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Lisa L. Tyler started the topic What Texts Would You Recommend on Modernism and Ecocriticism? in the discussion
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 7 years, 7 months agoI’m working on a review essay on Hemingway and ecocricitism. Could anyone in this group recommend two or three texts I should read on ecocriticism and modernism, especially American modernism?
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Marco Heiles deposited ‚Der Sinn der höchsten Meister von Paris‘ mit ‚Sendbrief-Aderlassanhang‘ Transkription aus Hamburg, Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek, Cod. germ. 1 in the group
Science Studies and the History of Science on Humanities Commons 7 years, 8 months agoTranscription of a tract on the plague from a German manuscript from ca 1463, Hamburg, Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek, Cod. germ. 1, fol. 51ra-rb.
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Martin Boehnert deposited Philosophie der Tierforschung: Milieus und Akteure in the group
Science Studies and the History of Science on Humanities Commons 7 years, 8 months agoDie Tierphilosophie ist eines der lebendigsten Felder der Gegenwartsphilosophie. Im Mittelpunkt stehen bislang die Frage nach dem Geist der Tiere, das Problem des Tier-Mensch-Unterschiedes und die Themenfelder der Tierethik. Die auf drei Bände angelegte »Philosophie der Tierforschung« wirft einen neuen Blick auf dieses Gebiet und ergänzt es dur…[Read more]
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David E. Roy, Ph.D. deposited Can Whitehead’s Philosophy Provide an Adequate Theoretical Foundation for Today’s Neuroscience? in the group
Science Studies and the History of Science on Humanities Commons 7 years, 8 months agoThis article shows the high degree of correlation between the ways in which the right and the left hemispheres process and organize information and Whitehead’s understanding of the two pure and direct modes of perception, causal efficacy and presentational immediacy. The neuroscience is drawn from the recent work of Iain McGilchrist and Robert…[Read more]
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Sonia Silva deposited Art and Fetish in the Anthropolgy Museum in the group
Museums on Humanities Commons 7 years, 8 months agoSónia Silva is an Associate Professor of anthropology at Skidmore College. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in Zambia, as well as museum work in Europe and the USA, Silva’s research deals with materiality, material religion, the notion of the fetish, ritual and religion, divination, witchcraft, violence, and museums. Silva is the author of Alon…[Read more]
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Michael Stanley-Baker posted an update in the group
Medical Humanities on Humanities Commons 7 years, 9 months agoPolling the hive mind…. Would people be willing to share here the learning objectives of your Medical Humanities programmes at your universities?
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Hi, Michael. Here are the learning goals on the website for our Health & the Humanities Certificate:
(https://english.wisc.edu/programs/health-and-humanities-certificate-overview/)Learning Goals
After completing the certificate, you will be able to:
-Identify major developments in the history of medicine and the medical profession
-Describe how…[Read more]
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Jeannette Vaught deposited Materia Medica: Technology, Vaccination, and Antivivisection in Jazz Age Philadelphia in the group
Science Studies and the History of Science on Humanities Commons 7 years, 9 months agoDuring the 1920s, the Philadelphia-based American Antivivisection Society turned to racialized metaphors in its circulating periodical, the Starry Cross, to excoriate the expanding practice of vaccination. Since vaccines were then made from animal-derived serums, the involvement of antivivisectionists in antivaccine arguments is not surprising.…[Read more]
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Jeannette Vaught deposited Pageants, Po’ Boys, and Pork on a Stick: Documenting the Louisiana Shrimp and Petroleum Festival in the group
Science Studies and the History of Science on Humanities Commons 7 years, 9 months agoThis photoessay documents the 82nd Annual Louisiana Shrimp and Petroleum Festival, which took place in Morgan City, Louisiana over Labor Day weekend in 2018. It contains photographs of the festival, including images of pageant queens, food vendors, and the Blessing of the Fleet. The essay documents the authors’ experience of the festival, and c…[Read more]
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travisclau posted an update in the group
Medical Humanities on Humanities Commons 7 years, 10 months agoJust wanted to share my review of Sari Altschuler’s excellent new book on early American medicine. She raises a lot of important methodological questions about our field, and I find myself still thinking about the suggestions/questions she raises.
Cultivating “Epistemological Humility”: How to Reimagine the Medical Humanities
Also, if…[Read more]
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Martin Boehnert deposited Linguistisch-philosophische Untersuchungen zu Plausibilität: Über kommunikative Grundmuster bei der Entstehung von wissenschaftlichen Tatsachen in the group
Science Studies and the History of Science on Humanities Commons 7 years, 10 months agoPlausibilität spielt in allen Wissenschaftskulturen eine gewichtige Rolle – ob implizit oder explizit. Auffällig ist jedoch, dass es keiner spezifisch geschulten Kompetenz oder der Vermittlung eigenständiger Fähigkeiten bedarf, um einen Sachverhalt als “plausibel” zu beurteilen, während bei verwandten Begriffen wie etwa “logisch” je nach den meth…[Read more]
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Martin Boehnert deposited Philosophie der Tierforschung: Die methodologische Signatur von Forschungsprogrammen in the group
Science Studies and the History of Science on Humanities Commons 7 years, 10 months agoDie Tierphilosophie ist eines der lebendigsten Felder der Gegenwartsphilosophie. In ihrem Mittelpunkt standen bislang Fragen nach dem Geist der Tiere, der Tier-Mensch-Unterschied oder Probleme der Tierethik. Die auf drei Bände angelegte »Philosophie der Tierforschung« wirft einen neuen Blick auf dieses Gebiet mit dem Ziel einer strukturierten Un…[Read more]
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Martin Boehnert deposited Philosophie der Tierforschung: Kulturelle und ethische Dimensionen methodischer Tier-Mensch-Interaktionen in the group
Science Studies and the History of Science on Humanities Commons 7 years, 10 months agoDie Tierphilosophie ist eines der lebendigsten Felder der Gegenwartsphilosophie. In ihrem Mittelpunkt standen bislang Fragen nach dem Geist der Tiere, der Tier-Mensch-Unterschied oder Probleme der Tierethik. Die auf drei Bände angelegte »Philosophie der Tierforschung« wirft einen neuen Blick auf dieses Gebiet mit dem Ziel einer strukturierten Un…[Read more]
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Martin Boehnert deposited Riot Grrrl Primatology – Über Forscherinnen, Feminismus und feministische Wissenschaften in the group
Science Studies and the History of Science on Humanities Commons 7 years, 10 months agoDraft Version des Beitrags: In dem vorliegenden Artikel möchten wir der Frage nach den Möglichkeiten eines weiblichen bzw. feministischen Zugangs zu wissenschaftlicher Forschung in verschiedenen Hinsichten beleuchten. Wir werden uns dem Thema exemplarisch anhand des Forschungsfeldes der Primatologie zuwenden, wobei die Antwort auf die Frage, w…[Read more]
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Ernesto Priego deposited The Power of Sharing in the group
Medical Humanities on Humanities Commons 7 years, 10 months agoA comic about the power of sharing: a collaboration between figshare, Symbola Comics and La Grúa Estudio.
Concept and story by Francisco De La Mora & Ernesto Priego
Art by Cristina Durán La Grúa Estudio
Design by Daniela Rocha
Originally published as
de la Mora, Francisco et al.. “The Power of Sharing”. figshare, 21 Mar. 2018.…[Read more]
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Francesco Luzzini deposited Theory, Practice, and Nature In-between. Antonio Vallisneri’s Primi Itineris Specimen in the group
Science Studies and the History of Science on Humanities Commons 7 years, 10 months agoIn the summer of 1704, Antonio Vallisneri (1661–1730), the preeminent Italian physician and natural philosopher of his time, traveled with a “daring soul” and “trembling feet” across the “silent horrors” of the northern Apennines: down the hills south of Reggio Emilia to northern Tuscany and the western edge of his native land, the Province of G…[Read more]
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Francesco Luzzini deposited Theory, Practice, and Nature In-between. Antonio Vallisneri’s Primi Itineris Specimen in the group
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 7 years, 10 months agoIn the summer of 1704, Antonio Vallisneri (1661–1730), the preeminent Italian physician and natural philosopher of his time, traveled with a “daring soul” and “trembling feet” across the “silent horrors” of the northern Apennines: down the hills south of Reggio Emilia to northern Tuscany and the western edge of his native land, the Province of G…[Read more]
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Francesco Luzzini deposited An uncomfortable, yet wonderful journey. Antonio Vallisneri and his exploration of the Northern Apennines in the group
Science Studies and the History of Science on Humanities Commons 7 years, 11 months agoin: Nel nome di Lazzaro. Saggi di storia della scienza e delle istituzioni scientifiche tra il XVII e il XVIII secolo, edited by Centro Studi Lazzaro Spallanzani, Bologna, Edizioni Pendragon, 2014, pp. 207-220.
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Francesco Luzzini deposited An uncomfortable, yet wonderful journey. Antonio Vallisneri and his exploration of the Northern Apennines in the group
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 7 years, 11 months agoin: Nel nome di Lazzaro. Saggi di storia della scienza e delle istituzioni scientifiche tra il XVII e il XVIII secolo, edited by Centro Studi Lazzaro Spallanzani, Bologna, Edizioni Pendragon, 2014, pp. 207-220.
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Tarren Andrews deposited Defamiliarizing Melancholy: The Functions of Eco-Aesthetics and the Pearl-poet in the group
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 8 years agoScholarship on the Pearl-poem has seen a significant jump in recent years, due largely to the influx of eco-critical readings throughout Medieval studies. Gillian Rudd’s recent book Greenery: Ecocritical Readings of Late Medieval English Literature explores a new and exciting reading of the poem’s natural environment, claiming that the rose met…[Read more]
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Jonathan L. Clark deposited People Watching: The Sociology of Erving Goffman in the group
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 8 years agoSyllabus for an undergraduate course on Erving Goffman.
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