Knowledge Commons | Cultural Heritage | Activity https://hcommons.org/groups/cultural-heritage/ Activity feed for the group, Cultural Heritage. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 09:12:11 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 1d476a9f6d2a866a9cff8469ff25dd93 Raymond Clemens edited the blog post Bacon MS 3 in the group Cultural Heritage https://culturalheritage.hcommons.org/2025/09/17/bacon-ms-3/ Wed, 17 Sep 2025 20:07:40 -0400 in the University of Chicago

]]> b060d93181e95320719255159c3aab75 Anna-Marie Kroupová replied to the topic CFP: Iron Curtains or Artistic Gates? in the forum Cultural Heritage https://hcommons.org/groups/cultural-heritage/forum/topic/cfp-iron-curtains-or-artistic-gates-3/#post-88125 Fri, 26 Jul 2024 11:03:15 -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]

]]> 3bdb4966063485741c4fc9e6bcbbfca0 Paul Reilly deposited The Nessglyph Uncovered in the group Cultural Heritage https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1887444/ Wed, 29 May 2024 03:00:31 -0400 Aimed at young (at heart) people, this comic-strip format book introduces the discovery, and associated challenges of interpretation, of a petroglyph found, disturbed, in the entrance passage way of Middle Iron Age hillfort, at Nesscliffe in Shropshire, UK.  The Nesscliffe petroglyph ('Nessglyph') is made using two types of engraving technologies…[Read more]

]]> 0 bc766b3698b59b0a0e6a2c15c1a71fd0 Luis de Orueta deposited Los Virreyes del Sur de Italia II: Nápoles 1505-1707 in the group Cultural Heritage https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1884502/ Wed, 01 May 2024 03:04:03 -0400 An account of the governments of the viceroys of the Kingdom of Naples during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries based on chronicles by Italian authors of the time, with their comments on errors and achievements with additions from Spanish sources on their personality, relationships, and memory.
Un relato de los gobiernos de los virreyes del…[Read more]

]]> 0 d4dc8792af8b0bae5a362ea77e480675 Anna-Marie Kroupová started the topic CFP: Iron Curtains or Artistic Gates? in the discussion Cultural Heritage https://hcommons.org/groups/cultural-heritage/forum/topic/cfp-iron-curtains-or-artistic-gates-3/ Fri, 02 Feb 2024 14:43:05 -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…[Read more]

]]> c9ffdb64adc17ee098ecebf0fabb2379 Luis de Orueta deposited Whim of the trivial in the group Cultural Heritage https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1846883/ Tue, 23 May 2023 02:23:39 -0400 The author begins by saying that before he was born, he lived with his parents (of course) and ends his story 86 years later with an evanescent farewell. In the interval: a life of no importance. So why tell it? For lack of a better answer, he adduces mysterious voices in the second part of Goethe's Faust:
We immer…[Read more]

]]> 0 8cee49e0034f02d9f2519b81a68a2ad8 Luis de Orueta created the doc Whim of the trivial in the group Cultural Heritage https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1846796/ Mon, 22 May 2023 10:10:08 -0400 81d2503cc3363ba3bd5dbe4f69e20be7 Luis de Orueta deposited Capricho de lo trivial in the group Cultural Heritage https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1840657/ Mon, 10 Apr 2023 02:23:38 -0400 El autor comienza diciendo que antes de nacer vivía con sus padres (claro) y termina su relato 86 años después con una despedida evanescente. En el intervalo: una vida sin huella. ¿Entonces por qué contarla? A falta de mejor respuesta, aduce voces misteriosas en la segunda parte del Fausto de Goethe:
“Redimimos a quien se esfuerza en vano”…[Read more]

]]> 0 486c0cf55a85ba8020da96d32482c9cd Luis de Orueta deposited CAPRICHO DE LO TRIVIAL in the group Cultural Heritage https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1837329/ Wed, 15 Mar 2023 02:24:47 -0400 El autor comienza diciendo que antes de nacer vivía con sus padres (claro) y termina su relato 86 años después con una despedida evanescente. En el intervalo: una vida sin huella. ¿Entonces por qué contarla? A falta de mejor respuesta, aduce voces misteriosas en la segunda parte del Fausto de Goethe:
“Redimimos a quien se esfuerza en vano”…[Read more]

]]> 0 8941ccda39cb131f9ad8d6d14e7f3a43 Luis de Orueta deposited A Dictionary of Spanish Place Names in the group Cultural Heritage https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1794541/ Sat, 17 Sep 2022 02:23:39 -0400 A selection of more than 5000 place Spanish Names from the Iberian Peninsula, presented in alphabetic order and showing their meaning when well established, or listing the known alternatives in cases where a single etymology cannot be ascertained.

]]> 0 d5c79a12eb56131a5837a7cdbe6dd1dc Luis de Orueta created the doc A Dictionary of Spanish Place Names in the group Cultural Heritage https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1794356/ Thu, 15 Sep 2022 15:37:57 -0400 84c10aaf6c714fb9ce6eafb13714a161 Luis de Orueta deposited Las Hermanas Livermore in the group Cultural Heritage https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1778686/ Fri, 15 Apr 2022 02:23:38 -0400 España, a finales del siglo XVIII, todavía era un imperio colonial. El comercio con las provincias de ultramar estimulaba la venida de irlandeses, prusianos, suecos, holandeses, marselleses y sobre todo ingleses, que fundaban Casas de Comercio con españoles. Pero con la aparición de Napoleón en la escena europea, Inglaterra impuso el “blo…[Read more]

]]> 0 32ce3c7857581470940d129a2f14387b Luis de Orueta deposited Los Virreyes del Sur de Italia I, Sicilia 1414-1735 in the group Cultural Heritage https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1756605/ Tue, 26 Oct 2021 02:23:39 -0400 La 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]

]]> 0 5751085e68b71726c3acedafb7afa8a5 Luis de Orueta deposited Vivre à la Maison Smith de Richard Meier in the group Cultural Heritage https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1748163/ Tue, 03 Aug 2021 02:24:43 -0400 Dans 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]

]]> 0 c98a924fb7050e0843706571733ac035 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 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1730186/ Fri, 05 Mar 2021 02:23:38 -0500 Open 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]

]]> 0 99ff380da9c857486d3e4079719329c7 Florian Windhager deposited Reassembling Elephants: A Multi-Spatiotemporal Visualization Method for History and Humanities Data in the group Cultural Heritage https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1700892/ Tue, 21 Jul 2020 02:40:05 -0400 When 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]

]]> 0 257ad5126ba807de8abb4bd4f12d7afd Rashmi Gajare deposited Palimpsests of Destruction in the group Cultural Heritage https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1625543/ Tue, 11 Dec 2018 16:26:21 -0500 What 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]

]]> 0 6d94857a4ce65c492202b6f6489493ee Rashmi Gajare deposited Understanding ‘Othering’ mechanisms: Perils of ‘assimilation’ policies for migrant populations in the group Cultural Heritage https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1625538/ Tue, 11 Dec 2018 16:26:02 -0500 In 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]

]]> 0 9a4ce66782224620d4790910929e3ee0 Francesco Iacono edited the doc Revolution and counter-revolution in the group Cultural Heritage https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1621399/ Thu, 18 Oct 2018 09:35:15 -0400 5adc993f184c108e4fbe8fdf32334c00 Francesco 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 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1620605/ Wed, 10 Oct 2018 16:28:43 -0400 Revolutions 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]

]]> 0 acb3074025c4f682fda29b4cc488d6b4 Francesco Iacono created the group Cultural Heritage https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1620453/ Tue, 09 Oct 2018 16:25:09 -0400 0