MLA Commons | ALMUDENA CORTES MAISONAVE | Group Activity https://mla.hcommons.org/members/almucortes/activity/groups/ Public group activity feed of which ALMUDENA CORTES MAISONAVE is a member. Sun, 05 Apr 2026 02:41:17 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 3843c149ef3f43e0130624caa675ab5f Matthew Kidd started the topic Participate in a survey on generative AI and archival research practices in the forum Global & Transnational Studies https://hcommons.org/groups/global-transnational-studies/forum/topic/participate-in-a-survey-on-generative-ai-and-archival-research-practices-6/ Fri, 13 Feb 2026 11:17:56 -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]

]]> 0 d51cdc129449b437bd9f10e8c8113753 Katharine Lemessy started the topic CFP: Open Educational Resources in Caribbean Studies in the forum Latin America and the Caribbean https://hcommons.org/groups/latin-america-and-the-caribbean/forum/topic/cfp-open-educational-resources-in-caribbean-studies-9/ Tue, 10 Dec 2024 19:54:45 -0500 Call for Proposals Fall 2024 (English) 

Convocatoria Otoño 2024 (Español) 

Submit proposals by April 14, 2025 at 11:59PM EST via Application Form

The Digital Library of the Caribbean (dLOC) is pleased to announce its third call for open educational resources (OER) in Caribbean studies. Please see the 2024 and 2023 stipend recipients and read…[Read more]

]]> 0 6c8789f829b34916df663ebff2781f76 Kerem Duymus deposited Afroglobale Geschichte der Gegenwart (Beiträge zur Theorie der Globalgeschichte) in the group Global & Transnational Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1902204/ Mon, 21 Oct 2024 03:00:21 -0400 Während sich die Hauptliteratur der Globalgeschichte teilweise als Nachfolger der europäischen imperialen Geschichte mit einem neuen Rahmen und zum Teil als Erklärung der „globalisierten“ Gegenwart positioniert hat, konnten die Kritiken, insbesondere aus afrikanisch-historischer Perspektive, kaum Auswirkungen auf ihre deterministischen und euroze…[Read more]

]]> 0 e64e8c8a1437e3b53acd2e4603f54ec4 Kerem Duymus deposited Tadbir as Marine Diplomacy: Ottoman Foreign Jurisdiction in Practice and the Debate of Piracy in Case of Tripoli between 1790s-1835 in the group Global & Transnational Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1901429/ Sat, 12 Oct 2024 03:01:57 -0400 The marine diplomacy of Tripoli in the Qaramanlı era was deeply shaped by the Ottoman Foreign Jurisdiction. Yet, especially Yusuf Paşa with his tadbir (Ar.) [governing through taking measures] application carried the implication of this jurisdiction to a global tributary system that all European states as well as USA obeyed. The ignorance of the h…[Read more]

]]> 0 8e731ea7ea6e782a09b91cd495868da1 Kerem Duymus deposited The Political Economy of the Sokoto Caliphate after the 1850s: The Triple System and Its Dynamics in the group Global & Transnational Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1901181/ Wed, 09 Oct 2024 03:03:20 -0400 Three salient political-economic patterns – (1) agriculture and craft production with trade, (2) war economy, (3) economy of exploitation – in the Sokoto Caliphate have been inquired under the triple system by scrutinizing their similar and dissimilar features, their autonomous and interdependent characters, and their connected and dis…[Read more]

]]> 0 13382c6e3ad3b51702cb82971a3c08eb Kerem Duymus deposited 1850-1910 Arası Osmanlı'nın Sahra Politikaları in the group Global & Transnational Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1901178/ Wed, 09 Oct 2024 03:03:08 -0400 Osmanlılar’ın 19. yüzyılın ikinci yarısında merkezi Sahra bölgesindeki genişlemesi ve uygulanan politikalar, arşiv materyallerinin iki ülke (Libya ve Türkiye) arasında düzensiz bir şekilde dağılmış olması sebebiyle bugüne değin keşfedilmeden kalmaya devam etmiştir. İki ülke arşivlerinin yoğun bir analizi sonucunda ortaya çıkan yeni kayıtlar ve…[Read more]

]]> 0 8dbfb8d40094c47dd4edd41b2d7bf145 Kerem Duymus deposited Commodity Production and African Migration to Turkey, Now and in the Premodern Past in the group Global & Transnational Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1901175/ Wed, 09 Oct 2024 03:02:54 -0400 African Migration in Turkey is an under-researched area despite the long history of migration between West Africa and the Ottoman Empire and the large number of African migrants in Turkey. The connection of this historical and contemporary migration movement with commodity production reveals not only the basic dynamics and patterns but also the…[Read more]

]]> 0 a737f714c290dec4919ef8051b1c248a Arif Camoglu deposited Gönül Ferman Dinlerse in the group Global & Transnational Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1900460/ Wed, 02 Oct 2024 03:00:38 -0400 Galib’in mesnevisindeki aşk hikayesi tahtlar, hazineler, keşifler ve ordularla bezenmiş bir emperyal düştür aynı zamanda. Sonunda kutsanan şey mistik boyutlara taşınmış mutlak sayılan siyasi otoritedir. Âşık olunan, kendisine tam bağlılığı esas bildiren, göze gelmeyen ama gözünden hiçbir şey kaçmayan bir yönetim tahayyülüdür. Bu hayalde nefs…[Read more]

]]> 0 9fa84f33c6e9e8c8fafbe0a6f587fbd9 Guylian Nemegeer edited the blog post International Conference: Pan-Movements, Regeneration and Modernity (29 October 2024) in the group Global & Transnational Studies https://globaltransnationalstudies.hcommons.org/2024/09/28/international-conference-pan-movement-regeneration-and-modernity-29-october-2024/ Sat, 28 Sep 2024 12:38:42 -0400 Members of this group may be interested in the following conference, which may be followed online. Registration is needed to receive the meeting link: […]

]]> fb374a29664a3422901098a43bc33667 Ian Willis deposited Young Women Enlisted in the Land Army in the group Gender Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1899674/ Wed, 25 Sep 2024 03:00:01 -0400 This newspaper article explores the experiences of young women who enlisted in the Australian Women’s Land Army during the Second World War in the Camden district at Orangeville. The land army was used to fill a manpower shortage in the Australian farming sector and was tasked with providing food and materials to the Allies in the Pacific…[Read more]

]]> 0 d93cc90c84bd9af77956a1b5a3c2d80c Sonia D. Andras deposited Sonia D. Andras - Negotiations En Vogue: Interwar Romanian Women as Fashion Icons Represented in American Vogue (Conference Presentation, 2023) in the group Gender Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1897242/ Mon, 26 Aug 2024 03:00:17 -0400 Presentation of the paper “Negotiations En Vogue: Interwar Romanian Women as Fashion Icons Represented in American Vogue” from 15 June 2023 at the ‪@EDERAPCE‬ Conference Titled “Romanian American Negotiations in Education, Science, Culture, and Arts/Negocierile româno-americane în educație, știință, cultură și artă” [See details: https://eder…[Read more]

]]> 0 e99c4c351ccc239147ae6a9ddc047764 John Aerni-Flessner deposited Basotho and the Bantustans: Long-Term Impacts of Historical Borders on Borderlands Communities in QwaQwa and Lesotho in the group Global & Transnational Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1896783/ Tue, 20 Aug 2024 03:00:54 -0400 Drawing on archival work conducted in South Africa, the UK and Lesotho, and on oral histories collected in 2021–2023, this article historicises the experiences of Basotho living along the Lesotho–South Africa border. It focuses primarily on the part of eastern Free State designated during the apartheid era as the Basotho ‘Homeland’ of QwaQwa…[Read more]

]]> 0 e2a3efd892ab102d43a16b2465a753aa Sonia D. Andras deposited Romanian-American Negotiations in Education, Science, Culture, and Arts in the group Global & Transnational Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1896775/ Tue, 20 Aug 2024 03:00:23 -0400 As a political model for the young democracy in interwar Romania, as a protector against threats to the sovereignty and integrity of the state, as a cultural model, and as a daily life, America represented for Romania a reference point, a factor of stability and progress. America was a model and ally of the civilized world!
Unfortunately,…[Read more]

]]> 0 44c58f3d85c127a89a878e9cce917444 Gavin Herzig deposited Time Heals All Wounds: The Time Loop Beyond Groundhog Day, Disability, and Higurashi Gou and Sotsu (2020-21) in the group Global & Transnational Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1896644/ Sun, 18 Aug 2024 03:01:17 -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 598ddfa9109d629122738dd8738790be Gavin Herzig deposited Time Heals All Wounds: The Time Loop Beyond Groundhog Day, Disability, and Higurashi Gou and Sotsu (2020-21) in the group Gender Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1896643/ Sun, 18 Aug 2024 03:01:10 -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 48beaf2d719c2b86ad5c7149e232428f Marvin Cheung edited the blog post Invite: Seminar on "Solving Grand Challenges with Transdisciplinary Research" in the group Global & Transnational Studies https://globaltransnationalstudies.hcommons.org/2024/08/14/invite-seminar-on-solving-grand-challenges-with-transdisciplinary-research/ Wed, 14 Aug 2024 20:18:51 -0400 For scholars, founders, and executives — Grand challenges are wicked problems characterized by their global scope, high significance, and potential to be solvable. Potential to be solvable is important to e […]

]]> 87cf6261eed3914fd9f3b0d5db878492 Arif Camoglu deposited Anti-Black Racism, British Orientalism, and the Ottoman Empire: Rereading The Turkish Embassy Letters in the group Global & Transnational Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1896018/ Mon, 12 Aug 2024 04:00:06 -0400 This essay reads Mary Wortley Montagu’s The Turkish Embassy Letters (1763)
as an entry point for an investigation of the entwinement between the
British anti-Black racial consciousness and orientalist rhetoric concerning
the Ottoman Empire. Montagu’s racially marked depictions of women in
Ottoman lands not only reveal the limits of her cap…[Read more]

]]> 0 775ce4173da5e6d69664b5b2ff7dbd95 Ian Willis deposited Red Cross ladies contributed to the war effort in the group Gender Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1895943/ Sun, 11 Aug 2024 03:00:02 -0400 This newspaper article outlines the foundation of the Red Cross in the country town of Camden, NSW, at the outbreak of World War One in August 1914. The new organisation attracted conservative women who wanted to exercise their agency and support the war effort through sewing, knitting, cooking and spinning for God, the King, and the Country. The…[Read more]

]]> 0 642158ea5d4c4ef4c76ebc51a11f6ff8 Ian Willis deposited Ministering Angels, Myth and the Red Cross on the Australian Wartime Homefront in the group Gender Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1894807/ Sun, 28 Jul 2024 03:00:29 -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 516882c635965120743f0e5a7b9baabd Ian Willis deposited ‘Guardian Angels’, the Red Cross on the wartime homefront in the group Gender Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1894762/ Sat, 27 Jul 2024 03:00:50 -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 ae3a0d01dfc180f413c4aafa799b8f6f Anna-Marie Kroupová replied to the topic CFP: Iron Curtains or Artistic Gates? in the forum Global & Transnational Studies https://hcommons.org/groups/global-transnational-studies/forum/topic/cfp-iron-curtains-or-artistic-gates/#post-88127 Fri, 26 Jul 2024 11:09:40 -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]

]]> 0 1b182c7bab8e95043aa92a2090a86fef Ian Willis deposited New South Wales Women and the Red Cross: A Noble Cause in the group Gender Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1894469/ Wed, 24 Jul 2024 03:00:23 -0400 This blog post examines the Red Cross movement in New South Wales during the First World War. The Red Cross organisation saw enthusiastic support from New South Wales women, spurred on by Lady Helen Munro Ferguson and the state’s elite. The movement mobilised thousands for war support, with urban and rural branches contributing countless hours and…[Read more]

]]> 0 39ebdcd4028d662dc39d4929b588d278 Ian Willis deposited Camden Teacher Trainee Camp 1921: Insights into 1920s Teacher Training in the group Gender Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1893017/ Sat, 20 Jul 2024 03:00:02 -0400 This blog post examines the Camden Trainee Teacher Camps held at the Camden Showground in the early 1920s. Using a family history approach, it builds the story of the camp using a case study of one of the student teachers, Lottie Dean.
In the early 1920s, young women like Lottie Dean participated in teacher training camps in Camden, NSW. The…[Read more]

]]> 0 2060f3409b8ef2a951057e7ee560524d Ian Willis deposited Ministering Angels The Camden District Red Cross 1914-1945 in the group Gender Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1890596/ Sat, 29 Jun 2024 03:00:03 -0400 Ministering Angels is a peer-reviewed publication that tells the story of conservative country women doing their patriotic duty in an outpost of the British Empire. From 1914, Camden district women joined local Red Cross branches and their affiliates in the towns and villages around the colonial estate of the Macarthur family at Camden Park. They…[Read more]

]]> 0 1100e362fa3bcd37e433dda9be37a089 Steve McCarty deposited English Education and Bilingual Education in Japan in the group Global & Transnational Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1889641/ Thu, 20 Jun 2024 03:00:04 -0400 The Japan Times quoted the author extensively in a recent article on bilingual education. The reporter agreed to share the full interview with the Japan Association for Language Teaching Bilingualism Special Interest Group (JALT Bilingualism SIG) publication Bilingual Japan. Asked why the level of English in Japan remains low, the author goes well…[Read more]

]]> 0 b986a93b0a27568578296de38da9fc87 Marvin Cheung deposited 5 Ideas from Global Diplomacy: System-wide Transformation Methods to Close the Compliance Gap and Advance the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals in the group Global & Transnational Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1889574/ Wed, 19 Jun 2024 03:00:28 -0400 Why are we stuck here and how do we move forward? Amidst escalating global crises and growing climate anxiety, “5 Ideas from Global Diplomacy” offers actionable recommendations to aspiring changemakers to close the compliance gap between political commitment and action, and advance the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals. The book journeys beyond…[Read more]

]]> 0 b9fdc0488a447f50b4fa5ad6c0129a4a Ian Willis deposited Nancy Phelan’s Reflections on the English Resemblance of Cobbitty, NSW in the group Gender Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1888401/ Wed, 05 Jun 2024 03:00:37 -0400 This blog post examines Australian writer Nancy Phelan’s “Some Came Early, Some Came Late” (1970) and how it explores the historical significance of the Cobbitty region in New South Wales. It focuses on the efforts of early colonial English immigrants to recreate a ‘little England’. Phelan’s unique perspective, influenced by her own experiences…[Read more]

]]> 0 d9b0f7df06a56816859e9e1b905d6b7d Yizhou Xu deposited DingTalk and Chinese Digital Workplace Surveillance in Pandemic Times in the group Global & Transnational Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1887190/ Sun, 26 May 2024 03:00:30 -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 2e40c27a22af71c564db56b23af54e77 Martine van Elk deposited Politics, Authorship, and Philosophy: Teaching Margaret Cavendish’s The Blazing World in the Diverse Graduate Classroom in the group Gender Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1886478/ Sat, 18 May 2024 03:08:13 -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 579fc3431b0e6f071c78648d9b5beb17 Ian Willis deposited Garden Palace, showing the wonders of the age in the group Gender Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1885889/ Sat, 11 May 2024 03:01:21 -0400 This blog post discusses a massive fire at Macquarie Street, Sydney, in 1882 that destroyed the Garden Palace and its valuable contents, causing a significant loss of records and artefacts. The origin of the fire remains a mystery. The Palace was originally built for the Sydney International Exhibition in 1879.

]]> 0 7de91b09082ae63d809fdce0d81d3b52 Christopher Griffin deposited Colonial Cisnationalism: Notes on Empire and Gender in the UK’s Migration Policy in the group Gender Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1884633/ Wed, 01 May 2024 03:25:46 -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 b5343fd19daf5483e7062a0a1be8b58e Pramod Ranjan deposited वह प्लटॉनिक प्रेम [Her Platonic Muse] in the group Gender Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1884535/ Wed, 01 May 2024 03:07:20 -0400 यह संस्मरण प्रमोद रंजन द्वारा लिखित है। प्रमोद रंजन ने हिमाचल प्रदेश में रहकर कई वर्षों तक पत्रकारिता की। इस संस्मरण में हिमाचल प्रदेश से प्रकाशित दैनिक समाचार पत्र ‘दिव्य हिमाचल’ में उनकी सहकर्मी रही प्रिया आनंद और प्रसिद्ध हिंदी लेखक कमलेश्वर के बीच प्रेम का चित्रण है।

इसमें प्रिया आनंद के प्लेटोनिक प्रेम की कहानी को विस्तार से बत…[Read more]

]]> 0 cf6965ea0fd75d5220ae27b96f5882f1 Rita Singer deposited LINDEN, DIEDERICH WESSEL (fl.1745-1768; d.1769), medical doctor and minerologist in the group Global & Transnational Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1884524/ Wed, 01 May 2024 03:06:04 -0400 This biography of the German medical doctor and minerologist Diederich Wessel Linden (fl.1745-1768; d.1769) is the edited and published version in the Dictionary of Welsh Biography. The article discusses Linden’s life, scientific research on mineral waters and their medicinal use.

]]> 0 6a619d921ebc78cf24a9b0bdc9895fc3 Ian Willis deposited Public art by young women artists on display at Oran Park in the group Gender Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1880424/ Sat, 23 Mar 2024 03:00:04 -0400 This blog post details the story of several young women artists from the Camden area who have had their artworks on public display in a program called Something to Say. The art installations were located outside the Camden Council administration building at Oran Park, NSW, from late 2023 to early 2024.

]]> 0 7c344e50770ee403c0c5376333838f79 Abby Cole deposited Book Review- Data Feminism in the group Gender Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1880303/ Fri, 22 Mar 2024 04:00:59 -0400 Book review of Data Feminism through a critical journalism lens.

]]> 0 2ffc6ac9f176c029019bb8010f63f5c8 Frédéric Lefrançois deposited « Itinéraire pour retrouver la géographie de soi »,"Itinerary to Reclaim a Mapping of the Self" in the group Latin America and the Caribbean https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1879332/ Wed, 13 Mar 2024 03:02:52 -0400 March 1, 2018 was the day of study organized by the CEREAP-CRILLASH on the theme: ‘Cartographies and Identity Topology’ at the University of the West Indies. ‘Route to Find the Geography of Self’ is the title of the work produced by the artist David Né. This creation, which is both pictorial and performative, embraces the concept of the card in…[Read more]

]]> 0 4828445e7f96f7187cb8be2aa9c780f0 Frédéric Lefrançois deposited « Itinéraire pour retrouver la géographie de soi »,"Itinerary to Reclaim a Mapping of the Self" in the group Global & Transnational Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1879331/ Wed, 13 Mar 2024 03:02:34 -0400 March 1, 2018 was the day of study organized by the CEREAP-CRILLASH on the theme: ‘Cartographies and Identity Topology’ at the University of the West Indies. ‘Route to Find the Geography of Self’ is the title of the work produced by the artist David Né. This creation, which is both pictorial and performative, embraces the concept of the card in…[Read more]

]]> 0 3bd7fbe845d62b1cd448fcd79b9659d2 Thomas Robert Ward started the topic Lamada de sumillas/Call for Abstracts: FEMINISMO PERUANO Y ZOILA AURORA CÁCERES in the discussion Latin America and the Caribbean https://hcommons.org/groups/latin-america-and-the-caribbean/forum/topic/lamada-de-sumillas-call-for-abstracts-feminismo-peruano-y-zoila-aurora-caceres-2/ Thu, 29 Feb 2024 13:34:39 -0500 S E M I N A R I O   I N T E R N A C I O N A L
F E M I N I S M O   P E R U A N O   Y   Z O I L A   A U R O R A   C Á C E R E S
Lima, 23 y 24 de septiembre de 2024
En el marco del centenario de fundación del colectivo Feminismo Peruano se organiza este evento que busca reflexionar críticamente sobre la lucha feminista y el trabajo intelectual ll…[Read more]

]]> 0 c51cd9d1c1caab24a3cc7c363203340e Ian Willis deposited Public art in Hobart tells the story of female convicts in Van Diemen’s Land in the group Gender Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1877800/ Mon, 26 Feb 2024 03:00:18 -0500 This blog post tells how public art has been used in Hobart to reveal stories of female convicts that have been hidden in the shadows for decades with art installations on the Hobart waterfront and the Cascades Female Factory.

]]> 0 feb67fef84ddd32acfa11acf79cca08f Jenny Bhatt started the topic CFP for MLA 2025 in the discussion Global & Transnational Studies https://hcommons.org/groups/global-transnational-studies/forum/topic/cfp-for-mla-2025/ Fri, 23 Feb 2024 16:42:45 -0500 I’m sharing a CFP for a proposed panel for MLA 2025. Here’s the brief (35-word limit) CFP as posted. Below, you can see a slightly longer abstract. Please reach out if this might be of interest to you. Thanks.

MLA CFP Link: https://mla.confex.com/mla/2025/webprogrampreliminary/Paper26442.html

Working Title: Reconstructing Narratives, Ref…[Read more]

]]> 0 6a08c75b06ec50cf9aa96c286471a9bf Arif Camoglu deposited Plague, Paradox, and the Ends of Community: Defoe's Epidemiological Orientalism in the group Global & Transnational Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1876886/ Sat, 17 Feb 2024 03:00:50 -0500 Revisiting Daniel Defoe’s A Journal of the Plague Year (1722) in tandem with a selection of medical sources from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, this essay examines the ethnocultural underpinnings of plague. Although plague approximates community to its imagined outsiders through a shared sense of precarity, the divide between the two…[Read more]

]]> 0 404c21f6c94943ebd197f3f3f40cbb52 Ian Willis deposited The art of embroidery with Menangle artist Elaine Balla in the group Gender Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1876008/ Mon, 12 Feb 2024 03:00:02 -0500 This blog post outlines the artwork of Menangle embroidery artist Elaine Balla and the exhibition of her work at the Camden Show and Campbelltown Arts Centre. Handicrafts are an important part of women’s history and the exercise of women’s agency and storytelling.

]]> 0 df36fab73d5d259ad00020366941986b Rita Singer deposited ‘[A] very improbable and imaginative fiction’: Fictionalising the French Invasion of Fishguard in the group Global & Transnational Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1874893/ Wed, 07 Feb 2024 03:00:08 -0500 This article investigates three Victorian historical novels in Welsh and English about the Fishguard Invasion by the French in 1797. The article discusses the metaphorical function of landscape and geography in their relation to national identity and historical events against the late-Victorian backdrop of the fear of invasion of the British mainland.

]]> 0 3b41ba72d01fa2e0b1d340dec70ebcfd Sonia D. Andras deposited Modă și frumusețe. Lucrări teoretice de autor in the group Global & Transnational Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1874550/ Sun, 04 Feb 2024 03:00:34 -0500 Contribuția mea inovativă constă în identificarea și analiza lucrărilor internaționale de modă și frumusețe, care au fost traduse în limba română. Traducătorii în limba română vor fi studiați din perspectiva temelor abordate în acest domeniu, limbilor din care au tradus, a autorilor traduși, intervalului dintre original și traducere (sincroniz…[Read more]

]]> 0 446b1c9d3a324139aeda8392005dad8b Sonia D. Andras deposited Modă și frumusețe. Lucrări teoretice de autor in the group Gender Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1874549/ Sun, 04 Feb 2024 03:00:26 -0500 Contribuția mea inovativă constă în identificarea și analiza lucrărilor internaționale de modă și frumusețe, care au fost traduse în limba română. Traducătorii în limba română vor fi studiați din perspectiva temelor abordate în acest domeniu, limbilor din care au tradus, a autorilor traduși, intervalului dintre original și traducere (sincroniz…[Read more]

]]> 0 1a07b2c92fd5e22be0f1df281f3d87e6 Anna-Marie Kroupová started the topic CFP: Iron Curtains or Artistic Gates? in the discussion Global & Transnational Studies https://hcommons.org/groups/global-transnational-studies/forum/topic/cfp-iron-curtains-or-artistic-gates/ Fri, 02 Feb 2024 14:42:56 -0500 CFP: Workshop: Iron Curtains or Artistic Gates? Communism and Cultural Diplomacy in the Global South (1945–1991 and Beyond)

Location: Vienna, Austria

Date: 19-20 Spetember 2024

Submission deadline: 31 March 2024

 

Iron Curtains or Artistic Gates? Communism and Cultural Diplomacy in the Global South (1945–1991 and Beyond)

How did cultural int…[Read more]

]]> 0 9c35848e088a2c9f9d029249a8b090e4 Fabio Andrés Díaz Pabón deposited Civil Wars: Escalation and De-Escalation in the group Global & Transnational Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1869979/ Sat, 06 Jan 2024 03:00:15 -0500 When we study civil wars and conflicts we tend to conceptualise them as occurring in stages: starting from domestic political disagreements, to demon-strations and protests escalating into violence and war. How armed conflicts end is often seen as the reverse process, moving from high intensity armed interaction, to a drawing down, war weariness,…[Read more]

]]> 0 76dec91b11f51469335f46f997e3a82b Michail St. Fountoulakis (Μιχαήλ Φουντουλάκης) deposited Unlocking the Potential of Language Learners: Effective Strategies for Lifelong Achievement and Personal Development in the group Global & Transnational Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1869857/ Fri, 05 Jan 2024 03:03:12 -0500 This study presents innovative strategies for EFL educators aimed at cultivating resilience and growth mindsets in learners. Utilizing a mixed-methods approach, we engaged 200 learners aged 11-20 from varied linguistic backgrounds. The methodology comprised surveys and interviews, enabling customized interventions that significantly improved…[Read more]

]]> 0 1a0c18366ab55238cf2ca9f5412312b8 Sonia D. Andras deposited Garçonne, but Make Her Flapper. Using American Femininity Models to Re-Fashion the Romanian ‘Modern Girl’ in the group Gender Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1869852/ Fri, 05 Jan 2024 03:02:51 -0500 This chapter examines the reception of the American ‘flapper’ model and how it was interpreted and translated into the interwar Romanian fashion and beauty discourse, into the 1920s model termed as the ‘modern girl’, as opposed to the ‘new woman’ of the 1930s. It follows the evolution of 1920s styles, including Jazz and Hollywood cultures, J…[Read more]

]]> 0 5e43684ecb8313cd2bd9686e6b6bf27b Sonia D. Andras deposited Creative Negotiations. Romania – America 1920-1940 in the group Global & Transnational Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1869846/ Fri, 05 Jan 2024 03:02:18 -0500 Throughout the interwar period, America’s interest in Romania grew and encompassed not only political, diplomatic, and historical aspects but also financial, cultural, and educational contributions. Thus, the Romanian- American ties throughout the interwar period suggest innate complexity and dynamism. This volume presents novel techniques and i…[Read more]

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