@janinefunke@mspink@histodons Auch da wirst du diverses zu Jahresendritualen finden, das aber dann auch gerne mal mit einem kritischen Blick gelesen werden muss. Denn natürlich ist das in der Frühzeit auch eine arg koloniale Wissenschaft und etwas fies gesagt gibt es mittlerweile halt praktisch keine unkontaktierten "Völker" mehr, die man erforschen könnte. Aber höchstwahrscheinlich kommst du auf die Weise gut weiter
The most recent Brookings Survey of American Attitudes has some interesting data for @histodons.
Asked whether “We should teach our children both the good and bad aspects of our history so that they can learn from the past,” 94% of respondents answered positively.
The book ban people, the Moms for Liberty types, the anti-CRT clique is minuscule and WAY out of touch with the cultural mainstream.
@xankarn@histodons I think it's probably right that those people are way less common than their visibility suggests, but it's not hard for me to imagine them answering YES to that question.
In my research to help form a coherent story for a #mesoamerica web series, #gender and #lgbtq is one of the biggest hurdles because #history and modern perspectives just don't match.
If I took Sigal's interpretation in the #book "the flower and scorpion", if someone asks me if there are LGBT characters I don't really have an answer as they did not call themselves straight, gay, or bisexual no matter who they had sex with. They did have a word for trans though.
If I took interpretations that did share modern ideas of #gender and #LGBTQ which show up the most in pop #history that opens new problems. These usually apply Christian views onto Nahua culture, completely replacing with the personal views of who is usually a Spanish priest.
This creates even more problems, as these interpretations often apply negative views onto gods and some even try to link some goddesses with the Christian Satan or succubi. Blatant misogyny.
CFP: Letter writing in the Roman empire (from Serena Connolly, Rutgers):
The Roman Epistulae Project invites abstracts for the conference 'Empire of Correspondence: Roman Imperial Letters as Literature and State Messaging, 31 BCE–534 CE' to be held in Boulder, Colorado, 4-5 October 2024.
Papers should examine the role of imperial correspondence in Roman society and governance.
@michaelmeckler@histodons
Can you please unpack the phrase "Imperial Correspondence"? Does that mean anything written after Octavian consolidated power? Or specifically a letter written in the service of the Roman Empire, by someone with an official roll? Thx
🗣 We have an open call for communications for the workshop "The gains of their sorrow: Slavery, the slave trade, and the rise of capitalism in the other South", which seeks to open a debate on bridges connecting research focused on the Middle Passage and the one focused on mines, plantations, urban jobs, etc.
Speaking of the #history of the #mexican#revolution , this page from "The Mexican Revolution: A Brief History with Documents" on how Pancho Villa tricked a city into capturing themselves reads like its from loony tunes #histodons would like
The sentence where they took the city without firing a single shot, if you ignore the massacre, is just surreal.
Can anyone recommend some good history books describing resistance movements within fascism? For example how was the resistance successful during WWII. I fear we may need these skill in the too near future. #fascism#resistance#history@histodons
One of my #DH students wants to do a project on word separation in #Sanskrit manuscripts. The project is very interesting, but unfortunately I have no experience with any Indian languages/scripts. Can anyone recommend
a) a database of transcribed (not transliterated) Sanskrit texts;
The American Historical Review seeks proposals for a special, digital-only issue of the journal on “The Mistakes I Have Made.” We invite historians to reflect on their missteps and how those missteps reveal insights into historical practice. We welcome stories that explore mistakes you have made, where they have taken you, and what you have made of them. The deadline for proposals is December 15, 2023. @histodonshttps://www.historians.org/ahr-special-issue
@histodons@sharporg As an author you should more than encourage your publisher to submit copies of your book to SHARP (and elsewhere). Some publishers just do not send books. For example, in the last two years, not one book from the series "Library of the Written Word" (Brill) appeared in front of the jury members. So choose your publisher wisely. Submitting free copies to win a prize or an award is, in my opinion, part of the support you want to get for your book.