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John Mark R. Asio deposited Disaster Management Program Compliance and Problems Encountered in Two Provinces in Central Luzon, Philippines in the group
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 5 years, 3 months agoDisaster management is one area in the field that comes with a heavy burden of administrative functions and compliances. Thus, it is vital to consider among managers to put the best man in the field. The purpose of this study is to find out the disaster management program compliance of participants in two provinces in Central Luzon, Philippines.…[Read more]
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John Mark R. Asio deposited Natural Calamity, Its Impact and Level of Preparations: Significance and Implications to the Community in the group
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 5 years, 3 months agoThe purpose of the study is to analyze the knowledge of natural calamity, its impact and level of preparations of respondents in Central Luzon, Philippines. This study employed a descriptive-correlation design. 125 respondents participated in the survey with the use of convenience sampling technique. We drafted a questionnaire and subjected it to…[Read more]
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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA deposited Radical Lumpers (Sobre las diferencias raciales) in the group
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 5 years, 3 months agoEnglish abstract: A paper arguing the relevance of a cognitive narratological perspective and a retrospective stance attentive to hindsight bias in order to clarify the debate on racial differences and population diversity in biology. The issue is discussed with reference to the dichotomy between ‘lumpers’ and ‘splitters’ in paleoanthropology as…[Read more]
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Pedro Lopes de Almeida started the topic CFP: Leaky Ontologies – ACLA 2021 in the discussion
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 5 years, 3 months ago“Stuff leaks through such that the real manifests not just as gaps and inconsistencies in reality.” Tim Morton, Humankind
In an increasingly compartmentalized, consolidated time, leaking incidents keep surfacing from the backdrop of our human reality designed for smooth functioning and come to shape our age. From the leakings of early steam boi…[Read more]
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Candace Bailey deposited Charleston Belles Abroad: The Music Collections of Harriet Lowndes, Henrietta Aiken, and Louisa Rebecca McCord in the group
Place Studies on Humanities Commons 5 years, 4 months agoReview of Charleston Belles Abroad in Journal of American History
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John Mark R. Asio deposited Effect of Performance Review and Faculty Development to Organizational Climate in the group
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 5 years, 4 months agoFaculty performance review, faculty development, and organizational climate are an essential element of the educational institution. More importantly, the mentioned variables have certain connections and interplay with each other. This study describes the performance review, faculty development, and organizational climate of a tertiary education…[Read more]
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Koca Mehmet Kentel deposited CfP: Cities on Fire: Environmental History of Urban Conflagrations in Early Modern and Modern Periods in the group
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 5 years, 4 months agoPapers focusing on the urban environmental history of fires are invited for a panel to be submitted to
the European Society for Environmental History conference, which will be held at the
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Jonathan Basile deposited Other Matters: Karen Barad’s Two Materialisms and the Science of Undecidability in the group
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 5 years, 4 months agoKaren Barad’s Meeting the Universe Halfway relies on mutually incompatible grounding gestures, one of which describes the relationality of an always already material-discursive reality, while the other seeks to ground this relation one-sidedly in matter. These two materialisms derive from the gesture she borrows from the New Materialist (and o…[Read more]
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Samuel Johnson started the topic MLA 2021 Sessions in the discussion
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 5 years, 4 months agoHi all,
I am interested in proposing a just-in-time session for MLA 2021 concerning forest fires and ecological crisis. I think a round-table format on media, teaching, and the role of the humanities in teaching/researching ecological crisis would be timely and work well for these new sessions. My research is centered in South America and…[Read more]
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Steven Swarbrick deposited Dancing with Perdita: The Choreography of Lost Time in The Winter’s Tale in the group
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 5 years, 5 months agoShakespeare scholarship has long been interested in the temporal dynamics of The Winter’s Tale, and has often turned to melancholic or traumatic time frames to explain the thematic persistence of lost time in Shakespeare’s romance. In this chapter, I argue that dance provides a key interpretive framework for understanding the play’s interest in bo…[Read more]
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Ryan Calabretta-Sajder started the topic Diasporic Italy: Journal of the Italian American Studies Association in the discussion
2018 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 5 years, 5 months agoPlease see the announcement and call for papers for Diasporic Italy.
Diasporic Italy: Journal of the Italian American Studies AssociationInaugural Volume (2021) – Call for Papers Description:Diasporic Italy is a scholarly, peer-reviewed journal devoted to the interdisciplinary study of Italian American / Diaspora studies, focusing on timely a…[Read more]
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James L. Smith deposited Learning an Inclusive Blue Humanities: Oceania and Academia through the Lens of Cinema in the group
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 5 years, 5 months agoHollywood films such as Pixar’s Moana (2016) and Warner Brothers’ Aquaman (2018) have drawn on the aesthetics and stories of the island cultures of Oceania to inform their narratives. In doing so, these works have both succeeded and failed to respect and engage with oceanic cultural knowledge, providing a cultural vehicle to expand com…[Read more]
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paul bali deposited ONT: lates and xtras in the group
Animal Studies on Humanities Commons 5 years, 5 months agocontents
i. re Gödel’s ontological argument
ii. deep in pi’s numeric noise
iii. from Nothing, something
iv. endless in the wrong direction, tragic
v. they give you all Eternity to answer
vi. what of God’s mercy?
vii. informed consent and prayer
viii. i won’t live on, perhaps. a deed i’ve done may
ix. my selective memory
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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA started the topic Pandemic literature in the discussion
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 5 years, 6 months agoGoing with the times, and with the classics too, as ‘nihil novum sub sole’, I suggest going back to some classics of the literature of plagues, pestilences, virulent epidemics, and pandemics. Here is my suggestion today: a fragment from Mary Shelley’s The Last Man (1826). Many (hopefully not too many) episodes in the novel ring a bell with the…[Read more]
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Stephanie Leite deposited Earth Focus no. 16: Power to the People in the group
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 5 years, 6 months agoEarth Focus is a forum for discussion and a catalyst for action for young people of all ages. We deal with issues concerning our environment, community and culture at all levels. Issue 16, titled “Power to the People”, includes the sections: Energy, Discover Solar Systems, Pedal for Progress, Become a Fossils expert, Solar Cooker invasion, etc.
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Stephanie Leite deposited Biopiracy: Student Edition in the group
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 5 years, 6 months ago‘Biopiracy: Student Edition’ is based on the book ‘Biopiracy’ by Vandana Shiva. This edition was created by an international team of interns, volunteers, and students at Bija Vidyapeeth, Navdanya’s organic farm and seed college in Doon Valley, India.
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Stephanie Leite deposited Target 2015: A Youth Introduction to the Millennium Development Goals in the group
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 5 years, 6 months agoPrepared by Young Delegates to the 2nd World Youth Congress, Casablanca, Morocco – August 16-28, 2003, under the leadership of Peace Child International & the Moroccan Youth Forum. Excerpt: “This magazine, like the Casablanca Declaration, outlines the vision of young people on what needs to be done to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (…[Read more]
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Stephanie Leite deposited ReFueling the Future—Mastery Project in the group
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 5 years, 6 months ago[COMPLETE OPEN-ACCESS CURRICULUM INCLUDED] ReFueling the Future is the first project in the ReImagining the Future series launched by Greenbacker Capital and Global Citizenship Experience Lab School. By asking “how will we fuel our future?”, the purpose of this project is to get acquainted with the current state of our energy supply system,…[Read more]
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Stephanie Leite deposited United Nations Sustainable Development Goals Map—Mastery Project in the group
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 5 years, 6 months ago[COMPLETE OPEN-ACCESS CURRICULUM INCLUDED] In April 2017, the world population topped 7.5 billion people. As our population continues to grow, natural resources are dwindling due to human consumption, and the resources that remain are unequally distributed. More than ever, our world needs thoughtful, engaged, global citizens to address the…[Read more]
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Laura Hernández Lorenzo deposited Sr Juana Inés de la Cruz y Los empeños de una casa: la comedia de capa y espada desde una perspectiva femenina in the group
Feminist Humanities on Humanities Commons 5 years, 6 months agoEn este trabajo analizamos Los empeños de una casa de Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, una versión de la comedia de capa y espada en la que los valores patriarcales se critican y subvierten, mientras que los personajes femeninos adquieren complejidad y un inusitado protagonismo, pues en ellos se refleja cómo las mujeres de la época encaran los obst…[Read more]
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