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Danielle Fosler-Lussier started the topic Women in Music– Historiography in the discussion
Historiography on Humanities Commons 7 years, 9 months agoI’m prepping a new graduate seminar for autumn on the historiography of women in American music, broadly construed. We will use local and online primary source collections, but I also want to make sure we get into key readings in the field, both as examples of excellent history and a variety of different methods/approaches. Would anyone like to…[Read more]
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Jeannette Vaught deposited Materia Medica: Technology, Vaccination, and Antivivisection in Jazz Age Philadelphia in the group
Science Studies and the History of Science on Humanities Commons 7 years, 9 months agoDuring the 1920s, the Philadelphia-based American Antivivisection Society turned to racialized metaphors in its circulating periodical, the Starry Cross, to excoriate the expanding practice of vaccination. Since vaccines were then made from animal-derived serums, the involvement of antivivisectionists in antivaccine arguments is not surprising.…[Read more]
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Jeannette Vaught deposited Pageants, Po’ Boys, and Pork on a Stick: Documenting the Louisiana Shrimp and Petroleum Festival in the group
Science Studies and the History of Science on Humanities Commons 7 years, 9 months agoThis photoessay documents the 82nd Annual Louisiana Shrimp and Petroleum Festival, which took place in Morgan City, Louisiana over Labor Day weekend in 2018. It contains photographs of the festival, including images of pageant queens, food vendors, and the Blessing of the Fleet. The essay documents the authors’ experience of the festival, and c…[Read more]
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Martin Boehnert deposited Linguistisch-philosophische Untersuchungen zu Plausibilität: Über kommunikative Grundmuster bei der Entstehung von wissenschaftlichen Tatsachen in the group
Science Studies and the History of Science on Humanities Commons 7 years, 10 months agoPlausibilität spielt in allen Wissenschaftskulturen eine gewichtige Rolle – ob implizit oder explizit. Auffällig ist jedoch, dass es keiner spezifisch geschulten Kompetenz oder der Vermittlung eigenständiger Fähigkeiten bedarf, um einen Sachverhalt als “plausibel” zu beurteilen, während bei verwandten Begriffen wie etwa “logisch” je nach den meth…[Read more]
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Martin Boehnert deposited Philosophie der Tierforschung: Die methodologische Signatur von Forschungsprogrammen in the group
Science Studies and the History of Science on Humanities Commons 7 years, 10 months agoDie Tierphilosophie ist eines der lebendigsten Felder der Gegenwartsphilosophie. In ihrem Mittelpunkt standen bislang Fragen nach dem Geist der Tiere, der Tier-Mensch-Unterschied oder Probleme der Tierethik. Die auf drei Bände angelegte »Philosophie der Tierforschung« wirft einen neuen Blick auf dieses Gebiet mit dem Ziel einer strukturierten Un…[Read more]
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Martin Boehnert deposited Philosophie der Tierforschung: Kulturelle und ethische Dimensionen methodischer Tier-Mensch-Interaktionen in the group
Science Studies and the History of Science on Humanities Commons 7 years, 10 months agoDie Tierphilosophie ist eines der lebendigsten Felder der Gegenwartsphilosophie. In ihrem Mittelpunkt standen bislang Fragen nach dem Geist der Tiere, der Tier-Mensch-Unterschied oder Probleme der Tierethik. Die auf drei Bände angelegte »Philosophie der Tierforschung« wirft einen neuen Blick auf dieses Gebiet mit dem Ziel einer strukturierten Un…[Read more]
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Martin Boehnert deposited Riot Grrrl Primatology – Über Forscherinnen, Feminismus und feministische Wissenschaften in the group
Science Studies and the History of Science on Humanities Commons 7 years, 10 months agoDraft Version des Beitrags: In dem vorliegenden Artikel möchten wir der Frage nach den Möglichkeiten eines weiblichen bzw. feministischen Zugangs zu wissenschaftlicher Forschung in verschiedenen Hinsichten beleuchten. Wir werden uns dem Thema exemplarisch anhand des Forschungsfeldes der Primatologie zuwenden, wobei die Antwort auf die Frage, w…[Read more]
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Rebecca Ruth Gould deposited “Reading Ruins Against the Grain: Istanbul, Derbent, Postcoloniality,” Culture, Theory, & Critique (2012) in the group
Historiography on Humanities Commons 7 years, 10 months agoThe ruins of church-mosques, museums, and ancient cities inform material culture as allegories inform spiritual life, invoking transcendence amidst desacralization. Drawing on Benjamin, Jameson, and Koselleck to advance our understanding of the functioning of ruins across time, this ethnography of ruins engages with the paradoxes generated by…[Read more]
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Francesco Luzzini deposited Theory, Practice, and Nature In-between. Antonio Vallisneri’s Primi Itineris Specimen in the group
Science Studies and the History of Science on Humanities Commons 7 years, 10 months agoIn the summer of 1704, Antonio Vallisneri (1661–1730), the preeminent Italian physician and natural philosopher of his time, traveled with a “daring soul” and “trembling feet” across the “silent horrors” of the northern Apennines: down the hills south of Reggio Emilia to northern Tuscany and the western edge of his native land, the Province of G…[Read more]
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Francesco Luzzini deposited Theory, Practice, and Nature In-between. Antonio Vallisneri’s Primi Itineris Specimen in the group
Historiography on Humanities Commons 7 years, 10 months agoIn the summer of 1704, Antonio Vallisneri (1661–1730), the preeminent Italian physician and natural philosopher of his time, traveled with a “daring soul” and “trembling feet” across the “silent horrors” of the northern Apennines: down the hills south of Reggio Emilia to northern Tuscany and the western edge of his native land, the Province of G…[Read more]
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Francesco Luzzini deposited An uncomfortable, yet wonderful journey. Antonio Vallisneri and his exploration of the Northern Apennines in the group
Science Studies and the History of Science on Humanities Commons 7 years, 11 months agoin: Nel nome di Lazzaro. Saggi di storia della scienza e delle istituzioni scientifiche tra il XVII e il XVIII secolo, edited by Centro Studi Lazzaro Spallanzani, Bologna, Edizioni Pendragon, 2014, pp. 207-220.
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Ted Underwood deposited The Transformation of Gender in English-Language Fiction in the group
Sociology on Humanities Commons 8 years agoPreprint to appear in a special issue of Cultural Analytics on “Identity.” The article explores the paradox that the representation of gender in fiction became more flexible while the sheer balance of attention between fictional men and women was growing more unequal. We measure the rigidity of gendered roles by asking how easy it is to infer…[Read more]
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Evina Steinova deposited Nota superponere studui: the Use of technical signs in the early Middle Ages (a dissertation summary) in the group
Science Studies and the History of Science on Humanities Commons 8 years agoThis is the English summary of my dissertation Notam superponere studui: the use of technical signs in the early Middle Ages, which was defended on March 18, 2016 at Utrecht University.
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Evina Steinova deposited Notam superponere studui: the art of using symbols (rather than words) to annotate text in the group
Science Studies and the History of Science on Humanities Commons 8 years agoThis blog post originally appeared on the website of Huygens ING (https://www.huygens.knaw.nl/marginal-scholarship-annoteren-met-behulp-van-tekens-in-plaats-van-woorden/?lang=en) on June 30, 2016. It was published both in Dutch and in English as a part of a four-part series about the Marginal Scholarship project, which was hosted by the Huygens…[Read more]
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Oscar Perea-Rodriguez deposited Pedro I y la propaganda antipetrista en la génesis y el éxito de la poesía cancioneril castellana, I in the group
Historiography on Humanities Commons 8 years agoEs bien conocido que la Relación sumaria de la Historia verdadera del Rey Don Pedro (PhiloBiblon BETA Texid 3377) es una de las obras de mayor complejidad analítica en toda la literatura hispánica de finales de la Edad Media y comienzo del Renacimiento. No solo en lo que concierne a su laberíntico entramado ecdótico, del que se han ocupado inve…[Read more]
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Marco Heiles deposited Die Farb- und Tintenrezepte des Cod. germ. 1 der Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Hamburg und ihre Vorlagen in the group
Science Studies and the History of Science on Humanities Commons 8 years agoEdition von 41 Farb- und Tintenrezepten zur Buchherstellung aus der Handschrift Hamburg, Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek, Cod. germ. 1 mit einem textgeschichtlichen Kommentar.
Marco Heiles, Die Farb- und Tintenrezepte des Cod. germ. 1 der Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Hamburg und ihre Vorlagen, in: Mittelalter. Interdisziplinäre Fo…[Read more]
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Francesco Luzzini deposited The Vesuvian Eruption of 1631: an Early Modern History (Review) in the group
Science Studies and the History of Science on Humanities Commons 8 years, 1 month agoReview of the book “The Vesuvian Eruption of 1631: an Early Modern History” (by Alfonso Tortora)
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Francesco Luzzini deposited Description, analogy, symbolism, faith. Jesuit science and iconography in the early modern debate on the origin of springs in the group
Science Studies and the History of Science on Humanities Commons 8 years, 1 month agoBy the end of the sixteenth century, many Jesuit colleges had become centers of excellence all over Europe for such disciplines as mathematics, astronomy, hydraulics, and mechanics. Not a few members of the order provided influential contributions to science: in the case of the study of waters, the inquisitive eye of Jesuits took part in the l…[Read more]
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Francesco Luzzini deposited Through dark and mysterious paths. Early modern science and the search for the origin of springs from the 16thto the 18thcenturies in the group
Science Studies and the History of Science on Humanities Commons 8 years, 1 month agoSince its first attempts to understand natural phenomena, early modern science devoted great attention to the problematic issue of the origin of springs. This essay examines the lively debate that emerged from the studies on fresh water during the years spanning from the mid-sixteenth century to the early eighteenth. By focusing on the…[Read more]
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Francesco Luzzini deposited Through dark and mysterious paths. Early modern science and the search for the origin of springs from the 16thto the 18thcenturies in the group
Historiography on Humanities Commons 8 years, 1 month agoSince its first attempts to understand natural phenomena, early modern science devoted great attention to the problematic issue of the origin of springs. This essay examines the lively debate that emerged from the studies on fresh water during the years spanning from the mid-sixteenth century to the early eighteenth. By focusing on the…[Read more]
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