MLA Commons | James Louis Smith | Activity https://mla.hcommons.org/members/scrivenersmith/activity/ Activity feed for James Louis Smith. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 17:27:03 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 4165e9a3ab33e00a5fdfe3881541477a James Louis Smith's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1908271/ Wed, 08 Jan 2025 17:01:45 -0500 0 8921466e90e7e216215e8832bb952251 James Louis Smith changed their profile picture https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1887252/ Sun, 26 May 2024 14:28:47 -0400 0 19d636eca1dfcb00f27f20dd8db3ee2c James Louis Smith's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1884355/ Tue, 30 Apr 2024 07:57:07 -0400 0 6671bf249961ba22d007c04afeae9e6f James Louis Smith's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1882063/ Wed, 03 Apr 2024 07:34:41 -0400 0 56470fc91bbed9cbdee664b80753e744 James Louis Smith deposited “Too Much Loose Sand:” Narrating Coastal Erosion in Southeast Ireland in the group Place Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1865781/ Fri, 24 Nov 2023 03:00:35 -0500 Comprised of soft glacial cliffs and sandy beaches, the southeastern coastline of Ireland is dominated by unconsolidated Quaternary-aged sediments with fewer rock exposures than Ireland’s other coasts. Facing Britain across a rough sea, County Wexford has been prone to incursions from both political and environmental forces throughout history. T…[Read more]

]]> 0 366f338269785376ad354ead87c8460a James Louis Smith deposited “Too Much Loose Sand:” Narrating Coastal Erosion in Southeast Ireland in the group History https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1865780/ Fri, 24 Nov 2023 03:00:27 -0500 Comprised of soft glacial cliffs and sandy beaches, the southeastern coastline of Ireland is dominated by unconsolidated Quaternary-aged sediments with fewer rock exposures than Ireland’s other coasts. Facing Britain across a rough sea, County Wexford has been prone to incursions from both political and environmental forces throughout history. T…[Read more]

]]> 0 8b9793eb28489e008d562c6dfae8eb49 James Louis Smith deposited “Too Much Loose Sand:” Narrating Coastal Erosion in Southeast Ireland in the group Environmental Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1865779/ Fri, 24 Nov 2023 03:00:19 -0500 Comprised of soft glacial cliffs and sandy beaches, the southeastern coastline of Ireland is dominated by unconsolidated Quaternary-aged sediments with fewer rock exposures than Ireland’s other coasts. Facing Britain across a rough sea, County Wexford has been prone to incursions from both political and environmental forces throughout history. T…[Read more]

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]]> 0 f5ea5bc0a72725f6860efc08daa0078f James Louis Smith deposited “Too Much Loose Sand:” Narrating Coastal Erosion in Southeast Ireland https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1865735/ Thu, 23 Nov 2023 15:13:53 -0500 Comprised of soft glacial cliffs and sandy beaches, the southeastern coastline of Ireland is dominated by unconsolidated Quaternary-aged sediments with fewer rock exposures than Ireland’s other coasts. Facing Britain across a rough sea, County Wexford has been prone to incursions from both political and environmental forces throughout history. T…[Read more]

]]> 0 89cf7d388d74631a310ac93ef7c5051d James Louis Smith deposited Net-work: Irish Sea Crossings with and beyond Infrastructure in the group Place Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1864055/ Fri, 10 Nov 2023 03:01:30 -0500 This article explores the co-constitution of networks and infrastructure in the context of late eighteenth- and nineteenth-century culture. We consider Maria Edgeworth’s conceptualization of the term network with and alongside infrastructure in her Harry and Lucy stories (1801–25) and offer an analysis of a manuscript tour by Mary Anne Eade fro…[Read more]

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]]> 0 be489f4e04d0c93c690b07234a9ddabf James Louis Smith deposited Net-work: Irish Sea Crossings with and beyond Infrastructure https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1863996/ Thu, 09 Nov 2023 10:04:07 -0500 This article explores the co-constitution of networks and infrastructure in the context of late eighteenth- and nineteenth-century culture. We consider Maria Edgeworth’s conceptualization of the term network with and alongside infrastructure in her Harry and Lucy stories (1801–25) and offer an analysis of a manuscript tour by Mary Anne Eade fro…[Read more]

]]> 0 ddb303607b0e9dbb00a676cadae47659 James Louis Smith deposited Imaginary Worlds: Plural Seas, Liminal Foundations, Contested Identities in the group The Medieval landscape/seascape https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1860448/ Tue, 03 Oct 2023 03:00:59 -0400 A Cultural History of the Sea in the Medieval Age, ed. by Elizabeth Lambourn.

The cultural history of the sea during the Middle Ages is a young and dynamic field. Born only recently in the literary criticism of European sources, this innovative volume pushes out beyond this European heartland to explore the shape and potential of a cultural…[Read more]

]]> 0 d97b581c3ae6a8fb8a87cc48de330d1c James Louis Smith deposited Imaginary Worlds: Plural Seas, Liminal Foundations, Contested Identities in the group Medieval Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1860447/ Tue, 03 Oct 2023 03:00:51 -0400 A Cultural History of the Sea in the Medieval Age, ed. by Elizabeth Lambourn.

The cultural history of the sea during the Middle Ages is a young and dynamic field. Born only recently in the literary criticism of European sources, this innovative volume pushes out beyond this European heartland to explore the shape and potential of a cultural…[Read more]

]]> 0 a76f59b586389ec24abcedb5ee7151e9 James Louis Smith deposited Imaginary Worlds: Plural Seas, Liminal Foundations, Contested Identities in the group History https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1860446/ Tue, 03 Oct 2023 03:00:44 -0400 A Cultural History of the Sea in the Medieval Age, ed. by Elizabeth Lambourn.

The cultural history of the sea during the Middle Ages is a young and dynamic field. Born only recently in the literary criticism of European sources, this innovative volume pushes out beyond this European heartland to explore the shape and potential of a cultural…[Read more]

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The cultural history of the sea during the Middle Ages is a young and dynamic field. Born only recently in the literary criticism of European sources, this innovative volume pushes out beyond this European heartland to explore the shape and potential of a cultural…[Read more]

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The cultural history of the sea during the Middle Ages is a young and dynamic field. Born only recently in the literary criticism of European sources, this innovative volume pushes out beyond this European heartland to explore the shape and potential of a cultural…[Read more]

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The cultural history of the sea during the Middle Ages is a young and dynamic field. Born only recently in the literary criticism of European sources, this innovative volume pushes out beyond this European heartland to explore the shape and potential of a cultural…[Read more]

]]> 0 5b5ea5fa4f80cde9a128508ced9a1aa0 James Louis Smith's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1853290/ Tue, 01 Aug 2023 10:14:27 -0400 0 37b3dd863057e8e8955f2da539f808de James Louis Smith deposited Ports and media: A research project showcase https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1852114/ Tue, 18 Jul 2023 10:10:23 -0400 PortCityFutures: Mindsets and values, contestation and friction
Vincent Baptist, Francesca Savoldi, and Carola Hein

Showcasing the ‘Ports, Past and Present’ project through its media
James Louis Smith

Sustainable subsea networks: Connecting ports, ships,and cables
George N. Ramírez

Musicians’ labor organisation in the port city of Val…[Read more]

]]> 0 93441a6f7db68477b5d3905b6d9b4d61 James Louis Smith deposited The nonhuman condition: Radical democracy through new materialist lenses in the group Philosophy https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1848856/ Fri, 09 Jun 2023 02:24:49 -0400 This Critical Exchange explores the nonhuman condition. It asks: What are the implications of decentering the human subject via a new materialist reading of radical democracy? Does this reading dilute political agency? Or should this be seen, on the contrary, as an invitation for new voices and demands to enter into democratic assemblages? How…[Read more]

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]]> 0 13c0926df6aafe91c7232807c4a85982 James Louis Smith's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1828899/ Mon, 09 Jan 2023 11:03:48 -0500 0 3bc17753765b656b859117b67ead8d11 James Louis Smith's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1824428/ Wed, 30 Nov 2022 15:19:20 -0500 0 af00b9a136a763f0aaa81b5824361608 James Louis Smith's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1820460/ Mon, 07 Nov 2022 12:24:36 -0500 0 42d08d09e588912acbab9e4199585c0e James Louis Smith's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1785825/ Thu, 07 Jul 2022 09:07:23 -0400 0 4261a1610132374365f07177db261a7a James Louis Smith deposited Public Humanities EcoGothic at the Coast in Ireland and Wales in the group Place Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1785117/ Tue, 28 Jun 2022 02:25:04 -0400 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]

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]]> 0 3b74d7f89b83b6f049298b44783c7239 James Louis Smith deposited Environmental Dimensions of the RMS Leinster Sinking in the group History https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1760517/ Sat, 04 Dec 2021 02:24:11 -0500 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]

]]> 0 c077bef2ddf39f2f7456ebdb834983c8 James Louis Smith deposited Environmental Dimensions of the RMS Leinster Sinking in the group Environmental Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1760516/ Sat, 04 Dec 2021 02:24:01 -0500 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]

]]> 0 c816cfe91eb38156a3bcb95a1fc3b99d James Louis Smith deposited Environmental Dimensions of the RMS Leinster Sinking in the group Cultural Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1760515/ Sat, 04 Dec 2021 02:23:38 -0500 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]

]]> 0 c2b0450a1c23dbfd815fcf9529e79d9d James Louis Smith deposited Environmental Dimensions of the RMS Leinster Sinking https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1760442/ Fri, 03 Dec 2021 09:55:31 -0500 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]

]]> 0 d2f4c596ba0e1f447001dc6473916688 James Louis Smith's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1759702/ Thu, 25 Nov 2021 13:38:02 -0500 0 e5c8cb5402fe6e93d4aa5ca6b2f0beb6 James L. Smith deposited Anxieties of Access: Remembering as a Lake in the group Religious Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1739558/ Wed, 26 May 2021 02:27:04 -0400 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]

]]> 0 0c6d4f3066477d9f126fc9871cc4828b James L. Smith deposited Anxieties of Access: Remembering as a Lake in the group Philosophy https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1739557/ Wed, 26 May 2021 02:26:57 -0400 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]

]]> 0 2788361a995c89ead305eb390e71c189 James L. Smith deposited Anxieties of Access: Remembering as a Lake in the group History https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1739556/ Wed, 26 May 2021 02:26:52 -0400 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]

]]> 0 4e5fded4c92545f288c8ca1b02c8ebbf James L. Smith deposited Anxieties of Access: Remembering as a Lake in the group Environmental Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1739555/ Wed, 26 May 2021 02:26:47 -0400 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]

]]> 0 db0d96761531bbdf1588ea4baa94c5c2 James L. Smith deposited Anxieties of Access: Remembering as a Lake https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1739394/ Tue, 25 May 2021 08:51:16 -0400 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]

]]> 0 437acb94bf3cbb34e30019157f8de3c1 James Louis Smith's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1730772/ Tue, 09 Mar 2021 17:07:36 -0500 0 2e627c526f0d619ee867971ca3c00114 James L. Smith wrote a new post, Call for Papers: Edited Volume on Medieval Minds and Matter, on the site Medieval Minds and Matter https://medievalmindsmatter.hcommons.org/?p=13 Thu, 14 Jan 2021 12:04:26 -0500 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 […]

]]> d445ab995bf34adaa52a634a8f54aa65 James Louis Smith created the site Medieval Minds and Matter https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1723093/ Thu, 14 Jan 2021 10:43:40 -0500 0