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Edmundo Murray deposited Art Discovery and Censorship in the Centre William Rappard of Geneva – Building the Future in the group
Cultural Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 7 months agoThis is a history of the Centre William Rappard, the first building designed to house an international organization in Geneva, and its art treasures. For nearly a century, these works of art and decorations offered by governments and institutions encouraged smooth diplomacy and fluent international negotiations in the fields of labour, trade and…[Read more]
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Jennifer Jordan started the topic Humanities Librarian Opening (Digital Humanities would be a great addition) in the discussion
Digital Humanists on Humanities Commons 2 years, 7 months agoThere’s a new job opportunity for a Humanities Librarian within the College of University Libraries & Learning Sciences at the University of New Mexico. We would love someone who knows about Digital Humanities.
Three hundred days of sunshine makes up for the starting wage (which can be negotiated, I am pretty sure). Plus, we’re all poor, so you…[Read more]
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Jennifer Jordan started the topic Humanities Librarian Opening (Digital Humanities would be a great addition) in the discussion
Global DH on Humanities Commons 2 years, 7 months agoThere’s a new job opportunity for a Humanities Librarian within the College of University Libraries & Learning Sciences at the University of New Mexico. We would love someone who knows about Digital Humanities.
Three hundred days of sunshine makes up for the starting wage (which can be negotiated, I am pretty sure). Plus, we’re all poor, so you…[Read more]
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Caroline Edwards deposited All Aboard for Ararat: Islands in Contemporary Flood Fiction in the group
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 2 years, 7 months agoIn lieu of an abstract, here is the beginning of the article… One of the most striking things about speculative literature of the twenty-first century has been its increasingly focussed interest in imagining impending disaster: from the escalating likelihood of biblical deluge on a planetary scale to looming ecocatastrophes of drought and…[Read more]
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Caroline Edwards deposited All Aboard for Ararat: Islands in Contemporary Flood Fiction in the group
Cultural Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 7 months agoIn lieu of an abstract, here is the beginning of the article… One of the most striking things about speculative literature of the twenty-first century has been its increasingly focussed interest in imagining impending disaster: from the escalating likelihood of biblical deluge on a planetary scale to looming ecocatastrophes of drought and…[Read more]
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Caroline Edwards deposited Becoming-lithic: elemental utopian possibility in the contemporary ecocatastrophe in the group
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 2 years, 7 months agoThis article explores an emerging cluster of ecocatastrophe narratives that locate utopian possibility within the Earth’s sub-crustal lithosphere. Texts such as N. K. Jemisin’s “Broken Earth” trilogy (2015–2017), J. G. Ballard’s The Crystal World (1966), Lars von Trier’s film Melancholia (2011), Irene Solà’s Catalan novel When I Sing, Mountains…[Read more]
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Caroline Edwards deposited Becoming-lithic: elemental utopian possibility in the contemporary ecocatastrophe in the group
Cultural Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 7 months agoThis article explores an emerging cluster of ecocatastrophe narratives that locate utopian possibility within the Earth’s sub-crustal lithosphere. Texts such as N. K. Jemisin’s “Broken Earth” trilogy (2015–2017), J. G. Ballard’s The Crystal World (1966), Lars von Trier’s film Melancholia (2011), Irene Solà’s Catalan novel When I Sing, Mountains…[Read more]
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Ana Dumitran deposited Vision de Varnava. Înțăleptului Varnava minunată arătare a vederii lui cu pildă tuturor in the group
Cultural Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 7 months agoDu sage Varnava la merveilleuse apparition de sa vision avec exemple pour tous, cette traduction-recréation roumaine en vers du Dialogus du poète baroque hongrois Nyéki Vörös Mátyas, effectuée en Transylvanie en 1670, peut être considérée comme la première œuvre du pope Ioan de Vintz. Sur le plan européen, sa Vision de Varnava représente l…[Read more]
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Charles Peck Jr deposited Art & Spirituality; Paul Klee – Synthesizing “inner vision” with “outside experience; Langer – origins dancing, music, painting. J Schulkin, & G.Raglan Our evolution is tightly bound to music….helps to facilitate social cooperative. Art as “collective p in the group
Cultural Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 7 months ago“Every culture develops some kind of art as surely as it develops language. Some primitive cultures have no real mythology or religion, but all have some art – dance, song, design (sometimes only on tools or on the human body). Dance, above all, seems to be the oldest elaborated art….. Art is, indeed, the spearhead of human development, social…[Read more]
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Vitus Angermeier deposited Slides: The Threats of Adharma and Environmental Disturbances. Understanding Epidemics in Pre-modern South Asia in the group
Medical Humanities on Humanities Commons 2 years, 7 months agoWhile the colonial and modern history of epidemics in South Asia is well researched, the earlier developments of this subject area have hardly been studied. The project Epidemics and Crisis Management in Pre-modern South Asia aims to fill part of this gap by exploring the intellectual history of epidemics and similar disasters in South Asia and…[Read more]
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Vitus Angermeier deposited Slides: The Threats of Adharma and Environmental Disturbances. Understanding Epidemics in Pre-modern South Asia in the group
Cultural Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 7 months agoWhile the colonial and modern history of epidemics in South Asia is well researched, the earlier developments of this subject area have hardly been studied. The project Epidemics and Crisis Management in Pre-modern South Asia aims to fill part of this gap by exploring the intellectual history of epidemics and similar disasters in South Asia and…[Read more]
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Gabriela Méndez Cota deposited Teoría feminista y práctica editorial: una cuestión posthumana in the group
Feminist Humanities on Humanities Commons 2 years, 7 months agoEste artículo argumenta que las críticas feministas del universalismo androcéntrico, el determinismo tecnológico y la mercantilización del conocimiento no se conforman ya con figurar como contenidos académicos, sino que se constituyen activismos académicos por la transformación post-humanista de los saberes a través de prácticas experimen…[Read more]
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Samuel Adu-Gyamfi deposited Indigenous systems of forest conservation: a tool for traditional medical practices in Akyem Abuakwa traditional area of Ghana in the group
Digital Humanists on Humanities Commons 2 years, 7 months agoForest conservation is a very important concept across the world. It is not only crucial for climate change but also very critical for the survival of humanity. In Africa, forests have always been an important aspect of nature that is regarded with uttermost reverence and
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Caroline Paganussi deposited ‘A woman of supreme goodness, and a singular talent’: Anna Morandi Manzolini, Artist and Anatomist of Enlightenment Bologna in the group
Medical Humanities on Humanities Commons 2 years, 7 months agoAnna Morandi Manzolini (1714–1774), a Bolognese wax sculptor, overcame humble origins to become one of the most important anatomical artists of the eighteenth century. Working with her husband Giovanni Manzolini (c. 1700–1755), and continuing alone after his death, Morandi created remarkably lifelike and anatomically accurate wax models of the sen…[Read more]
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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA started the topic Science Fiction Films in the discussion
Film Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 7 months agoI mean this in the sense of classic science fiction, excluding sword and sorcery fantasies and other well-established generic fantasies…. Eg. I, Robot: ¡Ay, robot! https://www.academia.edu/40832609/
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Sérgio Dias Branco deposited Building Cars and Destroying Men: Working Class Representation as Christian Allegory in “Blue Collar” (1978) in the group
Film Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 7 months ago“The company builds cars and destroys men” was the promotional tagline of one of the posters for “Blue Collar” (1978). Shot in Detroit and Kalamazoo, Michigan, the film stars Richard Pryor, Harvey Keitel, and Yaphet Kotto playing three Detroit auto workers in financial despair who break into and rob the offices of their own union. “Blue Collar”…[Read more]
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Sérgio Dias Branco deposited Building Cars and Destroying Men: Working Class Representation as Christian Allegory in “Blue Collar” (1978) in the group
Cultural Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 7 months ago“The company builds cars and destroys men” was the promotional tagline of one of the posters for “Blue Collar” (1978). Shot in Detroit and Kalamazoo, Michigan, the film stars Richard Pryor, Harvey Keitel, and Yaphet Kotto playing three Detroit auto workers in financial despair who break into and rob the offices of their own union. “Blue Collar”…[Read more]
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Ted Underwood deposited Culture, Theory, Data: An Introduction in the group
Digital Humanists on Humanities Commons 2 years, 7 months agoThe introduction to a special issue of New Literary History titled “Culture, Theory, Data,” which explores the consequences of computation for cultural theory—and vice-versa.
The introduction begins by explaining how we came to a historical juncture where “culture” and “data” seem to be opposed terms. Then it offers some reasons for believing t…[Read more]
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Ali Shehzad Zaidi deposited The Ghalib Translations of Daud Kamal: ‘The Nightingale of a Garden Which is Yet to Come Into Existence’ in the group
Postcolonial Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 8 months agoEssay on Daud Kamal’s Ghalib translations.
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Luis Ernesto Paz Enrique deposited Participación comunitaria en los medios de comunicación. Perspectivas para el desarrollo local in the group
Film Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 8 months agoLa producción de los medios de comunicación constituye una expresión de la sociedad que los gesta. Los grupos sociales que intervienen en la producción televisiva actualmente son herederos de la práctica funcionalista y trasmisiva de los medios tradicionales de comunicación (prensa plana, radio y televisión). En esa lógica los temas que se represe…[Read more]
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