3,613 research outputs found
Intimate Migrations: Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Migrants in Scotland: Preliminary Findings Report
No full textThis report presents the findings of a pilot study on lesbian, gay and bisexual migration from Eastern
Europe to Scotland, carried out by Francesca Stella. This has fed into a larger project funded by the
Economic and Social Research Council, which runs January 2015-December 2016
"The love that made hell, paradise." Ouida re-writing the Paolo and Francesca theme in Held in Bondage
No full textThe bestselling Victorian author Ouida reveals in her novels, and, in particular, Held in Bondage, an extraordinary knowledge od Dante, by using characters and themes from the Commedia. The Paolo and Francesca theme actually constitutes part of the plot of the novel and is to be found in many of her other works, short stories and non-fiction writing
The politics of in/visibility: carving out queer space in Ul'yanovsk
No full text<p>In spite of a growing interest within sexualities studies in the concept of queer space (Oswin 2008), existing literature focuses almost exclusively on its most visible and territorialised forms, such as the gay scene, thus privileging Western metropolitan areas as hubs of queer consumer culture (Binnie 2004). While the literature has emphasised the political significance of queer space as a site of resistance to hegemonic gender and sexual norms, it has again predominantly focused on overt claims to public space embodied in Pride events, neglecting other less open forms of resistance.</p><p>
This article contributes new insights to current debates about the construction and meaning of queer space by considering how city space is appropriated by an informal queer network in Ul’ianovsk. The group routinely occupied very public locations meeting and socialising on the street or in mainstream cafés in central Ul’ianovsk, although claims to these spaces as queer were mostly contingent, precarious or invisible to outsiders. The article considers how provincial location affects tactics used to carve out communal space, foregrounding the importance of local context and collective agency in shaping specific forms of resistance, and questioning ethnocentric assumptions about the empowering potential of visibility.</p>
HERStory Makers 2023: Francesca Fotheringham
No full textFrancesca Fotheringham is a postdoctoral research associate at the University of Edinburgh studying educational psychology with a focus on neurodiversity. She took part in HERStory Makers 2023.What is HERStory Makers?HERStory Makers is a social media competition for female-identifying early career researchers to share their research, their career journeys, and to inspire the next generation. Winners are selected by public vote. HERStory Makers is also part of EXPLORATHON, Scotland's contribution to European Researchers' Night.In 2022-23, EXPLORATHON Francescasupported by the Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council [grant number EP/X020762/1].Author contributions to contentFrancesca conceived, planned, and recorded the video content. Kirsty Ross edited the video content to insert HERStory Maker credits, added subtitles, and reduce video length to below Twitter/X limit of 2 mins and 20 secs.</p
sj-docx-1-gpi-10.1177_13684302221102874 – Supplemental material for Media representation matters: The effects of exposure to counter-stereotypical gay male characters on heterosexual men’s expressions of discrimination
No full textSupplemental material, sj-docx-1-gpi-10.1177_13684302221102874 for Media representation matters: The effects of exposure to counter-stereotypical gay male characters on heterosexual men’s expressions of discrimination by Silvia Galdi, Francesca Guizzo and Fabio Fasoli in Group Processes & Intergroup Relations</p
The language of intersectionality: researching ‘lesbian’ identity in urban Russia
No full textThe relationship between identity, lived experience, sexual practices and the language through which these are conveyed has been widely debated in sexuality literature. For example, ‘coming out’ has famously been conceptualised as a ‘speech act’ (Sedgwick 1990) and as a collective narrative (Plummer 1995), while a growing concern for individuals’ diverse identifications in relations to their sexual and gender practices has produced interesting research focusing on linguistic practices among LGBT-identified individuals (Leap 1995; Kulick 2000; Cameron and Kulick 2006; Farqhar 2000). While an explicit focus on language remains marginal to literature on sexualities (Kulick 2000), issue of language use and translation are seldom explicitly addressed in the growing literature on intersectionality. Yet intersectional perspectives ‘reject the separability of analytical and identity categories’ (McCall 2005:1771), and therefore have an implicit stake in the ‘vernacular’ language of the researched, in the ‘scientific’ language of the researcher and in the relationship of continuity between the two. Drawing on literature within gay and lesbian/queer studies and cross-cultural studies, this chapter revisits debates on sexuality, language and intersectionality. I argue for the importance of giving careful consideration to the language we choose to use as researchers to collectively define the people whose experiences we try to capture. I also propose that language itself can be investigated as a productive way to foreground how individual and collective identifications are discursively constructed, and to unpack the diversity of lived experience. I address intersectional complexity as a methodological issue, where methodology is understood not only as the methods and practicalities of doing research, but more broadly as ‘a coherent set of ideas about the philosophy, methods and data that underlie the research process and the production of knowledge’ (McCall 2005:1774). My points are illustrated with examples drawn from my ethnographic study on ‘lesbian’ identity in urban Russia, interspersed with insights from existing literature. In particular, I aim to show that an explicit focus on language can be a productive way to explore the intersections between the global, the national and the local in cross-cultural research on sexuality, while also addressing issues of positionality and accountability to the communities researched
Misurare l’infinito. Spazio e prospettiva tra Piero della Francesca e Andrea Pozzo
No full textIl contributo propone una lettura in chiave evolutiva dei rapporti tra la prospettiva, l’idea di infinito e l’architettura dipinta attraverso una disamina delle principali teorie intercorse tra XV e XVII secolo
e l’analisi grafica di due opere, l’Annunciazione del Polittico di Sant’Antonio (1467-1469) di Piero della Francesca e l’Allegoria dell’opera missionaria dei Gesuiti (1688-1694) di Andrea Pozzo. Il parallelismo proposto è quello tra l’azione del rappresentare, in prospettiva, e quella del misurare l’infinito e lo spazio. L’ipotesi è che sia possibile riconoscere delle contiguità tra l’evoluzione della teoria prospettica
e le diverse interpretazioni dell’idea di infinito, che queste ultime possano essere indici di diverse interpretazioni dello spazio e che le conseguenze di entrambe siano rintracciabili nell’analisi di due opere distanti nel tempo, che fanno un uso rigoroso della prospettiva. In particolare, il colonnato dell’Annunciazione di Piero della Francesca rappresenta un profondo spazio razionalmente misurato,
orizzontale e accessibile all’uomo, così come è del tutto razionale il controllo proporzionale degli scorci prospettici esposto dall’Autore nel suo De prospectiva pingendi, mentre la tumultuosa distribuzione dei personaggi della Allegoria dell’opera missionaria dei Gesuiti di Andrea Pozzo scandisce uno spazio verticale, che ambisce all’estensione infinita, inaccessibile se non attraverso la prospettiva teologica del Perspectiva pictorum et architectorum
Medicina illuminata. La Biblioteca Lancisiana di Roma
No full textL'articolo presenta i codici miniati della Biblioteca Lancisiana di Roma. La prima parte, del coautore, è dedicata alla Biblioteca. La seconda parte, di F. Manzari, tratta dei manoscritti miniati, costituiti da due codici con le opere di Avicenna e dal Liber fraternitatis della Confraternita dell'Ospedale di Santo Spirito in Sassia a Roma.The article introduces the illuminated manuscripts of the Biblioteca Lancisiana in Rome. The first part of the article, by the co-author, is dedicated to the Library. The second part, by Francesca Manzari, illustrates the manuscipts; these are two manuscripts with the works of Avicenna and the Liber fraternitatis of the Confraternity of the Hospital of Santo Spirito in Sassia in Rome
«Le opere dei capri». Eugenio Cecconi, Teofilo Gay e la 'propaganda protestante' a Firenze (1874-1888)
No full text«Le opere dei capri». Eugenio Cecconi, Teofilo Gay e la 'propaganda protestante' a Firenze (1874-1888
A DH-Leavened Musicological Toolbox
No full textGraduate-level training in music research methodologies tends to ignore digital humanities work and overlook the use of digital tools created in support of new forms of reading. Training instead focuses on source material in the student’s area of interest. This material includes secondary and primary (archival) resources, as well as information resources, such as: monuments of music and critical editions; indexes; bibliographies and thematic catalogs; dictionaries and encyclopedias; digital libraries of scores or editions; and databases of period-specific newspapers or journals. Graduate students taking research methods courses already have a toolbox built from their experiences as musicians and students of music, including the ability to read and interpret music notation, to understand theoretical and analytical concepts in music, as well as a command of music history, including the canon of musical works.
Digital humanities has become a major area of academic endeavor at the “interface of technological development, epistemological change and methodological concerns." An important characteristic of digital humanities research has been its interdisciplinarity. We argue that graduate training in musicology needs to include coverage of methodologies applied by digital humanists in support of new forms of reading, not only to broaden the canon of research topics in musicology, but also to build common ground with researchers of other disciplines. We propose that librarians are well positioned to provide this expertise and training
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