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Howard Williams deposited Displaying the Dark Ages in Museums in the group
Early Medieval on Humanities Commons 5 years, 11 months agoHow museums and heritage sites in England display the early medieval past is the focus of academic and public interest and debate. Despite ever-pressured budgets and limited resources, the stories told about the early medieval past in these environments are of key importance for the story of this island, and have become increasingly important in…[Read more]
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Howard Williams deposited The Offa’s Dyke Collaboratory and the Offa’s Dyke Journal in the group
Early Medieval on Humanities Commons 5 years, 11 months agoOpening the first volume of a new open-access peer-reviewed academic publication, we are pleased to introduce the Offa’s Dyke Journal. This venture stems from the activities of the Offa’s Dyke Collaboratory, a research network founded in April 2017 to foster and support new research on the monuments and landscapes of the Anglo-Welsh bor…[Read more]
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Louise Barrière replied to the topic CfP – Conference – LGBTI and Queer Arts, Culture & Activisms in the discussion
LGBTQ Studies on Humanities Commons 5 years, 11 months agoThe deadline has been extended! The CfP now runs until March 15th.
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Louise Barrière replied to the topic CfP – Conference – LGBTI and Queer Arts, Culture & Activisms in the discussion
Feminist Humanities on Humanities Commons 5 years, 11 months agoThe deadline has been extended! The CfP now runs until March 15th.
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Howard Williams deposited From Archaeo-Engage to Arts of Engagement: Conference to Publication in the group
Early Medieval on Humanities Commons 5 years, 11 months agoThe chapter outlines the rationale for the 2nd University of Chester Archaeology Student Conference – Archaeo-Engage: Engaging Communities in Archaeology. It serves as a companion chapter to this book’s Introduction. It reviews and contextualises the student presentations and keynote talks in relation to key current debates in public arc…[Read more]
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Shannan Palma deposited Entitled to a happy ending: Fairy-tale logic from “Beauty and the Beast” to the incel movement in the group
Feminist Humanities on Humanities Commons 5 years, 11 months agoThe author proposes fairy-tale logic as a mode of magical thinking typified by the belief that certain functions, fulfilled correctly and in the right order, lead to predictable outcomes. Mapping similarities in implicit reasoning within “Beauty and the Beast,” the reality television program Beauty and the Geek (2005-08), and the misogynistic nar…[Read more]
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Antonio Cordoba deposited “(De)Mythologizing the Disabled. Chilean Freaks in Roberto Bolaño’s ‘El Tercer Reich’ and ‘Estrella distante'” in the group
Critical Disability Studies on Humanities Commons 5 years, 11 months agoIn an essay on Latin American freaks, Susan Antebi warns, “The question of freakishness and freaks in Latin American contexts is fraught from the beginning by its decontextualized and translated quality; it is an imposition, even when embraced. To study freakishness in Latin America, or just to pay attention to it, necessarily involves an a…[Read more]
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Antonio Cordoba deposited La ciencia ficción de Carlos Gardini en el cambio de milenio in the group
Speculative and Science Fiction on Humanities Commons 5 years, 11 months agoTras el análisis de las tres novelas que Carlos Gardini publica en este siglo, se observa que la característica formal más notable es una trama concebida para conducir a un instante de revelación plena sobre el mundo, re-conocido ahora en un momento de luminosa anagnórisis. Esta anagnórisis consiste en la comprensión por parte de un protag…[Read more]
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Antonio Cordoba deposited Mexico con X de Galaxia. La ciencia ficción de Mexico DF. Hugo Hiriart y ‘La destrucción de todas las cosas’ in the group
Speculative and Science Fiction on Humanities Commons 5 years, 11 months agoEn el caso de cierta CF escrita en México, hay una doble invasión: espacial y temporal. Ocurre así, por ejemplo, en La destrucción de todas las cosas (1992), de Hugo Hiriart, y en “La catástrofe” (1984), recogido en La sangre de Medusa de José Emilio Pacheco.211 En estos textos, se emplea un género que se percibe como ajeno para abordar la disloca…[Read more]
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Antonio Cordoba deposited La ciencia ficción de Angélica Gorodischer. ‘Trafalgar’ (1979) y ‘Kalpa Imperial’ (1983-1984) in the group
Speculative and Science Fiction on Humanities Commons 5 years, 11 months agoNo sólo la calidad une Trafalgar y Kalpa Imperial, o el hecho de que cierren un primer periodo de la obra de Gorodischer. En ambos libros la fi gura central es un narrador que relata aventuras y acontecimientos en lo que es, explícita o implícitamente, otro planeta, muchos en Trafalgar, uno solo en Kalpa Imperial. Estos planetas y estos ac…[Read more]
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Antonio Cordoba deposited Hacia un modelo de la ciencia ficción. La práctica de la ciencia ficción en América Latina in the group
Speculative and Science Fiction on Humanities Commons 5 years, 11 months agoEn el capítulo 1 se ofrece un modelo del funcionamiento del género de la ciencia ficción construido desde una cierta mirada del latinoamericanista. El capítulo 2 examina la práctica de la ciencia ficción en América Latina.
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Antonio Cordoba deposited Extranjero en tierra extraña. El género de la ciencia ficción en América Latina [Introducción] in the group
Speculative and Science Fiction on Humanities Commons 5 years, 11 months agoLa ciencia ficción latinoamericana es, ante todo, ficción latinoamericana. Participa íntegramente de las corrientes culturales y artísticas que nutren la literatura de América Latina, al tiempo que constituye un específi co punto de articulación de éstas. Englobable en la literatura de lo insólito, la ciencia ficción (CF a partir de ahora) es…[Read more]
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Antonio Cordoba deposited “‘Let Me Enter the Heaven of Her Consciousness.’ Cosmopolitan Ghosts in Adolfo Bioy Casares’ The Invention of Morel.” in the group
Speculative and Science Fiction on Humanities Commons 5 years, 11 months agoMy purpose in this article is to analyze Bioy’s novel in terms of two concepts from two well-known studies on specters and haunting, and to connect this spectral dimension of the novel to current discussions of the concept of cosmopolitanism. The first idea I will use is Derrida’s njunction that one needs “to learn to live with ghosts” (Specte…[Read more]
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Louise Barrière started the topic CfP – Conference – LGBTI and Queer Arts, Culture & Activisms in the discussion
Feminist Humanities on Humanities Commons 5 years, 11 months agoLGBTI & QUEER ARTS, CULTURES, ACTIVISMS CONFERENCE (Metz, France)
Conference dates: 11th and 12th June 2020
CfP Deadline: 28th February
[Deadline might be subject to extension due to an ongoing strike in French universities. I will inform you if this is the case, but we recommend to get your abstract in as soon as possible in any…[Read more] -
Louise Barrière started the topic CfP – Conference – LGBTI and Queer Arts, Culture & Activisms in the discussion
LGBTQ Studies on Humanities Commons 5 years, 11 months agoLGBTI & QUEER ARTS, CULTURES, ACTIVISMS CONFERENCE (Metz, France)
Conference dates: 11th and 12th June 2020
CfP Deadline: 28th February
[Deadline might be subject to extension due to an ongoing strike in French universities. I will inform you if this is the case, but we recommend to get your abstract in as soon as possible in any case.]
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Jose Ángel Salgado Loureiro started the topic International Conference ” The Medieval Eschatology” (Call for papers) in the discussion
Early Medieval on Humanities Commons 5 years, 11 months agoInternational Conference ” The Medieval Eschatology”
(Santiago de Compostela, July 28-29th, 2020)
Eschatology is one of the central components of medieval Christian culture. The end of the world, the Last Judgment, salvation, Messianism, the Antichrist, the Apocalypticism and millenarianism are inescapable elements in what we may generally…[Read more] -
Cristina León Alfar started the topic New publication in the discussion
Feminist Humanities on Humanities Commons 5 years, 11 months agoAlfar, Cristina León “Speaking Truth to Power as Feminist Ethics in Richard III.” Social Research: An International Quarterly, vol. 86, no. 3, Nov. 2019, pp. 789–819. (Available through ProjectMuse muse.jhu.edu/article/741025.)
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Gabriela Méndez Cota deposited Feminismo, infrapolítica, extinción in the group
Feminist Humanities on Humanities Commons 5 years, 12 months agoEste ensayo tiene como objetivo pensar la relación entre feminismo e infrapolítica situándola en la interrogación, desde escalas impensadas, de variantes específicas del feminismo contemporáneo en Latinoamérica. Para tal fin, se ponen en perspectiva histórico-filosófica algunas de las premisas e implicaciones de la “descolonización” feminista y s…[Read more]
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Evina Steinova deposited Call for Papers | Networks of Manuscripts, Networks of Texts (Oct 22-23 2020, Amsterdam) in the group
Early Medieval on Humanities Commons 5 years, 12 months agoThis conference aims to bring together researchers applying network analysis to pre-modern manuscripts and manuscript texts. Key topics include:
• Theoretical reflections on the challenges and advantages of applying network analysis, including social network analysis, to pre-modern written cultures;
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Todd Comer deposited An Introduction: Disability Studies and Ecocriticism in the group
Critical Disability Studies on Humanities Commons 6 years agoStudies in the Humanities 46, 1-2 (2020)
This PDF includes the contents of volume 46 (1-2) of Studies in the Humanities. It also includes the opening critical introduction to the volume dedicated to disability studies and ecocriticism.
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