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Waliya Yohanna Joseph deposited Letter to the African Union in the group
Humanities Commons Summer Camp on Humanities Commons 6 years, 8 months agoLetter to the African Union is a digital poem which expresses supranegritude philosophy that denounces the game of pushing blame on colonial masters instead of working for the compatriots.
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Waliya Yohanna Joseph deposited Cyberpoetry for activism in the group
Humanities Commons Summer Camp on Humanities Commons 6 years, 8 months agoCyberpoetry for activism is a collection of two digital poems: Arise Africa! and Letter to the United Nations. The later was published in this Core repository before the official publication date . The poems communicate justice and encouragement.
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Waliya Yohanna Joseph deposited Homosalus in the group
Humanities Commons Summer Camp on Humanities Commons 6 years, 8 months agoHomosalus is a digital poem that suscitate the culture of saving humanity. It is written in French and English to foster a philosophy of people first before me.
Homosalus est un poème numérique qui suscite la culture de sauver notre humanité. Il est écrit en anglais et français afin de projecter une philosophie de considérer d’autrui d’abord.
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Waliya Yohanna Joseph deposited Momenta in the group
Humanities Commons Summer Camp on Humanities Commons 6 years, 8 months agoMomenta is a digital poem for Africans. It is written in two languages-French and English. The poem aims at bringing hope in the continent.
Momenta est un poème numérique pour les Africains. Il est rédigé en deux langues-anglais et français. Le poème excite l’esproir.
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Kay Sohini deposited To the Stars and Beyond: Perceptions on The Starry Night in the group
Humanities Commons Summer Camp on Humanities Commons 6 years, 9 months agoCreative non-fiction/semi-academic reflective piece on seeing Vincent van Gogh’s The Starry Night for the first time in person at the Museum of Modern Arts.
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Jo Henderson-Merrygold deposited The Present and Future of Trans Hermeneutics: Viewing Sarah Cispiciously: Cisnormalisation, and the Problem of Cisnormativity in the group
LGBTQ Studies on Humanities Commons 7 years, 1 month agoThis paper presents a reading of Sarah (Genesis 11:29-23:19) as a proto-trans(gender) figure. The author addresses the problem of cisnormativity and its impact on biblical interpretation. In particular, throughout this paper Sarah is presented as a character who has been cisnormalised within the literary tradition of the Biblical text in order to…[Read more]
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Waliya Yohanna Joseph deposited Lettre à Union Africaine in the group
Humanities Commons Summer Camp on Humanities Commons 7 years, 2 months agoIl s’git d’une lettre aux pays membres d’Union Africaine.
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Waliya Yohanna Joseph deposited Lettre aux Nations Unies in the group
Humanities Commons Summer Camp on Humanities Commons 7 years, 2 months agoCyberpoésies d’engagement qui renonce l’injustice de pays soi-disant Pouvoirs Mondiaux.
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Caitlin Duffy replied to the topic HC Platypus Blog in the discussion
Humanities Commons Summer Camp on Humanities Commons 7 years, 4 months agoGreat, thanks! I’ll email you shortly.
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ltyler replied to the topic HC Platypus Blog in the discussion
Humanities Commons Summer Camp on Humanities Commons 7 years, 4 months agoI’d be willing!
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Caitlin Duffy started the topic HC Platypus Blog in the discussion
Humanities Commons Summer Camp on Humanities Commons 7 years, 4 months agoHello all,
For those of you experiencing the start of the fall semester, I hope it’s going well!
I wanted to reach out to see if anyone would be interested in being the focus of an upcoming HC Team blog post. I would love to interview someone who participated in the HC Summer Camp about the site they created as part of the camp’s challenges. Is…[Read more]
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Kyle Frackman deposited Based on a True Story: Tracking What is Queer about German Queer Documentary in the group
LGBTQ Studies on Humanities Commons 7 years, 5 months ago“Unter Männern” weaves together three threads of, first, historically relevant memory recited by its chosen protagonists; second, some personal history on the part of the primary filmmaker (i.e., director Ringo Rösener); and, third, between and among them, filmic artifacts or evidence of life in the GDR. This documentary presents the a…[Read more]
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Lisa L. Tyler replied to the topic Challenge #6: Reflect and Plan (8/6-8/19) in the discussion
Humanities Commons Summer Camp on Humanities Commons 7 years, 5 months agoThank you for this summer camp experience.
I’m most excited about finding a home for Virtual Hemingway, which now lists more than 400 Hemingway-related sites! I am also pleased to have a site about my academic accomplishments. I plan to add the URL to my email signature to show off all this work!
Austen scholar Devoney Looser just published…[Read more]
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Caitlin Duffy started the topic Mini Challenge #6: Survey in the discussion
Humanities Commons Summer Camp on Humanities Commons 7 years, 5 months agoHello, everyone!
The HC team and I would love some feedback from you regarding the HC Summer Camp. In fact, we’re raffling off two HC platypuses. To enter to win this coveted prize, you simply need to respond to the “Reflect and Plan” questions in our previous discussion thread and/or complete the (5-10 min) survey. Participating in both will…[Read more]
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Sara Santos replied to the topic Challenge #6: Reflect and Plan (8/6-8/19) in the discussion
Humanities Commons Summer Camp on Humanities Commons 7 years, 5 months agoHello everyone! Like Charlie, I took this challenge as an opportunity to write a little bit about my experience doing this summer camp and my plans for my website/overall digital presence going forward. I tried to answer all of the questions in the challenge, albeit in a slightly different order. You can read it here.
Thanks again to Caitlin for…[Read more]
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Kyle Frackman deposited Sex and Socialism in East German Cinema in the group
LGBTQ Studies on Humanities Commons 7 years, 5 months agoThis chapter introduces the volume on East German film. The chapter and the volume it introduces surveys a range of depictions of gender and sexuality in East German film and television, from stereotypical and ideologically compliant understandings of femininity and homosexuality to more ambivalent constructions of androgyny, gendered agency, and…[Read more]
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Mollie Freier deposited Book proposal: Book ‘Em: Libraries, Librarians, and Information in Mystery Fiction, 1970-2018 in the group
Humanities Commons Summer Camp on Humanities Commons 7 years, 5 months agoProposal for Book ‘Em: Libraries, Librarians, and Information in Mystery Fiction, 1970-2018
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Sara Santos deposited History Without Memory: The Memorialization of the Parsley Massacre in Edwidge Danticat’s The Farming of Bones in the group
Humanities Commons Summer Camp on Humanities Commons 7 years, 5 months agoThis paper argues that in The Farming of Bones, Edwidge Danticat seeks to historicize and memorialize the Parsley Massacre through the reframing of the historical event through Amabelle Désir’s fictional account. Through the conflation of historical artifact and literary imagination, the novel narrates, and therefore produces, a collective me…[Read more]
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Kate Koppy deposited The Findern Codex and the Blog In the Middle: Understanding Middle English Vernacular Manuscripts through the Lens of Social Media in the Twenty-First Century in the group
Humanities Commons Summer Camp on Humanities Commons 7 years, 5 months agoThis paper articulates a model for examining medieval vernacular multi-text codices which
is based on the dynamics we see in the contemporary use of social media, particularly
personal blogs. Both media democratise the use of an existing specialised technology,
accelerate the development of this technology, and serve as vehicles for the…[Read more] -
Dana Gavin deposited Expect Resistance (To the Message): Effective Design in Protest Signs from 2017 Women’s Marches in the group
Humanities Commons Summer Camp on Humanities Commons 7 years, 5 months agoAn examination of images of protest signs carried at Women’s March protest marches in the United States on January 21, 2017, reveals that these signs are certainly visual arguments, and that they represent a new and cogent extension of fourth-wave feminism that attempts to address a variety of feminist concerns that is dependent on social media o…[Read more]
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