Fellowships at the National Humanities Center

FAIN: RA-50107-12

National Humanities Center (Research Triangle Park, NC 27709-0152)
Geoffrey Galt Harpham (Project Director: August 2011 to November 2012)
Elizabeth C. Mansfield (Project Director: November 2012 to October 2016)

Four nine-month fellowships a year for three years at the National Humanities Center. Grant funds support fellows' stipends and help defray expenses related to the process of selecting fellows.

The National Humanities Center requests support for fellowships for advanced study in the humanities.

Associated Products

Mapuche Historians Write and Talk Back: The Background and Role of !Escucha Winka! Cuatro ensayos sobre Historia Nacional Mapuche y un epilogo sobre el futuro (2006)" (Article)
Title: Mapuche Historians Write and Talk Back: The Background and Role of !Escucha Winka! Cuatro ensayos sobre Historia Nacional Mapuche y un epilogo sobre el futuro (2006)"
Author: Luis E. Carcamo-Huechante
Abstract: not available
Year: 2014
Format: Journal
Periodical Title: E-misferica

Ficciones de circulacion y domicilio (Article)
Title: Ficciones de circulacion y domicilio
Author: Luis E. Carcamo-Huechante
Abstract: not available
Year: 2014
Format: Journal
Periodical Title: Insula

Diasporic Intelligences in the American Philippine Empire: the Transnational Career of Dr. Najeeb Mitry Saleeby (Article)
Title: Diasporic Intelligences in the American Philippine Empire: the Transnational Career of Dr. Najeeb Mitry Saleeby
Author: Timothy W. Marr
Abstract: not available
Year: 2014
Format: Journal
Periodical Title: Mashriq & Mahjar: A Journal of Middle East Migration Studies 2:1 (Spring/Summer 2014): 77-98

Mozart’s Grace (Book)
Title: Mozart’s Grace
Author: Burnham, Scott G
Abstract: It is a common article of faith that Mozart composed the most beautiful music we can know. But few of us ask why. Why does the beautiful in Mozart stand apart, as though untouched by human hands? At the same time, why does it inspire intimacy rather than distant admiration, love rather than awe? And how does Mozart's music create and sustain its buoyant and ever-renewable effects? In Mozart's Grace, Scott Burnham probes a treasury of passages from many different genres of Mozart's music, listening always for the qualities of Mozartean beauty: beauty held in suspension; beauty placed in motion; beauty as the uncanny threshold of another dimension, whether inwardly profound or outwardly transcendent; and beauty as a time-stopping, weightless suffusion that comes on like an act of grace. Throughout the book, Burnham engages musical issues such as sonority, texture, line, harmony, dissonance, and timing, and aspects of large-scale form such as thematic returns, retransitions, and endings. Vividly describing a range of musical effects, Burnham connects the ways and means of Mozart's music to other domains of human significance, including expression, intimation, interiority, innocence, melancholy, irony, and renewal. We follow Mozart from grace to grace, and discover what his music can teach us about beauty and its relation to the human spirit. The result is a newly inflected view of our perennial attraction to Mozart's music, presented in a way that will speak to musicians and music lovers alike.
Year: 2013
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Publisher: Princeton University Press
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 9780691009100
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William J. Seymour and the Origins of Global Pentecostalism: A Biography and Documentary History (Book)
Title: William J. Seymour and the Origins of Global Pentecostalism: A Biography and Documentary History
Author: Espinosa, Gasto´n
Abstract: In 1906, William J. Seymour (1870–1922) preached Pentecostal revival at the Azusa Street mission in Los Angeles. From these and other humble origins the movement has blossomed to 631 million people around the world. Gastón Espinosa provides new insight into the life and ministry of Seymour, the Azusa Street revival, and Seymour's influence on global Pentecostal origins. After defining key terms and concepts, he surveys the changing interpretations of Seymour over the past 100 years, critically engages them in a biography, and then provides an unparalleled collection of primary sources, all in a single volume. He pays particular attention to race relations, Seymour's paradigmatic global influence from 1906 to 1912, and the break between Seymour and Charles Parham, another founder of Pentecostalism. Espinosa's fragmentation thesis argues that the Pentecostal propensity to invoke direct unmediated experiences with the Holy Spirit empowers ordinary people to break the bottle of denominationalism and to rapidly indigenize and spread their message. The 104 primary sources include all of Seymour's extant writings in full and without alteration and some of Parham's theological, social, and racial writings, which help explain why the two parted company. To capture the revival's diversity and global influence, this book includes Black, Latino, Swedish, and Irish testimonies, along with those of missionaries and leaders who spread Seymour's vision of Pentecostalism globally.
Year: 2014
Primary URL: http://https://dukeupress.edu/William-J-Seymour-and-the-Origins-of-Global-Pentecostalism/index.html
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Publisher: Duke University Press
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 9780822356288
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Latino Pentecostals in America: Faith and Politics in Action (Book)
Title: Latino Pentecostals in America: Faith and Politics in Action
Author: Espinosa, Gasto´n
Abstract: Every year an estimated 600,000 U.S. Latinos convert from Catholicism to Protestantism. Today, 12.5 million Latinos self-identify as Protestant—a population larger than all U.S. Jews and Muslims combined. Spearheading this spiritual transformation is the Pentecostal movement and Assemblies of God, which is the destination for one out of four converts. In a deeply researched social and cultural history, Gastón Espinosa uncovers the roots of this remarkable turn and the Latino AG’s growing leadership nationwide. Latino Pentecostals in America traces the Latino AG back to the Azusa Street Revivals in Los Angeles and Apostolic Faith Revivals in Houston from 1906 to 1909. Espinosa describes the uphill struggles for indigenous leadership, racial equality, women in the ministry, social and political activism, and immigration reform. His analysis of their independent political views and voting patterns from 1996 to 2012 challenges the stereotypes that they are all apolitical, right-wing, or politically marginal. Their outspoken commitment to an active faith has led a new generation of leaders to blend righteousness and justice, by which they mean the reconciling message of Billy Graham and the social transformation of Martin Luther King, Jr. Latino AG leaders and their 2,400 churches across the nation represent a new and growing force in denominational, Evangelical, and presidential politics. This eye-opening study explains why this group of working-class Latinos once called “The Silent Pentecostals” is silent no more. By giving voice to their untold story, Espinosa enriches our understanding of the diversity of Latino religion, Evangelicalism, and American culture.
Year: 2014
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Publisher: Harvard University Press
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 9780674728875
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The Medieval New: Ambivalence in the Age of Innovation (Book)
Title: The Medieval New: Ambivalence in the Age of Innovation
Author: Ingham, Patricia Clare
Abstract: Despite the prodigious inventiveness of the Middle Ages, the era is often characterized as deeply suspicious of novelty. But if poets and philosophers urged caution about the new, Patricia Clare Ingham contends, their apprehension was less the result of a blind devotion to tradition than a response to radical expansions of possibility in diverse realms of art and science. Discovery and invention provoked moral questions in the Middle Ages, serving as a means to adjudicate the ethics of invention, and opening thorny questions of creativity and desire. The Medieval New concentrates on the preoccupation with newness and novelty in literary, scientific, and religious discourses of the twelfth through sixteenth centuries. Examining a range of evidence, from the writings of Roger Bacon and Geoffrey Chaucer to the letters of Christopher Columbus, and attending to histories of children's toys, the man-made marvels of romance, the utopian aims of alchemists, or the definitional precision of the scholastics, Ingham analyzes the ethical ambivalence with which medieval thinkers approached the category of the new. With its broad reconsideration of what the "newfangled" meant in the Middle Ages, The Medieval New offers an alternative to histories that continue to associate the medieval era with conservation rather than with novelty, its benefits and liabilities. Calling into question present-day assumptions about newness, Ingham's study demonstrates the continued relevance of humanistic inquiry in the so-called traditional disciplines of contemporary scholarship.
Year: 2015
Primary URL: http://www.upenn.edu/pennpress/book/15366.html
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Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 978-0-8122-470
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The Witch and the Hysteric: The Monstrous Medieval in Benjamin Christensen’s “Häxan (Book)
Title: The Witch and the Hysteric: The Monstrous Medieval in Benjamin Christensen’s “Häxan
Author: Alexander Doty
Author: Ingham, Patricia Clare
Abstract: Benjamin Christensen’s 1922 Swedish/Danish film Häxan (known under its English title as Witchcraft Through the Ages) has entranced, entertained, shocked, and puzzled audiences for nearly a century. The film mixes documentary with fantasy, history with theatrics, religion and science, the medieval past and modern culture. This uncanny content is compounded by the film’s formal strangeness, a mixture of quasi-documentary with fictional episodes, illustrated lectures alongside docudrama recreations and dreamscapes. Is this a documentary, a horror flick, or both? In this chapbook, authors Doty and Ingham argue that the puzzle of Christensen’s Häxan might be unraveled by attending to the film’s provocative and paradoxical medievalism, its fantasmatic rendering of the witch as a medieval monster. Such monstrous medievalism, moreover, sheds considerable light on the politics of gender and culture once the witch is rendered a female figure in a time out-of-joint.
Year: 2014
Primary URL: http://punctumbooks.com/titles/witch-hysteric/
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Publisher: Punctum
Type: Multi-author monograph
ISBN: 13-978-069223

Tense Future: Modernism, Total War, Encyclopedic Form (Book)
Title: Tense Future: Modernism, Total War, Encyclopedic Form
Author: Saint-Amour, Paul K
Abstract: Total war: a conflict that exempts no one, disregarding any difference between soldier and civilian. Tense Future forever alters our understanding of the concept of total war by tracing its emergence during the First World War, its incubation in air power theory between the wars, and above all its profound partiality. For total war, during most of the twentieth century, meant conflict between imperial nation states; it did not include the violence those states routinely visited on colonial subjects during peacetime. Tacking back and forth between metropole and colony, between world war and police action, Saint-Amour describes the interwar refashioning of a world system of violence-production, one that remains largely intact in our own moment of perpetual interwar.
Year: 2015
Primary URL: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/tense-future-9780190200954?cc=us&lang=en&
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Publisher: Oxford University Press
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 9780190200954
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Bayeux Tapestry and Its Contexts: A Reassessment (Book)
Title: Bayeux Tapestry and Its Contexts: A Reassessment
Author: Pastan, Elizabeth Carson
Author: White, Stephen D.
Abstract: Buy E-Book More Sharing ServicesShare Share on email Email a friend or librarian Add to Wish List [Printer Friendly Page] Aspects of the Bayeux Tapestry (in fact an embroidered hanging) have always remained mysterious, despite much scholarly investigation, not least its design and patron. Here, in the first full-length interdisciplinary approach to the subject, the authors (an art historian and a historian) consider these and other issues. Rejecting the prevalent view that it was commissioned by Odo, the bishop of Bayeux and half-brother of William the Conqueror, or by some other comparable patron, they bring new evidence to bear on the question of its relationship to the abbey of St Augustine's, Canterbury. From the study of art-historical, archeological, literary, historical and documentary materials, they conclude that the monks of St Augustine's designed the hanging for display in their abbey church to tell their own story of how England was invaded and conquered in 1066.
Year: 2014
Primary URL: http://www.boydellandbrewer.com/store/viewItem.asp?idProduct=14586
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Publisher: Boydell Press
Type: Multi-author monograph
ISBN: 9781843839415
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Piranesi's Lost Words (Book)
Title: Piranesi's Lost Words
Author: Heather Hyde Minor
Abstract: Giovanni Battista Piranesi was one of the most important artists eighteenth-century Europe produced. But Piranesi was more than an artist; he was an engraver and printmaker, architect, antiquities dealer, archaeologist, draftsman, publisher, bookseller, and author. In Piranesi’s Lost Words, Heather Hyde Minor considers Piranesi the author and publisher, focusing on his major publications from 1756 to his death in 1778. Piranesi designed and manufactured twelve beautiful, large-format books combining visual and verbal content over the course of his lifetime. While the images from these books have been widely studied, they are usually considered in isolation from the texts in which they originally appeared. This study reunites Piranesi’s texts and images, interpreting them in conjunction as composite art. Minor shows how this composite art demonstrates Piranesi’s gift for interpreting the classical world and its remains—and how his books offer a critique of both the Enlightenment project of creating an epistemology of the classical past and how eighteenth-century scholars explicated this past. Piranesi’s books, Minor argues, were integral to the emergence of the modern discipline of art history. Using new, previously unpublished archival material, Piranesi’s Lost Words refines our understanding of Piranesi’s works and the eighteenth-century context in which they were created.
Year: 2015
Primary URL: http://www.worldcat.org/title/piranesis-lost-words/oclc/898113307
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Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 9780271065496
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Thunder Shaman: Making History with Mapuche Spirits in Chile and Patagonia (Book)
Title: Thunder Shaman: Making History with Mapuche Spirits in Chile and Patagonia
Author: Bacigalupo, Ana Mariella
Abstract: Thunder Shaman represents an extraordinary collaboration between Francisca Kolipi and anthropologist Ana Mariella Bacigalupo, who became Kolipi’s “granddaughter,” trusted helper, and agent in a mission of historical (re)construction and myth-making. The book describes Francisca’s life, death, and expected rebirth, and shows how she remade history through multitemporal dreams, visions, and spirit possession, drawing on ancestral beings and forest spirits as historical agents to obliterate state ideologies and the colonialist usurpation of indigenous lands. Both an academic text and a powerful ritual object intended to be an agent in shamanic history, Thunder Shaman functions simultaneously as a shamanic “bible,” embodying Francisca’s power, will, and spirit long after her death in 1996, and an insightful study of shamanic historical consciousness, in which biography, spirituality, politics, ecology, and the past, present, and future are inextricably linked. It demonstrates how shamans are constituted by historical-political and ecological events, while they also actively create history itself through shamanic imaginaries and narrative forms.
Year: 2016
Primary URL: http://http://www.worldcat.org/title/thunder-shaman-making-history-with-mapuche-spirits-in-chile-and-patagonia/oclc/910802577
Publisher: University of Texas Press, Austin
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 9781477308806

Aaron Copland’s Appalachian Spring (Book)
Title: Aaron Copland’s Appalachian Spring
Author: Annegret Fauser
Abstract: Appalachian Spring, with music by Aaron Copland and choreography by Martha Graham, counts among the best known American contributions to the global concert hall and stage. In the years since its premiere-as a dance work at the Library of Congress in 1944-it has become one of Copland's most widely performed scores, and the Martha Graham Dance Company still treats it as a signature work. Over the decades, the dance and the music have taken on a range of meanings that have transformed a wartime production into a seemingly timeless expression of American identity, both musically and visually. In this Oxford Keynotes volume, distinguished musicologist Annegret Fauser follows the work from its inception in the midst of World War II to its intersections with contemporary American culture, whether in the form of choreographic reinterpretations or musical ones, as by John Williams, in 2009, for the inauguration of President Barack Obama. A concise and lively introduction to the history of the work, its realization on stage, and its transformations over time, this volume combines deep archival research and cultural interpretations to recount the creation of Appalachian Spring as a collaboration between three creative giants of twentieth-century American art: Graham, Copland, and Isamu Noguchi. Building on past and current scholarship, Fauser critiques the myths that remain associated with the work and its history, including Copland's famous disclaimer that Appalachian Spring had nothing to do with the eponymous Southern mountain region. This simultaneous endeavor in both dance and music studies presents an incisive exploration this work, situating it in various contexts of collaborative and individual creation.
Year: 2017
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Secondary URL: http://www.worldcat.org/title/aaron-coplands-appalachian-spring/oclc/1028814499
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Publisher: Oxford Keynotes
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 9780190646875
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Diaspora and Identity: Japanese Brazilians in Brazil and Japan (Book)
Title: Diaspora and Identity: Japanese Brazilians in Brazil and Japan
Author: Mieko Nishida
Abstract: Based on her research in Brazil and Japan, Mieko Nishida challenges the essentialized categories of “the Japanese” in Brazil and “Brazilians” in Japan, with special emphasis on gender. Nishida deftly argues that Japanese Brazilian identity has never been a static, fixed set of traits that can be counted and inventoried. Rather it is about being and becoming, a process of identity in motion responding to the push-and-pull between being positioned and positioning in a historically changing world. She examines Japanese immigrants and their descendants’ historically shifting sense of identity, which comes from their experiences of historical changes in socioeconomic and political structure in both Brazil and Japan. Each chapter illustrates how their identity is perpetually in formation, across generation, across gender, across class, across race, and in the movement of people between nations. Diaspora and Identity makes an important contribution to the understanding of the historical development of ethnic, racial, and national identities; as well as construction of the Japanese diaspora in Brazil and its response to time, place, and circumstances.
Year: 2018
Primary URL: http://www.uhpress.hawaii.edu/p-9823-9780824867935.aspx
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Secondary URL: http://www.worldcat.org/title/diaspora-and-identity-japanese-brazilians-in-brazil-and-japan/oclc/976165105
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Publisher: University of Hawai?i Press
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 9780824867935

Ethnicity and Race in African Thought (Book Section)
Title: Ethnicity and Race in African Thought
Author: Jonathon Glassman
Editor: Nwando Achebe
Editor: William Worger
Editor: Charles Ambler
Abstract: n/a
Year: 2018
Publisher: Wiley Blackwell
Book Title: A Companion to African History, Wiley Blackwell Companions to World History Series

Buying Gay: How Physique Entrepreneurs Sparked a Movement (Book)
Title: Buying Gay: How Physique Entrepreneurs Sparked a Movement
Author: David Kenneth Johnson
Abstract: In 1951, a new type of publication appeared on newsstands - the physique magazine produced by and for gay men. For many men growing up in the 1950s and 1960s, these magazines and their images and illustrations of nearly naked men, as well as articles, letters from readers, and advertisements, served as an initiation into gay culture. The publishers behind them were part of a wider world of "physique entrepreneurs" men as well as women who ran photography studios, mail-order catalogues, pen-pal services, book clubs, and niche advertising for gay audiences. While such businesses have often been seen as peripheral to the gay political movement, in Buying Gay David K. Johnson shows how gay commerce was not a byproduct of the gay-rights movement but an important catalyst for it. Offering a vivid look into the lives of physique entrepreneurs and their customers, and presenting a wealth of illustrations, Johnson explores the connection - and tension - between the market and the movement. With circulation rates many times higher than the openly political "homophile" magazines, physique magazines were the largest gay media outlets of their time. This network of producers and consumers helped foster a gay community and upend censorships laws, paving the way for open expression. Physique entrepreneurs were at the center of legal struggles, especially against the U.S. Post Office, including the court victory that allowed full frontal male nudity and open homoeroticism. Buying Gay reconceives the history of the gay movement and shows how consumer culture helped create community and a site for resistance.
Year: 2019
Primary URL: https://www.worldcat.org/title/buying-gay-how-physique-entrepreneurs-sparked-a-movement/oclc/1035441993
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Publisher: Columbia University Press
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 9780231189101
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Gendered War Mobilization, Culture, and Music in the Age of World Wars (Book Section)
Title: Gendered War Mobilization, Culture, and Music in the Age of World Wars
Author: Annegret Fauser
Editor: Sonya O. Rose
Editor: Karen Hagemann
Editor: Stefan Dudink
Abstract: n/a
Year: 2020
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Book Title: The Oxford Handbook of Gender, War, and the Western World since 1600

A Place at the End of a Road: A Yin-Yang Geography (Article)
Title: A Place at the End of a Road: A Yin-Yang Geography
Author: Marshall Kramer
Author: Judith Farquhar
Author: Lili Lai
Abstract: N/A
Year: 2017
Format: Journal
Periodical Title: Anthropologica 59, no. 2

You Had to Have Been There: Laughing at Lunch about the Chinese Dream (Article)
Title: You Had to Have Been There: Laughing at Lunch about the Chinese Dream
Author: Judith Farquhar
Abstract: N/A
Year: 2017
Format: Journal
Periodical Title: Critical Inquiry 43, no. 2

Guido Adler and the Founding of the International Musicological Society (IMS): A View from the Archives = Гвидо Адлер и создание Международного музыковедческого общества (IMS): Архивные материалы (Article)
Title: Guido Adler and the Founding of the International Musicological Society (IMS): A View from the Archives = Гвидо Адлер и создание Международного музыковедческого общества (IMS): Архивные материалы
Author: Annegret Fauser
Abstract: N/A
Year: 2019
Format: Journal
Periodical Title: Vremennik Zubovskogo instituta = Bременник Зубовского института 27 no. 4

Imperialist Substitutions: Commemorating Beethoven in 1927 Vienna (Book Section)
Title: Imperialist Substitutions: Commemorating Beethoven in 1927 Vienna
Author: Annegret Fauser
Abstract: N/A
Year: 2022
Publisher: Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften
Book Title: Beethoven-Geflechte: Networks and Cultures of Memory

Pour une histoire des cartes locales en Europe au Moyen Âge et à la Renaissance/Towards a History of Local Maps in Medieval and Early Modern Europe (Book)
Title: Pour une histoire des cartes locales en Europe au Moyen Âge et à la Renaissance/Towards a History of Local Maps in Medieval and Early Modern Europe
Editor: Serchuk, Camille
Editor: Dumasy-Rabineau, Juliette
Editor: Vagnon, Emmanuelle
Abstract: L’ouvrage est le fruit de travaux présentés à l’occasion de l’exposition « Quand les artistes dessinaient les cartes. Vues et figures de l’espace français, Moyen Âge et Renaissance » (Archives nationales, 2019), qui montrait, pour la première fois, l’ampleur du corpus des cartes locales produites en France entre 1300 et 1600. Les contributions (en anglais et en français) réunies ici élargissent la réflexion à l’ensemble des pays européens pour proposer les premières pistes d’une histoire comparée de ce phénomène, qui constitua une étape déterminante de l’histoire de la cartographie.
Year: 2022
Primary URL: http://www.lepassage-editions.fr/produit/pour-une-histoire-des-cartes-locales-en-europe-au-moyen-age-et-a-la-renaissance/#about-this-book
Publisher: Éditions Le Passage
Type: Edited Volume
ISBN: 978-2-84742-4

Quand les artistes dessinaient les cartes. Vues et figures de l'espace français, Moyen Âge et Renaissance (Catalog)
Title: Quand les artistes dessinaient les cartes. Vues et figures de l'espace français, Moyen Âge et Renaissance
Author: Serchuk, Camille
Author: Dumasy-Rabineau, Juliette
Author: Gastaldi, Nadine
Abstract: Il fut un temps où les cartes étaient rares et précieuses, dessinées et peintes à la main avec un grand soin esthétique, et où leur capacité à montrer le monde tel qu’il paraît importait plus que les calculs d’échelle et d’orientation précises. À l’aube de la Renaissance, les artistes furent ainsi les professionnels privilégiés pour la confection de cartes locales et régionales. Ils y mirent leur savoir-faire et leur ingéniosité, inventant un genre de représentation de l’espace tout à fait particulier. Celui-ci répondait aussi à la demande de leurs contemporains, car les cartes étaient commanditées dans un but pratique : résoudre des conflits judiciaires, tracer une frontière, analyser des fortifications, projeter des travaux, commémorer des événements historiques. Quand les artistes dessinaient les cartes. Vues et figures de l’espace français, Moyen Âge et Renaissance retrace l’histoire de cette aventure méconnue. La centaine de cartes, vues et « figures » qui y sont présentées témoigne de la puissance d’une cartographie fondée sur des procédés visuels plutôt que sur des applications mathématiques pourtant en cours de réapparition, et nous incite à reconsidérer nos hypothèses et nos attentes en matière de cartographie : que doit représenter une carte ? À quels enjeux répond-elle ? Y a-t-il une vérité cartographique ? Dans quelle mesure les cartes anciennes ont-elles posé les bases de la cartographie que nous utilisons aujourd’hui ?
Year: 2019
Primary URL: http://www.lepassage-editions.fr/produit/artistes-dessinaient-cartes/
Catalog Type: Exhibition Catalog
Publisher: Éditions Le Passage

The Dynamics of Science: Computational Frontiers in History and Philosophy of Science (Book)
Title: The Dynamics of Science: Computational Frontiers in History and Philosophy of Science
Editor: Ramsey, Grant
Editor: de Block, Andreas
Abstract: Millions of scientific articles are published each year, making it difficult to stay abreast of advances within even the smallest subdisciplines. Traditional approaches to the study of science, such as the history and philosophy of science, involve closely reading a relatively small set of journal articles. And yet many questions benefit from casting a wider net: Is most scientific change gradual or revolutionary? What are the key sources of scientific novelty? Over the past several decades, a massive effort to digitize the academic literature and equip computers with algorithms that can distantly read and analyze a digital database has taken us one step closer to answering these questions. The Dynamics of Science brings together a diverse array of contributors to examine the largely unexplored computational frontiers of history and philosophy of science. Together, they reveal how tools and data from automated textual analysis, or machine “reading,” combined with methods and models from game theory and cultural evolutionary theory, can begin to answer fundamental questions about the nature and history of science.
Year: 2022
Primary URL: https://upittpress.org/books/9780822947370/
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Type: Edited Volume
ISBN: 9780822947370

Human Success: Evolutionary Origins and Ethical Implications (Book)
Title: Human Success: Evolutionary Origins and Ethical Implications
Editor: Ramsey, Grant
Editor: Desmond, Hugh
Abstract: Human Success: Evolutionary Origins and Ethical Implications examines human success from a variety of disciplinary perspectives, with contributions from leading paleobiologists, anthropologists, geologists, philosophers of science, and ethicists. It considers how the human species grew in success-linked metrics, such as population size and geographical range, and how it came to dominate ecological systems across the globe. It probes whether the consequences of that dominance, such as human-driven climate change and the destruction of biodiversity, mandate a rethinking of the meaning of human success. The essays in this book urge us to reflect on what has led to our apparent evolutionary success—and, most importantly, what this success implies for the future of our species.
Year: 2023
Primary URL: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/human-success-9780190096168?cc=us&lang=en&
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Type: Edited Volume
ISBN: 9780190096168

Toward a Comparative History of Racial Thought in Africa: Historicism, Barbarism, Autochthony (Article)
Title: Toward a Comparative History of Racial Thought in Africa: Historicism, Barbarism, Autochthony
Author: Glassman, Jonathon
Abstract: Using material from the history of African thought, this essay proposes a strategy for writing a comparative history of race that ranges beyond a consideration of white supremacy and its anti-racist inflections. Studies of race outside the global north have often been hobbled by rigid modernist assumptions that over-privilege the determining influence of Western discourses at the expense of local intellectual inheritances. This essay, in contrast, proposes a focus on locally inherited discourses of difference that have shown signs of becoming racialized, at times through entanglement with Western ideas. It pays particular attention to discourses that arranged “human kinds” along a progression from barbarian to civilized, suggesting the presence of African historicisms that in modern times have converged with the stadial ideas that played a major role in Western racial thought.
Year: 2021
Primary URL: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/comparative-studies-in-society-and-history/article/abs/toward-a-comparative-history-of-racial-thought-in-africa-historicism-barbarism-autochthony/72D0F0CCCE9D0384B9331F1FD6731724
Format: Journal
Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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