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Sonia Silva deposited Art and Fetish in the Anthropolgy Museum in the group
History of Art on Humanities Commons 7 years, 8 months agoSónia Silva is an Associate Professor of anthropology at Skidmore College. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in Zambia, as well as museum work in Europe and the USA, Silva’s research deals with materiality, material religion, the notion of the fetish, ritual and religion, divination, witchcraft, violence, and museums. Silva is the author of Alon…[Read more]
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Michael Stanley-Baker posted an update in the group
Medical Humanities on Humanities Commons 7 years, 9 months agoPolling the hive mind…. Would people be willing to share here the learning objectives of your Medical Humanities programmes at your universities?
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Hi, Michael. Here are the learning goals on the website for our Health & the Humanities Certificate:
(https://english.wisc.edu/programs/health-and-humanities-certificate-overview/)Learning Goals
After completing the certificate, you will be able to:
-Identify major developments in the history of medicine and the medical profession
-Describe how…[Read more]
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Lukas Fuchsgruber deposited The Hôtel Drouot as the stock exchange for art. Financialization of art auctions in the nineteenth century in the group
History of Art on Humanities Commons 7 years, 9 months agoThroughout historic developments, the publicly ascertained and published price of an artwork repeatedly served as a reference point for art theoretical discussion. Particular importance was attached to the auction sale price, since this financial evaluation of art was of such a public nature. While there is a long history of these ideas about the…[Read more]
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travisclau posted an update in the group
Medical Humanities on Humanities Commons 7 years, 10 months agoJust wanted to share my review of Sari Altschuler’s excellent new book on early American medicine. She raises a lot of important methodological questions about our field, and I find myself still thinking about the suggestions/questions she raises.
Cultivating “Epistemological Humility”: How to Reimagine the Medical Humanities
Also, if…[Read more]
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Marcia T. Eppich-Harris deposited Hubert’s Encounters with the Succession in Shakespeare’s King John in the group
LLC Shakespeare on MLA Commons 7 years, 10 months agoIn a time when the anxiety about Elizabeth I’s heir to the throne was ripe, and illegal to discuss, Shakespeare focuses on the issue of succession in King John, and shows the parallels to his own age, while using Hubert as a metaphor for the difficult position of Shakespeare’s contemporary citizens of England as they anticipate the naming of…[Read more]
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Ernesto Priego deposited The Power of Sharing in the group
Medical Humanities on Humanities Commons 7 years, 10 months agoA comic about the power of sharing: a collaboration between figshare, Symbola Comics and La Grúa Estudio.
Concept and story by Francisco De La Mora & Ernesto Priego
Art by Cristina Durán La Grúa Estudio
Design by Daniela Rocha
Originally published as
de la Mora, Francisco et al.. “The Power of Sharing”. figshare, 21 Mar. 2018.…[Read more]
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Mary Gallucci deposited The Black Prince of Florence: The Spectacular Life and Treacherous World of Alessandro de’ Medici. Catherine Fletcher. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. xxvii + 308 pp. $29.95. in the group
LLC Shakespeare on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoAs the first biography in English of Alessandro de’ Medici, this important book raises questions about how historical narratives are constructed and how race has evolved into a critical, if contested, category.
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Laura L. Runge posted an update in the group
LLC Restoration and Early-18th-Century English on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoCFP MLA 2019 LLC Restoration and Early Eighteenth Century
Chicago, January 3-6
Guaranteed Session
Variabilities: Considerations of Embodiment in Early Eighteenth Century
In 2014 Chris Mounsey coined the idea of “variability” in the introduction to “The Idea of Disability in the Eighteenth-century” to move our discussion beyond sameness and dif…[Read more] -
Jen Boyle started the topic CFP MLA 2019: Fragile Sovereignty, Precarious Transactions in the discussion
Seventeenth-Century English Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months ago2019 MLA Convention
Special Session CFP
Fragile Sovereignty, Precarious Transactions
The promise of becoming in mediated transactions is fragile and unpredictable. Such transactions
might act as an instrument of interpellation that produces sovereign subjects, on the one hand,
and precarious objects, on the other hand. Or, as is often the…[Read more]
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Lorelei Caraman deposited Between Anthropocentrism and Anthropomorphism: A corpus-based analysis of animal comparisons in Shakespeare’s plays in the group
LLC Shakespeare on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoThe assertion of the centrality and supremacy of man, or rather, of the idea(l) of humanity, during the Renaissance period, inevitably entailed the repudiation of the animal and the beginning of the great human-animal divide. What was seen, at the time, as the rebirth of man, was also the birth of a rampant anthropocentrism which, until the recent…[Read more]
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