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      ForensicsContemporary ArtGeorges Didi-HubermanMemory Studies
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      Environmental ScienceAestheticsTechnologyEnvironmental Education
In this article, we present a new perspective on how to combine inquiry-based, problem-oriented learning with practices in the Humanities. Our particular interest is how the initial phase of finding "the problem" can be undertaken in a... more
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      HumanitiesHigher EducationLearning And Teaching In Higher EducationThe Historical Imagination
Michel Foucault's early writing on dreams and imagination is one of the often neglected aspects of his work. In this paper, I give an overview of his "Dreams, Imagination and Existence" essay, accompanied by a discussion of his writings... more
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      Art HistoryArt TheoryResearch MethodologyContemporary Art
The following essay sketches varieties of imagination operative in the best architectural work. It was published in Warehouse Journal, a student-edited journal produced annually by the Faculty of Architecture, University of Manitoba.... more
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      AestheticsArt HistoryHumanitiesArt
Abstract: The present article investigates the identity, partial biography, and relations of Rukiye Hanim. Sheis recognized as the grandmother of three significant families who have been playing distinguished roles in politics and... more
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      The Historical ImaginationRukiye HanimOttoman StateJohor Sultanate
This essay addresses the way the imagination as a faculty is utilized for a creative ritual space. In so doing, this essay engages contemporary theories of imagination while contextualizing Abhinavagupta and Mahesvarananda.
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      PsychologyCognitive PsychologyCognitive SciencePhilosophy
The focus of my contribution is Karel van Mander’s pen-and-ink-drawing representing Night, which served as the model for the final engraving in Jacob Matham’s series of the four times of the day. Printed in 1601 with the imperial... more
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      Rhetorical InventionKarel van ManderSleep and DreamingThe Historical Imagination
THIS TECH BREAKS US OUT OF THE MATRIX – WE ARE MANIFESTING AT SEED LEVEL – BREAKING OUT OF PREDETERMINATION.
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      The VirtualWorld-Game-Simulation-Reality Continuum--gradual steps of added reality/imaginationMagicMagical RealismImagination
This article analyzes a new form of historical representation that we term “limbotopia” (by analogy with utopia and dystopia). Limbotopia is a genre of the “broad present,” in which history seems to come to a standstill and characters... more
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      Future StudiesDystopian LiteratureUtopian StudiesFutures Studies
Esta dissertação propõe analisar a imaginação histórica de Paul Gilroy, um intelectual afro-britânico integrante da teoria pós-colonial. Submete-se sua obra à seguinte questão: como e por que Paul Gilroy escreve a história? A fim de... more
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      Cultural StudiesPostcolonial StudiesBlack/African DiasporaRace and Racism
The present volume approaches Renaissance historical drama from a comparative and interdisciplinary perspective, examining its intriguing intertwinement of aesthetics and historiography. While taking different approaches and treating... more
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      Comparative LiteratureHistoriographyChristopher MarloweLope de Vega
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      Teaching HistoryHistory TeachingHistorical ThinkingTeaching & Learning of History
Para el pensamiento común de nuestra época la imaginación es el resultado de un proceso aleatorio. Sin embargo, otro concepto de la imaginación es posible y necesario. La imaginación es el gran medio de la humanidad sapiens para... more
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      AestheticsImaginationBig HistoryEstética
This study is devoted to an analysis of the relationship between Daurian Gothic and far-right ideology in Central Eurasia. The Daurian Gothic is a romantic trend in art, characterized by a gothic atmosphere and plots about war associated... more
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      Public HistoryInner Asian StudiesNationalism And State BuildingCommemoration and Memory
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      French LiteratureFrench HistoryFrench StudiesHistory and Memory
El discurso de la historia oficial argentina está atravesado por una multiplicidad de eventos y problemas "del origen" que aparecen y desaparecen según necesidades pragmáticas y políticas de interpretación. En este trabajo exploro el... more
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      Cultural StudiesLatin American StudiesIndigenous StudiesSpace and Place
The ancient city of Chersonese located in the south-western extremity of the Crimea is an Orthodox shrine related to the baptism of Prince Vladimir of Kiev. This article argues that the key factor leading to the sacralization of this city... more
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      History of ScienceRussian HistoryCrimeaThe Historical Imagination
The process of consolidation of the vernacular languages in the West runs almost in parallel with the exponential increase in the amount of manuscripts copied for lay audiences and the ever growing role played by images in profane texts... more
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      Medieval HistoryBook HistoryMedieval HistoriographyManuscript Studies
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      Romanian HistoryThe Historical ImaginationHistorical Myths
Michael Scot is considered to be the most outstanding scholar in the entourage of Emperor Frederick II and so as key figure of research and translation activities at the court of the Hohenstaufen monarch. The medieval historiography... more
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      History of IdeasMedieval HistoryHistory of MedicineMedieval Historiography
This is a 3,000 word piece I wrote for the E-International Relations website. It discusses Benedict Anderson's theory of nationalism, and his famous claim that nations are "imagined communities." I agree with Anderson. Nations are indeed... more
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      NationalismNationalism And State BuildingImaginationNewspaper History
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      The Historical ImaginationModern Chinese Literature and CultureChinese Revolution
Th e aim of this research is to understand how sixth grade students use their imagination skills in the historical thinking process and, by doing so, how they construct the past. In this respect, fi rst, an exhibition/museum was visited... more
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      History of EducationHistorical ThinkingThe Historical ImaginationConstruction of the Past
A discussion of Bodei's book about the imagination of other people's lives
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      Moral ImaginationImaginationSociological ImaginationThe Historical Imagination
The European concept of despotism originating in antiquity was associated with one part or another of Asia for a long time. In its first parts the book tells the long-term history of the idea and of its extension over more and more... more
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      Intellectual HistoryCultural HistoryCultural StudiesAfrican Studies
Straipsnyje aptariamos aplinkybės, XXI a. sukūrusios prielaidas intensyvesniam istorikų ir rašytojų dialogui, o taip pat – atvėrusios naujas erdves bendrai mokslininkų ir menininkų veiklai, kuriant šiuolaikinės Vaka- rų visuomenės... more
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      LiteratureThe Historical NovelHistoriographyTheory of History
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      Intellectual HistoryCultural HistoryLatin American StudiesUtopian Studies
English This paper proposes a dialogue with Ana María Lorandi’s ethnohistorical work, analyzing the ethnographic core of both Ethnohistory and Historical Anthropology. From a contemporary ethnographic critique, I suggest that this... more
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      Cultural HistoryEthnohistoryHistorical AnthropologyEthnography
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      War StudiesVictorian LiteratureThe Historical ImaginationPhilosophy of Stupidity
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      HistoryCultural StudiesRace and RacismCritical Race Theory
In the first week of October 2012, Amitav Ghosh visited Amsterdam to give a keynote address on “Confluence and Crossroads: Europe and the Fate of the Earth” organised by the European Cultural Foundation. Ghosh, who graduated in Social... more
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      English LiteratureSouth Asian StudiesIndian Ocean WorldThe Historical Imagination
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      Self and IdentityMedieval HistoryLiturgyMedieval Studies
The contribution focuses on the comparison of two types of case studies: 1) educational devices dedicated to the historical heritage of the Interior Design and 2) artistic (on-site) installations dedicated to the experience of the... more
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      Art HistoryCultural HeritageContemporary ArtLandscape Architecture
As an outcome of anthropological fieldwork, this paper analyzes three institutions located in peripheral places within the Argentine religious field. Analytically, they can be labeled as esoteric groups, because their imaginaries and... more
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      ReligionComparative ReligionEthnographyRosicrucianism
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      Victorian LiteratureNarrative TheoryCharles DickensThe Historical Imagination
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      SlaveryMemory StudiesAfrican American StudiesColonial Brazil
Üsküdar Dergisi, 5. Sayı, 2017/2. ss. 85-90.
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      HistorySociologyOttoman HistoryTelevision Studies
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      Experimental ArchaeologyMedieval HistoryThe VirtualWorld-Game-Simulation-Reality Continuum--gradual steps of added reality/imaginationEmpathy (Psychology)
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      Cultural HistoryArchaeologyPerformance StudiesArchaeological Method & Theory
ABSTRACT Based on the discography produced by the Brazilian Christian group Vencedores Por Cristo in the 1970s, we are going to investigate how the homo viator theme articulates the ethical perspective expressed by the motive of the... more
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      EthicsMaterial Culture StudiesThe Historical ImaginationAntropology
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      HistoriographyMedieval illuminated manuscriptsThe Historical ImaginationLiber Floridus
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      Historical memoryMiddle AgesThe Historical Imagination
Dubbelreview P. Rietbergen, Clio's stiefzusters [2015] en D. Rijser, Een telkens nieuwe oudheid [2016]
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      HistoryCultural HistoryArt HistoryEkphrasis
The chivalric order of the Temple captures the collective imagination about alternative interpretations of history, hidden secrets, and global conspiracies like no other historical community. Countless adaptations in literature, movies,... more
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      History of IdeasEarly Modern HistoryHistory of ElitesKnights Templar
The Comparative Literature Department and The Program in Judaic Studies at Yale University will be hosting an international conference on The Rise of Nationalism and the Nineteenth-Century Jewish Literary Imagination. The gathering... more
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      Intellectual HistoryCultural StudiesEastern European StudiesWorld Literatures
This article examines the relevance of alchemy, astrology, and magic to Roger Bacon according to the opinions of contemporaries, of posterity, and in the history of research to the present day. The few known facts of Roger Bacon’s life... more
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      History of IdeasHistory of ScienceAstrologyAlchemy
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The idea that time and history move forward is a cornerstone of critical economic perspectives -- but what happens to the present when the past catches up with it? "History in Financial Times" pursues this question in connection with... more
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      HistoryEconomic HistoryNarrativePoststructuralism