More detailed discussions on Thomas Biggs: Sown Men and Rome’s Civil Wars. Rethinking the End of Melinno’s Hymn to Rome (Mnemosyne 76.3) and Gerlinde Bretzigheimer: Intertextualität und Intratextualität in Ausonius’ Epitaphia heroum (Wiener Studien 135).

This essay exemplifies a cognitive approach to literary and film studies, with particular emphasis on fictional reimagining of legal institutions. It draws on research of cognitive scientists who study metacognition—specifically, the difference between reflective and intuitive beliefs—to suggest that courtroom dramas, such as Billy Wilder’s Witne…[Read more]

Study and edition of the Complete Villancicos of Padre Antonio Soler (1729-1783), Chapel Master of Escorial Monastery in Spain

The edited volume “Ordering and delimiting knowledge – from analogue to digital Europe?” asks how knowledge orders confirm, reinforce, question or create new social differentiations, and to what extent the digital transformation changes such differentiation processes gradually or in principle. Knowledge orders are understood here as i…[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.

Los libros científicos con fines docentes o para el aprendizaje, muestran resultados de investigación, experimentos y contenidos que permiten a los estudiantes adquirir conocimientos. En la literatura científica publicada se evidencia una carencia de publicaciones que fundamente los medios y formas que permitan realizar una correcta so…[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]

Until now, critics have shown little interest in the bouquet of aromas and scents that permeate the linguistic fabric of À la recherche du temps perdu , to the point of forming an olfactory (and cognitive) underlay. The aesthetic impact of these odors warrants further investigation, starting with a reconstruction of the “problem of smell” in Prou…[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

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.

In this paper, the author introduces and explores the concept of synesthetic language, a multisensory linguistic system that integrates various sensory experiences into fundamental units called “synesthemes.” The author argues that synesthetic language forms the foundation of our internal thought processes, while communication with others involves…[Read more]

The term ‘affective politics’ is sometimes used to dismiss political strategies as being directed merely at affects at the expense of rational analysis (Massumi 2015: 65f). While such uses are meant to criticize certain politics, appeals to the affects – and consequently, forms of propaganda or populism – do not have to be bad at all. The point h…[Read more]

Since 2016, the academic narrative emerging from the Zora Neale Hurston Festival of the Arts and Humanities in Eatonville, Florida, has increasingly relied on a public scholarship model to bridge the gap between institutional practice and community knowledge. Inspired by Zora Neale Hurston’s legacy as an interdisciplinary scholar, these a…[Read more]

Since 2016, the academic narrative emerging from the Zora Neale Hurston Festival of the Arts and Humanities in Eatonville, Florida, has increasingly relied on a public scholarship model to bridge the gap between institutional practice and community knowledge. Inspired by Zora Neale Hurston’s legacy as an interdisciplinary scholar, these a…[Read more]