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Ian Willis deposited Voluntary labour worth thousands of dollars to the Camden Museum in the group
Place Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 4 months agoSmall 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]
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Ian Willis deposited Local museum and art gallery add $1.7 million annually in the group
Place Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 5 months agoNew research shows that cultural and heritage tourism is worth around $6.3 million per year to the Camden Local Government Area.
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Pramod Ranjan deposited मणिपुर हिंसा: परतों के भीतर कितनी परतें होती हैं? in the group
Feminist Humanities on Humanities Commons 2 years, 5 months agoयह मणिपुर में 2023 में हुई हिंसा पर केंद्रित प्रमोद रंजन के रिपोर्ताजों का पहला भाग है।
प्रमोद रंजन इसमें पूर्वोत्तर भारत के इतिहास, संस्कृति और समाज में आ रहे परिवर्तनों को चिन्हित किया है तथा उसका संवेदनशील, मर्मस्पर्शी और विचारोत्तेजक चित्र प्रस्तुत किया है।
उन्होंने इस रिपोर्ताज में यह भी बताया है कि हिंसा के दौरान मैतेई महिलाओं के…[Read more]
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Swati Arora deposited A manifesto to decentre theatre and performance studies in the group
Feminist Humanities on Humanities Commons 2 years, 5 months agoWith the climate of Brexit, xenophobia and white supremacy on the rise, health and safety of Black and Global Majority people under threat during the spread of Covid in the UK and elsewhere, a discussion of colonialism, migration, borders, and equality – in the classrooms and outside – is more pertinent than ever. Situating the ongoing Dec…[Read more]
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Meredith Warren deposited Incestual Duplication by Female Sex Offenders: Lot’s Daughters (Genesis 19:30–38) as Challenge to Typologies and Violent Family-Systems in the group
Feminist Humanities on Humanities Commons 2 years, 5 months agoAgainst the background of the often female-focused view of sexual abuse victims, this paper addresses the issue of male-identifying victims of sexual violence through the lens of the Bible. I tackle one particular form of sexual abuse: female-on-male sexual violence, of the “forced/made to penetrate” type through a re-reading of Genesis 19:…[Read more]
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Ian Willis deposited Unlock Camden 2023, a festival celebrating our past in the group
Place Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 5 months agoUnlock 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.
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Gabriela Méndez Cota deposited Papel Máquina 18 in the group
Feminist Humanities on Humanities Commons 2 years, 5 months agoVolumen 18 de la revista chilena Papel Máquina, perteneciente a la editorial Palinodia, dedicado a la dimensión cultural y literaria del activismo político de Marta Lamas. Además de diversos ensayos a cargo de destacadas investigadoras feministas, el número incluye una entrevista con Marta Lamas y un recorte de su trabajo sobre la rabia, así como…[Read more]
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Lawrence K Wang deposited SARAWAK: MY HOMELAND in the group
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 2 years, 5 months agoLu, Toh-Ming (2023). Sarawak: my homeland. In: “Global Humanities and Liberal Arts”, Wang, Lawrence K. (Editor). Volume 2023, Number 7, 2023(7), July 25, 2023, 19 pages. Lenox Institute Press, Massachusetts, USA. Lenox.Institute@gmail.com; lut@rpi.edu; https://doi.org/10.17613/cxt3-xm50 ; ……. ABSTRACT: This electronic…[Read more]
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Prof Muhammad Subhan Qureshi deposited Dairy Sience Park connecting Rumi, Iqbal, Tolerance and SDGs in the group
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 2 years, 5 months agoThis paper presented at the Fourth International Conference and Industrial Exhibitoion on Dairy Science Park IV, Nov 1-5, 2017, Konya, Turkey, has reviewed the philosophy of Mevlana Jalal ud Din Rumi regarding love, tolerance, respect and spiritualism; appreciating each others and knowing the value of each other. Rumi (1230) told Iqbal (1930)…[Read more]
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Ian Willis deposited The Sydney Harbour Bridge, an engineering marvel in the group
Place Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 5 months agoThe Sydney Harbour Bridge is an icon on the Sydney urban landscape. The bridge is an engineering marvel of modernism and the early 20th hope of a new nation.
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Ian Willis deposited Menangle arts hall concerts that helped war efforts – is being rebuilt in the group
Place Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 6 months agoIn 2023 there is a vacant lot in central Menangle with a security fence. The reconstructed hall is proposed to open in 2024. On the security fence is an information sign with the hall’s history, what is happening, funding and building timeline. The information signage on the site security fence states: The existing hall is unusable due to…[Read more]
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Ian Willis deposited ‘Fibro Majestic’, a new exhibition at the Campbelltown Arts Centre, a review in the group
Place Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 6 months agoThe Campbelltown Arts Centre is holding the Fibro Majestic Exhibition from 8 July to 13 August 2023 with free entry. The exhibition celebrates the heritage of the fibro house in Australia.
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Ian Willis deposited Camden Historical Society, 60 years of local history, 1957-2017 in the group
Place Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 6 months agoIn 2017 the Camden Historical Society celebrated its 60th anniversary. Society president Dr Ian Willis gave an anniversary address at the Camden Library Museum complex on 24 July. Founded in 1957, the aim of the society has been to tell the Camden story and the local identities and events that are part of it.
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Rita Singer deposited Thomas Richards (1800-1877): A Bibliography in Progress in the group
Imperialism & Exploration on Humanities Commons 2 years, 6 months agoThe following is a collection of identified fictional and non–fictional writing by Thomas Richards (1800-1877). Originally from Dolgellau, the young medical practitioner Richards published a considerable number of antiquarian and critical essays, editorials, travel writing, short stories and poetry in literary periodicals in England, Scotland a…[Read more]
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Rita Singer deposited Money Matters: Encounter and Economic Disparity in Irish-language Travel Narratives in the group
Imperialism & Exploration on Humanities Commons 2 years, 6 months agoTravel has always been an extremely important theme in Irish-language literature, but often this travel was motivated by financial hardship and, up until the late twentieth century, Irish-language accounts of travel largely documented the emigrant experience. In more recent years, however, Irish-language literature has witnessed a transition from…[Read more]
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Rita Singer deposited “A language of wet stones and mists”: The Caribbean Poet as a Traveller in Wales and England in the group
Imperialism & Exploration on Humanities Commons 2 years, 6 months agoThis article examines Derek Walcott’s “travel poems” about Wales and England from the collections The Fortunate Traveller (1981) and Midsummer (1984) through the prism of Deleuze and Guattari’s concept of littérature mineure. As a Caribbean poet, Walcott is placed both outside the centre of “majority”, post-imperial civilisation and within the s…[Read more]
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Ian Willis deposited Public art at Camden Council Administration Offices in the group
Place Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 6 months agoThe art installation The Tree of Life by sculptors Gillies & Marc celebrates the endangered Camden White Gum. The sculpture is located adjacent to the entry of the Camden Council administration building at Oran Park. The work was commissioned by the council in 2016 for the opening of the new office building.
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Rita Singer deposited Introduction [‘Minoritised Languages and Travel’ special collection] in the group
Victorian Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 6 months agoThis introduction to the MLO special issue “Minoritised Languages and Travel” provides an overview of the pieces in this collection in context with historical travel accounts in German about nineteenth-century Wales.
The contributions in this collection lay bare frictions between traveller and travelee as well as the inherent instability of soc…[Read more]
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Rita Singer deposited Introduction [‘Minoritised Languages and Travel’ special collection] in the group
Imperialism & Exploration on Humanities Commons 2 years, 6 months agoThis introduction to the MLO special issue “Minoritised Languages and Travel” provides an overview of the pieces in this collection in context with historical travel accounts in German about nineteenth-century Wales.
The contributions in this collection lay bare frictions between traveller and travelee as well as the inherent instability of soc…[Read more]
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Ian Willis deposited Menangle School of Arts hall, the heart of a village, under redevelopment in the group
Place Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 6 months agoIn 2022 the Wollondilly Shire Local Planning Panel approved the demolition and reconstruction of the Menangle Community Hall. The Menangle Community Association originally lodged the Development Application with Wollondilly Shire Council in July 2021. The Menangle Community Association originally is managing the Menangle School of Arts project.…[Read more]
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