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Ian Willis deposited Camden Historical Society, 60 years of local history, 1957-2017 in the group
History on Humanities Commons 2 years, 6 months agoIn 2017 the Camden Historical Society celebrated its 60th anniversary. Society president Dr Ian Willis gave an anniversary address at the Camden Library Museum complex on 24 July. Founded in 1957, the aim of the society has been to tell the Camden story and the local identities and events that are part of it.
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Rita Singer deposited “Everything Remains the Same”: Julio Camba Travelling Spain in the group
History on Humanities Commons 2 years, 6 months agoIn the first decades of the twentieth century, the Madrid-based Galician journalist Julio Camba (1882–1962) acquired long-lasting fame as a travel writer thanks to his foreign chronicles published in the Spanish press and subsequently compiled in a series of volumes. La rana viajera [The Travelling Frog] (1920), however, gathers some of the p…[Read more]
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Rita Singer deposited “A language of wet stones and mists”: The Caribbean Poet as a Traveller in Wales and England in the group
Literary theory on Humanities Commons 2 years, 6 months agoThis article examines Derek Walcott’s “travel poems” about Wales and England from the collections The Fortunate Traveller (1981) and Midsummer (1984) through the prism of Deleuze and Guattari’s concept of littérature mineure. As a Caribbean poet, Walcott is placed both outside the centre of “majority”, post-imperial civilisation and within the s…[Read more]
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Ian Willis deposited Public art at Camden Council Administration Offices in the group
History on Humanities Commons 2 years, 6 months agoThe art installation The Tree of Life by sculptors Gillies & Marc celebrates the endangered Camden White Gum. The sculpture is located adjacent to the entry of the Camden Council administration building at Oran Park. The work was commissioned by the council in 2016 for the opening of the new office building.
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fengjun started the topic Submit your Proposal to The 6 th International Conference on Cognitive Poetics in the discussion
Literary theory on Humanities Commons 2 years, 6 months agoThe 6 th International Conference on Cognitive Poetics
As we enter the third decade of the 21st century, tremendous changes have been found in both cognitive science and the study of literature. To explore the potential effects of cognitive science on the study of literature, Cognitive Poetics Association Affiliated to CCLA (Chinese Comparative…[Read more] -
Oscar Perea-Rodriguez deposited Madrid en la obra genealógica de Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo in the group
History on Humanities Commons 2 years, 6 months agoLa personalidad y la obra de Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés (1478-1557), reputado cronista y genealogista, de vocación novelista, pionero científico naturista y aprendiz de poeta, han sufrido diversos vaivenes historiográficos que, al menos en opinión de quien suscribe, le han privado en la actualidad del reconocimiento que se merece. Ferná…[Read more]
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Oscar Perea-Rodriguez deposited Lírica anticonversa de los siglos XV y XVI: el Credo glosado contra los judíos, de Juan de Carvajal in the group
History on Humanities Commons 2 years, 6 months agoDesde el pionero trabajo de Glaser sobre el contenido antisemita de la literatura española de los siglos XV y XVI, que continuaba la abierta por las teorías de Américo Castro al respecto, la comunidad académica ha dedicado parte de sus esfuerzos a incrementar el conocimiento de temas y obras relacionadas de alguna u otra forma con lo que, sig…[Read more]
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Oscar Perea-Rodriguez deposited El humanismo áulico valenciano del temprano quinientos: En los límites canónicos del humanismo hispano in the group
History on Humanities Commons 2 years, 6 months agoAunque fuese únicamente por haber albergado en su seno los primeros
pasos de Juan Luis Vives, viventem perpetuo en la alabanza de Decio (citado
por Rico, El sueño del humanismo 182), el Reino de Valencia merecería un
lugar de primer orden no sólo en la historia del humanismo hispano, sino
en la del europeo. En términos socioculturales, esta…[Read more] -
Oscar Perea-Rodriguez deposited Francisco Vidal de Noya, obispo de Cefalú: clérigo, humanista y poeta al servicio del Rey Católico in the group
History on Humanities Commons 2 years, 6 months agoUno de los tópicos más habitualmente manejados alrededor de la figura del joven Fernando II de Aragón es la ausencia de una educación esmerada en el campo de las artes y las letras, la habitual en su época, junto a las inherentes lecciones militares, para todos los miembros del estamento regio. Se puede hablar de Lucio Marineo Sículo, el conoc…[Read more]
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Ian Willis deposited Menangle School of Arts hall, the heart of a village, under redevelopment in the group
History on Humanities Commons 2 years, 6 months agoIn 2022 the Wollondilly Shire Local Planning Panel approved the demolition and reconstruction of the Menangle Community Hall. The Menangle Community Association originally lodged the Development Application with Wollondilly Shire Council in July 2021. The Menangle Community Association originally is managing the Menangle School of Arts project.…[Read more]
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Oscar Perea-Rodriguez deposited Sobre la datación cronológica de las «Obras de burlas» del Cancionero general in the group
History on Humanities Commons 2 years, 6 months agoDe todas las divisiones mediante las que Hernando del Castillo organizó su cancionero, la de Obras de burlas provocantes a risa es una de las más peculiares por varios motivos que sería largo describir. Dejaremos conscientemente al margen todas las aportaciones que tienen que ver con el papel de esta sección en el diseño de la tipología canci…[Read more]
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Charles Peck Jr deposited Cathars – Historical Sketch of 11th to 12th century religion + Modern literalism Dualism w/ Karen Armstrong on literalism / : Metaphors, Massacres, Martyrs, and Mary Magdalene + excerpt of the “divine feminine” Nizam – ideal of love & Ibn Arabi in the group
History on Humanities Commons 2 years, 6 months agoThe Cathars became a major movement, while having some influence in the Rhineland, Northern Italy and Northern France the movement was strongest in southern France (especially the Languedoc region) and northern Italy. By the 12th century the Cathar popular movement had gained a substantial following in urbanized southern France.
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