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The Eurocentric Nature of the World Heritage List

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Two simple uses of Git for writing a thesis:

Reviewing & focussing

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Removing Arrowheads in Antiquity and the Middle Ages

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Globalisation during the Cold War

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Exploring Six Degrees of Francis Bacon

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Singing voice

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What Recipes Can Teach Us About Reading

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Clear as Crystal: Leonardo da Vinci's Walnut Oil

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Gold as Memory Track

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United in Song

Creating Multilingual Religious Communities through Psalm Translations in the 16th-Century Low Countries

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Charlie Hebdo attack

this is not a clash of civilisations

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Pen, Ink, and Pedagogy

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Translating Recipes

The Girl, the Scorpion, and the Doctor

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Encoding documents and collections

at Caen

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Cais do Valongo Capoeira Circle

Visions of Urban Space

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Preventing “Monkey Business”

Fettered Apes in the Middle Ages

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Why capoeira songs should stay in Portuguese

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Young Researchers in Digital Humanities

A Manifesto

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Peer selection vs. “peer review”

why papers in edited volumes should not be “reviewed” externally

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Fact Checking: Can Ostriches Digest Iron?

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Female perfume-makers

in neo-Assyrian and neo-Babylonian documents

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“Researching the history of Ugandan photo-journalism”

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State employment of women during the Ur III period

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Lebanon

Religious Freedom Beyond (or Below) the Purview of the State

The Spring Clean for Recipes Project

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By Chelsea Clark It might be autumn in the northern hemisphere–but in the southern hemisphere, it is spring! My experience in helping to tidy up the Recipes Project website has felt much the same as the typical spring cleaning that goes on after a long winter with the intent of brightening up a household or workspace. […]
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Connect & animate – & correspondences, again

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The TEI Conference 2015 is now in full swing. After the opening keynote by Milad Doueihi that took us through the depths of literate coding yesterday, today’s program began with both a panel and a paper session which made me regret my lack of ubiquity. The panel dealt with the contribution of infrastructures and repositories […]
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Immunity!

wicquefort - Stephan F. Mai

Biographical experience and the formation of diplomatic theory: the example of Abraham de Wicquefort (1606-1682) The following text is a draft version, consisting of an abbreviated and manipulated speech I will be giving at the faculty of the University of Vienne in November. I rewrote this draft to fit a wider public. This draft will […]
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The Winche Manuscript: What’s Next?

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Collation page currently in beta on Dromio.

By Rebecca Laroche Ninety-three transcribers! 208 pages triple-keyed! Tweets and stewed pigeons, chocolate and perfume, what a marvelous transcribathon we had! So what’s next? Collation page currently in beta on Dromio. First, comes collation and vetting, as well as an answer to a question that has probably been burning for many of you: “Why so […]
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AJE vs BBC (Barkho 2011)

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Leon Barkho: The Discursive and Social Paradigm of Al-Jazeera English in Comparison and Parallel with the BBC. In: Communication Studies, Vol. 62(1) (2011), 23-40 A piece grounded in Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA). Linking 46 online news stories published during the war on Gaza from both channels 2008 and 2009 with social practices analyzed on the […]
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SCIENCE FICTION STUDIES N°127

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La revue Science Fiction Studies vient de faire paraître son cent-vingt-septième numéro. ARTICLES J.P. Telotte. Animation, Modernism, and the Science Fiction Imagination. This essay surveys a curious absence in accounts of science fiction’s cinematic development—the numerous examples of sf-themed animation during the 1920s and 1930s. In this formative period when sf was finding a scant place in live-action […]
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Transcription Communities: Experiencing a Transcribathon in a Class Setting

recipes - Lisa Smith

By Nancy Simpson-Younger As part of my Book in Society class, thirteen students took part in the Early Modern Recipes Online Collective’s Transcribathon on Wednesday, October 7th, For this group, transcribing Winche’s work was the culmination of a two-week unit on paleography, which covered italic and secretary hands as well as early modern print and […]
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Coordinating the digitization of German-language cultural heritage from Eastern Europe – a concept proposal for an International Working Group

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[Paper by Albert Weber (Institute for East and Southeast European Studies) at the International Workshop Digitizing German-language cultural heritage from Eastern Europe on April 28, 2015:] I will present you in the following our proposal for the buildup of organizational structures which could serve the process of digitizing the German-language heritage in Eastern Europe. The current situation […]
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“The Eurocentric Nature of the World Heritage List” – Interview with Corinne Geering

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Valais (photo: Patrick Hofer under CC BY-NC 2.0)

“World Heritage sites” are defined as “heritage of mankind as a whole” by UNESCO in the World Heritage Convention from 1972. European countries have by far more sites than for example African or Latin American ones. Are the standards by which sites can become a “World Heritage Site” eurocentristic? Valais (photo: Patrick Hofer under […]
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Europe Climate simulation held with Sorbonne-Nouvelle University and Sciences Po

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From february 9th to february 14th 2015, students of the European Affairs Master’s degree at Sciences Po and those of the European Studies Master’s degree at Paris 3 – Sorbonne Nouvelle University took part in a European summit simulation on energy issues, as a foretaste of negotiations of the COP 21, which is gong to be […]
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10 things I learned at World Scripts in Cape Town

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We are happy to present a first World Scripts report entitled 10 things I learned at World Scripts in Cape Town written by Piers Kelly, participant of the Winter Academy. The report can also be found on his blog Brave New Words where it was originally published. It’s been some time now since the […]
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Virtual Shanghai in Chinese

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There has been little activity recently on this blog due to these many factors that weigh on a scholarly life (classes, reports, dissertations, etc.). Yet we are back again and will resolutely maintain a flow of news on the Virtual Shanghai Project and its current and upcoming transformation. We are finally very happy to announce […]
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Project RetroDig is launched at Heidelberg University

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As a case study in the field of digital cultural heritage the project RetroDig develops infrastructure and workflows for retro-digitalisation and academic analysis of paper-based documents. The Project RetroDig concentrates on retro-digitalisation and academic analysis of analog records focused on preserving information. Retro-digitalisation also signifies standardised digitalisation of analog media and transformation of information to […]
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A Remedy for Witchcraft and Demonic Possession in Seventeenth-Century Ireland

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By Andrew Sneddon There were only a handful of witch trials in early modern Ireland, and only one witch-lynching, of an old woman by her neighbours in Antrim town, Co. Antrim in 1698. The ‘witch’ was accused of using witchcraft to demonically possess a young girl of Presbyterian gentry stock. This case is detailed in […]
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Agnès KEDZIERSKA-MANZON, “On blood and words, or, How certain objects turn into subjects, among the Mande (West Africa)”, Helsinki, 21-22 octobre 2015.

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On blood and words (ppt) Conférence donnée lors du panel “Ethnography of Contemporary Ritual LAndscapes”, dans le cadre de la Conference of the Finnish Anthropological Society: “Landscapes, sociality and materiality”, tenue à l’université d’Helskinki (Finland), les 21 et 22 octobre … Lire la suite →
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