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Charles Peck Jr deposited A Sketch of Emotions: Goal striving, Directing attention & selectivity, meaning and making sense in the group
Science Studies and the History of Science on Humanities Commons 2 years, 7 months agoThere is no doubt whatsoever that emotions are very important and highly significant in the processing of data and information, as well as in the day-to day functioning of the human being. Eric Klinger, whose expertise is in personality psychology and motivation theory, focuses on the influences of motivation and emotion on cognition. Klinger…[Read more]
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Sonia D. Andras deposited Selling Glamour: Marketing Western Women’s Fashion in Interwar Bucharest in the group
Gender Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 7 months agoThis paper explores the dynamics of women’s fashion marketing in advertisements and promotional materials related to Western ideas, materials or products. It will analyse published promotional visual and written texts in the interwar Bucharest press, with local or national distribution. The aim is to ascertain the degree and nature of Western w…[Read more]
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Pragya Ranjan deposited Cave of Spleen – a feminist perspective: Status of women in early 18th century England in the group
Gender Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 7 months ago“The Rape of the Lock” by Alexander Pope published in 1712 is a mock-heroic narrative which satirically
glorifies trivial incident of cutting of locks of protagonist Belinda. This poem was written in the
Augustan Era (1660-1784) which is marked by the period of scientific reason and rationality, whose
effect can be seen on the writers of those…[Read more] -
Pragya Ranjan deposited Cave of Spleen – a feminist perspective: Status of women in early 18th century England in the group
Feminist Humanities on Humanities Commons 2 years, 7 months ago“The Rape of the Lock” by Alexander Pope published in 1712 is a mock-heroic narrative which satirically
glorifies trivial incident of cutting of locks of protagonist Belinda. This poem was written in the
Augustan Era (1660-1784) which is marked by the period of scientific reason and rationality, whose
effect can be seen on the writers of those…[Read more] -
Liz Sparg deposited Generation to Generation in the group
Gender Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 8 months agoThis book brings together thirteen contributors from diverse backgrounds – mean and women born in Cameroon, England, Scotland, South Africa, Zambia. What they all have in common is years of service within their respective communities, working individually and within projects and programmes, with both young people and adults to build social c…[Read more]
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Luis Ernesto Paz Enrique deposited Enfoque participativo en la producción y consumo de televisión: modelo para las comunidades de práctica in the group
Film Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 8 months agoLos textosaudiovisualesdemandan una combinación de actividades entorno a larepresentación ydecodificación. El proceso se encuentra condicionado pordiferentesrolesen los procesos de producción y consumo televisivo. Se plantea como objetivo de la investigación: diseñarun modelo de producción para las comunidades de práctica televis…[Read more]
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Eric Sirota started the topic New Movie: Frankenstein (musical) based on Mary Shelley’s novel in the discussion
Monsters and Monstrosity on Humanities Commons 2 years, 8 months agoI’m excited to tell you that my musical, “Frankenstein” that played Off-Broadway in NY for 3 years, was adapted for screen, with an expanded score and orchestration. It was just released this week and is available on StreamingMusicals.com or from the website https://TheFrankensteinMusical.com
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Carol Chiodo deposited The Role of the ESU in Creating a Values-Driven DH Community in the group
Feminist Humanities on Humanities Commons 2 years, 8 months agoIn this essay, we illustrate how the European Summer University in Digital Humanities at the University of Leipzig (hereafter referred to as “ESU”) under the leadership of Prof. Dr. Elisabeth Burr has set forth a set of values that have built and continue to model a collaborative, communal, and compassionate future for higher education. We ide…[Read more]
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Mark Beumer deposited A Woman’s Touch. Hygieia, Health and Incubation in the group
Medical Humanities on Humanities Commons 2 years, 8 months agoIn this paper, I argue that Hygieia has to be viewed as a full goddess in Greek religion and medicine, with a special focus on her position within the Asklepios cult. I will examine her identity, to which scholars attribute several labels like goddess, abstraction and personification. I further argue that Hygieia’s role in performing incubation r…[Read more]
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Mark Beumer deposited The Foundation of Anthropology to Ritual Studies in the group
Medical Humanities on Humanities Commons 2 years, 8 months agoThe present paper aims to investigate the role of anthropology in the development of Ritual Studies as an inter-disciplinary platform, with a focus on ritual dynamics by using a historiographic description, focusing on thetransition of Greco-Roman to Christian culture. This study attempts to shed light not only on the contributionof anthropology…[Read more]
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Christopher Griffin deposited Recognition Against Liberation: On the UK’s Unreformed Gender Recognition Act in the group
Gender Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 8 months agoIn this short article I argue that the UK government’s decision not to update the Gender Recognition Act 2004 (GRA) is more than a missed opportunity. It weaponises the GRA, now an effective instrument of assimilation and containment. The failure to reform the GRA seems like a maintenance of the status quo, but given that the circumstances have s…[Read more]
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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA replied to the topic Characters in the discussion
Film Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 8 months agoJ. Edgar: Megalomanía y Metaficción https://www.academia.edu/12077193/
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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA started the topic Philosophy and Film in the discussion
Film Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 8 months agoLet’s begin with this rambling musings by Zizek on Lars von Trier’s Melancholia and a host of related issues…. Retropost, 2013: Slavoj Zizek, On Melancholy https://vanityfea.blogspot.com/2013/05/slavoj-zizek-on-melancholy-2012.html
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Andrea Zemgulys deposited Bullied Young Women, Virginia Woolf’s Sex Japes, and Modernist Sociability in the Time of #MeToo in the group
LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English on MLA Commons 2 years, 8 months agoSalacious rumors about Alfred Tennyson’s conduct with young women inspired Virginia Woolf’s satirical depiction of Tennyson and Ellen Terry in her draft and produced play -Freshwater.- In considering whether Woolf’s satire silences the whispers of Victorian women and/or corrects salacious rumor-mongering, this essay decides that the play more…[Read more]
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Sonia D. Andras deposited Allo, allo, ici le Bucharest du pedigree! The nationalization of women’s fashion in interwar Bucharest (OA) in the group
Gender Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 9 months agoThe newly formed Greater Romania engaged in a process of modernization, with Bucharest as its flagship metropolis, striving to be recognized internationally and reach economic stability. Women’s fashion became a marker in substantiating Romania’s self-assertion as a modern state, with great emphasis on creating a viable textile industry. This occ…[Read more]
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Sonia D. Andras deposited Crafting Illusions: Fashion as a Means of Decoding Social and Cultural History in Interwar Bucharest (OA) in the group
Gender Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 9 months agoThis paper examines the influence of urban fashion ideas disseminated worldwide from France and how they impacted the Romanian ideas of style and beauty, as well as the nature of the communication between Paris and the Little Paris. My aim is to decode the interwar Romanian interpretation of the new woman notion and assess what type of role…[Read more]
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Sonia D. Andras deposited Creating City Chic. The Parisian Influence on Interwar Bucharest Fashion (OA) in the group
Gender Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 9 months agoThis paper examines the influence of urban fashion ideas disseminated worldwide from France and how they impacted the Romanian ideas of style and beauty, as well as the nature of the communication between Paris and the so-colled ”Little Paris”. My aim is to decode the interwar Romanian interpretation of the new woman notion and assess what typ…[Read more]
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Sonia D. Andras deposited Creating City Chic. The Parisian Influence on Interwar Bucharest Fashion (OA) in the group
Feminist Humanities on Humanities Commons 2 years, 9 months agoThis paper examines the influence of urban fashion ideas disseminated worldwide from France and how they impacted the Romanian ideas of style and beauty, as well as the nature of the communication between Paris and the so-colled ”Little Paris”. My aim is to decode the interwar Romanian interpretation of the new woman notion and assess what typ…[Read more]
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Ian Willis deposited Making Camden History: local history and untold stories in a small community in the group
Gender Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 9 months agoThe Camden township is located 65 kilometres southwest of the Sydney CBD and, in recent years, has been absorbed by Sydney’s urban growth. The main streets are a mix of Victorian, Edwardian and interwar architecture comprising commercial, government and domestic buildings. The town site was originally the entry point into what became Governor…[Read more]
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Pramod Ranjan deposited कोविड पश्चात दुनिया और बहुजन कार्यकर्ताओं की ज़िम्मेदारी in the group
Medical Humanities on Humanities Commons 2 years, 9 months agoइस आलेख में मैंने देखने की कोशिश कि कोविड की रोकथाम के लिए उठाए गए अतिरेकपूर्ण कदमों के कारण दुनिया में क्या स्थितियाँ उत्पन्न होने वाली हैं। विशेष तौर पर सामाजिक वंचना झेल रहे मानव-समुदायों पर इसका क्या प्रभाव पड़ने वाला है। आलेख में भारत के उन शोषित समुदायों को केंद्र में रखा गया है, जो भारतीय आबादी का बहुसंख्यक हिस्सा हैं। इस बहुसंख्या में…[Read more]
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