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Alberto Ribas-Casasayas started the topic Call for abstracts: Promises and Perils of the Psychedelic Renaissance in the discussion
American Literature on Humanities Commons 2 years, 4 months agoPromises and Perils of the Psychedelic Renaissance: A Critical Perspective from the Humanities
A seminar proposal for the ACLA in Montréal, Canada, March 14th to 17th, 2024. Description below.
Organized by Alberto Ribas-Casasayas (Santa Clara University) and Ana Luengo (San Francisco State University)
Inquiries: a…[Read more]
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David Lee deposited Conduit Fees Introduction in the group
Public Humanities on Humanities Commons 2 years, 4 months agoAccounting requires the ability to forecast conduit administration fees. a simple stationary lognormal model for the fees is presented. Initially, the stationarity of the sweep fees is tested by measuring the level of mean reversion. Using a Dickey-Fuller statistical test the conduits are checked for approximate stationarity. Next, assuming the…[Read more]
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Golam Rabbani deposited When the Subaltern Screams: Pedophilia and Patriarchy in Humayun Ahmed’s Pleasure Boy Kômola. in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 2 years, 4 months agoThis paper aims to analyze the depiction of pedophilia in Humayun Ahmed’s film ‘Pleasure Boy Kômola.’ It concentrates on the social and psychological reasons for this rarely existing sexual practice or perversion and the oppressive consequences it causes on the subalterns in Bangladesh during the colonial period.
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Golam Rabbani deposited When the Subaltern Screams: Pedophilia and Patriarchy in Humayun Ahmed’s Pleasure Boy Kômola. in the group
TC Popular Culture on MLA Commons 2 years, 4 months agoThis paper aims to analyze the depiction of pedophilia in Humayun Ahmed’s film ‘Pleasure Boy Kômola.’ It concentrates on the social and psychological reasons for this rarely existing sexual practice or perversion and the oppressive consequences it causes on the subalterns in Bangladesh during the colonial period.
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Golam Rabbani deposited Heterogeneity and Baul Spirituality: The Songs of Baul Taskir Ali in Bangladesh in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 2 years, 4 months agoThis article briefly explores the contemporary heterogeneous song-texts of Taskir Ali (popularly known as Baul Taskir) from Sunamgonj, in the district of Sylhet, Bangladesh. Bauls are nomadic communities in Bangladesh and West Bengal, India, and they express their profound spiritual philosophy and thoughts through their songs and performance.…[Read more]
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Golam Rabbani deposited Review of Music Downtown Eastside: Human Rights and Capability Development through Music in Urban Poverty by Klisala Harrison in the group
TC Popular Culture on MLA Commons 2 years, 4 months agoThis book points out new ways to identify and resolve human rights and improve the competencies of urban poor communities in Vancouver, Canada.
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Michelle Bastian deposited Is ‘long term thinking’ a trap?: Chronowashing, temporal narcissism and the time machines of racism in the group
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 2 years, 4 months agoIn this provocation, I investigate the notion of long term thinking, as a notion of ‘sustaining time’, which identifies failures in dominant conceptions of time and proposes an alternative that is thought to be better suited for responding to current environmental crises. Drawing on close analyses of two examples, I argue for a deeper und…[Read more]
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Shannan Palma deposited God the Father: Religious and militaristic rhetoric in the construction of patriarchal traditionalist masculinities in the group
Feminist Humanities on Humanities Commons 2 years, 4 months agoThe role of the internet in fomenting male supremacist ideology must be understood within the larger cultural context that undergirds and naturalizes such rhetoric. Traditional conservative (TradCon) sections of the manosphere valorize a patriarchal social order centering traditional gender roles. According to TradCon reasoning, men, under attack…[Read more]
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Shannan Palma deposited God the Father: Religious and militaristic rhetoric in the construction of patriarchal traditionalist masculinities in the group
Digital Humanists on Humanities Commons 2 years, 4 months agoThe role of the internet in fomenting male supremacist ideology must be understood within the larger cultural context that undergirds and naturalizes such rhetoric. Traditional conservative (TradCon) sections of the manosphere valorize a patriarchal social order centering traditional gender roles. According to TradCon reasoning, men, under attack…[Read more]
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Francesco Luzzini deposited Harvesting Underground: (re)generative theories and vegetal analogies in the early modern debate on mineral ores (I) in the group
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 2 years, 4 months agoThe early modern use of vegetal terms to explain the origin and growth of ores was widespread in mining industry, alchemy, and natural philosophy. In the writings of authors from many different backgrounds, mineral veins were often described as ‘trees’ which moved upwards, bore fruits, and underwent a life cycle. Accordingly, the existence in ore…[Read more]
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Elisabeth Moreau deposited Simple and Compound Drugs in Late Renaissance Medicine: The Pharmacology of Andrea Cesalpino (1593) in the group
Medical Humanities on Humanities Commons 2 years, 4 months agoFrom antiquity, Galenic physicians extensively discussed the active powers of simple and compound drugs. In their views, simple drugs, that is, single ingredients, acted according to their material qualities and the properties of their substance. As for compound drugs, their efficacy resulted from the mutual interaction of their ingredients and…[Read more]
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Ian Willis deposited Camden History Journal September 2023 v5 n6 in the group
Place Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 4 months agoCAMDEN HISTORY, Journal of the Camden Historical Society Inc.
Ian Willis (editor)
Contents
Ian Willis, ‘Graeme Clark, a world-famous Camden identity’. p237
Graeme Clark, ‘Laureate Professor Graeme Clark AC, Pioneer of the Multi-channel Cochlear Implant /Bionic Ear’. p3242
Julianne Figar, ‘Yellamundie (the storyteller)’ p 255
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Ian Willis deposited Narellan Library Murals, a wall of public art in the group
Place Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 4 months agoTwo colourful mural artworks are along the Queen Street frontage of Narellan Library. These artworks were commissioned by Camden Council in 2017 as a collaboration between mural artist Mandy Salter and the area’s young artists as part of a Youth Participation Public Art Project.
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Lisa Zunshine deposited How Memories Become Literature in the group
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 2 years, 4 months agoCognitive science can help literary scholars formulate specific questions to be answered by archival research. This essay takes as its starting point embedded mental states (that is, mental states about mental states) and their role in generating literary subjectivity. It then follows the transformation of embedded mental states throughout several…[Read more]
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Anna E. Kijas deposited Pedagogical Approaches to Encoding in the group
Digital Humanists on Humanities Commons 2 years, 4 months agoAs practitioners and scholars who engage with music encoding we already understand the affordances that encoding music or text can bring to our research and scholarship. However, individuals who are not yet familiar with encoding schemas and the usefulness of digital methodologies may not have a clear understanding of the “why” in using a dig…[Read more]
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Joe Bauer started the topic Alt Ac Job Alert: in the discussion
Academic Job Market Support Network on Humanities Commons 2 years, 4 months agoJob alert! We’re hiring a Web Designer at University of Michigan to produce websites and digital content for our faculty and researchers. This position works closely with faculty, researchers and staff in the humanities, arts, and qualitative social sciences to plan, design, and coordinate new websites and digital media. These Digital Scholarship…[Read more]
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Hélène Huet started the topic 2024 Latin America & Caribbean Digital Humanities Symposium: CFP in the discussion
Digital Humanists on Humanities Commons 2 years, 4 months agoEnglish
The University of Florida, the University of North Florida, and Universidad San Francisco de Quito will host their second Latin America & Caribbean Digital Humanities Symposium at Universidad San Francisco Quito in Quito, Ecuador from Thursday, July 4 – Saturday July 6, 2024. We seek proposals for papers, posters, and lightning rounds, on…[Read more]
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