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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA started the topic Pandemic literature in the discussion
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 5 years, 6 months agoGoing with the times, and with the classics too, as ‘nihil novum sub sole’, I suggest going back to some classics of the literature of plagues, pestilences, virulent epidemics, and pandemics. Here is my suggestion today: a fragment from Mary Shelley’s The Last Man (1826). Many (hopefully not too many) episodes in the novel ring a bell with the…[Read more]
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Stephanie Leite deposited Earth Focus no. 16: Power to the People in the group
Humanity Studies of Climate Change on Humanities Commons 5 years, 6 months agoEarth Focus is a forum for discussion and a catalyst for action for young people of all ages. We deal with issues concerning our environment, community and culture at all levels. Issue 16, titled “Power to the People”, includes the sections: Energy, Discover Solar Systems, Pedal for Progress, Become a Fossils expert, Solar Cooker invasion, etc.
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Stephanie Leite deposited Earth Focus no. 16: Power to the People in the group
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 5 years, 6 months agoEarth Focus is a forum for discussion and a catalyst for action for young people of all ages. We deal with issues concerning our environment, community and culture at all levels. Issue 16, titled “Power to the People”, includes the sections: Energy, Discover Solar Systems, Pedal for Progress, Become a Fossils expert, Solar Cooker invasion, etc.
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Stephanie Leite deposited Biopiracy: Student Edition in the group
Humanity Studies of Climate Change on Humanities Commons 5 years, 6 months ago‘Biopiracy: Student Edition’ is based on the book ‘Biopiracy’ by Vandana Shiva. This edition was created by an international team of interns, volunteers, and students at Bija Vidyapeeth, Navdanya’s organic farm and seed college in Doon Valley, India.
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Stephanie Leite deposited Biopiracy: Student Edition in the group
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 5 years, 6 months ago‘Biopiracy: Student Edition’ is based on the book ‘Biopiracy’ by Vandana Shiva. This edition was created by an international team of interns, volunteers, and students at Bija Vidyapeeth, Navdanya’s organic farm and seed college in Doon Valley, India.
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Stephanie Leite deposited Target 2015: A Youth Introduction to the Millennium Development Goals in the group
Humanity Studies of Climate Change on Humanities Commons 5 years, 6 months agoPrepared by Young Delegates to the 2nd World Youth Congress, Casablanca, Morocco – August 16-28, 2003, under the leadership of Peace Child International & the Moroccan Youth Forum. Excerpt: “This magazine, like the Casablanca Declaration, outlines the vision of young people on what needs to be done to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (…[Read more]
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Stephanie Leite deposited Target 2015: A Youth Introduction to the Millennium Development Goals in the group
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 5 years, 6 months agoPrepared by Young Delegates to the 2nd World Youth Congress, Casablanca, Morocco – August 16-28, 2003, under the leadership of Peace Child International & the Moroccan Youth Forum. Excerpt: “This magazine, like the Casablanca Declaration, outlines the vision of young people on what needs to be done to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (…[Read more]
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Rob Hunt deposited 1,000 Days to First Light: Construction of the Perth-Lowell Telescope Facility, 1968-71 in the group
Science Studies and the History of Science on Humanities Commons 5 years, 6 months agoNASA’s Viking probes were launched in 1975. Six years earlier an International Planetary Patrol Network of telescopes was set up to observe Martian surface conditions. Sites were chosen to provide continuous observing, and were located in Hawaii, eastern Australia, India, South Africa, Chile, and central USA. Negotiations for a facility to be s…[Read more]
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Omer Aijazi deposited Which Kashmir? Pakistan wala ya India? Konsa Kashmir? Pakistan’s or India’s? in the group
Anthropology on Humanities Commons 5 years, 6 months agoThis piece is part of APLA’s newest Speaking Justice to Power Series, which focuses on Kashmir and marks the one-year anniversary of the abrogation of Articles 370 and 35A of the constitution (August 5, 2019).
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Stephanie Leite deposited ReFueling the Future—Mastery Project in the group
Humanity Studies of Climate Change on Humanities Commons 5 years, 6 months ago[COMPLETE OPEN-ACCESS CURRICULUM INCLUDED] ReFueling the Future is the first project in the ReImagining the Future series launched by Greenbacker Capital and Global Citizenship Experience Lab School. By asking “how will we fuel our future?”, the purpose of this project is to get acquainted with the current state of our energy supply system,…[Read more]
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Stephanie Leite deposited ReFueling the Future—Mastery Project in the group
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 5 years, 6 months ago[COMPLETE OPEN-ACCESS CURRICULUM INCLUDED] ReFueling the Future is the first project in the ReImagining the Future series launched by Greenbacker Capital and Global Citizenship Experience Lab School. By asking “how will we fuel our future?”, the purpose of this project is to get acquainted with the current state of our energy supply system,…[Read more]
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Stephanie Leite deposited United Nations Sustainable Development Goals Map—Mastery Project in the group
Humanity Studies of Climate Change on Humanities Commons 5 years, 6 months ago[COMPLETE OPEN-ACCESS CURRICULUM INCLUDED] In April 2017, the world population topped 7.5 billion people. As our population continues to grow, natural resources are dwindling due to human consumption, and the resources that remain are unequally distributed. More than ever, our world needs thoughtful, engaged, global citizens to address the…[Read more]
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Stephanie Leite deposited United Nations Sustainable Development Goals Map—Mastery Project in the group
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 5 years, 6 months ago[COMPLETE OPEN-ACCESS CURRICULUM INCLUDED] In April 2017, the world population topped 7.5 billion people. As our population continues to grow, natural resources are dwindling due to human consumption, and the resources that remain are unequally distributed. More than ever, our world needs thoughtful, engaged, global citizens to address the…[Read more]
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Nancy Roth deposited A Photographer on Mars in the group
Science Studies and the History of Science on Humanities Commons 5 years, 6 months agoFocussing the Nasa’s Opportunity Rover, the essay claims the field of creativity as definitively human, supported by Vilém Flusser’s understanding the the “apparatus”.
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Stephanie Leite deposited Rescue Mission: Planet Earth 2002—a young people’s assessment of progress on the implementation of Agenda 21 and the outcomes of the other major UN summits in the ten years between 1992-2002 in the group
Humanity Studies of Climate Change on Humanities Commons 5 years, 6 months agoExcerpt of Foreword by Kofi Annan: “Ten years have passed since a group of young editors published the original Rescue Mission: Planet Earth—a children’s version of Agenda 21. Agenda 21 is the blueprint for sustainable development adopted at the ‘Earth Summit’ in Rio de Janeiro in 1992. Rescue Mission was a wake-up call to ‘stop senseless war…[Read more]
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Stephanie Leite deposited Rescue Mission: Planet Earth 2002—a young people’s assessment of progress on the implementation of Agenda 21 and the outcomes of the other major UN summits in the ten years between 1992-2002 in the group
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 5 years, 6 months agoExcerpt of Foreword by Kofi Annan: “Ten years have passed since a group of young editors published the original Rescue Mission: Planet Earth—a children’s version of Agenda 21. Agenda 21 is the blueprint for sustainable development adopted at the ‘Earth Summit’ in Rio de Janeiro in 1992. Rescue Mission was a wake-up call to ‘stop senseless war…[Read more]
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Samuel Adu-Gyamfi deposited A Historical narrative of the British Colonial Administration’s Clamp down on Witch finding Shrines amongst the Asante People of the Gold Coast in the group
Anthropology on Humanities Commons 5 years, 6 months agoThe paper focuses on the issue of witchcraft at the Gold Coast and Asante in particular. Information from archival sources and secondary sources has been gleaned to form a historical narrative covering the period 1907 to 1940. The dilemma of the indigenous people concerning witchcraft, the attempts of Indigenous Priest Healers (IPH) to cure and…[Read more]
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Omer Aijazi deposited India uses coronavirus pandemic to exploit human rights in Kashmir in the group
Anthropology on Humanities Commons 5 years, 6 months agoAlthough the United Nations has called for a global ceasefire during the pandemic, Kashmiris are bracing for a new wave of violence as India accelerates its settler-colonial ambitions.
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Christopher Joseph Helali deposited The Deafening Silence of the Unburied Dead: The Greek Civil War and Historical Trauma in the group
Anthropology on Humanities Commons 5 years, 6 months agoWhile World War II was still raging in Europe and the Pacific, the onset of the Greek Civil War in December 1944 marked the beginning of the Cold War. For the people of Greece, the civil war would continue the devastation that the Italian, German, and Bulgarian occupations had initiated. The civil war’s catastrophic cleavages in Greek society are…[Read more]
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Alexandre Roberts deposited Framing a Middle Byzantine Alchemical Codex in the group
Science Studies and the History of Science on Humanities Commons 5 years, 6 months agoThis article analyzes the famous tenth-century Greek alchemical codex Marcianus graecus 299, and in particular its first quire, considering the structure and significance of the manuscript as a whole.
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