The role of the internet in fomenting male supremacist ideology must be understood within the larger cultural context that undergirds and naturalizes such rhetoric. Traditional conservative (TradCon) sections of the manosphere valorize a patriarchal social order centering traditional gender roles. According to TradCon reasoning, men, under attack…[Read more]

From antiquity, Galenic physicians extensively discussed the active powers of simple and compound drugs. In their views, simple drugs, that is, single ingredients, acted according to their material qualities and the properties of their substance. As for compound drugs, their efficacy resulted from the mutual interaction of their ingredients and…[Read more]

CAMDEN HISTORY, Journal of the Camden Historical Society Inc.
Ian Willis (editor)
Contents
Ian Willis, ‘Graeme Clark, a world-famous Camden identity’. p237
Graeme Clark, ‘Laureate Professor Graeme Clark AC, Pioneer of the Multi-channel Cochlear Implant /Bionic Ear’. p3242
Julianne Figar, ‘Yellamundie (the storyteller)’ p 255
Aidan Whittard,…[Read more]

Two colourful mural artworks are along the Queen Street frontage of Narellan Library. These artworks were commissioned by Camden Council in 2017 as a collaboration between mural artist Mandy Salter and the area’s young artists as part of a Youth Participation Public Art Project.

Beyond the texts on women’s medicine associated with the name of a 12th-century female medical practitioner from Salerno named Trota (or the title, “Trotula”), the most widely circulated texts were those deriving from the ancient Greek *Gynecology* of Soranus (2nd century CE). In particular, the Latin translation/adaptation by Muscio (or Mustio),…[Read more]

As practitioners and scholars who engage with music encoding we already understand the affordances that encoding music or text can bring to our research and scholarship. However, individuals who are not yet familiar with encoding schemas and the usefulness of digital methodologies may not have a clear understanding of the “why” in using a dig…[Read more]

This course focuses on the impact of the view from the car in the invention of new representational strategies in architectural and urban design. The automobile has reshaped our conceptions of space and our modes of accessing and penetrating the urban and non-urban territory in multiple ways, revolutionizing how architects perceive the city and…[Read more]

Small 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]

Respondiendo al creciente interés por cuestiones de diversidad en la cultura y el entretenimiento actual, las instituciones académicas y artísticas dedicadas al teatro clásico español buscan reflejar estas nuevas tendencias en su selección de obras para ser estudiadas y/o representadas. Este esfuerzo de cambiar de aires plantea ciertos probl…[Read more]

Este artículo visibiliza el uso que se le puede dar a una serie de proyectos de Humanidades Digitales, como son las bases de datos de Rolecall, DICAT y CATCOM o la biblioteca digital EMOTHE, a la hora de analizar las dinámicas escenográficas en el teatro español de finales del siglo XVI y principios del siglo XVII, coincidiendo con las déc…[Read more]

New 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.

यह मणिपुर में 2023 में हुई हिंसा पर केंद्रित प्रमोद रंजन के रिपोर्ताजों का पहला भाग है।

प्रमोद रंजन इसमें पूर्वोत्तर भारत के इतिहास, संस्कृति और समाज में आ रहे परिवर्तनों को चिन्हित किया है तथा उसका संवेदनशील, मर्मस्पर्शी और विचारोत्तेजक चित्र प्रस्तुत किया है।

उन्होंने इस रिपोर्ताज में यह भी बताया है कि हिंसा के दौरान मैतेई महिलाओं के…[Read more]

This document lays out a series of points in regard to a recently posted pre-print on the history of plague in late medieval and early modern Europe: Marcel Keller et al., “A Refined Phylochronology of the Second Plague Pandemic in Western Eurasia.” I am a historian of medicine and I am presenting these as historical questions. I have written it…[Read more]

With the climate of Brexit, xenophobia and white supremacy on the rise, health and safety of Black and Global Majority people under threat during the spread of Covid in the UK and elsewhere, a discussion of colonialism, migration, borders, and equality – in the classrooms and outside – is more pertinent than ever. Situating the ongoing Dec…[Read more]

Thijs Porck, “Runenoefeningen. De Oudgermanistiek in Leidse kinderschoenen”, in Tot publijcque dienst der studie: Boeken uit de Bibliotheca Thysiana, ed. Wim van Anrooij & Paul Hoftijzer (Hilversum: Verloren, 2023), 118-119

Against the background of the often female-focused view of sexual abuse victims, this paper addresses the issue of male-identifying victims of sexual violence through the lens of the Bible. I tackle one particular form of sexual abuse: female-on-male sexual violence, of the “forced/made to penetrate” type through a re-reading of Genesis 19:…[Read more]

Unlock 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.

Thijs Porck, “I can read Hollandsch very fairly. The Correspondence between James Murray (1837-1915) and Pieter Jacob Cosijn (1840-1899)”, in Language Use, Usage Guides, and Linguistic Norms, ed. Luisella Caon, Marion Elenbaas & Janet Grijzenhout (Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2021), 107-129.