Category: Literature & Language
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(Free webinar) The OED and historical text collections: discovering new words
Join us for this free webinar about neologism use, and large historical text collections in digital humanities Hosted by the Oxford English Dictionary team. Dr Tanja Säily, tenure-track assistant professor in English Language at the University of Helsinki, and Dr Eetu Mäkelä, tenure-track assistant professor in Human Sciences–Computing Interaction at the University of Helsinki, will […]
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Pirandello and Translation: A conversation across the Field
In the PSA journal’s 31st edition, which is currently at the presses, editors Lisa Sarti and Michael Subialka talk to a group of Pirandello’s translators in “Pirandello and Translation: A conversation across the Field.” We’ve excerpted a piece of it for you here, in which the editors put a couple of questions to translators Jacob Blakesley, Jane House, […]
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Willful Women in Fairy Tales
In her book Living a Feminist Life, Sarah Ahmed relays the Brothers Grimm tale of “The Willful Child,” where a girl is so willful against her parents that she dies and won’t even go into her grave properly (Location 1328 of the Kindle Edition). Ahmed uses this figure of the willful girl to illustrate […]
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CFP: for the Special Issue of Intertexts: “Epistemology as Border(land)s in the Age of Globalization”
Call for Papers for the Special Issue of Intertexts: A Journal of Comparative and Theoretical Reflection Epistemology as Border(land)s in the Age of Globalization Epistemology by definition concerns the study of knowledge and how it relates to questions of truth and belief. Since the dialogues from Plato and Confucius, germane to both Western and Eastern […]
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Place and Space in Zora Neale Hurston’s Barracoon
In the introduction of Zora Neale Hurston’s Barracoon: The Story of the Last “Black Cargo,” she writes: After three days, they were incarcerated in the barracoons at Ouidah (Oh-we-dah), near the Bight of Benin. During the weeks of his existence in the barracoons, Kossola was bewildered and anxious about his fate. Before him was a thunderous and […]
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ZORA! Festival Facebook Page: Space, Genre, and Online Presence (Introduction)
I think it’s interesting how online spaces are carriers of cultural identity; no matter where a person is on the planet, online spaces are used to ritualize a unified sense of place through social practices that seek to preserve and expand culture, while at the same time reaffirming social identity. Cultural festivals provide a time and space […]
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The Weight of Light solar futures book
This week, Arizona State University published The Weight of Light. The book features short science fiction, art, and essays about human futures powered by solar energy, with an upbeat, solarpunk twist. The guiding idea behind the collection is the importance of considering the how of a clean-energy transition: there are myriad decisions about ownerships, aesthetics, geography, regulation, labor, and […]
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Academic researcher? Help shape the future of the OED!
Here at Oxford University Press, we know that the OED is an essential tool for many researchers. But some researchers have informed us that OED content and data is not as accessible as it could be for their projects. In a time when digital research methods are becoming more prevalent, we want to hear from academic researchers to find […]
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Rhetorical Spaces and Places
Greetings, I’m Christopher Peace, a Ph.D. student at the University of Kansas. I’m very new to HASTAC Scholars, and somewhat to digital humanities at large. I’m currently finishing course work in the rhetoric and composition department, and I’m interested in African American folklore and the rhetoric of space and place. To me, investigating how places […]
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Plant, Garden, and Environmental Humanities Resources
I want to use the HASTAC platform to share a list of resources for scholars who, like me, use digital tools to study plants, gardens, the environment, and human engagements with the natural world. Botanical and horticultural images and texts Biodiversity Heritage Library Botanicus, Missouri Botanical Garden Dumbarton Oaks, Botanical Illustration Hunt Institute for Botanical […]