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Ian Willis deposited Community Workers – Colin and Dorothy Clark in the group
Gender Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 3 months agoThis paper contributes to the history of small communities in Australia by examining the life and times of a local pharmacist and his wife in a small country town, the business they ran and their contribution to the local community. Colin and Dorothy Clark were local identities and made a significant contribution to the Camden community. Colin as…[Read more]
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Ellie Bennett deposited Beards as a Marker of Status during the Neo-Assyrian Period in the group
Gender Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 3 months agoBeards were part of a visual matrix of expressing masculinity during the NeoAssyrian period (ca. 934–612 BCE). But masculinity does not exist in isolation and interacts with other aspects of identity. I will examine the beard as an indicator of masculine status during the Neo-Assyrian period. This will be done through investigating the visual a…[Read more]
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Ellie Bennett deposited The ‘Queens of the Arabs’ During the Neo-Assyrian Period in the group
Gender Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 3 months agoDuring the Neo-Assyrian period (approximately 934-612 BCE, based in modern Iraq) the annals and royal inscriptions of several kings mention women with a curious title: ‘Queen of the Arabs’. These women have been included in previous discussions regarding Assyrian interaction with the ‘Arabs’, but a full investigation into their roles as rulers…[Read more]
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Lloyd Graham deposited From Bethel to Pentecost: The Tower of the Tarot deck as the Tower of Babel in the group
History of Art on Humanities Commons 2 years, 4 months agoImages of the Tower of Babel (Gen 11:1-9) in illustrated Christian manuscripts are suggestively similar to representations on the Tower card in many versions of the Tarot deck; both genres show the Tower being destroyed from above, with oversized persons falling head-first from it. In terms of connections between heaven and earth, the antithetical…[Read more]
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Christopher Crosbie deposited Publicizing the Science of God: Milton’s Raphael and the Boundaries of Knowledge in the group
Renaissance / Early Modern Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 4 months agoThis essay reads Raphael, the principal expositor of scientific knowledge in Milton’s Paradise Lost, as embodying divergent, virtually antithetical, dispositions towards the prospect of free engagement with natural philosophy within the public sphere. At once stimulating Adam’s curiosity about the natural world while also overzealously cur…[Read more]
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Christopher Crosbie deposited Sexuality, Corruption, and the Body Politic: The Paradoxical Tribute of The Misfortunes of Arthur to Elizabeth I in the group
Renaissance / Early Modern Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 4 months agoThis article examines how Thomas Hughes’s “The Misfortunes of Arthur” pays homage to Elizabeth I through its eclectic use of Arthurian traditions and deployment of imagery centered on corrupted sexuality and the body politic.
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Christopher Crosbie deposited Sexuality, Corruption, and the Body Politic: The Paradoxical Tribute of The Misfortunes of Arthur to Elizabeth I in the group
Early Modern Theater on Humanities Commons 2 years, 4 months agoThis article examines how Thomas Hughes’s “The Misfortunes of Arthur” pays homage to Elizabeth I through its eclectic use of Arthurian traditions and deployment of imagery centered on corrupted sexuality and the body politic.
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Valeria Graziano deposited Das Kollektive komponieren: Vom Praktizieren der Kongruenz in der Wissensproduktion in the group
Feminist Humanities on Humanities Commons 2 years, 4 months agoKongruenz, Sorge und Technologie. Tricks des Verschwindens: Dienstleistung als eine Kulturtechnik des Delegierens. #Syllabi und Schattenbibliotheken: Mittel der kollektiven Gestaltung. Eine durch das Wissen um ihre Werkzeuge und Quellen definierte Gemeinschaft werden.
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Ellie Bennett started the topic CfP: Gender and Methodology in the Ancient Near East (GeMANE 6, Malta) in the discussion
Feminist Humanities on Humanities Commons 2 years, 4 months agoThe Sixth Workshop on Gender, Methodology and the Ancient Near East (GeMANE 6) will take place as a hybrid event on the 8–11 April, 2024, hosted by University of Malta’s Department of Middle Eastern and Asian Languages and Cultures and the International School for Foundation Studies. Previous GeMANE workshops were held in Helsinki (2014), Barcel…[Read more]
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Shannan Palma deposited God the Father: Religious and militaristic rhetoric in the construction of patriarchal traditionalist masculinities in the group
Gender Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 4 months agoThe role of the internet in fomenting male supremacist ideology must be understood within the larger cultural context that undergirds and naturalizes such rhetoric. Traditional conservative (TradCon) sections of the manosphere valorize a patriarchal social order centering traditional gender roles. According to TradCon reasoning, men, under attack…[Read more]
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Shannan Palma deposited God the Father: Religious and militaristic rhetoric in the construction of patriarchal traditionalist masculinities in the group
Feminist Humanities on Humanities Commons 2 years, 4 months agoThe role of the internet in fomenting male supremacist ideology must be understood within the larger cultural context that undergirds and naturalizes such rhetoric. Traditional conservative (TradCon) sections of the manosphere valorize a patriarchal social order centering traditional gender roles. According to TradCon reasoning, men, under attack…[Read more]
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Elisabeth Moreau deposited Simple and Compound Drugs in Late Renaissance Medicine: The Pharmacology of Andrea Cesalpino (1593) in the group
Renaissance / Early Modern Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 4 months agoFrom antiquity, Galenic physicians extensively discussed the active powers of simple and compound drugs. In their views, simple drugs, that is, single ingredients, acted according to their material qualities and the properties of their substance. As for compound drugs, their efficacy resulted from the mutual interaction of their ingredients and…[Read more]
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Marianna Charitonidou deposited COURSE SYLLABUS BY MARIANNA CHARITONIDOU_CRITICAL URBAN CONTEXTS AND THE VIEW FROM THE CAR_2023-2024 in the group
History of Art on Humanities Commons 2 years, 4 months agoThis course focuses on the impact of the view from the car in the invention of new representational strategies in architectural and urban design. The automobile has reshaped our conceptions of space and our modes of accessing and penetrating the urban and non-urban territory in multiple ways, revolutionizing how architects perceive the city and…[Read more]
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David Amelang deposited David J. Amelang, “Explorando la presencia de personajes femeninos en la comedia en tiempos de Lope de Vega desde las Humanidades Digitales” (Hipogrifo 11.1, 2023) pp. 39-54 in the group
Renaissance / Early Modern Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 4 months agoEste 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]
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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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Wannasarn Noonsuk deposited Performing Prowess: Essays on Localized Hindu Elements in Southeast Asian Art from Past to Present in the group
History of Art on Humanities Commons 2 years, 5 months agoThis book explores localized Hindu elements in Southeast Asian art from ancient times to present
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Christopher Crosbie deposited Francis Bacon and Aristotelian Afterlives in the group
The Renaissance Society of America on Humanities Commons 2 years, 5 months agoThe Baconian oeuvre remains the most extensive and influential assault on Aristotelianism in English writing of the early modern period. Where convention respected Aristotelian logic as a viable instrument for studying natural philosophy, Bacon instead sought to initiate an instauration, or restoration, of learning by proposing his inductive…[Read more]
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Christopher Crosbie deposited Francis Bacon and Aristotelian Afterlives in the group
Renaissance / Early Modern Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 5 months agoThe Baconian oeuvre remains the most extensive and influential assault on Aristotelianism in English writing of the early modern period. Where convention respected Aristotelian logic as a viable instrument for studying natural philosophy, Bacon instead sought to initiate an instauration, or restoration, of learning by proposing his inductive…[Read more]
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