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Pablo Markin started the topic OERs, Benefits and Perceptions in the discussion
Open Access Books Network via email on Humanities Commons 4 years, 5 months agoDear All,
In her recent post, Mirela Roncevic discusses Open Educational Resources (OERs), the complexities these entail, the benefits of OERs for faculty and students, such as the removal of cost-barriers to course development and enrolment, and the roles that libraries can play with regard to OER publishing, discoverability and awareness:…[Read more]
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Christina Drummond replied to the topic Book usage and book usage data in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 4 years, 5 months agoFYI: the OA eBook Usage Data Trust effort is moving towards establishing formal community governance next year to work alongside a Secretariat support staff. The project just released an RFP for an organization to host the Secretariat (and the project) in the next phase. You can learn more and access the RFP via Kevin Hawkin’s announcement . You…[Read more]
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D. De Rentiis deposited Lectura Dantis – Inferno: note preliminari di forma e organizzazione / erste Hinweise auf Unterrichtsform und Organisation (Italiano / Deutsch). in the group
Cultural Studies on Humanities Commons 4 years, 5 months agoLectura Dantis – Inferno: note preliminari di forma e organizzazione / erste Hinweise auf Unterrichtsform und Organisation (Italiano / Deutsch). Folien der Videopräsentation.
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John Aerni-Flessner deposited Digitally Documenting Urban Renewal in Lansing, 1930s-1960s in the group
Global & Transnational Studies on Humanities Commons 4 years, 5 months agoIn this article we trace the history of Urban Renewal in Lansing through a collaborative research project involving undergraduate students and the course instructor. Looking in fine-grain detail at the block and individual house level, the project reveals the patchwork of discrimination that African Americans faced in accessing housing in the…[Read more]
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Karsten Schubert deposited The Dismantler in the group
Global & Transnational Studies on Humanities Commons 4 years, 5 months agoA short story about the pitfals of a new law, the General Act for the Dismantling of Normalising Power and Structures of Privilege, and, more philosophically, about the problems of institutionalizing progressive politics through law. Published in The Cabinat of Imaginary Laws, by Peter Goodrich and Thanos Zartaloudis: Returning to the map of the…[Read more]
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Karsten Schubert deposited The Dismantler in the group
Frankfurt School Critical Theory on Humanities Commons 4 years, 5 months agoA short story about the pitfals of a new law, the General Act for the Dismantling of Normalising Power and Structures of Privilege, and, more philosophically, about the problems of institutionalizing progressive politics through law. Published in The Cabinat of Imaginary Laws, by Peter Goodrich and Thanos Zartaloudis: Returning to the map of the…[Read more]
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Pablo Markin started the topic Creative Commons, copyright in the discussion
Open Access Books Network via email on Humanities Commons 4 years, 5 months agoDear All,
Creative Commons licensing, on which Open Access largely relies, can be complex to handle in the context of private-public partnerships or publisher-side commercial reuse alongside author-side copyright retention. Likewise, as intellectual property rights are governed by geography-bound copyright legislation, their harmonization is…[Read more]
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Michael Maidan deposited El enigmatico Felix Weil in the group
Frankfurt School Critical Theory on Humanities Commons 4 years, 6 months agoThe life of Felix Weil, one of the creators of Frankfurt’s Institut for Social Research, the cradle of the Frankfurt School of Critical Theory..
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Tiago Queimada e Silva deposited Aristocratic neo-Gothicism in fourteenth-century Iberia: the case of Count Pedro of Barcelos in the group
Cultural Studies on Humanities Commons 4 years, 6 months agoOne of the main arguments used to legitimise Christian military expansion in medieval Iberia was the location of the origin of the Christian Iberian kingdoms in the ancient Visigothic Kingdom of Toledo (507–711), which established a notion of political continuity between these entities. The legitimacy of the Visigothic Kingdom was reflected in t…[Read more]
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Valeria Graziano deposited Pirate Care in the group
Cultural Studies on Humanities Commons 4 years, 6 months agoOn the project pirate.care
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Valeria Graziano deposited Covid-19 as a breakdown in the texture of social practices. in the group
Cultural Studies on Humanities Commons 4 years, 6 months ago‘A lot of things need to be repaired and a lot of relationships are in need of a knowledgeable mending. Can we start to talk/write about them?’ This invitation — sent by one of the authors to the others — led us, as feminist women in academia, to join together in an experimental writing about the effects of COVID-19 on daily social practic…[Read more]
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Karsten Schubert deposited A New Era of Queer Politics? PrEP, Foucauldian Sexual Liberation, and the Overcoming of Homonormativity in the group
Frankfurt School Critical Theory on Humanities Commons 4 years, 6 months agoGay men have been severely affected by the AIDS crisis, and gay subjectivity, sexual ethics, and politics continue to be deeply influenced by HIV to this day. PrEP (Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis) is a new, drug-based HIV prevention technique, that allows disentangling gay sex from its widespread, 40 yearlong association with illness and death. This…[Read more]
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Lawrence K Wang deposited CARING LETTERS FROM MY LOVING MOTHER 慈暉魚雁昭 in the group
Cultural Studies on Humanities Commons 4 years, 6 months agoTsao, Hung-ping 曹恆平 (2021). Caring Letters From My Loving Mother 慈暉魚雁昭 . In: “Evolutionary Progress in Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics (STEAM)”, Wang, Lawrence K. 王抗曝 and Tsao, Hung-ping 曹恆平 (editors). Volume 3, Number 12, December 2021; 111 pages. Lenox Institute Press, Auburndale, MA, 02466, USA. No. STEAM-VOL3-…[Read more]
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Behnam M. Fomeshi deposited Niloofar Haeri. Say What Your Longing Heart Desires: Women, Prayer and Poetry in Iran in the group
Cultural Studies on Humanities Commons 4 years, 6 months agoThrough offering an ethnography of a group of educated, middle-class women who “had been attending weekly Qur’an and classical poetry classes for years” (xii), the volume shows that poetry and prayer are companions in the cultural history of Iran. It attempts to answer the question, “What does this companionship mean for forms of religio…[Read more]
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Rooney Pinto started the topic Van Dijk’s “context theory” and dynamics of social memory. in the discussion
Cultural Studies on Humanities Commons 4 years, 6 months agoHow does van Dijk’s Context Theory contribute to the understanding of the dynamics of social memory?
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David A. Wacks deposited Pablo Tac, Conversion of the Saluiseños of Alta California (Rome, c. 1840) in the group
Public Humanities on Humanities Commons 4 years, 6 months agoConversión de los Saluiseños de la Alta California (Conversion of the Saluiseños of Alta California) (c. 1840) by Pablo Tac is the only published document written by an indigenous Californian during the Spanish-Mexican period. Born at Mission San Luis Rey de Francia, north of San Diego, California in 1820, Tac wrote the manuscript while st…[Read more]
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Luis de Orueta deposited Vivre à la Maison Smith de Richard Meier in the group
Cultural Studies on Humanities Commons 4 years, 6 months agoDans ce court essai, l’auteur examine l’effet d’un bâtiment emblématique sur la conduite de la personne qui y vit. Il prend comme référence la première maison que le célèbre architecte a conçue et projette son irradiation sur des expériences autobiographiques qui couvrent de multiples aspects de la vie quotidienne. Partant de l’interrelatio…[Read more]
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Pablo Markin started the topic Reproducibility, Open Science in the discussion
Open Access Books Network via email on Humanities Commons 4 years, 6 months agoDear All,
In this podcast episode, Matthew Ismail talks to immunologist Ewoud Compeer of the University of Oxford about the reproducibility crisis and how Open Science and Open Access can help to enhance the reproducibility of scientific research:…[Read more]
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Valeria Graziano deposited Figures of unwork and ethics of care. Between knowing how to live and knowing how to write. in the group
Cultural Studies on Humanities Commons 4 years, 6 months agoThe depth and significance of the shifts associated with the post-work society has pro-voked a newfound interest in the role of imagination in political thinking, made explicit by many authors who turned to the literary genre of utopian and sci-fi writing to sketch possible scenarios of the near future. This paper turns to another mode of…[Read more]
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Oscar Perea-Rodriguez deposited “Por mi Señora, la Reina Catalina.” Las donaciones de Leonor López de Córdoba al monasterio cordobés de San Pablo (1409) in the group
Cultural Studies on Humanities Commons 4 years, 6 months agoDesde que Alan Deyermond, entre los años 70 y 80 del siglo pasado , consiguiera vencer toda reticencia académica para que la obra de Leonor López de Córdoba pasase de ser una delicada rareza literaria a ser introducida con pleno derecho en el canon de la literatura hispánica medieval , la investigación sobre la autora nacida en Calatayud, aunqu…[Read more]
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