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urbrel · Religion and Urbanity: Reciprocal Formations

Apocalyptic Amritsar: Destruction, Creation and Trans-Urbanity

— Raminder Kaur When visiting Harmandir Sahib (Golden Temple) in the Panjabi city of Amritsar in India, it is virtually impossible to not notice bullet marks and other signs of destruction preserved in the gateways, walls and columns around the central sanctum sanctorum in the middle of the holy pool,…

Anna-Lena Eick · WritingtheAnthropocene

How to Write (Hi)stories in the Anthropocene?

by Anna-Lena Eick, Achim Landwehr and Tom Vanassche This story has some of the classic elements that a good story should generally have: a recognisable hero, a clear location, an identifiable point in time, an unprecedented event and a clear message coupled with a fundamental change in everything that happens…

Lucas Haasis · Mittelalter

An Epoch on the Rise

On ‘Pentiment’, the Early Modern Period in Games and Microhistory Abstract: ‘Pentiment’ marks a turning point in history in two ways. First, the game is set in the 16th century, the time of the Reformation, the Peasants’ War and the...

Thomas Hendrik Kaal · Blog der Arbeitsgemeinschaft Iberomediaevistik

Averroism in Iberia: Yitzhak Baer, Álvaro Pelayo and Questions about Jewishness

Thomas Hendrik Kaal, Queen Mary University of London Zusammenfassung: Die erzwungene Konversionsbewegung von iberischen Juden im Jahr 1391 wirft nach wie vor viele Fragen auf. Warum konnten so viele Sephardim dazu gebracht werden, ihrem ererbten Glauben zu entsagen und Christen zu werden? Für Yitzhak Baer lag der Schlüssel zu dieser…

Sarah Lang · Epigrammetry

What reviewing books taught me about how to procrastinate less

Here are the key takeaways from various authors on overcoming procrastination that I talked about in earlier posts or book reviews: From Steven Pressfield (“Turning Pro” & “The War of Art”): Procrastination is a form of stress relief and can be like addiction, characterized by passive, easy, and guilt-inducing behaviors.…

Johann-Mattis List · Computer-Assisted Language Comparison in Practice

Adding Standardized Transcriptions to Panoan and Tacanan Languages in the Intercontinental Dictionary Series

In this study, we illustrate how standardized phonetic transcriptions can be added to the data for Panoan and Tacanan languages provided by the Intercontinental Dictionary Series. The result is presented as a new dataset that keeps reference to the original data and adds phonetic transcriptions for each word form in…

Editorial Team · AnthroDesires

5 Questions to Svati P. Shah

Our new format „5 Questions to“ aims at promoting the work of exciting scholars in the field of Queer Anthropology and related disciplines. By creating this format we wish to establish an archive of catchy profiles,...

Eugen Pfister · Spiel-Kultur-Wissenschaft

“Let’s talk about our ‘stuff’: History and Games.” A Gaming the Past dialog by Jeremiah McCall and Eugen Pfister (Part I)

by Jeremiah McCall & Eugen Pfister This is the first in what will be a series of dialogues with game studies scholar Jeremiah McCall. It was first published on Jeremiahs Blog, here. I have recently been particularly interested in the text format of the dialog, also because it is so…

guramkochi · New Age in Russia

Russian Christian Hermetic Tradition

By Guram Kochi, an ‘old sailor of the Ship of Fools of Master G’ The Way to Finding God Within Oneself At the beginning of the 20th century, Russian Christian Hermeticism experienced a period of beneficial development, which ended tragically three decades later with the severe persecution of many members…

simonprobst · WritingtheAnthropocene

Traces in the Ice. Some thoughts about Nature-Cultural Memory in the Anthropocene

By Gabriele Dürbeck & Simon Probst This text was first published in German: https://anthrowrite.hypotheses.org/177 The thoughts we present in this blog post will be developed more systematically in an essay to be published next year: Probst, Simon und Gabriele Dürbeck (2025). Ice Witnesses. Exploring the Natural-Cultural Memory of Climate Change…

Sarah Lang · Epigrammetry

Revolutionary thought for the summer break: You work best when well-rested

Brace yourselves, I have something revolutionary to say. You work the best when well-rested. When you’re well-rested, you’re not constantly running on a low battery and about to crash; you have enough energy to keep going. In that battery-always-almost-empty state, you’re irritable, make bad decisions, procrastinate more, do things that,…

Robert Adlington · Performers as Patrons of New Music

On Commissioning the Musical Avant-garde | by R. Adlington

The Vienna workshop ‘Historical Perspectives on Musical Commissions’ offered a reminder of the array of rationales that have motivated individuals and organisations to commission musical works. Listening to the workshop presentations from my disciplinary perspective as a historian of late twentieth-century modernist and avant-garde music, I found it striking that…

fschuermann · Merian Institute for Advanced Studies in Africa - Blog

African Worlds Have Been More-than-human Worlds avant la lettre: Relational Ontologies and the Decolonisation of Nature in Africa

Scholarship on the environmental history of Africa largely demonstrates that European colonial rule involved exercising power over nature. Moreover, as many scholars have suggested, power over nature was a key tool in colonial rule.1...

danielasilva · Desenvolvimento Humano Integral

The meaning of love and unity of social bodies

Nowadays, human relationships, particularly sexual and family relationships, are “liquid”, according to Zygmunt Bauman’s emblematic thesis. This means that social ties are more unstable, affections are more disposable, relationships are seen as superficial consumer goods and there is an inordinate focus on individual freedom and self-interest. Because of this fluidity…

Guillaume Desagulier · Around the word

A whale of a tool: navigating texts with Voyant Tools

As a corpus linguist, I happen to teach my students how to use R for text analysis. However, due to the steep learning curve associated with R, I sometimes need to provide more accessible, ready-made alternatives. Two such tools I recommend are Lawrence Anthony’s AntConc and Stéfan Sinclair and Geoffrey…