Resources/discussion on the burgeoning interdisciplinary field of cultural heritage studies
Luis de Orueta deposited Los Virreyes del Sur de Italia I, Sicilia 1414-1735 in the group
Cultural Heritage on Humanities Commons 2 months, 3 weeks agoLa presencia de virreyes en Sicilia se originó a partir de un pacto entre los habitantes de la isla y la Corona de Aragón. Los sicilianos se comprometieron a pagar donaciones fijadas periódicamente por su Parlamento a cambio de protección contra el enemigo externo. Sicilia por sí sola no podía evitar una invasión musulmana, como la que tuvo lugar…[Read more]
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Luis de Orueta deposited Vivre à la Maison Smith de Richard Meier in the group
Cultural Heritage on Humanities Commons 5 months, 3 weeks agoDans ce court essai, l’auteur examine l’effet d’un bâtiment emblématique sur la conduite de la personne qui y vit. Il prend comme référence la première maison que le célèbre architecte a conçue et projette son irradiation sur des expériences autobiographiques qui couvrent de multiples aspects de la vie quotidienne. Partant de l’interrelatio…[Read more]
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Luis de Orueta deposited Living at Richard Meier’s Smith House in the group
Cultural Heritage on Humanities Commons 6 months, 2 weeks agoIn this short essay, the author examines the effect of an iconic building on the conduct of the person living in it. It takes as a reference the first house that the famous architect designed and projects his irradiation on autobiographical experiences that cover multiple aspects of daily life. Starting from the interrelation with the marine and…[Read more]
Andreas Ferus deposited Open Science et al. – Was geht uns Kunst- und Museumsbibliotheken das eigentlich an und welche Initiativen existieren in diesem Zusammenhang bereits in Österreich (und darüber hinaus)? in the group
Cultural Heritage on Humanities Commons 10 months, 3 weeks agoOpen Access, Open Science, Open Scholarship, Open Educational Resources, Open (Research) Data, Open Infrastructures, Forschungsdatenmanagent, FAIR Principles, CARE Principles, Digital Humanities, Heritage Science, Digitalisierung, Forschungsinfrastrukturen, Repositorien, European Open Science Cloud etc. etc. sind alles Begriffe, die vielen von…[Read more]
Florian Windhager deposited Reassembling Elephants: A Multi-Spatiotemporal Visualization Method for History and Humanities Data in the group
Cultural Heritage on Humanities Commons 1 year, 6 months agoWhen engaging in the visual analysis and communication of cultural collections and other types of complex historical data, scholarly or public audiences rarely get to see their multidimensional richness. Commonly, visualization tools require analysts to selectively ‘cut’ into the complexity of the data to highlight and project particular asp…[Read more]
Rashmi Gajare deposited Palimpsests of Destruction in the group
Cultural Heritage on Humanities Commons 3 years, 1 month agoWhat role does destruction play in the continued existence of a historical monument? Is destruction an inevitable part of its identity? Huyssen in his 2003 book, Present Pasts, suggests that, “…the only monument that counts, is the one already imagined as ruin.” On the other hand, the creation of the monumental itself is led by a quest for immor…[Read more]
Rashmi Gajare deposited Understanding ‘Othering’ mechanisms: Perils of ‘assimilation’ policies for migrant populations in the group
Cultural Heritage on Humanities Commons 3 years, 1 month agoIn an ideal society, all inhabitants would be treated equally, but in reality there are divisions with groups of varying dominance, whether clear or hidden. Usually the dominant groups, powerful either by political, cultural or social hegemony create the narrative of ‘otherness’ and pass laws, some of which could be discriminatory. This is esp…[Read more]
Francesco Iacono edited the doc Revolution and counter-revolution in the group
Cultural Heritage on Humanities Commons 3 years, 3 months agoFrancesco Iacono deposited Revolution and counter-revolution; or why it is difficult to have a heritage of communism and what can we do about it in the group
Cultural Heritage on Humanities Commons 3 years, 3 months agoRevolutions have powerful effects on the way the past is presented and
perceived. In former communist states of Eastern Europe, following the
revolutions establishing the regimes, a further sudden inversion has been
regularly experienced in the aftermath of the fall of the Eastern Bloc. In
this paper, I will comparatively discuss these changes…[Read more]Francesco Iacono created the group
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