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Ian Willis deposited Camden Library and Museum public art in the group
Place Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 2 months agoThe 2007 Camden Library and Camden Museum redevelopment project resulted in a community collaboration to create a mix of public artworks.
Camden Council Cultural Development Coordinator Angela Pasqua led the collaboration process. Participants included school children, TAFE students, artists and sculptors.
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David Lee deposited Fade Option Valuation in the group
Public Humanities on Humanities Commons 2 years, 2 months agoWe present a pricing model for fade option. A fade option can be more precisely named as “point-barrier option”. The fade option is a vanilla option that exists or dies if a barrier is breached on a single preset date, which is prior or equal to the contract maturity.
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Jonathan Basile deposited The Epic of Genesis: Catherine Malabou and the gêne of Epigenetics in the group
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 2 years, 2 months agoThis article examines the conflicting representations of plasticity and epigenetics in the work of philosopher Catherine Malabou and evolutionary theorists Mary Jane West-Eberhard and Eva Jablonka. Malabou effaces the unsettled debates within the life sciences in order to speak of a new biological ‘paradigm’ and to attribute values of novelty or…[Read more]
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Gregory F. Tague posted an update in the group
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 2 years, 2 months agoNick Zangwill and Peter Godfrey-Smith recently (past year or so) have openly lobbied on behalf of animal agriculture. Here’s an open letter/short article that seems to get to the heart of the matter defending animals and the environment, if anyone is interested. https://www.asebl.net/2023/07/an-open-letter-to-peter-godfrey-smith.html
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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA replied to the topic Contemporary fiction in the discussion
American Literature on Humanities Commons 2 years, 2 months agoRetropost, 2013: google.com/+JoséAngelGarcíaLanda https://vanityfea.blogspot.com/2013/11/googlecomjoseangelgarcialanda.html
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Jim Clifford deposited British ghost acres and environmental changes in the Laurentian forest during the nineteenth century in the group
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 2 years, 2 months agoThis article explores the consequences of the environmental transformations of the Laurentian Valley on the timber trade uniting the Province of Canada and the industrialization of Great Britain during the nineteenth century. The notion of ghost acres used to describe the ecological footprint of resource consumption from abroad is extended to…[Read more]
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Ian Willis deposited Narellan Heritage Walking Tour in the group
Place Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 2 months agoThe Narellan Heritage Walking Tour is an interesting and informative way to observe and learn about the history and heritage of this Cowpastures village.
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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA replied to the topic 20th-c. American Literature in the discussion
American Literature on Humanities Commons 2 years, 2 months agoLa ficción como escultura mental: Sobre Una Obra de Arte https://www.academia.edu/26720976/
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Ana Dumitran deposited Russian Icons from Transylvania. Exhibition Catalogue in the group
Public Humanities on Humanities Commons 2 years, 3 months agoThis publication is part of the project “Ricontrans – Visual Culture, Piety and Propaganda. Transfer and Reception of Russian Religious Art in the Balkans and the Eastern Mediterranean (16th to Early 20th Century)”, funded from the European Research Council (erc) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant…[Read more]
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Vitus Angermeier deposited Slides: Crisis in Ancient South Asia – Concepts, Causes, Countermeasures in the group
Medical Humanities on Humanities Commons 2 years, 3 months agoAlthough a plethora of ancient South Asian sources refer to situations that would be considered crises by modern standards, the early Sanskrit vocabulary lacks a word that we could understand as a distinct equivalent of the term “crisis” and its Greek and Latin predecessors. Nevertheless, the descriptions and discussions of personal and col…[Read more]
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Jeremy Fradkin deposited Christian Hospitality and the Case for Religious Refuge in Interregnum England in the group
Renaissance / Early Modern Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 3 months agoThis article shows how English supporters of Jewish immigration in the 1650s articulated a universal model of Christian hospitality for all foreigners fleeing religious persecution, regardless of whether they adhered to the Protestant faith of their English hosts. It thus urges a reconsideration of the widespread assumption that European…[Read more]
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Miranda (Yaggi) Rodak deposited “Getting to Green”: Developing Analysis with Generative AI in the group
Open Educational Resources on Humanities Commons 2 years, 3 months agoStudents in analytical writing courses can struggle to fully grasp the difference between observing/describing features of a text and making interpretive claims rooted in close reading and analysis of those features. This multi-part class activity uses color coding and generative AI to establish a clearer framework for students to understand the…[Read more]
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Ian Willis deposited The Camden District was a field of dreams in the group
Place Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 3 months agoThis article contributes to understanding regionalism by using a case study of the Camden district.
It is now hard to imagine now, but in days gone by, the township of Camden was the centre of a large district. The Camden district became the centre of people’s daily lives for over a century and the basis of their sense of place and community i…[Read more] -
Miranda (Yaggi) Rodak deposited Generative AI Writing Course Framework in the group
Open Educational Resources on Humanities Commons 2 years, 3 months agoA lesson plan outlining a two-part activity that establishes a framework within which students productively wrestle with the place of generative AI in their learning and writing processes, thereby creating the space for instructor and students to arrive at a collective agreement about the use of these tools in the course grounded in a clear set of…[Read more]
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David Lee deposited Asian Futures Option Valuation in the group
Public Humanities on Humanities Commons 2 years, 3 months agoAverage rate or Asian options have a payoff function proportional to an average rate or price. The average price is calculated over a sampling of specified dates that need not be equally spaced in time. The average price or rate tends to be less volatile than a single underlying price and hence, an option on the underlying average price should be…[Read more]
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Samuel Adu-Gyamfi deposited Cerebrospinal meningitis in the Colonial History of the Asante of Ghana in the group
Public Humanities on Humanities Commons 2 years, 3 months agoThe incidence of diseases in the Gold Coast (now Ghana) shaped encounters between colonial officials and indigenous people, yet this subject has merited minimum attention in the Ghanaian historiography. This paper examines the colonial healthcare interventions to combat the outbreak of cerebrospinal meningitis (CSM) in Asante and
how the presence…[Read more] -
Samuel Adu-Gyamfi deposited A Discourse on Individuals Value for Herbal Medicine in Asante since the Pre-Colonial Era in the group
Public Humanities on Humanities Commons 2 years, 3 months agoThis study highlights the transitions that indigenous medicine and indigenous medical practices have undergone in Asante. It uses a qualitative approach anchored on both primary and secondary sources. The primary data sources include interviews and documentary data derived from reports in historical archives. Anchored on rational choice contingent…[Read more]
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Anne Pasek deposited DIY Methods 2023 Conference Proceedings in the group
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 2 years, 3 months agoThe act of circulating research through zines invites participants into the “gift economy” of zine culture, where knowledge is shared within a system of reciprocal generosity and pleasure in opposition to hierarchical and capitalist forms of knowledge exchange. As zines cut through the often strict and inaccessible boundaries of traditional, pee…[Read more]
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Álvaro Cuéllar deposited Artificial Intelligence to the Rescue of the Spanish Golden Age: Automatic Transcription and Modernization of One Thousand Three Hundred Theatrical Prints and Manuscripts in the group
Spanish Golden Age Literature on Humanities Commons 2 years, 3 months agoA high percentage of theatrical prints and manuscripts from the aurisecular period have never been transcribed in an analogical or, of course, digital format. It is therefore impossible to use these documents to carry out searches of our interest or for the valuable computer analyses (stylometry, topic modelling, sentiment analysis, etc.) that…[Read more]
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Álvaro Cuéllar deposited TEXORO: Textos del Siglo de Oro in the group
Spanish Golden Age Literature on Humanities Commons 2 years, 3 months agoTEXORO: Textos del Siglo de Oro es una herramienta desarrollada por Álvaro Cuéllar y Germán Vega que permite realizar búsquedas en un amplio corpus de teatro del Siglo de Oro. Es nuestra intención que un futuro crezca ofreciendo otros tipos de textos fuera del ámbito teatral.
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