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- Foka, Anna, 1981-, et al.
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Introduction to the DHQ Special Issue : Digital Technology in the Study of the Past
- 2018
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Ingår i: Digital Humanities Quarterly. - Boston : Alliance for Digital Humanities Organisations. - 1938-4122 .- 1938-4122. ; 12:3
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Digital technology is transforming the assemblage and dissemination of historical information. Museums, libraries, archives, and universities increasingly modify their digital research infrastructures in order to make data open and available (see [Crane, Seales, and Terras 2009]; [Smithies 2014]; [Terras, Nyhan, and Vanhoutte 2013]; cf [Foka et al. 2017]). The imminent assessment and representation of historical data has admittedly challenged the boundaries of historical knowledge and generated new research questions [Drucker 2013] [Nygren, Foka, and Buckland 2014] #nygren2016 [Westin 2014] #westin2015[Chapman, Foka, and Westin 2016] [Foka and Arvidsson 2016]. The process of reconstructing, visualizing and rendering historical data has equally developed together with technology [Westin, Foka, and Chapman 2018]. This is the case in both academic and heritage contexts and in less immediately obvious popular uses, such as the increasingly significant presence and use of history within video games [Chapman 2016]. Regardless of specific context, as this collection of articles shows, the process of digitally capturing and representing historical data is often analogous to and determined by the digital platform used.
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- Foka, Anna, 1981-
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Half-Naked yet Empowered? Spartacus (2010-) (Ancient) Gender Equality in Contemporary Television
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Ingår i: 12th Annual Hawaii International Conference on Social Sciences. - Honolulu Hawaii.
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Spartacus is attested in several ancient sources (Plutarch, Appian, and Florus) as the leader of a rebellion against the Roman Republic (73 to 71 BC). Despite that none of Spartacus' historical representations overtly suggest that he aimed at reforming Roman society by abolishing slavery and promoting equality, he has inspired a number of intellectuals across times and cultures as a egalitarian leader. Marx, in the Manchester letter to Engels (1861), considered him a real representative of the ancient 'proletariat’ and members of the German Spartacus League, a forerunner of the Communist Party of Germany. In contemporary popular culture, the most recent reception of the tale of Spartacus is the US Television series Spartacus: Blood and Sand (premiered on Starz in: 2010- followed by a late prequel and a sequel), where he is also portrayed as a just and egalitarian leader.In this paper, I will discuss how Spartacus (2010-) promotes social and gender equality as an ancient virtue within a contemporary context. Unlike Spartacus’ historical and other cinematic representations, women play a major role in the 2010- TV series either as slaves that join the rebellion, inspired by the egalitarian Thracian slave-leader, or wealthy Romans who oppose him. Despite incidental nudity, scenes of a sexual and violent nature, a TV MA rating for graphic violence, and strong sexual content in overexposed video stylization, I will show that female characters evolve from the older sexualized and objectified females of gladiatorial Sword and Sandals (e.g. Warrior and the Slave Girl: 1958) to strong and brave action heroines. Finally, I will discuss how the 2010- TV series reflects upon the impact of equality and feminism in the portrayal of the ancient world in our contemporary popular culture.
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- Mäntymäki, Tiina, et al.
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Introduction
- 2015
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Ingår i: Deviant Women : Cultural, Linguistic and Literary Approaches to Narratives of Femininity. - Oxford : Peter Lang Publishing Group. - ISBN 978-3-631-64329-7 pb. (Softcover) - ISBN 978-3-653-03319-9 (eBook) ; s. 9-25
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt)abstract
- The construct of the deviant woman is analysed from literary, sociolinguistic and historical-cultural perspectives, revealing insights about cultures and societies. Furthermore, the studies recognise and explain the significance of the concept of deviance in relation to gender that bespeaks a contemporary cultural concern about narratives of femininity.
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- Mäntymäki, Tiina, et al.
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Introduction
- 2015
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Ingår i: Deviant Women : Cultural, Linguistic and Literary Approaches to Narratives of Femininity. - Oxford : Peter Lang Publishing Group. - 978-3-653-99592-3 ; s. 9-25
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt)abstract
- The construct of the deviant woman is analysed from literary, sociolinguistic and historical-cultural perspectives, revealing insights about cultures and societies. Furthermore, the studies recognise and explain the significance of the concept of deviance in relation to gender that bespeaks a contemporary cultural concern about narratives of femininity.
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Challenge the past / diversify the future - proceedings
- 2015
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Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (övrigt vetenskapligt)abstract
- Challenge the Past / Diversify the Future is a multidisciplinary conference for scholars and practitioners who study the implementation and potential of visual and multi-sensory representations to challenge and diversify our understanding of history and culture. This volume contains an overview of all the presentations.
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- Dillon, Catherine, et al.
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A bottom-up and mixed-methods approach to understanding visitors’ perceptions of dust, dirt and cleaning
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Ingår i: ICOM-CC 18th Triennial Conference 2017 Copenhagen. - Paris : ICOM-CC. - 978-92-9012-426-9
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper reports on a mixed-methods study of visitors’ perceptions of dust and dirt in historic houses. This included a new attitudes question¬naire which was used to segment visitors in terms of their aesthetic preferences and beliefs about cleaning, and to predict visitors’ prefer¬ences and tolerances for dust levels on surfaces. Although visitors had differing expectations about the story being told in properties, most visitors preferred some dust in historic environ-ments, were appreciative of signs of age and use and trusted the professionals to make good decisions about conservation and cleaning. In¬deed, there was a greater tolerance for dust than some professionals might expect.
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- Westin, Jonathan, 1980-
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Towards a vocabulary of limitations: the translation of a painted goddess into a symbol of classical education
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Ingår i: International Journal of Heritage Studies. ; 18:1, s. 18-32
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper discusses how ties with society are accumulated and interpreted as the ‘culture’ of an artefact. Following the reinterpretation of a painted statue into a white museum artefact, I argue that the rules we have to follow in approaching an artefact create a series of unrelated socio-cultural connotations which shape our perception of the object. The culture of the artefact is therefore largely the culture of the context through which it is presented. Hence, by distancing an artefact from an established context you also distance it from the networks that make up a large part of its cultural value. To discuss this process I draw on the works of Michael Callon and Bruno Latour, describing the presentation as a ‘translation’ – a process where the artefact is reinterpreted from one state into another. As a method to describe values sprung from the presentation of the artefact, I propose, and exemplify, a vocabulary of limitations for mapping the ties between society and artefact in different contexts. This vocabulary – developed for this article – helps us identify deeper connections between artefact, context and society by focusing on how interaction has been shaped around the artefact.
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- Elzinga, Aant, 1937-
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Symposium with Martin Bernal, the Historical Construction of Europe Thematic issue of the journal VEST (Vetenskapsstudier)
- 1995
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Ingår i: Vest: Tidskrift för Vetenskapsstudier. - 0283-6025. ; 8:4, s. 4-127
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt)abstract
- The thematic issue of Tidskriften för vetenskapsstudier (Journal of Science Studies) in its 4th issue of 1995 contains proceedings from a symposium with Martin Bernal on the reception of the latter'scontroversial book Black Athena. The symposium organized by Aant Elzinga at the Humanities faculty, Gotehnburg Univeristy in 1994 contains a record of a debate between Martin bernal and several scholars at Gothenburg University plus papers on Eurocentrism and the constructin of a Euroipean identity (contributed by Ronny Ambjörnsson, Aant Elzinga,Everett Medelsohn, and Sven-Eric Liedman among others).
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