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khalid
Feb 12, 20232 min read
International Mother Language Day
The 21st February is our pride and courage. The day, February 21, 1952 and the martyrs of the day in Bangladesh make us remember that we...
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khalid
Feb 7, 20231 min read
Intrusion of English on Bengali
I raise a debatable topic. The relationship between Bangladesh people and English is deeper than usually measured in the scale of the...
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frankonuh
Feb 6, 20233 min read
Echoes of Resistance #1
The Aba Women's Riot of 1929 represented a pivotal moment in the history of Nigerian women, as well as in the wider context of Africa....
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Barbara Bordalejo
Feb 5, 20232 min read
Tell Me What Ink You Use to Draw Your Experimental Animals, and I'll Tell You Who You Subjugated.
Thanks to the paleography class, I have been thinking a lot about handwriting. I have not yet recovered from the shock of learning that...
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davide.pafumi
Feb 4, 20233 min read
Hijos de una Gran Chingada Madre
This story comes also along with a very agitated week at the UoL in which we saw the strong contraposition between unreconcilable...
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Barbara Bordalejo
Jan 23, 20232 min read
Do you Like Ethics?
Should everyone take ethics classes? The data course highlights the problem of the need for more training in various educational sectors,...
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frankonuh
Jan 23, 20231 min read
Decolonizing Knowledge: Examining the Power Dynamics of Global Unity and Equality
Who decides what a word should mean? Who decides what is an appropriate or inappropriate meaning? How do we measure and compare knowledge...
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Daniel Paul O'Donnell
Jan 22, 20237 min read
The rise of the house of Usher: Standardisation and the decline of the value proposition in post-sec
What was it—I paused to think—what was it that so unnerved me in the contemplation of the House of Usher? It was a mystery all insoluble;...
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Barbara Bordalejo
Dec 22, 20221 min read
Welcome, Frank!
The Humanities Innovation Lab welcomes its newest member, Frank Onuh, who will work on text analysis of political discourse and hate...
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Barbara Bordalejo
Dec 22, 20221 min read
Khalid completes his MA!
We are proud to congratulate Khalid on the successful defence of his thesis, The History of English in Bangladesh. Khalid showed mastery...
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morganpearce3
Dec 12, 20223 min read
Medieval Melancholia and Depression (Pt. 1)
Continuing my journey through the game Pentiment, I came across an especially resonant part of the game. In order to convey its full...
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morganpearce3
Nov 28, 20223 min read
Pentiment: Art, Writing, and Change
"Italian pentimento repentance, remorse (a1257), change of opinion (1630), correction (a1827)" (OED). With my free time lately, I have...
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Daniel Paul O'Donnell
Nov 20, 20224 min read
Yet another blog about twitter... It reminds me of listservs in the 1990s.
It’s been interesting watching how the last few weeks have played out on Twitter.
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Barbara Bordalejo
Nov 19, 20223 min read
The Rise of Fast Books or Instant Mash Ain’t Mashed Potatoes
Last week, Dan posted a few notes on bookbinding in which he wondered about the swiftness of the 19-century binding in reference to the...
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Daniel Paul O'Donnell
Nov 13, 20220 min read
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Barbara Bordalejo
Nov 8, 20223 min read
The Decline of the Sacred
While preparing a conference abstract, I reread Stephen Marche's article; Literature is not Data.” Although he writes positively about...
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Barbara Bordalejo
Oct 23, 20222 min read
Self-validation, a rare happening.
Academia is a place where one thrives on external validation queues. It is rare, at least for me, to find sources of joy not related to...
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Daniel Paul O'Donnell
Oct 23, 20220 min read
How to blog...
At the Humanities Innovation Lab, we are encouraging students (and faculty) to blog each week about their work. That can be intimidating....
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morganpearce3
Oct 19, 20225 min read
"All Things Move Toward Their Ends": The Murder Ballads of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
The cover for the album Murder Ballads (https://genius.com/albums/Nick-cave-and-the-bad-seeds/Murder-ballads) I was recently listening to...
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