Studivation

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[kitmarlo]

Lib(ra)race (at Essay Hell)

[studivation]

https://www.instagram.com/p/Bjm_2R-j_Or/

[kitmarlo]

Carla Freccero in Theorizing Queer Temporalities: A Roundtable Discussion (2007)

[kitmarlo]

Queering the Map is a community-generated mapping project that geo-locates queer moments, memories and histories to collectively document the spaces that hold queer memory, from park benches to parking garages, marking moments of queerness wherever they occur.

Up to this point, Queering The Map has been entirely self-funded and volunteer run, but as traffic to the site increases they are fundraising to ensure that the site can grow and develop into a sustainable living archive of queer experience.

via queeringthemap.com  /  donate here

[bramlouisgreenfeld]

here is a short list of wlw books because there aren’t enough being talked about/hyped:

everything leads to you - nina lacour; ya; focused on a wlw relationship

huntress - malinda lo; fantasy; focused on a wlw relationship

ask the passengers - a.s. king; ya; focused on a wlw relationship

her name in the sky - kelly quindlen; ya; focused on a wlw relationship

far from you - tess sharpe; mystery; wlw mc

ash - malinda lo; fantasy; focused on a wlw relationship

beauty queens - libba bray; ya; wlw side character

you know me well - nina lacour; ya; focused on a wlw relationship

what we left behind - robin talley; ya; focused on a wlw relationship

pink - lili wilkinson; ya; wlw mc

dare me - megan abbott; ya; wlw mc

twixt - sarah diemer; fantasy; focused on a wlw relationship

lies we tell ourselves - robin talley; historical; focused on a wlw relationship

the traitor baru cormorant - seth dickinson; fantasy; wlw mc

dirty london - kelley york; ya; focused on a wlw relationship

the upside of unrequited - becki albertalli; ya; wlw side characters

adaptation - malinda lo; sci fi; focused on a wlw relationship

not your sidekick - c.b. lee; superhero; focused on a wlw relationship

afterworlds - scott westerfeld; fantasy/ya; focused on a wlw relationship

the miseducation of cameron post - emily m. danforth; ya; wlw mc

we are okay - nina lacour; ya; wlw mc

queens of geek - jen wilde; ya; wlw mc

noteworthy - riley redgate; ya; wlw mc

under the lights - dahlia adler; ya; focused on a wlw relationship

feel free to add on/send me recs/books i’ve missed/talk to me about wlw books!!<3

[kitmarlo]

essay season: a still life ft. the BL, origin & the TLS ur perpetually a week behind on (at The British Library)

[kitmarlo]

[kitmarlo]

History is a process of partial appropriation.

Julia Briggs, ‘New times and old stories: Middleton’s Hengist’ in Literary Appropriations of the Anglo-Saxons from the Thirteenth to the Twentieth Century (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000)

[thecornercoffeeshop]

St Xavier’s College, Mumbai

[kitmarlo]

Selections from the Log of Caroline Bergvall’s Drift (2014)

[caffeinebooks]

My adventures with OneNote as a grad student

Post dedicated to @babysociologist, @strange-particles, @thehistorygrad

Disclaimer: I’m using the Mac version which, from what I can gather, has some different functions than the Windows one.

Important: If you have a school e-mail, head down to Office 365 Education and find out if you can have free access to Microsoft Office. That’s pretty much how I got OneNote on my computer and on my phone. Once you download it and sign in with your school account, OneNote will sync your computer notebooks to the OneNote/OneDrive system, so you can access them from anywhere.

I’ve been using OneNote to try and keep better track of my reading notes because I have the horrible habit of spreading them around a thousand different folders and then not being able to find them when I need them (this is literally what happened to me when I was preparing for my qualifying exams, and it was not fun). I was also looking for something that gave me some kind of remote access, kinda like Evernote–but I had bad experiences with Evernote + iPad, and I wanted something easier than just sending everything to Google Drive.

* So basically, I decided to have 2 different notebooks: one for notes on bibliography and one for notes on primary sources.

* For my primary sources, I have sections on different kinds of documents (devotional manuscripts, account records etc), and I’m creating individual pages for each of them. Because I haven’t done much in-depth work on any one of them as of yet, I’m just adding the description of each of them that I had to write for my prospectus. The page title is the coordinates to the document:

* For my “Notes on Bibliography” notebook, I then created sections that, for now at least, organize some of the axes of my research. I also added a section for notes from classes, which usually compile or relate multiple texts, so it would be hard for me to pinpoint where they would fit:

(don’t they look pretty in all these different colors?)

* Whenever I add notes on a text, I add a page. The page title is the name of the author + the name of the text (article or book). Because I also added notes from texts read for classes or for my qualifying exams, I made sure to add that information right under the page title, so it’s easy to see under which circumstances I produced said notes:

* And then I just write down whatever it is I’m writing! I particularly like that you can insert images and tables with relative ease, and that you don’t have to worry at all about margins but still get a fair amount of font and style choices - and it has OCR!

* A point that @dressesandalchemy has made here that I haven’t been able to test is the linking to files, but I have been able to link to other notes and it’s glorious:

* And, like I said, I can have quick access to everything on my phone as well:

[post--grad]

anon who wanted the onenote masterpost! here it is. i do pretty much everything as juliana suggested (though i haven’t yet synced it to my phone…… might have to do that!) i strongly second her recommendation to have one notebook for your primaries and one for your secondaries – you can link between them, but i find that it’s conceptually really useful to keep the actual notes separate. 

my secondary/bibliography notebook is sectioned according to overall topic – so i have a section on vernacular medical practice, on manuscript materiality, on the incunabula, etc. within those sections, i alphabetize pages by author:

the primary notebook is sectioned by genre (drama, insular romance, chronicle, travel writing, etc.) and i’ve just got one messy section for manuscripts (each page is labeled w the shelfmark) – most of the mss that i’m working with have a wide range of contents so i can’t usually sort them by “medical” or “devotional verse” or whatever.

one very nice thing abt onenote (vs a physical notebook) is that you can search all notebooks at once – so if i’m trying to see what info i have on huntington library ms hm 64, i can just search “hm 64″ and every single page with that phrase on it will pop up for me, whether it’s the primary ms notes or secondaries that mentioned the ms.

[terpsikeraunos]

latin word of the day: nemoricultrix, forest-haunting, she that dwells in the woods

[post--grad]

can you write a little about your experience in digital humanities? is it a useful class to take or degree to seek? i'm so curious about it but it seems to encompass soo much that i don't know where to start.

yes ofc! i got a couple of questions about this. 

so i don’t consider myself a dh scholar, though i’d really like to be more familiar with it, but one of the big survival strategies for medievalists right now is to keep a finger on the dh pulse. and since my work in particular is very concerned with knowledge access, it makes a lot of sense for me to be invested in the field! there’s a wikipedia page here you can check out, but essentially the digitial humanities are concerned with the intersection of traditionally “humanities” centered subjects with digital technologies. it looks very different across different fields, and different even within them, as well. so for instance, using a computer program to analyze ink pigments from manuscript pages qualifies just as much as a scholar who works on the digital representation of manuscripts on library websites.

my own interest in it comes from a materialist perspective – i’m very invested in the way an object’s physical form shapes the way we learn from it, but i’m also invested in providing greater and easier access to manuscripts, and the best way to do that is via digitization. so thinking about the ramifications of digitally flattening an object is important to me. there’s a whole host of issues with digitization, though many of them are being worked on; maybe the biggest is that different institutions have different imaging standards (not to mention that if a library started its project in the ‘00s, their early images will be much lower quality than their recent ones). the international image interoperability framework (IIIF) is the biggest project behind getting a standardized format going across platforms. then you’ve got questions of whether excising an image from its context for easier dissemination – think discarding images or the 21931278 pinterest boards about marginalia – necessarily erases meaning… michael camille was concerned about that back in the 90s. i could go on; the medieval field is absolutely rife with digital concerns. 

[liberalartssociety]

26.10.2016 : today is all about Kierkegaard and coffee. 

[riverselkie-deactivated20190510]

i feel like there’s this huge unfulfilled niche in the Dark Academia thing (kill your darlings, the secret history, dead poets society etc) for stories about women???? like can we have rakish girls quoting sappho and anxious genius poet girls, bespectacled, frantically tapping away at typewriters? wild girls trying to start literary movements and being dragged down by their own hubris? innocent girls discovering love and sex and angela carter? cute girls in 60s looking school uniforms investigating ~mysterious happenings~? going to class the next day hungover and exchanging knowing glances? can we just have. the thing

[dukeofbookingham-deactivated202]

A couple of ideas for those Dark Academia novels with a greater emphasis on girls or at least a more even gender ratio: The Rehearsal by Eleanor Catton, The Lake of Dead Languages by Carol Goodman, Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl, Hangsaman by Shirley Jackson, and Sleepwalking by Meg Wolitzer. Rehearsal and Sleepwalking are especially good.

This annoyed me too, so when I wrote a campus novel I made sure it wasn’t a sausage fest. If you like Shakespeare and melodramatic friend groups you might enjoy it. Info here.

[yosb]

welcome to harvard: linguistics 101

[archaicwonder]

The Björketorp Runestone & Curse

The Björketorp Runestone is one of many standing stones (menhir) located in Bleking, Sweden and is one of the world’s tallest runestones, measuring 13.7 feet (4.2 m) high. It is part of a stone circle with two other blank standing stones, with several other solitary stones in the surrounding regions. Most scholars date the runestone’s inscription to the 7th century AD. It’s carved with a type of runes that form an intermediate version between the Elder Futhark and the Younger Futhark. The runestone is inscribed on both sides, the shorter message appears to say “I foresee perdition” or “prediction of perdition” and the longer side’s inscription (pictured) translates as:

“I, master of the runes(?) conceal here runes of power. Incessantly (plagued by) maleficence, (doomed to) insidious death (is) he who breaks this (monument). I prophesy destruction / prophecy of destruction.”

Local lore says that the curse came true at one point. Long ago, a man wanted to move the runestone so that he could have more room to farm, so he piled wood around it to attempt to heat the stone and then crack it with water. The weather was calm with no wind at the time, but as soon as he lit the fire a sudden gust came and lit the man’s hair aflame. He dropped to the ground to put it out but his clothes caught fire and the poor man died in agony. The flame around the runestone, however, was miraculously extinguished, as if someone had smothered the fire.

[lunamtenebris-deactivated202011]

The witch-burnings did not take place during the “Dark Ages,” as we commonly suppose. They occurred between the fifteenth and eighteenth centuries– precisely during and following the Renaissance, that glorious period when, as we are taught, “men’s” minds were being freed from bleakness and superstition. While Michelangelo was sculpting and Shakespeare writing, the witches were burning. The whole secular “Enlightenment,” in fact, the male professions of doctor, lawyer, judge, artist, all rose from the ashes of the destroyed women’s culture. Renaissance men were celebrating naked female beauty in their art, while women’s bodies were being tortured and burned by the hundreds of thousands all around them.

Monica Sjoo & Barbara Mor in The Great Cosmic Mother: Rediscovering the Religion of the Earth (via lunamtenebris)