Knowledge Commons | Mario Alberico | Group Activity https://hcommons.org/members/marioalberico/activity/groups/ Public group activity feed of which Mario Alberico is a member. Sun, 05 Apr 2026 20:39:36 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 ffb23860363e5c36c08b8aced078ceb1 Matthew Kidd started the topic Participate in a survey on generative AI and archival research practices in the forum Biblical Studies via email https://hcommons.org/groups/biblical-studies/forum/topic/participate-in-a-survey-on-generative-ai-and-archival-research-practices-11/ Fri, 13 Feb 2026 11:26:29 -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

]]> 4d10ba1aaf9cfc3f41ef66969d05bf9a Janet Spittler started the topic October First Friday Workshop with Ian Mills in the forum Christian Apocryphal Literature https://hcommons.org/groups/christian-apocryphal-literature/forum/topic/october-first-friday-workshop-with-ian-mills/ Mon, 22 Sep 2025 16:12:33 -0400 NASSCAL's First Friday Workshop will meet via zoom (as usual) on Friday, October 3 at noon (EDT). Details on the flyer!

]]> 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 0312386d0fa0a86d9751c73289b87fb2 Shashi Bhusan Nayak started the topic Call for Chapters – Scripting Selves: New Directions in Life Writing in the forum Autofiction https://hcommons.org/groups/autofiction/forum/topic/call-for-chapters-scripting-selves-new-directions-in-life-writing-4/ Wed, 05 Mar 2025 17:30:14 -0500 Scripting Selves: New Directions in Life Writing
Editors: P. Muralidhar Sharma & Shashibhusan Nayak

Until recently, Life Writing has emerged as a loose critical label encompassing a variety of genres, including biographies, autobiographies, memoirs, letters, and dairies. The later decades of the 20th century, in particular, have witnessed a surge…[Read more]

]]> 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

]]> 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

]]> 3ed9a675309a0f5e0353d3db4bdefe10 Meredith Lynn Goldsmith started the topic NEH Virtual Convening: Collaborating beyond the Humanities (Health Humanities) in the forum Medical Humanities https://hcommons.org/groups/medical-humanities/forum/topic/neh-virtual-convening-collaborating-beyond-the-humanities-health-humanities/ Mon, 30 Dec 2024 23:26:41 -0500 Dear colleagues, I write to invite you a virtual convening sponsored by the NEH Division of Education Programs. More information below:

“Collaborating Beyond the Humanities”

The Education Division of the National Endowment for the Humanities fosters curricular innovation through its grant programs, including the Humanities Connections pro…[Read more]

]]> fd4bf7355a21804cfd27bae1569d7fe3 John Mark R. Asio deposited Comparative Analysis of the In-House Review (Revalida) Program and the Student's Performance in the Licensure Examination for Midwives: Inputs for Program Enhancement in the group Medical Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1903330/ Wed, 30 Oct 2024 03:00:02 -0400 This paper aimed to analyze the effectiveness of the in-house review (Revalida) program among midwifery graduates of batch 2022 in the previous licensure board exams for midwives last 2023. This study used a descriptive-comparative research design. One hundred thirty-five graduate midwives participated voluntarily in the study using a purposive…[Read more]

]]> 0 3e84ae5b2b3587ff89acf10631095ead Meredith Warren deposited St Paul of the Thorns: A Note on Disability, Visual Criticism, and 2 Corinthians 12:7b–10 in the group Biblical Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1902583/ Fri, 25 Oct 2024 03:00:26 -0400 In this note, we introduce readers to St Paul of the Thorns, a painting by Elizabeth Tooth, which is part of an exhibition entitled Reimagining Paul. Using visual arts interpretive methodologies, disability studies, exegesis of 2 Corinthians, and exhibition visitor feedback, we consider the distinctive contribution of visual art to discussions of…[Read more]

]]> 0 0a76225dcc83a80fe5cd3a1d2c803b03 Meredith Warren deposited A Metanarrative of Disability in John 5 in the group Biblical Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1902580/ Fri, 25 Oct 2024 03:00:19 -0400 Within Johannine texts, impairment carries associated meanings to the point that the narrative figure is reduced to the impairment rather than having an independent and/or complex identity. A metanarrative of disability exists within these texts, regarding assuming that attitudes, capabilities or attributes relate to particular impairments. This…[Read more]

]]> 0 525ac4042d5e261744a1e48ba5ff7297 Meredith Warren deposited Epilepsy as Punishment from God: A Disability Reading of 2 and 3 Maccabees in the group Biblical Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1902577/ Fri, 25 Oct 2024 03:00:12 -0400 A surprising consensus among scholars working on 3 Maccabees is that the story of Philopator’s supernatural intervention appears strikingly similar to an epileptic seizure. Likewise, the same observations have been made by others about Heliodorus’s episode in 2 Maccabees. Surprisingly, none of these scholars appear to be self-aware that this is…[Read more]

]]> 0 ad0db98f5a3b3ed9502887c24bddb6af Meredith Warren deposited Davidic Kings with Disability: Illness, Disability, and Ideal Monarchs in the group Biblical Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1902574/ Fri, 25 Oct 2024 03:00:01 -0400 Royal illness and disability recur as motifs within the accounts of the Davidic monarchs provided in the books of Samuel and Kings. Recent work done on the intersection of disability studies and the Hebrew Bible provides a framework for tracing this motif throughout the history of the southern kingdom in 1 and 2 Kings. Under this framework, kings…[Read more]

]]> 0 df7e3384ff56dba0aed6ec13979a7442 Valeria Graziano deposited The Rabble’s Lifecraft: Institutional Tinkering and Popular Illegalisms in the group Performance Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1902090/ Sat, 19 Oct 2024 03:01:01 -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 d4e6cca673a2f814509a5f804944aaf3 Valeria Graziano deposited We in the plural. Performance gestures of antifascism in the group Performance Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1902083/ Sat, 19 Oct 2024 03:00:18 -0400 We in the plural. Performance gestures of antifascism

]]> 0 c0db6a7f21779ea98e52ea0a964baeec Albert R Haig deposited The Word in the Soul and its Counterparts: World, Body, Mind, and Soul in Plotinus in the group Christian Mysticism https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1901222/ Thu, 10 Oct 2024 03:00:02 -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 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 a2eb3640a618d4d1b4ff31642673df60 Ali Shehzad Zaidi deposited Dreamer of Tomorrow in the group Open Educational Resources https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1901086/ Tue, 08 Oct 2024 03:00:52 -0400 This essay examines the stellar, wind, eagle, and light imagery in Muneer Niazi’s “Futility,” “Now is Not the Time,” “Signaling to a Friendly Star to Keep Shining,” and “Horizons.

]]> 0 cac38539e3f3e7101d249227d0970367 Meredith Warren deposited Naming as Human Agency in Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman’s Good Omens in the group Biblical Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1901080/ Tue, 08 Oct 2024 03:00:31 -0400 In Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman’s 1990 comic novel Good Omens, names act as important signifiers of role and function; the act of naming can be an expression of power so strong and significant that it can literally shape reality. Here, I propose a reading of Good Omens that explores human agency through the process of naming. Focusing on the c…[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 9cab0efe12edcddd5f66d98aa4a9c707 Meredith Warren deposited There Was a Man Who Had Two Sons: A Parable of Futurity, Reproductivity, Utopia, and Social Death in the group Biblical Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1899806/ Thu, 26 Sep 2024 03:00:26 -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 8f91a38cc3b0ff5825bbdbca04c825ce Meredith Warren deposited Requiring Apologia? Merchants and Artisans in Acts of the Apostles in the group Biblical Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1898295/ Tue, 10 Sep 2024 03:00:34 -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 42586d4c93f5ca19c5fa5d3cd8c62316 Ian Willis deposited Australia Day 1915 in Camden: Record-breaking Wartime Fundraiser in the group Medical Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1897195/ Sun, 25 Aug 2024 03:00:56 -0400 This blog post examines the story of mid-1915, when the Camden Patriotic Fund took over Australia Day fundraising, directing proceeds to the Red Cross for Australian wounded. Supporting the Camden Red Cross, the fund raised substantial funds through various events. Meanwhile, on a national scale, Australia Day's significance evolved, and in 1915,…[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 4e796df87189948066df1f94cff08ac9 Ian Willis deposited Camden and the Great War in the group Medical Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1897124/ Sat, 24 Aug 2024 03:00:12 -0400 This presentation provides an overview of the Great War's impact on the town of Camden, including its effects, serving overseas and on the homefront, and the collective memory of Camden and the Great War.

]]> 0 70dd66c5eae1c4dfe9e5187859783c1f Steve McCarty deposited "Japanese People and Society" presentation link in the group Open Educational Resources https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1896900/ Wed, 21 Aug 2024 03:00:08 -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 6303fea6fbd2a06a17b4091d97340553 Gavin Herzig deposited Time Heals All Wounds: The Time Loop Beyond Groundhog Day, Disability, and Higurashi Gou and Sotsu (2020-21) in the group Critical Disability Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1896641/ Sun, 18 Aug 2024 03:00:56 -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 189c0c468f38ac6b789a5d837e286522 Ana Dumitran deposited The Icons of Alexander Ponekhalsky. Jertfa di la mine zugrău Alexa cel păcătos in the group Digital Art History https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1895891/ Sat, 10 Aug 2024 03:01:06 -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 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 31d60db6300767eaf03cffe6cfaaaf0f Ian Willis deposited Camden Red Cross 110 Years Display: Objects and Ephemera Exhibition 2024 in the group Medical Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1894889/ Mon, 29 Jul 2024 03:00:54 -0400 The Camden Red Cross exhibition at Camden Library in August 2024 showcased the historical contributions of local women to the Red Cross during World Wars I and II. Women from the Camden district played a pivotal role in supporting soldiers and shaping the narrative of the Australian Red Cross, creating over 20,300 articles in 40,000 volunteer…[Read more]

]]> 0 e87229aa1a1345c6e08deeda8ec5a632 Timothy Cooper deposited ‘That Awful Night in October’: Sensory Experiences of Britain’s 1987 Hurricane in the group Social History of Archives https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1894819/ Sun, 28 Jul 2024 03:01:31 -0400 This article explores sensory experiences of the 1987 ‘Hurricane’ in Britain. Through mass observers’ testimonies, we examine the impact of sensory disruption to domestic ‘sensoria’. We examine in turn disturbing noises; the anxieties circulating around windows; the loss of power to heat and light domestic environments, and, finally, the kinetic p…[Read more]

]]> 0 b025c109d62ba0f4347ec6ae58810d51 Ian Willis deposited Ministering Angels, Myth and the Red Cross on the Australian Wartime Homefront in the group Medical Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1894809/ Sun, 28 Jul 2024 03:00:46 -0400 The outbreak of the First World War in 1914 saw thousands of women across rural Australia set up local Red Cross branches. Country women sewed, knitted and cooked for God, King and Country, while they were encouraged to see themselves as ‘ministering angels’ dutifully serving ‘their boys’ and the imperial cause. Their successes meant that by 1918…[Read more]

]]> 0 582c5faa4f1dc21419c9bc6b1ec0a4bd Ian Willis deposited ‘Guardian Angels’, the Red Cross on the wartime homefront in the group Medical Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1894764/ Sat, 27 Jul 2024 03:01:05 -0400 Thousands of women rallied to the call of the wife of the Governor-General and formed Red Cross branches across Australia at the outbreak of the First World War. Women sewed, knitted and cooked for God, the King and Country and were encouraged to see themselves as ‘guardian angels’ serving ‘their boys’ and the imperial cause. Local Red Cross b…[Read more]

]]> 0 1602d3d8d578295f1e61f7006e402b9e Ian Willis deposited ‘Angels Of Mercy’, The Red Cross On the Homefront During the First World War in the group Medical Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1894761/ Sat, 27 Jul 2024 03:00:37 -0400 This blog post examines how the Australian Red Cross mobilized women during World War I as 'Angels of Mercy' and 'ministering angels' to provide aid with a strong moral overtone. The organisation used motherhood imagery to rally support, portraying itself as the 'Greatest Mother in the World'. This approach effectively garnered community backing…[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]

]]> 13148c77bf5d9803e2f7a215fb8b7374 Francesco Luzzini deposited Going (More) Historical: On Environment, Science, and Discourse in the group Advocating for the Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1891448/ Wed, 10 Jul 2024 03:00:04 -0400 In: "Storia e Filosofia della Scienza: una nuova alleanza?", ed. F. Minazzi, Milan, Mimesis, 2024, pp. 175-182.

]]> 0 13148c77bf5d9803e2f7a215fb8b7374 Francesco Luzzini deposited Going (More) Historical: On Environment, Science, and Discourse in the group Advocating for the Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1891447/ Wed, 10 Jul 2024 03:00:04 -0400 In: "Storia e Filosofia della Scienza: una nuova alleanza?", ed. F. Minazzi, Milan, Mimesis, 2024, pp. 175-182.

]]> 0 a38499f49a06c8f954929d0d3464fa57 Meredith Warren deposited Queer Futures and Phallic Humour in the Book of Esther in the group Biblical Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1891070/ Sat, 06 Jul 2024 03:00:05 -0400 In ancient Hebrew, the word for “hand” can also refer metaphorically to personal power—or be innuendo for the phallus. This observation serves as a key to the many appearances of “hands” in the book of Esther, from the king’s superlative “hand” to the ever-active “hands” of eunuchs. This abundance of hands has an ironic significance, alter…[Read more]

]]> 0 bc137830eefa8baa7a6cec89750c90cd Meredith Warren deposited Queer Futures and Phallic Humour in the Book of Esther in the group Biblical Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1891069/ Sat, 06 Jul 2024 03:00:04 -0400 In ancient Hebrew, the word for “hand” can also refer metaphorically to personal power—or be innuendo for the phallus. This observation serves as a key to the many appearances of “hands” in the book of Esther, from the king’s superlative “hand” to the ever-active “hands” of eunuchs. This abundance of hands has an ironic significance, alter…[Read more]

]]> 0 3bbe4207d2d02a8f4c38a980eac41410 Vitus Angermeier deposited Slides: Goitres, Worms, and Haemorrhoids: Geographical Localisation of Endemic Diseases in Classical Āyurveda in the group Medical Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1890603/ Sat, 29 Jun 2024 03:06:25 -0400 As Āyurveda is at its core a highly individualistic science, information on how collective suffering was understood and treated is scarce in its foundational works. While the passages referring to epidemics and similar events have attracted some attention in the last decades, endemic diseases are an almost completely neglected topic. Francis…[Read more]

]]> 0 24c31d99011cf9444e0f0684dba48bac Anthony Cerulli deposited “Always Already Theorizing … in the Field, Elsewhere, All at Once” in the group Medical Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1890336/ Thu, 27 Jun 2024 03:13:00 -0400 Reflecting on his fieldwork experiences between 2003 and 2017 at the same healing center in central Kerala, in this chapter Cerulli addresses continuity and change in medical ethnographers’ awareness of themselves and the people, places, and things they study in the field. He draws on experiences in south India and in the classroom teaching a s…[Read more]

]]> 0 19321d2a1327b5904de75a16c34f3fbc Ian Willis deposited The Role of British Red Cross in NSW Wartime Front: Home Truths in Australian History in the group Medical Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1890019/ Tue, 25 Jun 2024 03:00:24 -0400 This blog post details a talk by Dr Ian Willis OAM that challenges myths of WWI at the 2024 Australian Historical Association conference. He examines the Australian military's response to sick and wounded soldiers and the role of the British Red Cross. The conference aims to uncover home truths and dispel historical myths. Dr Willis's research…[Read more]

]]> 0 7c2b29146f482d8a4920ea6cc0469bb7 Ian Willis deposited The convalescent soldier and the British Red Cross on New South Wales wartime home front in the First World War. in the group Medical Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1889916/ Sun, 23 Jun 2024 03:00:30 -0400 The sick and wounded soldier was the central actor in the performance of Red Cross care during the First World War. This paper uses Jeffrey Reznick’s ‘culture of caregiving’ in his book Healing the Nation to examine the role of the British Red Cross in New South Wales in the convalescent stage in the lines of communications in the early month…[Read more]

]]> 0 085434c45a5e5ad45a5ddc789ec61ba9 Elisabeth Moreau deposited Galenic Medicine and the Atomist Revival: Elements, Particles, and Minima in Late Renaissance Physiology in the group Medical Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1889651/ Thu, 20 Jun 2024 03:00:53 -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 a6d64ae476bff0afadb04926cb34555a Vitus Angermeier deposited Slides: Doctors Between Civilisation and Wilderness. Medical Geography in Pre-modern South Asia in the group Medical Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1889649/ Thu, 20 Jun 2024 03:00:42 -0400 Usually theories on disease causation and treatment in early Āyurveda focus on the individual patient, his diet, and his lifestyle. There are however certain contexts, in which the locality or origin of factors jeopardising health is significant. Some climatic regions are understood to constitute more unhealthy surroundings in relation to others.…[Read more]

]]> 0 133846c6dfd2bf35198848da4ace28a6 Katrina Grant deposited Collaboration, flexibility, skill-sharing: The future of museum and cultural heritage work in the age of digital transformation in Australia in the group Digital Art History https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1888684/ Sat, 08 Jun 2024 03:00:03 -0400 The COVID-19 pandemic created huge challenges for the galleries, libraries, archives and museum (GLAM) sector as institutions were shut and travel and tourism became almost non-existent. Globally, cultural institutions large and small suddenly had to rely almost entirely on digital platforms to engage their missing audiences. Digital…[Read more]

]]> 0 ecdb835cc338b09feba84b968ac3f629 Valeria Graziano deposited ŽIVOTNA VJEŠTINA RAJE: INSTITUCIONALNO KRPARENJE I PUČKI ILEGALIZMI (THE RABBLE’S LIFECRAFT: INSTITUTIONAL TINKERING AND POPULAR ILLEGALISMS) in the group Performance Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1888620/ Fri, 07 Jun 2024 03:00:29 -0400 The essay explores "institutional tinkering," which refers to practices of disobedience and resource reappropriation that highlight the contradictions within systems or institutions. It argues that practices of institutional tinkering and popular illegalisms are critical lenses to understand power dynamics and resistance in the ongoing crisis of…[Read more]

]]> 0 81c5f06ccb4b7abb9aaad91b9e1a9f7d Romailyn Flores deposited ACCEPTABILITY OF THE USE OF BIOMATH AS A TEACHING-LEARNING MATERIAL AMONG PUBLIC SECONDARY MATHEMATICS TEACHERS in the group Open Educational Resources https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1887447/ Wed, 29 May 2024 03:00:39 -0400 “When will I use Mathematics?” is a question often posed by the students thinking how Mathematics will play a role in their daily lives. However, without realizing it, we utilize Mathematics in our day-to-day activities. For this reason, teaching and learning Mathematics is a must because of its significance. Thus, the researchers developed Bio…[Read more]

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