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Ian Willis deposited Voluntary labour worth thousands of dollars to the Camden Museum in the group
Place Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 5 months agoSmall museums contribute considerable value to the economy through unpaid voluntary labour. According to the latest research, unpaid voluntary labour to the Camden Museum is worth around A$580,000 a year. Volunteers completely run the Camden Museum and the Camden Historical Society. They are some of the many voluntary community organisations in…[Read more]
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Ian Willis deposited Local museum and art gallery add $1.7 million annually in the group
Place Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 5 months agoNew research shows that cultural and heritage tourism is worth around $6.3 million per year to the Camden Local Government Area.
Within cultural and heritage tourism storytelling is an essential feature of the visitor experience. -
Ian Willis deposited Unlock Camden 2023, a festival celebrating our past in the group
Place Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 5 months agoUnlock Camden is a history festival celebrating the Camden story through walks, art, images, stories, and other activities. Events are centred around the Alan Baker Art Gallery Macaria in the historic John Street precinct, Camden NSW.
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Jonathan Rose started the topic CfP: Spectacle and Empathy: The Role of Excessive (Em)Body(ment) in Narrative in the discussion
Horror on Humanities Commons 2 years, 5 months agoCfP for seminar session at NeMLA 2024, 7 to 10 March in Boston, MA
Narratives need bodies. Stories are populated by characters whose bodies serve as focalizers for our experience of the narrated world. Certain genres, like body horror, pornography or fanfiction, are predicated on bodily excess, “spill[ing] out over the spectator and p…[Read more]
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Charles Peck Jr deposited Dawkin’s Selfish Gene Fallacy-False Premise -a “limited form of altruism” vs studies of compassion = Oxford Handbook of Compassion, Sprecher and Fehr: spirituality correlated with compassion, Battle of Somme 50,000 casualties, esprit de corps Chosin Res. in the group
Narrative theory and Narratology on Humanities Commons 2 years, 6 months agoDawkins Fallacy – False Premise
The statement, “However, as we shall see, there are special circumstances in which a gene can achieve its own selfish goals best by fostering a limited form of altruism at the level of individual animals.” Is a fallacy/false premise Historically, compassion and self-less behaviors are not a “limited form of alt…[Read more] -
Ian Willis deposited The Sydney Harbour Bridge, an engineering marvel in the group
Place Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 6 months agoThe Sydney Harbour Bridge is an icon on the Sydney urban landscape. The bridge is an engineering marvel of modernism and the early 20th hope of a new nation.
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