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Classic Readings on Monsters and the Monstrous Primary Sources on Monsters
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University courses on monsters are becoming widespread as many disciplines use monsters to think about what it means to be human. To date no source collection on the literature of the monstrous exists, and this volume offers the key primary readings on monsters from ancient times to the present...
on Oct 17
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The Origins of the Modern Calendar
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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:...
on Oct 9
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This thesis has two primary goals: (1) to analyze the countours and extent of the generic category of deity in the Hebrew Bible, and (2) propose a semantic base for the term. It begins with a description of the fields associated with cognitive theory, and particularly cognitive linguistics....
on Oct 4
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Automated Masspersonal Social Engineering
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Manipulative communication, including disinformation, propaganda, con artistry, and fraud, is not only being aided by artificial intelligence, automation, and machine learning. It is going to be dominated by such practices in the near future. In this chapter, we will draw on the central concept...
on Oct 1
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Surveying the Humanities MakerLab Movement
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SHMLM analyzes the humanities’ maker turn by surveying the research, pedagogical, and public service missions of existing humanities makerspaces; identifying commonalities among such efforts across disciplines, technologies, and organizational structures; comparing their activities and...
on Sep 27
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Intro to Literary Study: Reading Bodies & Disability Syllabus
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This intro-level course in English centered around the way narrative tells us about how we understand & evaluate bodies, with a specific focus on disability activism. The course was originally taught for students at the College of the Holy Cross in spring 2021, online due to the COVID-19 pandemic,.
on Aug 29
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Syllabus for Digital Humanities and Early Latinx Literatures
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Latinx/o/a writing has existed long before 20th century state policies and publishing markets created the category we recognize today as “Latino/a literature.” This course will focus on the literary and cultural production of writers from the era of initial colonization through Latin American...
on Aug 28
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Syllabus for English 2Z03: Nature, Literature, Culture: An Introduction to the Environmental Humanities at McMaster University in the 2022 winter semester. This course used a form of contract grading, and this document includes the Contract Grading FAQ provided to students ahead of/during the course.
on Aug 23
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Religious Change in the Age of Modernism
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This is a lesson plan for a seminar that forms part of a modernism course. It draws on Jamie Callison's monograph 'Modernism and Religion', T. S. Eliot's essay 'Religion and Literature' and David Jones's poem 'In Parenthesis'. It explores changing notions of religious poetry as a way of...
on Aug 16
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Book Histories and Futures: Literature in Times of Media Change
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Syllabus for an English literature course (EN136) at Fairfield University, Spring 2018. Explores the cultural status of the book over time and its effect on literary production and analysis in Anglophone literature. By examining transitional periods in the history of books and other media—the...
on Aug 9
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DH 450 Digital Humanities Capstone Syllabus Spring 2024
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Digital Humanities - the intersection of culture and the digital - takes place in a variety of fields and communities. In this capstone experience, you will gain new perspectives about the many ways people work in this field and incorporate that experience into your own professional goals....
on Aug 7
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Electronic commerce (e-commerce) involves business that is done electronically and includes economic exchange between businesses (B2B), businesses selling to consumers (B2C), or exchange between individual consumers (C2C). By the twenty-first century, e-commerce had become increasingly central...
on Aug 5
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AI and the Humanities, a Course by Alexa Alice Joubin
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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’...
on Aug 1
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Eric Mascall and the rise, fall and rise of ‘Christian sociology’, c.1935 – 1985
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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...
on Jul 29
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Location of markets in English Market Towns, 1813
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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...
on Jul 21
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This paper presents an account of technopolitics in Mastodon, noncommercial, decentralized social media. Mastodon’s significance has further risen in light of Twitter/X’s recent decimation of its public sphere functions; a noncommercial and ideally public alternative to commercial social media...
on Jul 11
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Digital Humanities and/as Media Studies
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This chapter of The Bloomsbury Handbook to the Digital Humanities addresses how frameworks from intersectional feminist media studies scholarship can be productively applied to address limitations of digital humanities. We argue here that the interconnection between media studies and digital...
on Jun 28
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Incarnation and Digitization: Marshall McLuhan and the Digital Humanities
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One of the defining features of the developing field of the Digital Humanities (DH) is its interdisciplinary character. This paper will attempt to indicate how theological insights can contribute at a more theoretical level to DH. Specifically, it will attempt to suggest a way that Marshall...
on Jun 26
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Community-Centered Sustainability: A Case Study of the Music Encoding Initiative
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Lacking institutional support, the vast majority of digital humanities communities and their respective projects confront the pervasive challenge of sustainability. Shifts in technologies, resources, and communities over time present systemic barriers to the long-term viability of digital...
on Jun 26
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Doing (Computational) Literary Studies
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Notwithstanding many differences within and between them, computational literary studies (CLS) and other literary fields do the same thing: they enact the phenomena they investigate by writing with writing. To make this argument, I present performativity as the endemic (though undertheorized)...
on Jun 26
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How Alexander Bogdanov Became a Marxist and Wrote _A Short Course of Economic Science_
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In later recollections, Alexander Bogdanov made three assertions regarding his becoming a Marxist and writing his first book, A Short Course of Economic Science: that the bourgeois economic textbooks he first used to teach worker study-circles had nothing in common with Marxism, that his...
on Jun 26
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The Solarpunk Conference Journal: 2023 Conference
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The Solarpunk Conference Journal is a collection of 13 papers combining papers given at the conference alongside additional papers from conference applicants. These papers look at solarpunk, engaging with the 2023 conference theme of "Imagine, Act, Thrive." All contributing authors are listed in...
on Jun 26
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Digital Identities: Memes and Engagements with Human Remains on Instagram
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Memes related to archaeological materials abound on social media. In this chapter, we present a case study looking at memes collected from accounts on Instagram that evince an interested in human skeletal remains. We present a framework for understanding memes as ‘partial stories’ which in...
on Jun 25
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Wikipedia in Classics Education
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This article is a report of a roundtable discussion organised by the authors at the UK Classical Association conference, Cambridge, April 2023, under the aegis of #WCCWiki, the Women's Classical Committee's Wikipedia-editing project. It presents a summary of the participants' wide-ranging uses...
on Jun 24
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Centering our Values: A Framework for Digital Humanities in the Library
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This book chapter calls for academic libraries to be values-centered, as much as user-centered, when engaging in digital humanities work. Taking as its case study the growth of digital humanities at San Diego State University (SDSU), particularly the DH Center in SDSU Library, this chapter...
on Jun 9
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Archival Theory in the Age of the Machine
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Archival theory and archival metaphor remain at the center of new interpretations of computational culture. Very little can be done in contemporary society without leaving a data trace. Extraction and manipulation of data have come to define contemporary capitalism. These accumulations of data...
on Mar 7
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But Where IS the Daidalos Project? Searching for Meaning in a Fragmented Archive
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The Ashmole Archive at King’s College London houses over 10,000 photographs, prints, glass slides, and other media that document art from antiquity. The collection serves as a resource for studying how scholars used technology for over 100 years to research ancient Mediterranean art. This...
on Mar 5
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The exploration of historical sources has always been at the intersection of archival science and historical research. An intensified, symbiotic cooperation among all stakeholders – including the wider society and technological developments – is essential in this context. However, the field of...
on Mar 3
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Assessing scholarly communication competence in Zambian library professionals
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Purpose This study aims to assess the scholarly communication competence of Zambian library and information science (LIS) professionals by evaluating their awareness, knowledge and practices regarding scholarly publication. Design/methodology/approach Applying a quantitative research approach,...
on Mar 2
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Psyche’s “Whisp’ring Fan” and Keats’s Genealogy of the Secular
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While scholars have long considered John Keats’s Ode to Psyche a document of secularization, the poem’s precise relationship to the secular needs further attention. This essay engages with recent critiques of secularism, by Gil Anidjar and others, which challenge readings of Keats that make...
on Mar 1
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Where’s the Honor? Attitudes Toward the “Fighting Sioux” Nickname and Logo
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The purpose of this research was to explore support for Native American sports nicknames. A survey of students at the University of North Dakota, a school with substantial Native student enrollment, was conducted to determine support or opposition to the school’s “Fighting Sioux” nickname and...
on Feb 29
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‘[A] very improbable and imaginative fiction’: Fictionalising the French Invasion of Fishguard
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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...
on Feb 29
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"Parents of the mind": Mary Wollstonecraft and the Aesthetics of Productive Masculinity
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Although Mary Wollstonecraft's analysis of masculine sexuality and sensibility in the Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1791) and The Wrongs of Woman, or Maria (1797) mostly concerns the ways in which the oppression of women results in the unnatural encouragement and consequent perversion of...
on Feb 29
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Byron’s Eastern Tales: Eastern Themes and Contexts
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This sample chapter is a pre-copy edited version, in accordance with copyright and open access regulations. ABSTRACT OF SCOTT, BYRON AND THE POETICS OF CULTURAL ENCOUNTER: Scott, Byron and the Poetics of Cultural Encounter is an innovative study of Scott's and Byron's poetical engagement with...
on Feb 16
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Die Erinnerung an die alliierten Luftangriffe auf Dresden im Februar 1945 bildet die Grundlage für eine Untersuchung des Charakters der kollektiven Erinnerung und ihrer Funktionalisierung in der Politik der deutschen Staaten seit 1945. Ein kritischer Begriff der Erinnerung wird vereint mit einer...
on Feb 12
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