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Duncan Money deposited Defamation of the president, racial nationalism, and the Roy Clarke affair in Zambia in the group
African History on Humanities Commons 2 years, 8 months agoIn January 2004, residents of Zambia’s capital, Lusaka, were treated to a disturbing sight. Over 200 members of the governing Movement for Multiparty Democracy party marched through the streets of the capital carrying a mock coffin bearing the name of Roy Clarke, a prominent newspaper satirist and white British national who had been a permanent r…[Read more]
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Pruritus Migrans deposited King of Brexitland in the group
Digital Humanists on Humanities Commons 2 years, 8 months agoKing of Brexitland * QRt by PRURITUS MIGRANS * CC: BY-NC-SA
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Valiur Rahaman deposited Big Data Analytics in Cognitive Social Media and Literary Texts in the group
Digital Humanists on Humanities Commons 2 years, 9 months agoHighlights recent research on the cognitive-social media and big data analytics Presents transdisciplinary research on big data analytics Provides a comprehensive overview of the theory and praxis of big data analytics
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Valiur Rahaman deposited Neurochemical Effect on Creativity of the Romantic Writers: A Theoretical Framework of Econeurochemical Critical Reading in the group
Digital Humanists on Humanities Commons 2 years, 9 months agoAll the living beings are neurobiologically driven beings. Creative writers and artists are no exception to it. We as literary critics, think that creative writers and artists are also living beings and they are mostly driven by neuro-chemical reactions in the brain. In the world of neurology, each body and the parts of the body are the cause of…[Read more]
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Sonia D. Andras deposited Allo, allo, ici le Bucharest du pedigree! The nationalization of women’s fashion in interwar Bucharest (OA) in the group
History on Humanities Commons 2 years, 9 months agoThe newly formed Greater Romania engaged in a process of modernization, with Bucharest as its flagship metropolis, striving to be recognized internationally and reach economic stability. Women’s fashion became a marker in substantiating Romania’s self-assertion as a modern state, with great emphasis on creating a viable textile industry. This occ…[Read more]
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Sonia D. Andras deposited Crafting Illusions: Fashion as a Means of Decoding Social and Cultural History in Interwar Bucharest (OA) in the group
History on Humanities Commons 2 years, 9 months agoThis paper examines the influence of urban fashion ideas disseminated worldwide from France and how they impacted the Romanian ideas of style and beauty, as well as the nature of the communication between Paris and the Little Paris. My aim is to decode the interwar Romanian interpretation of the new woman notion and assess what type of role…[Read more]
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Sonia D. Andras deposited Creating City Chic. The Parisian Influence on Interwar Bucharest Fashion (OA) in the group
History on Humanities Commons 2 years, 9 months agoThis paper examines the influence of urban fashion ideas disseminated worldwide from France and how they impacted the Romanian ideas of style and beauty, as well as the nature of the communication between Paris and the so-colled ”Little Paris”. My aim is to decode the interwar Romanian interpretation of the new woman notion and assess what typ…[Read more]
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Sonia D. Andras deposited Fashion, Dress, Costume: a Proposed Terminological Clarification in the Historical Research of Women’s Clothing in the group
History on Humanities Commons 2 years, 9 months agoThis paper delineates the conceptual variations between the notions ‘fashion’, ‘dress’ and ‘costume’ in English-language texts on women’s garment histories using relevant examples from interwar Romanian periodicals. The aim is to offer a more precise formulation, as these three terms have largely been used interchangeably. This paper is built on a…[Read more]
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Sonia D. Andras deposited Fashion, Cinema, and German-American Propaganda in 1930s Bucharest in the group
History on Humanities Commons 2 years, 9 months agoThis paper explores how Bucharest’s cinema-going public perceived the Nazi influence on Hollywood in the 1930s. The aim is to identify how Nazi propaganda was disseminated and consumed in interwar Bucharest and its similarities to the idea of glamour, relevant both to fashion and cinema. Considering the links between Goebbels’ propaganda mac…[Read more]
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Stephen Hewer deposited Epistemology of Translation: Erasing Viscountesses and Viscounts from High Medieval Legal Records, Selective ‘Anglo-Saxonism’, and Teleology in the group
Digital Humanists on Humanities Commons 2 years, 9 months agoBy applying translation theories and discourse analysis to the study of thirteenth-century English law, it is apparent that some of the terms used in secondary works and printed editions of primary sources are not based on the actual manuscript sources but instead modern biases (intersecting ethnicity and gender). The knock-on effect of this…[Read more]
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Samuel Adu-Gyamfi deposited Unrestricted Analysis of the COVID Narrative in Africa: Emphasis on the Ghanaian Medical Context in the group
Digital Humanists on Humanities Commons 2 years, 9 months agoThe COVID-19 pandemic with its concomitant lockdown policies exacerbated the worst living conditions in different regions of the world, Africa and Ghana in particular. The major discursive issues concerning the pandemic has glaringly or cunningly ignored the lack of emphasis on local dynamics concerning what ought to be or could have been done…[Read more]
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Jake Benson started the topic The Archived Chester Beatty Library Islamic Seals Database in the discussion
Islamicate Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 9 months agoThe Archived Chester Beatty Library Islamic Seals Database:
Screen Shots and Tips For Access
Jake Benson, Research Associate for Persian Manuscripts
John Rylands Research Institute and Library
University of Manchester
22 April 2023
Since the Chester Beatty Library reformatted its website in 2019, it regrettably removed the Islamic Seal Database,…[Read more] -
Pramod Ranjan deposited दंगा नहीं, दमन in the group
History on Humanities Commons 2 years, 9 months agoराजस्थान के गोपालगढ कस्बे में 14 सितंबर, 2011 को हुई सांप्रदायिक हिंसा का विश्लेषण
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Christopher S. Rose deposited Trial by Virus: Colonial Medicine and the 1883 Cholera in Egypt in the group
History on Humanities Commons 2 years, 9 months agoThis article explores how public health was transformed in Egypt soon after its occupation by Great Britain in 1882. Over the course of the nineteenth century, the Egyptian state had invested substantially in health to boost the nation’s economic and military strength, and, especially after the opening of the Suez Canal in 1869, to address E…[Read more]
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Ian Willis deposited When Peppertrees were all the rage in the group
History on Humanities Commons 2 years, 9 months agoIn the 1890s, Camden Municipal Council started beautifying the town area by planting various trees, including peppercorns. These cultural plantings defined the local urban landscape for decades, yet only a handful remain today.
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Julien A. Raemy started the topic Characterising the IIIF and Linked Art communities – Online Survey in the discussion
Digital Humanists on Humanities Commons 2 years, 9 months agoDear all,
As part of my PhD in Digital Humanities, I have launched an online survey to find out the main practices and activities of the individuals involved in the International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF) and/or the Linked Art communities.
Are you involved or have you already been in contact with the IIIF and/or the Linked Art…[Read more]
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Pramod Ranjan deposited Triveni Sangh in Literature and the Literature of Triveni Sangh in the group
History on Humanities Commons 2 years, 9 months agoTriveni Sangh’s activities were primarily confined to Bihar, parts of eastern Uttar Pradesh, adjoining Bihar, were also influenced by it. At the political level, the Triveni Sangh’s mission was carried forward by the Shoshit Dal, founded by Jagdev Prasad in 1967 in Bihar.
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Ian Willis deposited Colonial hotel is still serving in the group
History on Humanities Commons 2 years, 9 months agoThe Plough and Harrow Inn at 75-79 Argyle Street is the second oldest hotel in Camden and is still on the original site. The Camden Inn (1841) was the first hotel in Camden. Located on the Great South Road, the Plough and Harrow was part of the fabric of Macarthur’s private village of Camden within the Cowpastures. By the early 20th century,…[Read more]
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Elton Barker deposited Journeying through Space and Time with Pausanias’s Description of Greece in the group
History on Humanities Commons 2 years, 9 months agoSometime in the second century CE, Pausanias of Magnesia (modern-day Turkey) wrote the Description of Greece. Ostensibly a tour of the places to see on the Greek mainland, the Description also provides historical accounts related to the topography through which Pausanias moves. Little attention has been given to how these building blocks of…[Read more]
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Elton Barker deposited Journeying through Space and Time with Pausanias’s Description of Greece in the group
Digital Humanists on Humanities Commons 2 years, 9 months agoSometime in the second century CE, Pausanias of Magnesia (modern-day Turkey) wrote the Description of Greece. Ostensibly a tour of the places to see on the Greek mainland, the Description also provides historical accounts related to the topography through which Pausanias moves. Little attention has been given to how these building blocks of…[Read more]
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