Knowledge Commons | Danijela Tešić Radovanović | Group Activity https://hcommons.org/members/dtesic1975/activity/groups/ Public group activity feed of which Danijela Tešić Radovanović is a member. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 15:39:46 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 f14d7ddd6420de2dfc2663f89f9a66f5 Matthew Kidd started the topic Participate in a survey on generative AI and archival research practices in the forum Religious Studies https://hcommons.org/groups/religious-studies/forum/topic/participate-in-a-survey-on-generative-ai-and-archival-research-practices-5/ Fri, 13 Feb 2026 11:17:45 -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]

]]> 24fdbbde7050e5bfe82b75a714f2df3f Matthew Kidd started the topic Participate in a survey on generative AI and archival research practices in the forum Cultural Studies https://hcommons.org/groups/cultural-studies/forum/topic/participate-in-a-survey-on-generative-ai-and-archival-research-practices-2/ Fri, 13 Feb 2026 11:15:11 -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]

]]> 958103c8fcb760614062be84e3f05940 Morée Research Project started the topic New York Dada Research — NEW in the forum Art History https://hcommons.org/groups/art-history/forum/topic/new-york-dada-research-new-2/ Sat, 29 Nov 2025 01:30:10 -0500 Thanks to everyone who downloaded my recent book. I’m gathering brief impressions for a future revision — any thoughts welcome.
https://doi.org/10.17613/pt8e0-r9y91

]]> 65cb1ad1cd5d4f8cf3b379511141841e Osama S Qatrani posted an update in the group Religious Studies: I’ve recently written a response to Frank Zindler’s ess […] https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1926129/ Tue, 02 Sep 2025 22:10:03 -0400 I’ve recently written a response to Frank Zindler’s essay “An Islamic Tale of Cartoons, Cartoonacy, and Cartoonatics” (2006).
The paper critiques his methodological reductionism and orientalist framings, while emphasizing that censorship and propaganda are universal, not limited to Islam. It also calls for resisting Islamophobic narratives disguis…[Read more]

]]> 0 b7750bf65541e1caa4c0e960e7ccd3e7 Dora Apel created the doc Chapter on "Art" for The Oxford Handbook of Holocaust Studies in the group History of Art https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1913514/ Sun, 09 Mar 2025 16:34:10 -0400 fb5121409a94c786efb5f6263fa29330 Alexis karpouzos created the doc Friedrich Hölderlin : The wisdom of Poetry - Alexis karpouzos in the group Cultural Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1911764/ Sun, 16 Feb 2025 12:41:02 -0500 8d05f2d5d0c76bda4548d3157ef701ef Vivien Jiaqian Zhu started the topic CFP 2026 MLA Convention in the forum Art History https://hcommons.org/groups/art-history/forum/topic/cfp-2026-mla-convention-4/ Tue, 04 Feb 2025 22:31:03 -0500 Dear All,

 

I’m pleased to share with you the Call for Paper for the Working Group/Seminar session for the upcoming MLA Convention in Toronto. See https://mla.confex.com/mla/2026/webprogrampreliminary/Paper29934.html.

 

Best wishes,

Vivien Jiaqian Zhu

]]> a7b28c1b0645090d367c2e00f08bd871 Ansgar Allen deposited Homo Catastrophicus: The Revolt Against Civilisation in the group Cultural Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1902477/ Thu, 24 Oct 2024 03:00:05 -0400 In Homo Catastrophicus Louis Armand explores the agonism of an emergent Algorithmic State Apparatus. Its genealogy traverses the constellation of aesthetic & political avant-gardes of the long 20th century & the terminal shock of posthumanism. Technology has always posed a challenge to notions of human subjectivity. Yet this challenge cannot be…[Read more]

]]> 0 17f848c8029ff3e1609c0419734a5741 Valeria Graziano deposited Training for Exploitation?: Politicising Employability and Reclaiming Education in the group Cultural Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1902278/ Tue, 22 Oct 2024 03:00:29 -0400 Foreword by Silvia Federici. 'Training for Exploitation' provides a pedagogical framework to deconstruct dominant narratives around work, employability and careers, and explores alternative ways of engaging with work and the economy. Training for Exploitation? includes tools for critically examining the relationship between education, work and…[Read more]

]]> 0 c70891c468fd2448aef87fb1aead9a83 Valeria Graziano deposited Refractions, borderlines and unbureaucratic politics in the group Cultural Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1902277/ Tue, 22 Oct 2024 03:00:13 -0400 Valeria Graziano in conversation with Tihana Pupovać

]]> 0 85b554bca8926a549eeddb01306aff4d Rainer Schreg deposited Assessing Settlement Dynamics in Medieval Central and Western Europe in the group Medieval Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1902275/ Tue, 22 Oct 2024 03:00:03 -0400 Medieval rural settlements have seen a variety of transformations from dispersed to nucleated settlements, from shifting settlements to permanent villages. There are regional developments as well as general trends. In many landscapes in Central and Western Europe these processes resulted in the formation of the late medieval village nucleated…[Read more]

]]> 0 7a78841f86eb65bc16a639617ad1b93e Nick Posegay deposited From the Battlefield of Books: Essays Celebrating 50 Years of the Taylor-Schechter Genizah Research Unit in the group Early Medieval https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1902155/ Sun, 20 Oct 2024 03:00:49 -0400 This collection of essays celebrates 50 years since the founding of the Taylor-Schechter Genizah Research Unit at Cambridge University Library. Three generations of scholars contributed their research and memories from their time at the GRU, stretching back to 1974. Their work comprises 18 articles on medieval Jewish History, Hebrew and Arabic…[Read more]

]]> 0 9269454af2ec80fd797429a1d9517390 Valeria Graziano deposited The Rabble’s Lifecraft: Institutional Tinkering and Popular Illegalisms in the group Cultural Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1902089/ Sat, 19 Oct 2024 03:00:50 -0400 Article published in Croatian translation as ‘Životna Vještina Raje: Institucionalno Krparenje I Pučki Ilegalizmi’, Kritika, 5(1), 125-146.

Figure it Out (FIO) is an artistic and research project engaging practices and phenomena of coping, tinkering, making-do and circumventing exclusions that are developed by marginalized, underserved, discri…[Read more]

]]> 0 25b1d2f448d349ad998899fc46038c90 Valeria Graziano deposited We in the plural. Performance gestures of antifascism in the group Cultural Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1902082/ Sat, 19 Oct 2024 03:00:01 -0400 We in the plural. Performance gestures of antifascism

]]> 0 2f6b77585a057f0d9dcec58180d32a54 Derek Johnston deposited Black Sails: Historicising the Intersecting Traumas of Imperialist Capitalism through the Gothic Mode in the group Cultural Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1901426/ Sat, 12 Oct 2024 03:01:41 -0400 Black Sails (2014-2017) presented a prequel to Treasure Island mixed with real historical characters and events in a story of resistance against imperialist capitalism. The pirates were cast as rebels against a dominant system in which wealth is directed to those in charge, while those who work for it are left with little. The series dramatises…[Read more]

]]> 0 3fa198ca863a7f488eace7440ab80d36 Pragya Ranjan deposited Morality in Premchand’s Kafan: For Dalits or Anti-Dalit ? in the group Cultural Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1901227/ Thu, 10 Oct 2024 03:00:29 -0400 It is an article on Premchand's most controversial short story, Kafan. This article attempts to describe how the story gives an alternative voice to the downtrodden and how the characters define a morality of their own, which is outside the purview of the Brahmanical framework. In an extremely hierarchical religious structure as in Hinduism, this…[Read more]

]]> 0 7faec064c61184f67fa3656dcc3a4bd1 Albert R Haig deposited The Word in the Soul and its Counterparts: World, Body, Mind, and Soul in Plotinus in the group Religious Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1901225/ Thu, 10 Oct 2024 03:00:15 -0400 This book chapter represents a comprehensive discussion of the theory of cognition found in the ancient Greek philosopher Plotinus. Plotinus was the founder and most significant exponent of Neoplatonism, which represented the interpretation of Plato that was prevalent in late antiquity. His thought had a considerable impact on all three Abrahamic…[Read more]

]]> 0 b3a6cc7bc849d1e5ed887e4226be0c81 Marco Heiles deposited The Origins of the Modern Calendar in the group Medieval Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1901186/ Wed, 09 Oct 2024 03:03:51 -0400 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: Mittelalter. Interdisziplinäre Forschung und R…[Read more]

]]> 0 cf33b99ebf7f94989bdcddc153710a36 Marianna Charitonidou deposited Towards Non-Eurocentric Historiographies: Challenging Europe’s Position in the Formation of Architectural Histories in the group History of Art https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1901092/ Tue, 08 Oct 2024 03:01:26 -0400 The point of departure for this paper is the idea that Europe as a concept is related to the project of thinking and accomplishing universality. It represents the potential for an enlightened resistance in a world that is progressively becoming dominated by the mono-perspectivism of globalism. In this sense, Eurocentrism is specifiable only within…[Read more]

]]> 0 9e9c886d88264e5f56c08009e9edba9e Nick Posegay deposited The Illustrated Cairo Genizah in the group Early Medieval https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1900712/ Fri, 04 Oct 2024 03:00:56 -0400 Almost one thousand years ago, the Jews of Old Cairo began to place their worn-out books and scrolls into a hidden storage room – a genizah – of their synagogue. Over the years, they added all sorts of writings to the pile, sacred and secular texts alike. When the chamber was emptied at the end of the 19th century, it held hundreds of tho…[Read more]

]]> 0 563131cd96785b6981b715c407cb2f6b Edmond Malaj deposited MARRËVESHJE DHE ÇËSHTJE TË TJERA NDËRMJET RAGUZËS DHE FISNIKËVE ARBËRORË in the group Medieval Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1900701/ Fri, 04 Oct 2024 03:00:27 -0400 This article provides information about the diplomatic relations between the Republic of Ragusa and some important Albanian noble families in the Middle Ages. The paper aims to introduce the most important diplomas and agreements these families have made with the state of Ragusa. The agreements are mostly economic and are mainly related to the…[Read more]

]]> 0 cc743f581b90abde6bda4e1aa69e132d Pramod Ranjan deposited बहुजन साहित्य की सैद्धांतिकी [Bahujan Sahitya Ki Saiddhantikī] in the group Cultural Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1900451/ Wed, 02 Oct 2024 03:00:02 -0400 प्रमोद रंजन द्वारा संपादित “बहुजन साहित्य की सैद्धांतिकी” बहुजन साहित्य की अवधारणा का सैद्धांतिकरण करती है। यह पुस्तक बहुजन साहित्य के विभिन्न पहलुओं को गहराई से समझने और उनके सैद्धांतिक आधार को प्रस्तुत करने का प्रयास करती है।

बहुजन साहित्य की अवधारणा कई स्तरों पर विचरोत्तेजक है। सही मायने में यह प्रगतिशील, जनवादी और दलित साहि…[Read more]

]]> 0 0ec981b677f9aeca5313961701e659e8 Marianna Charitonidou deposited Marianna Charitonidou, “Constantinos A. Doxiadis and Adriano Olivetti’s Conception of Urbanism and Urban Public Space”, in Rosa Tamborrino, ed., Città che si adattano?/Adaptive Cities? Volume 1 (Turin: AISU International, 2024), 508-521. in the group History of Art https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1900346/ Tue, 01 Oct 2024 03:00:39 -0400 This paper sheds light on the complex relationship between the Cold War policies including the European Recovery Program (ERP), and urban public space. Its main objective is to provide a precise and deep understanding of how the Marshall plan politics, contributed to the formation of national identity in Greece and Italy. The paper focuses on two…[Read more]

]]> 0 707279b2fe2a151e1dd5c74372378d03 Meredith Warren deposited There Was a Man Who Had Two Sons: A Parable of Futurity, Reproductivity, Utopia, and Social Death in the group Religious Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1899809/ Thu, 26 Sep 2024 03:00:47 -0400 Few of the parables found in the gospels have received more attention than the parable of the man with two sons, commonly known as the parable of the Prodigal Son. In this paper, I argue that discourses of queer futurity can help make new sense of the parable, highlighting its use of family structures and its assumptions about time, and attending…[Read more]

]]> 0 d0bfbf3fe582e9144881d48b4c397a62 Manfred Engel deposited Making - or Not Making - Sense of Dreams / Trouver - ou non - un sens au rêve. Ed. by Bernard Dieterle, Manfred Engel and Laura Vordermayer. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann 2024 (Cultural Dream Studies; 9) — Contents and Preface in the group History of Art https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1898534/ Thu, 12 Sep 2024 03:01:17 -0400 Dreams frighten and attract us because of their ›otherness‹, their manifold deviations from the world we know when we are awake. One of the most consistently used techniques of coming to terms with this otherness has been the attempt to ›make sense‹ of dreams, to consider and portray them as messages which can and have to be deciphered. On the oth…[Read more]

]]> 0 16b3f5a725f8dbf304ab6f6376741460 Manfred Engel deposited Making - or Not Making - Sense of Dreams / Trouver - ou non - un sens au rêve. Ed. by Bernard Dieterle, Manfred Engel and Laura Vordermayer. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann 2024 (Cultural Dream Studies; 9) — Contents and Preface in the group Cultural Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1898531/ Thu, 12 Sep 2024 03:00:53 -0400 Dreams frighten and attract us because of their ›otherness‹, their manifold deviations from the world we know when we are awake. One of the most consistently used techniques of coming to terms with this otherness has been the attempt to ›make sense‹ of dreams, to consider and portray them as messages which can and have to be deciphered. On the oth…[Read more]

]]> 0 6dd9f7e0cd23e509badd9d367e3ec287 Meredith Warren deposited Requiring Apologia? Merchants and Artisans in Acts of the Apostles in the group Late Antiquity https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1898297/ Tue, 10 Sep 2024 03:00:42 -0400 Christian merchants, artisans, and service providers were explicitly targeted by early critics of the movement, who felt, in line with contemporary prejudices, that such people were dirty, ignorant, and prone to the vices of greed and deceit. Detractors hoped to attack Christianity on two intersecting fronts: that the faith was morally bankrupt…[Read more]

]]> 0 98882d783562cfefc1c2c50432067434 Meredith Warren deposited Requiring Apologia? Merchants and Artisans in Acts of the Apostles in the group Ancient Greece & Rome https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1898294/ Tue, 10 Sep 2024 03:00:05 -0400 Christian merchants, artisans, and service providers were explicitly targeted by early critics of the movement, who felt, in line with contemporary prejudices, that such people were dirty, ignorant, and prone to the vices of greed and deceit. Detractors hoped to attack Christianity on two intersecting fronts: that the faith was morally bankrupt…[Read more]

]]> 0 e27fe28590c88f7fac0eef0195fce27a Ana Dumitran deposited Ecclesia super omnia in the group Medieval Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1897876/ Wed, 04 Sep 2024 03:00:59 -0400 The volume includes some of the papers presented in the Museikon section of the Annual Scientific Conference organised in 2023 by the Alba Iulia National Museum of the Great Union (Romania). The studies cover topics such as: the pious behavior of women in the Transylvanian Middle Ages, the possession of slaves and gypsies by the Wallachian…[Read more]

]]> 0 665e37928cab2f649c6aaf0abf22b6bd Ana Dumitran deposited Ecclesia super omnia in the group Cultural Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1897870/ Wed, 04 Sep 2024 03:00:17 -0400 The volume includes some of the papers presented in the Museikon section of the Annual Scientific Conference organised in 2023 by the Alba Iulia National Museum of the Great Union (Romania). The studies cover topics such as: the pious behavior of women in the Transylvanian Middle Ages, the possession of slaves and gypsies by the Wallachian…[Read more]

]]> 0 8305a57a12c2740a76138252b93b63d9 Sonia D. Andras deposited Sonia D. Andras - Negotiations En Vogue: Interwar Romanian Women as Fashion Icons Represented in American Vogue (Conference Presentation, 2023, Audio Only) in the group Cultural Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1897550/ Fri, 30 Aug 2024 03:00:32 -0400 Presentation at the "Romanian American Negotiations in Education, Science, Culture, and Arts/Negocierile româno-americane în educație, știință, cultură și artă" Conference.
This paper explores Romanian women’s influence on US fashion, as representatives of European artistic, cultural and social elites and as genuine Parisiennes. This study trea…[Read more]

]]> 0 12099403633f603c7ee656cc04085a0d Sonia D. Andras deposited Romanian-American Negotiations in Education, Science, Culture, and Arts in the group Cultural Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1896774/ Tue, 20 Aug 2024 03:00:09 -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 d480c3a397df301e743f9bb947585c5f Adam DJ Brett deposited REL 500/600: The Religious Origins of White Supremacy: Johnson v. M'Intosh and the Doctrine of Christian Discovery in the group Religious Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1896637/ Sun, 18 Aug 2024 03:00:35 -0400 In a series of Papal Bulls from the 15th century developed what is now known as the “Doctrine of Christian Discovery” (DoCD). These documents granted land title to Christian explorers when they entered the territories not ruled by a Christian Prince. While there have always been localized expressions of intolerance and hatred toward other cul…[Read more]

]]> 0 e2e76fe9ccd9c1b2dc020788e7849ed2 Seo-Young Chu deposited Describing DICTEE in the group Cultural Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1896115/ Tue, 13 Aug 2024 03:04:50 -0400 The visual images in Dictee are famously captionless. They resist straightforward explanation. In writing image descriptions of the images in Dictee, I have tried to preserve the "captionlessness" of the original. The point here is not to explain the pictures—an image description is not identical to a caption—but to make Dictee more accessible to…[Read more]

]]> 0 cf2fcb3b7ea1ede69b99059927cc0355 Ana Dumitran deposited The Icons of Alexander Ponekhalsky. Jertfa di la mine zugrău Alexa cel păcătos in the group Cultural Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1895890/ Sat, 10 Aug 2024 03:00:53 -0400 This editorial project capitalizes on a first sample of the religious art of Maramureș, carefully and meticulously inventoried by Alexandru Baboș alongside the study of the architecture of the wooden churches of Maramureș. Since they alone account for almost half of all preserved icons from Maramureș, Alexander Ponekhalskyi's icons have been sep…[Read more]

]]> 0 fb3a7e4699aa2517f6d482b4a1cc3dd5 Lloyd Graham deposited Rainbow serpents, dragons and dragon-slayers: Global traits, ancient Egyptian particulars, and alchemical echoes in the group History of Art https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1895888/ Sat, 10 Aug 2024 03:00:46 -0400 Robert Blust has recently established that – globally – dragons evolved from rainbow serpents, which in turn represent a prehistoric understanding of rainbows. The present paper explores the “dragon-scape” of ancient Egypt in search of traits that may have survived from these earlier stages. The cryptic pD.tyw Sw and Iaau of Coffin Text 698 mig…[Read more]

]]> 0 a5e609fcfe0d8906d2a2298a8fbbf3a7 Lloyd Graham deposited False friends among the disease-demons? On the Egyptian nsy/nsyt and Latin/Slavic nessia/nežit in the group Byzantine Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1895881/ Sat, 10 Aug 2024 03:00:20 -0400 In ancient Egyptian medicine, the most common disease-causing demon is called nsy or nsyt. These names are phonetically close to those of a leading disease-causing demonic agent in medieval and early modern Europe, called nessia in Latin and nežit in Slavic languages. The demons of both regions were believed to invade the patient’s body to ca…[Read more]

]]> 0 12583d0af11ed0b00567c95db05520cf Marianna Charitonidou deposited Takis Zenetos and High-Tech Architecture: Electronic Urbanism vis-à-vis Autonomous Ecological Living Units in the group History of Art https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1895814/ Fri, 09 Aug 2024 03:00:14 -0400 At the core of Takis Zenetos’s understanding of high-tech architecture and urbanism were the ways in which technology can have a positive impact on how citizens inhabit space. This paper analyses Zenetos’s project entitled ‘Electronic Urbanism’, which concerned the design of housing units adapted to the conditions of working from home. Zenetos…[Read more]

]]> 0 ff5dff169c352d1e59083749813861e0 Evina Stein(ova) deposited Freising (Carolingian Minuscule Mapping Project) in the group Religious Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1895617/ Wed, 07 Aug 2024 03:00:30 -0400 This article was prepared for the Carolingian Minuscule Mapping Project in 2016. It surveys the development of Carolingian minuscule, a Latin script used in the earlier Middle Ages, at Freising in Bavaria. The article provides an overview of manuscripts copied, corrected, or annotated in Carolingian minuscule at Freising and summarises the…[Read more]

]]> 0 b5fc2dd9073e941bc7c83764e98aec16 Evina Stein(ova) deposited Freising (Carolingian Minuscule Mapping Project) in the group Medieval Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1895616/ Wed, 07 Aug 2024 03:00:24 -0400 This article was prepared for the Carolingian Minuscule Mapping Project in 2016. It surveys the development of Carolingian minuscule, a Latin script used in the earlier Middle Ages, at Freising in Bavaria. The article provides an overview of manuscripts copied, corrected, or annotated in Carolingian minuscule at Freising and summarises the…[Read more]

]]> 0 2320cf2b082480ddf886dbe90c0a5b48 Evina Stein(ova) deposited Freising (Carolingian Minuscule Mapping Project) in the group Early Medieval https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1895615/ Wed, 07 Aug 2024 03:00:03 -0400 This article was prepared for the Carolingian Minuscule Mapping Project in 2016. It surveys the development of Carolingian minuscule, a Latin script used in the earlier Middle Ages, at Freising in Bavaria. The article provides an overview of manuscripts copied, corrected, or annotated in Carolingian minuscule at Freising and summarises the…[Read more]

]]> 0 5a200eaaf5c0f6ba69ea587161410b7e Anna-Marie Kroupová replied to the topic CFP: Iron Curtains or Artistic Gates? in the forum Cultural Studies https://hcommons.org/groups/cultural-studies/forum/topic/cfp-iron-curtains-or-artistic-gates-4/#post-88124 Fri, 26 Jul 2024 11:00:51 -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]

]]> 0b60fb77ae106385acd255f9a881a5a2 Anna-Marie Kroupová replied to the topic CFP: Iron Curtains or Artistic Gates? in the forum Art History https://hcommons.org/groups/art-history/forum/topic/cfp-iron-curtains-or-artistic-gates-5/#post-88123 Fri, 26 Jul 2024 10:58:08 -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]

]]> b0a5e21a380acc1ee4e879f118682fbe Muhammad Naeem deposited Khafeef Makhfi Ki Khwab Beeti: The Dilemma of Novel and Biography خفیف مخفی کی خواب بیتی: ناول اور آپ بیتی کا الجھیڑا in the group Cultural Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1894674/ Fri, 26 Jul 2024 03:00:28 -0400 Mirza Athar Baig is a unique and unconventional novelist of Urdu. Each of his works of art constructs a new world. On top of that, his works also change the way we look at the world. His writings seem to be the stories of an adventurer, always trying to discover a new world. In 2022, when his novel Khafif Makhfi Ki Khwab Beeti came out, readers…[Read more]

]]> 0 1ea71e3753e0a630240f4040208a0d21 James A Benn deposited “‘Action Buddhism’ in the Medieval Chinese Empire,” in the group Religious Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1894296/ Tue, 23 Jul 2024 03:00:26 -0400 This essay will focus mostly on the Tang dynastic empire (618–907 CE), a “second
wave” empire as defined in the Introduction to this volume, and its relations with
Buddhism, although it will be necessary to say something about earlier Chinese dynasties
and about other religions. As we shall see, an awareness of history permeates
the relat…[Read more]

]]> 0 f1373b0fccd123da762614f8c2dd6933 James A Benn deposited “Is Buddhist Self-Immolation a Form of Asceticism?” in the group Religious Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1894294/ Tue, 23 Jul 2024 03:00:17 -0400 I am grateful for this opportunity to revisit some issues that remain
unresolved after my earlier publications on Buddhist self-immolation.

]]> 0 715797b49000554d3a2b87090d635fce James A Benn deposited “Some East Asian Buddhist Attitudes Towards non-Buddhist Practitioners in India,” in the group Religious Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1894292/ Tue, 23 Jul 2024 03:00:03 -0400 Abstract: The early eighth-century Chinese Buddhist apocryphal scripture
known as Lengyan jing or Śūraṃgama sūtra contains some vivid and
lengthy descriptions of demonic states that may arise for the practitioner in
deep states of meditation. In some of these states, the practitioner is said to
experience profound mis-perceptions of real…[Read more]

]]> 0 1a4c4705317f203981f385de3ffca5c9 James A Benn deposited “Princess Miaoshan, Self-immolator?” in the group Religious Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1893757/ Mon, 22 Jul 2024 03:00:34 -0400 In this paper, I offer a new reading of the popular narrative of
Princess Miaoshan in Chinese religion, placing it within the larger context
of self-immolation as found in Buddhist narratives and the actions of selfimmolators.
The acts of extreme violence done to Miaoshan by her father
and herself (she stabs the inside of her mouth with a…[Read more]

]]> 0 6268f5e4b349d9bcefe182bed3ecbe15 James A Benn deposited “China II: Buddhism in the Sui, Tang (and Zhou) Dynasties,” in the group Religious Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1893755/ Mon, 22 Jul 2024 03:00:22 -0400 This is the final submitted version of my chapter for Brill’s Encyclopedia of Buddhism. Some changes have been made in the published version and that version should be cited. I am sharing this version in accord with the copyright policy for Brill, which allows sharing of the accepted manuscript but not of the published .pdf. Full publication d…[Read more]

]]> 0 dccdb42b5fd8871ca89f36e72867c8d2 Nick Posegay deposited Five Qur’anic Papyri from the Michaelides Collection at the Cambridge University Library in the group Early Medieval https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1891764/ Mon, 15 Jul 2024 03:00:11 -0400 The Michaelides manuscript collection at the Cambridge University Library contains approximately 700 papyrus fragments collected by George Michaelides in Egypt in the middle of the twentieth century. While a preliminary handlist exists for this collection, most of the papyri have not been fully described. Among them are five Qur’anic papyri that h…[Read more]

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