SAH Commons | Peter Sposato | Group Activity https://sah.hcommons.org/members/psposato/activity/groups/ Public group activity feed of which Peter Sposato is a member. Sun, 05 Apr 2026 15:58:01 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 bc68de8524e411bcab1f7000eb1fd104 Alexa Alice Joubin started the topic CFP: Virtuality, Embodiment, and Meaning-Making in AI in the forum The Renaissance Society of America https://hcommons.org/groups/the-renaissance-society-of-america/forum/topic/cfp-virtuality-embodiment-and-meaning-making-in-ai/ Sun, 22 Feb 2026 05:54:04 -0500 <p style=”text-align: center;”>Call for Papers</p>
<p style=”text-align: center;”>Critical AI (Duke University Press)</p>
<p style=”text-align: center;”>Virtuality, Embodiment, and Meaning-Making in AI Technologies</p>
<p style=”text-align: center;”>Special cluster edited by Alexa Alice Joubin</p>
 

This special issue cluster calls on…[Read more]

]]> 0 4c8d2b57cd5bdac17a3dc5e4713a87da Laura Francis started the topic CFP: Migration and the Early Modern Spanish Empire (June 10-12, 2026 @ NUIM) in the forum Early Modern History https://hcommons.org/groups/early-modern-history/forum/topic/cfp-migration-and-the-early-modern-spanish-empire-june-10-12-2026-nuim-4/ Thu, 30 Oct 2025 15:09:14 -0400 Dear Colleagues,

I am excited to announce the following call for papers for a conference on “Migration and the Early Modern Spanish Empire” that will take place from June 10th-12th, 2026 at the National University of Ireland in Maynooth.

Please see the attached PDF for further details. The deadline for submissions is December 19th, 2025.

I am…[Read more]

]]> 0 8b34632df8b320903afc1736e431282d Laura Francis started the topic CFP: Migration and the Early Modern Spanish Empire (June 10-12, 2026 @ NUIM) in the forum Renaissance/ Early Modern Studies https://hcommons.org/groups/renaissance-early-modern-studies/forum/topic/cfp-migration-and-the-early-modern-spanish-empire-june-10-12-2026-nuim/ Thu, 30 Oct 2025 14:35:22 -0400 Dear Colleagues,

I am excited to announce the following call for papers for a conference on “Migration and the Early Modern Spanish Empire” that will take place from June 10th-12th, 2026 at the National University of Ireland in Maynooth.

Please see the attached PDF for more details. <span style=”text-decoration: underline;”>The deadline for…[Read more]

]]> 0 638e7e0117ad13579f2e48d1d9b07b13 Guylian Nemegeer started the topic CFP - Incontri. Rivista Europea di Studi Italiani in the forum Renaissance/ Early Modern Studies https://hcommons.org/groups/renaissance-early-modern-studies/forum/topic/cfp-incontri-rivista-europea-di-studi-italiani/ Wed, 22 Oct 2025 14:05:25 -0400 <span style=”font-weight: 400;”>Dear colleagues,</span>

<span style=”font-weight: 400;”>For its upcoming issues, </span><i><span style=”font-weight: 400;”>Incontri. Rivista europea di studi italiani</span></i><span style=”font-weight: 400;”> is currently accepting essay submissions and proposals for special issues.</span>

<i><span…[Read more]

]]> 0 95b7704e6faf7a0689eea2dd325c3243 Chuck Choi started the topic Architectural Photography/Art Photography for your field of interest. in the forum The Renaissance Society of America https://hcommons.org/groups/the-renaissance-society-of-america/forum/topic/architectural-photography-art-photography-for-your-field-of-interest/ Tue, 01 Apr 2025 18:00:12 -0400 <span style=”font-family: Gill Sans;”>Dear RSA Member

Are you in need architectural photographs for your research topic, or for publication or teaching purposes?

I am an architectural photographer of over 25 years.  I have worked for contemporary architects such as Foster and Partners, Renzo Piano, Rogers Stirk Harbour, and others.  You may s…[Read more]

]]> 0 b8379afe605651c33052960cab24f839 Vivien Jiaqian Zhu started the topic CFP 2026 MLA Convention in the forum Renaissance/ Early Modern Studies https://hcommons.org/groups/renaissance-early-modern-studies/forum/topic/cfp-2026-mla-convention-9/ Tue, 04 Feb 2025 22:42:10 -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 85b554bca8926a549eeddb01306aff4d Rainer Schreg deposited Assessing Settlement Dynamics in Medieval Central and Western Europe in the group Medieval Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1902275/ Tue, 22 Oct 2024 03:00:03 -0400 Medieval rural settlements have seen a variety of transformations from dispersed to nucleated settlements, from shifting settlements to permanent villages. There are regional developments as well as general trends. In many landscapes in Central and Western Europe these processes resulted in the formation of the late medieval village nucleated…[Read more]

]]> 0 b3a6cc7bc849d1e5ed887e4226be0c81 Marco Heiles deposited The Origins of the Modern Calendar in the group Medieval Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1901186/ Wed, 09 Oct 2024 03:03:51 -0400 AI generated conversation on the origins of the modern calendar created with NotebookLM (Audio Overview) on the basis of:
Marco Heiles, Die Entstehung des modernen Kalenders. Zur ungeschriebenen Medien- und Literaturgeschichte der deutschsprachigen Kalender von den Anfängen bis um 1600, in: Mittelalter. Interdisziplinäre Forschung und R…[Read more]

]]> 0 b2ad442f9fd5013d69c74becccd005c2 Alexa Alice Joubin deposited "Screens as Anthropomorphic Interfaces: How AI Changes Shakespearean Theatrical Publics," Shakespeare Bulletin 41.4 (Winter 2023): 529-553 in the group The Renaissance Society of America https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1900897/ Sun, 06 Oct 2024 04:23:44 -0400 Whom does the screen interface serve, and how do artificial intelligence (AI) tools affect theatrical publics across both the playing space and the playgoing space? Screens are a site where cultural and performative meanings are generated and negotiated. This article draws on interface theories to analyze the roles of screens in regulating…[Read more]

]]> 0 f45f7dd9fe27752c1e55eb70d3990df8 Alexa Alice Joubin deposited Enhancing the Trustworthiness of Generative Artificial Intelligence in Responsive Pedagogy in the Context of Humanities Higher Education in the group The Renaissance Society of America https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1900891/ Sun, 06 Oct 2024 04:15:56 -0400 How do we enhance the trustworthiness of generative artificial intelligence (AI) as a tool to foster students’ curiosity to learn about humanities subjects in higher education? This study analyzes what conversational AI tools can realistically accomplish in the humanities higher education context and what the substantive, rather than hyped, c…[Read more]

]]> 0 51a24bdc98ad9f3f6df8c7f10e2d8c28 Alexa Alice Joubin deposited "Encountering global Shakespeare in Yemen, Kuwait and China," in Contemporary Readings in Global Performances of Shakespeare, ed. Alexa Alice Joubin (Arden Bloomsbury, 2024), pp. 285-294 in the group The Renaissance Society of America https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1900886/ Sun, 06 Oct 2024 04:08:07 -0400 This chapter consists of Alexa Alice Joubin’s interview of a scholar and educator who has practiced global Shakespeare around the globe. Katherine Hennessey has had the unique experiences and privilege of teaching Shakespeare in Yemen, Kuwait, China, and elsewhere. She has lived and worked in eight very different countries over the past fifteen…[Read more]

]]> 0 563131cd96785b6981b715c407cb2f6b Edmond Malaj deposited MARRËVESHJE DHE ÇËSHTJE TË TJERA NDËRMJET RAGUZËS DHE FISNIKËVE ARBËRORË in the group Medieval Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1900701/ Fri, 04 Oct 2024 03:00:27 -0400 This article provides information about the diplomatic relations between the Republic of Ragusa and some important Albanian noble families in the Middle Ages. The paper aims to introduce the most important diplomas and agreements these families have made with the state of Ragusa. The agreements are mostly economic and are mainly related to the…[Read more]

]]> 0 d4e5e031726d1ac5910ecb54eb93cb87 Alexa Alice Joubin deposited Contemporary Readings in Global Performances of Shakespeare, ed. Alexa Alice Joubin. London: Arden Bloomsbury, 2024 in the group The Renaissance Society of America https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1900084/ Sun, 29 Sep 2024 04:07:53 -0400 Focusing on the modern period, this book employs a site-specific lens to examine global performances of Shakespeare onstage and onscreen. Heterotopia and thick description as methodologies help us capture, rather than flatten, cultural spaces and their dynamic interplay. The global is a set of geographical and cultural sites created by artistic…[Read more]

]]> 0 e27fe28590c88f7fac0eef0195fce27a Ana Dumitran deposited Ecclesia super omnia in the group Medieval Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1897876/ Wed, 04 Sep 2024 03:00:59 -0400 The volume includes some of the papers presented in the Museikon section of the Annual Scientific Conference organised in 2023 by the Alba Iulia National Museum of the Great Union (Romania). The studies cover topics such as: the pious behavior of women in the Transylvanian Middle Ages, the possession of slaves and gypsies by the Wallachian…[Read more]

]]> 0 32822022795a7796181be9c59ab59c18 Ana Dumitran deposited Ecclesia super omnia in the group Early Modern History https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1897871/ Wed, 04 Sep 2024 03:00:31 -0400 The volume includes some of the papers presented in the Museikon section of the Annual Scientific Conference organised in 2023 by the Alba Iulia National Museum of the Great Union (Romania). The studies cover topics such as: the pious behavior of women in the Transylvanian Middle Ages, the possession of slaves and gypsies by the Wallachian…[Read more]

]]> 0 d427495c6787eef766487a2654de47e2 Peter van Druenen deposited CLIO’S ABACUS (On the Arrival of the Annales School in the Netherlands and the Development of Historical Arithmetic) in the group Early Modern History https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1896631/ Sun, 18 Aug 2024 03:00:07 -0400 Clios’Abacus is an intriguing exploration in literature into the way quantitative historical research in the Netherlands over the past half-century has been shaped, largely based on outdated and never updated source material. In the background, the implementation of ideas from the French Annales School (Febvre, Braudel, Le Roy Ladurie, among o…[Read more]

]]> 0 b5fc2dd9073e941bc7c83764e98aec16 Evina Stein(ova) deposited Freising (Carolingian Minuscule Mapping Project) in the group Medieval Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1895616/ Wed, 07 Aug 2024 03:00:24 -0400 This article was prepared for the Carolingian Minuscule Mapping Project in 2016. It surveys the development of Carolingian minuscule, a Latin script used in the earlier Middle Ages, at Freising in Bavaria. The article provides an overview of manuscripts copied, corrected, or annotated in Carolingian minuscule at Freising and summarises the…[Read more]

]]> 0 b0d1acda6f8698a3dc98be0ffcbc4207 Alexa Alice Joubin deposited AI and the Humanities, a Course by Alexa Alice Joubin in the group The Renaissance Society of America https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1891697/ Sun, 14 Jul 2024 04:06:12 -0400 Artificial intelligence is a feminist issue, and technologies often have colonial implications. In fact, technologies as disruptive agents are inherently queer. This course examines the long history of technologies leading up to the public release of ChatGPT. We will chart the Western societies’ apprehension of and faith in, as the case may be, t…[Read more]

]]> 0 d10f75e3ad36d109c2fc29239f83e28a Ann E Mullaney deposited The Latin Sexual Vocabulary by J. N. Adams, 1982: Guide with Definitions by Ann Mullaney, July 6, 2024 in the group The Renaissance Society of America https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1891476/ Wed, 10 Jul 2024 03:01:33 -0400 J. N. Adams (1943-2021) examined the expressions speakers and writers used to communicate about bodily functions during the first thousand years for which we have recorded Latin (roughly 500 BCE to 500 CE). Here you will find first the Table of Contents from Adams’s book with live links to sections below. Next, about 70 pages of a sort of map f…[Read more]

]]> 0 979feb4f497ce72fafae4925b086f1b4 Ann E Mullaney deposited The Latin Sexual Vocabulary by J. N. Adams, 1982: Guide with Definitions by Ann Mullaney, July 6, 2024 in the group Renaissance / Early Modern Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1891475/ Wed, 10 Jul 2024 03:01:26 -0400 J. N. Adams (1943-2021) examined the expressions speakers and writers used to communicate about bodily functions during the first thousand years for which we have recorded Latin (roughly 500 BCE to 500 CE). Here you will find first the Table of Contents from Adams’s book with live links to sections below. Next, about 70 pages of a sort of map f…[Read more]

]]> 0 7f217e53b07a66e9ad7db7277826e711 Ann E Mullaney deposited The Latin Sexual Vocabulary by J. N. Adams, 1982: Guide with Definitions by Ann Mullaney, July 6, 2024 in the group The Renaissance Society of America https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1891473/ Wed, 10 Jul 2024 03:01:16 -0400 J. N. Adams (1943-2021) examined the expressions speakers and writers used to communicate about bodily functions during the first thousand years for which we have recorded Latin (roughly 500 BCE to 500 CE). Here you will find first the Table of Contents from Adams’s book with live links to sections below. Next, about 70 pages of a sort of map f…[Read more]

]]> 0 70fcf8064a2c01347aca265f94f847b8 Ann E Mullaney deposited The Latin Sexual Vocabulary by J. N. Adams, 1982: Guide with Definitions by Ann Mullaney, July 6, 2024 in the group Renaissance / Early Modern Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1891472/ Wed, 10 Jul 2024 03:01:10 -0400 J. N. Adams (1943-2021) examined the expressions speakers and writers used to communicate about bodily functions during the first thousand years for which we have recorded Latin (roughly 500 BCE to 500 CE). Here you will find first the Table of Contents from Adams’s book with live links to sections below. Next, about 70 pages of a sort of map f…[Read more]

]]> 0 ed452bb93790263630ea2839ac5aa90a Rosanna Cantavella deposited Inventari dels rims acordants i diccionals en Jordi de Sant Jordi in the group Medieval Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1889655/ Thu, 20 Jun 2024 03:01:18 -0400 This .ods spreadsheet collects all acordant and diccional rhymes of the preserved poetry of Jordi de Sant Jordi. This inventory has been udertaken by Rosanna Cantavella (Universitat de València-Clare Hall University of Cambridge), and interpreted as a paper for the symposion “‘Tots jorns aprench e desaprench ensemps’: 600 anys de Jordi de Sant…[Read more]

]]> 0 5374a10a192da8a5a86362dfcf2a1d43 Elisabeth Moreau deposited Galenic Medicine and the Atomist Revival: Elements, Particles, and Minima in Late Renaissance Physiology in the group Renaissance / Early Modern Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1889652/ Thu, 20 Jun 2024 03:01:00 -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 de983778c2266f332ebc5bd0c2a9dc7b Matthew Firth deposited What’s in a Name? Tracing the Origins of Alfred’s ‘the Great’ in the group Medieval Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1889290/ Sat, 15 Jun 2024 03:00:50 -0400 King Alfred (r. 871–99) is the only native-born English ruler to have gained the byname ‘the Great’. This was not a contemporary sobriquet, but is often considered to have been bestowed in the Elizabethan era by Reformation scholars who increasingly cast Alfred in the role of the founder of the English nation. The acknowledged exception is a refer…[Read more]

]]> 0 28366b3b6babbc3a1c665997332d6ec3 Eduardo Paredes Ocampo deposited Kemp y Juan Rana: reconstrucción e implicaciones culturales del gesto dancístico en la Inglaterra y España de la modernidad temprana in the group Renaissance / Early Modern Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1887548/ Thu, 30 May 2024 03:00:06 -0400 Comparative study examining the dance of Will Kemp (England) and Juan Rana (Spain), in the theatrical context of early modern Europe.

]]> 0 a598f84e2ef3ac97782a8920eb86ab76 Eduardo Paredes Ocampo deposited Kemp y Juan Rana: reconstrucción e implicaciones culturales del gesto dancístico en la Inglaterra y España de la modernidad temprana in the group Early Modern Academies of the World https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1887546/ Thu, 30 May 2024 03:00:03 -0400 Comparative study examining the dance of Will Kemp (England) and Juan Rana (Spain), in the theatrical context of early modern Europe.

]]> 0 7abf63bbc62c232e958407770769d5dc Monica H. Green deposited Why We Are Still Debating the “Origin” of the Black Death in the group Medieval Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1886926/ Thu, 23 May 2024 03:00:29 -0400 In 1998, molecular geneticists first announced that they had retrieved fragments of the genetic material of Yersinia pestis from sites that had historically been associated with outbreaks of pestilencia. That announcement was in fact followed by a decade of debate about what constituted good methods in the emerging field of palaeogenetics.…[Read more]

]]> 0 d900e2eedff63a715f5c9edd33b29fba Cristina León Alfar uploaded the file: Late Tudor and Stuart Drama to The Renaissance Society of America https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1886890/ Wed, 22 May 2024 18:18:43 -0400 This series provides a forum for monographs and essay collections that focus on English drama from the late Tudor to the pre-Restoration Stuart periods (ca. 1550–1650). The editor is interested in intersectional and interdisciplinary feminist perspectives, broadly conceived, and encourages studies that investigate the discursive production of g…[Read more]

]]> 0 353e3276aeb475fee839c03ed58b4f2e Cristina León Alfar edited the doc Late Tudor and Stuart Drama: Readings in Feminist Theories and Histories in the group Renaissance / Early Modern Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1886884/ Wed, 22 May 2024 17:19:23 -0400 0 692aa0918ce4eb45edb644e6ba5bcf89 Cristina León Alfar created the doc Late Tudor and Stuart Drama: Readings in Feminist Theories and Histories in the group Renaissance / Early Modern Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1886883/ Wed, 22 May 2024 17:18:17 -0400 0 0c9a16de8c5dcbc1aa0a7de81e0da6a8 Martine van Elk deposited Politics, Authorship, and Philosophy: Teaching Margaret Cavendish’s The Blazing World in the Diverse Graduate Classroom in the group Renaissance / Early Modern Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1886480/ Sat, 18 May 2024 03:08:22 -0400 This essay explores how Margaret Cavendish’s The Blazing World works differently when taught and read on its own and in combination with Cavendish’s other works. Focusing specifically on the graduate classroom, I examine and present strategies for teaching the book alongside works by other early modern women and for teaching it in a sin…[Read more]

]]> 0 08b914c0c153e765b9eb49476787aa13 Alexa Alice Joubin deposited The Shakespearean International Yearbook: Disability Performance and Global Shakespeare. General Editor: Alexa Alice Joubin; Co-editor: Natalia Khomenko; Guest Editor: Katherine Schaap Williams. Routledge, 2024 in the group The Renaissance Society of America https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1886052/ Mon, 13 May 2024 04:23:19 -0400 The fields of critical disability studies and global Shakespeare have a great deal to say to each other, which is why we are creating this opportunity for an interdisciplinary dialogue and reflection.

This year’s Shakespearean International Yearbook focuses on the theme of global disability performances of Shakespeare. Curated by K…[Read more]

]]> 0 e7646c172668a74d43f79f661e1ba260 Alexa Alice Joubin deposited "Performativity and Trans Literature," in The Routledge Handbook of Trans Literature, ed. Douglas A. Vakoch and Sabine Sharp (2024), pp. 29-39 in the group The Renaissance Society of America https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1886047/ Mon, 13 May 2024 04:13:00 -0400 Performativity—how language and nonverbal communication tacitly or overtly affects social actions—is the core of all utterances and imaginative literature. Building on J. L. Austin’s speech act theory, Judith Butler has developed, since the 1990s, a theory of gender performativity. It has been widely appropriated as a critical tool to under…[Read more]

]]> 0 769bd935571cc4852cda76e1149c821e Rainer Schreg deposited Noch nie dagewesen? Hochwasser und Starkregen im Juli 2021 und im Juli 1342 in the group Medieval Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1882217/ Thu, 04 Apr 2024 03:02:31 -0400 This blogpost compares the flood events from 2021 and 1342. The example of St. Magdalein’s flood in 1342 challenges modern risk assessment and contributes to the environmental history of times of climate change. The blogpost presents a short review of the state of research especially in the landscapes along the river Main.

]]> 0 9fd05727e7e7046ec916f5dd15f873b6 Rainer Schreg deposited Struktureller Wandel des Verkehrs als For-schungsproblem der Archäologie. – die These vielfältiger Veränderungen im Verkehrs¬wesen während der staufischen Zeit in the group Medieval Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1882213/ Thu, 04 Apr 2024 03:01:57 -0400 Structural Changes in Traffic as a Research Problem of Medieval Archaeology – the hypothesis of changes in traffics during the Staufian period
Based on written sources historian Thomas Szabó postulated major changes within traffic and transportation during the Staufian Period (12th/13th c.). He recognised changes in the ways of orientation, co…[Read more]

]]> 0 e1c8e56783f0172aa9867787b1ed806a Rainer Schreg deposited Archäologische Funde aus der Fils. Ein Beispiel für die Problematik von Gewässerfunden in Vorgeschichte und Mittelalter in the group Medieval Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1882203/ Thu, 04 Apr 2024 03:00:11 -0400 Archaeological finds from riverbeds are a common phenomenon and there has been a broad discussion on their interpretation. The main problem with this category of finds is the question whether they were deposited or accidentally lost. This article tried to scetch the situation at the small river Fils, a tributary of the Neckar at the Northern rim…[Read more]

]]> 0 9f750d48f18f9833c4ac2c6f9fbe8e86 Patrick Hart deposited From Pulpit to Parish: Preaching Dance and Parish Dances in England and Scandinavia, 1300-1700 in the group The Renaissance Society of America https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1881706/ Mon, 01 Apr 2024 03:00:12 -0400 This article considers English and Scandinavian sermon tales alongside accounts of parish practice from 1300-1700, focusing on dance among the laity. It posits that the negative perspective of Scandinavian Protestants towards dance was a result of the medieval North Sea networks that brought England’s approach to dance to Nordic parishes, s…[Read more]

]]> 0 89ac8895aba3324b69cfcda7aa22d6ff Patrick Hart deposited From Pulpit to Parish: Preaching Dance and Parish Dances in England and Scandinavia, 1300-1700 in the group Renaissance / Early Modern Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1881705/ Mon, 01 Apr 2024 03:00:04 -0400 This article considers English and Scandinavian sermon tales alongside accounts of parish practice from 1300-1700, focusing on dance among the laity. It posits that the negative perspective of Scandinavian Protestants towards dance was a result of the medieval North Sea networks that brought England’s approach to dance to Nordic parishes, s…[Read more]

]]> 0 a3f43d64c6e4bd11f02988da55961200 Ana Dumitran deposited Intercultural and Visual Art Transfer in Central Europe and the Balkans. Ruthenian-Ukrainian and Romanian Art from the 15th to the Early 19th Century in the group Medieval Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1881049/ Thu, 28 Mar 2024 03:00:46 -0400 The book is part of the ERC Consolidator Grant RICONTRANS editorial programme (grant agreement no. 818791) and contains 11 studies on cultural and artistic transfers between the former Polish-Lithuanian Community and the Romanian territories (Moldova, Muntenia and Transylvania).

]]> 0 f1b57e142936b276fd9acb0699e92a2c Ana Dumitran deposited Intercultural and Visual Art Transfer in Central Europe and the Balkans. Ruthenian-Ukrainian and Romanian Art from the 15th to the Early 19th Century in the group Early Modern History https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1881047/ Thu, 28 Mar 2024 03:00:33 -0400 The book is part of the ERC Consolidator Grant RICONTRANS editorial programme (grant agreement no. 818791) and contains 11 studies on cultural and artistic transfers between the former Polish-Lithuanian Community and the Romanian territories (Moldova, Muntenia and Transylvania).

]]> 0 26e613db7d67f00387656b0f04398f00 Oscar Perea-Rodriguez deposited La poesía de protesta medieval a través del cine de Hollywood, de los Monty Python y de la serie Juego de Tronos in the group Medieval Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1880567/ Mon, 25 Mar 2024 03:01:00 -0400 El presente trabajo articula varias reflexiones sobre la poesía de protesta en la Castilla medieval y su representación en la pequeña y en la gran pantalla a través de tres referencias audiovisuales: un filme clásico del cine histórico de Hollywood, ‘El valle de las espadas’ ( ‘The Castillian’, 1963); uno de los grandes éxitos humoríst…[Read more]

]]> 0 a1669112259286371b4ed17258f938a8 Alexa Alice Joubin deposited Global Shakespeare as Heterotopia, Lecture at University of Oxford and Georgetown University, February 26, 2024 in the group The Renaissance Society of America https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1878068/ Thu, 29 Feb 2024 04:27:13 -0500 Global Shakespeare as Heterotopia by Alexa Alice Joubin. Lecture video now available on YouTube, https://youtu.be/R8mbUd_mHjQ Drawing on her forthcoming book, Contemporary Readings in Global Performances of Shakespeare (Bloomsbury, 2024), Alexa Alice Joubin examines cultural encounters with Shakespeare’s plays as heterotopia, a set of parallel s…[Read more]

]]> 0 a97dce3761b7573fa472763b43997351 Alexa Alice Joubin deposited CBC Podcast: Liberate Your Mind – Exploring Sex and Gender in Shakespeare, February 20, 2024 in the group The Renaissance Society of America https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1878063/ Thu, 29 Feb 2024 04:19:13 -0500 Full podcast on YouTube https://youtu.be/dNhxFiaoIGM This is a CBC Radio podcast on gender roles in Twelfth Night, Troilus and Cressida, and Taming of the Shrew, recorded live at Stratford Festival, Ontario, Canada. “Liberate your mind, said English professor Alexa Alice Joubin, urging us to embrace the Bard’s open-endedness to ambiguity in…[Read more]

]]> 0 94f4d88ce4d97f6fbf72a4b0a4731bd6 Ana Dumitran deposited Museikon. A Journal of Religious Art and Culture in the group Medieval Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1877125/ Tue, 20 Feb 2024 03:01:24 -0500 The 7th issue of the Museikon journal contains articles signed by Ileana Sasu, Alina Kondratiuk, Elisabeta Negrău, Alessia Chapel, Vladimir Agrigoroaei, Daniel Dumitran, Sidonia Olea, Claudiu Stoian, Ana Dumitran, Laura Jiga-Iliescu, Luiza Zamora, Levente Nagy, Csaba Szabo and Dragoș Ursu.

]]> 0 2411cee12051be1610fd522b136bae1d Ana Dumitran deposited Museikon. A Journal of Religious Art and Culture in the group Early Modern History https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1877122/ Tue, 20 Feb 2024 03:00:56 -0500 The 7th issue of the Museikon journal contains articles signed by Ileana Sasu, Alina Kondratiuk, Elisabeta Negrău, Alessia Chapel, Vladimir Agrigoroaei, Daniel Dumitran, Sidonia Olea, Claudiu Stoian, Ana Dumitran, Laura Jiga-Iliescu, Luiza Zamora, Levente Nagy, Csaba Szabo and Dragoș Ursu.

]]> 0 df19de0c38c93b4e2c5eb6d28a223fd9 Marco Heiles deposited Verschwörungserzählungen im Spätmittelalter und heute – Simon von Trient und QAnon in the group Medieval Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1876626/ Thu, 15 Feb 2024 03:00:23 -0500 Verschwörungserzählungen haben seit einigen Jahren Konjunktur und finden ein immer größeres und sichtbareres Publikum. Die Vorlesung will versuchen, die aktuellen Verschwörungserzählungen um QAnon historisch zu lesen und mit ihren spätmittelalterlichen Vorläufern, hier am Beispiel der Ritualmordlegende um Simon von Trient von 1475, zu verglei…[Read more]

]]> 0 ddc1e87a88e1350ff1c5c839f7f80d42 Alexa Alice Joubin deposited "Trans Studies at the Crossroad: From Racialized Invisibility to Gendered Legibility," The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Race, ed. Patricia Akhimie (Oxford University Press, 2024), pp. 195-211. in the group The Renaissance Society of America https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1876058/ Mon, 12 Feb 2024 04:08:13 -0500 Premodern critical race studies, long intertwined with Shakespeare studies, have broadened our understanding of the definitions and discourse of race and racism to include not only phenotype, but also religious and political identity, regional, national, and linguistic difference, and systems of differentiation based upon culture and custom. This…[Read more]

]]> 0 039cd6cf438b3e8ae66337703477f358 Alexa Alice Joubin deposited AI, Theater, and Interface Theory, keynote at Imaging Across Time: Wenshan International Conference, National Chengchi University, Taipei, Taiwan, November 18, 2023 in the group The Renaissance Society of America https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1875821/ Sun, 11 Feb 2024 04:08:14 -0500 What happens when AI goes to theatre with human audiences? Generative AI’s natural-language conversational interface has frequently been cast as an anthropomorphic interface. In performance, digital screen as interface has evolved from a vehicle for dramatic messages to a meaning-making agent with an anthropomorphic presence. While the tendency to…[Read more]

]]> 0 10223746eeb35d4d4c9354221dfd54e2 Thijs Porck deposited J. R. R. Tolkien: Midden-aarde als voedingsbodem voor de mediëvistiek in the group Medieval Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1874613/ Mon, 05 Feb 2024 03:00:19 -0500 Thijs Porck, “J. R. R. Tolkien: Midden-aarde als voedingsbodem voor de mediëvistiek”, in Spiegelingen: Mediëvisten voor de eenentwintigste eeuw, ed. Wim van Anrooij, Bart Besamusca, Dieuwke van der Poel & Frank Willaert (Amsterdam: Prometheus, 2023), 77-90.

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