HASTAC Commons | Cynthia Stollhans | Group Activity https://hastac.hcommons.org/members/stollhans/activity/groups/ Public group activity feed of which Cynthia Stollhans is a member. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 14:45:27 +0000 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 +0000 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 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 +0000 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 +0000 <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]

]]> 0 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 +0000 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]

]]> 0 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 +0000 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 +0000 <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]

]]> 0 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 +0000 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 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 +0000 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 +0000 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 +0000 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 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 +0000 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 31425ac721ed84c066394c8bc7c2089b Sonia D. Andras deposited Romanian-American Negotiations in Education, Science, Culture, and Arts in the group Arts and Humanities Funding https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1896772/ Tue, 20 Aug 2024 03:00:02 +0000 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 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 +0000 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 +0000 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 +0000 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 +0000 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 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 +0000 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 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 +0000 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 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 +0000 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 +0000 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 +0000 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 +0000 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 +0000 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 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 +0000 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 +0000 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 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 +0000 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]

]]> 0 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 +0000 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 +0000 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 +0000 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 2527204e7c5ca511ad24afba60e4e85e Michail St. Fountoulakis (Μιχαήλ Φουντουλάκης) deposited Unlocking the Potential of Language Learners: Effective Strategies for Lifelong Achievement and Personal Development in the group Arts and Humanities Funding https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1869855/ Fri, 05 Jan 2024 03:03:04 +0000 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 7d73b8eba06ce473fa31b7cb38685b42 Lloyd Graham deposited Eyes wide open: A recurring ocular motif in and beyond Syracuse, Sicily in the group Italian Art Society https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1868209/ Sat, 16 Dec 2023 03:00:10 +0000 Sicily – and especially Syracuse – seems to have had an ongoing preoccupation with paired eyes as an apotropaic or magico-religious symbol. This brief paper explores some signature pieces and speculates that the excised eyes of Santa Lucia, patron saint of Syracuse, may be but a recent embodiment of a propensity that dates back to the Neolithic era.

]]> 0 4cb06d9857533ca4498bf97642c55216 Alexa Alice Joubin deposited "Radical Listening and the Global Politics of Inclusiveness," Inclusive Shakespeares: Identity, Pedagogy, Performance, ed. Sonya Freeman Loftis, Mardy Philippian, Justin P. Shaw (Palgrave, 2023), pp. 221-234 in the group The Renaissance Society of America https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1866125/ Tue, 28 Nov 2023 04:08:20 +0000 Inclusiveness in higher education is distinct from advocacy journalism, which means we have to work actively against any ineffectual default to rituals of inclusion. When implemented unilaterally as a one-size-fits-all social imposition, some gestures of inclusion risk becoming empty rituals. As multifocal, multilingual, and multicultural…[Read more]

]]> 0 d33b183b3fd9f9786ef427b6dd9fd843 Alexa Alice Joubin deposited Plenary: "Are There Transgender Characters in Shakespeare?" Blackfriars Conference, American Shakespeare Center, Staunton, Virginia, November 4, 2023. in the group The Renaissance Society of America https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1864509/ Tue, 14 Nov 2023 04:08:30 +0000 Video recording of Alexa Alice Joubin’s plenary is available on YouTube, https://youtu.be/8P5nNv86goQ There are certainly non-binary actors on stage, but are there Shakespearean characters who can be read as trans? The answer is yes. To ask whether there are transgender characters is to ask questions about the performance of gender roles. We are…[Read more]

]]> 0 5016192b6fb96c351300e05ecefd3c3b Alexa Alice Joubin deposited The Shakespearean International Yearbook 20: Pericles, ed. Tom Bishop, Alexa Alice Joubin, Deanne Williams in the group The Renaissance Society of America https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1864066/ Fri, 10 Nov 2023 04:05:37 +0000 This volume focuses on Pericles, Prince of Tyre, whose narrative of refugee suffering, familial loss, emotional distancing, people-trafficking, and eventual, joyous recovery speaks strikingly to our historical moment. The play’s internationalist reach, its images of cross-cultural relations, and its Eastern Mediterranean setting also promote a r…[Read more]

]]> 0 9daf0c4e7c9ae1b71ad299f370cebcdb Marianna Charitonidou deposited Le voyage en Grèce des pensionnaires de la Villa Médicis au xixe siècle : la perception des monuments antiques entre architecture et archéologie in the group Italian Art Society https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1864057/ Fri, 10 Nov 2023 03:01:39 +0000 The article analyses the collaborations between the residents of Villa Medici in Rome and the members of the French School of Athens. Its aim is to render explicit how the revelations of archaeology, actively disseminated by members of the French School of Athens, the “Athéniens”, had an important impact on the approach of certain pens…[Read more]

]]> 0 44e52fb8bcbb26d7413f8e4e1146e62c Paulino Capdepon deposited Padre Antonio Soler (1729-1783). Villancicos I (nº 35-47) in the group Arts and Humanities Funding https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1857416/ Tue, 05 Sep 2023 07:34:19 +0000 Study and edition of the Complete Villancicos of Padre Antonio Soler (1729-1783), Chapel Master of Escorial Monastery in Spain

]]> 0 ee1577cbe89effd99a4f030772292326 Christopher Crosbie deposited Francis Bacon and Aristotelian Afterlives in the group The Renaissance Society of America https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1855434/ Thu, 17 Aug 2023 01:23:50 +0000 The Baconian oeuvre remains the most extensive and influential assault on Aristotelianism in English writing of the early modern period. Where convention respected Aristotelian logic as a viable instrument for studying natural philosophy, Bacon instead sought to initiate an instauration, or restoration, of learning by proposing his inductive…[Read more]

]]> 0 f09424ec54683b2ccd01aaa40d79ccf0 Alexa Alice Joubin deposited "Lin Shu." The Chaucer Encyclopedia Edited by Richard Newhauser (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2023), pp. 1085-1086 in the group The Renaissance Society of America https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1852245/ Wed, 19 Jul 2023 03:51:59 +0000 Alexa Alice Joubin’s entry expands the global scope of The Chaucer Encyclopedia (4 vols). This entry, in Volume 3, examines the work by the Chinese translator Lin Shu’s (1852-1924). Lin translated and rewrote several key stories from the Canterbury Tales. Joubin argues that Lin’s works exemplify early twentieth-century Chinese imaginaries of medie…[Read more]

]]> 0 393f4be8831861ed8a24e2bdfeebd644 Katrina Grant deposited Planting ‘Italian Gusto’ in ‘a Gothick country’: The influence of Filippo Juvarra on William Kent in the group Italian Art Society https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1851614/ Thu, 13 Jul 2023 02:23:43 +0000 After a lacklustre attempt to become a painter,William Kent (1685–1748) developed a career as a garden designer, working mainly for Lord Burlington and other patrons in his circle. His gardens represent some of the earliest gardens of a style that became known as the ‘English Landscape Garden’, exemplified by Stourhead in Wiltshire, Rousham in Ox…[Read more]

]]> 0 09446ef34a41bbaf8f1efb5f61d85019 Jennifer Jordan started the topic Humanities Librarian Opening (Digital Humanities would be a great addition) in the discussion Arts and Humanities Funding https://hcommons.org/groups/arts-and-humanities-funding/forum/topic/humanities-librarian-opening-digital-humanities-would-be-a-great-addition-2/ Wed, 28 Jun 2023 19:49:09 +0000 There’s a new job opportunity for a Humanities Librarian within the College of University Libraries & Learning Sciences at the University of New Mexico. We would love someone who knows about Digital Humanities.

Three hundred days of sunshine makes up for the starting wage (which can be negotiated, I am pretty sure). Plus, we’re all poor, so you…[Read more]

]]> 0 66901ff1989972be7a5e74b942d1fa1d Caroline Paganussi deposited ‘A woman of supreme goodness, and a singular talent’: Anna Morandi Manzolini, Artist and Anatomist of Enlightenment Bologna in the group The Renaissance Society of America https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1849986/ Thu, 22 Jun 2023 02:24:15 +0000 Anna Morandi Manzolini (1714–1774), a Bolognese wax sculptor, overcame humble origins to become one of the most important anatomical artists of the eighteenth century. Working with her husband Giovanni Manzolini (c. 1700–1755), and continuing alone after his death, Morandi created remarkably lifelike and anatomically accurate wax models of the sen…[Read more]

]]> 0 0df617de6081d2aecdd57534f3f888e9 Caroline Paganussi deposited ‘A woman of supreme goodness, and a singular talent’: Anna Morandi Manzolini, Artist and Anatomist of Enlightenment Bologna in the group Italian Art Society https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1849983/ Thu, 22 Jun 2023 02:23:49 +0000 Anna Morandi Manzolini (1714–1774), a Bolognese wax sculptor, overcame humble origins to become one of the most important anatomical artists of the eighteenth century. Working with her husband Giovanni Manzolini (c. 1700–1755), and continuing alone after his death, Morandi created remarkably lifelike and anatomically accurate wax models of the sen…[Read more]

]]> 0 be02890636d77b625965de55b035b397 Antje Gamble posted an update in the group Italian Art Society: Please join us in Venice (or online) for the upcoming […] https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1849161/ Tue, 13 Jun 2023 15:52:10 +0000 Please join us in Venice (or online) for the upcoming Twelfth Annual IAS/Lecture, which will be held on Friday, June 30, at the Fondazione Cini in Venice.
We are looking forward to the lecture by this year’s speaker, Jodi Cranston, Professor in the Department of History of Art and Architecture at Boston University and author of Green Worlds of R…[Read more]

]]> 0 2e3c00f9c30795cdc28de21ba2c49ce8 Alexa Alice Joubin deposited Alexa Alice Joubin Receives the Martin Luther King Jr. Award in the group The Renaissance Society of America https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1846408/ Thu, 18 May 2023 02:47:09 +0000 Alexa Alice Joubin received the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Award, which recognizes Professor Joubin’s “contributions to social justice and inclusive excellence ” that exemplify “the ideals that Dr. King espoused,” particularly “community-based social justice organizing rooted in non-violence.” The MLK Award comes on the heel of her bell hook…[Read more]

]]> 0 528d285c18c43c759170fae2cff1490b Alexa Alice Joubin deposited "Afterword: Adaptation studies and interactive pedagogies." Liberating Shakespeare: Adaptation and Empowerment for Young Adult Audiences, ed. Jennifer Flaherty and Deborah Uman (Bloomsbury, 2023), pp. 187-200. in the group The Renaissance Society of America https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1846402/ Thu, 18 May 2023 02:41:09 +0000 Criticism of the Shakespearean canon through adaptation as a genre has the capacity for liberation and social reparation. As a cluster of complex texts that sustains both past practices and contemporary interpretive conventions, Shakespeare provides fertile ground for training students to listen intently and compassionately to other individuals’ v…[Read more]

]]> 0 b4e17949609e59314d8fc0244121197a Alexa Alice Joubin deposited "What makes Global Shakespeares an exercise in ethics?" Global Shakespeare and Social Justice: Towards a Transformative Encounter, ed. Chris Thurman and Sandra Young (Bloomsbury, 2023), pp. 58-77. in the group The Renaissance Society of America https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1846391/ Thu, 18 May 2023 02:32:27 +0000 Stage and screen adaptations of Shakespeare’s plays raise ethical questions – that is, questions about how human beings should act and treat one another. In which contexts might cross-cultural enterprises be naturalising the values associated with Shakespeare to exploit unequal power relations among artists of different backgrounds? Con…[Read more]

]]> 0 d1ebe6aed8b22ad7b320ac06c7689419 Christopher Crosbie deposited Oeconomia and the Vegetative Soul: Rethinking Revenge in The Spanish Tragedy in the group The Renaissance Society of America https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1845035/ Wed, 10 May 2023 02:23:51 +0000 Thomas Kyd’s The Spanish Tragedy creates a subtle apologia for the “middling sort” by challenging the socially constructed predicates of aristocratic privilege. A scrivener’s son, Kyd undertsood oeconomia, or household management, as both the means for material advancement among the “middling sort” and a potential threat to aristocratic insular…[Read more]

]]> 0 27871f06af9bdae6352c430738cb2852 Sonia D. Andras deposited Crafting Illusions: Fashion as a Means of Decoding Social and Cultural History in Interwar Bucharest (OA) in the group Arts and Humanities Funding https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1843386/ Wed, 03 May 2023 02:26:28 +0000 This paper examines the influence of urban fashion ideas disseminated worldwide from France and how they impacted the Romanian ideas of style and beauty, as well as the nature of the communication between Paris and the Little Paris. My aim is to decode the interwar Romanian interpretation of the new woman notion and assess what type of role…[Read more]

]]> 0 225941d6495dd470adecea37d2ebd847 Alexa Alice Joubin deposited "Do English Audiences Have the Toughest Time with Shakespeare?," Quarto: The Magazine of the Shakespeare Theatre Association, Spring/Summer, 2023 in the group The Renaissance Society of America https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1841710/ Mon, 17 Apr 2023 02:30:52 +0000 All the world’s a stage, but the irony is the rest of the globe often has an easier time understanding William Shakespeare than English speakers. “English audiences are at a disadvantage because the language has evolved and is more and more distant. They need footnotes, props and staging to understand,” said Alexa Alice Joubin, a Shakespeare schol…[Read more]

]]> 0 ea7de05b6377910b76aa8e8f93f36b5c Alexa Alice Joubin deposited "English Professor Uses AI to Teach Shakespeare and Critical Theory." GW Today, April 12, 2023 in the group The Renaissance Society of America https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1841269/ Thu, 13 Apr 2023 04:03:53 +0000 When ChatGPT was launched, Alexa Alice Joubin realized it was here to stay. She views it as her responsibility to teach students how to use it responsibly, not as a shortcut. “This technology is going to be with us, and students need employable skills in terms of curation, editorial repackaging and prompt engineering,” Joubin said. “They need…[Read more]

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