modern biblical studies. It examines what “criticism” was, whence it came, what it did, and which critiques it sustained, before considering its prospects for future historical and literary analysis of the Bible.
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Matthew Ferrandino started the topic IASPM-US 2023 CFP in the discussion
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group on Humanities Commons 3 years, 3 months agoIASPM-US is hosting the international IASPM conference next year at the University of Minneapolis — Twin Cities, June 26–30, 2023. The CFP is due by November 18.
https://iaspm-us.wildapricot.<wbr />org/IASPM-International-2023
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Pramod Ranjan deposited Facing Demons: The reclamation of Mahishasur as a heroic figure in the group
Cultural Studies on Humanities Commons 3 years, 3 months agoThis is an article focused on the Mahishasur movement. The article also discusses the ideological bases of this movement.
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Pramod Ranjan deposited Unearthing history by reinterpreting myths and traditions ( Book Review By Ish Mishra) in the group
Cultural Studies on Humanities Commons 3 years, 3 months agoBrahmanical history is based on myths. It neither has been constructed chronologically nor is factually correct. It has eclipsed the reality with a cobweb of myths. To establish a new creed, established dogmas must be disproven. Ish Mishra reviews ‘Mahishasur: Mithak va Paramparayen’ :
The book Mahishasur: Mithak va Paramparayen (Ma…[Read more]
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Pramod Ranjan deposited Is Mahishasur a myth (Book Review by Kanwal Bharti) in the group
Cultural Studies on Humanities Commons 3 years, 3 months agoRecently, an important book, Mahishasur: Mithak va Paramparayen (Mahishasur: Myth and Traditions), edited by Pramod Ranjan, was published by Forward Press in collaboration with Marginalised Publication. The book lets the reader travel through the living history of the myths of Durga and Mahishasur. The book is divided into five parts – ‘Yatra Vri…[Read more]
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Matthew Ferrandino started the topic 2022 PMIG Session Schedule in the discussion
Society for Music Theory – Popular Music Interest Group on Humanities Commons 3 years, 3 months ago2022 SMT PMIG Schedule
Friday, Nov. 11, 12:30–2:00pm
Chair: Matthew Ferrandino; Secretary: Emily Milius; Webmaster: Jacob Cupps
12:30–35 – Intro/Welcome
12:35–1:35 – Presentations (details below)
1:35–1:50 – Q&A
1:50–1:55 – Trevor de Clercq, PMIG “Splinter Groups”
1:55–2:00 – AK and OP award recipients [Read more]
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Pramod Ranjan deposited किसकी पूजा कर रहे हैं बहुजन (महिषासुर: एक पुर्नपाठ) in the group
Cultural Studies on Humanities Commons 3 years, 3 months agoमहिषासुर आंदोलन से संबंधित यह पहली पुस्तिका है, जिसमें महिषासुर से संबंधित विभिन्न परंपराओं की जानकारी है। इस पुस्तिका के बाद 2014 में एक और पुस्तिका “महिषासुर” शीर्षक से प्रकाशित हुई। 2016 में इन दोनों पुस्तिकाओं के लेखों को कुछ अन्य लेखाें के साथ मिलाकर एक पुस्तक “महिषासुर: एक जननायक” प्रकाशित की गई। उसके बाद एक अन्य स्वतंत्र संपादित पुस्तक “मह…[Read more]
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Joel Edelman deposited Voice Based Affinity; A Recipe for Auditory Cheesecake in the group
Society for Music Theory (SMT) on Humanities Commons 3 years, 3 months agoThe age-old search for an understanding of “consonance” has been hobbled from the beginning by the expectation that a silver bullet can be found. In this section from a book-in-progress, the historical searches are analyzed for their failings and a new approach is suggested based on observing the effects of tonal sounds within the context of…[Read more]
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Joel Edelman deposited Voice Based Affinity; A Recipe for Auditory Cheesecake in the group
Music and Sound on Humanities Commons 3 years, 3 months agoThe age-old search for an understanding of “consonance” has been hobbled from the beginning by the expectation that a silver bullet can be found. In this section from a book-in-progress, the historical searches are analyzed for their failings and a new approach is suggested based on observing the effects of tonal sounds within the context of…[Read more]
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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA deposited Globalización y sostenibilidad in the group
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 3 years, 3 months agoSpanish abstract: Unas notas sobre el final del libro ‘El lugar del hombre en el cosmos’ de Fred Spier, sobre la sostenibilidad de la actual comunicación globalizada. La Gran Historia sitúa al ser humano en el contexto de la evolución cósmica y de la ecología de los recursos. Vivimos hoy en la Era de los Combustibles Fósiles. Con esta energ…[Read more]
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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA started the topic Globalización y sostenibilidad in the discussion
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 3 years, 3 months agoGlobalización y sostenibilidad: https://hcommons-staging.org/deposits/item/hc:49067/
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William Ayers started the topic Post-1945 Music Analysis IG Events at SMT 2022 Annual Meeting in the discussion
SMT Post-1945 Music Analysis Interest Group on Humanities Commons 3 years, 3 months agoDear colleagues,
The Post-1945 Music Analysis Interest Group has a couple exciting activities at this year’s annual meeting, and we hope that you will attend and support the authors and organizers that have been working to put things together.
The interest group is sponsoring a special session that will take place on Saturday morning of the c…[Read more]
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Eileen A. Fradenburg Joy deposited Veritas and Copyright: The Public Library in Peril in the group
Cultural Studies on Humanities Commons 3 years, 4 months agoA response to the decision of Wiley Global to “disappear” 1,300+ of their ebooks in the ProQuest catalog at the beginning of the Fall 2022 term without any communication to university libraries at all, thus taking libraries by surprise and indicating Wiley’s move away from libraries as repositories and lenders of their ebooks, passing on costs to…[Read more]
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Dora Apel deposited Podcast interview on my book Beautiful Terrible Ruins: Detroit and the Anxiety of Decline, with Thomas Hill for The Library Cafe at Vasser College in the group
Cultural Studies on Humanities Commons 3 years, 4 months ago“In Beautiful Terrible Ruins: Detroit and the Anxiety of Decline, Dora Apel goes on the offensive against the myriad myths and delusions peddled about the Motor City; not only that, she rebuffs the blame and shame that have traditionally been directed at the Detroit citizenry, and redirects our attention to the corporations and bureaucrats who…[Read more]
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Jonathan Basile deposited Symbioautothanatosis: Science as Symbiont in the Work of Lynn Margulis in the group
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 3 years, 4 months agoLynn Margulis’s writing about symbiosis has profoundly influenced contemporary evolutionary theory, as well as continental and analytic philosophy of science, the materialist turn, and new materialism. Nonetheless, her work, and all symbiosis or evolution, is founded on a paradox: symbiosis fictionalizes customary accounts of the origin and e…[Read more]
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Luis Ernesto Paz Enrique deposited La práctica de música coral en la Universidad Central «Marta Abreu» de Las Villas in the group
Cultural Studies on Humanities Commons 3 years, 4 months agoIntroducción: En el artículo se identifica la presencia de la práctica coral en el centro de la educación superior. En Cuba el movimiento coral jugó un importante papel con el nacimiento del movimiento de artistas aficionados. La consolidación de una agrupación coral en la Universidad Central «Marta Abreu» de Las Villas no fue posible hasta el…[Read more]
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Michelle Bastian deposited Topics in Environmental Humanities: Whose Apocalypse 2022-2023 in the group
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 3 years, 4 months agoCourse Description: In 2022 we will be looking at the theme of ‘Whose Apocalypse?’. We will develop an understanding of environmental issues such as climate change, resource depletion, long-term pollutants, extinctions, food and water security and more. Rather than assuming these issues affect all humans in similar ways, however, we will explore…[Read more]
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Michelle Bastian deposited Multi-species, ecological and climate change temporalities: Opening a dialogue with phenology in the group
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 3 years, 4 months agoMany scholars have argued that climate change is, in part, a problem of time, with ecological, political and social systems thought to be out of sync or mistimed. Discussions of time and environment are often interdisciplinary, necessitating a wide-ranging use of methods and approaches. However, to date there has been practically no direct…[Read more]
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