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Pramod Ranjan deposited दंगा नहीं, दमन in the group
History on Humanities Commons 2 years, 9 months agoराजस्थान के गोपालगढ कस्बे में 14 सितंबर, 2011 को हुई सांप्रदायिक हिंसा का विश्लेषण
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Christopher S. Rose deposited Trial by Virus: Colonial Medicine and the 1883 Cholera in Egypt in the group
History on Humanities Commons 2 years, 9 months agoThis article explores how public health was transformed in Egypt soon after its occupation by Great Britain in 1882. Over the course of the nineteenth century, the Egyptian state had invested substantially in health to boost the nation’s economic and military strength, and, especially after the opening of the Suez Canal in 1869, to address E…[Read more]
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “Do English Audiences Have the Toughest Time with Shakespeare?,” Quarto: The Magazine of the Shakespeare Theatre Association, Spring/Summer, 2023 in the group
LLC East Asian on MLA Commons 2 years, 9 months agoAll the world’s a stage, but the irony is the rest of the globe often has an easier time understanding William Shakespeare than English speakers. “English audiences are at a disadvantage because the language has evolved and is more and more distant. They need footnotes, props and staging to understand,” said Alexa Alice Joubin, a Shakespeare schol…[Read more]
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Ian Willis deposited When Peppertrees were all the rage in the group
History on Humanities Commons 2 years, 9 months agoIn the 1890s, Camden Municipal Council started beautifying the town area by planting various trees, including peppercorns. These cultural plantings defined the local urban landscape for decades, yet only a handful remain today.
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Sylvia Fernandez deposited Global North and South Collaborative Efforts towards an Anti-Colonial Digital Humanities in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 2 years, 9 months agoThis presentation will discuss the pilot version of the “Urarina Digital Heritage Project,” a multilingual (English, Spanish and Urarina), Global North (United States) and South (Peru) collaborative effort between scholars and a digital humanities center at an R1 research institution in the United States and the Indigenous Urarina community in the…[Read more]
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Sylvia Fernandez deposited Global North & South Collaborative Efforts towards an Anticolonial Digital Humanities in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 2 years, 9 months agoThis presentation will discuss the pilot version of the “Urarina Digital Heritage Project,” a multilingual (English, Spanish and Urarina), Global North (United States) and South (Peru) collaborative effort between scholars and a digital humanities center at an R1 research institution in the United States and the Indigenous Urarina community in the…[Read more]
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Julien A. Raemy started the topic Characterising the IIIF and Linked Art communities – Online Survey in the discussion
Digital Humanists on Humanities Commons 2 years, 9 months agoDear all,
As part of my PhD in Digital Humanities, I have launched an online survey to find out the main practices and activities of the individuals involved in the International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF) and/or the Linked Art communities.
Are you involved or have you already been in contact with the IIIF and/or the Linked Art…[Read more]
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “English Professor Uses AI to Teach Shakespeare and Critical Theory.” GW Today, April 12, 2023 in the group
LLC East Asian on MLA Commons 2 years, 10 months agoWhen ChatGPT was launched, Alexa Alice Joubin realized it was here to stay. She views it as her responsibility to teach students how to use it responsibly, not as a shortcut. “This technology is going to be with us, and students need employable skills in terms of curation, editorial repackaging and prompt engineering,” Joubin said. “They need…[Read more]
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited Joubin receives the bell hooks Legacy Award in the group
LLC East Asian on MLA Commons 2 years, 10 months agoAlexa Alice Joubin was named the inaugural recipient of the bell hooks Legacy Award on April 7, 2023. The Popular Culture Association and American Culture Association (PCA / ACA) established the award to commemorate the late feminist writer and activist bell hooks (1952-2021) who has authored more than 30 books. The award recognizes Joubin’s a…[Read more]
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Pramod Ranjan deposited Triveni Sangh in Literature and the Literature of Triveni Sangh in the group
History on Humanities Commons 2 years, 10 months agoTriveni Sangh’s activities were primarily confined to Bihar, parts of eastern Uttar Pradesh, adjoining Bihar, were also influenced by it. At the political level, the Triveni Sangh’s mission was carried forward by the Shoshit Dal, founded by Jagdev Prasad in 1967 in Bihar.
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Francesco Ardolino deposited Una nota maragalliana de Guillem Viladot in the group
LLC Catalan Studies on MLA Commons 2 years, 10 months agoAnalysis of he influence of Joan Maragall in the writing of Guillem Viladot
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Samuel Moore deposited The Politics of Rights Retention in the group
Library & Information Science on Humanities Commons 2 years, 10 months agoThis article presents a commentary on the recent resurgence of interest in the practice of rights retention in scholarly publishing. Led in part by the evolving European policy landscape, rights retention seeks to ensure immediate access to accepted manuscripts uploaded to repositories. The article identifies a trajectory in the development of…[Read more]
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Donald W. Wood started the topic MLA 2024, New Currents in Medieval Iberian Studies, session abstracts in the discussion
LLC Medieval Iberian on MLA Commons 2 years, 10 months agoBelow are the abstracts of the papers accepted for the New Currents in Medieval Iberian Studies (in person) hosted by the LLC Medieval Iberian Forum at the MLA 2024 Convention.
Eric Calderwood (Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), The Intersectional al-Andalus Since the early twentieth…[Read more]
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Ian Willis deposited Colonial hotel is still serving in the group
History on Humanities Commons 2 years, 10 months agoThe Plough and Harrow Inn at 75-79 Argyle Street is the second oldest hotel in Camden and is still on the original site. The Camden Inn (1841) was the first hotel in Camden. Located on the Great South Road, the Plough and Harrow was part of the fabric of Macarthur’s private village of Camden within the Cowpastures. By the early 20th century,…[Read more]
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Elton Barker deposited Journeying through Space and Time with Pausanias’s Description of Greece in the group
History on Humanities Commons 2 years, 10 months agoSometime in the second century CE, Pausanias of Magnesia (modern-day Turkey) wrote the Description of Greece. Ostensibly a tour of the places to see on the Greek mainland, the Description also provides historical accounts related to the topography through which Pausanias moves. Little attention has been given to how these building blocks of…[Read more]
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Elton Barker deposited Journeying through Space and Time with Pausanias’s Description of Greece in the group
Digital Humanists on Humanities Commons 2 years, 10 months agoSometime in the second century CE, Pausanias of Magnesia (modern-day Turkey) wrote the Description of Greece. Ostensibly a tour of the places to see on the Greek mainland, the Description also provides historical accounts related to the topography through which Pausanias moves. Little attention has been given to how these building blocks of…[Read more]
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Elton Barker deposited Journeying through Space and Time with Pausanias’s Description of Greece in the group
Ancient Greece & Rome on Humanities Commons 2 years, 10 months agoSometime in the second century CE, Pausanias of Magnesia (modern-day Turkey) wrote the Description of Greece. Ostensibly a tour of the places to see on the Greek mainland, the Description also provides historical accounts related to the topography through which Pausanias moves. Little attention has been given to how these building blocks of…[Read more]
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Brian Bernards started the topic Job Announcement: USC Teaching-Track Position in EALC in the discussion
LLC East Asian on MLA Commons 2 years, 10 months agoThe Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures and the East Asian Studies Center in the Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, California, invite applications for a full-time teaching-track faculty position in East Asian cultural studies, with a preferred focus on…[Read more]
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Catherine Fountain replied to the topic General Linguistics Forum: Checking In in the discussion
General Linguistics on MLA Commons 2 years, 10 months agoMy main area of research is linguistic historiography, the history of linguistics. Within that field, I’m particularly interested in how indigenous languages of the Americas have been described and documented, and by whom, and how description and documentation of these language shaped linguistics in the US and elsewhere.
That said, my current…[Read more]
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Catherine Fountain started the topic General Linguistics Forum: Checking In in the discussion
General Linguistics on MLA Commons 2 years, 10 months agoSome forum members may have received a survey last week, as I did, inquiring about how we use the Humanities Commons and what we would like it to be. I realized that 1) I don’t use the Humanities and MLA Commons all that much and 2) I would very much like for them to be spaces that spark connections and collaborations.
To that end, I thought I’d…[Read more]
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