Knowledge Commons | Festivals, Rituals, Public Spectacles, and Popular Culture | Activity https://hcommons.org/groups/festivals-rituals-public-spectacles-and-popular-culture/ Activity feed for the group, Festivals, Rituals, Public Spectacles, and Popular Culture. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 07:25:18 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 d6a6e979ae597b8164abbe25b40b0e8d Reuven Chaim (Rudolph) Klein deposited The Passover Seder as an Exercise in Piagetian Education Theory in the group Festivals, Rituals, Public Spectacles, and Popular Culture https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1866331/ Thu, 30 Nov 2023 03:00:24 -0500 This paper focuses on two elements of the Passover Seder ritual and their connection to Piagetian education theory. After outlining Piaget’s theory of genetic epistemology and its implications for education theory, it focuses on Sigel’s distancing theory, which touts question asking as a tool for presenting information to students. This paper arg…[Read more]

]]> 0 7d4d48bdbffe75b4ac3b6724c3699b23 Reuven Chaim (Rudolph) Klein deposited World Religions and the Noahide Prohibition of Idolatry in the group Festivals, Rituals, Public Spectacles, and Popular Culture https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1830650/ Fri, 20 Jan 2023 02:23:43 -0500 Although the prohibition of avodah zarah (literally, “strange/foreign worship,” but more loosely translated as “idolatry”) is included in both the Torah’s 613 mitzvos for Jews and in the seven Noahide laws, many authorities maintain that the exact parameters of the prohibition differ when applied to Jews versus when applied to non-Jews. There is…[Read more]

]]> 0 fcbab5de7330e8b5eccc1beeeeddf9a3 Pramod Ranjan deposited Mahishasur A people's hero in the group Festivals, Rituals, Public Spectacles, and Popular Culture https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1828866/ Mon, 09 Jan 2023 02:26:23 -0500 This is the English edition of the book 'Mahishasur: Ek Jannayak'. The book searches for a hero who has been ever-present in the memories, traditions, festivals, and celebrations of a majority of the people of India but who the dominant culture of the country has given the image of a villain. Recently, the search for this people's hero triggered a…[Read more]

]]> 0 1077d6f34757a175de2cfc764e7c693b Pramod Ranjan deposited पेरियार के प्रतिनिधि विचार in the group Festivals, Rituals, Public Spectacles, and Popular Culture https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1828861/ Mon, 09 Jan 2023 02:26:08 -0500 हिंदी में पेरियार का मूल लेखन और जीवनी उपलब्ध नहीं थी। सामाजिक आंदोलनों व अकादमियों में जो नई हिंदी भाषी पीढ़ी आई है, वह 'नास्तिक पेरियार' से तो खूब परिचित है और उनके प्रति उसमें जबर्दस्त आकर्षण भी है, लेकिन यह पीढ़ी उनके विचारों के बारे में कुछ सुनी-सुनाई, आधी-अधूरी बातें ही जानती है। वस्तुतः उसने पेरियार को पढ़ा नहीं है।
उनकी 'द…[Read more]

]]> 0 d645fcd43d447f80217e08014b9b4ea2 Pramod Ranjan deposited धर्म और विश्वदृष्टि- पेरियार ई. वी. रामासामी in the group Festivals, Rituals, Public Spectacles, and Popular Culture https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1828856/ Mon, 09 Jan 2023 02:25:43 -0500 यह किताब ई.वी. रामासामी नायकर 'पेरियार' (17 सितम्बर, 1879—24 दिसम्बर, 1973) के दार्शनिक व्यक्तित्व से परिचित कराती है। धर्म, ईश्वर और मानव समाज का भविष्य उनके दार्शनिक चिन्तन का केन्द्रीय पहलू रहा है। उन्होंने मानव समाज के सन्दर्भ में धर्म और ईश्वर की भूमिका पर गहन चिन्तन-मनन किया है। इस चिन्तन-मनन के निष्कर्षों को इस किताब के विविध लेखों मे…[Read more]

]]> 0 209dd325a520dcce9b0c33192aa2e5c4 Pramod Ranjan deposited महिषासुर एक जननायक in the group Festivals, Rituals, Public Spectacles, and Popular Culture https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1828851/ Mon, 09 Jan 2023 02:25:08 -0500 प्रमोद रंजन द्वारा संपादित पुस्तक “महिषासुर एक जननायक” का उद्देश्य यह स्पष्ट करना है कि आखिर महिषासुर नाम से शुरू किया गया यह आन्दोलन है क्या? इसकी आवश्यकता क्यों पड़ी? इसके निहितार्थ क्या हैं? इस पुस्तक में प्रश्न उठाया गया है कि जब असुर एक प्रजाति है तो उसकी हार या उसके नायक की ह्त्या का उत्सव किस सांस्कृतिक मनोवृत्ति का परिचायक…[Read more]

]]> 0 3538434e2989896065853841cb954b0d Pramod Ranjan deposited महिषासुर मिथक व परंपराएं in the group Festivals, Rituals, Public Spectacles, and Popular Culture https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1828846/ Mon, 09 Jan 2023 02:24:37 -0500 महिषासुर से संबंधित बहुजन समाज के मिथकों व परंपराओं , पौराणिक मिथकों और आधुनिक युग में गढे़ गए मिथकों के अर्थों को खोलने वाली इस पुस्तक का संपादक प्रमोद रंजन ने किया है। इस पुस्तक में पहली बार महिषासुर शहादत/स्मरण दिवस की विस्तृत सैद्धांतिकी भी प्रस्तुत की गई है तथा इस संबंध में उठने वालो सभी सवालों के उत्तर प्रस्तुत किये गये हैं।…[Read more]

]]> 0 278705c1d31d5412d9d5f21b9a50b900 Pramod Ranjan deposited हिमाचल का साहित्यिक परिदृश्य: शिमला डायरी in the group Festivals, Rituals, Public Spectacles, and Popular Culture https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1828707/ Sun, 08 Jan 2023 02:23:59 -0500 शिमला डायरी हिंदी पत्रकार और लेखक प्रमोद रंजन के संस्मरणों की पुस्तक है, जिसका केंद्रबिंदु साहित्यिक गतिविधियां हैं। यह पुस्तक 21वीं सदी की शुरुआत में पत्रकारिता के नैतिक पतन की कहानी भी कहती है। हिमाचल प्रदेश पर केंद्रित इस पुस्तक में तत्कालीन राजनीति की भी झलक है।

]]> 0 d0db9aee710102f7dcf04bbc03b5ac50 Pramod Ranjan deposited 'हिंदी साहित्येतिहास का बहुजन पक्ष', 'बहुजन साहित्य की प्रस्तावन' व 'महिषासुर एक जननायक': नई सांस्कृतिक-साहित्यिक दृष्टि की प्रस्तावना in the group Festivals, Rituals, Public Spectacles, and Popular Culture https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1823849/ Fri, 25 Nov 2022 02:24:51 -0500 बहुजन साहित्य और संस्कृति की अवधारणा ने पिछले कुछ वर्षों में आकार लेना शुरू किया है। अभी हाल (2016) में आए प्रमोद रंजन द्वारा संपादित तीन संकलन- ‘बहुजन साहित्य की प्रस्तावना’, ‘हिन्दी साहित्येतिहास का बहुजन पक्ष’और ‘महिषासुर एक जननायक’- बहुजन साहित्यिक-सांस्कृतिक आंदोलन की प्रस्तावना और अवधारणा को सामने रखते हैं और इसे पल्लवित-पुष्पित तथा विकसित क…[Read more]

]]> 0 523dfcbbd6ddc380d7518f9d3bbe5ce0 Pramod Ranjan deposited Providing a voice to the dispossessed majority - Interview with Pramod Ranjan in the group Festivals, Rituals, Public Spectacles, and Popular Culture https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1819916/ Fri, 04 Nov 2022 02:25:41 -0400 In this interview with The Hindu, Pramod Ranjan shared his view on Dalits and OBCs in Indian newsrooms, Phule-Ambedkarism, Bahujan literature, Dalit literature, Mahishasura Movement and the role of myth in a caste-based society.

]]> 0 1568a2858c6ed4d1201374955f3a46e9 Pramod Ranjan deposited Unearthing history by reinterpreting myths and traditions ( Book Review By Ish Mishra) in the group Festivals, Rituals, Public Spectacles, and Popular Culture https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1819481/ Tue, 01 Nov 2022 02:25:32 -0400 Brahmanical history is based on myths. It neither has been constructed chronologically nor is factually correct. It has eclipsed the reality with a cobweb of myths. To establish a new creed, established dogmas must be disproven. Ish Mishra reviews ‘Mahishasur: Mithak va Paramparayen’ :

The book Mahishasur: Mithak va Paramparayen (Ma…[Read more]

]]> 0 d67c93302daecc4c814cf97f41727e8e Pramod Ranjan deposited Is Mahishasur a myth (Book Review by Kanwal Bharti) in the group Festivals, Rituals, Public Spectacles, and Popular Culture https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1819472/ Tue, 01 Nov 2022 02:24:20 -0400 Recently, an important book, Mahishasur: Mithak va Paramparayen (Mahishasur: Myth and Traditions), edited by Pramod Ranjan, was published by Forward Press in collaboration with Marginalised Publication. The book lets the reader travel through the living history of the myths of Durga and Mahishasur. The book is divided into five parts – ‘Yatra Vri…[Read more]

]]> 0 056adf9cae6784c0b09ea18389dfa79c Pramod Ranjan deposited Travelogue: Mahishasur in Mahoba in the group Festivals, Rituals, Public Spectacles, and Popular Culture https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1791145/ Mon, 22 Aug 2022 02:23:55 -0400 The scope of the traditions related to Mahishasur is vast. There is a memorial of him in Bundelkhand, preserved by the Archaelogical Survey of India. Khajuraho’s world-famous temples also have carvings of Mahishasur.

On 9 October 2014, the police had raided the office of Forward Press. Some people associated with Hindu organizations had a c…[Read more]

]]> 0 c6eb8f608a2e65813104de9535c85ffe Pramod Ranjan deposited यात्रा वृतांत: महोबा में महिषासुर in the group Festivals, Rituals, Public Spectacles, and Popular Culture https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1791094/ Sun, 21 Aug 2022 02:24:18 -0400 यह बुंदेलखंड स्थित महोबा का यात्रा संस्मरण है।
इसमें लेखक पौराणिक मिथक महिषासुर से संबंधित स्थलों की खोज में निकलता है।
वर्ष 2011 में जवाहर लाल नेहरू यूनिवर्सिटी के शोधार्थियों द्वारा महिषासुर को दलित, पिछड़े और आदिवासियों का पौरणिक नायक के रूप से प्रचारित किए जाने के बाद हंगामा खड़ा हो गया था। लेखक उस समय एक पत्रिका में प्रबंध-संपादक के रूप म…[Read more]

]]> 0 513b8c9eb3d5fa0f0b82ea1084905da2 Pramod Ranjan deposited Mahishasur in Mahoba-1 in the group Festivals, Rituals, Public Spectacles, and Popular Culture https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1786946/ Wed, 13 Jul 2022 02:26:41 -0400 Mahishasur was the mythological hero of the Bahujan communities of India. According to D.D. Kaushambi, Mahishasur’s realm was Mahoba in Bundelkhand. In connection with the research for my book, I reached Mahoba on 2 October 2015. Mahishasur’s memories still survive in the folk traditions of Mahoba. He is known as Maikasur, Kaaras Dev, Gwal Bab…[Read more]

]]> 0 7b11ed95f7a14c84432eda502301f0ac Pramod Ranjan deposited Four years of a cultural movement in the group Festivals, Rituals, Public Spectacles, and Popular Culture https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1786924/ Wed, 13 Jul 2022 02:24:58 -0400 We wrote this report in December 2015. In this report, we have tried to bring out the ideology of the organisers of Mahishasur Day, and their strategy for cultural-social change.
When, on 25 October 2011, a handful of students of Delhi’s Jawaharlal Nehru University celebrated Mahishasur Martyrdom Day for the first time, no one could have i…[Read more]

]]> 0 d0d5794ff71c8e60db6e5456c07d7b8b Pramod Ranjan deposited Bahujan discourse puts JNU in the crosshairs in the group Festivals, Rituals, Public Spectacles, and Popular Culture https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1786310/ Sat, 09 Jul 2022 02:24:42 -0400 If we closely study the recent string of incidents in JNU while keeping their background in mind, we will realize that the Bahujan-Left unity had set alarm bells ringing in the RSS camp. To grasp this better, we will have to revisit the first Mahishasur Martyrdom Day, organized by the All India Backward Students’ Forum (AIBSF) in JNU in October 2…[Read more]

]]> 0 089f9d3d0b71f1a2ea18b40e7a8d5d02 Stefanie Samida deposited Reenacted prehistory today Preliminary remarks on a multidisciplinary research project in the group Festivals, Rituals, Public Spectacles, and Popular Culture https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1718393/ Tue, 01 Dec 2020 02:24:25 -0500 Historical and archaeological topics have been very popular for many years. This is witnessed by a variety of events and developments: well- attended exhibitions, so-called “medieval mar- kets”, an ongoing success of historical documentaries, a booming market of specialised books and magazines, as well as star-studded historical movies. The pap…[Read more]

]]> 0 7322b5c160d26b617e961cbe12ec444e Stefanie Samida deposited Performing the Past: Time Travels in Archaeological Open-Air Museums in the group Festivals, Rituals, Public Spectacles, and Popular Culture https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1688616/ Tue, 26 May 2020 16:27:15 -0400 Historical and archaeological topics have been very popular for many years. This is witnessed by a variety of events and developments, as for example by time travel formats on television as well as by such performances at historic sites or at open-air museums. These historical performances and affective adoptions – bodily and sensual experiences t…[Read more]

]]> 0 fa72cd0013c0d4eeb89c0eb45100b8d8 Frans Prasetyo deposited reformasi dikorupsi : Indonesia under Jokowi in the group Festivals, Rituals, Public Spectacles, and Popular Culture https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1685810/ Thu, 30 Apr 2020 16:26:10 -0400 As Indonesia’s increasingly authoritarian populist president Jokowi began his second term in autumn 2019, he finds himself confronted by a new generation radicalised by the converging crises of militarism, agrarian dispossession, environmental destruction and corruption.

]]> 0 e74f769a021e914a7a7ab9c35063eb09 Frans Prasetyo deposited Die Mobilisierung des Überdrusses (Disgust mobilization in Indonesian election) in the group Festivals, Rituals, Public Spectacles, and Popular Culture https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1680737/ Sat, 14 Mar 2020 16:26:07 -0400 Indonesien: Die letzten beiden Wahlen, aus denen Joko Widodo erfolgreich hervorging, waren für viele Indonesier*innen eine Enttäuschung. Appelle für mehr Bewusstsein der Bevölkerung und eine Reform politischer Praktiken werden auch musikalisch ausgedrückt. Seit Indonesien 1998 die politische Transformation (reformasi) begann, wurde es als offe…[Read more]

]]> 0 84adaff0adaa0934f9000713acaa43b3 Valeria Graziano deposited Recreation at stake in the group Festivals, Rituals, Public Spectacles, and Popular Culture https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1676369/ Sun, 26 Jan 2020 16:26:43 -0500 Extending Audre Lorde’s intuition around the polysemy of the term recreation, I put forward this concept as an organizational principle. Via the framework of recreation, I want to think about some of the main political stakes of the forms used by collectivities able to act politically in the present. I transpose the double binding that Lorde a…[Read more]

]]> 0 21ebb22929a1c0fc5af1d1e638c8cc66 Frans Prasetyo deposited Half bowl ritual, half public-private : Space and Place Skateboard in the group Festivals, Rituals, Public Spectacles, and Popular Culture https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1675206/ Tue, 14 Jan 2020 16:25:24 -0500 Skateboards have unique character complexities in the city, as multiface, multispace and multiplace. Spatialization of style to Stylization of space is a how skareboard create youth culture and a part of sub-culture. Looking ritual a play skateboard in the city more have dimension of style, space and place, as happened in bowl skatepark.

]]> 0 bc5e9905d5d5e07b0447fa4f38fd143e Lawrence Davies deposited Review: 'The History of European Jazz: The Music, Musicians and Audience in Context' ed. by Francesco Martinelli in the group Festivals, Rituals, Public Spectacles, and Popular Culture https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1662909/ Mon, 09 Sep 2019 16:26:12 -0400 Review of 'The History of European Jazz: The Music, Musicians and Audience in Context', ed. by Francesco Martinelli (Sheffield: Equinox, 2018), SAMPLES - Online-Publikationen der Gesellschaft für Popularmusikforschung, 17 (June 2019).
Published online 12 June 2019.

]]> 0 fdc6067ba113b12bfd012fd4ea4c59ca Valeria Graziano deposited From Critical Studies to Public Programming: Public Knowledge at the Post-Democratic Impasse in the group Festivals, Rituals, Public Spectacles, and Popular Culture https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1660562/ Sat, 17 Aug 2019 16:26:03 -0400 In 2016 I initiated Public Programming, a research collaboration with Dr Janna Graham and Dr Susan Kelly (Goldsmiths), supported by Nottingham Contemporary, Goldsmiths and Middlesex University. Our research looked at on the emergent phenomenon of public lectures and other pedagogical or academic-like events within the expanded sphere of museums,…[Read more]

]]> 0 2bf7ff63b2bd641639eb63f4e179167e Valeria Graziano deposited Public Programming? Pedagogical Practices in a Missing Europe in the group Festivals, Rituals, Public Spectacles, and Popular Culture https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1660559/ Sat, 17 Aug 2019 16:25:51 -0400 In 2016 I initiated the project Public Programming, a research collaboration with Dr Janna Graham and Dr Susan Kelly (Goldsmiths), supported by Nottingham Contemporary, Goldsmiths and Middlesex University. Our research looked at on the emergent phenomenon of public lectures and other pedagogical or academic-like events within the expanded sphere…[Read more]

]]> 0 b47b64245220db13efdc95e04835fd96 Valeria Graziano deposited Public Programming, Social Movements and Solidarity in the group Festivals, Rituals, Public Spectacles, and Popular Culture https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1660556/ Sat, 17 Aug 2019 16:25:38 -0400 In 2016 I initiated the project Public Programming, a research collaboration with Dr Janna Graham and Dr Susan Kelly (Goldsmiths), supported by Nottingham Contemporary, Goldsmiths and Middlesex University. Our research looked at on the emergent phenomenon of public lectures and other pedagogical or academic-like events within the expanded sphere…[Read more]

]]> 0 051f01d0825cbba884249cf9522fc584 Frans Prasetyo deposited The struggle for land rights: Indonesian (urban) Agrarian Reform and (against) the Global Land Forum in Bandung in the group Festivals, Rituals, Public Spectacles, and Popular Culture https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1659363/ Fri, 02 Aug 2019 16:33:32 -0400 INDONESIA PROMISED AN AMBITIOUS PROGRAM of agrarian reform. Based on that ambition, Jokowi’s government released a presidential regulation on agrarian reform. This was done, together with the 2018 Global Land Forum meeting, in Bandung, several months before the presidential election. This month, the Indonesian presidential election has been a c…[Read more]

]]> 0 8a38707267c534de8c0c053e9e89c036 Frans Prasetyo deposited Popular struggle in Indonesia : The spirit of Bandung in the group Festivals, Rituals, Public Spectacles, and Popular Culture https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1641503/ Mon, 03 Jun 2019 16:26:09 -0400 This week the Indonesian presidential election has been a contest between the incumbent Jokowi, who has promised an ambitious programme of agrarian reform, and the descendent of the military dictator Suharto. In this article, Frans Ari Prasetyo exposes the contradictions of the Jokowi government’s dependence on the World Bank and local c…[Read more]

]]> 0 9fc1a04ccbfcc02152d13223653a810a Reuven Chaim (Rudolph) Klein deposited 'Till Death Do Us Part: The Halachic Prospects of Marriage for Conjoined (Siamese) Twins in the group Festivals, Rituals, Public Spectacles, and Popular Culture https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1638784/ Sun, 21 Apr 2019 16:25:24 -0400 This thought experiment considers whether Siamese (Conjoined) are allowed to marry according to Halacha. It considers various aspects of the Biblical bans on incest and offers a very contemporary discussion about the meaning of personhood. This paper uses medical journals, works on medical history, and various responsa to find a precedent and…[Read more]

]]> 0 fa9b1d9462960766e2a74d10e76399fe Frans Prasetyo deposited Stop Land Grabs – Declaration in the group Festivals, Rituals, Public Spectacles, and Popular Culture https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1636169/ Sun, 24 Mar 2019 16:25:34 -0400 Declaration of the Social Movements: Ten Peoples’ Principles Against Land Grabs, Evictions and Neoliberalism. “Let a New World be born in Bandung for a genuine land reform, not land grabs!” — Bandung-Indonesia, September 24, 2018.

]]> 0 d3a342beb31ca06d74353204646b5f80 Frans Prasetyo deposited Photo essay : A protest for fair land reform in the group Festivals, Rituals, Public Spectacles, and Popular Culture https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1636164/ Sun, 24 Mar 2019 16:25:32 -0400 On 24 September 2018, hundreds of people demonstrated in front of Gedung Merdeka in Asia-Afrika Street, Bandung, West Java, where the Global Land Forum (GLF) 2018 was happening. This was the eighth gathering of the forum since the inaugural conference in Rome in 2003. The opening of the three-day event coincided with Indonesia’s National Peasants’ Day.

]]> 0 0dfc7b9dc679897434984b7e85a760e6 Frans Prasetyo deposited Punk and the city: A history of punk in Bandung in the group Festivals, Rituals, Public Spectacles, and Popular Culture https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1636160/ Sun, 24 Mar 2019 16:25:29 -0400 Punk in Indonesia has often been described as a spectacular performance of disorder and resistance, a youthful style that posed a disruptive challenge to the authoritarian hierarchy and discipline of the New Order regime. The punk scene in Bandung has developed in the context of what is often referred to as ‘post-authoritarian’ Indonesia. Punk giv…[Read more]

]]> 0 a6ed65e609ee3648d4f00c69b90afd01 Valeria Graziano deposited Towards a theory of prefigurative practices in the group Festivals, Rituals, Public Spectacles, and Popular Culture https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1622332/ Sun, 28 Oct 2018 16:25:26 -0400 Chapter in Post-Dance, Edited by Danjel Andersson, Mette Edvarsdsen and Mårten Spångberg. MDT, 2017.
ISBN 978-91-983891-0-4. Based on materials from the workshop ‘Nor Culture Nor Art’, with Mårten Spångberg and Vanessa Ohlraum, at Learning Plays. A School of School, Impulse Theatre Festival in collaboration with Ringlokschuppen Ruhr. Mülheim…[Read more]

]]> 0 03ee394650008f210b491bcf02533a7c Reuven Chaim (Rudolph) Klein deposited The Leap-Month Fabricated by Jeroboam in the group Festivals, Rituals, Public Spectacles, and Popular Culture https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1620371/ Mon, 08 Oct 2018 16:30:17 -0400 This article discusses the reason behind Jeroboam, king of Israel, instituting a holiday in the eighth month of calendar. We suggest an approach that looks at this holiday as misplaced from the seventh month by means of an additional unauthorized leap-month.

]]> 0 6abb8f72b9e515590b42b3c9b14f26bf Reuven Chaim (Rudolph) Klein deposited המקום מרחק (על מסכת יבמות) in the group Festivals, Rituals, Public Spectacles, and Popular Culture https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1620359/ Mon, 08 Oct 2018 16:27:08 -0400 עיונים וביאורים הערות וציונים על מסכת יבמות

]]> 0 89cc14502d2fa4f7ad9e3e6e6c4ab5c6 Valeria Graziano deposited Dares as Ethical Operations. in the group Festivals, Rituals, Public Spectacles, and Popular Culture https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1611055/ Mon, 18 Jun 2018 04:12:40 -0400 This text was a talk given at La Bellone House of Performing Arts, Brussels (BE) as part of a.pass seminar on the subject of ‘conspiracy’ with Juan Dominguez and Victoria Perez Royo on 14th and 15th April 2016. Departing from three different works of fiction, it explores the idea of daring as a modality of care for the possible and its imp…[Read more]

]]> 0 82ba6f33442c139c9a52cf19e5100073 Laurie Ringer deposited Cigar Box Fiddle 3: Assembled in the group Festivals, Rituals, Public Spectacles, and Popular Culture https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1604667/ Wed, 28 Mar 2018 04:23:42 -0400 Assembled cigar box fiddle. Fiddlin’ John Hutchison learned to play on a fiddle made from an Old Virginia Cheroots Tobacco box. In a taped interview he calls it a "cigar box.”

]]> 0 a02e33aa6773a3899b2f6470142eaed8 Laurie Ringer deposited Cigar Box Fiddle 2: Disassembled in the group Festivals, Rituals, Public Spectacles, and Popular Culture https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1604662/ Wed, 28 Mar 2018 04:12:25 -0400 The label is under the soundboard. Fiddlin’ John Hutchison learned to play on a fiddle made from an Old Virginia Cheroots Tobacco box. In a taped interview he calls it a "cigar box.”

]]> 0 f9319333df9483436c26431824fdb9f7 Laurie Ringer deposited Cigar Box Fiddle 1: Disassembled in the group Festivals, Rituals, Public Spectacles, and Popular Culture https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1604649/ Wed, 28 Mar 2018 03:48:43 -0400 Fiddlin’ John Hutchison learned to play on a fiddle made from an Old Virginia Cheroots Tobacco box. In a taped interview he calls it a "cigar box.”

]]> 0 df49aea51a4ff335f627a30fa9fc1e0c Avi Santo wrote a new post Reminder: Film Criticism special issue on Film & Merchandise (submission deadline: May 1) in the group Festivals, Rituals, Public Spectacles, and Popular Culture http://festivalsritualspublicspectaclesandpopularculture.hcommons.org/2018/03/13/reminder-film-criticism-special-issue-on-film-merchandise-submission-deadline-may-1/ Tue, 13 Mar 2018 13:24:46 -0400 Film Criticism Special Issue on Film & Merchandise Call For Papers (November 2018)

Guest editors: Dr. Elizabeth Affuso (Pitzer College) and Dr. Avi Santo (Old Dominion University)

Despite Jane Gaine […]

]]> ff979feeb9f9557c72a911881c08ee4d Jacqueline Taucar posted an update in the group Festivals, Rituals, Public Spectacles, and Popular Culture: The Canadian Association for Theatre Research is hosting its […] https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1594807/ Fri, 05 Jan 2018 04:12:21 -0500 The Canadian Association for Theatre Research is hosting its annual conference 29 May – 1 June 2018 in Kingston, Ontario. This year’s theme is “Fieldwork: Excavations and Exchanges in Drama, Dance, Theatre, and Performance Studies.”

The deadline for submitting proposals to working groups and seminars is January 15.

Conference

]]> 0 fd66f10c349879ba378dfce317fa5f9f Reuven Chaim (Rudolph) Klein deposited סוד הנשיקה בתנ"ך ובחז"ל in the group Festivals, Rituals, Public Spectacles, and Popular Culture https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1593759/ Fri, 29 Dec 2017 05:38:21 -0500 This article discusses the concept of kissing as it appears in the Bible and in Rabbinic writings. Special attention is given to different motives for kissing and to different conjugations of the Hebrew verbs for kissing.

]]> 0 5662b4d650305ce0e832fb4f74440d67 Reuven Chaim (Rudolph) Klein deposited Uttering the Names of Idols in the group Festivals, Rituals, Public Spectacles, and Popular Culture https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1593428/ Sun, 24 Dec 2017 05:41:45 -0500 This article discusses rabbinic qualifications to the Biblical prohibition of verbally saying the names of foreign gods (typically represented by idols).

]]> 0 72585358a44e50caf2cf72988ccafb1e Reuven Chaim (Rudolph) Klein deposited Reconciling the Sacrifices of Ezekiel with the Torah in the group Festivals, Rituals, Public Spectacles, and Popular Culture https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1592859/ Tue, 19 Dec 2017 05:38:28 -0500 This articles notes the apparent discrepancies between Ezekiel 45-46 and Numbers 28-29 concerning the required sacrifices to be offered on special days of the Jewish Calendar. The article also offers classical rabbinic solutions to those contradictions.

]]> 0 0277646e42e366d498ef39d2abc82b63 Avi Santo started the topic CFP: Special issue of Film Criticism on film & merchandise in the discussion Festivals, Rituals, Public Spectacles, and Popular Culture https://hcommons.org/groups/festivals-rituals-public-spectacles-and-popular-culture/forum/topic/cfp-special-issue-of-film-criticism-on-film-merchandise-2/ Mon, 18 Dec 2017 15:09:42 -0500 Apologies for cross-listing. Elizabeth Affuso and I are co-editing a special issue of Film Criticism focused on film & merchandise. Essays should be submitted by May 1, 2018. The issue is scheduled for publication in November 2018. The CFP is below.
Appreciatively,
Avi Santo
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Film Criticism Special Issue on film & merchandise Call For Pa…[Read more]

]]> 07b5b9b8f9c325a03c622a56b885fb58 Frans Prasetyo deposited Sewing Marat, Revolution and (Sewing) the City : Urban (kampong) Performance Art in the group Festivals, Rituals, Public Spectacles, and Popular Culture https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1581868/ Tue, 19 Sep 2017 01:00:00 -0400 An essay that weaves historical perspectives with a unique interpretation of Kerensa Dewantoro's performance art of Menjahit Marat Sade/ Sewing Marat Sade in Urban Kampong Dago Pojok, Bandung-Indonesia

]]> 0 5ff7ebff415d7747b5e25eacfc12bdf5 Frans Prasetyo deposited 'SIASAT' – Artistic Tactics for Transgression on State Authority in the group Festivals, Rituals, Public Spectacles, and Popular Culture https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1581499/ Fri, 15 Sep 2017 01:02:45 -0400 The 15th Jakarta Biennale’s curatorial premise, Siasat (Tactic) identified artists and art works which demonstrated how individuals and communities, especially in urban Indonesia, cope with social inequality, environmental pressure, and poverty. The resulting exhibition raised questions relevant to recent scholarship around relational aesthetics a…[Read more]

]]> 0 179151d52835f3c4065d940532454826 Frans Prasetyo deposited " City Noise " : Sound (Art) and Disaster in the group Festivals, Rituals, Public Spectacles, and Popular Culture https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1581494/ Fri, 15 Sep 2017 01:02:41 -0400 My sonic work “City Noise” proposes both an artistic and a theoretical approach to the city-sound relationship. The default assumption about this relationship is that sounds reflect a one-to-one relationship between soundscape and landscape, both drawing upon and revealing the physical and social landscapes from which they originate. However, the…[Read more]

]]> 0 a8d2c3a2052e22268b9b206ad5b78f5d Frans Prasetyo deposited Car Free Day: Transformasi Ruang dan Globalisasi Urbanisme Kontemporer di Bandung in the group Festivals, Rituals, Public Spectacles, and Popular Culture https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1581488/ Fri, 15 Sep 2017 01:02:37 -0400 Car Free Day has become a contested aren of production and consumption where by a contemporary social and cultural transformation of space also forms a new contemporary composite agencies of urban public in the city of Bandung, West Java. Such agencies also shape a new identity for the image of a city landmark. The cit appears to prioritize its…[Read more]

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