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Luca Zenobi started the topic CfP: Listing the World before the Age of Print (IMC sessions, Leeds 2024) in the discussion
History on Humanities Commons 2 years, 7 months agoWe all have lists of things to do. We also have playlists, shopping lists and lists of pros and cons (not to mention lists of publications). Whether we make them on paper or with an app, lists are central to our lives. They help us make sense of the world around us, keep track of the order of things and sometimes create a whole new order…[Read more]
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Ana Dumitran deposited Vision de Varnava. Înțăleptului Varnava minunată arătare a vederii lui cu pildă tuturor in the group
History on Humanities Commons 2 years, 7 months agoDu sage Varnava la merveilleuse apparition de sa vision avec exemple pour tous, cette traduction-recréation roumaine en vers du Dialogus du poète baroque hongrois Nyéki Vörös Mátyas, effectuée en Transylvanie en 1670, peut être considérée comme la première œuvre du pope Ioan de Vintz. Sur le plan européen, sa Vision de Varnava représente l…[Read more]
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Ian Willis deposited The Burragorang Valley, a lost Gothic fantasy in the group
History on Humanities Commons 2 years, 7 months agoThe Burragorang Valley is one of those lost places that people fondly remember from the past. A place of imagination and dreaming where former residents fondly re-tell stories from their youth. These places create potent memories and nostalgia for many people and continue to be places of interest. They are localities of myths and legends and…[Read more]
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Gabriela Méndez Cota deposited Teoría feminista y práctica editorial: una cuestión posthumana in the group
Feminist Humanities on Humanities Commons 2 years, 7 months agoEste artículo argumenta que las críticas feministas del universalismo androcéntrico, el determinismo tecnológico y la mercantilización del conocimiento no se conforman ya con figurar como contenidos académicos, sino que se constituyen activismos académicos por la transformación post-humanista de los saberes a través de prácticas experimen…[Read more]
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Ian Willis deposited National Herbarium at ABG wins architecture gong in the group
History on Humanities Commons 2 years, 7 months agoThe National Herbarium of New South Wales wins the AILA 2023 NSW Australian Institute of Landscape Architects Awards in the category of Health & Education. Designed by Australian architects and design studio Architectus the building was inspired by the seed pod of the waratah, the floral symbol of NSW. This is one of the newest facilities at…[Read more]
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Caroline Paganussi deposited ‘A woman of supreme goodness, and a singular talent’: Anna Morandi Manzolini, Artist and Anatomist of Enlightenment Bologna in the group
Renaissance / Early Modern Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 7 months agoAnna Morandi Manzolini (1714–1774), a Bolognese wax sculptor, overcame humble origins to become one of the most important anatomical artists of the eighteenth century. Working with her husband Giovanni Manzolini (c. 1700–1755), and continuing alone after his death, Morandi created remarkably lifelike and anatomically accurate wax models of the sen…[Read more]
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Oscar Perea-Rodriguez deposited Juan Fernández de Heredia: renombrado poeta, popular deportista… ¿y criminal encubierto? in the group
History on Humanities Commons 2 years, 7 months agoPese a su prestigio académico y a la importancia de su producción poética, el valenciano Juan Fernández de Heredia es un poeta cancioneril de cuya vida y obra todavía albergamos bastantes lagunas. Un factor que podría explicar esta situación es que sus poesías completas, editadas por Rafael Ferreres a mediados del siglo pasado, (Fernández de Hered…[Read more]
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Oscar Perea-Rodriguez deposited De la ‘fermosa judía’ a la bella conversa: la erótica de lo prohibido en las literaturas hispánicas del medievo y del temprano renacimiento in the group
History on Humanities Commons 2 years, 7 months agoLa hipersexualización de personajes femeninos en la literatura de todos los tiempos responde a varios patrones culturales bastante determinados y convenientemente analizados por la teoría literaria, tanto la de rango más generalista (Dworkin 13-47) como la dedicada de forma específica a las literaturas hispánicas (García Velasco 292-307). En el…[Read more]
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Oscar Perea-Rodriguez deposited Escitia y Escancia (o Escandia), el fabuloso pasado nórdico del neogoticismo cuatrocentista hispánico in the group
History on Humanities Commons 2 years, 7 months agoEl artículo analiza el neogoticismo y su incidencia en la propaganda ideológica dispersa en la Edad Media hispánica desde los siglos IX al XV. Se estudia su apogeo en las crónicas medievales y su posterior desaparición, así como su recuperación entre los siglos XV y XVI de la mano de obras genealógicas y de cancioneros poéticos. Específi…[Read more]
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Joachim Berger deposited Hercules Vinariensis : Aneignungen eines europäischen Mythos in der frühen Neuzeit in the group
History on Humanities Commons 2 years, 7 months agoFor the 16th birthday of the hereditary prince Carl August of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach on 3 September 1773, his teacher Christoph Martin Wieland had the play “The Choice of Hercules”, a “dramatic cantata”, performed at the Weimar court theatre. Did Wieland thus connect to a tradition of the Hercules myth connected with the dynasty or the place…[Read more]
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Joachim Berger deposited Von der russischen Großfürstin zur deutschen »Landesmutter«. Zur Akkulturation des europäischen Hochadels im 19. Jahrhundert in the group
History on Humanities Commons 2 years, 7 months agoThis essay traces the transformations of aristocratic representation using the example of the Russian Tsar’s daughter Maria Pavlovna (1786–1859), who was married to the Weimar court in 1804. Maria Pavlovna endeavoured to put her informal ruling techniques, charitable undertakings as well as her patronage and memorial ambitions in Weimar’s ‘…[Read more]
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Pragya Ranjan deposited Cave of Spleen – a feminist perspective: Status of women in early 18th century England in the group
Renaissance / Early Modern Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 7 months ago“The Rape of the Lock” by Alexander Pope published in 1712 is a mock-heroic narrative which satirically
glorifies trivial incident of cutting of locks of protagonist Belinda. This poem was written in the
Augustan Era (1660-1784) which is marked by the period of scientific reason and rationality, whose
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Pragya Ranjan deposited Cave of Spleen – a feminist perspective: Status of women in early 18th century England in the group
Feminist Humanities on Humanities Commons 2 years, 7 months ago“The Rape of the Lock” by Alexander Pope published in 1712 is a mock-heroic narrative which satirically
glorifies trivial incident of cutting of locks of protagonist Belinda. This poem was written in the
Augustan Era (1660-1784) which is marked by the period of scientific reason and rationality, whose
effect can be seen on the writers of those…[Read more] -
Ian Willis deposited Cultural and heritage tourism adds $6.4 million a year to the local economy in the group
History on Humanities Commons 2 years, 8 months agoNew research shows that cultural and heritage tourism is worth around $6.4 million per year to the Camden Local Government Area.
Destination NSW (2019) defines cultural and heritage tourism as ‘a tool of economic development that achieves economic growth through attracting visitors from outside a host community, who are motivated wholly or in p…[Read more] -
Ian Willis deposited Convicts in the Cowpastures an untold story in the group
History on Humanities Commons 2 years, 8 months agoThe story of European settlement in the Cowpastures is intimately connected to the story of the convicts and their masters. This story has not been told, and there is little understanding of the role of the convicts in the Cowpastures district before 1840. Who were they? What did they do? Did they stay in the district?
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Carol Chiodo deposited The Role of the ESU in Creating a Values-Driven DH Community in the group
Feminist Humanities on Humanities Commons 2 years, 8 months agoIn this essay, we illustrate how the European Summer University in Digital Humanities at the University of Leipzig (hereafter referred to as “ESU”) under the leadership of Prof. Dr. Elisabeth Burr has set forth a set of values that have built and continue to model a collaborative, communal, and compassionate future for higher education. We ide…[Read more]
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Ian Willis deposited Types of public art in the Macarthur Region in the group
History on Humanities Commons 2 years, 8 months agoPublic art in all its forms is present across the Macarthur Region. The Camden, Campbelltown and Wollondilly Local Government Areas on Sydney’s southwest metropolitan fringe cover the Macarthur region.
Some of the Macarthur region’s public art is hidden in plain sight, and we pass it every day without a thought. This post examines the types of…[Read more] -
Ian Willis deposited Public art at Campbelltown brightens up the Queen Street precinct in the group
History on Humanities Commons 2 years, 8 months agoKeep your eyes open in central Campbelltown for inspiring public art installations that brighten up dull spaces around the town.
The Campbelltown Arts Centre, in conjunction with Campbelltown City Council and the NSW Government, have a program to re-invigorate the city centre using public art. -
Ian Willis deposited The Camden Fibro Cottage – a not so humble abode in the group
History on Humanities Commons 2 years, 8 months agoThe humble fibro cottage in Camden in the 1950s and 1960s is integral to the town’s 20th-century history. The fibro house was representative of the baby-boomer era when drive-ins, Holdens, Chiko rolls, black & white TV, rock & roll and vinyl LPs were the norm. Fibro is evocative of long hot summer holidays by the beach with adolescent love, boogie…[Read more]
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Christopher Crosbie deposited Oeconomia and the Vegetative Soul: Rethinking Revenge in The Spanish Tragedy in the group
Renaissance / Early Modern Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 8 months agoThomas Kyd’s The Spanish Tragedy creates a subtle apologia for the “middling sort” by challenging the socially constructed predicates of aristocratic privilege. A scrivener’s son, Kyd undertsood oeconomia, or household management, as both the means for material advancement among the “middling sort” and a potential threat to aristocratic insular…[Read more]
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