SAH Commons | Karsten Schubert | Group Activity https://sah.hcommons.org/members/karstenschubert/activity/groups/ Public group activity feed of which Karsten Schubert is a member. Sun, 05 Apr 2026 15:12:15 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 3843c149ef3f43e0130624caa675ab5f Matthew Kidd started the topic Participate in a survey on generative AI and archival research practices in the forum Global & Transnational Studies https://hcommons.org/groups/global-transnational-studies/forum/topic/participate-in-a-survey-on-generative-ai-and-archival-research-practices-6/ Fri, 13 Feb 2026 11:17:56 -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 257e421c4785fccd1365078f7d662b5a Hui Chien Ngoi started the topic CFP: Silence &—CSLC Graduate Colloquium at USC in the forum Political Philosophy & Theory https://hcommons.org/groups/political-philosophy-theory/forum/topic/cfp-silence-cslc-graduate-colloquium-at-usc/ Mon, 12 Jan 2026 07:28:22 -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 6c8789f829b34916df663ebff2781f76 Kerem Duymus deposited Afroglobale Geschichte der Gegenwart (Beiträge zur Theorie der Globalgeschichte) in the group Global & Transnational Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1902204/ Mon, 21 Oct 2024 03:00:21 -0400 Während sich die Hauptliteratur der Globalgeschichte teilweise als Nachfolger der europäischen imperialen Geschichte mit einem neuen Rahmen und zum Teil als Erklärung der „globalisierten“ Gegenwart positioniert hat, konnten die Kritiken, insbesondere aus afrikanisch-historischer Perspektive, kaum Auswirkungen auf ihre deterministischen und euroze…[Read more]

]]> 0 57020e39f62a6f699ef66da74457c8e4 Valeria Graziano deposited The Rabble’s Lifecraft: Institutional Tinkering and Popular Illegalisms in the group Political Philosophy & Theory https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1902091/ Sat, 19 Oct 2024 03:01:02 -0400 Article published in Croatian translation as ‘Životna Vještina Raje: Institucionalno Krparenje I Pučki Ilegalizmi’, Kritika, 5(1), 125-146.

Figure it Out (FIO) is an artistic and research project engaging practices and phenomena of coping, tinkering, making-do and circumventing exclusions that are developed by marginalized, underserved, discri…[Read more]

]]> 0 d8689258efceaa8ace052d39ee3de647 Valeria Graziano deposited We in the plural. Performance gestures of antifascism in the group Political Philosophy & Theory https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1902084/ Sat, 19 Oct 2024 03:00:20 -0400 We in the plural. Performance gestures of antifascism

]]> 0 e64e8c8a1437e3b53acd2e4603f54ec4 Kerem Duymus deposited Tadbir as Marine Diplomacy: Ottoman Foreign Jurisdiction in Practice and the Debate of Piracy in Case of Tripoli between 1790s-1835 in the group Global & Transnational Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1901429/ Sat, 12 Oct 2024 03:01:57 -0400 The marine diplomacy of Tripoli in the Qaramanlı era was deeply shaped by the Ottoman Foreign Jurisdiction. Yet, especially Yusuf Paşa with his tadbir (Ar.) [governing through taking measures] application carried the implication of this jurisdiction to a global tributary system that all European states as well as USA obeyed. The ignorance of the h…[Read more]

]]> 0 bb90d862ef4829f4034ee8c1884d2c19 Pragya Ranjan deposited Morality in Premchand’s Kafan: For Dalits or Anti-Dalit ? in the group Political Philosophy & Theory https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1901229/ Thu, 10 Oct 2024 03:00:45 -0400 It is an article on Premchand’s most controversial short story, Kafan. This article attempts to describe how the story gives an alternative voice to the downtrodden and how the characters define a morality of their own, which is outside the purview of the Brahmanical framework. In an extremely hierarchical religious structure as in Hinduism, this…[Read more]

]]> 0 8e731ea7ea6e782a09b91cd495868da1 Kerem Duymus deposited The Political Economy of the Sokoto Caliphate after the 1850s: The Triple System and Its Dynamics in the group Global & Transnational Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1901181/ Wed, 09 Oct 2024 03:03:20 -0400 Three salient political-economic patterns – (1) agriculture and craft production with trade, (2) war economy, (3) economy of exploitation – in the Sokoto Caliphate have been inquired under the triple system by scrutinizing their similar and dissimilar features, their autonomous and interdependent characters, and their connected and dis…[Read more]

]]> 0 13382c6e3ad3b51702cb82971a3c08eb Kerem Duymus deposited 1850-1910 Arası Osmanlı'nın Sahra Politikaları in the group Global & Transnational Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1901178/ Wed, 09 Oct 2024 03:03:08 -0400 Osmanlılar’ın 19. yüzyılın ikinci yarısında merkezi Sahra bölgesindeki genişlemesi ve uygulanan politikalar, arşiv materyallerinin iki ülke (Libya ve Türkiye) arasında düzensiz bir şekilde dağılmış olması sebebiyle bugüne değin keşfedilmeden kalmaya devam etmiştir. İki ülke arşivlerinin yoğun bir analizi sonucunda ortaya çıkan yeni kayıtlar ve…[Read more]

]]> 0 8dbfb8d40094c47dd4edd41b2d7bf145 Kerem Duymus deposited Commodity Production and African Migration to Turkey, Now and in the Premodern Past in the group Global & Transnational Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1901175/ Wed, 09 Oct 2024 03:02:54 -0400 African Migration in Turkey is an under-researched area despite the long history of migration between West Africa and the Ottoman Empire and the large number of African migrants in Turkey. The connection of this historical and contemporary migration movement with commodity production reveals not only the basic dynamics and patterns but also the…[Read more]

]]> 0 a737f714c290dec4919ef8051b1c248a Arif Camoglu deposited Gönül Ferman Dinlerse in the group Global & Transnational Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1900460/ Wed, 02 Oct 2024 03:00:38 -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 9fa84f33c6e9e8c8fafbe0a6f587fbd9 Guylian Nemegeer edited the blog post International Conference: Pan-Movements, Regeneration and Modernity (29 October 2024) in the group Global & Transnational Studies https://globaltransnationalstudies.hcommons.org/2024/09/28/international-conference-pan-movement-regeneration-and-modernity-29-october-2024/ Sat, 28 Sep 2024 12:38:42 -0400 Members of this group may be interested in the following conference, which may be followed online. Registration is needed to receive the meeting link: […]

]]> ba7ec5295f019b3d9b7c3b478675d8ee D. Gregory MacIsaac deposited The False Appearance of the Sophist Himself in the First Six Definitions of Plato’s Sophist in the group Political Philosophy & Theory https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1900002/ Sat, 28 Sep 2024 03:06:04 -0400 The key to how the definitions in Sophist fit together is the seventh definition, the maker of false appearances. The first six definitions are a false appearance of the sophist himself, as a businessman who sells an art of disputation to rich young men. Because this is a deception, to unmask him we need to supplement the brief descriptions in…[Read more]

]]> 0 bb21175f5bd2bdbb7c5ddbb48ab8aa6c Gennady Shkliarevsky deposited THE POST-HEGEMONIC WORLD ORDER: THE CASE FOR PERPETUAL PEACE in the group Political Philosophy & Theory https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1898620/ Fri, 13 Sep 2024 03:00:20 -0400 Tensions and rivalries are proliferating in the contemporary world at an unprecedented rate. There are many signs that human civilization faces a real possibility of a new global conflict. Some observers even claim that the Third World War has already began. There are few other times in human history when the need to bring order and peace to…[Read more]

]]> 0 e99c4c351ccc239147ae6a9ddc047764 John Aerni-Flessner deposited Basotho and the Bantustans: Long-Term Impacts of Historical Borders on Borderlands Communities in QwaQwa and Lesotho in the group Global & Transnational Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1896783/ Tue, 20 Aug 2024 03:00:54 -0400 Drawing on archival work conducted in South Africa, the UK and Lesotho, and on oral histories collected in 2021–2023, this article historicises the experiences of Basotho living along the Lesotho–South Africa border. It focuses primarily on the part of eastern Free State designated during the apartheid era as the Basotho ‘Homeland’ of QwaQwa…[Read more]

]]> 0 e2a3efd892ab102d43a16b2465a753aa Sonia D. Andras deposited Romanian-American Negotiations in Education, Science, Culture, and Arts in the group Global & Transnational Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1896775/ Tue, 20 Aug 2024 03:00:23 -0400 As a political model for the young democracy in interwar Romania, as a protector against threats to the sovereignty and integrity of the state, as a cultural model, and as a daily life, America represented for Romania a reference point, a factor of stability and progress. America was a model and ally of the civilized world!
Unfortunately,…[Read more]

]]> 0 44c58f3d85c127a89a878e9cce917444 Gavin Herzig deposited Time Heals All Wounds: The Time Loop Beyond Groundhog Day, Disability, and Higurashi Gou and Sotsu (2020-21) in the group Global & Transnational Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1896644/ Sun, 18 Aug 2024 03:01:17 -0400 Linear time is out of joint with and oppressive to alternate bodies, minds, and lives in a plethora of ways. In recent years, critical interventions such as Alison Kafer’s crip time and Elizabeth Freeman’s chrononormativity have revealed the oppressive force of time on marginalised groups. The time loop structure inherently complicates the lin…[Read more]

]]> 0 48beaf2d719c2b86ad5c7149e232428f Marvin Cheung edited the blog post Invite: Seminar on "Solving Grand Challenges with Transdisciplinary Research" in the group Global & Transnational Studies https://globaltransnationalstudies.hcommons.org/2024/08/14/invite-seminar-on-solving-grand-challenges-with-transdisciplinary-research/ Wed, 14 Aug 2024 20:18:51 -0400 For scholars, founders, and executives — Grand challenges are wicked problems characterized by their global scope, high significance, and potential to be solvable. Potential to be solvable is important to e […]

]]> 87cf6261eed3914fd9f3b0d5db878492 Arif Camoglu deposited Anti-Black Racism, British Orientalism, and the Ottoman Empire: Rereading The Turkish Embassy Letters in the group Global & Transnational Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1896018/ Mon, 12 Aug 2024 04:00:06 -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 ae3a0d01dfc180f413c4aafa799b8f6f Anna-Marie Kroupová replied to the topic CFP: Iron Curtains or Artistic Gates? in the forum Global & Transnational Studies https://hcommons.org/groups/global-transnational-studies/forum/topic/cfp-iron-curtains-or-artistic-gates/#post-88127 Fri, 26 Jul 2024 11:09:40 -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

 

Organizers: Anna-Marie Kroupová & Noémie Étienne (University of Vienna)

 

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

]]> 0 1100e362fa3bcd37e433dda9be37a089 Steve McCarty deposited English Education and Bilingual Education in Japan in the group Global & Transnational Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1889641/ Thu, 20 Jun 2024 03:00:04 -0400 The Japan Times quoted the author extensively in a recent article on bilingual education. The reporter agreed to share the full interview with the Japan Association for Language Teaching Bilingualism Special Interest Group (JALT Bilingualism SIG) publication Bilingual Japan. Asked why the level of English in Japan remains low, the author goes well…[Read more]

]]> 0 b986a93b0a27568578296de38da9fc87 Marvin Cheung deposited 5 Ideas from Global Diplomacy: System-wide Transformation Methods to Close the Compliance Gap and Advance the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals in the group Global & Transnational Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1889574/ Wed, 19 Jun 2024 03:00:28 -0400 Why are we stuck here and how do we move forward? Amidst escalating global crises and growing climate anxiety, “5 Ideas from Global Diplomacy” offers actionable recommendations to aspiring changemakers to close the compliance gap between political commitment and action, and advance the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals. The book journeys beyond…[Read more]

]]> 0 bd7df2459d76d330ca2631a142130519 David I. Backer deposited Critical School Finance in the group Frankfurt School Critical Theory https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1888918/ Tue, 11 Jun 2024 03:00:58 -0400 In this paper, we put forth a framework called Critical School Finance, articulating the framework itself and then applying it to school facilities finance. First, we go back to first principles and discuss what ‘critical’ denotes, revisiting critical theorist Max Horkheimer’s seminal essay ‘Traditional vs. Critical Theory.’ Second, we offer fiv…[Read more]

]]> 0 765a5b58d2b7896a8e854b00cc0d3a92 Valeria Graziano deposited ŽIVOTNA VJEŠTINA RAJE: INSTITUCIONALNO KRPARENJE I PUČKI ILEGALIZMI (THE RABBLE’S LIFECRAFT: INSTITUTIONAL TINKERING AND POPULAR ILLEGALISMS) in the group Political Philosophy & Theory https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1888621/ Fri, 07 Jun 2024 03:00:31 -0400 The essay explores “institutional tinkering,” which refers to practices of disobedience and resource reappropriation that highlight the contradictions within systems or institutions. It argues that practices of institutional tinkering and popular illegalisms are critical lenses to understand power dynamics and resistance in the ongoing crisis of…[Read more]

]]> 0 873cf8fb5e6d679ce7ce8af487c998c0 Titus Stahl deposited Oppressive Forms of Life in the group Frankfurt School Critical Theory https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1887449/ Wed, 29 May 2024 03:00:58 -0400 Rahel Jaeggi argues that forms of life ought to be the main reference point for a critical theory of society because the internal normative structure of life forms allows for immanent critique. In this article, I extend her model by systematically considering the possibility of oppressive forms of life. Oppressive forms of life are clusters of…[Read more]

]]> 0 d9b0f7df06a56816859e9e1b905d6b7d Yizhou Xu deposited DingTalk and Chinese Digital Workplace Surveillance in Pandemic Times in the group Global & Transnational Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1887190/ Sun, 26 May 2024 03:00:30 -0400 The pandemic-imposed lockdowns and the shift to remote work during COVID-19 have fundamentally changed the notion of the workplace as workers are forced to work from home. Tech work, in particular, seems especially adept at adjusting to this disruption as much of existing labor practices are already digitally-mediated via software and platforms.…[Read more]

]]> 0 a9a74b49672796179a1f5acd43dcfd00 Pramod Ranjan deposited वैश्विक रैंकिंग, अकादमिक स्वतंत्रता और भारतीय विश्वविद्यालय [Global rankings, academic freedom and Indian universities] in the group Academic Politics https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1887035/ Fri, 24 May 2024 03:00:36 -0400 This Hindi article delves into the media’s portrayal of the QS World University Rankings (QS WUR) for Indian universities. It unveils how Indian media outlets selectively highlighted subject-wise rankings published in 2024 to weave a narrative of improvement in higher education. However, a closer examination reveals that the overall ranking of…[Read more]

]]> 0 813d5cd2712a36067ed8f27872a3f9f4 Pramod Ranjan deposited राम के महल में आग लगाता हनुमान in the group Political Philosophy & Theory https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1886032/ Mon, 13 May 2024 03:00:08 -0400 चर्चित सोशल मीडिया इनफ्लुएंसर दिलीप मंडल ने अचानक राजनीतिक पलटी मारी है और राजद-सपा-स्टालिन आदि के खेमे को छोड़ कर राष्ट्रीय स्वयंसेवक संघ के लिए बैटिंग करने लगे हैं। कई लोगों में उनके कथित पतन से दु:ख खीज और गुस्सा है।

लेकिन सवाल यह है कि दिलीप ने ऐसा किया क्यों? पिछले लगभग डेढ़ दशक में उन्होंने जो भी कमाया था, क्यों उसे गंवाने पर तुले हैं?

]]> 0 1df6d9aa8c768f0e268116565270ce06 Meili Steele deposited Ontologie linguistique et dialogue politique chez Bakhtine in the group Political Philosophy & Theory https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1884711/ Wed, 01 May 2024 03:32:52 -0400 The essay examines the strengths and weakness of Bakhtin’s dialogical ontology.

]]> 0 f53e06b962039e6b37e7f16a4d92be16 Meili Steele deposited Three Problamtics of Linguistic Vulnerability: Gadamer, Benhabib, and Butler in the group Political Philosophy & Theory https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1884692/ Wed, 01 May 2024 03:31:22 -0400 Three Problematics of Linguistic Vulnerability: Gadamer, Benhabib, and Butler
Debates in feminist political philosophy often focus on what problematic(s) to use in order to understand normative ideals, gendered differences, and their histories. For the purposes of this chapter, I will contrast two important problematics in these debates, the…[Read more]

]]> 0 0a8def7852bb18af268dbda69cd242f3 Meili Steele deposited Hiding from History: Habermas's Elision of Public Imagination in the group Political Philosophy & Theory https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1884689/ Wed, 01 May 2024 03:30:53 -0400 Hiding from History: Habermas’s Model of Political Deliberation
Meili Steele

Jürgen Habermas’s recent interventions in disputes about public history have served to underscore the failure of his philosophy to address an issue crucial to any democratic community: how to deliberate about one’s symbolic inheritance. His well-known immuni…[Read more]

]]> 0 5f95984feac6bf959af4f6422b1e04e1 Meili Steele deposited Hiding from History: Habermas's Elision of Public Imagination in the group Frankfurt School Critical Theory https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1884687/ Wed, 01 May 2024 03:30:40 -0400 Hiding from History: Habermas’s Model of Political Deliberation
Meili Steele

Jürgen Habermas’s recent interventions in disputes about public history have served to underscore the failure of his philosophy to address an issue crucial to any democratic community: how to deliberate about one’s symbolic inheritance. His well-known immuni…[Read more]

]]> 0 37fb097685ccf0d35eb1e76d188efd3e Pramod Ranjan deposited मीडिया और मुस्लिम [Media and Muslims] in the group Political Philosophy & Theory https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1884643/ Wed, 01 May 2024 03:26:24 -0400 प्रमोद रंजन की ‘मीडिया और मुस्लिम’ टिप्पणी शिमला से प्रकाशित एक छोटे से समाचार-पत्र में 2003 में प्रकाशित हुई थी। यह टिप्पणी भारतीय मीडिया में बढ़ती सांप्रदायिक सोच से संबंधित है। रंजन लिखते हैं कि देश में मुस्लिमों को हाशिये पर धकेला जा रहा है। किसी भी अखबार को उठाएं तो आपको समाज में बढ़ती इस प्रवृत्ति की छाया मिल जाएगी। वे लिखते हैं कि…[Read more]

]]> 0 6208fda883aacdfb75d8c6741ddc0277 Christopher Griffin deposited Colonial Cisnationalism: Notes on Empire and Gender in the UK’s Migration Policy in the group LGBTQ Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1884634/ Wed, 01 May 2024 03:25:53 -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 a4174a8cfe195b095a47cc3c63abd2dd Pramod Ranjan deposited बिल गेट्स की भारत यात्रा : व्यावसायिक अनुदानों की राजनीति [“Bill Gates’ visit to India: The politics of business grants.”] in the group Political Philosophy & Theory https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1884588/ Wed, 01 May 2024 03:22:03 -0400 प्रमोद रंजन द्वारा यह लेख बिल ‘गेट्स की भारत यात्रा’ पर दो भागो में लिखा गया है, पहला भाग 22 नवम्बर को और दूसरा भाग 23 नवम्बर 2002 को शिमला से प्रकाशित साध्य दैनिक अखबार भारतेन्दु शिखर में छपा है।

प्रमोद रंजन ने वर्ष 2002 में बिल गेट्स की भारत यात्रा के अवसर पर “छोटी चाहतों के संगीन निहितार्थ- बिल गेट्स की भारत यात्रा: व्यवसायिक अनुदानों…[Read more]

]]> 0 cf6965ea0fd75d5220ae27b96f5882f1 Rita Singer deposited LINDEN, DIEDERICH WESSEL (fl.1745-1768; d.1769), medical doctor and minerologist in the group Global & Transnational Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1884524/ Wed, 01 May 2024 03:06:04 -0400 This biography of the German medical doctor and minerologist Diederich Wessel Linden (fl.1745-1768; d.1769) is the edited and published version in the Dictionary of Welsh Biography. The article discusses Linden’s life, scientific research on mineral waters and their medicinal use.

]]> 0 a5c075e6491ffa1132b8967d6c641f5b Pramod Ranjan deposited एक दशक की टॉप-सेलर पुस्तकें और बहुजन साहित्य in the group Academic Politics https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1882301/ Fri, 05 Apr 2024 03:00:04 -0400 यह लेख हिंदी प्रकाशन उद्योग में दलित-बहुजन साहित्य के बढ़ते प्रभाव की जांच करता है। राजकमल प्रकाशन समूह की बेस्टसेलर सूची को एक उदाहरण के रूप में उपयोग करते हुए, यह जाति, सामाजिक न्याय और हाशिए के समुदायों से जुड़ी रचनाओं के लिए बढ़ती पाठक संख्या पर चर्चा करता है। लेख इस बात पर भी चर्चा करता है कि कैसे सरकारी खरीद और बाजार की ताकतें…[Read more]

]]> 0 9f0bd0d0ff5a779767ab62f51b627776 Gary Hall deposited ‘How To Be A Pirate: An Interview with Alexandra Elbakyan and Gary Hall by Holger Briel’ in the group Political Philosophy & Theory https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1879774/ Mon, 18 Mar 2024 03:01:59 -0400 From the opening: ‘When Michael, Markus, and I first discussed the idea for publishing
this book, it was very clear to us that we did not want to write yet
another theoretical book on Internet piracy; practitioners from the
field should also have a voice. After all, it is they who created this
phenomenon in the first place and it is clearly…[Read more]

]]> 0 4828445e7f96f7187cb8be2aa9c780f0 Frédéric Lefrançois deposited « Itinéraire pour retrouver la géographie de soi »,"Itinerary to Reclaim a Mapping of the Self" in the group Global & Transnational Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1879331/ Wed, 13 Mar 2024 03:02:34 -0400 March 1, 2018 was the day of study organized by the CEREAP-CRILLASH on the theme: ‘Cartographies and Identity Topology’ at the University of the West Indies. ‘Route to Find the Geography of Self’ is the title of the work produced by the artist David Né. This creation, which is both pictorial and performative, embraces the concept of the card in…[Read more]

]]> 0 78f81125430918a9abe6bda2592442bf Pramod Ranjan deposited मंडल के बाद पिछड़ा पावे सौ में पांच in the group Political Philosophy & Theory https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1878563/ Tue, 05 Mar 2024 03:00:04 -0500 केंद्र सरकार द्वारा बीपी मंडल रिपोर्ट के हवाले से सुप्रीम कोर्ट में रखे गये आंकड़े के अनुसार 1990 में सरकारी नौकरियों में ओबीसी की भागीदारी 12.55 प्रतिशत थी, जबकि 2005)की गणना के अनुसार ओबीसी कोटे के कर्मचारियों की संख्या महज 5.2 प्रतिशत थी। यह हैरतअंगेज आंकड़ा उस समय का है, जिस दौरान पिछड़ावाद के अनेक सिपहसालार डॉ राममनोहर लोहिया के…[Read more]

]]> 0 feb67fef84ddd32acfa11acf79cca08f Jenny Bhatt started the topic CFP for MLA 2025 in the discussion Global & Transnational Studies https://hcommons.org/groups/global-transnational-studies/forum/topic/cfp-for-mla-2025/ Fri, 23 Feb 2024 16:42:45 -0500 I’m sharing a CFP for a proposed panel for MLA 2025. Here’s the brief (35-word limit) CFP as posted. Below, you can see a slightly longer abstract. Please reach out if this might be of interest to you. Thanks.

MLA CFP Link: https://mla.confex.com/mla/2025/webprogrampreliminary/Paper26442.html

Working Title: Reconstructing Narratives, Ref…[Read more]

]]> 0 6a08c75b06ec50cf9aa96c286471a9bf Arif Camoglu deposited Plague, Paradox, and the Ends of Community: Defoe's Epidemiological Orientalism in the group Global & Transnational Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1876886/ Sat, 17 Feb 2024 03:00:50 -0500 Revisiting Daniel Defoe’s A Journal of the Plague Year (1722) in tandem with a selection of medical sources from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, this essay examines the ethnocultural underpinnings of plague. Although plague approximates community to its imagined outsiders through a shared sense of precarity, the divide between the two…[Read more]

]]> 0 df36fab73d5d259ad00020366941986b Rita Singer deposited ‘[A] very improbable and imaginative fiction’: Fictionalising the French Invasion of Fishguard in the group Global & Transnational Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1874893/ Wed, 07 Feb 2024 03:00:08 -0500 This article investigates three Victorian historical novels in Welsh and English about the Fishguard Invasion by the French in 1797. The article discusses the metaphorical function of landscape and geography in their relation to national identity and historical events against the late-Victorian backdrop of the fear of invasion of the British mainland.

]]> 0 3b41ba72d01fa2e0b1d340dec70ebcfd Sonia D. Andras deposited Modă și frumusețe. Lucrări teoretice de autor in the group Global & Transnational Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1874550/ Sun, 04 Feb 2024 03:00:34 -0500 Contribuția mea inovativă constă în identificarea și analiza lucrărilor internaționale de modă și frumusețe, care au fost traduse în limba română. Traducătorii în limba română vor fi studiați din perspectiva temelor abordate în acest domeniu, limbilor din care au tradus, a autorilor traduși, intervalului dintre original și traducere (sincroniz…[Read more]

]]> 0 1a07b2c92fd5e22be0f1df281f3d87e6 Anna-Marie Kroupová started the topic CFP: Iron Curtains or Artistic Gates? in the discussion Global & Transnational Studies https://hcommons.org/groups/global-transnational-studies/forum/topic/cfp-iron-curtains-or-artistic-gates/ Fri, 02 Feb 2024 14:42:56 -0500 CFP: Workshop: Iron Curtains or Artistic Gates? Communism and Cultural Diplomacy in the Global South (1945–1991 and Beyond)

Location: Vienna, Austria

Date: 19-20 Spetember 2024

Submission deadline: 31 March 2024

 

Iron Curtains or Artistic Gates? Communism and Cultural Diplomacy in the Global South (1945–1991 and Beyond)

How did cultural int…[Read more]

]]> 0 9c35848e088a2c9f9d029249a8b090e4 Fabio Andrés Díaz Pabón deposited Civil Wars: Escalation and De-Escalation in the group Global & Transnational Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1869979/ Sat, 06 Jan 2024 03:00:15 -0500 When we study civil wars and conflicts we tend to conceptualise them as occurring in stages: starting from domestic political disagreements, to demon-strations and protests escalating into violence and war. How armed conflicts end is often seen as the reverse process, moving from high intensity armed interaction, to a drawing down, war weariness,…[Read more]

]]> 0 76dec91b11f51469335f46f997e3a82b Michail St. Fountoulakis (Μιχαήλ Φουντουλάκης) deposited Unlocking the Potential of Language Learners: Effective Strategies for Lifelong Achievement and Personal Development in the group Global & Transnational Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1869857/ Fri, 05 Jan 2024 03:03:12 -0500 This study presents innovative strategies for EFL educators aimed at cultivating resilience and growth mindsets in learners. Utilizing a mixed-methods approach, we engaged 200 learners aged 11-20 from varied linguistic backgrounds. The methodology comprised surveys and interviews, enabling customized interventions that significantly improved…[Read more]

]]> 0 5e43684ecb8313cd2bd9686e6b6bf27b Sonia D. Andras deposited Creative Negotiations. Romania – America 1920-1940 in the group Global & Transnational Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1869846/ Fri, 05 Jan 2024 03:02:18 -0500 Throughout the interwar period, America’s interest in Romania grew and encompassed not only political, diplomatic, and historical aspects but also financial, cultural, and educational contributions. Thus, the Romanian- American ties throughout the interwar period suggest innate complexity and dynamism. This volume presents novel techniques and i…[Read more]

]]> 0 6fc812f9dec5097155a6b35fa43ac096 Behnam M. Fomeshi deposited The Persian Whitman: Beyond a Literary Reception (translated into Persian by Mostafa Hosseini) in the group Global & Transnational Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1869835/ Fri, 05 Jan 2024 03:00:52 -0500 ویتمن ایرانی: فراتر از پذیرش ادبی ــ که به پذیرش والت ویتمن، شاعر نامدار آمریکایی، در یک دورۀ تقریباً صد ساله در ایران معاصر می‌پردازد ــ دارای نُه فصل، مقدمه، مؤخره و ضمیمه است. کتابِ حاضر تحقیقی بینارشته‌ای است: از سویی ادبیات تطبیقی (پذیرش ادبی، تأثیرپژوهی و تصویرشناسی) و نقد ادبی (تاریخ‌گرایی نو)، و از سوی دیگر مطالعات ترجمه (ترجمه و ای…[Read more]

]]> 0 a4ece0f4dc3801a9eb12c9fa8be4486f Titus Stahl deposited Social Structure and Epistemic Privilege. Reconstructing Lukács’s Standpoint Theory in the group Frankfurt School Critical Theory https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1868772/ Thu, 21 Dec 2023 03:00:39 -0500 Lukács is widely recognized as being the first critical theorist to have explicitly developed the idea of a “standpoint theory”. According to such a theory, members of oppressed groups enjoy an epistemic privilege regarding the nature of their oppression. However, there is no agreement regarding what precise argument Lukács offers for his claim…[Read more]

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