By Kim Dhillon In the early 1970s, three independent feminist collectives were organized in the US with the purpose of writing, illustrating, publishing, and distributing non-sexist children’s books. Dissatisfied with the children’s literature on offer, and mobilized by the consciousness-raising of the Women’s Liberation Movement, these do-it-yourself styled collectives of feminist mothers wanted to broaden […]
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By Rachel Rich Every cookbook tells a story about itself, and the imagined reader it addresses is the heroine of that story. In the nineteenth century, following recipes meant embarking on a quest for respectability, stability and family happiness. The author offered guidance, and the reader was warned of the perils of leaving the path […]
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By Lisa Smith Some time ago, Carla Nappi posed an intriguing series of questions over at The Recipes Project : Reading through this text, I began to think deeply about these recipes as literary objects. What if we understand a recipe not just as a kind of text, but also as a form of storytelling? If […]
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Applications of 3D technology to the study of small artefacts and biofacts The study of past societies implies analysis of the remains of human activities, for instance artefacts that were modified or used by humans in...
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Nous avons vu dans notre dernier Dossier de veille (n°112, octobre 2016) comment les stéréotypes de genre étaient largement reproduits dans les manuels scolaires et les livres pour enfants. Un récent rapport d’Eurydice, en comparant deux études espagnole et polonaise, montre comment la femme, dans le peu d’illustrations les représentant, est toujours dépeinte portant un […]
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Andreu Sulé, sule@ub.edu Lecturer in the Department of Library and Information Science and Audiovisual Communication at the University of Barcelona Laia Lapeyra, laialapeyra@gmail.com Student in the Bachelor’s Degree in Information and Documentation at the University of Barcelona Andreu Sulé is the coordinator of a line of research on the implementation of Semantic Web technologies (RDF, RDF Schema, […]
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In this month’s blog post, Sanela Talič will share her experience in her work as a prevention scientist. Sanela is the Head of Prevention at Institute for Research and Development UTRIP in Slovenia and currently also a PhD student of … Continue reading →
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Christian Liclair In a by now almost canonical proclamation, the art critic and AIDS activist Douglas Crimp demands the production of art works that have the potential to safe lives instead of purely aestheticizing the epidemic, the suffering and the dying of people with AIDS (PWA): „We don’t need to transcend the epidemic; we need […]
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By Eve Houghton As several scholars have noted, early modern recipes do not only appear in recipe books. Ink recipes in particular are a staple of the commonplace book, as Adam Smyth has pointed out; and as Alun Withey has written on this blog, “[i]t was not uncommon to put remedies within pages of miscellany, […]
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Ideophones —vivid sensory words found in many of the world’s languages— are often described as having little or no morphosyntax. That simple statement conceals an interesting puzzle. It is not often that we can define a word class across languages in terms of its syntax (or lack thereof). After all, most major types of word […]
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Gabriella Szalay After about half an hour of working it over everything was already so small and delicate that I could scoop, or rather make fine sheets out of it. These sheets allowed themselves to be neatly pressed on to felt, removed from the same and hung up. After they had dried, I was able […]
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By Jennifer Sherman Roberts There’s a beautiful moment in Naomi Shihab Nye’s poem “Gate A-4” in which travelers from all over the world come together—despite differences in language, experience, and culture–to commune over apple juice and cookies after helping a fellow passenger: She had pulled a sack of homemade mamool […]
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A note about this post from Lisa Smith. The following post is by an undergraduate student, Jessie Foreman, who worked with me on a research placement this summer, as part of the Undergraduate Research Opportunity Programme at the University of Essex. What I appreciate most about her following post–besides its honesty about failure–is the way […]
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By Helle Strandgaard Jensen In mid-January 1971, the national public service broadcaster in Denmark aired an animation film aimed at three to six year-olds called Cirkeline on Holiday. The main character is the elf Cirkeline who travels to Spain with her friends, the two mice Frederik and Ingolf. Here they meet some Spanish mice, who […]
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An International Postgraduate Forum Centre for the History and Philosophy of Science University of Leeds 13 – 14 January 2017 Integrated History and Philosophy of Science (IHPS) is commonly understood as the study of science from a combined historical and philosophical perspective. Yet since its gradual formation as a research field there has been constant […]
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- Die Internationale Open-Access-Woche hat begonnen!
- Siggener Thesen zum wissenschaftlichen Publizieren im digitalen Zeitalter #Siggenthesen
- Was ist ein Feuilleton? – von Thomas Schmidt-Lux und Barbara Thériault
- Folter im Europa des langen 19. Jahrhunderts, Buchprojekt von Sylvia Kesper-Biermann, Gießen
- Teil 5: „Freimaurergärten“ im Braunschweiger Land, Grabdenkmäler mit Freimaurersymbolen auf Friedhöfen in Braunschweig und Wolfenbüttel
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- La loi pour une république numérique : un pas (décisif) en avant pour l’Open Access #OAWeek
- L’art de tacler la formation des enseignants
- « Les bibliothèques numériques, ou comment concilier droit à la culture et droit d’auteur », retour sur un article d’Alexandre Zollinger
- Parution : Nouvelles de l’estampe, n° 256 (automne 2016)
- Changements de noms de pays africains en contexte postcolonial. Quand « l’épuration » se combine à la « fondation » et à la « restauration » toponymiques