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Elton Barker deposited Journeying through Space and Time with Pausanias’s Description of Greece in the group
Digital Humanists on Humanities Commons 2 years, 10 months agoSometime in the second century CE, Pausanias of Magnesia (modern-day Turkey) wrote the Description of Greece. Ostensibly a tour of the places to see on the Greek mainland, the Description also provides historical accounts related to the topography through which Pausanias moves. Little attention has been given to how these building blocks of…[Read more]
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Catherine Fountain replied to the topic General Linguistics Forum: Checking In in the discussion
General Linguistics on MLA Commons 2 years, 10 months agoMy main area of research is linguistic historiography, the history of linguistics. Within that field, I’m particularly interested in how indigenous languages of the Americas have been described and documented, and by whom, and how description and documentation of these language shaped linguistics in the US and elsewhere.
That said, my current…[Read more]
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Catherine Fountain started the topic General Linguistics Forum: Checking In in the discussion
General Linguistics on MLA Commons 2 years, 10 months agoSome forum members may have received a survey last week, as I did, inquiring about how we use the Humanities Commons and what we would like it to be. I realized that 1) I don’t use the Humanities and MLA Commons all that much and 2) I would very much like for them to be spaces that spark connections and collaborations.
To that end, I thought I’d…[Read more]
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Samuel Adu-Gyamfi deposited Contemporary History of the Increasing Use of Traditional Medicine among the Asante of Ghana: A Focus on Afigya Kwabre South District in the group
Digital Humanists on Humanities Commons 2 years, 10 months agoUsing a qualitative method of research, the study investigated the increasing use of traditional medicine in Ghana, focusing on Afigya Kwabre South District. Traditional medicine has gone through various stages since time immemorial, especially with regard to how its patronage has evolved over time. The period ranges from the pre-colonial era,…[Read more]
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Pruritus Migrans deposited Black QR code in the group
Digital Humanists on Humanities Commons 2 years, 10 months agoBlack QR code * QRt by PRURITUS MIGRANS * CC: BY-ND
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Pruritus Migrans deposited Art Attack! in the group
Digital Humanists on Humanities Commons 2 years, 10 months agoArt Attack! * PRURITUS MIGRANS * CC: BY-NC-ND
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Michelle Margolis Chesner deposited Footprints: A New Approach to (Jewish) Book HIstory in the group
Digital Humanists on Humanities Commons 2 years, 10 months agoThis article describes and analyzes the methods of Footprints: Jewish Books Through Time and Place, a digital humanities contribution to book history. Footprints collects and aggregates information about the movement of copies of Hebrew books and books of Judaica in other languages printed in the early modern period (roughly corresponding to the…[Read more]
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Johann-Mattis List deposited Multilingual Computational Linguistics (Lecture, presented at the University of Passau in the Winter Term 2022-2023) in the group
Linguistics on Humanities Commons 2 years, 10 months agoWhile the discipline of computational linguistics mostly deals with the modeling and the investigation of individual languages (often “big” languages such as English, German, Arabic, or Chinese), Multilingual Computational Linguistics focuses on the comparison of languages, trying to develop new methods and techniques by which languages can be com…[Read more]
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Johann-Mattis List deposited Multilingual Computational Linguistics (Lecture, presented at the University of Passau in the Winter Term 2022-2023) in the group
Digital Humanists on Humanities Commons 2 years, 10 months agoWhile the discipline of computational linguistics mostly deals with the modeling and the investigation of individual languages (often “big” languages such as English, German, Arabic, or Chinese), Multilingual Computational Linguistics focuses on the comparison of languages, trying to develop new methods and techniques by which languages can be com…[Read more]
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Dustin Friedman deposited Do Queer Theory and Victorian Studies Still Have Anything to Learn from Each Other? in the group
TC Sexuality Studies on MLA Commons 2 years, 10 months agoThis essay argues that an antiracist, anticolonialist Victorian studies must remain open to universalizing claims of the kind found in early works of queer theory, particularly Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick’s Epistemology of the Closet (1990). Although recent work in queer studies (as well as literary studies generally) finds inspiration in Sedgwick’s…[Read more]
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Kyle Frackman deposited Homemade Pornography and the Proliferation of Queer Pleasure in East Germany in the group
Queer and Trans German Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 10 months agoLike other Eastern Bloc countries, East Germany sought to control even its citizens’ leisure time in the 1960s and 1970s, with the goal of making it useful or at least not subversive to state interests. Certain hobbies, like amateur photography, found support from the state in the form of increased access to equipment and supplies. Other s…[Read more]
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Kyle Frackman deposited Homemade Pornography and the Proliferation of Queer Pleasure in East Germany in the group
German Literature and Culture on Humanities Commons 2 years, 10 months agoLike other Eastern Bloc countries, East Germany sought to control even its citizens’ leisure time in the 1960s and 1970s, with the goal of making it useful or at least not subversive to state interests. Certain hobbies, like amateur photography, found support from the state in the form of increased access to equipment and supplies. Other s…[Read more]
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