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Pamela Phillips started the topic CFP — Edited Collection The Enlightened Nightscape 1700-1830 in the discussion
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities via email on MLA Commons 6 years, 3 months agoDear colleagues:
Please consider contributing to the proposed volume* The Enlightened
Nightscape 1700-1830* and feel free to pass this information to interested
contacts.Call for Proposals
*The Enlightened Nightscape 1700-1830*
Edited by:
Pamela Phillips, Ph.D.
Department of Hispanic Studies
University of Puerto Rico, Río PiedrasTraditional…[Read more]
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Brian Croxall deposited Who Teaches When We Teach DH? A Survey in the group
HEP Teaching as a Profession on MLA Commons 6 years, 4 months agoAs the digital humanities have rapidly gained prominence and attention over the last decade, learning has shifted from individual experiences at training environments such as THATCamps and Institutes to more formal institutional instruction. This means that the number of people teaching digital humanities (DH) has had to increase. Who are these…[Read more]
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James L. Smith deposited EcoGothic, Ecohorror and Apocalyptic Entanglement in Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ Tales of the Black Freighter in the group
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 6 years, 4 months agoThis essay explores the ecoGothic resonances of Tales of the Black Freighter, a dark
pirate tale embedded within Watchmen, Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ 1986-87
postmodern DC graphic novel. By providing a grim prism for themes such as nuclear
paranoia, the monstrous transformation of the self, and the horrifying possibilities of
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Jennifer Buckley started the topic R.F. Dietrich Research Scholarship for Shaw Studies (CFP) 9/30 in the discussion
LLC Late-19th- and Early-20th-Century American on MLA Commons 6 years, 4 months agoThe R. F. Dietrich Research Scholarship for Shaw Studies is an annual award of $1,000 USD to support research into any aspect of the life and work of Bernard Shaw by a graduate student or early-career scholar. The award, which may be held in conjunction with other awards, is intended to help defray costs associated with visits to libraries and o…[Read more]
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Jessica Winston started the topic Announcing Winner and Honorable Mention 2019 Teaching Literature Book Award in the discussion
TM The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 6 years, 4 months agoThe Idaho State University Department of English and Philosophy announces “Jews in Medieval England: Teaching Representations of the Other,” edited by Miriamne Ara Krummel (University of Dayton) and Tison Pugh (University of Central Florida) as the winner of the 2019 Teaching Literature Book Award. “Teaching Modern Arabic Literature in Tra…[Read more]
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Bradley J. Fest deposited Reading Now and Again: Hyperarchivalism and Democracy in Ranjan Ghosh and J. Hillis Miller’s Thinking Literature across Continents in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 6 years, 5 months agoThis review essay approaches Ranjan Ghosh and J. Hillis Miller’s Thinking Literature across Continents (2016) from a set of questions about what it means to read in the age of hyperarchival accumulation. Written against the background of events in the United States and elsewhere during the fall of 2017, the essay tracks and assesses Ghosh and…[Read more]
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Gabriela Méndez Cota deposited Policing the Environmental Conjuncture: Structural Violence in Mexico and the National Assembly of the Environmentally Affected in the group
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 6 years, 5 months agoIn this article, I contextualise the emergence and describe the political processes of a grassroots mobilisation against the structural violence of neoliberalism in Mexico in order to suggest the necessity of re-thinking conjunctural analysis in a posthegemonic direction. The National Assembly of the Environmentally Affected (ANAA) is a nationwide…[Read more]
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David Backer deposited Pedagogics of Liberation: A Latin American Philosophy of Education in the group
Education and Pedagogy on Humanities Commons 6 years, 5 months agoEnrique Dussel is considered one of the founding philosophers of liberation in the Latin American tradition, an influential arm of what is now called decoloniality. While he is astoundingly prolific, relatively few of his works can be found in English translation — and none of these focus specifically on education. Founding members of the Latin A…[Read more]
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Alim Al Ayub Ahmed deposited The Social Network of High and Low Self- Monitors and it’s Impact on Organization’s Performance in the group
Education and Pedagogy on Humanities Commons 6 years, 5 months agoSelf-monitoring as a personality attribute is given particular attention by researchers in order to understand employee performance and productivity in the organizational context. Numerous studies focused on the impact of self-monitoring from individual employee perspective with limited focus on the impact of the organization’s performance. H…[Read more]
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Alim Al Ayub Ahmed deposited An Analysis of Guest Occupancy and Profit of Private and Public Hotels in Cox’s Bazar in the group
Education and Pedagogy on Humanities Commons 6 years, 5 months agoPurpose: The aim of this research was to find out the differences in guest occupancies and profits of the private and public hotels between and within the years 2008 and 2014.
Methodology: The researchers followed explanatory research to differentiate the data with statistical tools. The researchers undertook the deductive approach to test the…[Read more]
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Alim Al Ayub Ahmed deposited Mushroom as a Mechanism to Alleviate Poverty, Unemployment and Malnutrition in the group
Education and Pedagogy on Humanities Commons 6 years, 5 months agoMushroom is the most popular delicious, nutritious and medicinal vegetable in the world. Now it is considered as the most promising concept for crop diversification. It has been regarded as an effective means for poverty alleviation in less developed countries due to its potential for a quick, high return of profit on a small investment.…[Read more]
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Amanda Licastro deposited Major Author: Margaret Atwood in the group
TM The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 6 years, 5 months agoThis undergraduate seminar on author Margaret Atwood fulfills the Major Author course at Stevenson University. Students will read A Trio of Tall Tales and The Year of the Flood, as well as both read and watch The Handmaid’s Tale. The course assignments include live-tweeting, creating a webtext, and an intertextual analysis essay.
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Zachary Kaiser started the topic CFP — Accelerated Academy 7 (due Sept. 15) in the discussion
Education and Pedagogy on Humanities Commons 6 years, 5 months agoLink to submission page: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdJU2u-0cUiVrE5_qfKE4L7fyeYun1uVVh-PME4ss-06QaqNg/viewform
**EXTENDED DEADLINE — SEPT 15**
Prospecting: Extraction, Speculation, and Liberation in the Accelerated Academy (Accelerated Academy 7)
An interdisciplinary symposium on the future of academic life and labor, organized…[Read more]
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Alim Al Ayub Ahmed deposited Corporate Social Activities of Private Commercial Banks in Bangladesh: An Evaluation in the group
Education and Pedagogy on Humanities Commons 6 years, 5 months agoEvery business organization has some responsibilities to the people because organizations need people to sell their products. No organization can make profit without selling products to the customers. However, every bank needs customers to sell products for earning profits. In this case, the authority of each bank should accomplish some activities…[Read more]
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Alim Al Ayub Ahmed deposited Relationship between Ownership Structure and the Modes of Dividend Payment: A Study on Dhaka Stock Exchange in the group
Education and Pedagogy on Humanities Commons 6 years, 5 months agoThis paper investigates whether percentage of ownership controlled by the directors of companies has any association with types of dividend declared by them. Based on the data for the years 2006 to 2009 from the Dhaka Stock Exchange, this paper found that most of the companies provided stock dividends rather than cash dividends. Using Yate’s C…[Read more]
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Alim Al Ayub Ahmed deposited Comparative Study on the Efficiency of Bangladeshi Conventional and Islamic Life Insurance Industry: A Non-Parametric Approach in the group
Education and Pedagogy on Humanities Commons 6 years, 5 months agoThis study endeavor is to examine the efficiency in the both life insurance and life Takaful industry of Bangladesh. The study used Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) to explore the contributions of technical and efficiency changes to the growth of productivity in the life insurance industries of Bangladesh by using descriptive statistics such as…[Read more]
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Alim Al Ayub Ahmed deposited An Empirical Evidence of Corporate Social Responsibility by Banking Sector based on Bangladesh in the group
Education and Pedagogy on Humanities Commons 6 years, 5 months agoThis paper present the current Corporate Social Responsibility practices by banking sector in Bangladesh. It also attempts to examine the importance of CSR (Gaining Competitive advantage, Customer’s and Employee’s Positive Behavior, Financial performance, etc) using open end questionnaire aims to collect respondent’s opinion. Data analyzed by St…[Read more]
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Alim Al Ayub Ahmed deposited Talent Management: Three new Perceptions intended for managing and retaining Talent in Bangladesh in the group
Education and Pedagogy on Humanities Commons 6 years, 5 months agoThis study aims at investigating the methods, importance, process, and present situation of managing talented employees in Corporations. The study revealed that having talented employees helps organizations to drive and be competitive but it is difficult to acquire such people. Thus, some innovative campaigns, for instance, global trainee and…[Read more]
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Alim Al Ayub Ahmed deposited Castor Bean (Ricinus communis L.) – A Biofuel Plant: Morphological and Physiological Parameters Propagated from Seeds in Bangladesh in the group
Education and Pedagogy on Humanities Commons 6 years, 5 months agoPot experiments were carried out in Dhaka, Bangladesh from March to September 2012 to evaluate the morphological and physiological parameters of Castor oil Plant (Ricinus communis L.), a second generation energy crop propagated from seeds. The leaves and petioles of castor plants were collected from the earthen pot to determine the leaf and…[Read more]
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Alim Al Ayub Ahmed deposited Green Banking Prospects in Bangladesh in the group
Education and Pedagogy on Humanities Commons 6 years, 5 months agoGreen banking is the operation of the banking activities giving especial attention upon the social, ecological and environmental factors aiming at the conservation of nature and natural resources. Banks can be green through bringing changes in six main spheres of banking activities. Those are Change in Investment Management, Change in Deposit…[Read more]
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