Knowledge Commons | Victoria Addona | Group Activity https://hcommons.org/members/victoriaa/activity/groups/ Public group activity feed of which Victoria Addona is a member. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 01:47:16 -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]

]]> 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]

]]> 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

]]> 4214fcedbb85ee6ea41da965bf2ee4f9 Valeria Graziano deposited Means of Collective Composition. A Situated Reflection on Practicing Congruence in Knowledge Production in the group Science and Technology Studies (STS) https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1902087/ Sat, 19 Oct 2024 03:00:47 -0400 Article published in German as "Das Kollektive komponieren: Vom Praktizieren der Kongruenz in der Wissensproduktion". In: Technopolitiken der Sorge. p. 197-219, Vienna:Transversal Texts, ISBN: 978-3-903046-38-2

]]> 0 0ed759d0fd4c34f3b902b98675e3ca72 Anne Pasek deposited DIY Methods 2024 in the group Science and Technology Studies (STS) https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1901184/ Wed, 09 Oct 2024 03:03:41 -0400 As the past years have proven, the methods for conducting and distributing research that we’ve inherited from our disciplinary traditions can be remarkably brittle in the face of rapidly changing social and mobility norms. The ways we work and the ways we meet are questions newly opened for practical and theoretical inquiry; we both need to s…[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 4be7ae897eb1e73c5311bae981271624 Rene Von Schomberg deposited The Future of Indicators for Research Assessment and Open Science. Doing away with quantitative indicators in the group Science and Technology Studies (STS) https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1900160/ Mon, 30 Sep 2024 03:01:02 -0400 I unfold the argument for a research assessment based on 'research behaviour' (e.g. knowledge sharing and collaboration) rather than solely on research outputs in bibliometric terms (e.g, number of publications, citation counts etc), reflecting a more open science practice. Quantitative assessments are any case not appropriate for assessing the…[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 87d71c2c5d76243c12c282df625f842e Rene Von Schomberg deposited In Memory of Karl-Otto Apel: the challenge of a universalistic ethics of co-responsibility in the group Science and Technology Studies (STS) https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1899883/ Fri, 27 Sep 2024 03:00:08 -0400 The article discusses the current shortcomings of philosophical and conventional ethics to address technological change. An institional etthics of co-responsibility is proposed and employed to underpin an framework for rrsponsible innovation

]]> 0 ea46b49ad815722b01b59635cba90d1a Rene Von Schomberg deposited Towards a New Ethos of Science or a Reform of the Institution of Science? in the group Science and Technology Studies (STS) https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1899881/ Fri, 27 Sep 2024 03:00:04 -0400 Over the past decade, we have witnessed a gradual and consistent evolution of research practices towards a more open science. This shift has been driven by both internal expectations within the scientific community and external demands from research policies. The push for open science within the scientific community has been further reinforced by…[Read more]

]]> 0 e1ce6c7d12b39f7ade72602c4bb353af Bethany Laursen deposited Toolkitting: an unrecognized form of expertise for overcoming fragmentation in inter- and transdisciplinarity in the group Science and Technology Studies (STS) https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1896262/ Thu, 15 Aug 2024 03:00:06 -0400 A growing number of inter- and transdisciplinary (ITD) toolkits provide methods, processes, concepts, heuristics, frameworks, and other resources for designing and implementing ITD research. A brief overview of the currently fragmented toolkits landscape is provided, fleshed out through descriptions of four toolkits. Fragmentation means that…[Read more]

]]> 0 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 d8470f088ce15f8474a5bdcb954665fa Yizhou Xu deposited DingTalk and Chinese Digital Workplace Surveillance in Pandemic Times in the group Science and Technology Studies (STS) https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1887191/ Sun, 26 May 2024 03:00:43 -0400 The pandemic-imposed lockdowns and the shift to remote work during COVID-19 have fundamentally changed the notion of the workplace as workers are forced to work from home. Tech work, in particular, seems especially adept at adjusting to this disruption as much of existing labor practices are already digitally-mediated via software and platforms.…[Read more]

]]> 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 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]

]]> 0 da0b21b1d9dd2cc398fcc20f63f00db8 Jörg Matthias Determann edited the post Islamic Theology and Extraterrestrial Life: New Frontiers in Science and Religion in the group Science and Technology Studies (STS) https://scienceandtechnologystudiessts.hcommons.org/2024/02/18/islamic-theology-and-extraterrestrial-life-new-frontiers-in-science-and-religion/ Sun, 18 Feb 2024 11:13:34 -0500 Dear colleagues,

It is with profound gratitude that I announce the publication of a volume edited by Shoaib Ahmed Malik and me. It is entitled Islamic Theology and Extraterrestrial Life: New Frontiers in […]

]]> fa4e53f488ac79ca27904fe5c560ebe0 Jörg Matthias Determann started the topic Islamic Theology and Extraterrestrial Life in the discussion Science and Technology Studies (STS) https://hcommons.org/groups/science-and-technology-studies-sts/forum/topic/islamic-theology-and-extraterrestrial-life-4/ Sun, 18 Feb 2024 11:08:03 -0500 Dear colleagues,

It is with profound gratitude that I announce the publication of a volume edited by Shoaib Ahmed Malik and me. It is entitled Islamic Theology and Extraterrestrial Life: New Frontiers in Science and Religion (London: I.B. Tauris, 2024). Free review copies are available.

Islamic Theology and Extraterrestrial Life: New…[Read more]

]]> ddc1e87a88e1350ff1c5c839f7f80d42 Alexa Alice Joubin deposited "Trans Studies at the Crossroad: From Racialized Invisibility to Gendered Legibility," The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Race, ed. Patricia Akhimie (Oxford University Press, 2024), pp. 195-211. in the group The Renaissance Society of America https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1876058/ Mon, 12 Feb 2024 04:08:13 -0500 Premodern critical race studies, long intertwined with Shakespeare studies, have broadened our understanding of the definitions and discourse of race and racism to include not only phenotype, but also religious and political identity, regional, national, and linguistic difference, and systems of differentiation based upon culture and custom. This…[Read more]

]]> 0 039cd6cf438b3e8ae66337703477f358 Alexa Alice Joubin deposited AI, Theater, and Interface Theory, keynote at Imaging Across Time: Wenshan International Conference, National Chengchi University, Taipei, Taiwan, November 18, 2023 in the group The Renaissance Society of America https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1875821/ Sun, 11 Feb 2024 04:08:14 -0500 What happens when AI goes to theatre with human audiences? Generative AI's natural-language conversational interface has frequently been cast as an anthropomorphic interface. In performance, digital screen as interface has evolved from a vehicle for dramatic messages to a meaning-making agent with an anthropomorphic presence. While the tendency to…[Read more]

]]> 0 f4969cb67a3019b37d641bf56026afb8 Eduardo Paredes Ocampo deposited Reconstructing Relationships of Desire: Homosexuality in Spanish Golden Age Theater in the group Renaissance / Early Modern Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1874118/ Wed, 31 Jan 2024 04:04:59 -0500 The figure of the marión, maricón or puto—the male homosexual—appears in many Spanish Golden Age plays. The critical approaches to this dramatic type have centered on thematic and textual issues, ignoring the performative cues inscribed on the character. For this reason, this paper reconstructs the acting of male homoeroticism in the comed…[Read more]

]]> 0 ddd1f4f983a379519fb113bf48415c4d Jessica Marie Otis started the topic CFP: Mathematical Humanists Summer Workshops in the discussion The Renaissance Society of America https://hcommons.org/groups/the-renaissance-society-of-america/forum/topic/cfp-mathematical-humanists-summer-workshops-3/ Tue, 30 Jan 2024 14:45:03 -0500 The Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media is hosting two Statistics and Network Analysis workshops this August. Those interested in developing a foundation for understanding the assumptions made in #DH methods are invited to apply by February 15.

We seek participants interested in developing a conceptual foundation for understanding t…[Read more]

]]> 4cc6ddda15ed167ca1ba2dfc5039d794 Alexa Alice Joubin deposited "Open and Intersectional Pedagogy: Teaching the Early Modern with Generative Artificial Intelligence," MLA, Philadelphia, January 6, 2024 in the group The Renaissance Society of America https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1872235/ Wed, 24 Jan 2024 04:08:25 -0500 What a piece of theatre work is AI. Since AI outputs can be seen as a theatrical performance, in her 10-minute paper at the MLA, Alexa Alice Joubin argued that we can teach critical questioning skills using generative AI. She demonstrated responsible and creative ways to teach students meta-cognition, using Shakespeare and early modern studies as…[Read more]

]]> 0 87709b8dfd80b05120067a570f99017c Alexa Alice Joubin deposited "Open and Intersectional Pedagogy: Teaching the Early Modern with Generative Artificial Intelligence," MLA convention, Philadelphia, January 6, 2024 in the group The Renaissance Society of America https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1872219/ Wed, 24 Jan 2024 03:08:47 -0500 What a piece of theatre work is AI Since AI outputs can be seen as a theatrical performance, in her 10-minute paper at the MLA, Alexa Alice Joubin argued that we can teach critical questioning skills using generative AI. She demonstrated responsible and creative ways to teach students meta-cognition, using Shakespeare and early modern studies as…[Read more]

]]> 0 ba7815e5fec267d8e828035ae2bc7f15 Alexa Alice Joubin deposited Review of #SuchStuff Podcast by the London Globe, Early Modern Digital Review 6.2 (2023): 149-153 in the group The Renaissance Society of America https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1871761/ Sat, 20 Jan 2024 04:05:28 -0500 Educational podcasts have gained momentum in recent years. Closure of live performance venues and widespread lockdowns as part of public hygiene measures during the global COVID-19 pandemic further increased interest in at-home consumption of digitally delivered content for entertainment and education. Supported by the Globe Theatre’s education d…[Read more]

]]> 0 3a56710a3e462cba3905ca47e3aae13b Eduardo Paredes Ocampo deposited Superhero Segismundo: Uncovering the Politics of Angry Gestures in the 2018 Graphic Novel Adaptation of La vida es sueño in the group Renaissance / Early Modern Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1871309/ Wed, 17 Jan 2024 03:00:37 -0500 The comic adaptation of La vida es sueño by Calderón de la Barca (2018) emphasizes the emotion of anger as one of the forces that guides the plot. The protagonist, Segismundo, displays aggression through two main gestures: the clenching fist and the frown on his face. This article aims to answer the following questions: Why did the comic artist d…[Read more]

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