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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
Classical Philology and 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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Ian Willis deposited A marvellous Edwardian building in the group
History on Humanities Commons 2 years, 10 months agoThe former Foresters’ Hall occupies one of the most prominent sites in the Camden Town Centre at 147 Argyle Street on the corner of Oxley Street and Argyle Street. On its opening in 1908, the hall was considered the best in New South Wales by the Order of Royal Foresters.
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Jeffrey A. Becker deposited Rome’s Augustan “rebirth”: from bricks to marble in the group
Roman archaeology on Humanities Commons 2 years, 10 months agoThis course provides a detailed examination of the life and administration of the Roman emperor Augustus (reigned 31 B.C. to A.D. 14), a time of pivotal social and economic change that forever altered the trajectory of Roman history. Augustus and his administration will be examined from a variety of viewpoints, drawing on a rich dataset that…[Read more]
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Jeffrey A. Becker deposited Rome’s Augustan “rebirth”: from bricks to marble in the group
Classical archaeology on Humanities Commons 2 years, 10 months agoThis course provides a detailed examination of the life and administration of the Roman emperor Augustus (reigned 31 B.C. to A.D. 14), a time of pivotal social and economic change that forever altered the trajectory of Roman history. Augustus and his administration will be examined from a variety of viewpoints, drawing on a rich dataset that…[Read more]
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Jeffrey A. Becker deposited Art in the ancient Greek world in the group
Classical archaeology on Humanities Commons 2 years, 10 months agoThis course explores the art and archaeology of the Greek world from the Late Bronze Age to the Roman period. The course focuses on architecture, sculpture, painted pottery, and wall painting as its main object classes and situates artistic and stylistic developments within their social, political, and historical context. We will consider issues…[Read more]
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Andrea Sinclair deposited Late Bronze Age Polychrome Faience in the ‘International Style’ in the group
Near Eastern Archaeology on Humanities Commons 2 years, 10 months agoThe Late Bronze Age was a period of heightened international diplomacy throughout the eastern Mediterranean littoral and the Near East. A direct result of this supra-regional interconnectivity is argued to have been the formation of an independent hybrid visual style, the ‘International Style’, an iconographic idiom which occurs sparingly on art…[Read more]
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Andrea Sinclair deposited Late Bronze Age Polychrome Faience in the ‘International Style’ in the group
Archaeology on Humanities Commons 2 years, 10 months agoThe Late Bronze Age was a period of heightened international diplomacy throughout the eastern Mediterranean littoral and the Near East. A direct result of this supra-regional interconnectivity is argued to have been the formation of an independent hybrid visual style, the ‘International Style’, an iconographic idiom which occurs sparingly on art…[Read more]
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Andrea Sinclair deposited Late Bronze Age Polychrome Faience in the ‘International Style’ in the group
Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean archaeology on Humanities Commons 2 years, 10 months agoThe Late Bronze Age was a period of heightened international diplomacy throughout the eastern Mediterranean littoral and the Near East. A direct result of this supra-regional interconnectivity is argued to have been the formation of an independent hybrid visual style, the ‘International Style’, an iconographic idiom which occurs sparingly on art…[Read more]
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Ian Willis deposited The Enduring Face of the Camden Showgirl in the group
History on Humanities Commons 2 years, 10 months agoThe Camden Miss Showgirl competition is, in many ways, an anachronism from the past. It has survived for 49 years under the onslaught of feminism, post-modernism, globalization and urbanisation. A worthy feat indeed.
The competition is still popular, and the local press is always a strong supporter. The 2010 Camden Showgirl competition attracted…[Read more] -
Ian Willis deposited Miss Showgirl an enduring anachronism in the group
History on Humanities Commons 2 years, 10 months agoOnce again, country show societies are gearing up for the annual New South Wales Miss Showgirl competition. In 2008 500 young women entered the pageant at a local level representing 120 show societies, with the Sydney Royal Easter Show finals. The 2011 Camden Miss Showgirl has attracted seven young local women – four of the seven are university s…[Read more]
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Luis de Orueta deposited CAPRICHO DE LO TRIVIAL in the group
Digital Humanists on Humanities Commons 2 years, 10 months agoEl autor comienza diciendo que antes de nacer vivía con sus padres (claro) y termina su relato 86 años después con una despedida evanescente. En el intervalo: una vida sin huella. ¿Entonces por qué contarla? A falta de mejor respuesta, aduce voces misteriosas en la segunda parte del Fausto de Goethe:
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Cagdas Dedeoglu deposited Posthumanism for Sustainability: A Scoping Review in the group
Digital Humanists on Humanities Commons 2 years, 10 months agoThe purpose of this study is to explore the relationship between posthumanism and sustainability and contribute to the interdisciplinary concept of posthuman sustainability. We conducted a scoping review of 45 peer-reviewed journal articles that met our inclusion criteria and employed co-occurrence analysis based on the clustering techniques of…[Read more]
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Matthew Scarborough deposited Bactrian χϸονο ‘(calendar) year, (regnal) year’ in the group
Classical Philology and Linguistics on Humanities Commons 2 years, 10 months agoSince H. Humbach’s Baktrische Sprachdenkmäler (Wiesbaden, 1966) the main etymological
proposal for Bactrian χϸονο ‘(calendar) year, (regnal) year’ has been A. Thierfelder’s suggestion of a loanword from Hellenistic Greek χρόνος ‘time’. In this article the plausibility of this etymology is re-examined, and it is further argued that it should b…[Read more] -
Carlos A. Pittella deposited Tradições, Transcrições, Traduções: Por um Entendimento Rizomático do Fausto Pessoano in the group
Digital Humanists on Humanities Commons 2 years, 10 months agoThis article invites the reading of Fernando Pessoa’s Fausto as a rhizomatic work, via three different critical lenses that lead to plurality: Traditions, Transcriptions, and Translations. Regarding different Faustian traditions, instead of seeing Pessoa’s Fausto merely as a competition with Goethe (as proposed by Eduardo Lourenço in his pref…[Read more]
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Kristen Mapes deposited Introduction to Digital Humanities Syllabus (Fall 2022) in the group
Digital Humanists on Humanities Commons 2 years, 11 months agoSyllabus for 2022 edition of DH285: Introduction to Digital Humanities, taught at Michigan State University as a required course in the undergraduate Digital Humanities minor. The course is a survey introduction to the field, has no prerequisites, and is open to students from any major. Twenty-eight students were in the course.
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Eliseo Ferrer deposited Eliseo Ferrer / Preámbulo del libro «Sacrificio y drama del Rey Sagrado». Una visión diferente de los orígenes cristianos. in the group
Anthropology on Humanities Commons 2 years, 11 months agoPreámbulo del libro SACRIFRICIO Y DRAMA DEL REY SAGRADO, de Eliseo Ferrer. (Se añade índice y bibliografía).
Vaya por delante que ésta no es una obra de consenso académico; y tampoco una obra guiada por la fe religiosa, ni por los presupuestos decimonónicos del ateísmo antirreligioso y anticristiano. Decía el mitólogo Joseph Campbell que la hu…[Read more] -
Eliseo Ferrer deposited Eliseo Ferrer / El significado del Mito en las culturas primitivas, como paradigma de realidad y explicación del cosmos. in the group
Anthropology on Humanities Commons 2 years, 11 months agoLas filosofías racionalistas y la teología de la Iglesia ocultaron a lo largo de dos mil años el verdadero significado de los mitos y de la mitología antigua, para reducir su significado a aquello que, presentado como verdad aparente en un discurso, resultaba ser falso en realidad. En este sentido, un mito vendría determinado por la narr…[Read more]
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Paulino Capdepon deposited La capilla musical de la colegiata de Talavera de la Reina en la primera mitad del siglo XIX in the group
History on Humanities Commons 2 years, 11 months agoAfter the period of splendour experienced by the musical chapel of the Collegiate Church of Santa María la Mayor in Talavera de la Reina during the 18th century, we witnessed a period of decline, which was part of the crisis experienced by Spanish religious music during the 19th century. The effects of the War of Independence, the successive…[Read more]
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Paulino Capdepon deposited Música de tecla en la España del siglo XVIII: Domenico Scarlatti y el padre Antonio Soler in the group
History on Humanities Commons 2 years, 11 months agoThis article focuses on Spanish music in the 18th century, which experienced one of the most brilliant periods in its history. This was undoubtedly due to the splendour achieved by keyboard music, which reached an extraordinary level of development after the arrival in Spain of the Neapolitan composer Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1757), harpsichord…[Read more]
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Paulino Capdepon deposited El Patrimonio musical de Talavera de la Reina in the group
History on Humanities Commons 2 years, 11 months agoThe musical chapel of the Collegiate Church of Santa María la Mayor in Talavera de la Reina is a significant case of how an ecclesiastical institution articulates the musical life of a city: in this sense, it can be stated that the main musical activity in the aforementioned Toledan city has revolved around the chapel of the Collegiate Church…[Read more]
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