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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA deposited Eligiendo nuestro universo (Choosing Our Universe) in the group
Historical theory and the philosophy of history on Humanities Commons 3 years, 6 months agoSpanish abstract: ´El Gran Diseño´, libro de Stephen Hawking y Leonard Mlodinow (Bantam, 2010) se propone responder científicamente a algunas cuestiones que en tiempos pasados se explicaban mediante mitos de creación: por qué existe el universo, y por qué es como es. Nos centramos aquí en una de sus propuestas más controvertidas, la teoría d…[Read more]
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Ellen Bakulina started the topic Call for Lightning Talks on Microtonality in the discussion
Society for Music Theory—Russian Music Theory Interest Group on Humanities Commons 3 years, 8 months agoThe Russian Music Theory Interest Group (SMT-Rus) invites proposals for lightning talks on microtonality.
Russia and, later, the Soviet Union have rich histories of the development of microtonality (or quarter tonality). Ivan Wyschnegradsky’s treatise on quarter tonality (1932) has been instrumental in the development of quarter-tonal c…[Read more]
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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA deposited La Segunda República, Beevor la Guerra Civil in the group
Historical theory and the philosophy of history 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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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA deposited Dialéctica de la Religión y la Ilustración in the group
Historical theory and the philosophy of history on Humanities Commons 3 years, 10 months agoSpanish abstract: Examinamos el tratamiento que da Hegel, en su ´Fenomenología del Espíritu´, a la crítica racionalista a la religión, con algunas observaciones sobre la situación en nuestros propios tiempos. Hegel aporta una perspectiva compleja, y desde el planteamiento mismo de su teoría del del espíritu superando una forma de concienc…[Read more]
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Rochelle Forrester deposited The Big History of Humanity: A Macrohistory, Macrosociology and Metahistory of Humankind in the group
Historical theory and the philosophy of history on Humanities Commons 3 years, 11 months agoThe ultimate cause of much historical, social and cultural change is the gradual accumulation of human knowledge of the environment. Human beings use the materials in their environment to meet their needs and increased human knowledge of the environment enables human needs to be met in a more efficient manner. The human environment has a…[Read more]
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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA deposited Somos siete mil millones in the group
Historical theory and the philosophy of history on Humanities Commons 3 years, 11 months agoSpanish abstract: La población del planeta Tierra ha sobrepasado la cifra de siete mil millones de habitantes. Comentamos las reflexiones de Fred Spier sobre el crecimiento y el desarrollo sostenible, desde la perspectiva desilusionante que ofrece la crítica de Alfred Bartlett a los modelos de crecimiento, y en relación a la noción de equ…[Read more]
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Maciej Junkiert deposited Cyprian Norwid and the History of Greece in the group
Historical theory and the philosophy of history on Humanities Commons 4 years agoAncient Greek history holds a special place in the works of many 19th-c. writers. The same goes for Cyprian Norwid, one of the most eminent poets in the history of Polish literature, a thinker, and an artist. This book scrutinizes Norwid’s fascination with Greek history and culture, especially his peculiar synthesis of Greek thought and C…[Read more]
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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA deposited Coronavirus/Covid-19 Pandemic Scare: A Bibliography in the group
Historical theory and the philosophy of history on Humanities Commons 4 years, 1 month agoA bibliographical listing, including audio, video, etc., from the perspective of critical and cultural studies, on the 2020-2021 SARS-CoV-2 pandemic scare (Coronavirus, COVID-19). From ‘A Bibliography of Literary Theory, Criticism, and Philology’, 2021.
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Ellen Bakulina started the topic Joseph Kraus presentation from SMT-Rus 2021 in the discussion
Society for Music Theory—Russian Music Theory Interest Group on Humanities Commons 4 years, 2 months agoDear SMT-Rus members,
Joe Kraus asked me to post his presentation from our group’s meeting at SMT 2021, so here it is. Thanks Joe for sharing your work with us!
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Ellen Bakulina started the topic Festival: Stravinsky in America in the discussion
Society for Music Theory—Russian Music Theory Interest Group on Humanities Commons 4 years, 2 months agoStravinsky in America: Registration is Now Open! Stravinsky in America, 17–19 February 2022 @ LSU
Please join us in celebrating Igor Stravinsky’s life and work. The festival will welcome several distinguished keynote speakers and performers from across the globe, including Stephanie Jordan, Emeritus Research Professor at the University…[Read more]
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Benjamin Levy started the topic Thanks for a wonderful Group Meeting at SMT! in the discussion
Society for Music Theory—Autographs and Archival Documents Interest Group on Humanities Commons 4 years, 2 months agoMany, many thanks and congratulations to all the excellent presenters at the AADIG’s annual session (Laura Hibbard, Barry Wiener, Rachel Mann, and Brent Yorgason)! It was an impressive showing and scholarship of the highest quality, all around. My thanks also to all who attended, asked questions, and contributed to the vibrant scholarly c…[Read more]
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Ellen Bakulina started the topic SMT-Rus and Pedagogy 2021 joint meeting program in the discussion
Society for Music Theory—Russian Music Theory Interest Group on Humanities Commons 4 years, 2 months agoApologies for a last minute announcement: We are happy to announce the joint meeting of the Russian Music Theory (SMT-Rus) and Music Theory Pedagogy Interest Groups on Friday November 5, 6 to 7:30 pm Eastern time, in “room 4” of the virtual SMT meeting. You are encouraged to join about 10 minutes prior to the beginning. The program features four…[Read more]
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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA deposited Arqueología del lenguaje y del pensamiento in the group
Historical theory and the philosophy of history on Humanities Commons 4 years, 3 months agoComentamos, con ocasión del libro de Ángel Rivera ‘Arqueología del lenguaje’, los principales conceptos de arqueología cognitiva y sus posibles desarrollos en relación en particular a las aportaciones de la lingüística cognitiva y la narratología.
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Marcello Messina deposited Proceedings of the 11th Workshop on Ubiquitous Music (UbiMus 2021) in the group
Society for Music Theory—Russian Music Theory Interest Group on Humanities Commons 4 years, 3 months agoThe 11th UbiMus — Ubiquitous Music Workshop (https://dei.fe.up.pt/ubimus/) was held at the Center for High Artistic Performance, the house of the Orquestra Jazz Matosinhos (OJM) in Portugal, during September 6–8, 2021. It was organized by the Sound and Music Computing (SMC) Group of the Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto and INESC TEC…[Read more]
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Maciej Junkiert deposited Rozum, idea, filologia. Historia intelektualna w kontekstach literatury in the group
Historical theory and the philosophy of history on Humanities Commons 4 years, 4 months agoREASON, IDEA, PHILOLOGY INTELLECTUAL HISTORY IN LITERARY CONTEXTS (WRITTEN
ON THE MARGINS OF CYPRIAN NORWID’S “MILCZENIE” (“SILENCE”))
The article examines the 19th century evolution of history of ideas and its relatedness to literary studies.
The debate whether philology, philosophy, and history are autonomous humanistic disciplines or
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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA deposited Sobre mundos paralelos in the group
Historical theory and the philosophy of history on Humanities Commons 4 years, 5 months agoSpanish abstract: Una nota sobre el uso de las nociones de multiverso y realidades paralelas en cosmología (Brian Greene) y en literatura (Philip Pullman).
_________________________________________________________________________________________English abstract: A note on the use of the notion of a multiverse and parallel worlds in…[Read more]
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Ellen Bakulina started the topic Call for presentations — SMT-Rus 2021 in the discussion
Society for Music Theory—Russian Music Theory Interest Group on Humanities Commons 4 years, 5 months agoDear SMT-Rus members,
I hope that you are staying safe, and that you enjoyed a nice and refreshing summer! I am excited to announce that this year, SMT-Rus will meet jointly with the Pedagogy Interest Group, chaired by Leigh VanHandel. The topic is “Russian Pedagogy of Music Theory.” We are now seeking presenters to fill the roughly hour-long tim…[Read more]
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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA deposited Полибий о Понте Эвксинком: история геологического времени in the group
Historical theory and the philosophy of history on Humanities Commons 4 years, 7 months agoRussian Abstract: В статье рассматриваются авторские отступления на тему гидрографии Черного моря (Понт Эвксинский) в четвертой книге Всеобщей истории Полибия. Наблюдения греческого историка за влиянием длительного воздействия рек и морских течений на геологические трансформации рельефа сделали его предвестником геологической теории униформиз…[Read more]
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Chris A. Kramer deposited I Laugh Because it’s Absurd: Humor as Error Detection in the group
Historical theory and the philosophy of history on Humanities Commons 4 years, 7 months agoThis chapter will focus on the overlap and benefits of a humorous and philosophical attitude toward the world and our place in it. The first part of this chapter’s title borrows from Kierkegaard and before him the Christian apologist Turtullian, who once quipped about the central contradictory tenets of Christianity, in putatively ironic f…[Read more]
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Maciej Junkiert deposited Polish Reflections: The Reception of the Defeat of Athens in the Works of Gottfried Ernst Groddeck and Joachim Lelewel in the group
Historical theory and the philosophy of history on Humanities Commons 4 years, 7 months agoThis article describes how the Polish intellectuals G.E. Groddeck (1763–1825) and Joachim Lelewel (1786–1861) referenced and analysed events connected with the fall of Athens in the Peloponnesian War. It aims to show how treatments of ancient Athens changed after 1795, when the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth ceased to be an independent count…[Read more]
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