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Anna Kowalcze-Pawlik replied to the topic Welcome to the RSA Humanities Commons Group! in the discussion
The Renaissance Society of America on Humanities Commons 5 years, 6 months agoDear Richard,
thank you for the materials, very handy.
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Evan Carmouche replied to the topic Doing Research in Renaissance Studies in the Age of COVID-19 in the discussion
The Renaissance Society of America on Humanities Commons 5 years, 6 months agoThe RSA’s Digital Resources page has been expanded to a full website hosted on Humanities Commons: https://rsadigitalresources.hcommons-staging.org/
This blog contains links to online resources for research in Renaissance studies, contributed by RSA members and edited by the RSA’s Digital and Multimedia Committee. Please submit any additional…[Read more]
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Owen Williams posted an update in the group
The Renaissance Society of America on Humanities Commons 5 years, 6 months agoThose interested in Critical Race Theory, Shakespeare, and Teaching will want to investigate two videos in the Folger Institute’s Critical Race Conversations series: https://www.youtube.com/user/FolgerLibrary/featured.
In July, these two free events addressed how college faculty can and should integrate critical race studies into their…[Read more]
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited Chapter 1, Chinese Shakespeares: Two Centuries of Cultural Exchange (Columbia University Press, 2009, 2011, 2015). Modern Language Association Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary Studies in the group
The Renaissance Society of America on Humanities Commons 5 years, 6 months agoThis chapter, “Owning Chinese Shakespeares,” pursues the critical concept of localization and critiques the fidelity-derived discourse about cultural ownership. How were Chinese Shakespeares used as a kind of staged utopia of modernity?
Underlying this study are three related lines of inquiry united by what might be called locality criticism, t…[Read more]
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited Preface, The Shakespearean International Yearbook Volume 18 in the group
The Renaissance Society of America on Humanities Commons 5 years, 6 months agoThanks to Karl Marx’s references in his political treatises, Shakespeare held a significant place in a number of communist and other left-authoritarian countries, including China and the USSR. And although there were themes in Shakespeare that turned out to be inconvenient for communist ideology, other Shakespearean plays were put into service. I…[Read more]
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Anne Leader deposited Architectural Collaboration in the Early Renaissance: Reforming the Florentine Badia in the group
The Renaissance Society of America on Humanities Commons 5 years, 6 months agoIn the late 1420s, Abbot Gomezio di Giovanni initiated a major building campaign to reform the Benedictine monastery of the Florentine Badia. Designed to provide its community with an orderly space in which to pursue the Benedictine Observance, the compound rises around the so-called Orange Cloister, long considered to be an early work of Bernardo…[Read more]
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