Knowledge Commons | Global & Transnational Studies | Activity https://hcommons.org/groups/global-transnational-studies/ Activity feed for the group, Global & Transnational Studies. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 07:37:02 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 3843c149ef3f43e0130624caa675ab5f Matthew Kidd started the topic Participate in a survey on generative AI and archival research practices in the forum Global & Transnational Studies https://hcommons.org/groups/global-transnational-studies/forum/topic/participate-in-a-survey-on-generative-ai-and-archival-research-practices-6/ Fri, 13 Feb 2026 11:17:56 -0500 Dear all,

We would like to invite you to take part in an anonymous online survey exploring how the growing use of generative AI tools (including ChatGPT) is reshaping user practices and expectations in relation to searching, discovering, and interpreting digitised and born-digital archival records.

The survey forms part of a research project…[Read more]

]]> 6c8789f829b34916df663ebff2781f76 Kerem Duymus deposited Afroglobale Geschichte der Gegenwart (Beiträge zur Theorie der Globalgeschichte) in the group Global & Transnational Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1902204/ Mon, 21 Oct 2024 03:00:21 -0400 Während sich die Hauptliteratur der Globalgeschichte teilweise als Nachfolger der europäischen imperialen Geschichte mit einem neuen Rahmen und zum Teil als Erklärung der „globalisierten“ Gegenwart positioniert hat, konnten die Kritiken, insbesondere aus afrikanisch-historischer Perspektive, kaum Auswirkungen auf ihre deterministischen und euroze…[Read more]

]]> 0 e64e8c8a1437e3b53acd2e4603f54ec4 Kerem Duymus deposited Tadbir as Marine Diplomacy: Ottoman Foreign Jurisdiction in Practice and the Debate of Piracy in Case of Tripoli between 1790s-1835 in the group Global & Transnational Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1901429/ Sat, 12 Oct 2024 03:01:57 -0400 The marine diplomacy of Tripoli in the Qaramanlı era was deeply shaped by the Ottoman Foreign Jurisdiction. Yet, especially Yusuf Paşa with his tadbir (Ar.) [governing through taking measures] application carried the implication of this jurisdiction to a global tributary system that all European states as well as USA obeyed. The ignorance of the h…[Read more]

]]> 0 8e731ea7ea6e782a09b91cd495868da1 Kerem Duymus deposited The Political Economy of the Sokoto Caliphate after the 1850s: The Triple System and Its Dynamics in the group Global & Transnational Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1901181/ Wed, 09 Oct 2024 03:03:20 -0400 Three salient political-economic patterns – (1) agriculture and craft production with trade, (2) war economy, (3) economy of exploitation – in the Sokoto Caliphate have been inquired under the triple system by scrutinizing their similar and dissimilar features, their autonomous and interdependent characters, and their connected and dis…[Read more]

]]> 0 13382c6e3ad3b51702cb82971a3c08eb Kerem Duymus deposited 1850-1910 Arası Osmanlı'nın Sahra Politikaları in the group Global & Transnational Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1901178/ Wed, 09 Oct 2024 03:03:08 -0400 Osmanlılar’ın 19. yüzyılın ikinci yarısında merkezi Sahra bölgesindeki genişlemesi ve uygulanan politikalar, arşiv materyallerinin iki ülke (Libya ve Türkiye) arasında düzensiz bir şekilde dağılmış olması sebebiyle bugüne değin keşfedilmeden kalmaya devam etmiştir. İki ülke arşivlerinin yoğun bir analizi sonucunda ortaya çıkan yeni kayıtlar ve…[Read more]

]]> 0 8dbfb8d40094c47dd4edd41b2d7bf145 Kerem Duymus deposited Commodity Production and African Migration to Turkey, Now and in the Premodern Past in the group Global & Transnational Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1901175/ Wed, 09 Oct 2024 03:02:54 -0400 African Migration in Turkey is an under-researched area despite the long history of migration between West Africa and the Ottoman Empire and the large number of African migrants in Turkey. The connection of this historical and contemporary migration movement with commodity production reveals not only the basic dynamics and patterns but also the…[Read more]

]]> 0 a737f714c290dec4919ef8051b1c248a Arif Camoglu deposited Gönül Ferman Dinlerse in the group Global & Transnational Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1900460/ Wed, 02 Oct 2024 03:00:38 -0400 Galib’in mesnevisindeki aşk hikayesi tahtlar, hazineler, keşifler ve ordularla bezenmiş bir emperyal düştür aynı zamanda. Sonunda kutsanan şey mistik boyutlara taşınmış mutlak sayılan siyasi otoritedir. Âşık olunan, kendisine tam bağlılığı esas bildiren, göze gelmeyen ama gözünden hiçbir şey kaçmayan bir yönetim tahayyülüdür. Bu hayalde nefs…[Read more]

]]> 0 9fa84f33c6e9e8c8fafbe0a6f587fbd9 Guylian Nemegeer edited the blog post International Conference: Pan-Movements, Regeneration and Modernity (29 October 2024) in the group Global & Transnational Studies https://globaltransnationalstudies.hcommons.org/2024/09/28/international-conference-pan-movement-regeneration-and-modernity-29-october-2024/ Sat, 28 Sep 2024 12:38:42 -0400 Members of this group may be interested in the following conference, which may be followed online. Registration is needed to receive the meeting link: […]

]]> e99c4c351ccc239147ae6a9ddc047764 John Aerni-Flessner deposited Basotho and the Bantustans: Long-Term Impacts of Historical Borders on Borderlands Communities in QwaQwa and Lesotho in the group Global & Transnational Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1896783/ Tue, 20 Aug 2024 03:00:54 -0400 Drawing on archival work conducted in South Africa, the UK and Lesotho, and on oral histories collected in 2021–2023, this article historicises the experiences of Basotho living along the Lesotho–South Africa border. It focuses primarily on the part of eastern Free State designated during the apartheid era as the Basotho ‘Homeland’ of QwaQwa…[Read more]

]]> 0 e2a3efd892ab102d43a16b2465a753aa Sonia D. Andras deposited Romanian-American Negotiations in Education, Science, Culture, and Arts in the group Global & Transnational Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1896775/ Tue, 20 Aug 2024 03:00:23 -0400 As a political model for the young democracy in interwar Romania, as a protector against threats to the sovereignty and integrity of the state, as a cultural model, and as a daily life, America represented for Romania a reference point, a factor of stability and progress. America was a model and ally of the civilized world!
Unfortunately,…[Read more]

]]> 0 44c58f3d85c127a89a878e9cce917444 Gavin Herzig deposited Time Heals All Wounds: The Time Loop Beyond Groundhog Day, Disability, and Higurashi Gou and Sotsu (2020-21) in the group Global & Transnational Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1896644/ Sun, 18 Aug 2024 03:01:17 -0400 Linear time is out of joint with and oppressive to alternate bodies, minds, and lives in a plethora of ways. In recent years, critical interventions such as Alison Kafer’s crip time and Elizabeth Freeman’s chrononormativity have revealed the oppressive force of time on marginalised groups. The time loop structure inherently complicates the lin…[Read more]

]]> 0 48beaf2d719c2b86ad5c7149e232428f Marvin Cheung edited the blog post Invite: Seminar on "Solving Grand Challenges with Transdisciplinary Research" in the group Global & Transnational Studies https://globaltransnationalstudies.hcommons.org/2024/08/14/invite-seminar-on-solving-grand-challenges-with-transdisciplinary-research/ Wed, 14 Aug 2024 20:18:51 -0400 For scholars, founders, and executives — Grand challenges are wicked problems characterized by their global scope, high significance, and potential to be solvable. Potential to be solvable is important to e […]

]]> 87cf6261eed3914fd9f3b0d5db878492 Arif Camoglu deposited Anti-Black Racism, British Orientalism, and the Ottoman Empire: Rereading The Turkish Embassy Letters in the group Global & Transnational Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1896018/ Mon, 12 Aug 2024 04:00:06 -0400 This essay reads Mary Wortley Montagu’s The Turkish Embassy Letters (1763)
as an entry point for an investigation of the entwinement between the
British anti-Black racial consciousness and orientalist rhetoric concerning
the Ottoman Empire. Montagu’s racially marked depictions of women in
Ottoman lands not only reveal the limits of her cap…[Read more]

]]> 0 ae3a0d01dfc180f413c4aafa799b8f6f Anna-Marie Kroupová replied to the topic CFP: Iron Curtains or Artistic Gates? in the forum Global & Transnational Studies https://hcommons.org/groups/global-transnational-studies/forum/topic/cfp-iron-curtains-or-artistic-gates/#post-88127 Fri, 26 Jul 2024 11:09:40 -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]

]]> 1100e362fa3bcd37e433dda9be37a089 Steve McCarty deposited English Education and Bilingual Education in Japan in the group Global & Transnational Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1889641/ Thu, 20 Jun 2024 03:00:04 -0400 The Japan Times quoted the author extensively in a recent article on bilingual education. The reporter agreed to share the full interview with the Japan Association for Language Teaching Bilingualism Special Interest Group (JALT Bilingualism SIG) publication Bilingual Japan. Asked why the level of English in Japan remains low, the author goes well…[Read more]

]]> 0 b986a93b0a27568578296de38da9fc87 Marvin Cheung deposited 5 Ideas from Global Diplomacy: System-wide Transformation Methods to Close the Compliance Gap and Advance the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals in the group Global & Transnational Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1889574/ Wed, 19 Jun 2024 03:00:28 -0400 Why are we stuck here and how do we move forward? Amidst escalating global crises and growing climate anxiety, "5 Ideas from Global Diplomacy" offers actionable recommendations to aspiring changemakers to close the compliance gap between political commitment and action, and advance the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals. The book journeys beyond…[Read more]

]]> 0 d9b0f7df06a56816859e9e1b905d6b7d Yizhou Xu deposited DingTalk and Chinese Digital Workplace Surveillance in Pandemic Times in the group Global & Transnational Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1887190/ Sun, 26 May 2024 03:00:30 -0400 The pandemic-imposed lockdowns and the shift to remote work during COVID-19 have fundamentally changed the notion of the workplace as workers are forced to work from home. Tech work, in particular, seems especially adept at adjusting to this disruption as much of existing labor practices are already digitally-mediated via software and platforms.…[Read more]

]]> 0 cf6965ea0fd75d5220ae27b96f5882f1 Rita Singer deposited LINDEN, DIEDERICH WESSEL (fl.1745-1768; d.1769), medical doctor and minerologist in the group Global & Transnational Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1884524/ Wed, 01 May 2024 03:06:04 -0400 This biography of the German medical doctor and minerologist Diederich Wessel Linden (fl.1745-1768; d.1769) is the edited and published version in the Dictionary of Welsh Biography. The article discusses Linden's life, scientific research on mineral waters and their medicinal use.

]]> 0 4828445e7f96f7187cb8be2aa9c780f0 Frédéric Lefrançois deposited « Itinéraire pour retrouver la géographie de soi »,"Itinerary to Reclaim a Mapping of the Self" in the group Global & Transnational Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1879331/ Wed, 13 Mar 2024 03:02:34 -0400 March 1, 2018 was the day of study organized by the CEREAP-CRILLASH on the theme: ‘Cartographies and Identity Topology’ at the University of the West Indies. ‘Route to Find the Geography of Self’ is the title of the work produced by the artist David Né. This creation, which is both pictorial and performative, embraces the concept of the card in…[Read more]

]]> 0 feb67fef84ddd32acfa11acf79cca08f Jenny Bhatt started the topic CFP for MLA 2025 in the discussion Global & Transnational Studies https://hcommons.org/groups/global-transnational-studies/forum/topic/cfp-for-mla-2025/ Fri, 23 Feb 2024 16:42:45 -0500 I’m sharing a CFP for a proposed panel for MLA 2025. Here’s the brief (35-word limit) CFP as posted. Below, you can see a slightly longer abstract. Please reach out if this might be of interest to you. Thanks.

MLA CFP Link: https://mla.confex.com/mla/2025/webprogrampreliminary/Paper26442.html

Working Title: Reconstructing Narratives, Ref…[Read more]

]]> 6a08c75b06ec50cf9aa96c286471a9bf Arif Camoglu deposited Plague, Paradox, and the Ends of Community: Defoe's Epidemiological Orientalism in the group Global & Transnational Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1876886/ Sat, 17 Feb 2024 03:00:50 -0500 Revisiting Daniel Defoe's A Journal of the Plague Year (1722) in tandem with a selection of medical sources from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, this essay examines the ethnocultural underpinnings of plague. Although plague approximates community to its imagined outsiders through a shared sense of precarity, the divide between the two…[Read more]

]]> 0 df36fab73d5d259ad00020366941986b Rita Singer deposited ‘[A] very improbable and imaginative fiction’: Fictionalising the French Invasion of Fishguard in the group Global & Transnational Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1874893/ Wed, 07 Feb 2024 03:00:08 -0500 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 backdrop of the fear of invasion of the British mainland.

]]> 0 3b41ba72d01fa2e0b1d340dec70ebcfd Sonia D. Andras deposited Modă și frumusețe. Lucrări teoretice de autor in the group Global & Transnational Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1874550/ Sun, 04 Feb 2024 03:00:34 -0500 Contribuția mea inovativă constă în identificarea și analiza lucrărilor internaționale de modă și frumusețe, care au fost traduse în limba română. Traducătorii în limba română vor fi studiați din perspectiva temelor abordate în acest domeniu, limbilor din care au tradus, a autorilor traduși, intervalului dintre original și traducere (sincroniz…[Read more]

]]> 0 1a07b2c92fd5e22be0f1df281f3d87e6 Anna-Marie Kroupová started the topic CFP: Iron Curtains or Artistic Gates? in the discussion Global & Transnational Studies https://hcommons.org/groups/global-transnational-studies/forum/topic/cfp-iron-curtains-or-artistic-gates/ Fri, 02 Feb 2024 14:42:56 -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 cultural int…[Read more]

]]> 9c35848e088a2c9f9d029249a8b090e4 Fabio Andrés Díaz Pabón deposited Civil Wars: Escalation and De-Escalation in the group Global & Transnational Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1869979/ Sat, 06 Jan 2024 03:00:15 -0500 When we study civil wars and conflicts we tend to conceptualise them as occurring in stages: starting from domestic political disagreements, to demon-strations and protests escalating into violence and war. How armed conflicts end is often seen as the reverse process, moving from high intensity armed interaction, to a drawing down, war weariness,…[Read more]

]]> 0 76dec91b11f51469335f46f997e3a82b Michail St. Fountoulakis (Μιχαήλ Φουντουλάκης) deposited Unlocking the Potential of Language Learners: Effective Strategies for Lifelong Achievement and Personal Development in the group Global & Transnational Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1869857/ Fri, 05 Jan 2024 03:03:12 -0500 This study presents innovative strategies for EFL educators aimed at cultivating resilience and growth mindsets in learners. Utilizing a mixed-methods approach, we engaged 200 learners aged 11-20 from varied linguistic backgrounds. The methodology comprised surveys and interviews, enabling customized interventions that significantly improved…[Read more]

]]> 0 5e43684ecb8313cd2bd9686e6b6bf27b Sonia D. Andras deposited Creative Negotiations. Romania – America 1920-1940 in the group Global & Transnational Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1869846/ Fri, 05 Jan 2024 03:02:18 -0500 Throughout the interwar period, America’s interest in Romania grew and encompassed not only political, diplomatic, and historical aspects but also financial, cultural, and educational contributions. Thus, the Romanian- American ties throughout the interwar period suggest innate complexity and dynamism. This volume presents novel techniques and i…[Read more]

]]> 0 6fc812f9dec5097155a6b35fa43ac096 Behnam M. Fomeshi deposited The Persian Whitman: Beyond a Literary Reception (translated into Persian by Mostafa Hosseini) in the group Global & Transnational Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1869835/ Fri, 05 Jan 2024 03:00:52 -0500 ویتمن ایرانی: فراتر از پذیرش ادبی ــ که به پذیرش والت ویتمن، شاعر نامدار آمریکایی، در یک دورۀ تقریباً صد ساله در ایران معاصر می‌پردازد ــ دارای نُه فصل، مقدمه، مؤخره و ضمیمه است. کتابِ حاضر تحقیقی بینارشته‌ای است: از سویی ادبیات تطبیقی (پذیرش ادبی، تأثیرپژوهی و تصویرشناسی) و نقد ادبی (تاریخ‌گرایی نو)، و از سوی دیگر مطالعات ترجمه (ترجمه و ای…[Read more]

]]> 0 4cc6eba628433d5bd4e1da318ef948b6 Rita Singer deposited DIEDERICH WESSEL LINDEN (fl.1745-1768; d.1769), medical doctor and minerologist in the group Global & Transnational Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1865701/ Thu, 23 Nov 2023 03:00:47 -0500 This biography of the German medical doctor and minerologist Diederich Wessel Linden (fl.1745-1768; d.1769) is the unabridged, pre-publication version of an accepted and revised article for publication in the Dictionary of Welsh Biography. This version is also available as an online blog post:…[Read more]

]]> 0 7f8d5d99b54c5aeb476f1c65a4b86363 Victor Nnadozie deposited Divergence and the use of digital technology in learning: Undergraduate students’ experiences of email feedback in a South African university in the group Global & Transnational Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1864695/ Wed, 15 Nov 2023 03:14:30 -0500 South African universities’ use of digital technologies in learning has increased in recent years. Given that
social exposure, the context and pedagogic uses of technology influence learning expectations and
learner involvement, it is important to understand students’ experiences of the use of different
technological tools. This article emp…[Read more]

]]> 0 75cfb26b48d7c755d9b9c41362508633 Victor Nnadozie deposited Self-agency and Academically High-performing Students’ Success: Towards a Praxis for Academic Support in one South African University in the group Global & Transnational Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1864495/ Tue, 14 Nov 2023 03:01:40 -0500 Globally, student support mechanisms focus almost exclusively on academically 'under-performing'
students, especially as insofar as academic development practices are concerned. This article makes a
case for a shift in approach. Using the context of one country, South Africa, we sought to better
understand the strengths that academically…[Read more]

]]> 0 698554d034141eb6f5cc3158ca5dacff Mike Phillips deposited Through a Tube, Darkly: Critical Remediation in High and Low (1963) in the group Global & Transnational Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1863747/ Tue, 07 Nov 2023 03:04:36 -0500 Akira Kurosawa’s 1963 police procedural is, as its title suggests, intensely interested in the socioeconomic valences of spatial relationships, literalized in Yokohama’s affluent hills and its low-lying slums. The central conflict between inhabitants of these two spaces articulates this local topography into a global framework, in which con…[Read more]

]]> 0 e8c272165fb1c32dfac0106573bbf46e Jim Clifford deposited British ghost acres and environmental changes in the Laurentian forest during the nineteenth century in the group Global & Transnational Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1863282/ Wed, 01 Nov 2023 03:00:55 -0400 This article explores the consequences of the environmental transformations of the Laurentian Valley on the timber trade uniting the Province of Canada and the industrialization of Great Britain during the nineteenth century. The notion of ghost acres used to describe the ecological footprint of resource consumption from abroad is extended to…[Read more]

]]> 0 1f1033e888530254fc1b8e285a298d83 Steve McCarty deposited East-West Cultural Differences in Basic Life Stance in the group Global & Transnational Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1862725/ Fri, 27 Oct 2023 03:00:52 -0400 This essay shares the author's ideas, alluding to depth psychology, philosophy, and comparative culture, particularly East-West differences in the basic worldviews people can have, such as I-Thou, Us vs. Them or We-They, I-Nature or I-Universe, with Asian people tending to live more collectively in a social reality. The essay includes Zen insights…[Read more]

]]> 0 b7770c7f4ba3ce9002b15f1e09472372 Steve McCarty deposited Dual Nationality in Japan: Learning to Love Ambiguity in the group Global & Transnational Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1862346/ Sun, 22 Oct 2023 03:00:23 -0400 This journalistic essay can give Western readers insight into non-Western logic that the author has found in a long career in Japan. It is also informed by research on intercultural communication, bilingualism and biculturalism. The author teaches those subjects and has a Japanese family. This 2023 update includes the author's photo taken in Osaka…[Read more]

]]> 0 d49760f7875e9cfde47fabe20fd775f3 Gabriela Méndez Cota deposited Papel Máquina 18 in the group Global & Transnational Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1855431/ Thu, 17 Aug 2023 01:23:30 -0400 Volumen 18 de la revista chilena Papel Máquina, perteneciente a la editorial Palinodia, dedicado a la dimensión cultural y literaria del activismo político de Marta Lamas. Además de diversos ensayos a cargo de destacadas investigadoras feministas, el número incluye una entrevista con Marta Lamas y un recorte de su trabajo sobre la rabia, así como…[Read more]

]]> 0 785b9712bb0e236b4730e2de6b764f77 Rita Singer deposited Thomas Richards (1800-1877): A Bibliography in Progress in the group Global & Transnational Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1852298/ Thu, 20 Jul 2023 02:23:49 -0400 The following is a collection of identified fictional and non–fictional writing by Thomas Richards (1800-1877). Originally from Dolgellau, the young medical practitioner Richards published a considerable number of antiquarian and critical essays, editorials, travel writing, short stories and poetry in literary periodicals in England, Scotland a…[Read more]

]]> 0 44d36b4fa5e35ef7ac1878310fcf6c30 Rita Singer deposited “Everything Remains the Same”: Julio Camba Travelling Spain in the group Global & Transnational Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1852238/ Wed, 19 Jul 2023 02:28:10 -0400 In the first decades of the twentieth century, the Madrid-based Galician journalist Julio Camba (1882–1962) acquired long-lasting fame as a travel writer thanks to his foreign chronicles published in the Spanish press and subsequently compiled in a series of volumes. La rana viajera [The Travelling Frog] (1920), however, gathers some of the p…[Read more]

]]> 0 70265e7b76355e536a4235920117e768 Rita Singer deposited Money Matters: Encounter and Economic Disparity in Irish-language Travel Narratives in the group Global & Transnational Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1852235/ Wed, 19 Jul 2023 02:27:41 -0400 Travel has always been an extremely important theme in Irish-language literature, but often this travel was motivated by financial hardship and, up until the late twentieth century, Irish-language accounts of travel largely documented the emigrant experience. In more recent years, however, Irish-language literature has witnessed a transition from…[Read more]

]]> 0 28ab31b74abb628a48195bde8b587ea5 Rita Singer deposited A “Devolved Minority”: Contemporary German and French Guidebook Perspectives of Wales in the group Global & Transnational Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1852233/ Wed, 19 Jul 2023 02:27:22 -0400 Guidebooks play an important role in increasing the visibility of a nation, as they introduce the country to potential visitors and create images prior to travelling. However, they also tend to reinforce stereotypes and create “romantic fictions” (Mahn 2008). This article examines the representation of Wales in French and German guidebooks and con…[Read more]

]]> 0 83fa73f9cc4551dcc3384d3603d6e2ae Rita Singer deposited “A language of wet stones and mists”: The Caribbean Poet as a Traveller in Wales and England in the group Global & Transnational Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1852229/ Wed, 19 Jul 2023 02:26:39 -0400 This article examines Derek Walcott’s “travel poems” about Wales and England from the collections The Fortunate Traveller (1981) and Midsummer (1984) through the prism of Deleuze and Guattari’s concept of littérature mineure. As a Caribbean poet, Walcott is placed both outside the centre of “majority”, post-imperial civilisation and within the s…[Read more]

]]> 0 b5879057c3b11ba12527736a6ed03416 Rita Singer deposited The Picturesque and the Beastly: Wales and the Absence of Welsh in the Journals of Lady’s Companions Eliza and Millicent Bant (1806, 1808) in the group Global & Transnational Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1852226/ Wed, 19 Jul 2023 02:26:17 -0400 In spite of a burgeoning recognition of the Welsh language as part of a wider appreciation of Welsh culture at the beginning of the nineteenth century (see Constantine 2014: 124), Home Tour writing about Wales remained largely Anglocentric (Borm, quoted in Colbert 2012: 85). The journals written by lady’s companions, Eliza and Millicent Bant, in 1…[Read more]

]]> 0 2b0cbd670b8c503bdb0b41680a0fa756 Rita Singer deposited Introduction ['Minoritised Languages and Travel' special collection] in the group Global & Transnational Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1851818/ Sat, 15 Jul 2023 02:25:55 -0400 This introduction to the MLO special issue “Minoritised Languages and Travel” provides an overview of the pieces in this collection in context with historical travel accounts in German about nineteenth-century Wales.

The contributions in this collection lay bare frictions between traveller and travelee as well as the inherent instability of soc…[Read more]

]]> 0 b9da2847849660d785c0c55e4b13813a Steve McCarty deposited Translation Issues in the Rapid Transmission of Esoteric Buddhism from India to China to Japan in the group Global & Transnational Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1851262/ Fri, 07 Jul 2023 02:23:46 -0400 Three consecutive patriarchs of Esoteric Buddhism were Amoghavajra of India, Huiguo of China, and Kūkai of Japan. This paper foregrounds the usually taken-for-granted but vital historical role of language education and translation in the international spread of religion and culture. There had to be sufficiently educated bilingual or multilingual…[Read more]

]]> 0 a99c5efca53fbc4cd7b2f8dbd23a373d Sonia D. Andras deposited Fashion, Cinema, and German-American Propaganda in 1930s Bucharest in the group Global & Transnational Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1843370/ Wed, 03 May 2023 02:24:33 -0400 This paper explores how Bucharest’s cinema-going public perceived the Nazi influence on Hollywood in the 1930s. The aim is to identify how Nazi propaganda was disseminated and consumed in interwar Bucharest and its similarities to the idea of glamour, relevant both to fashion and cinema. Considering the links between Goebbels’ propaganda mac…[Read more]

]]> 0 b4b72ef17cedac16055c0504f2f4c3ba Christopher S. Rose deposited Trial by Virus: Colonial Medicine and the 1883 Cholera in Egypt in the group Global & Transnational Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1841912/ Wed, 19 Apr 2023 02:23:43 -0400 This article explores how public health was transformed in Egypt soon after its occupation by Great Britain in 1882. Over the course of the nineteenth century, the Egyptian state had invested substantially in health to boost the nation’s economic and military strength, and, especially after the opening of the Suez Canal in 1869, to address E…[Read more]

]]> 0 8008c29c40dd9e8f0b8ebb80ae9b841c Steve McCarty deposited Bilingual Perspectives on Language Teaching: The View from the Goal in the group Global & Transnational Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1840368/ Fri, 07 Apr 2023 02:23:40 -0400 A goal for language learners is to function in plural languages according to their own needs and purposes. A bilingual perspective starts from that attainable goal. Learners in Japan tend to idealize L2 mastery or becoming bilingual, so it becomes other people’s business. Monolingual teachers tell students by their example, “go where I have not…[Read more]

]]> 0 adbfcda3c0846566cf447ab7fb4e87f7 Wladimir Fischer-Nebmaier deposited Der talentierte Señor Vučetić in the group Global & Transnational Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1836009/ Fri, 03 Mar 2023 02:23:49 -0500 Wer kennt heute nicht die kriminalistischen Fingerabdruckmethoden aus Krimi und Nachrichten? Vor 160 Jahren wurde einer ihrer Pioniere in Dalmatien geboren: Ivan Vučetić. Für die Methode bedurfte es zweier Werkzeuge: einer Klassifizierung von Fingerabdrücken und eines praktikablen Suchverfahrens. Die Erfinder beider Werkzeuge stammten aus dem Kai…[Read more]

]]> 0 cd6551170d9e0ee0f404eb5822a96286 Maciej Junkiert deposited Easternisation and Enlightenment. Larry Wolff, Marquis de Ségur and the Younger Europe in the group Global & Transnational Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1833861/ Sat, 11 Feb 2023 02:28:38 -0500 The article describes two accounts of Poland and the culture of its people. The first of these dates from 1784 and was written by the Marquis de Ségur, a French diplomat travelling to St Petersburg. The second, from 1840, was written by the Polish poet Adam Mickiewicz, at the time working as a professor at the Collège de France in Paris. I try t…[Read more]

]]> 0 06c9e384fa5cddbeb8c1df04bf31fbe2 Prof Muhammad Subhan Qureshi deposited New Advances in the Dairy Industry in the group Global & Transnational Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1833851/ Sat, 11 Feb 2023 02:26:58 -0500 This book discusses advances in the dairy industry in various parts of the world. It is divided into four sections on “Dairy Technology”, “Reproductive Biotechnology”, “Entrepreneurship Development”, and “Sustainable Development”. Chapters address such topics as regional dairy breeds, farming innovations, mineral nutrition, folliculogenesi…[Read more]

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