culture

242d

CFP: 39th Annual Conference of the Eighteenth-Century Scottish Studies Society
9–11 April 2026, Philadelphia, USA

Papers are invited on any aspect of 18th-century Scottish history, thought, & culture, especially the notable 250th anniversaries in 2026, e.g. the role of Scots in the American Revolution, the publication of the Wealth of Nations, & the death of David Hume

Deadline: 10 Sept. Details in ALT-text

@litstudies

#Scottish #literature #history #culture #18thcentury #CulturalStudies

ECSSS will sponsor its own panels at the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies meeting. Papers are invited on any aspect of eighteenth-century Scottish history, thought, and culture, but we would particularly encourage proposals for papers and panels relating to the 250th anniversaries of relevant events that occurred in 1776, such as the role of Scots in the American Revolution (especially in regard to Philadelphia), the publication of the Wealth of Nations, and the death of David Hume.

Details of the ECSSS-sponsored plenary speaker and the evening reception will follow in due course, along with information on any other aspects of the programme in which ECSSS are involved.

Because the programme for the ASECS meeting goes to press at the beginning of October, we have to put together the ECSSS programme by the end of the summer. Please act quickly in order to help us organize the programme in time.

Please email a title and brief abstract of your proposed 20-minute paper, along with a one-page CV, to Rachel Bani (rachel.bani@converse.edu) by 10 September 2025. Those submitting proposals for 3- or 4-paper panels should send the panel title and abstract as well as titles and abstracts of the individual papers and CVs of the presenters by the same deadline. Please ensure that any proposal include ‘2026 conference proposal’ in the email subject line.

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Western (AU, EU, NA) #Kdrama fans, in a certain Western-dominated site, are complaining about AI use in recent productions. However, if you visit Asian-dominated sites, practically no one is complaining.West = utter disgust about AIAsia = it's just a tool, how you use it is up to you#Culture

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241d

Ed van der Elsken
Photographer
1925 - 1990

Purmerends Museum.

His imagery provides autobiographic perspectives on the European zeitgeist spanning the period of the Second World War into the 1970s in the realms of love, sex, art, music (particularly jazz), and alternative culture. "I'm not a journalist, an objective reporter, I'm a man with likes and dislikes"

https://www.edvanderelsken.nl/

#photographer #art #culture #PurmerendsMuseum #edvanderelsken

One example of Ed van der Elsken's work.
Portraying two naughty boy-faces.

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42d

The Madrid Codices: Leonardo da Vinci's treasure trove digitised by Spain's National Library

On 13 February 1967, the Spanish National Library announced the discovery of the Madrid I and II codices, two manuscripts by Leonardo da Vinci that had remained poorly catalogued for more than a century. But they are being digitised to make them accessible to the public.

By Lucia Blasco

https://www.euronews.com/culture/2026/02/20/the-madrid-codices-leonardo-da-vincis-treasure-trove-digitised-by-spains-national-library

Leonardo da Vinci at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/1629

#books #culture #library #history

Leonardo da vinci, Double manuscript page on the Sforza monument.

The left page is devoted to mechanical studies — five carefully rendered technical drawings arranged vertically, each showing wooden joining or clamping mechanisms in three-quarter perspective. They appear to depict interlocking beams, bolt fastenings, and timber joints of increasing complexity, with short annotating notes flanking each drawing on both sides.

The right page is dominated by a large, commanding drawing of what appears to be the lower torso and hindquarters of a horse rendered as a structural armature — a grid of horizontal and vertical ribs forming a curved, basket-like framework that captures the swelling volume of the animal's form. The gridded surface suggests a mold or internal scaffolding for casting, with the waist cinching inward before flaring out again at the haunches. Dense blocks of mirror-script text surround the drawing on the left and bottom, and a folio number — 157 — is visible in the upper right corner. A faint institutional stamp appears near the bottom center.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codex_Madrid_(Leonardo)#/media/File:Leonardo_da_vinci,_Double_manuscript_page_on_the_Sforza_monument.jpg

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40d

The Bennett Collection: The Rising Glory of Women Painters

From 16th-century nuns to modern masters, this collection’s focus on female figurative realists drives a $50,000 biennial boost for the next generation of icons

Michael Pearce

https://www.mutualart.com/Article/The-Bennett-Collection--The-Rising-Glory/45A7C277840FAFCA

Women painters at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subjects/search/?query=Women+Painters

#art #culture #womeninart

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40d

Western (AU, EU, NA) #Kdrama fans, in a certain Western-dominated site, are complaining about AI use in recent productions. However, if you visit Asian-dominated sites, practically no one is complaining.

West = utter disgust about AI
Asia = it's just a tool, how you use it is up to you

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39d

NOW PLAYING == Generation of Praise International Black History Moment | Day 24 - Henry Ossian Flipper

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/25ZqKAiSPbY

#news #culture #history #BlackMastodon #BenjaminDixon #JadaDixon #BlackHistoryMonth #BlackLivesMatter #radio #vsn #progressive #left #DiverseSpectrumOfTheLeft #SupportIndependentMedia #Resist

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2d

Working on products people hate https://lobste.rs/s/w8etif #culture #programming
https://www.seangoedecke.com/working-on-products-people-hate/

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18d

Happy St Patrick’s Day!

Ireland & Scotland: Cultural Intersections Across the Irish Sea

Issue 33 of Litteraria Pragensia: Studies in Literature and Culture explores some of the literary traffic between 🇮🇪 & 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 in the 20th & 21st centuries

@litstudies

https://litterariapragensia.ff.cuni.cz/magazin/2023-33-65/

#Scotland #Ireland #Scottish #Irish #literature #culture #culturalexchange #StPatricksDay

Ireland and Scotland: Cultural Intersections Across the Irish Sea

Introduction: Cultural Intersections Across the Irish Sea
Petra Johana Poncarová and Radvan Markus, p. 1-7

Principles and Curses: The Honourable Ruaraidh Erskine of Mar and Some Irish Connections
Gerard Cairns, p. 8-24

Derick Thomson and Ireland
Petra Johana Poncarová, p. 25-44

A Mirror to Ireland: Máirtín Ó Cadhain’s Articles about Scotland
Radvan Markus, p. 44-61

Dáimh le hAlbain?: Depictions of Scotland in Twentieth-Century Irish-Language Prose
Caoimhe Nic Lochlainn, p. 62-84

Modernising the Islands: Irish and Scottish Gaelic Fictions
Alan Titley, p. 85-100

On Irish Poets Writing in Scotland
Peter Mackay, p. 101-123

“What Horrors Worse Than These?”: Childhood and Adolescence in Catholic Glasgow
Christopher Whyte, p. 124-139

Notes on Contributors
p. 140-142

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18d

“Joyce considered how the ‘sister’ nations Ireland & Scotland might be linked through similar philosophical traditions, MacDiarmid saw modern Irish cultural & political developments as a source of inspiration for Scotland, & Heaney turned to the Buile Suibhne story as a way of stressing cultural commonalities”

Late Celticism in Irish & Scottish literature: binding ties

@litstudies

https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/2023/06/14/late-celticism-in-irish-and-scottish-literature-binding-ties/

#Scotland #Ireland #Scottish #Irish #literature #culture #CelticStudies #20thcentury

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17d

Why Lacan Loved Harpo Marx

A surprising encounter between high theory and Hollywood farce reshapes how we think about laughter and desire.

By: Angelica Frey

https://daily.jstor.org/why-lacan-loved-harpo-marx/

Humor & Comedy at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/bookshelf/44
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subjects/search/?query=comedy

#books #literature #art #culture

Lobby card for Monkey Business (1931) with Chico (left) and Harpo (right)

The card shows Chico on the left in his trademark shabby suit and felt hat, and Harpo on the right in his iconic curly red wig, battered top hat, and characteristically mismatched, oversized clothing. The man in the middle is one of the supporting cast members.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harpo_Marx#/media/File:Monkey_Business_lobby_card_1931.JPG

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30d

EDIT de l'EDIT (parce que clairement je ne sais pas lire😮‍💨 )

C'est un sondage de l'instance Masto RéseauCulture, un réseau "d'acteurs culturels, publics et privés, engagés pour partager des informations culturelles de façon plus libre, ouverte et indépendante" mais c'est à l'initiative du Ministère de la Culture.

Ils veulent savoir si vous êtes intéressés de voir des institutions culturelles sur Mastodon.

https://framaforms.org/mastodonfediverse-la-culture-et-vous-1771542693

#culture #france #mastodon #musee #theatre #education #science

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16d

Climate change to identity: The vital lessons in Metamorphoses, Ovid's 2,000-year-old poem

You might think that Ovid's Metamorphoses, an ancient compendium of the greatest Greek myths, would hold little relevance today. But its tales of desire and deceit reveal surprising parallels with contemporary concerns, from climate change and the refugee crisis to gender-based violence and identity.

by Cath Pound

https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20260317-metamorphoses-ovids-2000-year-old-poem-says-a-lot-about-2026

At PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/21765

#books #literature #culture

Lycian farmers changed into frogs: Latona changes Lycian farmers into frogs, because while they were weeding a marsh, they prevented her and her children from quenching their thirst (Ovid, Metamorphoses VI 369)

Claude Du Bosc / After Jean Jouvenet - Leto verandert de boeren in kikkers, Claude DuBosc, after Jean Baptiste Jouvenet, 1714 - Rijksmuseum

The scene depicts the goddess Leto — mother of Apollo and Artemis by Zeus — fleeing the wrath of Hera after giving birth. Exhausted and thirsty, she stops at a pond in Lycia to drink, but local peasants cruelly prevent her and her infant children from reaching the water, stirring up the mud to make it undrinkable. In fury, she calls upon Jupiter and transforms the peasants into frogs.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Metamorphoses_(Ovid)#/media/File:Claude_Du_Bosc_after_Jean-Baptiste_Jouvenet,_Leto_and_the_Lycian_Peasants,_1714,_Rijksmuseum_RP-P-1905-2842.jpg

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14d

Is Math Art? Werner Herzog Says Yes

The German filmmaker spoke about math and the sublime at Brooklyn Public Library's Pi Day celebration.

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/werner-herzog-brooklyn-public-library-pi-day-2754957

Art + Mathematics at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=art+%2B+mathematics

#art #culture #mathematics

Wanderer above the Sea of Fog (1818), Kunsthalle Hamburg

Caspar David Friedrich - The photographic reproduction was done by Cybershot800i. (Diff)

The hiker stands as a back figure in the center of the composition. He looks down on an almost impenetrable sea of fog in the midst of a rocky landscape - a metaphor for life as an ominous journey into the unknown.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b9/Caspar_David_Friedrich_-_Wanderer_above_the_sea_of_fog.jpg/960px-Caspar_David_Friedrich_-_Wanderer_above_the_sea_of_fog.jpg

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32d

Here is the inaugural episode.
This month's Podcast Guest is Jo Jackson, Cultural Glenkens Project Leader with GCat. We talk to Jo about her ties to Galloway, Cultural Glenkens and places that are special to her here.
Join us also for our segments: Concerning Corepaths and Galloway Gleanings where we talk Culture and Walking in Galloway.
https://youtu.be/H8NbFdF1at0

#Galloway #Podcast #Scotland #Culture #walking #landscape #heritage

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25d

“It looks as if a Man could Toot himself to Heaven upon the Whore of Babylon’s Bagpipes”

—how 18th-century English satirists used bagpipes to signify Jacobitism & Catholicism, & the threat to the Establishment

🎵 10 March is International Bagpipe Day! A 🎶🧵

1/6

https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2013/05/the-scottish-bagpipe-political-and-religious-symbolism-in-english-literature-and-satire/

#Scotland #Scottish #music #history #culture #bagpipes #InternationalBagpipeDay #18thcentury #satire #Jacobites

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24d

NOW PLAYING == Native Roots Radio with Robert Pilot 3/10/26: Guests Gary Farmer, actor, musician, and frontman of Gary Farmer and the TroubleMakers; political consultant Arvina Martin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lns_cgndi0w

#News #Culture #Commentary #Indigenous #Native #RobertPilot #WendyPilot #Nativerootsradio #Radio #Vsn #Progressivenewstalk #Progressive #Left #Diversespectrumoftheleft #SupportIndependentMedia #Resist

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23d

Untitled (dog wearing "mascot' cape and hat pretending to drive firetruck)
Jack Gould, American
c. 1950
https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/127633
#Art #Design #Museum #Gallery #MastodonArt #MastoArt #Culture #Random

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9d

Watch "Why 'Metropolis', Fritz Lang's Silent Movie, Still Defines Sci‑Fi 100 Years Later"

Before 'Star Wars'. Before 'Blade Runner'. Before every futuristic city, rogue android, or AI uprising you’ve ever seen, there was 'Metropolis' (1927). This video dives deep into how Fritz Lang’s silent-era masterpiece built the visual language of modern sci-fi, shaped pop culture for a century, and predicted the world we live in today.

https://youtu.be/lFdvbf9bomM?is=8pP5WZ5rnqLwEYO6

#publicdomain #movies #history #culture

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8d

"My painting is what I have to give back to the world for what the world gives to me."

Georgia O’Keeffe Museum Unveils Digital Archive of the Artist’s Entire Body of Work

You can now browse over 2,000 of Georgia O’Keeffe’s works by theme, timeframe, or medium.

By Emma Taggart

https://mymodernmet.com/georgia-okeeffe-museum-digital-archive/

Georgia O'Keeffe Museum:
https://access-ok.okeeffemuseum.org/

#art #culture #womenhistoryMonth

Photograph of painting Red Canna (1923) by Georgia O'Keeffe on display at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Photo taken February 2023.

The canvas is consumed almost entirely by cascading waves of deep crimson and scarlet. Broad, voluptuous petals curve and overlap in smooth, sensuous arcs. Flashes of deep orange glow at the centre where the stamens emerge, and small scrolls of dark green leaf curl at the corners, providing the only relief from the overwhelming warmth of the reds.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_O%27Keeffe#/media/File:Red_Canna_(1923)_by_Georgia_O'Keeffe.png

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1d

TDF ejects its core developers https://lobste.rs/s/wo3ome #culture
https://meeksfamily.uk/~michael/blog/2026-04-02-tdf-ejects-core-devs.html

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4d

CFP
A Kingdom in Perplexity: Voices of Seventeenth-Century Scotland Symposium
11 June, University of Glasgow

Postgraduate & Early Career Researchers specialising in any aspect of early modern Scottish history, literature & culture are invited to participate in the University of Glasgow’s new interdisciplinary research symposium. Contact scot17thcenturyresearch@gmail.com for details.

#Scottish #literature #history #culture #celticstudies #callforpapers #Gaelic #Gaidhlig

A map of Scotland from a 17th-century pocket atlas of Great Britain, drawn by John Speed and engraved by Peter Van Den Keere (Petrus Kaerius): 1627. Drawn in black on paper browned with age, labelled THE KINGDOME OF SCOTLAND

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9h

Dissolving the social via @splitbrain https://lobste.rs/s/4kp8af #culture #vibecoding
https://tante.cc/2026/04/01/dissolving-the-social/

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