Building on existing film and urban histories, this innovative volume examines Spanish cinema through contemporary interdisciplinary theories of urban space, the built environment, visuality and mass culture from the industrial through to the digital age. Architecture and the Urban in Spanish Film brings together the scholarship of an…[Read more]

English Abstract: In the context of the Spanish reform of the university degree system begun in 2005 under the PSOE Ministry of Education, this paper denounces the manipulation of representative mechanisms on the part of the CCU (Council of University Coordination), impeding a consultation with the Universities by way of transforming the Rectors…[Read more]

A comment on the division of work in the Third Cycle of higher education in the Spanish university. The Catedrático gets all the PhD candidates who are able to really write a dissertation on their own, that´s why they “work” more and their job is easier. (Paper written 2011)

My notes (taken c. 1990) on Geoffrey Leech’s ‘Principles of Pragmatics’ (London: Longman, 1983). Pagination on the left; my parenthetical comments in italics.

The third volume of the DH Benelux Journal. This volume includes six full-length, peer-reviewed articles that are based on accepted contributions to the 2020 virtual DH Benelux conference. Contents: 1. Editor’s Preface (Wout Dillen, Marijn Koolen, Marieke van Erp); 2. Introduction: Digital Humanities Online (Antske Fokkens, Christian Gosvig…[Read more]

Pietro Bembo (1470-1547) wrote and published in an era in which a highly developed erotic code was adopted by dozens and dozens of writers in Italy, and presumably understood by tens of thousands of readers in Europe. A most helpful text for decoding the erotic lexicon was written by Jean Toscan: Le carnaval du langage: le lexique érotique des…[Read more]

In 1525, Pietro Bembo in his Prose della volgar lingua published a condemnation of Dante’s Comedy that has often passed for linguistic and cultural criticism, yet might be better understood as satire.

The tourist spaces determine a new social reality and the future destiny of the localities in Mexico. The socioeconomic relationship that they establish personifies a new social sense, a grammar of the domain that influences the daily behavior of the people. New types of practice and social representation are produced and reproduced in relation to…[Read more]

La Paz, Baja California Sur lives a new urban phase through an spacial intervention, sites are integrated by a historical and cultural dinamic, looking for to generate a tourist offer, situation that puts the city within the speech of the World Tourism Organization. Thus, La Paz becomes in a consumer product that forms part of the global tourism…[Read more]

This research focuses on the concept of identity, a concept that is useful to account for the process of social change. Identity describes the perception of the social actor at the individual and collective level, how his social behavior is, where he locates a perspective of the lived and inhabited space, what is his subjective experience in the…[Read more]

The aim of this paper is to show how historical consciousness is constructed through a symbolic language that emerges from the memory shared by a society, both individually and collectively. This process constitutes other mechanisms derived from thought itself, such as ideology and identity. The hypothesis is that collective memory, which is…[Read more]

El universo de las palabras abre un espacio imaginario que desborda la mera comunicación de contenidos. Aprendimos de Lakoff y Johnson que, gracias a las metáforas, nos guiamos en la vida cotidiana. La palabra, como todo signo, se define por su facultad de engañar, por su reversibilidad simbólica. La palabra poética (poiesis) ofrece la posi…[Read more]

This volume explores the history, evolution, and future of Luso-Hispanic Cultural Studies as a discipline, a pedagogical tool, and a set of working practices by bringing together a diverse group of renowned specialists to examine how the field has grown out of and radically reconsidered some of the basic premises of British Cultural Studies since…[Read more]

Reflections on artist Trevor Paglen’s (ab)use of the JAFFE dataset

Canon, tradition, and origin anchor developmental accounts of Black literary history, describing the forward movement from a singular beginning in terms of birth, maturation, and inheritance. This model delimits a specialized field of study, but also obscures texts, practices, and archives that do not cohere with it. In the study of slave…[Read more]

https://www.euronewsproject.org/2021/04/28/irish-beef/

The Irish were making trouble again, or so it seemed. The year was 1666, and relations between the Irish and the English, only recently becalmed following the close of the tumultuous Cromwellian period, were being roiled by a new crisis, this one having to do with large landowners and…[Read more]

Reflections on Trevor Paglen’s (ab)use of the JAFFE dataset

Reflections on Trevor Paglen’s (ab)use of the JAFFE dataset

Syllabus for 2021 edition of DH285: Introduction to Digital Humanities, taught at Michigan State University as a required course in the undergraduate Digital Humanities minor. The course is a survey introduction to the field, has no prerequisites, and is open to students from any major. Twelve students were in the course.