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Javier Padilla deposited Yeats’s Meditative Spaces in the group
Global & Transnational Studies on Humanities Commons 6 years, 10 months agoThe twentieth-century debate between modernist and postcolonial scholars around the figure of W.B. Yeats should move beyond purely modern or postcolonial frameworks. Yeats’s poems can be read as meditations through which the Irish poet both anticipates the promise of a postcolonial, modern world, and yet remains attached to the lasting structures…[Read more]
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Sabine LAMOUR deposited Partir pour mieux s’enraciner ou retour sur la fabrique du poto-mitan en Haiti in the group
Postcolonial Studies on Humanities Commons 6 years, 11 months agoBook chapter of: Dejouer le silence: contre discours sur les femmes haïtiennes
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Felipe Furtado Guimaraes deposited Interculturality, Internationalization and Intercomprehension: what is the relation? in the group
Global & Transnational Studies on Humanities Commons 6 years, 11 months agoThis paper paper reviews the concepts of interculturality and internationalization of higher education, discussing the relationship between them and additional languages, drawing on some considerations on the use of an approach for the teaching-learning-use of additional languages, known as the intercomprehension approach. The review offered here…[Read more]
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Adel Shannaq deposited Participation of Arab developing countries in the dispute settlement system of the World Trade Organisation: limitations and underutilisation in the group
Global & Transnational Studies on Humanities Commons 6 years, 11 months agoThe purpose of this study is to explore in depth the concerns that limit the participation of developing countries in the WTO Dispute Settlement Proceedings. To this end, it investigates the current practice of WTO members. By interviewing Arab specialists, it seeks to understand why Arab developing members are reluctant to use the Dispute…[Read more]
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Glen M Golub deposited The Index of Deities and Demons in the group
History of Art on Humanities Commons 6 years, 11 months agoThe Index of Deities and Demons is the heart of One Godz. This Index presents almost all Deities and Demons represented on the cave walls of Chauvet and Lascaux along with their defining Basis Points drawn from Hesiod and the Homeric Hymns. This chapter demonstrates the actual process of attaching meaning to symbolism while mediating subjectivity.
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Glen M Golub deposited A Primer of Pictographic Systems (ver. 1.01) in the group
History of Art on Humanities Commons 6 years, 11 months agoThis Primer provides a methodology for mitigating subjectivity when attaching meaning to preholocene rock art. It provides an introduction to basic syntax, grammar, and some vocabulary. It identifies four non-verbal languages of the Upper Paleo.
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Glen M Golub deposited The Greater Mysteries of Eleusis at Chauvet in the group
History of Art on Humanities Commons 6 years, 11 months agoThis is the five image hypothesis for the thesis One Godz which follows.
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Nick Di Taranto started the topic Apply to participate in a NEH Summer Program – Deadline 3/1/19 in the discussion
Postcolonial Studies on Humanities Commons 6 years, 11 months agoThe National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Summer Seminars and Institutes offer tuition-free opportunities for higher education faculty to study a variety of humanities topics. Stipends of $1,200-$3,300 help cover expenses for these one- to four-week programs. This summer NEH is supporting two programs that may be of particular interest to…[Read more]
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Narasimhananda Swami deposited Encyclopedia of Kashmiri Pandit Culture and Heritage by C L Kaul Book Review February 2011 Prabuddha Bharata in the group
Postcolonial Studies on Humanities Commons 6 years, 11 months agoEncyclopedia of Kashmiri Pandit Culture and Heritage by C L Kaul Book Review February 2011 Prabuddha Bharata
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Narasimhananda Swami deposited Vedanta Brain and Islam Body Dr A P J Abdul Kalam Prabuddha Bharata October 2015 in the group
Postcolonial Studies on Humanities Commons 6 years, 11 months agoLife of former President of India Dr A P J Abdul Kalam, who was also the author of the Indian missile program.
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Narasimhananda Swami deposited The Changing Classroom Student Vedanta Kesari December 2016 in the group
Postcolonial Studies on Humanities Commons 6 years, 12 months agoThis paper discusses the various tools and platforms available to disseminate and receive educate in an increasingly virtual world. It analyses the impact of MOOCs in the changing face of ICT based education. With many examples of life-transformations due to online learning platforms, this paper gives a glimpse of the sea transformations that…[Read more]
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Lécio Leal deposited A Identidade Mariana nas Mãos de Domingos Teixeira Barreto. in the group
History of Art on Humanities Commons 7 years ago(…)
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Lécio Leal deposited Tem o Céu Santos. O tecto em caixotões da igreja de Nossa Senhora dos Réis de Lamalonga. in the group
History of Art on Humanities Commons 7 years agoThe coffered ceiling of Nossa Senhora dos Réis de Lamalonga church is one of the largest and most important nucleus of painting in the northeastern region of Portugal. Given the ambitious programme of interceding saints it appears that the work was largelly triggered by the human tragedy in Lisbon earthquake of 1 November 1755. Joaquim Manuel da…[Read more]
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Lécio Leal deposited Vieira Lusitano Ex Machina. Os desenhos guarnecidos do Museu de Évora. in the group
History of Art on Humanities Commons 7 years agoThe different sensations resulted from Vieira Lusitano garnish and ungarnish drawings observation, registered in a few museums in our country, led us to consider other reasons beyond the painter intentions to promote this creative step in art itself. Painters ennoblement was more dependent in social origins rather in artistic merits, besides they…[Read more]
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Lécio Leal deposited Nossa Senhora da Imaculada Conceição, Padroeira e Rainha de Portugal. Pintura de Francisco Xavier Lobo na Igreja de Santa Maria da Devesa de Castelo de Vide. in the group
History of Art on Humanities Commons 7 years agoFirst known and signed work of Francisco Xavier Lobo, translator, playwright, poet and painter from Lisbon during the eighteenth century for the collegial-church of Espírito Santo (Castelo de Vide), heavily marked by decency concerns as response to a progressively more sensual painting.
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Lécio Leal deposited O Retrato pouco Consentido de Francisco Pérez Bayer, por Manuel José Pinheiro, na Pinacoteca de D. Frei Manuel do Cenáculo in the group
History of Art on Humanities Commons 7 years agoEfforts had been made to portrait Francisco Pérez Bayer in his visit to Portugal in 1782, but with a «shadowing memory» result as we seen today at Évora Museum reserves and originally from D. Frei Manuel do Cenáculo’s pinacotheca. Portraits of edifying figures of society had been included in his collection reinforcing the position of this genr…[Read more]
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Stacy Fahrenthold deposited Making nations, in the Mahjar: Syrian and Lebanese long-distance nationalisms in New York City, São Paulo, and Buenos Aires, 1913-1929 in the group
Global & Transnational Studies on Humanities Commons 7 years agoThis dissertation traces the emergence of transnational political institutions among Arabophone Ottoman emigrants living in New York City, São Paulo, and Buenos Aires, and analyzes the development of a long-distance nationalist politics among emigrant activists during and after World War I. Using socially-produced primary materials written and…[Read more]
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Dora Apel deposited “Heroes” and “Whores”: The Politics of Gender in Weimar Antiwar Imagery in the group
History of Art on Humanities Commons 7 years agoWeimar antimilitarist imagery shows that ideals of manliness and maternity, concepts central to the German patriotic view of World War I, were not limited to use by the political right but were redefined and deployed by antiwar artists Otto Dix and Käthe Kollwitz, and in photographs published by the pacifist propagandist Ernst Friedrich, who…[Read more]
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Dora Apel deposited Just Joking? Chimps, Obama and Racial Stereotype in the group
History of Art on Humanities Commons 7 years agoPublic racist stereotypes after the election of Barack Obama
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Dora Apel deposited Torture Culture: Lynching Photographs and the Images of Abu Ghraib in the group
History of Art on Humanities Commons 7 years agoOn the photographs of torture at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq and the visual politics of power
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