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Christina Dunbar-Hester deposited Hacking Diversity: The Politics of Inclusion in Open Technology Cultures in the group
Science and Technology Studies (STS) on Humanities Commons 4 years, 7 months agoHacking, as a mode of technical and cultural production, is commonly celebrated for its extraordinary freedoms of creation and circulation. Yet surprisingly few women participate in it: rates of involvement by technologically skilled women are drastically lower in hacking communities than in industry and academia. Hacking Diversity investigates…[Read more]
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Christina Dunbar-Hester deposited Paradoxes of Participation in the group
Science and Technology Studies (STS) on Humanities Commons 4 years, 7 months agoThis chapter examines how activist ideals manifest in the realm of practice, emphasizing the reality of technical expertise running afoul of participatory goals in the practice of radio activism. A major plank of the radio activists’ work was the promotion of technical participation to novices through various activities such as radio s…[Read more]
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Christina Dunbar-Hester deposited Producing “Participation”? The Pleasures and Perils of Technical Engagement in Radio Activism in the group
Science and Technology Studies (STS) on Humanities Commons 4 years, 7 months agoTwenty people spent a weekend gathered around two refrigerator-sized FM radio transmitters inside a large truck parked on a busy street. These large machines were unwieldy: over thirty years old, they were heavy to move, frustratingly dark to work in, and required high electric current to operate. They were not in working order; they were filthy…[Read more]
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Christina Dunbar-Hester deposited Soldering Towards Media Democracy: Technical Practice as Symbolic Value in Radio Activism in the group
Science and Technology Studies (STS) on Humanities Commons 4 years, 7 months agoThis article follows radio activists engaged in a combination of policy advocacy and broadening access to technology and skills through hands-on work. In practice, this largely played out as a systematic elevation of “technical” work and downplaying of policy/advocacy expertise, even though both were salient features of their work. The article arg…[Read more]
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Lawrence K Wang deposited EVOLUTIONARY MATHEMATICS AND SCIENCE FOR ULTIMATE GENERALIZATION OF LAH NUMBERS/(BINOMIAL COEFFICIENTS): SUMS/(ALTERNATE SUMS) OF ORTHOGONAL PRODUCTS OF STIRLING NUMBERS in the group
Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics on Humanities Commons 4 years, 7 months agoTsao, Hung-ping 曹恆平 (2021). Evolutionary mathematics and science for Ultimate Generalization of Lah Numbers/(Binomial Coefficients): Sums/(Alternate Sums) of Orthogonal Products of Stirling Numbers. In: “Evolutionary Progress in Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics (STEAM)”, Wang, Lawrence K. 王抗曝 and Tsao, Hung-ping 曹恆平 (edito…[Read more]
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Nora Rodriguez-Loro replied to the topic CFP: Submissions for upcoming publications in the discussion
English Literature on Humanities Commons 4 years, 7 months agoSOAR: Call for General Submissions
<p tabindex=”-1″ data-thread-perm-id=”thread-f:1704179544784490573″ data-legacy-thread-id=”17a67644505dd04d”>Please find enclosed our Call for General Submissions for SOAR: The Society of Americanists Review. Submissions of interdisciplinary scholarship relating to the culture of the United States are…[Read more] -
Nora Rodriguez-Loro replied to the topic Recent publications in the discussion
English Literature on Humanities Commons 4 years, 7 months agoA new issue of Hélice: Reflexiones críticas sobre ficción especulativa has just been released:
https://www.revistahelice.com/<wbr />helice-30/
- Sara Martín, «Retrospective Posthumanism: Frankenstein According to Our Vocabulary»
- Francisco Collado-Rodríguez, «The Female, the Intertextual, and the Transhuman in William Gibson Molly Million…
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Nora Rodriguez-Loro replied to the topic Recent publications in the discussion
English Literature on Humanities Commons 4 years, 7 months agoA new Special Issue of the journal The European Legacy: Toward New Paradigms, vol. 26, Issue 3-4 (2021) on Beneath the Waves: Feminisms in the Transmodern Era has been issued.
This issue has been co-edited by Silvia Pellicer-Ortín, Silvia Martínez-Falquina and Bárbara Arizti and it can be accessed on the following website: https://www.<wbr />tan…[Read more]
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Anne Pasek deposited Carbon Vitalism: Life and the Body in Climate Denial in the group
Science and Technology Studies (STS) on Humanities Commons 4 years, 7 months agoThis article names and examines carbon vitalism, a strain of climate denial centered on the moral recuperation of carbon dioxide—and thus fossil fuels. Drawing on interconnections between CO2, plant life, and human breath, carbon vitalists argue that carbon dioxide is not pollution but the stuff of life itself and thus possesses ethical and e…[Read more]
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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA replied to the topic MEDIEVAL in the discussion
English Literature on Humanities Commons 4 years, 7 months agoNet of Words: El autoengendramiento de ‘Beowulf’: https://www.ibercampus.es/el-autoengendramiento-de-beowulf-41275.htm
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Nora Rodriguez-Loro replied to the topic CFP: Submissions for upcoming publications in the discussion
English Literature on Humanities Commons 4 years, 7 months agoEarly Career Researchers’ Perspectives onthe Literatures and Cultures of Canada/Turtle Island
Call for Papers for a special issue of Canada and Beyond: A Journal of Canadian Literary and Cultural Studies (Issue 11, 2022).
Coinciding with its 11th anniversary, Canada and Beyond: A Journal of Canadian Literary and Cultural Studies has recently…[Read more]
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Christina Dunbar-Hester deposited “Freedom from Jobs” or learning to love to labor? Diversity advocacy and working imaginaries in Open Technology Projects in the group
Science and Technology Studies (STS) on Humanities Commons 4 years, 7 months agoThis paper examines imaginaries of work and labor in “open technology” projects (especially open source software and hackerspaces), based on ethnographic research in North America. It zeroes in on “diversity initiatives” within open technology projects. These initiatives are important because they expose many of the assumptions and tension…[Read more]
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Nora Rodriguez-Loro replied to the topic CFP: Conferences in the discussion
English Literature on Humanities Commons 4 years, 7 months agoPlease find attached the CFP for our 7th International Conference. We invite you to submit your proposals on individual papers, roundtable or workshop. The deadline has been extended until July 3rd, 2021.
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Nora Rodriguez-Loro replied to the topic CFP: Submissions for upcoming publications in the discussion
English Literature on Humanities Commons 4 years, 7 months agoCall for Papers for issue 17 of the journal Estudios Irlandeses, to be published in March 2022. Submissions that engage in a critical and original way with aspects of Irish literature, history, arts and the media should be sent to contributions@estudiosirlandeses.org not later than 1 November 2021, following the instructions detailed…[Read more]
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Nora Rodriguez-Loro replied to the topic Recent publications in the discussion
English Literature on Humanities Commons 4 years, 7 months agoThis month’s issue of Dickens Quarterly sees the publication of my article on the discovery of what appears to be the earliest published translation of writing by Dickens into Spanish. I argue that the unsigned translation should be attributed to Guillermo Macpherson, who would go on to be a noted Shakespeare translator. In a closing section on…[Read more]
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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA replied to the topic Resources in the discussion
English Literature on Humanities Commons 4 years, 8 months agoAnother significant resource with many papers: the English & American Research Network at the SSRN: https://www.ssrn.com/index.cfm/en/lit/
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Nora Rodriguez-Loro replied to the topic Reply To: Conferences, seminars and other events in the discussion
English Literature on Humanities Commons 4 years, 8 months agoEuropean Romances Across Languages: Book Celebration and Research Perspectives
7 June 2021, 14:30 – 16:00 pm BST / 15:30 – 17:00 pm CEST
Sofia Lodén and Lydia Zeldenrust have both recently published books that look at romances across multiple languages and literary traditions. To celebrate the occasion, we invite you to join us for this online…[Read more]
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Nora Rodriguez-Loro replied to the topic CFP: Conferences in the discussion
English Literature on Humanities Commons 4 years, 8 months agoDeadline for submissions: 15th June 2021
German Shakespeare Association, Shakespeare-Tage, 12–14 November 2021 in Weimar, Germany.
Should travel be restricted or deemed unsafe by participants we endeavour to host the seminar as an online or hybrid event. This year’s Shakespeare Seminar seeks to discuss the countless ways in which Shake…[Read more]
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Nora Rodriguez-Loro replied to the topic Reply To: Conferences, seminars and other events in the discussion
English Literature on Humanities Commons 4 years, 8 months agoThe Experience of Loneliness in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries29–30 June 2021
Registration is now open. Our speakers will investigate how people understood and coped with loneliness within their immediate circles and as exiles from the Henrician era to the Restoration. There will also be a final roundtable on precarity, loneliness and b…[Read more]
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Nora Rodriguez-Loro replied to the topic Reply To: Conferences, seminars and other events in the discussion
English Literature on Humanities Commons 4 years, 8 months agoOnline seminar: Thanatic Ethics. The Circulation of Bodies in Migratory Spaces.
Speakers: Dr. Bidisha Banerjee (University of Hong Kong), Dr. Judith Misrahi-Barak (Université Paul Valéry), Dr .Thomas Lacroix (Maison Française d’Oxford)
9th June
See the pdf attached for more information on registration.
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