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Jonathan Rose started the topic CfP: Spectacle and Empathy: The Role of Excessive (Em)Body(ment) in Narrative in the discussion
Comics Scholarship/Comics Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 6 months agoCfP for seminar session at NeMLA 2024, 7 to 10 March in Boston, MA
Narratives need bodies. Stories are populated by characters whose bodies serve as focalizers for our experience of the narrated world. Certain genres, like body horror, pornography or fanfiction, are predicated on bodily excess, “spill[ing] out over the spectator and p…[Read more]
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Prof Muhammad Subhan Qureshi deposited Dairy Sience Park connecting Rumi, Iqbal, Tolerance and SDGs in the group
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 2 years, 6 months agoThis paper presented at the Fourth International Conference and Industrial Exhibitoion on Dairy Science Park IV, Nov 1-5, 2017, Konya, Turkey, has reviewed the philosophy of Mevlana Jalal ud Din Rumi regarding love, tolerance, respect and spiritualism; appreciating each others and knowing the value of each other. Rumi (1230) told Iqbal (1930)…[Read more]
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Prof Muhammad Subhan Qureshi deposited Dairy Sience Park connecting Rumi, Iqbal, Tolerance and SDGs in the group
Digital Humanists on Humanities Commons 2 years, 6 months agoThis paper presented at the Fourth International Conference and Industrial Exhibitoion on Dairy Science Park IV, Nov 1-5, 2017, Konya, Turkey, has reviewed the philosophy of Mevlana Jalal ud Din Rumi regarding love, tolerance, respect and spiritualism; appreciating each others and knowing the value of each other. Rumi (1230) told Iqbal (1930)…[Read more]
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Vitus Angermeier deposited Epidemic Prevention. Precursors of Public Health in Early Āyurveda? in the group
Medical Humanities on Humanities Commons 2 years, 6 months agoĀyurveda, the predominant medical system in pre-modern South Asia, is by definition a very individualistic tradition of healing, discerning and treating the patients under special consideration of their personal constitution, diet, physical strength, habituation, character and age. Furthermore, the āyurvedic source texts show a strong commitment t…[Read more]
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Vitus Angermeier deposited Epidemic Prevention. Precursors of Public Health in Early Āyurveda? in the group
Cultural Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 6 months agoĀyurveda, the predominant medical system in pre-modern South Asia, is by definition a very individualistic tradition of healing, discerning and treating the patients under special consideration of their personal constitution, diet, physical strength, habituation, character and age. Furthermore, the āyurvedic source texts show a strong commitment t…[Read more]
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Charles Peck Jr deposited Dawkin’s Selfish Gene Fallacy-False Premise -a “limited form of altruism” vs studies of compassion = Oxford Handbook of Compassion, Sprecher and Fehr: spirituality correlated with compassion, Battle of Somme 50,000 casualties, esprit de corps Chosin Res. in the group
Narrative theory and Narratology on Humanities Commons 2 years, 6 months agoDawkins Fallacy – False Premise
The statement, “However, as we shall see, there are special circumstances in which a gene can achieve its own selfish goals best by fostering a limited form of altruism at the level of individual animals.” Is a fallacy/false premise Historically, compassion and self-less behaviors are not a “limited form of alt…[Read more] -
Charles Peck Jr deposited Dawkin’s Selfish Gene Fallacy-False Premise -a “limited form of altruism” vs studies of compassion = Oxford Handbook of Compassion, Sprecher and Fehr: spirituality correlated with compassion, Battle of Somme 50,000 casualties, esprit de corps Chosin Res. in the group
Cultural Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 6 months agoDawkins Fallacy – False Premise
The statement, “However, as we shall see, there are special circumstances in which a gene can achieve its own selfish goals best by fostering a limited form of altruism at the level of individual animals.” Is a fallacy/false premise Historically, compassion and self-less behaviors are not a “limited form of alt…[Read more] -
Ian Willis deposited The Sydney Harbour Bridge, an engineering marvel in the group
Place Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 6 months agoThe Sydney Harbour Bridge is an icon on the Sydney urban landscape. The bridge is an engineering marvel of modernism and the early 20th hope of a new nation.
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Charles Peck Jr deposited “McDougall’s Mente grupal: la “impulsividad irrazonable” de los grupos es muy relevante – Encuesta: los estadounidenses negros temen más ataques racistas después del tiroteo en Buffalo” (Washington Post) – con una comparación con Durkheim, Geertz, in the group
Cultural Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 6 months agoComo observaron los autores del artículo “Beyond the Group Mind: A Quantitative Review of the Interindividual-Intergroup Discontinuity Effect” que se publicó en Psychological Bulletin, se estima que solo en la última década del siglo XX, las guerras mortales de lugares como Ruanda, Bosnia y Etiopía cobraron la vida de 30 millones de personas y co…[Read more]
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Charles Peck Jr deposited McDougall’s Group Mind – the “Unreasoning Impulsiveness” of groups are Very Relevant .”Poll: Black Americans fear more racist attacks after Buffalo shooting” the Washington Post (published 6-9-22) – w/ comparison to Durkheim, Geertz, + Bargh’s recent res in the group
Cultural Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 6 months agoAs the authors of the article “Beyond the Group Mind: A Quantitative Review of the Interindividual–Intergroup Discontinuity Effect” which was published in Psychological Bulletin, observed, It is estimated that just in the final decade of the twentieth century, the deadly wars of places like Rwanda, Bosnia, and Ethiopia claimed the lives of 30 m…[Read more]
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Ian Willis deposited Menangle arts hall concerts that helped war efforts – is being rebuilt in the group
Place Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 6 months agoIn 2023 there is a vacant lot in central Menangle with a security fence. The reconstructed hall is proposed to open in 2024. On the security fence is an information sign with the hall’s history, what is happening, funding and building timeline. The information signage on the site security fence states: The existing hall is unusable due to…[Read more]
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Monique Rodrigues Balbuena deposited The Shoah in the Sephardic World in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 2 years, 6 months agoAbstract of panel organized by the Sephardic Studies Discussion Group for the 2024 MLA Annual Convention.
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Charles Peck Jr deposited Sketch of Belonging, Belongingness, Groups and Identity – Baumeister, Tania Singer-empathy, Solomon Asch’s famous authority experiment, Hogg and Abrams, theory of subjective uncertainty reduction and meaning in group formation & Ideology of Enlightenment in the group
Narrative theory and Narratology on Humanities Commons 2 years, 6 months agoAs the prominent social psychologists, Baumeister and Leary, point out, “Groups can share food, provide mates, and help care for offspring (including orphans). Some survival tasks such as hunting large animals or maintaining defensive vigilance against predatory enemies, are best accomplished by group cooperation…. Competition for limited res…[Read more]
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Derek Johnston deposited Historical Power, Historical Trauma and the Gothic Historical Drama in the group
Cultural Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 6 months agoThis paper proposes that there are a number of historical television dramas which make use of the aesthetics of the Gothic in order to signal their focus on historical traumas which still have contemporary resonance. This is part of a wider use of a Gothic mode in these dramas in presenting and considering these traumas, not just as the individual…[Read more]
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