SAH Commons | Emily Smith | Group Activity https://sah.hcommons.org/members/emilysmith1768/activity/groups/ Public group activity feed of which Emily Smith is a member. Sun, 05 Apr 2026 15:12:15 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 6b9b290a5f87ad05f29a647500f27fae Matthew Kidd started the topic Participate in a survey on generative AI and archival research practices in the forum Environmental Humanities https://hcommons.org/groups/environmental-humanities/forum/topic/participate-in-a-survey-on-generative-ai-and-archival-research-practices-8/ Fri, 13 Feb 2026 11:18:45 -0500 Dear all,

We would like to invite you to take part in an anonymous online survey exploring how the growing use of generative AI tools (including ChatGPT) is reshaping user practices and expectations in relation to searching, discovering, and interpreting digitised and born-digital archival records.

The survey forms part of a research project…[Read more]

]]> 0 8f677f5f43a64e6d9c920bbeb430e7e3 José Angel GARCÍA LANDA replied to the topic Evolutionary thought in the forum Environmental Humanities https://hcommons.org/groups/environmental-humanities/forum/topic/evolutionary-thought/#post-98478 Fri, 30 Jan 2026 23:18:01 -0500 Bibliography on COMPLEXITY: https://bibliojagl.blogspot.com/2026/01/complejidad.html

]]> 0 229a3638ace966e4e27905758119f078 Hui Chien Ngoi started the topic CFP: Silence &—CSLC Graduate Colloquium at USC in the forum Postcolonial Studies https://hcommons.org/groups/postcolonial-studies-902027986/forum/topic/cfp-silence-cslc-graduate-colloquium-at-usc-2/ Mon, 12 Jan 2026 07:33:45 -0500 Silence &—Comparative Studies in Literature and Culture Graduate Colloquium at the University of Southern California. Due 01/24/26

The 2026 USC Comparative Studies in Literature and Culture Graduate Colloquium “SILENCE &—” invites inquiries that consider silences/ing within/as overdetermination, foreclosure, aporias, and impasses as they manifes…[Read more]

]]> 0 bd0c0bfab4f41ce064d50feca2333d5d Sarah Lowengard replied to the topic Color Studies Workinig Group (2nd Wednesday of the month, 12-1:30 US Eastern Tim in the forum Science Studies and the History of Science https://hcommons.org/groups/science-studies-and-the-history-of-science/forum/topic/color-studies-workinig-group-2nd-wednesday-of-the-month-12-130-us-eastern-tim/#post-97574 Fri, 21 Nov 2025 00:44:07 -0500 <div class=”bbp-reply-content”>

10 December 2025. 12:00-13:30 US Easteren Time (UTC -5:00).

We invite your participation in the Color Studies Working Group, a research and meeting group sponsored by the Consortium for the History of Science Technology & Medicine (www.chstm.org; http://www.chstm.org/group/color-studies)

Our next meeting will…[Read more]

]]> 0 395354d416b02d659e93ac5676d3fc73 Gregory F. Tague posted an update in the group Environmental Humanities: Climate stability is a matter of forests. Opinion essay in […] https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1930737/ Fri, 10 Oct 2025 13:28:34 -0400 Climate stability is a matter of forests. Opinion essay in The Ecologist (UK). https://theecologist.org/2025/oct/10/sovereign-forests

]]> 0 66003655a945bc3f81893a035fa3bed2 Barbara Franchi replied to the topic CFP; The Blue Humanities in the forum Environmental Humanities https://hcommons.org/groups/environmental-humanities/forum/topic/cfp-the-blue-humanities/#post-94102 Fri, 03 Oct 2025 16:40:14 -0400 This looks fantastic, I have saved and shared it.

]]> 0 1862c1362e2b97e0067eeec141f347d2 Serpil Oppermann started the topic CFP; The Blue Humanities in the forum Environmental Humanities https://hcommons.org/groups/environmental-humanities/forum/topic/cfp-the-blue-humanities/ Sun, 28 Sep 2025 15:00:34 -0400 <p class=”p1″><b>Call for Papers: 4th International Environmental Humanities Conference — “The Blue Humanities”</b></p>
<p class=”p1″><span class=”s1″>We are pleased to announce the </span><b>4th International Environmental Humanities Conference</b><span class=”s1″>, to be held </span><b>20–23 May 2026</b><span class=”s1″>at </sp…[Read more]

]]> 0 fe038ae526e8df1a5681c009727c1052 Sarah Lowengard replied to the topic Color Studies Workinig Group (2nd Wednesday of the month, 12-1:30 US Eastern Tim in the forum Science Studies and the History of Science https://hcommons.org/groups/science-studies-and-the-history-of-science/forum/topic/color-studies-workinig-group-2nd-wednesday-of-the-month-12-130-us-eastern-tim/#post-93828 Fri, 26 Sep 2025 13:00:01 -0400 Join us at our next meeting, Wednesday, 8 October 12:00-1:30 US Eastern Time.

We will be discussing Shane Smith Morrissy, “Art, Authority, and the Phantasmagorias of Color at the Panama Pacific International Exposition (San Francisco, CA), 1915,” a fascinating chapter about postcards, images of America (literally!), and f…[Read more]

]]> 0 13493c8444a6cc723ffe08e26bbf32e3 Sarah Lowengard replied to the topic Color Studies Workinig Group (2nd Wednesday of the month, 12-1:30 US Eastern Tim in the forum Science Studies and the History of Science https://hcommons.org/groups/science-studies-and-the-history-of-science/forum/topic/color-studies-workinig-group-2nd-wednesday-of-the-month-12-130-us-eastern-tim/#post-93827 Fri, 26 Sep 2025 12:59:42 -0400 Join us at our next meeting, Wednesday, 8 October 12:00-1:30 US Eastern Time.

We will be discussing Shane Smith Morrissy, “Art, Authority, and the Phantasmagorias of Color at the Panama Pacific International Exposition (San Francisco, CA), 1915,” a fascinating chapter about postcards, images of America (literally!), and f…[Read more]

]]> 0 5d9bc3988896844c50ad272a694c5766 José Angel GARCÍA LANDA started the topic Economy & Organization in the forum Environmental Humanities https://hcommons.org/groups/environmental-humanities/forum/topic/economy-organization/ Fri, 26 Sep 2025 08:52:09 -0400 Bibliography on AGRICULTURE: https://bibliojagl.blogspot.com/2025/09/agricultura.html

]]> 0 af3ab7ffb31fc2eeef920a6b6cc71c91 Sarah Lowengard started the topic Color Studies Workinig Group (2nd Wednesday of the month, 12-1:30 US Eastern Tim in the forum Science Studies and the History of Science https://hcommons.org/groups/science-studies-and-the-history-of-science/forum/topic/color-studies-workinig-group-2nd-wednesday-of-the-month-12-130-us-eastern-tim/ Mon, 15 Sep 2025 13:39:25 -0400 I invite your participation in the Color Studies Working Group, a research and meeting group sponsored by the Consortium for the History of Science Technology & Medicine (www.chstm.org; http://www.chstm.org/group/color-studies)

CSWG brings together scholars engaged in<b> color-inclusive research</b> and those who want to explore color studies to benefit…[Read more]

]]> 0 23a929a12fceb97d5d6d57330719bedc Gregory F. Tague posted an update in the group Environmental Humanities: I'm pleased to announce the publication of my new book, […] https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1924444/ Sat, 02 Aug 2025 14:48:25 -0400 I’m pleased to announce the publication of my new book, Forest Sovereignty: Wildlife Sustainability and Ethics (Oxford: Peter Lang). Please ask your library to order a copy. https://sites.google.com/site/gftague/forest-sovereignty/

]]> 0 3775ad37e61875e596f47707206149a5 Gregory F. Tague posted an update in the group Environmental Humanities: Darwin and the Art of Botany. Read my review on Leonardo, […] https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1917606/ Sat, 03 May 2025 16:26:27 -0400 Darwin and the Art of Botany. Read my review on Leonardo, here: https://leonardo.info/review/2025/05/darwin-and-the-art-of-botany-observations-on-the-curious-world-of-plants

]]> 0 e699b3809d9a5489d0848f3cef5fbc88 Shashi Bhusan Nayak started the topic Call for Chapters – Scripting Selves: New Directions in Life Writing in the forum Postcolonial Studies https://hcommons.org/groups/postcolonial-studies-902027986/forum/topic/call-for-chapters-scripting-selves-new-directions-in-life-writing-3/ Wed, 05 Mar 2025 17:23:05 -0500 Scripting Selves: New Directions in Life Writing
Editors: P. Muralidhar Sharma & Shashibhusan Nayak

Until recently, Life Writing has emerged as a loose critical label encompassing a variety of genres, including biographies, autobiographies, memoirs, letters, and dairies. The later decades of the 20th century, in particular, have witnessed a surge…[Read more]

]]> 0 398eed0cd306f4a47904f1e3005886b9 Vivien Jiaqian Zhu started the topic CFP 2026 MLA Convention in the forum Ethnomusicology https://hcommons.org/groups/ethnomusicology/forum/topic/cfp-2026-mla-convention-11/ Tue, 04 Feb 2025 22:45:27 -0500 Dear All,

 

I’m pleased to share with you the Call for Paper for the Working Group/Seminar session for the upcoming MLA Convention in Toronto. See https://mla.confex.com/mla/2026/webprogrampreliminary/Paper29934.html.

 

Best wishes,

Vivien Jiaqian Zhu

]]> 0 bd63a8f91c25fa089443db82f1506c54 Vivien Jiaqian Zhu started the topic CFP 2026 MLA Convention in the forum Archives https://hcommons.org/groups/archives/forum/topic/cfp-2026-mla-convention-8/ Tue, 04 Feb 2025 22:41:50 -0500 Dear All,

 

I’m pleased to share with you the Call for Paper for the Working Group/Seminar session for the upcoming MLA Convention in Toronto. See https://mla.confex.com/mla/2026/webprogrampreliminary/Paper29934.html.

 

Best wishes,

Vivien Jiaqian Zhu

]]> 0 3e48cad387bcc3b1827ff6fb17c24893 Vivien Jiaqian Zhu started the topic CFP 2026 MLA Convention in the forum Museums https://hcommons.org/groups/museums/forum/topic/cfp-2026-mla-convention-7/ Tue, 04 Feb 2025 22:40:34 -0500 Dear All,

 

I’m pleased to share with you the Call for Paper for the Working Group/Seminar session for the upcoming MLA Convention in Toronto. See https://mla.confex.com/mla/2026/webprogrampreliminary/Paper29934.html.

 

Best wishes,

Vivien Jiaqian Zhu

]]> 0 36dfc5594fb1959173f0f39f2a6edd1a Gregory F. Tague posted an update in the group Environmental Humanities: Humanity's language and nature, an opinion essay. […] https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1908094/ Mon, 06 Jan 2025 21:28:54 -0500 Humanity’s language and nature, an opinion essay. https://www.asebl.net/2025/01/humanitys-language-meditation-on-nature.html

]]> 0 1244da4cc1346e2744a6cd3a03e1ee5a Juan Antonio Fernandez Rivero deposited La fotografía comercial y los álbumes de viaje en la España del XIX. in the group History of Illustration and Illustration Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1902152/ Sun, 20 Oct 2024 03:00:45 -0400 The study of 44 albums has allowed us to make an approximation to the topographic photography that professional photographers carried out in Spain and to observe the relative importance of each one according to their production and their ability to become part of the albums of those travelers who traveled the Spanish geography from 1860
to 1900.…[Read more]

]]> 0 845ab1ccd7dce68b58b75dd5b3c442a8 Katja Thieme deposited First-Year International Students and the Language of Indigenous Studies in the group Indigenous Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1902004/ Fri, 18 Oct 2024 03:00:07 -0400 We advocate for the inclusion of Indigenous studies within first-year writing and academic English courses, particularly those taught to multilingual, international students. We argue that asking international students to learn about local and international Indigenous issues productively intersects with coursework in academic English. Our…[Read more]

]]> 0 90eafdabb5a6fe607ae0ea405c74f168 Anne Pasek deposited DIY Methods 2024 in the group Environmental Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1901183/ Wed, 09 Oct 2024 03:03:32 -0400 As the past years have proven, the methods for conducting and distributing research that we’ve inherited from our disciplinary traditions can be remarkably brittle in the face of rapidly changing social and mobility norms. The ways we work and the ways we meet are questions newly opened for practical and theoretical inquiry; we both need to s…[Read more]

]]> 0 aa1e0c45a7eeb2a1cd7cca04a5c0344d Ali Shehzad Zaidi deposited Dreamer of Tomorrow in the group Postcolonial Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1901088/ Tue, 08 Oct 2024 03:01:00 -0400 This essay examines the stellar, wind, eagle, and light imagery in Muneer Niazi’s “Futility,” “Now is Not the Time,” “Signaling to a Friendly Star to Keep Shining,” and “Horizons.

]]> 0 bec99cd8e697ce4e2b848a504f8ae8b9 Arif Camoglu deposited Gönül Ferman Dinlerse in the group Postcolonial Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1900462/ Wed, 02 Oct 2024 03:00:51 -0400 Galib’in mesnevisindeki aşk hikayesi tahtlar, hazineler, keşifler ve ordularla bezenmiş bir emperyal düştür aynı zamanda. Sonunda kutsanan şey mistik boyutlara taşınmış mutlak sayılan siyasi otoritedir. Âşık olunan, kendisine tam bağlılığı esas bildiren, göze gelmeyen ama gözünden hiçbir şey kaçmayan bir yönetim tahayyülüdür. Bu hayalde nefs…[Read more]

]]> 0 03e7c500e57bd8462dbe5957f705358d Ali Shehzad Zaidi deposited Voice of the Forgotten in the group Postcolonial Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1898198/ Mon, 09 Sep 2024 03:00:18 -0400 This article discusses the sea imagery in Ahmed Faraz’s poem “Spray on the Eagle’s Pinion,” which appears here in a previously unpublished translation by Daud Kamal. Two other poems, “Siege” and “Remorse” exemplify the defiance and revolt that characterizes Faraz’s dissident poetry during the eleven years of General Zia-ul-Haq’s military regime.

]]> 0 6b50869a6d790f16b53d4bef6f610876 James Gifford deposited "The Frontiers of Love" and Queer Literature of Place: Sexual and Territorial Ambiguity in Durrell's Novels in the group Postcolonial Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1897543/ Fri, 30 Aug 2024 03:00:02 -0400 My title queers Lawrence Durrell’s notion of “spirit of place,” the idea that identity is protean and has more to do with embeddedness in place than any essentialist or fixed being. To do so, this article reads two passages in Durrell’s novel Monsieur that link sexuality and colonialism by presenting similar ambiguities. The novel’s formal in…[Read more]

]]> 0 020521ac12371a6906767a68858af5b6 André Francisco Pilon deposited "The Party of the Dead": Join or Die, a Tale that Repeats Itself in the group Environmental Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1897478/ Thu, 29 Aug 2024 03:00:41 -0400 In this essay the author discusses the condition of man in today's world, overwhelmed by a huge political, economical and cultural machinery, which entangle people in surreptitious and shrewd ways, encompassing different aspects of the individual and collective project of life. Brutally affected by wars, disasters and scourges, mankind have only…[Read more]

]]> 0 a668d178e7c6cbecf494419190207452 Tobias Kraft deposited Archivos Abiertos. El patrimonio documental cubano y la transformación digital in the group Archives https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1897127/ Sat, 24 Aug 2024 03:00:31 -0400 La incorporación de tecnologías y métodos digitales en las humanidades y las instituciones del patrimonio cultural ha provocado una reflexión fundamental de sus áreas de investigación y tareas de divulgación: en los archivos y las bibliotecas, se reorganizan los procesos de preservación y documentación. Colecciones del patrimonio cultural reaparec…[Read more]

]]> 0 fa6a0b84bcdc9f32881d08afdd7fc58c José Angel GARCÍA LANDA replied to the topic Pandemic literature in the forum Environmental Humanities https://hcommons.org/groups/environmental-humanities/forum/topic/pandemic-literature-2/#post-88819 Wed, 21 Aug 2024 12:54:50 -0400 El alarmismo pandémico de la Covid-19: Una bibliografía https://www.academia.edu/62127938/

]]> 0 2bf33847086f0c1780b5e5938c0c5f0e Adam DJ Brett deposited REL 500/600: The Religious Origins of White Supremacy: Johnson v. M'Intosh and the Doctrine of Christian Discovery in the group Indigenous Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1896636/ Sun, 18 Aug 2024 03:00:27 -0400 In a series of Papal Bulls from the 15th century developed what is now known as the “Doctrine of Christian Discovery” (DoCD). These documents granted land title to Christian explorers when they entered the territories not ruled by a Christian Prince. While there have always been localized expressions of intolerance and hatred toward other cul…[Read more]

]]> 0 c708de97aaaba0c731ceab25b62159de Bethany Laursen deposited Toolkitting: an unrecognized form of expertise for overcoming fragmentation in inter- and transdisciplinarity in the group Science Studies and the History of Science https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1896263/ Thu, 15 Aug 2024 03:00:09 -0400 A growing number of inter- and transdisciplinary (ITD) toolkits provide methods, processes, concepts, heuristics, frameworks, and other resources for designing and implementing ITD research. A brief overview of the currently fragmented toolkits landscape is provided, fleshed out through descriptions of four toolkits. Fragmentation means that…[Read more]

]]> 0 cb9325bac60c2495316379355e86a204 Arif Camoglu deposited Anti-Black Racism, British Orientalism, and the Ottoman Empire: Rereading The Turkish Embassy Letters in the group Postcolonial Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1896020/ Mon, 12 Aug 2024 04:00:17 -0400 This essay reads Mary Wortley Montagu’s The Turkish Embassy Letters (1763)
as an entry point for an investigation of the entwinement between the
British anti-Black racial consciousness and orientalist rhetoric concerning
the Ottoman Empire. Montagu’s racially marked depictions of women in
Ottoman lands not only reveal the limits of her cap…[Read more]

]]> 0 bbdc73363acb6374dcecb47ed9c05009 Ali Shehzad Zaidi deposited Towards a Socialist Pakistan: The Modern Urdu Poetry Translations of Daud Kamal in the group Postcolonial Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1895901/ Sat, 10 Aug 2024 03:02:12 -0400 With his spare, evocative style, Daud Kamal remains unsurpassed as a translator of Urdu poetry, referring to his translations as transcreations Those concise translations, with their masterfully wrought imagery, portray the effects of dictatorship on Pakistan, draw on the rich traditions of Sufi and folk poetry, and ultimately create a portrait of…[Read more]

]]> 0 7d8022530810b52ab2e6fdeee5c846ac Ali Shehzad Zaidi deposited The Restless Traveler in the group Postcolonial Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1895899/ Sat, 10 Aug 2024 03:01:55 -0400 Contains a selection of Faiz poems and an overview of his life.

]]> 0 f22fe0853be9c25e2cef358b8f3f57d1 Peter Webster deposited Eric Mascall and the rise, fall and rise of ‘Christian sociology’, c.1935 – 1985 in the group British History https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1895028/ Tue, 30 Jul 2024 03:00:30 -0400 This article explores the social thought of E.L. Mascall, Anglican theologian and philosopher. The bewilderment of the 1930s and 1940s, Mascall believed, was at root a loss of a proper sense of the human person: dependent on the action of God for very existence, simultaneously bodily and spiritual, a worker on earth yet a pilgrim towards glory.…[Read more]

]]> 0 58b05dcd7b07b2e6c796be7cb435656f Timothy Cooper deposited ‘That Awful Night in October’: Sensory Experiences of Britain’s 1987 Hurricane in the group Environmental Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1894817/ Sun, 28 Jul 2024 03:01:17 -0400 This article explores sensory experiences of the 1987 ‘Hurricane’ in Britain. Through mass observers’ testimonies, we examine the impact of sensory disruption to domestic ‘sensoria’. We examine in turn disturbing noises; the anxieties circulating around windows; the loss of power to heat and light domestic environments, and, finally, the kinetic p…[Read more]

]]> 0 c1bf6dc0edc87243d6e29620088cf14e Timothy Cooper deposited ‘That Awful Night in October’: Sensory Experiences of Britain’s 1987 Hurricane in the group British History https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1894816/ Sun, 28 Jul 2024 03:01:16 -0400 This article explores sensory experiences of the 1987 ‘Hurricane’ in Britain. Through mass observers’ testimonies, we examine the impact of sensory disruption to domestic ‘sensoria’. We examine in turn disturbing noises; the anxieties circulating around windows; the loss of power to heat and light domestic environments, and, finally, the kinetic p…[Read more]

]]> 0 c7592ed960ffd7effb0f76ebd892e52c Anna-Marie Kroupová started the topic Workshop: Iron Curtains or Artistic Gates? in the forum Postcolonial Studies https://hcommons.org/groups/postcolonial-studies-902027986/forum/topic/workshop-iron-curtains-or-artistic-gates/ Fri, 26 Jul 2024 10:55:33 -0400 Workshop: Iron Curtains or Artistic Gates? Communism and Cultural Diplomacy in the Global South (1945–1991 and Beyond)

19–20 September 2024

 

Upper Belvedere

Prinz-Eugen-Straße 27, 1030 Vienna, Austria

 

<u>Organizers</u>: Anna-Marie Kroupová & Noémie Étienne (University of Vienna)

 

This workshop challenges traditional East-West Cold War…[Read more]

]]> 0 685534f123522e5dbc3f2676350fa259 Philip Allfrey deposited Location of markets in English Market Towns, 1813 in the group British History https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1893106/ Sun, 21 Jul 2024 03:00:13 -0400 The right to hold a market on England was historically granted by royal charter. Such a privilege provides an alternative to population size as a proxy for importance. This dataset contains the latitude and longitude I have determined for the market place in 698 historic English market towns which are recorded in a list published in “Owen’s New…[Read more]

]]> 0 bd3fab12989d3ca9c1d218e0465ebf85 Francesco Luzzini deposited Going (More) Historical: On Environment, Science, and Discourse in the group Science Studies and the History of Science https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1891456/ Wed, 10 Jul 2024 03:00:28 -0400 In: “Storia e Filosofia della Scienza: una nuova alleanza?”, ed. F. Minazzi, Milan, Mimesis, 2024, pp. 175-182.

]]> 0 e8e1aa36fc3f0b6114d393da34d679d4 Francesco Luzzini deposited Going (More) Historical: On Environment, Science, and Discourse in the group Science Studies and the History of Science https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1891455/ Wed, 10 Jul 2024 03:00:23 -0400 In: “Storia e Filosofia della Scienza: una nuova alleanza?”, ed. F. Minazzi, Milan, Mimesis, 2024, pp. 175-182.

]]> 0 e1ee71077847229433afaca0fd1b1f23 Francesco Luzzini deposited Going (More) Historical: On Environment, Science, and Discourse in the group Environmental Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1891450/ Wed, 10 Jul 2024 03:00:07 -0400 In: “Storia e Filosofia della Scienza: una nuova alleanza?”, ed. F. Minazzi, Milan, Mimesis, 2024, pp. 175-182.

]]> 0 0a091293b655a6f810b947ec6c3b7fce Francesco Luzzini deposited Going (More) Historical: On Environment, Science, and Discourse in the group Environmental Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1891449/ Wed, 10 Jul 2024 03:00:06 -0400 In: “Storia e Filosofia della Scienza: una nuova alleanza?”, ed. F. Minazzi, Milan, Mimesis, 2024, pp. 175-182.

]]> 0 df5ac9ab48dfeebd31b826848ee948a2 Gregory F. Tague posted an update in the group Environmental Humanities: Is there a faculty member at a US institution who is willing […] https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1891134/ Sat, 06 Jul 2024 20:49:05 -0400 Is there a faculty member at a US institution who is willing to host a conference on Environmental Humanities: East-West Perspectives? I’m asking for a friend/colleague of mine in India. I can send a fact sheet if there’s any interest. Contact me at ebibliotekos@gmail.com

]]> 0 6b4b29818e23f288aefd4e202f7196d0 Elisabeth Moreau deposited Galenic Medicine and the Atomist Revival: Elements, Particles, and Minima in Late Renaissance Physiology in the group Science Studies and the History of Science https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1889654/ Thu, 20 Jun 2024 03:01:10 -0400 In the past decades, historians have emphasized the multidisciplinary nature and conceptual disparateness of the atomist revival in the early modern sciences. However, they have not investigated how medicine, and specifically the authority of Galen, has contributed to the emergence of this revival. Indeed, despite Galen’s rejection of atoms and c…[Read more]

]]> 0 1fb789ff024ef75a37dbd46b35169728 Sarah Lowengard deposited The Materiality of Colour Concepts in the group Science Studies and the History of Science https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1887034/ Fri, 24 May 2024 03:00:26 -0400 An introduction to some new ways to think about the constraints of production tools on the presentation of color theories and philosophies of color.

]]> 0 bf722bd85780c3a9d0ed84ffeaeb8617 Rosselly Virmania Loor Zambrano deposited Conservação preventiva de documentos na América Latina: estudo da produção científica gerada em Cuba in the group Archives https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1885802/ Fri, 10 May 2024 03:02:36 -0400 A conservação de documentos é um aspecto fundamental na preservação da memória histórica de uma sociedade. Os documentos são testemunhos escritos que refletem a cultura, as tradições, os costumes e os acontecimentos que marcaram a história de um povo. Por isso, é de vital importância conservá-los para garantir sua transmissão às gerações futura…[Read more]

]]> 0 1ebe854339a73c624950b59f82f2f97b Christopher Griffin deposited Colonial Cisnationalism: Notes on Empire and Gender in the UK’s Migration Policy in the group Postcolonial Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1884636/ Wed, 01 May 2024 03:25:59 -0400 Since 2023, the UK government’s response to the “migrant crisis” has revolved around two controversial flagship policies: the deportation of asylum seekers to Rwanda, and the detention of migrants aboard a giant barge. In this short article, I examine the colonial and gendered dimensions of the two policies, finding them to be examples of the col…[Read more]

]]> 0 106a603dc2d659e24e56e7dabeea4087 Andrea Sinclair deposited High Times in Ancient Egypt in the group Science Studies and the History of Science https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1880196/ Thu, 21 Mar 2024 03:00:20 -0400 Psychoactive plants could be described as attractive topics for the disciplines of archaeology and anthropology, and equally they have been of singular interest in popular culture for decades. Perhaps because these are situated within an area that many may view as socially unacceptable, and certainly in some cultures, as illegal, they make an…[Read more]

]]> 0 8b52b8f9b0e54a40c84a0a97c1b8b08e Joao Silva deposited Early Portuguese recordings for The Gramophone Company (1900—1908) and the establishment of a phonographic market in Portugal in the group Ethnomusicology https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1879675/ Sat, 16 Mar 2024 03:00:38 -0400 My article strives to study phonography in Portugal between the 1900 recording sessions for The Gramophone Company and the company’s first significant Portuguese catalogue, printed in December 1908. I aim to trace the transformations undertaken in the discs and repertoires along with their segmentation during the first decade of Portuguese p…[Read more]

]]> 0 5cf118336571cd90cfdd40f74069e88b Gabriela Méndez Cota deposited The Gift of Gender: Ivan Illich, Feminism, Infrapolitics in the group Environmental Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1877411/ Thu, 22 Feb 2024 03:01:35 -0500 With the aim of exploring the relevance of Ivan Illich’s thinking for infrapolitical reflection, this article focuses on his book Gender (1982) and what it suggests about feminism today, at a time of perishing (Williams). Beyond problematizing, as academic feminism did swiftly at the time of the book’s publication, Illich’s seemingly nosta…[Read more]

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