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Anna Kowalcze-Pawlik replied to the topic Welcome to the RSA Humanities Commons Group! in the discussion
The Renaissance Society of America on Humanities Commons 5 years, 6 months agoDear Richard,
thank you for the materials, very handy.
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Evan Carmouche replied to the topic Doing Research in Renaissance Studies in the Age of COVID-19 in the discussion
The Renaissance Society of America on Humanities Commons 5 years, 6 months agoThe RSA’s Digital Resources page has been expanded to a full website hosted on Humanities Commons: https://rsadigitalresources.hcommons-staging.org/
This blog contains links to online resources for research in Renaissance studies, contributed by RSA members and edited by the RSA’s Digital and Multimedia Committee. Please submit any additional…[Read more]
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Owen Williams posted an update in the group
The Renaissance Society of America on Humanities Commons 5 years, 6 months agoThose interested in Critical Race Theory, Shakespeare, and Teaching will want to investigate two videos in the Folger Institute’s Critical Race Conversations series: https://www.youtube.com/user/FolgerLibrary/featured.
In July, these two free events addressed how college faculty can and should integrate critical race studies into their…[Read more]
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Samantha Chang replied to the topic Antiracism in academia: What can we do as academics? in the discussion
RSA Student Community on Humanities Commons 5 years, 6 months agoThe RSA is hosting online discussion sessions meant to help the Renaissance Society of America better understand how the RSA can be more welcoming to scholars of color and to scholars who work on such issues as race, gender, sexuality, disability, and coloniality in the late medieval and early modern period (1300–1700). Any and all interested s…[Read more]
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited Chapter 1, Chinese Shakespeares: Two Centuries of Cultural Exchange (Columbia University Press, 2009, 2011, 2015). Modern Language Association Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary Studies in the group
The Renaissance Society of America on Humanities Commons 5 years, 6 months agoThis chapter, “Owning Chinese Shakespeares,” pursues the critical concept of localization and critiques the fidelity-derived discourse about cultural ownership. How were Chinese Shakespeares used as a kind of staged utopia of modernity?
Underlying this study are three related lines of inquiry united by what might be called locality criticism, t…[Read more]
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Samantha Chang replied to the topic Resource Sharing: Does anyone have access to this source? in the discussion
RSA Student Community on Humanities Commons 5 years, 6 months agoRSA Webinar: Research in the Age of COVID-19 Webinar
The RSA is hosting a webinar over Zoom for “Research in the Age of COVID-19: Access and Collaboration” on Thursday, July 30 at 12:00 pm EST. The webinar will explore the library closures and travel restrictions and how to address them through digital access and collaboration among scholars. The…[Read more]
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Samantha Chang replied to the topic Antiracism in academia: What can we do as academics? in the discussion
RSA Student Community on Humanities Commons 5 years, 6 months agoThe International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (ISSOTL) Advocacy Committee has compiled a list of resources against racism. The list includes resources for teaching, for deconstructing white privilege, for the emotional implications of the work, for calling out racism in the academy, and to multimedia and recommended books,…[Read more]
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited Preface, The Shakespearean International Yearbook Volume 18 in the group
The Renaissance Society of America on Humanities Commons 5 years, 6 months agoThanks to Karl Marx’s references in his political treatises, Shakespeare held a significant place in a number of communist and other left-authoritarian countries, including China and the USSR. And although there were themes in Shakespeare that turned out to be inconvenient for communist ideology, other Shakespearean plays were put into service. I…[Read more]
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Carla Zecher replied to the topic Resource Sharing: Does anyone have access to this source? in the discussion
RSA Student Community on Humanities Commons 5 years, 6 months agoA preview: An RSA webinar will be held Thursday, July 30, at noon (Eastern time): “Research in the Age of COVID-19: Access and Collaboration.” Watch for an announcement late next week. Also, for scholars who are not RSA members: Renaissance Quarterly’s 10 most downloaded articles of 2019 are free to access through the end of July 2020. You can v…[Read more]
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Anne Leader deposited Architectural Collaboration in the Early Renaissance: Reforming the Florentine Badia in the group
The Renaissance Society of America on Humanities Commons 5 years, 6 months agoIn the late 1420s, Abbot Gomezio di Giovanni initiated a major building campaign to reform the Benedictine monastery of the Florentine Badia. Designed to provide its community with an orderly space in which to pursue the Benedictine Observance, the compound rises around the so-called Orange Cloister, long considered to be an early work of Bernardo…[Read more]
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Anne Leader deposited Architectural Collaboration in the Early Renaissance: Reforming the Florentine Badia in the group
Italian Art Society on Humanities Commons 5 years, 6 months agoIn the late 1420s, Abbot Gomezio di Giovanni initiated a major building campaign to reform the Benedictine monastery of the Florentine Badia. Designed to provide its community with an orderly space in which to pursue the Benedictine Observance, the compound rises around the so-called Orange Cloister, long considered to be an early work of Bernardo…[Read more]
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Samantha Chang replied to the topic Navigating Archives: FAQ for Archival Research in the discussion
RSA Student Community on Humanities Commons 5 years, 7 months agoFor those struggling with organizing archival document photos and transcriptions, I recommend using Tropy as a research photo management tool. The tool allows you to enter metadata, add tags, enter transcriptions and annotations, and organize the photos into projects and lists. You can also group multiple images under one object and adjust colour…[Read more]
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Robin Rolfhamre deposited Informed Play: Approaching a Concept and Biology of Tone Production on Early Modern Lute Instruments in the group
The Renaissance Society of America on Humanities Commons 5 years, 7 months agoInformed Play presents a conceptual understanding of tone production based on extensive historical research on primary sources, modern literature and handbook reviews, physical and psychological perspectives as well as on technology. As the first volume in English to discuss and contextualise the topic of tone production on Early Modern lute…[Read more]
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