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Meredith Warren deposited Reading the Apocalypse with Christopher Nolan: Story and Narrative, Time and Space in the group
Religious Studies on Humanities Commons 3 years, 7 months agoThis essay examines the Book of Revelation in dialogue with the films of Christopher Nolan, with particular attention to the use of nonlinear narrative. The approach taken to Nolan’s work is that of auteur theory, a pattern theory which traces the distinctive technical and artistic voice of the director across a wide range of films (e.g. M…[Read more]
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Meredith Warren deposited Affective Resistance to Sirach’s Androcentric Presentation of a Daughter’s Body in the group
Feminist Humanities on Humanities Commons 3 years, 7 months agoThis article concentrates on the affective impacts of the relationship between the bodies of the father and his daughter in Sirach. It relies on gender studies as well as affect theory to explore how intensities pass from body to body in the biblical text, and also to the bodies of those who read it. The father’s body is marked by gynophobic a…[Read more]
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Valeria Graziano deposited Fragilità, cura e azione politica in the group
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 3 years, 7 months agoThis contribution is based on a talk on fragility care and political action given during the Venice Climate Camp 2021
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Gabriela Méndez Cota deposited A queer ecological reading of ecocultural identity in contemporary Mexico in the group
Feminist Humanities on Humanities Commons 3 years, 7 months agoThis chapter analyzes activist narratives that foreground agroecological systems such as milpa farming. Here, corn has been most visibly used as a unifying metaphor for Mexican identity, while quelites (‘tender edible weeds’), which grow spontaneously at the feet of corn plants, have historically commanded much less attention. Recently, how…[Read more]
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Gabriela Méndez Cota deposited A queer ecological reading of ecocultural identity in contemporary Mexico in the group
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 3 years, 7 months agoThis chapter analyzes activist narratives that foreground agroecological systems such as milpa farming. Here, corn has been most visibly used as a unifying metaphor for Mexican identity, while quelites (‘tender edible weeds’), which grow spontaneously at the feet of corn plants, have historically commanded much less attention. Recently, how…[Read more]
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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA deposited El origen del Planeta de los Simios in the group
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 3 years, 7 months agoAnalizamos el contexto e ideología de la película de ciencia ficción ‘El Origen del Planeta de los Simios’ (2011), con especial atención sobre el juego intertextual de precuelas y secuelas, y sobre las inquietudes ideológicas manifiestas en lo relativo a las relaciones raciales y al evolucionismo.…[Read more]
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James Louis Smith deposited Public Humanities EcoGothic at the Coast in Ireland and Wales in the group
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 3 years, 7 months agoThe Gothic clings to Irish and Welsh coasts and finds voice through strange stories. Centuries of accumulated death and tragedy forms a dense web of sorrow with particularly prolific roots in the literature, songs, and stories of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. These traditions resonate within the longer history of lives and vessels lost…[Read more]
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Meredith Warren deposited The Fantasy of ‘the Bible’ in the Museum of the Bible and Academic Biblical Studies in the group
Religious Studies on Humanities Commons 3 years, 7 months ago“The Bible” does not exist as material reality, and yet as a cultural icon “the Bible” animates institutions and enterprises devoted to it. This article assesses the short history of scholarship on one such institution, the controversial Museum of the Bible (MOTB) in Washington, D.C., in order to highlight and critique the fantasy of “the Bi…[Read more]
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Cagdas Dedeoglu deposited Cosmology of the Ergene River Pollution in the group
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 3 years, 8 months agoThe Ergene River has a length of 283 km within the European part of Turkey, which is also known as the Thrace Region, and its river basin area is 14,945.85 km2 that consists of agricultural lands noted for high fertility. It is born from Tekirdag, one of the three provinces of the region; passes through Kirklareli; and unites with the Evros River,…[Read more]
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Özkan Karaca deposited Tarihin İz Dokunduğu ve Ses Verdiği Güzergah İpek Yolu in the group
Science Studies and the History of Science on Humanities Commons 3 years, 8 months agoTarih boyunca kentler, kültür ve medeniyetlerin doğduğu, geliştiği ve yayıldığı yerler olmuştur. Kentler, tarihsel süreçte insanların çeşitli gereksinimlerinin ürünü olarak sürekli bir gelişme göstermiştir. Bu gelişme sürecinde hem insanlığın birikiminin gelecek kuşaklara taşıyıcısı, hem de taşıdığı uygarlık birikimi ile insanoğlunun geleceğini şe…[Read more]
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Francesco Luzzini deposited Quando il mondo scalò il Sublime. Scienza e storia nel primo Memoriale dell’Hotel Nave d’Oro di Predazzo (1820-1875) in the group
Science Studies and the History of Science on Humanities Commons 3 years, 8 months agoIn the 19th century, a unique combination of scientific, social, political and cultural factors attracted crowds of visitors from all over the world to the Dolomite Mountains. This phenomenon had its epicenter in Fiemme Valley and in the town of Predazzo, where Michele Giacomelli and his family hosted a great number of these travelers in their…[Read more]
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Francesco Luzzini deposited Quando il mondo scalò il Sublime. Scienza e storia nel primo Memoriale dell’Hotel Nave d’Oro di Predazzo (1820-1875) in the group
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 3 years, 8 months agoIn the 19th century, a unique combination of scientific, social, political and cultural factors attracted crowds of visitors from all over the world to the Dolomite Mountains. This phenomenon had its epicenter in Fiemme Valley and in the town of Predazzo, where Michele Giacomelli and his family hosted a great number of these travelers in their…[Read more]
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Dr. Steven D. Aguzzi deposited Millenarian and Amillennial Theologies of History in Relation to Supersessionism in the group
Religious Studies on Humanities Commons 3 years, 8 months agoThe purpose of this essay is threefold. First we will attempt to define the problem of supersessionism (also known as ‘Replacement Theology’), both by responding to the calls of the Roman Catholic Church within Vatican II to change theologies of supersession, but likewise by addressing the current weaknesses in eschatological though within the Rom…[Read more]
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Gabriela Méndez Cota deposited Muerte cósmica y existencia vegetal in the group
Feminist Humanities on Humanities Commons 3 years, 8 months agoChapter on Emanuele Coccia’s meditations on plants, from the perspective of feminist extinction inspired by Claire Colebrook.
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Gabriela Méndez Cota deposited Muerte cósmica y existencia vegetal in the group
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 3 years, 8 months agoChapter on Emanuele Coccia’s meditations on plants, from the perspective of feminist extinction inspired by Claire Colebrook.
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Gabriela Méndez Cota deposited Post-Globalscape. Images and the End of the World. in the group
Feminist Humanities on Humanities Commons 3 years, 8 months agoReflections on Post-Globalscape, an exhibition curated by Gerardo Mosquera for Intermingling Flux: 2021 Guangzhou Image Triennial, Guangdong Lingnan Fine Arts Publishing House, Editor in Chief Wang Shaoqiang.
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Gabriela Méndez Cota deposited Post-Globalscape. Images and the End of the World. in the group
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 3 years, 8 months agoReflections on Post-Globalscape, an exhibition curated by Gerardo Mosquera for Intermingling Flux: 2021 Guangzhou Image Triennial, Guangdong Lingnan Fine Arts Publishing House, Editor in Chief Wang Shaoqiang.
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Rita Singer deposited “The Devil may take Snowdon”, or: inscribing touristic disappointment in Victorian visitors’ books in the group
Victorian Studies on Humanities Commons 3 years, 8 months agoHistorically, tourism in Wales was invigorated by the reinvention of mountain scenery during the Romantic period when travellers gained new perspectives of the terrain from higher ground. It is also during this period that inns and guesthouses began keeping visitors’ books in which guests evaluated their surroundings and their hosts’ good ser…[Read more]
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Lawrence K Wang deposited GREEN INNOVATIONS IN FLOTATION, PROTEIN SEPARATION, FLUE GAS REUSE, NEW PROCESS SYSTEMS, SULFIDE PRECIPITATION, CHROMIUM REMOVAL, AND TANNERY WASTE TREATMENT in the group
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 3 years, 9 months agoWang, LK and Wang, MHS (2022). Green innovations in flotation, protein separation, flue gas reuse, new process systems, sulfide precipitation, chromium removal, and tannery waste treatment. In: “Evolutionary Progress in Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics (STEAM)”, Wang, LK and Tsao, HP (eds.), 4 (7E), STE…[Read more]
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Michael Miller deposited Journeys to the Otherworld: Jewish Traditions in the group
Religious Studies on Humanities Commons 3 years, 9 months agoEntry on Hekhalot literature
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