Knowledge Commons | Elise Chenier | Group Activity https://hcommons.org/members/echenier/activity/groups/ Public group activity feed of which Elise Chenier is a member. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 07:18:29 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 bd63a8f91c25fa089443db82f1506c54 Vivien Jiaqian Zhu started the topic CFP 2026 MLA Convention in the forum Archives https://hcommons.org/groups/archives/forum/topic/cfp-2026-mla-convention-8/ Tue, 04 Feb 2025 22:41:50 -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

]]> 3526f2a8b6d8388c9e9d333bb8b68825 Lajos Brons deposited Buddhism and the State: Rājadhamma after the Sattelzeit in the group Buddhist Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1902276/ Tue, 22 Oct 2024 03:00:11 -0400 Rājadhamma is a list of ten royal virtues or duties that occurs in the jātaka tales and that has been influential in Southeast Asian Buddhist political thought. Like pre-modern political thought in Europe—that is, thought before the Sattelzeit—Buddhist political thought lacks a concept of the “state” and is concerned with kings and similar r…[Read more]

]]> 0 a668d178e7c6cbecf494419190207452 Tobias Kraft deposited Archivos Abiertos. El patrimonio documental cubano y la transformación digital in the group Archives https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1897127/ Sat, 24 Aug 2024 03:00:31 -0400 La incorporación de tecnologías y métodos digitales en las humanidades y las instituciones del patrimonio cultural ha provocado una reflexión fundamental de sus áreas de investigación y tareas de divulgación: en los archivos y las bibliotecas, se reorganizan los procesos de preservación y documentación. Colecciones del patrimonio cultural reaparec…[Read more]

]]> 0 83621b4fae8754a41e39b7fc4d812ae3 Steve McCarty deposited "Japanese People and Society" presentation link in the group Buddhist Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1896898/ Wed, 21 Aug 2024 03:00:04 -0400 From 2004-2024 the author introduced Japan to visiting foreign officials for the government foreign aid agency Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA). From 2020, when JICA could not bring participants to Japan, his recorded presentation by Zoom was shown at JICA branches abroad. Now, JICA has released the 98-minute recording from exclusive…[Read more]

]]> 0 89d8ec1a85d11432585d459cff29f596 James A Benn deposited “‘Action Buddhism’ in the Medieval Chinese Empire,” in the group Buddhist Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1894295/ Tue, 23 Jul 2024 03:00:25 -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 433029aa4d35c2e71a7cfb51c32979a5 James A Benn deposited “Is Buddhist Self-Immolation a Form of Asceticism?” in the group Buddhist Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1894293/ Tue, 23 Jul 2024 03:00:16 -0400 I am grateful for this opportunity to revisit some issues that remain
unresolved after my earlier publications on Buddhist self-immolation.

]]> 0 5d7ecb41e0f97d3b1663d97efdd785bb James A Benn deposited “Some East Asian Buddhist Attitudes Towards non-Buddhist Practitioners in India,” in the group Buddhist Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1894291/ Tue, 23 Jul 2024 03:00:01 -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 1ffcf22f200c105f1d3c1ac74ce68ba5 James A Benn deposited “Princess Miaoshan, Self-immolator?” in the group Buddhist Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1893756/ Mon, 22 Jul 2024 03:00:33 -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 b0ba8b6ff84d4b01fd94a1bb284daf88 James A Benn deposited “China II: Buddhism in the Sui, Tang (and Zhou) Dynasties,” in the group Buddhist Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1893754/ Mon, 22 Jul 2024 03:00:21 -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 5f6d2aea50b2fd693308e55dd368a3ba Bryan Lowe deposited Patrons of Paper and Clay: Methods for Studying Women’s Religiosity in Ancient Japan in the group Buddhist Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1888408/ Wed, 05 Jun 2024 03:01:27 -0400 This chapter argues that women’s most prominent role in ancient Japanese manuscript cultures was not as authors of texts but as patrons. Women likely commissioned the transcription of tens of thousands of scrolls of Buddhist scripture. They also produced short inscriptions, in colophons and on clay and other materials, that documented their p…[Read more]

]]> 0 bf722bd85780c3a9d0ed84ffeaeb8617 Rosselly Virmania Loor Zambrano deposited Conservação preventiva de documentos na América Latina: estudo da produção científica gerada em Cuba in the group Archives https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1885802/ Fri, 10 May 2024 03:02:36 -0400 A conservação de documentos é um aspecto fundamental na preservação da memória histórica de uma sociedade. Os documentos são testemunhos escritos que refletem a cultura, as tradições, os costumes e os acontecimentos que marcaram a história de um povo. Por isso, é de vital importância conservá-los para garantir sua transmissão às gerações futura…[Read more]

]]> 0 6208fda883aacdfb75d8c6741ddc0277 Christopher Griffin deposited Colonial Cisnationalism: Notes on Empire and Gender in the UK’s Migration Policy in the group LGBTQ Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1884634/ Wed, 01 May 2024 03:25:53 -0400 Since 2023, the UK government's response to the “migrant crisis” has revolved around two controversial flagship policies: the deportation of asylum seekers to Rwanda, and the detention of migrants aboard a giant barge. In this short article, I examine the colonial and gendered dimensions of the two policies, finding them to be examples of the col…[Read more]

]]> 0 ec689e843848675c5b26aea1a50db3ac Joel Bordeaux deposited From Bauddha Deśa to Śākta Pīṭha: Re/Locating the Hindu Goddess Tārā in the group Buddhist Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1881077/ Thu, 28 Mar 2024 03:02:18 -0400 The incorporation of the goddess Tārā into the Hindu pantheon appears to have begun around the turn of the first millennium, a couple of centuries after her first mentions in Buddhist sources. The earliest Hindu texts concerned with Tārā tend to acknowledge this through a narrative wherein the Vedic sage Vasiṣṭha must travel to ‘Greater China’ to…[Read more]

]]> 0 a1781955dae89736ae8a2ea8ef70040a Steve McCarty deposited Discovering Japanese Fusion of Religions on the Pilgrimage Island of Shikoku in the group Buddhist Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1878831/ Thu, 07 Mar 2024 03:00:34 -0500 This chapter traces the eventful biography of Steve McCarty vis-à-vis Japan. The story spans decades from graduate school specializing in Japan to discovering an astonishing syncretism of Asian religions. Along the way, the author gained a Japanese family and became a rare foreign full professor in 1993. Anecdotes vividly portray daily life,…[Read more]

]]> 0 d9e73992b52327dce08182495a3b3b5c Anthony Cerulli deposited “Vies et renaissances des manuscrits en Asie du Sud” in the group Archives https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1868290/ Sun, 17 Dec 2023 03:00:03 -0500 article + 6 photographs from the Manuscriptistan Project

]]> 0 f70af41f7d9ccfeff8ded1a940ad2dfd Angelos Bollas deposited Hegemonic Monosexuality in the group LGBTQ Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1866348/ Thu, 30 Nov 2023 03:09:15 -0500 Recent scholarly work has focused on the erasure and mistreatment of bisexuality in histories of sexuality. Such erasure is not only observed in academic work but also in the lived experiences of people who identify as plurisexuals. The present paper brings together studies on bisexuality, hegemony, and sexual politics to explain the discursively…[Read more]

]]> 0 10b45eb0e71aaa78ea3000bde89aff94 Angelos Bollas deposited Viral representations: It’s a Sin in the group LGBTQ Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1866336/ Thu, 30 Nov 2023 03:00:53 -0500 Belonging to the retrovision genre, It’s a Sin (2021) dramatizes the early years of the pandemic. Audiences are shown what reality was like before and immediately after the outbreak of HIV/AIDS. It narrates the transition from a sex-positive era where non-heterosexual people were standing up for their freedom to love, have sex and enjoy life to a…[Read more]

]]> 0 b7e6b073852f8b5b50b122b41d30b402 Angelos Bollas deposited Men, Sides, and Homosexism: A Small-Scale Empirical Study of the Lived Experiences of Men Who Identify as Sides in the group LGBTQ Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1866335/ Thu, 30 Nov 2023 03:00:49 -0500 The present study contributes to recent scholarship on homosexism and side sexualities by providing empirical evidence that supports stigmatizing societal responses to non-penetrative sexual practices among men who have sex with men as well as to those engaging in such practices. The study provides a close reading of two scenes of the series…[Read more]

]]> 0 19b75ccfa3c63c5e327ae5ada13b9587 Angelos Bollas deposited A framework toward inclusive practices in EFL: The example of LGBTQI+ identities in the group LGBTQ Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1866334/ Thu, 30 Nov 2023 03:00:44 -0500 Equality, diversity, and inclusion are at the core of all educational reforms taking place at this moment around the world. However, the English as a Foreign Language (EFL) industry has not yet followed through. This chapter focuses on the inclusion of LGBTQI+ references in EFL materials as an example of inclusive practice but aims to be adaptable…[Read more]

]]> 0 d2abd5d89046b8dbec700ea605c511a7 Angelos Bollas deposited Homoterrorism: Definition, Application, Subversion in the group LGBTQ Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1866333/ Thu, 30 Nov 2023 03:00:38 -0500 On Friday, September 21, 2018, news reports on Greek corporate media announced the death of a man who had allegedly attempted to rob a jewellery store. The media announcement was accompanied by video footage in which two civilians were shown violently attacking the alleged thief while the latter was attempting to escape the jewellery store. A…[Read more]

]]> 0 dd7b593a26770dc1ea3d9bce6fe609aa Rafael Neis deposited In Comics: When a Human Gives Birth to a Raven in the group LGBTQ Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1865520/ Tue, 21 Nov 2023 03:00:35 -0500 In comics: how ancient rabbis upend “traditional” ideas of reproduction, gender, and humanity. A blog post commissioned by UC Press Blog about the book When a Human Gives Birth to a Raven: Rabbis and the Reproduction of Species.

Link: htt…[Read more]

]]> 0 a79093090113dfd98115ab7e54e0265d Meral Ekincioglu, Ph.D. started the topic Online Panel on Health Equity in Architecture and Archives (Nov. 4). in the discussion Archives https://hcommons.org/groups/archives/forum/topic/online-panel-on-health-equity-in-architecture-and-archives-nov-4/ Fri, 27 Oct 2023 17:48:10 -0400 Invitation to the online panel:

“Health Equity in Architecture at the Intersection of Teaching, Archive and Curating”

Dear all;

We would be very happy if you could join our online panel, “Health Equity in Architecture at the Intersection of Teaching, Archive and Curating” on November 4th, 2023, 10:00 am EST (Eastern time zone for North and Sou…[Read more]

]]> 38a48bc71d98e6429cbcb8fa7322c008 Rebecca Ruth Gould deposited Manuscripts Don't Burn in the group Archives https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1859634/ Mon, 25 Sep 2023 18:04:25 -0400 In 2023, a new museum opened in Tbilisi, at the Writer's House of Georgia that previously house the Soviet Writers' Union: The Museum of Repressed Writers. The museum honours the executed poets from Georgia’s Soviet past, poets whose identities Soviet authorities tried to destroy. This article examines the story the museum tells about Soviet l…[Read more]

]]> 0 f05b9f9a23ae19243b30a1ae7d294fff Lajos Brons deposited What is Real? in the group Buddhist Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1853599/ Wed, 02 Aug 2023 02:24:35 -0400 Two of the most fundamental distinctions in metaphysics are (1) that between reality (or things in themselves) and appearance, the R/A distinction, and (2) that between entities that are fundamental (or real, etcetera) and entities that are ontologically or existentially dependent, the F/D distinction. While these appear to be two very different…[Read more]

]]> 0 a9194e5c4e865920150fdeb0b2f6d173 Bryan Lowe deposited Japan I: c.550–850. in the group Buddhist Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1852295/ Thu, 20 Jul 2023 02:23:39 -0400 A survey of Buddhism in Japan from roughly the time of its introduction into the mid-ninth century. The following topics are covered:
The Introduction of Buddhism to Japan – Transmission Myths – The Myth of Prince Shōtoku – The Myth of a Buddhist-Shintō Rivalry – Temples in and around the Capital – Provincial Temples – The Order of Nuns – Female…[Read more]

]]> 0 f1787ae6c5288ab8fde9b478e804e634 Steve McCarty deposited Translation Issues in the Rapid Transmission of Esoteric Buddhism from India to China to Japan in the group Buddhist Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1851260/ Fri, 07 Jul 2023 02:23:39 -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 18b9ff61c7e990b8cc3c3f4c125f253e Rafael Neis deposited Book Preview: Rabbis & the Reproduction of Species in the group LGBTQ Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1850895/ Sun, 02 Jul 2023 02:25:28 -0400 This is pre-publication preview introduces the major questions, methods, and insights of my book When a Human Gives Birth to a Raven: Rabbis & the Reproduction of Species (UC Press, 2023).

]]> 0 0a627e671d5babd178a42833de5d3b0c Steve McCarty deposited Interview on the life and times of Japan's great saint Kūkai in the group Buddhist Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1849981/ Thu, 22 Jun 2023 02:23:39 -0400 Through the book Kūkai the Universal, the podcast guest discusses the life and times of Japan's great saint Kūkai, Esoteric Buddhism, and Zen, in terms of East Asian history, language education, and translation issues including voice.

]]> 0 2a1c8539430ba045ba6774e7bb8f0b93 Pramod Ranjan deposited एक जोमो का जीवन in the group Buddhist Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1847613/ Wed, 31 May 2023 02:26:03 -0400 पत्रकार और शिक्षाविद् प्रमोद रंजन ने जून, 2017 में हिमाचल प्रदेश के दुर्गम इलाकों की यात्रा की थी। इस यात्रा में उन्हें किन्नौर जिले के सुदूर गांव कानम के एक गोम्पा में सुमार नाम की जोमो मिलीं। जोमो यानी बौद्ध भिक्षुणी। मध्य हिमालय की अपूर्व शांति से भरी उस घाटी में सहज वात्सल्य से भरीं 56 वर्षीय सुमार के साथ कुछ घंटे बिताना उनके लिए एक अनूठा अ…[Read more]

]]> 0 c72350dc331d587b0c75568f0e955dff Christopher Griffin deposited Recognition Against Liberation: On the UK’s Unreformed Gender Recognition Act in the group LGBTQ Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1846675/ Sat, 20 May 2023 02:23:59 -0400 In this short article I argue that the UK government’s decision not to update the Gender Recognition Act 2004 (GRA) is more than a missed opportunity. It weaponises the GRA, now an effective instrument of assimilation and containment. The failure to reform the GRA seems like a maintenance of the status quo, but given that the circumstances have s…[Read more]

]]> 0 6f05ccf2a382e082289aae4af628f495 Pramod Ranjan deposited किन्नौर में बहु-पति प्रथा : ‘मैं अपने दोनों बेटों को कहता हूं कि वे एक ही लड़की से विवाह करें’ in the group Buddhist Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1842218/ Sun, 23 Apr 2023 02:23:48 -0400 खूबसूरत प्राकृतिक दृश्यों से परिपूर्ण किन्नौर का समाज व संस्कृति शेष भारत से अलग है। यह बौद्ध धर्म का इलाका है, जिसे हिंदूवादी संस्कृति लीलती जा रही है। आर्थिक संपन्नता के आगमन से जाति-आधारित उत्पीड़न और भेदभाव कम हो रहा है। प्रमोद रंजन ने इस यात्रा संस्मरण में किन्नौर की विशिष्ट संस्कृति, बहु पत्नी प्रथा, वहां के समाज और राजनीति…[Read more]

]]> 0 e1fd5d96e04e9429f983f4e76e1196e1 Massih Zekavat deposited Satire, Humor, and Environmental Crises in the group LGBTQ Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1840433/ Sat, 08 Apr 2023 02:23:55 -0400 Satire, Humor, and Environmental Crises explores how satire and humor can be employed to address and mitigate ecological crises at individual and collective levels.

Besides scientific and technological endeavors, solutions to ecological crises must entail social and communicative reform to persuade citizens, corporations, organizations, and…[Read more]

]]> 0 2bd2b75a358e81483c2fd9e09376c8ec Martin Roland deposited Der Dürnsteiner Stiftbrief. Multimedia im Mittelalter (2010) in the group Archives https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1839098/ Thu, 30 Mar 2023 02:24:12 -0400 The multimedia aspects of one of the most beautifully illuminated charters is in the focus of this paper.

]]> 0 5373f30692c06abdb0edb2feddf820ed Martin Roland deposited Medieval Grants of Arms and their Illuminators in the group Archives https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1839095/ Thu, 30 Mar 2023 02:23:43 -0400 Th is essay deals with the relevance of medieval grants of arms in art history, focusing on the aspects of innovation and quality. Th e fi rst part discusses the origins of innovative prototypes that did not yet match the quality of later grants of arms. Th e second part presents a selection of qualitative landmarks in the history of grants of…[Read more]

]]> 0 48467b6a528183066621e38c689862d4 Kyle Frackman deposited Homemade Pornography and the Proliferation of Queer Pleasure in East Germany in the group LGBTQ Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1837865/ Sun, 19 Mar 2023 02:23:43 -0400 Like other Eastern Bloc countries, East Germany sought to control even its citizens’ leisure time in the 1960s and 1970s, with the goal of making it useful or at least not subversive to state interests. Certain hobbies, like amateur photography, found support from the state in the form of increased access to equipment and supplies. Other s…[Read more]

]]> 0 ee41fa5b91e53a9b13bb6e3ee34c8c4b Carlos A. Pittella deposited Tradições, Transcrições, Traduções: Por um Entendimento Rizomático do Fausto Pessoano in the group Archives https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1837117/ Mon, 13 Mar 2023 02:23:38 -0400 This article invites the reading of Fernando Pessoa’s Fausto as a rhizomatic work, via three different critical lenses that lead to plurality: Traditions, Transcriptions, and Translations. Regarding different Faustian traditions, instead of seeing Pessoa’s Fausto merely as a competition with Goethe (as proposed by Eduardo Lourenço in his pref…[Read more]

]]> 0 fe34a30a5ceaccc7da1307027d20d821 Paulino Capdepon deposited El Patrimonio musical de Talavera de la Reina in the group Archives https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1836468/ Mon, 06 Mar 2023 02:25:42 -0500 The musical chapel of the Collegiate Church of Santa María la Mayor in Talavera de la Reina is a significant case of how an ecclesiastical institution articulates the musical life of a city: in this sense, it can be stated that the main musical activity in the aforementioned Toledan city has revolved around the chapel of the Collegiate Church…[Read more]

]]> 0 8b842c273041b8c7e46bad242016bc44 Gregory Scott started the topic New Dataset: 北京佛學書局佛學圖書目錄 1938 in the discussion Buddhist Studies https://hcommons.org/groups/buddhist-studies/forum/topic/new-dataset-%e5%8c%97%e4%ba%ac%e4%bd%9b%e5%ad%b8%e6%9b%b8%e5%b1%80%e4%bd%9b%e5%ad%b8%e5%9c%96%e6%9b%b8%e7%9b%ae%e9%8c%84-1938-2/ Mon, 27 Feb 2023 14:20:53 -0500 Hello all,

I just received a fulltext digitisation of a Buddhist book catalogue published in Beijing in 1938. It has a few thousand titles in it, as well as lists of Buddhist art and objects then being offered for sale. I will use this data in my next project, but in the meantime I've made the raw data freely available on Harvard Dataverse for…[Read more]

]]> 038fc08e7fbf117ad2dcf55db90382c1 Pramod Ranjan deposited किन्नौर में बौद्ध धर्म, जाति प्रथा और राजनीति in the group Buddhist Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1832629/ Sat, 04 Feb 2023 02:31:47 -0500 खूबसूरत प्राकृतिक दृश्यों से परिपूर्ण किन्नौर का समाज व संस्कृति शेष भारत से अलग है। यह बौद्ध धर्म का इलाका है, जिसे हिंदूवादी संस्कृति लीलती जा रही है। आर्थिक संपन्नता के आगमन से जाति-आधारित उत्पीड़न और भेदभाव कम हो रहा है। प्रमोद रंजन ने इस यात्रा संस्मरण में किन्नौर की विशिष्ट संस्कृति, बहु पत्नी प्रथा, वहां के समाज और राजनीति…[Read more]

]]> 0 b249c664573dc79f53c9c0dd36555279 James A Benn deposited Religious Studies 726 Topics in Chinese Religions: Death, Funerals, Burial in Chinese Religions McMaster University, Term II 2022–23 in the group Buddhist Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1829373/ Thu, 12 Jan 2023 02:24:39 -0500 Syllabus for graduate seminar at McMaster University. In this seminar we will examine practices surrounding death in a variety of Chinese religions. We will explore the various understandings of the death process, preparation for death, and the afterlife. We will look at the post-mortem treatment of the body, changing funerary practices and…[Read more]

]]> 0 c45e205694e2ef089a2815f90630edef Pramod Ranjan deposited समय से संवाद: जन विकल्प संचयिता in the group Buddhist Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1828841/ Mon, 09 Jan 2023 02:24:10 -0500 ‘समय से संवाद: जनविकल्प संचयिता’ नाम यह पुस्तक हिंदी मासिक ‘जन विकल्प’ में प्रकाशित प्रतिनिधि सामग्री का संकलन है। प्रेमकुमार मणि और प्रमोद रंजन के संपादन में पटना से वर्ष 2007 में प्रकाशित इस पत्रिका की जनपक्षधरता, निष्पक्षता और मौलिक त्वरा ने समाजकर्मियों और बुद्धिजीवियों को गहराई से आलोड़ित किया था। इस पुस्तक में जिन लेखों और साक्षात्कारों…[Read more]

]]> 0 04dfdb273cd373cf199e5e44df979963 Matthew Connelly started the topic Free Digital History and Archiving Training Workshops at Columbia this Summer in the discussion Archives https://hcommons.org/groups/archives/forum/topic/free-digital-history-and-archiving-training-workshops-at-columbia-this-summer/ Thu, 17 Nov 2022 21:24:02 -0500 Archives as Data, May 22-June 2, 2023

Digital history and archiving are thriving, but the increasing volume of digitized and “born digital” materials for historical research also present new challenges for both archivists and historians. Typically, the only way to explore these resources has been through keyword searching. More direct access to…[Read more]

]]> bc1044a9a45a16933a45236c88366412 Luis Ernesto Paz Enrique deposited Afecciones de hemangiomas cutáneos en la infancia registrados en Villa Clara desde 2012 hasta 2015 in the group Archives https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1821747/ Sun, 13 Nov 2022 02:26:11 -0500 Introducción: los hemangiomas son el tumor cutáneo más común en la infancia. Se clasifican dentro de las anomalías vasculares congénitas.Objetivo: identificar el comportamiento clínico-epidemiológico y resultados terapéuticos de los hemangiomas en pacientes atendidos en el Hospital Infantil “José Luis Miranda” de Santa Clara, Villa Clara en el p…[Read more]

]]> 0 b49529c3dd320d7cdf0197fcaacfd154 Luis Ernesto Paz Enrique deposited Vasculitis leucocitoclástica in the group Archives https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1818815/ Thu, 27 Oct 2022 02:23:56 -0400 Introducción: la vasculitis leucocitoclástica constituye un proceso clínico patológico caracterizado por inflamación y necrosis de los vasos sanguíneos. Objetivo: describir las características clínicas de la vasculitis leucocitoclástica y el tratamiento utilizado. Resultados: se indicaron estudios de laboratorios: eritrosedimentación, células L…[Read more]

]]> 0 83299c0529a85b130cbd9111904d12f9 Ryan Lee Cartwright deposited Sissies, Loafers, and the Feebleminded in the group LGBTQ Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1818414/ Sat, 22 Oct 2022 02:24:44 -0400 Focusing on rural white communities in the early twentieth century, this article examines how disability, queerness, and economic estrangement were intertwined in American eugenic assessments of the “unfit.” In doing so, it attends to the knotty relations of power by which such communities were simultaneously adjudged deviant and bestowed with the…[Read more]

]]> 0 efb318dc495f0189092ad4c65cb956ab Gennady Shkliarevsky deposited SETTING RIGHT LGBTQ RIGHTS in the group LGBTQ Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1815908/ Fri, 30 Sep 2022 02:27:33 -0400 In the current social and political turmoil, few issues are more divisive and cause more controversy than issues related to the rights of sexual minorities and gender dissidents. The polarizing impact of these issues is really astounding given the size of these two groups. Explanations for this divisiveness of LGBTQ rights focus on either the…[Read more]

]]> 0 48f0d9902033d0b66a8513afdb36a3fa Kyle Frackman deposited Archival Research Guide for Grad Students in the group LGBTQ Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1792027/ Tue, 30 Aug 2022 02:24:57 -0400 This document is a basic guide for graduate students who need to work in archives or other special libraries. The guide includes items to bring or have on hand as well as steps for planning your visit and organizing your notes.

]]> 0 e6bae9f152fe9bd770b0465d34924d13 James Gifford deposited The Sealed Book of the Future: The Collected Prose of Edward Taylor Fletcher in the group Archives https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1791045/ Sat, 20 Aug 2022 02:25:56 -0400 This digital book is a companion to Of Sunken Islands and Pestilence: Restoring the Voice of Edward Taylor Fletcher to Nineteenth-Century Canadian Literature. It is intended as an aid to readers, in particular students and scholars, who wish to know more about Fletcher's works. The ideas that drove Fletcher's creative works are on display here,…[Read more]

]]> 0 d9cedba317803e8f974dc61686f5768d Pramod Ranjan deposited पत्रकारिता और पुस्तक प्रकाशन में नैतिकता का सवाल एक पत्र in the group LGBTQ Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1788464/ Sun, 24 Jul 2022 02:24:04 -0400 यह पत्र नई दिल्ली से प्रकाशित फारवर्ड प्रेस नामक द्विभाषी पत्रिका  और पुस्तक प्रकाशन संस्थान  के मालिक को लिखा गया था।  यह पत्रिका वर्ष 2011 से 2016  के बीच अपने तार्किक तेवर और दलित, आदिवासी व अन्य पिछड़े वर्गों की हिमायत करने के कारण चर्चित रही थी। पत्रिका ने अन्य अनेक कामों के साथ इस दौरान हिंदू मिथकों का दलित-बहुजन नजरिए से पुर्नपाठ प्रस…[Read more]

]]> 0 7eee9c1e14a02b92d683ed93d1817125 Pramod Ranjan deposited एक सांस्कृतिक आंदोलन के चार साल in the group Buddhist Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1786917/ Wed, 13 Jul 2022 02:23:38 -0400 दिल्ली के जवाहरलाल नेहरू विश्वविद्यालय में मुट्ठी भर अन्य पिछड़ा वर्ग और दलित छात्रों ने जब 25 अक्टूबर, 2011 को पहली बार ‘महिषासुर शहादत दिवस’ मनाया था, तब शायद किसी ने सोचा भी नहीं होगा कि यह दावनल की आग सिद्ध होगा। 2015 तक, महज चार सालों में ही इन आयोजनों ने न सिर्फ देशव्यापी सामाजिक आलोडऩ पैदा कर दिया था, बल्कि ये आदिवासियों, अन्य पिछडा वर्ग…[Read more]

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