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Sonia D. Andras deposited Creating City Chic. The Parisian Influence on Interwar Bucharest Fashion Preprint PDF in the group
Place Studies on Humanities Commons 3 years, 10 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 Preprint PDF in the group
Gender Studies on Humanities Commons 3 years, 10 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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Ana I Simón-Alegre started the topic Call for Papers-Feministas Unidas-MLA in the discussion
Global & Transnational Studies on Humanities Commons 3 years, 10 months agoCall for Papers MLA 2023-Feministas Unidas -Sesión Garantizada-, March 25, 2022. Transatlantic Dissidences from Tierra del Fuego to the Pyrenees. Interdisciplinary panel exploring dissidences and/or disruptions in the global Transatlantic (gender, sexualities, race, ethnicity, cultural, literary, economic, visual, etc.). Submit 150-word abstract…[Read more]
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Behnam M. Fomeshi deposited Democratic Poetics: A Comparative Study of the US and Iran in the group
Global & Transnational Studies on Humanities Commons 3 years, 10 months agoWalt Whitman (1819–1892), the father of American free verse, and Nima Yushij (1897–1960), the father of Persian New Poetry, each played a central role in his respective poetic tradition. Whitman’s free verse and Yushij’s New Poetry are the results of translating the discourse of democracy to a literary discourse. In this way, there are multipl…[Read more]
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Swati Arora deposited Walk in India and South Africa: notes towards a decolonial and transnational feminist politics in the group
Urban Studies on Humanities Commons 3 years, 11 months agoThe essay discusses Maya Rao’s Walk and The Mothertongue Project’s Walk: South Africa to explore the languages of transnational and embodied feminist politics that these performances conjure. The two performances are instances of artistic responses to sexualized violence in India and South Africa as they engage with the politics of walking in the…[Read more]
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Swati Arora deposited Walking at Midnight: Women and Danger on Delhi’s Streets in the group
Urban Studies on Humanities Commons 3 years, 11 months agoI discuss the walking practice of Delhi-based artist Mallika Taneja in the context of its engagement with, and intervention in, the contemporary conversations on sexualised violence, gender, space and mobility in India. Taneja’s work is part of a variety of feminist activism to take place in India since the horrific gang rape of Jyoti Singh in D…[Read more]
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Yoon-Sun Lee started the topic CFPs for Prose Fiction Forum sessions at MLA 2023 in the discussion
GS Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 3 years, 11 months agoPlease send abstracts of 200-300 words to ylee@wellesley.edu before March 16, 2022.
- Narratives Beyond Binaries: Does narrative still rely on binary structures in a world that has moved beyond them (male/female; past/present; public/private)? The binary and nonbinary as modes of thinking; post-poststructuralism; holding theory accountable to…
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Kiril Dimitrov deposited Key aspects of leadership in business organizations under the conditions of the Covid-19 pandemic in the group
Global & Transnational Studies on Humanities Commons 3 years, 11 months agoThe paper reviews emerging aspects of leadership in business organizations under the conditions of the Covid-19 pandemic as identified two levels of its realization – on an organizational one and individual one, cultural approach to leadership, pursuing leadership through human resources and appropriate communications, considering the opinions a…[Read more]
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Rebecca Davis deposited Oops Token Example in the group
RCWS Writing Pedagogies on MLA Commons 3 years, 11 months agoExample of how to set up a policy of Oops Tokens to build flexibility into attendance policies. This idea comes from the book Specifications Grading by Linda Nilson via Flower Darby’s book Small Teaching Online.
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Sonia D. Andras deposited Crafting Illusions: Fashion as a Means of Decoding Social and Cultural History in Interwar Bucharest in the group
Global & Transnational Studies on Humanities Commons 3 years, 11 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 Crafting Illusions: Fashion as a Means of Decoding Social and Cultural History in Interwar Bucharest in the group
Gender Studies on Humanities Commons 3 years, 11 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 in the group
Gender Studies on Humanities Commons 3 years, 11 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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Steve McCarty deposited International Marriage and Bilingualism in Japan in the group
Global & Transnational Studies on Humanities Commons 3 years, 11 months agoFun quiz with a presentation and worksheet for students to answer the questions while the teacher projects the presentation. It upends preconceptions of most Japanese university students and provides a lesson on phenomena such as international marriage, language shift, and the levels of bilingualism formulated by the author.
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Sonia D. Andras deposited Allo, allo, ici le Bucharest du pedigree! The nationalization of women’s fashion in interwar Bucharest in the group
Gender Studies on Humanities Commons 3 years, 11 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 Dialog identitar în lumea modei și frumuseții interbelice: Paris-București / Identity Dialogue in the World of Interwar Fashion and Beauty: Paris-Bucharest in the group
Global & Transnational Studies on Humanities Commons 3 years, 11 months agoThis paper proposes a journey between Bucharest viewed as Little Paris and the original Paris, to determine the way in which the two capitals communicated with each other, whether it was based on dynamic interactions, beyond a simplistic Parisian dialogue. I will interpret Little Paris as an identity construction, clearly mirrored in the universe…[Read more]
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Sonia D. Andras deposited Dialog identitar în lumea modei și frumuseții interbelice: Paris-București / Identity Dialogue in the World of Interwar Fashion and Beauty: Paris-Bucharest in the group
Gender Studies on Humanities Commons 3 years, 11 months agoThis paper proposes a journey between Bucharest viewed as Little Paris and the original Paris, to determine the way in which the two capitals communicated with each other, whether it was based on dynamic interactions, beyond a simplistic Parisian dialogue. I will interpret Little Paris as an identity construction, clearly mirrored in the universe…[Read more]
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Sonia D. Andras deposited Beauty and Nation: Miss Romania as International Ambassador in the group
Global & Transnational Studies on Humanities Commons 3 years, 11 months agoMy paper will use gender studies and theories about nation and nationhood in order to explain the argument that beauty queens are viewed by the pageant organizers and aficionados as ambassadors not only of local, regional and national beauty, but also representatives of their cultures and nations. Therefore, they not only function as objects for…[Read more]
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Sonia D. Andras deposited Beauty and Nation: Miss Romania as International Ambassador in the group
Gender Studies on Humanities Commons 3 years, 11 months agoMy paper will use gender studies and theories about nation and nationhood in order to explain the argument that beauty queens are viewed by the pageant organizers and aficionados as ambassadors not only of local, regional and national beauty, but also representatives of their cultures and nations. Therefore, they not only function as objects for…[Read more]
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Carol Chiodo deposited Dante for Mothers in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 3 years, 11 months agoThis chapter details the efforts of the kindergarten educator, Elizabeth Harrison, to introduce Dante’s Divine Comedy to children in the midwestern United States during the late nineteenth century.
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Daniel Williams deposited Transatlantic Climate and Gulf Stream Aesthetics in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 3 years, 12 months agoThe Gulf Stream gained scientific prominence in the nineteenth century as a test case for theories about the dynamics of ocean currents and the equilibrium of transatlantic climate. Discourse about the current supplied descriptions, analogies, and myths that persist into the present. Triangulating oceanic, ecological, and transatlantic approaches…[Read more]
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