This essay examines select visual representations of refugees and migrants as embodied subjects in photography, art, and video. It focuses on American asylum politics and explores the questions of free movement, the right to have rights, and the ethics and efficacy of border walls. I argue that the catastrophe of global forced displacement makes…[Read more]

manual guide for the annotation of biographies

Column on digital humanities and Jewish Studies, focusing on open data in digitized material.

Die vorliegende Präsentation wurde im Rahmen eines Kurses verwendet, der eine Einführung in das Thema Scholarly Communication bieten sollte. Nach Klärung essentieller Begriffe der wissenschaftlichen Kommunikation wurden die Themen wissenschaftliches Publizieren und Open Access wie auch deren rechtliche Rahmenbedingungen näher betrachtet.

This is about the social construction of nonhuman animals and our oppressive relationship with them. It is about texts and animals, as well as such things as feminism, history, racism, mass violence, animal farming, animal experimentation……well a whole lot of things! It seeks to understand our normalization of violence against nonhuman animals…[Read more]

Tarih boyunca kentler, kültür ve medeniyetlerin doğduğu, geliştiği ve yayıldığı yerler olmuştur. Kentler, tarihsel süreçte insanların çeşitli gereksinimlerinin ürünü olarak sürekli bir gelişme göstermiştir. Bu gelişme sürecinde hem insanlığın birikiminin gelecek kuşaklara taşıyıcısı, hem de taşıdığı uygarlık birikimi ile insanoğlunun geleceğini şe…[Read more]

In the 19th century, a unique combination of scientific, social, political and cultural factors attracted crowds of visitors from all over the world to the Dolomite Mountains. This phenomenon had its epicenter in Fiemme Valley and in the town of Predazzo, where Michele Giacomelli and his family hosted a great number of these travelers in their…[Read more]

Book review

In “Hwabyung Fragments” the Korean American poet Seo-Young Chu uses pieces of Korean mythology, family lore, DMZ iconography, speculative lyricism, allusions to Plato’s Symposium (the figure of one’s missing other half), and allusions to chimerism, mosaicism, and twinning to explore generational trauma, Korean division, postmemory han, the…[Read more]

A pesar que puga semblar una mica pueril, crec que he de començar aquest treball amb una asseveració rotunda: el Cancionero general no es va editar a València per casualitat. Les edicions de 1511 i 1514 no van ser solament el resultat del moltes vegades problemàtic pelegrinatge vital dels erudits literaris de l’època que, com Hernando del Castil…[Read more]

El 22 de desembre de 1509, l‘erudit castellà Hernando del Castillo, el mercader genovés Lorenzo Ganoto i l’impressor Cristóbal Cofman firmaven a la ciutat de València, davant el notari Joan Casanova, el contracte de la primera edició del Cancionero general, que va veure la llum finalment l’any 1511. En esència, la distribució del treball era…[Read more]

El presente trabajo presenta un panorama de síntesis biográfica con respecto a los poetas valencianos presentes en el Cancionero general de Hernando del Castillo. Asimismo, los poemas que contienen temas típicos de Valencia también son analizados, con el objetivo de estimular un mayor conocimiento de los hombres y la ciudad en cuyo entorno cul…[Read more]

Reflexión breve sobre la experiencia de enseñanza durante la Pandemia Covid-19.

“Enseñar en Tiempos de Pandemia”, Protagonistas en medio de una Pandemia. Concepción: Ediciones UCSC, 2021.

This paper proposes a novel source for – or at least influence on – the iconography of the Moon trump in the Rider-Waite Tarot deck, which preserves the design from the Tarot de Marseille. In fact, the Moon template appears to date back to the earliest days of the Tarot. The proposed source or prototype is a Greco-Roman talismanic design aga…[Read more]

The creation of the tourist space in the city of La Paz, Baja California Sur shows the insertion of a global policy through a process of urban renewal of its coastal pier and historic center. According to the UNWTO (World Tourism Organization), to integrate a sustainable city model, endogenous elements such as culture, history, identity and…[Read more]

Syllabus for ISS 222D Introduction to Digital Humanities, a survey course that introduces students to the many debates and methods of digital humanities and adjacent fields. Particular focus is on visualization.

आभासी चलन, क्रिप्टोकरन्सी किंवा क्रिप्टो-चलन हा बायनरी डेटाचा संग्रह आहे जो एक्सचेंजचे माध्यम म्हणून काम करण्यासाठी तयार केलेला आहे. वैयक्तिक नाण्यांच्या मालकीच्या नोंदी डिजिटल लेजरमध्ये संग्रहित केल्या जातात, जो व्यवहाराच्या नोंदी सुरक्षित करण्यासाठी, अतिरिक्त नाण्यांच्या निर्मितीवर नियंत्रण ठेवण्यासाठी आणि नाण्यांच्या मालकीच्या हस्तांतरणाच…[Read more]

Within a few days following the invasion of Ukraine, Saving Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Online (SUCHO) was formed as a grass-roots approach to identify and archive at-risk sites, digital content, and data in Ukrainian cultural heritage institutions. In this presentation I will identify the methods and technology we are employing, provide examples…[Read more]