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Steve McCarty deposited Symbolism of Fire and Air in Greco-Roman and Japanese Creation Myths in the group
Global & Transnational Studies on Humanities Commons 4 years, 2 months agoTwo sections of a book comparing creation myths from ancient Greece and Rome with their Japanese counterparts from the early 8th Century Kojiki (古事記, “Records of Ancient Matters”). These fusion essays are summations of previous book sections by Greek and Japanese authors on the elements of fire and air, respectively, and, drawing from Plato and J…[Read more]
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Anthony Cerulli deposited “Pedagogy, Philology, and Procedural Medical Knowledge” in the group
Education and Pedagogy on Humanities Commons 4 years, 2 months agoThis article probes the history of education and current pedagogical practices among Malayali physician-teachers, vaidya-gurus, of Ayurveda in central Kerala. Considering the sources vaidya-gurus cite as the bases of their teaching styles, especially a three-part method known as mukhāmukhaṃ (‘face-to-face’ instruction), I discuss the place, produc…[Read more]
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Joachim Berger deposited Mit Gott, für Vaterland und Menschheit? Eine europäische Geschichte des freimaurerischen Internationalismus (1845–1935) in the group
Global & Transnational Studies on Humanities Commons 4 years, 2 months agoHow could the ideal of a universal brotherhood of mankind be realized in an age of nationalism, colonialism and culture wars? “With God, for fatherland and humanity?” is the first comprehensive study of masonic internationalism. It explores, with a focus on England, France, Germany, and Italy, how European masonic associations promoted or opposed…[Read more]
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Christopher S. Rose deposited Implications of the Spanish Influenza Pandemic (1918–1920) for the History of Early Twentieth-Century Egypt in the group
Global & Transnational Studies on Humanities Commons 4 years, 2 months agoThe “Spanish influenza” pandemic that struck Egypt in fall 1918 resulted in the death of eleven out of every one thousand people. Despite the mass suffering caused by the pandemic, it has been largely ignored by historians. I describe how the Egyptian public health service was unprepared for a major health crisis because resources were red…[Read more]
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David I. Backer deposited Educating the commons through cooperatively run schools in the group
Education and Pedagogy on Humanities Commons 4 years, 3 months agoIn this chapter, I am chiefly interested in articulating a theoretical claim that cooperatively run schools can educate the commons causally and reproductively. Cooperatively run schools educate the commons because going to school at a cooperative can cause commons to come about by reproducing the kinds of knowledge and skills necessary to…[Read more]
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Anthony Cerulli deposited “Disease: Discourse and interpretation in premodern South Asia” in the group
Education and Pedagogy on Humanities Commons 4 years, 3 months agoIn this article, I hitch the ever-present awareness of disease in my personal life and our shared world today to a pointed and academic reflection on the ways we consume and re-present information about disease from premodern South Asia that’s contained in texts.
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Monica Mody deposited The Borderlands Feminine: A Feminist, Decolonial Framework for Re-membering Motherlines in South Asia/Transnational Culture in the group
Feminist Humanities on Humanities Commons 4 years, 3 months agoThis paper uses Gloria Anzaldúa’s borderlands framework to resignify and recover the marginalized, forgotten sacred feminine and, thereby, South Asian motherlines. The borderlands is conceived of as a new consciousness, an alternative to that which is written in history. It offers a radical synthesis of spiritual healing with anti-oppression wo…[Read more]
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Valeria Graziano deposited On Domestic Fantasies and Anti-work Politics: A Feminist History of Complicating Automation in the group
Feminist Humanities on Humanities Commons 4 years, 3 months agoIn this article we place the discussions of automation in post-work imaginaries within and alongside feminist critiques
and understandings of domestic technology. Structured in three parts, the first surveys debates on the future of work,
showing how feminist materialist critiques of technology would lend themselves to an anti-work rather than…[Read more] -
Catherine Barbour started the topic ‘Women’s Historical Fiction across the Globe’ Online Conference 28-29 October in the discussion
Global & Transnational Studies on Humanities Commons 4 years, 3 months ago‘Women’s Historical Fiction across the Globe’ Online Conference 28-29 October 2021 – free to register
Centre for the Study of Contemporary Women’s Writing, Institute of Modern Languages Research, School of Advanced Study, University of London
This online symposium examines historical fiction by women writers across languages, time periods an…[Read more]
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Karsten Schubert deposited Der letzte Universalismus. Foucaults Freiheitsdenken und die Begründung von radikaler Demokratie im Postfundamentalismus in the group
Global & Transnational Studies on Humanities Commons 4 years, 3 months agoDie Debatte um die politische Differenz stellt Kontingenz und Konfliktualität als fundamentale Eigenschaften des Politischen heraus. Dies birgt ein Problem für die postfundamentalistische Demokratietheorie, die auf Augenhöhe mit dieser Debatte argumentieren will: Durch die Kontingentsetzung aller normativen Begründungen ist zunächst unklar, welc…[Read more]
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Fernando Heredia-Sánchez deposited Formando a toda la comunidad universitaria: participación de la Biblioteca en los planes de formación y en los estudios de grado y posgrado de la Universidad de Málaga in the group
Education and Pedagogy on Humanities Commons 4 years, 4 months agoAn overview and analysis on the Information Literacy activities and programmes organized by the Universidad de Málaga Library is offered, from their beginnings in 1991-92 to the current programmes. The goals, methodology and main outcomes are presented as well as some conclusions.
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Fernando Heredia-Sánchez deposited Trabajando las competencias en información y en medios (ALFIN/AMI) en la escuela: una experiencia con estudiantes de Educación Secundaria in the group
Education and Pedagogy on Humanities Commons 4 years, 4 months agoWe analyse and reflect on the workshop developed in several secondary schools, under the title “Beyond copy and paste: do original works and improve your grades!” and whose objectives have been to assume the importance of gathering reliable and adequate information, knowing some sources of information and documentation useful for academic work,…[Read more]
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Fernando Heredia-Sánchez deposited Reflexiones al hilo de las últimas tendencias y propuestas para la Alfabetización Mediática e Informacional desde las bibliotecas in the group
Education and Pedagogy on Humanities Commons 4 years, 4 months agoPowerPoint of the webinar given at the Andalusian School Libraries Conference on the newest trends and proposals in relation to media and information literacy.
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Carlo Morelli deposited The Purpose of a Literature Review in the group
Education and Pedagogy on Humanities Commons 4 years, 4 months agoThis article presents a detailed examination of the benefits, challenges, and purpose of conducting a doctoral-level literature review. The article analyzes both the cognitive neurolinguistic processing challenges attending the assimilation and synthesis of large volumes of new information and the metacognitive knowledge strategies needed to…[Read more]
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Carlo Morelli deposited Revised Synthesis Paper: Factors Impeding the Doctoral Student Leading to Doctoral Attrition and Dissertation Delays in the group
Education and Pedagogy on Humanities Commons 4 years, 4 months agoDire, globally high doctoral attrition rates are the result of competing impediments to the success of a doctoral aspirant who is unprepared to consistently produce scholarly doctoral-level writing, lacking the in the theoretical, philosophical, and intellectual training needed to think logically and metacognitively assimilate vast quantities of…[Read more]
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Carlo Morelli deposited Homologous Ipseitic Metanoias of Saint Paul and Doctoral Learners: A Biblical Exegesis Comparing the Transformative Journeys of Saint Paul and Doctoral Researchers in the group
Education and Pedagogy on Humanities Commons 4 years, 4 months agoThis article presents biblical exegesis and parallel synthetic thematic analysis comparing the transformative journeys of Saint Paul and doctoral researchers concluding the religious conversion of Saint Paul of Tarsus and the identity-transforming journey a student undergoes from burgeoning researcher to doctoral scholar represent parallel…[Read more]
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Behnam M. Fomeshi deposited «دوک همت» در دستان عنکبوت دورگه: پذیرش خلاق پروین اعتصامی از شعر والت ویتمن in the group
Feminist Humanities on Humanities Commons 4 years, 5 months agoپروین اعتصامی (۱۲۸۵ـ ۱۳۲۰)، شاعر نامدار معاصر، در شعرهایش از منابع متعددی بهره بردهاست؛ اما نکته جالب توجه این است که او در تمام این برداشتهای ادبی، اشعار خود را کاملاً از آثار پیشین متمایز میکند. پروین عناصری را که از آثار دیگران وام گرفته است هنرمندانه با عناصر شعر خود و سنت ادبی فارسی درمیآمیزد و آن را از آن خود میکند؛ به گ…[Read more]
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Rebecca Ruth Gould deposited Ajnabi, or The Xenological Uncanny in Iranian Modernism,” New Literary History (2021) in the group
Global & Transnational Studies on Humanities Commons 4 years, 5 months agoWithin Iran, the transformation in the Islamic legal understanding of the foreign (ajnabi) into a political concept was accelerated by the encounter with Europe during the 19th century. The classical Iranian understanding of otherness as a domain fully demarcated from the self was replaced by an internalized other, resulting in what we call here…[Read more]
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Rebecca Ruth Gould deposited Watching Chekhov in Tehran: From Superfluous Men to Female Revolutionaries (Comparative Drama, 2021) in the group
Global & Transnational Studies on Humanities Commons 4 years, 5 months agoIn the summer of 2011, an adaptation of Anton Chekhov’s Ivanov (1887) debuted on the Iranian stage. The director and playwright Amir-Reza Koohestani (b. 1978) created a production that was faithful to the classic status of this text while also maximizing its resonance with a contemporary Iranian audience. I explore how Koohestani achieved this b…[Read more]
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Dr. Rakshit Madan Bagde deposited मुक्त आर्थिक धोरण आणि डॉ. आंबेडकरांचे तत्वज्ञान in the group
Feminist Humanities on Humanities Commons 4 years, 5 months agoमुक्त आर्थिक धोरण आणि डॉ. आंबेडकरांचे तत्वज्ञान
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