Knowledge Commons | Emily Bennett Wood | Group Activity https://hcommons.org/members/ebwood/activity/groups/ Public group activity feed of which Emily Bennett Wood is a member. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 08:42:45 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 576231061d03abe4bbcae2c534392fd7 Antje Gamble started the topic CFP 15th Annual IAS/Kress Lecture Bologna 2026 in the forum Italian Art Society https://hcommons.org/groups/italian-art-society/forum/topic/cfp-15th-annual-ias-kress-lecture-bologna-2026/ Thu, 26 Feb 2026 23:48:51 -0500 We invite you to apply to be our 15th Annual IAS/Kress speaker. This year’s IAS/Kress lecture will take place on Tuesday 26 May 2026 at the University of Bologna.

Since 2010, the Italian Art Society has worked with the Samuel H. Kress Foundation on a lecture series to promote intellectual exchanges among art historians of North America and the i…[Read more]

]]> 269d31c0423129f5b4d18f1eceda414c Antje Gamble posted an update in the group Italian Art Society: We invite you to apply to be our 15th Annual IAS/Kress […] https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1944914/ Thu, 26 Feb 2026 23:44:02 -0500 We invite you to apply to be our 15th Annual IAS/Kress speaker. This year’s IAS/Kress lecture will take place on Tuesday 26 May 2026 at the University of Bologna.
Since 2010, the Italian Art Society has worked with the Samuel H. Kress Foundation on a lecture series to promote intellectual exchanges among art historians of North America and the i…[Read more]

]]> 0 bc68de8524e411bcab1f7000eb1fd104 Alexa Alice Joubin started the topic CFP: Virtuality, Embodiment, and Meaning-Making in AI in the forum The Renaissance Society of America https://hcommons.org/groups/the-renaissance-society-of-america/forum/topic/cfp-virtuality-embodiment-and-meaning-making-in-ai/ Sun, 22 Feb 2026 05:54:04 -0500 <p style="text-align: center;">Call for Papers</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Critical AI (Duke University Press)</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Virtuality, Embodiment, and Meaning-Making in AI Technologies</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Special cluster edited by Alexa Alice Joubin</p>
 

This special issue cluster calls on…[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

]]> 4c8d2b57cd5bdac17a3dc5e4713a87da Laura Francis started the topic CFP: Migration and the Early Modern Spanish Empire (June 10-12, 2026 @ NUIM) in the forum Early Modern History https://hcommons.org/groups/early-modern-history/forum/topic/cfp-migration-and-the-early-modern-spanish-empire-june-10-12-2026-nuim-4/ Thu, 30 Oct 2025 15:09:14 -0400 Dear Colleagues,

I am excited to announce the following call for papers for a conference on “Migration and the Early Modern Spanish Empire” that will take place from June 10th-12th, 2026 at the National University of Ireland in Maynooth.

Please see the attached PDF for further details. The deadline for submissions is December 19th, 2025.

I am…[Read more]

]]> 8b34632df8b320903afc1736e431282d Laura Francis started the topic CFP: Migration and the Early Modern Spanish Empire (June 10-12, 2026 @ NUIM) in the forum Renaissance/ Early Modern Studies https://hcommons.org/groups/renaissance-early-modern-studies/forum/topic/cfp-migration-and-the-early-modern-spanish-empire-june-10-12-2026-nuim/ Thu, 30 Oct 2025 14:35:22 -0400 Dear Colleagues,

I am excited to announce the following call for papers for a conference on "Migration and the Early Modern Spanish Empire" that will take place from June 10th-12th, 2026 at the National University of Ireland in Maynooth.

Please see the attached PDF for more details. <span style="text-decoration: underline;">The deadline for…[Read more]

]]> 638e7e0117ad13579f2e48d1d9b07b13 Guylian Nemegeer started the topic CFP - Incontri. Rivista Europea di Studi Italiani in the forum Renaissance/ Early Modern Studies https://hcommons.org/groups/renaissance-early-modern-studies/forum/topic/cfp-incontri-rivista-europea-di-studi-italiani/ Wed, 22 Oct 2025 14:05:25 -0400 <span style="font-weight: 400;">Dear colleagues,</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">For its upcoming issues, </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Incontri. Rivista europea di studi italiani</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> is currently accepting essay submissions and proposals for special issues.</span>

<i><span…[Read more]

]]> ddf15c128e2664d05103a88a70c9ed56 Antje Gamble started the topic CFP for the IAS Panel at AAH 2026: Eighteenth-Century Italian Art and Artists in in the forum Italian Art Society https://hcommons.org/groups/italian-art-society/forum/topic/cfp-for-the-ias-panel-at-aah-2026-eighteenth-century-italian-art-and-artists-in/ Mon, 06 Oct 2025 17:59:08 -0400 Eighteenth-Century Italian Art and Artists in Global Contexts

Arlene Leis, Independent Scholar, aleis914@gmail.com

Miriam Al Jamil, Independent Scholar, mauvemiriam@gmail.com

Sponsored by the Italian Art Society

This session invites papers that consider the work of eighteenth-century Italian artists and artists living in Italy, in the context…[Read more]

]]> 0efc02679891cf2d661059b12784f5c3 Antje Gamble posted an update in the group Italian Art Society: Lecture Invitation: 14th Annual IAS/Kress Lecture in Naples, […] https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1918591/ Tue, 20 May 2025 18:22:28 -0400 Lecture Invitation:
14th Annual IAS/Kress Lecture in Naples, Italy in Collaboration with the Museo e Real Bosco di Capodimonte in partnership with the Centro per la Storia dell’Arte e dell’Architettura delle Città Portuali “La Capraia"

Museo e Real Bosco di Capodimonte

Via Miano 2, Naples, Italy

Friday 30 May 2025
h. 16.30 (CEST, local time)…[Read more]

]]> 0 95b7704e6faf7a0689eea2dd325c3243 Chuck Choi started the topic Architectural Photography/Art Photography for your field of interest. in the forum The Renaissance Society of America https://hcommons.org/groups/the-renaissance-society-of-america/forum/topic/architectural-photography-art-photography-for-your-field-of-interest/ Tue, 01 Apr 2025 18:00:12 -0400 <span style="font-family: Gill Sans;">Dear RSA Member

Are you in need architectural photographs for your research topic, or for publication or teaching purposes?

I am an architectural photographer of over 25 years.  I have worked for contemporary architects such as Foster and Partners, Renzo Piano, Rogers Stirk Harbour, and others.  You may s…[Read more]

]]> 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 ce6f63508feebd453e586937c2eed3f7 Antje Gamble posted an update in the group Italian Art Society: CALL FOR PAPERS 14 th Annual Italian Art Society […] https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1910788/ Thu, 06 Feb 2025 17:38:52 -0500 CALL FOR PAPERS
14 th Annual Italian Art Society Lecture
Naples, 30 May 2025
Museo e Real Bosco di Capodimonte, in partnership with
Centro per la Storia dell’Arte e dell’Architettura delle Città Portuali “La Capraia”
Deadline: Feb. 28, 2025
For its annual lecture series in Italy, the Italian Art Society invites a distinguished scholar
to give a p…[Read more]

]]> 0 b8379afe605651c33052960cab24f839 Vivien Jiaqian Zhu started the topic CFP 2026 MLA Convention in the forum Renaissance/ Early Modern Studies https://hcommons.org/groups/renaissance-early-modern-studies/forum/topic/cfp-2026-mla-convention-9/ Tue, 04 Feb 2025 22:42:10 -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

]]> 3e48cad387bcc3b1827ff6fb17c24893 Vivien Jiaqian Zhu started the topic CFP 2026 MLA Convention in the forum Museums https://hcommons.org/groups/museums/forum/topic/cfp-2026-mla-convention-7/ Tue, 04 Feb 2025 22:40:34 -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

]]> 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

]]> 682dee35cff1684c4dac860df66e2712 Bonnie Russell started the topic Job: Knowledge Commons is looking for a Python/React developer in the forum Academic Job Market Support Network https://hcommons.org/groups/academic-job-market-support-network/forum/topic/knowledge-commons-is-looking-for-a-python-react-developer/ Thu, 23 Jan 2025 15:19:51 -0500 Knowledge Commons is looking for a developer to work with us to build out new functionality on our KCWorks repository. More information at the link: https://careers.msu.edu/jobs/python-react-web-developer-information-technologist-i-east-lansing-michigan-united-states

Please feel free to pass it on to your networks.

]]> 10ba8a0b9300327cd339775b6ed44763 Bonnie Russell started the topic Job: DH@MSU is hiring a Digital Humanities Research Coordinator in the forum Academic Job Market Support Network https://hcommons.org/groups/academic-job-market-support-network/forum/topic/job-dhmsu-is-hiring-a-digital-humanities-research-coordinator/ Thu, 05 Dec 2024 15:46:05 -0500 The College of Arts & Letters (CAL) at Michigan State University seeks a Digital Humanities Research Coordinator 1) to oversee and promote Digital Humanities (DH)-based research within CAL and 2) to connect the College with other units on campus that engage in/support DH, digital history, and digital scholarship. This is a full-time 12-month…[Read more]

]]> c45fccf534e0875f19eeb80a9062f0c1 Elana Lubka created the doc Stay Ahead of the Curve with ALE’s Free "AI Tools Boot Camp for Researchers: Core Essentials" Course in the group Academic Job Market Support Network https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1905966/ Sun, 01 Dec 2024 10:47:09 -0500 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 b2ad442f9fd5013d69c74becccd005c2 Alexa Alice Joubin deposited "Screens as Anthropomorphic Interfaces: How AI Changes Shakespearean Theatrical Publics," Shakespeare Bulletin 41.4 (Winter 2023): 529-553 in the group The Renaissance Society of America https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1900897/ Sun, 06 Oct 2024 04:23:44 -0400 Whom does the screen interface serve, and how do artificial intelligence (AI) tools affect theatrical publics across both the playing space and the playgoing space? Screens are a site where cultural and performative meanings are generated and negotiated. This article draws on interface theories to analyze the roles of screens in regulating…[Read more]

]]> 0 f45f7dd9fe27752c1e55eb70d3990df8 Alexa Alice Joubin deposited Enhancing the Trustworthiness of Generative Artificial Intelligence in Responsive Pedagogy in the Context of Humanities Higher Education in the group The Renaissance Society of America https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1900891/ Sun, 06 Oct 2024 04:15:56 -0400 How do we enhance the trustworthiness of generative artificial intelligence (AI) as a tool to foster students’ curiosity to learn about humanities subjects in higher education? This study analyzes what conversational AI tools can realistically accomplish in the humanities higher education context and what the substantive, rather than hyped, c…[Read more]

]]> 0 51a24bdc98ad9f3f6df8c7f10e2d8c28 Alexa Alice Joubin deposited "Encountering global Shakespeare in Yemen, Kuwait and China," in Contemporary Readings in Global Performances of Shakespeare, ed. Alexa Alice Joubin (Arden Bloomsbury, 2024), pp. 285-294 in the group The Renaissance Society of America https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1900886/ Sun, 06 Oct 2024 04:08:07 -0400 This chapter consists of Alexa Alice Joubin's interview of a scholar and educator who has practiced global Shakespeare around the globe. Katherine Hennessey has had the unique experiences and privilege of teaching Shakespeare in Yemen, Kuwait, China, and elsewhere. She has lived and worked in eight very different countries over the past fifteen…[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 d4e5e031726d1ac5910ecb54eb93cb87 Alexa Alice Joubin deposited Contemporary Readings in Global Performances of Shakespeare, ed. Alexa Alice Joubin. London: Arden Bloomsbury, 2024 in the group The Renaissance Society of America https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1900084/ Sun, 29 Sep 2024 04:07:53 -0400 Focusing on the modern period, this book employs a site-specific lens to examine global performances of Shakespeare onstage and onscreen. Heterotopia and thick description as methodologies help us capture, rather than flatten, cultural spaces and their dynamic interplay. The global is a set of geographical and cultural sites created by artistic…[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 32822022795a7796181be9c59ab59c18 Ana Dumitran deposited Ecclesia super omnia in the group Early Modern History https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1897871/ Wed, 04 Sep 2024 03:00:31 -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 d427495c6787eef766487a2654de47e2 Peter van Druenen deposited CLIO’S ABACUS (On the Arrival of the Annales School in the Netherlands and the Development of Historical Arithmetic) in the group Early Modern History https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1896631/ Sun, 18 Aug 2024 03:00:07 -0400 Clios’Abacus is an intriguing exploration in literature into the way quantitative historical research in the Netherlands over the past half-century has been shaped, largely based on outdated and never updated source material. In the background, the implementation of ideas from the French Annales School (Febvre, Braudel, Le Roy Ladurie, among o…[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 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 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]

]]> b0d1acda6f8698a3dc98be0ffcbc4207 Alexa Alice Joubin deposited AI and the Humanities, a Course by Alexa Alice Joubin in the group The Renaissance Society of America https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1891697/ Sun, 14 Jul 2024 04:06:12 -0400 Artificial intelligence is a feminist issue, and technologies often have colonial implications. In fact, technologies as disruptive agents are inherently queer. This course examines the long history of technologies leading up to the public release of ChatGPT. We will chart the Western societies’ apprehension of and faith in, as the case may be, t…[Read more]

]]> 0 d10f75e3ad36d109c2fc29239f83e28a Ann E Mullaney deposited The Latin Sexual Vocabulary by J. N. Adams, 1982: Guide with Definitions by Ann Mullaney, July 6, 2024 in the group The Renaissance Society of America https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1891476/ Wed, 10 Jul 2024 03:01:33 -0400 J. N. Adams (1943-2021) examined the expressions speakers and writers used to communicate about bodily functions during the first thousand years for which we have recorded Latin (roughly 500 BCE to 500 CE). Here you will find first the Table of Contents from Adams’s book with live links to sections below. Next, about 70 pages of a sort of map f…[Read more]

]]> 0 979feb4f497ce72fafae4925b086f1b4 Ann E Mullaney deposited The Latin Sexual Vocabulary by J. N. Adams, 1982: Guide with Definitions by Ann Mullaney, July 6, 2024 in the group Renaissance / Early Modern Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1891475/ Wed, 10 Jul 2024 03:01:26 -0400 J. N. Adams (1943-2021) examined the expressions speakers and writers used to communicate about bodily functions during the first thousand years for which we have recorded Latin (roughly 500 BCE to 500 CE). Here you will find first the Table of Contents from Adams’s book with live links to sections below. Next, about 70 pages of a sort of map f…[Read more]

]]> 0 7f217e53b07a66e9ad7db7277826e711 Ann E Mullaney deposited The Latin Sexual Vocabulary by J. N. Adams, 1982: Guide with Definitions by Ann Mullaney, July 6, 2024 in the group The Renaissance Society of America https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1891473/ Wed, 10 Jul 2024 03:01:16 -0400 J. N. Adams (1943-2021) examined the expressions speakers and writers used to communicate about bodily functions during the first thousand years for which we have recorded Latin (roughly 500 BCE to 500 CE). Here you will find first the Table of Contents from Adams’s book with live links to sections below. Next, about 70 pages of a sort of map f…[Read more]

]]> 0 70fcf8064a2c01347aca265f94f847b8 Ann E Mullaney deposited The Latin Sexual Vocabulary by J. N. Adams, 1982: Guide with Definitions by Ann Mullaney, July 6, 2024 in the group Renaissance / Early Modern Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1891472/ Wed, 10 Jul 2024 03:01:10 -0400 J. N. Adams (1943-2021) examined the expressions speakers and writers used to communicate about bodily functions during the first thousand years for which we have recorded Latin (roughly 500 BCE to 500 CE). Here you will find first the Table of Contents from Adams’s book with live links to sections below. Next, about 70 pages of a sort of map f…[Read more]

]]> 0 540a36cdaec4c3c40b7b96b58293a9fd Antje Gamble posted an update in the group Italian Art Society: This Friday, join us for the 2024 IAS/Kress Lecture in […] https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1890258/ Wed, 26 Jun 2024 17:37:14 -0400 This Friday, join us for the 2024 IAS/Kress Lecture in Torino!

The 13th IAS/Kress Lecture will be held on 28 June 2024 in Torino, Italy at the Musei Reali di Torino. This year, we are excited to welcome Dr Luis Javier Cuesta Hernández. Dr. Cuesta Hernández is the Dean of Humanities and Communication at the Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico C…[Read more]

]]> 0 5374a10a192da8a5a86362dfcf2a1d43 Elisabeth Moreau deposited Galenic Medicine and the Atomist Revival: Elements, Particles, and Minima in Late Renaissance Physiology in the group Renaissance / Early Modern Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1889652/ Thu, 20 Jun 2024 03:01:00 -0400 In the past decades, historians have emphasized the multidisciplinary nature and conceptual disparateness of the atomist revival in the early modern sciences. However, they have not investigated how medicine, and specifically the authority of Galen, has contributed to the emergence of this revival. Indeed, despite Galen’s rejection of atoms and c…[Read more]

]]> 0 054dd006689a3511233683cb448142b4 Antje Gamble posted an update in the group Italian Art Society: This month join us for the 2024 IAS/Kress Lecture in […] https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1888324/ Tue, 04 Jun 2024 20:09:33 -0400 This month join us for the 2024 IAS/Kress Lecture in Torino!

The 13th IAS/Kress Lecture will be held on 28 June 2024 in Torino, Italy at the Musei Reali di Torino. This year, we are excited to welcome Dr Luis Javier Cuesta Hernández. Dr. Cuesta Hernández is the Dean of Humanities and Communication at the Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico C…[Read more]

]]> 0 28366b3b6babbc3a1c665997332d6ec3 Eduardo Paredes Ocampo deposited Kemp y Juan Rana: reconstrucción e implicaciones culturales del gesto dancístico en la Inglaterra y España de la modernidad temprana in the group Renaissance / Early Modern Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1887548/ Thu, 30 May 2024 03:00:06 -0400 Comparative study examining the dance of Will Kemp (England) and Juan Rana (Spain), in the theatrical context of early modern Europe.

]]> 0 d900e2eedff63a715f5c9edd33b29fba Cristina León Alfar uploaded the file: Late Tudor and Stuart Drama to The Renaissance Society of America https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1886890/ Wed, 22 May 2024 18:18:43 -0400 This series provides a forum for monographs and essay collections that focus on English drama from the late Tudor to the pre-Restoration Stuart periods (ca. 1550–1650). The editor is interested in intersectional and interdisciplinary feminist perspectives, broadly conceived, and encourages studies that investigate the discursive production of g…[Read more]

]]> 0 353e3276aeb475fee839c03ed58b4f2e Cristina León Alfar edited the doc Late Tudor and Stuart Drama: Readings in Feminist Theories and Histories in the group Renaissance / Early Modern Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1886884/ Wed, 22 May 2024 17:19:23 -0400 692aa0918ce4eb45edb644e6ba5bcf89 Cristina León Alfar created the doc Late Tudor and Stuart Drama: Readings in Feminist Theories and Histories in the group Renaissance / Early Modern Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1886883/ Wed, 22 May 2024 17:18:17 -0400 0c9a16de8c5dcbc1aa0a7de81e0da6a8 Martine van Elk deposited Politics, Authorship, and Philosophy: Teaching Margaret Cavendish’s The Blazing World in the Diverse Graduate Classroom in the group Renaissance / Early Modern Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1886480/ Sat, 18 May 2024 03:08:22 -0400 This essay explores how Margaret Cavendish’s The Blazing World works differently when taught and read on its own and in combination with Cavendish’s other works. Focusing specifically on the graduate classroom, I examine and present strategies for teaching the book alongside works by other early modern women and for teaching it in a sin…[Read more]

]]> 0 08b914c0c153e765b9eb49476787aa13 Alexa Alice Joubin deposited The Shakespearean International Yearbook: Disability Performance and Global Shakespeare. General Editor: Alexa Alice Joubin; Co-editor: Natalia Khomenko; Guest Editor: Katherine Schaap Williams. Routledge, 2024 in the group The Renaissance Society of America https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1886052/ Mon, 13 May 2024 04:23:19 -0400 The fields of critical disability studies and global Shakespeare have a great deal to say to each other, which is why we are creating this opportunity for an interdisciplinary dialogue and reflection.

This year’s Shakespearean International Yearbook focuses on the theme of global disability performances of Shakespeare. Curated by K…[Read more]

]]> 0 e7646c172668a74d43f79f661e1ba260 Alexa Alice Joubin deposited "Performativity and Trans Literature," in The Routledge Handbook of Trans Literature, ed. Douglas A. Vakoch and Sabine Sharp (2024), pp. 29-39 in the group The Renaissance Society of America https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1886047/ Mon, 13 May 2024 04:13:00 -0400 Performativity—how language and nonverbal communication tacitly or overtly affects social actions—is the core of all utterances and imaginative literature. Building on J. L. Austin’s speech act theory, Judith Butler has developed, since the 1990s, a theory of gender performativity. It has been widely appropriated as a critical tool to under…[Read more]

]]> 0 9f750d48f18f9833c4ac2c6f9fbe8e86 Patrick Hart deposited From Pulpit to Parish: Preaching Dance and Parish Dances in England and Scandinavia, 1300-1700 in the group The Renaissance Society of America https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1881706/ Mon, 01 Apr 2024 03:00:12 -0400 This article considers English and Scandinavian sermon tales alongside accounts of parish practice from 1300-1700, focusing on dance among the laity. It posits that the negative perspective of Scandinavian Protestants towards dance was a result of the medieval North Sea networks that brought England’s approach to dance to Nordic parishes, s…[Read more]

]]> 0 89ac8895aba3324b69cfcda7aa22d6ff Patrick Hart deposited From Pulpit to Parish: Preaching Dance and Parish Dances in England and Scandinavia, 1300-1700 in the group Renaissance / Early Modern Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1881705/ Mon, 01 Apr 2024 03:00:04 -0400 This article considers English and Scandinavian sermon tales alongside accounts of parish practice from 1300-1700, focusing on dance among the laity. It posits that the negative perspective of Scandinavian Protestants towards dance was a result of the medieval North Sea networks that brought England’s approach to dance to Nordic parishes, s…[Read more]

]]> 0 f1b57e142936b276fd9acb0699e92a2c Ana Dumitran deposited Intercultural and Visual Art Transfer in Central Europe and the Balkans. Ruthenian-Ukrainian and Romanian Art from the 15th to the Early 19th Century in the group Early Modern History https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1881047/ Thu, 28 Mar 2024 03:00:33 -0400 The book is part of the ERC Consolidator Grant RICONTRANS editorial programme (grant agreement no. 818791) and contains 11 studies on cultural and artistic transfers between the former Polish-Lithuanian Community and the Romanian territories (Moldova, Muntenia and Transylvania).

]]> 0 a1669112259286371b4ed17258f938a8 Alexa Alice Joubin deposited Global Shakespeare as Heterotopia, Lecture at University of Oxford and Georgetown University, February 26, 2024 in the group The Renaissance Society of America https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1878068/ Thu, 29 Feb 2024 04:27:13 -0500 Global Shakespeare as Heterotopia by Alexa Alice Joubin. Lecture video now available on YouTube, https://youtu.be/R8mbUd_mHjQ Drawing on her forthcoming book, Contemporary Readings in Global Performances of Shakespeare (Bloomsbury, 2024), Alexa Alice Joubin examines cultural encounters with Shakespeare’s plays as heterotopia, a set of parallel s…[Read more]

]]> 0 a97dce3761b7573fa472763b43997351 Alexa Alice Joubin deposited CBC Podcast: Liberate Your Mind – Exploring Sex and Gender in Shakespeare, February 20, 2024 in the group The Renaissance Society of America https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1878063/ Thu, 29 Feb 2024 04:19:13 -0500 Full podcast on YouTube https://youtu.be/dNhxFiaoIGM This is a CBC Radio podcast on gender roles in Twelfth Night, Troilus and Cressida, and Taming of the Shrew, recorded live at Stratford Festival, Ontario, Canada. “Liberate your mind, said English professor Alexa Alice Joubin, urging us to embrace the Bard’s open-endedness to ambiguity in…[Read more]

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