James Louis Smith deposited Public Humanities EcoGothic at the Coast in Ireland and Wales on Humanities Commons 6 hours, 41 minutes ago
The Gothic clings to Irish and Welsh coasts and finds voice through strange stories. Centuries of accumulated death and tragedy forms a dense web of sorrow with particularly prolific roots in the literature, songs, and stories of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. These traditions resonate within the longer history of lives and vessels lost…[Read more]
James Louis Smith deposited Environmental Dimensions of the RMS Leinster Sinking in the group
History on Humanities Commons 6 months, 3 weeks ago
The Irish Sea which separates Great Britain and Ireland has often been written about in terms of divisions, threats, and hazards. Facing each other across that sea, the coast of Wales and Ireland’s eastern seaboard have a more complex story to tell, one characterised by intimate if troubled lines of connection. A place of passage for centuries, t…[Read more]
James Louis Smith deposited Environmental Dimensions of the RMS Leinster Sinking in the group
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 6 months, 3 weeks ago
The Irish Sea which separates Great Britain and Ireland has often been written about in terms of divisions, threats, and hazards. Facing each other across that sea, the coast of Wales and Ireland’s eastern seaboard have a more complex story to tell, one characterised by intimate if troubled lines of connection. A place of passage for centuries, t…[Read more]
James Louis Smith deposited Environmental Dimensions of the RMS Leinster Sinking in the group
Cultural Studies on Humanities Commons 6 months, 3 weeks ago
The Irish Sea which separates Great Britain and Ireland has often been written about in terms of divisions, threats, and hazards. Facing each other across that sea, the coast of Wales and Ireland’s eastern seaboard have a more complex story to tell, one characterised by intimate if troubled lines of connection. A place of passage for centuries, t…[Read more]
James Louis Smith deposited Environmental Dimensions of the RMS Leinster Sinking on Humanities Commons 6 months, 3 weeks ago
The Irish Sea which separates Great Britain and Ireland has often been written about in terms of divisions, threats, and hazards. Facing each other across that sea, the coast of Wales and Ireland’s eastern seaboard have a more complex story to tell, one characterised by intimate if troubled lines of connection. A place of passage for centuries, t…[Read more]
James Louis Smith's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 7 months ago
James Louis Smith deposited Anxieties of Access: Remembering as a Lake in the group
Religious Studies on Humanities Commons 1 year, 1 month ago
This article explores the nature of remembering as a lake, with a lake, or through a lake; the differential relationships, knowledge, and perspectives contained within; and the potentially troubling implications found at the intersection of scientific and humanistic perspectives on lake being. It also reflects on the totalizing nature of assuming…[Read more]
James Louis Smith deposited Anxieties of Access: Remembering as a Lake in the group
Philosophy on Humanities Commons 1 year, 1 month ago
This article explores the nature of remembering as a lake, with a lake, or through a lake; the differential relationships, knowledge, and perspectives contained within; and the potentially troubling implications found at the intersection of scientific and humanistic perspectives on lake being. It also reflects on the totalizing nature of assuming…[Read more]
James Louis Smith deposited Anxieties of Access: Remembering as a Lake in the group
History on Humanities Commons 1 year, 1 month ago
This article explores the nature of remembering as a lake, with a lake, or through a lake; the differential relationships, knowledge, and perspectives contained within; and the potentially troubling implications found at the intersection of scientific and humanistic perspectives on lake being. It also reflects on the totalizing nature of assuming…[Read more]
James Louis Smith deposited Anxieties of Access: Remembering as a Lake in the group
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 1 year, 1 month ago
This article explores the nature of remembering as a lake, with a lake, or through a lake; the differential relationships, knowledge, and perspectives contained within; and the potentially troubling implications found at the intersection of scientific and humanistic perspectives on lake being. It also reflects on the totalizing nature of assuming…[Read more]
James Louis Smith deposited Anxieties of Access: Remembering as a Lake on Humanities Commons 1 year, 1 month ago
This article explores the nature of remembering as a lake, with a lake, or through a lake; the differential relationships, knowledge, and perspectives contained within; and the potentially troubling implications found at the intersection of scientific and humanistic perspectives on lake being. It also reflects on the totalizing nature of assuming…[Read more]
James Louis Smith's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 1 year, 3 months ago
James L. Smith wrote a new post, Call for Papers: Edited Volume on Medieval Minds and Matter, on the site Medieval Minds and Matter on Humanities Commons 1 year, 5 months ago
This proposed collection considers the diverse descriptions, theories and accounts of minds found in a variety of medieval sources in order to advance our knowledge of medieval minds and materiality. Through a […]
James Louis Smith's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 1 year, 10 months ago
James Louis Smith deposited Learning an Inclusive Blue Humanities: Oceania and Academia through the Lens of Cinema in the group
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 1 year, 10 months ago
Hollywood films such as Pixar’s Moana (2016) and Warner Brothers’ Aquaman (2018) have drawn on the aesthetics and stories of the island cultures of Oceania to inform their narratives. In doing so, these works have both succeeded and failed to respect and engage with oceanic cultural knowledge, providing a cultural vehicle to expand com…[Read more]
James Louis Smith deposited Learning an Inclusive Blue Humanities: Oceania and Academia through the Lens of Cinema in the group
Cultural Studies on Humanities Commons 1 year, 10 months ago
Hollywood films such as Pixar’s Moana (2016) and Warner Brothers’ Aquaman (2018) have drawn on the aesthetics and stories of the island cultures of Oceania to inform their narratives. In doing so, these works have both succeeded and failed to respect and engage with oceanic cultural knowledge, providing a cultural vehicle to expand com…[Read more]
James Louis Smith deposited Learning an Inclusive Blue Humanities: Oceania and Academia through the Lens of Cinema on Humanities Commons 1 year, 10 months ago
Hollywood films such as Pixar’s Moana (2016) and Warner Brothers’ Aquaman (2018) have drawn on the aesthetics and stories of the island cultures of Oceania to inform their narratives. In doing so, these works have both succeeded and failed to respect and engage with oceanic cultural knowledge, providing a cultural vehicle to expand com…[Read more]
James Louis Smith's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 2 years ago
James Louis Smith's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 2 years, 3 months ago
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