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Cagdas Dedeoglu deposited Posthuman citizenship in the group
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 2 years, 1 month agoCitizenship and the posthuman have not been often theorized together. In this paper, I want to think about their coalition both as a new episode in the efforts of politics for citizenship, including knowledge politics, and as a source of rebalancing power against governmental and corporate interests in citizenship politics. Here, I seek to address…[Read more]
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Reuven Chaim (Rudolph) Klein deposited The Passover Seder as an Exercise in Piagetian Education Theory in the group
Festivals, Rituals, Public Spectacles, and Popular Culture on Humanities Commons 2 years, 1 month agoThis paper focuses on two elements of the Passover Seder ritual and their connection to Piagetian education theory. After outlining Piaget’s theory of genetic epistemology and its implications for education theory, it focuses on Sigel’s distancing theory, which touts question asking as a tool for presenting information to students. This paper arg…[Read more]
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Sonia D. Andras deposited Interwar Romanian Fashion and Beauty in American Vogue in the group
Cultural Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 1 month agoThis paper explores Romanian women’s influence on US fashion as representatives of European artistic, cultural, and social elites and as genuine Parisiennes. This study treats the Parisienne model as a symbolic marker of elegance driven by French, namely Parisian, aesthetic philosophies, and technical prowess. In this sense, Romanian women f…[Read more]
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Seo-Young Chu deposited “Generation Hwabyung Telepathy” and “A Resume of Traumas” in the group
Cultural Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 2 months agoIn “Generation Hwabyung Telepathy” and “A Resume of Traumas,” the Korean American lyric speaker struggles with the pain of generational trauma that she has inherited from her father and from the grandfather she has never met.
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Seo-Young Chu deposited Excerpts from an Anti-Standardized “수능”: A Design-Fictional Approach to Korea in the group
Cultural Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 2 months ago“Excerpts from an Anti-Standardized ‘수능’” experiments with design fiction to disrupt overly rehearsed ways of thinking about Korea’s past(s), present(s), and future(s).
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Elisabeth Moreau deposited Temperament and the Senses: The Taste, Odor and Color of Drugs in Late-Renaissance Galenism in the group
Science Studies and the History of Science on Humanities Commons 2 years, 2 months agoAccording to the medical tradition, the temperament of bodies came from the balance of their primary qualities – hot, cold, dry, and moist. However, physicians associated additional sensory properties with temperament in the field of pharmacology. These sensations included taste, color, and odor, which allow an appraisal of the constitution and a…[Read more]
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James Louis Smith deposited “Too Much Loose Sand:” Narrating Coastal Erosion in Southeast Ireland in the group
Place Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 2 months agoComprised of soft glacial cliffs and sandy beaches, the southeastern coastline of Ireland is dominated by unconsolidated Quaternary-aged sediments with fewer rock exposures than Ireland’s other coasts. Facing Britain across a rough sea, County Wexford has been prone to incursions from both political and environmental forces throughout history. T…[Read more]
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James Louis Smith deposited “Too Much Loose Sand:” Narrating Coastal Erosion in Southeast Ireland in the group
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 2 years, 2 months agoComprised of soft glacial cliffs and sandy beaches, the southeastern coastline of Ireland is dominated by unconsolidated Quaternary-aged sediments with fewer rock exposures than Ireland’s other coasts. Facing Britain across a rough sea, County Wexford has been prone to incursions from both political and environmental forces throughout history. T…[Read more]
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James Louis Smith deposited “Too Much Loose Sand:” Narrating Coastal Erosion in Southeast Ireland in the group
Cultural Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 2 months agoComprised of soft glacial cliffs and sandy beaches, the southeastern coastline of Ireland is dominated by unconsolidated Quaternary-aged sediments with fewer rock exposures than Ireland’s other coasts. Facing Britain across a rough sea, County Wexford has been prone to incursions from both political and environmental forces throughout history. T…[Read more]
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Rita Singer deposited DIEDERICH WESSEL LINDEN (fl.1745-1768; d.1769), medical doctor and minerologist in the group
Global & Transnational Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 2 months agoThis biography of the German medical doctor and minerologist Diederich Wessel Linden (fl.1745-1768; d.1769) is the unabridged, pre-publication version of an accepted and revised article for publication in the Dictionary of Welsh Biography. This version is also available as an online blog post:…[Read more]
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Victor Nnadozie deposited Divergence and the use of digital technology in learning: Undergraduate students’ experiences of email feedback in a South African university in the group
Global & Transnational Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 2 months agoSouth African universities’ use of digital technologies in learning has increased in recent years. Given that
social exposure, the context and pedagogic uses of technology influence learning expectations and
learner involvement, it is important to understand students’ experiences of the use of different
technological tools. This article emp…[Read more] -
Marianna Charitonidou deposited Drawing and Experiencing Architecture: The Evolving Significance of City’s Inhabitants in the 20th Century in the group
Architectural History and Theory on Humanities Commons 2 years, 2 months agoHow were the concepts of the observer and user in architecture and urban planning transformed throughout the 20th and 21st centuries? Marianna Charitonidou explores how the mutations of the means of representation in architecture and urban planning relate to the significance of city’s inhabitants. She investigates Le Corbusier and Ludwig Mies van…[Read more]
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Sérgio Dias Branco deposited Genuine Poetics: Expressive Authenticity in Film in the group
Cultural Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 2 months agoThis chapter seeks to reflect on the concepts of entertainment, engagement, and poetics applied to cinematic art and it inscribes this set of reflections within the scope of aesthetic authenticity in cinema. The discussion is structured around the question of the autonomy of art, understood as a kind of characterization or requirement, a topic…[Read more]
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Victor Nnadozie deposited Self-agency and Academically High-performing Students’ Success: Towards a Praxis for Academic Support in one South African University in the group
Global & Transnational Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 2 months agoGlobally, student support mechanisms focus almost exclusively on academically ‘under-performing’
students, especially as insofar as academic development practices are concerned. This article makes a
case for a shift in approach. Using the context of one country, South Africa, we sought to better
understand the strengths that academically…[Read more] -
Derek Johnston deposited Adaptation and Mode in the Television Picnic at Hanging Rock (2018) in the group
Cultural Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 2 months agoThis paper presents some of the ideas central to my current developing research into the modes of historical television drama, particularly the Gothic mode. In focusing on the 2018 television adaptation of Picnic at Hanging Rock, the paper illustrates the idea of the Gothic mode in operation, considering its relationship to notions of historical…[Read more]
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Ian Willis deposited Camden’s Purple Haze is a Sight to See in the group
Urban Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 2 months agoIn Camden, NSW, every November, the streets are ablaze with shades of purple. Walking around the town’s streets, you will see the current flush of purples, mauves, lilac and lavender along Argyle Street, Broughton Street, John Street and Macarthur Park. People are entranced by the magic of the town’s ‘sea of lavender’ as Peter Butler from…[Read more]
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Ian Willis deposited Camden’s Purple Haze is a Sight to See in the group
Place Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 2 months agoIn Camden, NSW, every November, the streets are ablaze with shades of purple. Walking around the town’s streets, you will see the current flush of purples, mauves, lilac and lavender along Argyle Street, Broughton Street, John Street and Macarthur Park. People are entranced by the magic of the town’s ‘sea of lavender’ as Peter Butler from…[Read more]
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Marianna Charitonidou deposited Frank Gehry’s non-trivial drawings as gestures: drawdlings and a kinaesthetic approach to architecture in the group
Urban Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 2 months agoDeparting from the intention to explore Frank Gehry’s drawings serving to their own designer to grasp ideas during the process of their genesis, the article examines Frank Gehry’s concern about the revelation of the first gestural drawings and all the sketches and working models concerning the evolution of his projects, and his intention to cap…[Read more]
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Marianna Charitonidou deposited Frank Gehry’s non-trivial drawings as gestures: drawdlings and a kinaesthetic approach to architecture in the group
Architectural History and Theory on Humanities Commons 2 years, 2 months agoDeparting from the intention to explore Frank Gehry’s drawings serving to their own designer to grasp ideas during the process of their genesis, the article examines Frank Gehry’s concern about the revelation of the first gestural drawings and all the sketches and working models concerning the evolution of his projects, and his intention to cap…[Read more]
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James Louis Smith deposited Net-work: Irish Sea Crossings with and beyond Infrastructure in the group
Place Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 2 months agoThis article explores the co-constitution of networks and infrastructure in the context of late eighteenth- and nineteenth-century culture. We consider Maria Edgeworth’s conceptualization of the term network with and alongside infrastructure in her Harry and Lucy stories (1801–25) and offer an analysis of a manuscript tour by Mary Anne Eade fro…[Read more]
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