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Songs for the Philologists - revised 2023-07
No full textThis book, by J.R.R. Tolkien and E.V. Gordon, was privately printed in 1936 for the English Department, University College, London. This digital version (July 2023) has been revised and edited by Ronald Kyrmse ([email protected]) with the sole purpose of serving as a basis for research and scholarship
Edgar Cayce “Sleeping Prophet” 1877 - 1945 - Famous Documented Psychic & Spiritual Healer-Leader! "The spirit is life. The mind is the builder. The physical is the result.” - w/ preamble “Spirituality is a natural human predisposition. K Adams & Hyde
No full textPerhaps the most incredible case Edgar Cayce ever encountered was the case of the Dietrich child. In fact, because newspapers did publish the remarkable story of the Dietrich child, Edgar Cayce immediately became a sensation. In 1902, Cayce had just begun to gain a reputation as a healer. Aimee Dietrich was a six-year-old child who had become nearly catatonic since she had been beset by seizures at the age of two after an attack of La Grippe (influenza, flu). She now had as many as twenty seizures a day. Her growth as a child had ceased at age 2 and her intellectual functions had degenerated. She couldn’t recognize her father or mother. The Dietrich’s had taken their daughter Aimee to five different doctors. None of them knew what Aimee’s problem was and viewed her case a Siren hopeless case. In absolute desperation they asked for the help of Edgar Cayce since they had heard that Edgar Cayce had healed some people somewhat miraculously.
At the request of the father, Edgar Cayce went to the home of the Dietrich’s on December 12, 1902, and gave a “reading” while in a trance. “When he awakened, Mrs. Dietrich was weeping.” (p. 177 river) Edgar Cayce’s reading indicated that just before she caught the grippe, she had “slipped and struck the end of her spine while getting out of the carriage,” and the infection had settled in her spine causing the seizures. While for the most part the causes of epilepsy are largely unknown, one of the specific causes listed is infections of the spine. Developed countries have more incidence of epilepsy and it is believed traumatic injuries and infection are the reason.
Cayce prescribed osteopathic manipulations for the spine. Within a week Aimee called her mother and father by name and asked for her doll by name. (p.118 river) In his sworn affidavit o
“Everything Remains the Same”: Julio Camba Travelling Spain
Get PDFIn the first decades of the twentieth century, the Madrid-based Galician journalist Julio Camba (1882–1962) acquired long-lasting fame as a travel writer thanks to his foreign chronicles published in the Spanish press and subsequently compiled in a series of volumes. La rana viajera [The Travelling Frog] (1920), however, gathers some of the pieces he wrote about Spain. This article examines Camba’s domestic travel writing, which not only provides an excellent insight into significant social and political issues at the time (with references to the rise of sub-state nationalisms and political corruption in the country), but also highlights the similarities between the Restoration period and present-day Spain. Using his characteristic humorous style and subverting pre-existing tropes of travel writing, Camba represents Spanish society by combining criticism of Spain’s economic stagnation and national decay with a centralist view of the country. In particular, his scorn towards the Galician, Catalan and Basque languages and his parodic take on Catalonia’s claims for autonomy shed light on the formation of Spanish nationalism in the decades prior to the Civil War. Drawing on studies on state nationalism (Billig 1995) and Spanish nationalism (Taibo 2014, Delgado 2014) this article examines not only Camba’s own views but the response from contemporary scholarship to his texts
Elizabeth Brulé - Decolonizing the Classroom - text
No full textConference proceedings from the Open Art Histories Pedagogy Institute 202
Jayne Wark and Rajee Jejishergill - Decolonizing the Modern Art Survey from an Equity Perspective - text
No full textConference proceedings of the Open Art Histories Pedagogy Institute 2022
OAH - CanadARThistories A New Course UAAC2022 - slides
No full textOpen Art Histories workshop: CanadARThistories A New Course UAAC202
Research Data Management Practices and Challenges in Academic Libraries: A Comprehensive Review
Get PDFThis comprehensive review article delves into the current landscape of research data management (RDM) practices and challenges faced by academic libraries across various regions. Utilizing a wide range of studies and data collected from different countries, this article aims to provide a comprehensive overview of the state of RDM services, the role of librarians, and the advancements in technology within academic libraries. The review explores the importance of RDM in supporting open science, data sharing, and reproducibility, while also shedding light on areas that require further development and improvement
Historical Power, Historical Trauma and the Gothic Historical Drama
Get PDFThis paper proposes that there are a number of historical television dramas which make use of the aesthetics of the Gothic in order to signal their focus on historical traumas which still have contemporary resonance. This is part of a wider use of a Gothic mode in these dramas in presenting and considering these traumas, not just as the individual experiences of specific characters, but as socially structured, as we see the individual characters placed into conflict with their social and cultural structures. These dramas use elements of anachronism as part of their signalling that these are not just historical traumas, but traumas that are still active or have active legacies today, such as racism, sexism, colonialism and capitalist imperialism. Presenting these dramas through the Gothic mode is not only a way of signalling that these productions deal with traumas and issues that are still relevant, but is also a way of appealing to different audiences from those conceived of in relation to the cosy heritage drama. This is done in part through the overt use of sex, violence, modern obscenities, as part of a subversion or distortion of the expectations of the classic heritage drama. It also makes use of changes in the aesthetic possibilities of television production and distribution technologies, and uses these aesthetics to stand out from other historical productions and to potentially attract different audiences. Gothic historical dramas stand at the nexus of social change, technological change and the demands of streaming in reassessing our relationship with the past in the present
Review: Nominal Things: Bronzes in the Making of Medieval China
Get PDFBook review of Nominal Things: Bronzes in the Making of Medieval China by Jeffrey Moser. The University of Chicago Press, April 2023. ISBN 978-0-226-82246-4 (h/c), $50.00. https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/N/bo182595907.html. Reviewed July 2023 by Fong Ku, Reference and Learning Services Specialist, Alberta University of the Arts, [email protected]
Review: Dissident Practices: Brazilian Women Artists, 1960s-2020s
Get PDFBook review of Dissident Practices: Brazilian Women Artists, 1960s-2020s by Claudia Calirman. Duke University Press, April 2023. 264 p. ill. ISBN 978-1-4780-1940-4 (pbk.), $26.95. Reviewed July 2023 by Christine Rosa, Access Services Librarian and Art Librarian, California Institute of the Arts, [email protected]