School of Humanities

Permanent URI for this community

https://hdl.handle.net/1911/21840

Browse

Now showing 1 - 20 of 250

4 Ezra and 2 Baruch: Literary Composition and Oral Performance in First-Century Apocalyptic Literature
(the Society of Biblical Literature, 2012) Henze, Matthias
Students of 4 Ezra and 2 Baruch have long noticed numerous thematic, generic, and linguistic parallels that exist between them. Both texts were written in the late first or possibly the early second century C.E., most likely in the land of Israel. The composition of both works was triggered by the Roman destruction of Jerusalem in the year 70 C.E., as both texts are, in essence, elaborate responses to the host of challenges posted by the Roman aggression. Both stories are set fictitiously during the Babylonian destruction of Jerusalem in the sixth century B.C.E. 4 Ezra and 2 Baruch are Jewish apocalypses of the historical type, and both make extensive use of the same set of literary genres, such as prophetic dialogue, prayer, public speech, and the symbolic dream vision. Neither author reveals his identity by instead chooses to write pseudonymously in the voice of a biblical scribe of the exilic and early postexilic period: Ezra, who returned the Torah to Jerusalem, and Baruch, the scribe of Jeremiah. What drives the momentum forward is a continuous revelatory dialogue between the seer and God, or God's interpreting angel. By the end of each book both seers have undergone a remarkable transformation, from skeptic to consoler, ideal community leader, and latter-day Moses.
A Digital Humanities Study of Chen Duxiu: Founder of the Chinese Communist Party
(2015) Chao, Anne S.; Rice University. Chao Center for Asian Studies
'A Towering Virtue of Necessity': Interdisciplinarity and the Rise of Computer Music at Vietnam-Era Stanford
(University of Chicago Press, 2013) Mody, Cyrus C.M.; Nelson, Andrew J.
Stanford, more than most American universities, transformed in the early Cold War into a research powerhouse tied to national security priorities. The budgetary and legitimacy crises that beset the military- industrial- academic research complex in the 1960s thus struck Stanford so deeply that many feared the university itself might not survive. We argue that these crises facilitated the rise of a new kind of interdisciplinarity at Stanford, as evidenced in particular by the founding of the university’s computer music center. Focusing on the “multivocal technology” of computer music, we investigate the relationships between Stanford’s broader institutional environment and the interactions among musicians, engineers, administrators, activists, and funders in order to explain the emergence of one of the most creative and profi table loci for Stanford’s contributions to industry and the arts.
Affect
(2015) Schneider-Mayerson, Matthew; Szeman, Imre; Wenzel, Jennifer; Yaeger, Patricia; Fordham University Press
Against neuroclassicism: On the perils of armchair neuroscience
(Wiley, 2022) Morgan, Alex
Neuroclassicism is the view that cognition is explained by “classical” computing mechanisms in the nervous system that exhibit a clear demarcation between processing machinery and read–write memory. The psychologist C. R. Gallistel has mounted a sophisticated defense of neuroclassicism by drawing from ethology and computability theory to argue that animal brains necessarily contain read–write memory mechanisms. This argument threatens to undermine the “connectionist” orthodoxy in contemporary neuroscience, which does not seem to recognize any such mechanisms. In this paper I argue that the neuroclassicist critique rests on a misunderstanding of how computability theory constrains theorizing about natural computing mechanisms.
Alfred Stieglitz and New York Dada
(Taylor & Francis, 1997) Brennan, Marcia
Alfred Stieglitz and Paul Rosenfeld: An Aesthetics of Intimacy
(Taylor & Francis, 1999) Brennan, Marcia
"America is One Island Only": A Review of Jeff Karem's The Purloined Islands: Caribbean-U.S. Crosscurrents in Literature and Culture, 1880-1959
(University of Miami, 2014) Waligora-Davis, Nicole A.
Amerigo Vespucci and the Four Finger (Kunstmann II) World Map
(National Centre for Maps and Cartographic Heritage, 2012) Metcalf, Alida C.
Is the anonymous painted map of the world, dated c. 1506 in the Bavarian State Library, also known as the "Four Finger" world chart, or as the Kunstmann II, authored by Amerigo Vespucci? The map was a privately-held, highly illuminated painted world map. Its execution implies a map-maker with access to up-to-date Spanish and Portuguese geographic knowledge, and who had likely travelled to the new world. This paper explores the evidence for attributing the authorship of the map to Amerigo Vespucci and asks if digital cartography can further resolve this question.
An Early Muslim Daniel Apocalypse
(Brill, 2002-01) Cook, David
Apocalypse and Identity: Ibn Al-Munadi and Tenth Century Baghdad
(McGill University, 2011) Cook, David
Apostasy from Islam: A Historical Perspective
(The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2006) Cook, David
Are Surgical Trials with Negative Results Being Interpreted Correctly?
(Elsevier, 2013) Brody, Baruch A.; Ashton, Carol M.; Liu, Dandan; Xiong, Youxin; Yao, Xuan; Wray, Nelda P.
BACKGROUND: Many published accounts of clinical trials report no differences between the treatment arms, while being underpowered to find differences. This study determined how the authors of these reports interpreted their findings. STUDY DESIGN: We examined 54 reports of surgical trials chosen randomly from a database of 110 influential trials conducted in 2008. Seven that reported having adequate statistical power (b 0.9) were excluded from further analysis, as were the 32 that reported significant differences between the treatment arms. We examined the remaining 15 to see whether the authors interpreted their negative findings appropriately. Appropriate interpretations discussed the lack of power and/or called for larger studies. RESULTS: Three of the 7 trials that did not report an a priori power calculation offered inappropriate interpretations, as did 3 of the 8 trials that reported an a priori power < 0.90. However, we examined only a modest number of trial reports from 1 year. CONCLUSIONS: Negative findings in underpowered trials were often interpreted as showing the equivalence of the treatment arms with no discussion of the issue of being underpowered. This may lead clinicians to accept new treatments that have not been validated.
Artificial Intelligence and Medical Humanities
(Springer, 2020) Ostherr, Kirsten; Medical Humanities Program
The use of artificial intelligence in healthcare has led to debates about the role of human clinicians in the increasingly technological contexts of medicine. Some researchers have argued that AI will augment the capacities of physicians and increase their availability to provide empathy and other uniquely human forms of care to their patients. The human vulnerabilities experienced in the healthcare context raise the stakes of new technologies such as AI, and the human dimensions of AI in healthcare have particular significance for research in the humanities. This article explains four key areas of concern relating to AI and the role that medical/health humanities research can play in addressing them: definition and regulation of “medical” versus “health” data and apps; social determinants of health; narrative medicine; and technological mediation of care. Issues include data privacy and trust, flawed datasets and algorithmic bias, racial discrimination, and the rhetoric of humanism and disability. Through a discussion of potential humanities contributions to these emerging intersections with AI, this article will suggest future scholarly directions for the field.
Ausonius at Night
(Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014) McGill, Scott
This article examines the fourth-century c.e. Ausonius' descriptions of himself as a nocturnal poet. Interest lies in passages where Ausonius relates that he wrote at night in order to play the part of the modest, self-deprecating author. Past scholarship has generally dismissed Ausonius' modesty as insincere and empty or stopped at identifying it with the captatio benevolentiae. I will go further in exploring the rhetorical dimensions of Ausonius' theme. The examination contributes to the study of paratextuality in Latin antiquity and to our understanding of Ausonius' authorial identity, of the functions he assigns to poetry, of his methods of shaping the reception of his work, and of his literary culture.
The Bee and the Sovereign? Political Entomology and the Problem of Scale
(Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2013) Campana, Joseph
Better Horrors: From Terror to Communion in Whitley Strieber's Communion (1987)
(Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014) Kripal, Jeffrey J.
Trauma, Trick, and Transcendence in the Life of a Horror Writer: The Case of Whitley Strieber. This essay treats the theorization of horror in Whitley Strieber's Communion (1987). It also pushes us to consider more honestly and forthrightly the question of “real monsters,” that is, the phenomenology of encounters with fantastic presences routinely experienced in the environment. Historical contextualization of Strieber's abduction experiences in the Hudson Valley region and theories of other species from Charles Fort to William James are invoked to radicalize the question further.
Beyond Failure: Rethinking Confederate State Policies on the Western Frontier
(8/1/2015) McDaniel, W. Caleb
This paper was delivered at the Remaking North American Sovereignty conference held in Banff, Canada, July 30-August 1, 2015.
Beyond the Principles of Bioethics: Facing the Consequences of Fundamental Moral Disagreement
(Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, 2012-06) Engelhardt, H. Tristram Jr.
Given intractable secular moral pluralism, the force and significance of the four principles (autonomy, beneficence, non-maleficence, and justice) of Tom Beauchamp and James Childress must be critically re-considered. This essay examines the history of the articulation of these four principles of bioethics, showing why initially there was an illusion of a common morality that led many to hold that the principles could give guidance across cultures. But there is no one sense of the content or the theoretical justification of these principles. In addition, a wide range of secular moral and bioethical choices has been demoralized into lifestyle choices; the force of the secular moral point of view has also been deflated, thus compounding moral pluralism. It is the political generation of the principles that provides a common morality in the sense of an established morality. The principles are best understood as embedded not in a common morality, sensu stricto, but in that morality that is established at law and public policy in a particular polity. Although moral pluralism is substantive and intractable at the level of moral content, in a particular polity a particular morality and a particular bioethics can be established, regarding which health care ethics consultants can be experts. Public morality and bioethics are at their roots a political reality.
Boko Haram: A Prognosis
(2011) Cook, David; James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy

Browse

Browsing School of Humanities by Title

Results Per Page

Sort Options