#cultural-history — Public Fediverse posts

Bangkok Post – Garden gnomes back in the limelight https://www.allforgardening.com/1787100/bangkok-post-garden-gnomes-back-in-the-limelight/ #CulturalHistory #EurovisionSongContest #FrankSinatra #garden #GardenGnomes #gnoming #opinion #RoyalHorticulturalSociety #SandieShaw #StairwayToHeaven

Ancient languages like Basque, Tamil, Aramaic, Chinese, and Arabic are still spoken today, surviving thousands of years of history and change.
#AncientLanguages #HiddenHistory #Linguistics #DidYouKnow #CulturalHistory #OldestLanguages
Read more:https://www.ancient-origins.net/history-ancient-traditions/oldest-language-0013298

THE MOON | 🔗 https://brennan.day/the-moon/

#PersonalEssay #Science #Philosophy #Poetry #Space #CulturalHistory

How #Belgium and #France shape each other across an invisible border
The warmth of the #people, the love for hearty #food, and the appreciation for #beer.
#Belgium #France #TravelEurope #CulturalHistory #BorderStories #EuropeanTravel #Lille #Flanders
https://juskosave.blogspot.com/2026/04/how-belgium-and-france-shape-each-other.html

“In comics at their best, words and pictures are like partners in a dance, and each one takes turns leading”*…

In his new book, Lost Literacies: Experiments in the 19th Century US Comic Strip, literary historian Alex Beringer demonstrates how the birth of the genre of printed comic long preceded the Sunday Funny Pages. He elaborates in conversation with Tim Brinkhof, who introduces the colloquy…

Most people consider the introduction of the Funny Pages in the late nineteenth century as the birthday of the “modern” American comic strip. Alex Beringer is not most people.

A literary historian and professor of English at the University of Montevallo, Beringer dates the history of comics earlier, to roughly the mid-1800s, a period of prolific and uninhibited experimentation. He came to this understanding by piecing together the medium’s fractured archaeological record, diving through myriad online resources and archives. In the middle of the nineteenth century, New York-based artists followed the lead of their French and Swiss colleagues, particularly Rodolphe Töpffer, the “Father of the Comic Strip,” exchanging single-image political cartoons and caricatures for multi-panel sequences that, many believe, for the first time enabled them to play around with characterization, worldbuilding, and—well—storytelling.

Coming decades before the standardization of speech bubbles and panel borders, these early American comics seem to have little in common with their modern, more streamlined counterparts; they featured sudden and purposefully jarring jump cuts reminiscent of the yet-to-be-invented film montage or musical notes instead of text. One comic artist tells a story through shadows behind the curtains of a window; another, with hieroglyphs the reader must decipher with the help of a legend.

“The audience for this first wave of US comic strips was strikingly sophisticated in its reception of this material,” Beringer writes in Lost Literacies: Experiments in the Nineteenth-Century US Comic Strip, which chronicles this oft-forgotten renaissance. Out from the Ohio State University Press, the book is one of hundreds of titles included in JSTOR’s Path to Open program, making scholarly books accessible online to wide audiences (read chapter four here, free of charge).

“The sense of flux—the idea that the visual language could turn on a dime—was often precisely the appeal,” Beringer observes in his chronicle of this oft-forgotten renaissance.

Foretelling the philosopher Martin Heidegger’s assertion that drawing is in itself a “form of knowing,” early comic strip artists and their consumers treated the medium as a philosophical exercise; Beringer quotes the observation by media scholars Hilary Chute and Patrick Jagoda that comics “enable an intense focus on how complexly woven stories unfold across time and space and, particularly, how these involve the reader…to generate meaning through interacting with, or themselves shaping, spatiotemporal form.”

While some early American artists blatantly plagiarized illustrations and formats that originated in France and Switzerland, others used them as a springboard, giving European drawings a decidedly American twist. For example, where Töpffer’s character Monsieur Vieux Bois (“Mr. Oldbuck”) satirized the European bourgeoisie, comics featuring his Yankee doppelganger, Jeremiah Oldpot (artist unknown), a New York tin merchant who leaves his family to prospect gold in California, often hinge on what Beringer defines as the contradiction between his “romantic view of himself as a rugged frontiersman and his attachment to consumer goods.”

Beringer discusses this and other critical facets of this period in comics history…

Read on for their fascinating exchange: “Lost Literacies Strips Down the Dawn of Comics,” from @jstordaily.bsky.social.

* Scott McCloud, in his wonderful Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art

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As we tell and show, we might ponder where all of this has led, recalling that it was on this date in 2007 that the then-latest entry in a comic-born franchise dropped: TMNT, the first animated entry in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles film series, was released. The film (which was entirely computer animated), is set after the final defeat of their arch-enemy, the Shredder; the four Turtles — Leonardo, Raphael, Donatello, and Michelangelo (voiced respectively by James Arnold Taylor, Nolan North, Mitchell Whitfield, and Mikey Kelley) — having grown apart, reunite and overcome their faults to save the world from evil ancient creatures. It also features the voices of Chris Evans, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Mako, Kevin Smith, Patrick Stewart, and Ziyi Zhang, with narration by Laurence Fishburne. 

TMNT ranked number one at the box office on its opening weekend, beating 300 (the top film of the previous two weeks), The Last Mimzy, Shooter, Pride, The Hills Have Eyes 2, and Reign Over Me, grossing $25.45 million over the weekend of March 23–25, 2007. That said, the film grossed (only) $95.8 million million worldwide, including $54 million domestically during its 91-day run in the 3,120 North American theaters… as the Rotten Tomatoes consensus read: “TMNT’s art direction is splendid, but the plot is non-existent and the dialogue lacks the irony and goofy wit of the earlier Ninja Turtles movies.”

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🚶‍♀️ Se perdeu a visita guiada da passada sexta-feira, tem uma nova oportunidade no Sábado, 21 de Março! Desta vez, será Rui Lopes, curador do ciclo "Lisboa, Capital da Intriga Internacional", quem a irá conduzir. Passará por locais de rodagem recorrentes em vários filmes do ciclo por onde passaram espiões e cineastas. 🚶🏽‍♂️

📍 Ponto de encontro: Lg Sto Estêvão, 16h30

ℹ️ https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/events/visita-guiada-intriga-internacional-02/

#Histodons #CulturalHistory #EstadoNovo #Eurospy #SpyFilms #Cinema #Espionagem #HistóriaCultural

🚶‍♂️ O ciclo "Lisboa, Capital da Intriga Internacional" também decorre fora de portas: amanhã à tarde, João Rosmaninho vai conduzir uma visita guiada onde serão explorados os locais de rodagem recorrentes em vários filmes do ciclo por onde passaram espiões (reais e fictícios) e cineastas de várias nacionalidades.🚶🏿‍♀️

📍 Ponto de encontro: Cinemateca Portuguesa, 16h30

ℹ️ https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/events/visita-guiada-intriga-internacional-01/

#Histodons #CulturalHistory #EstadoNovo #Eurospy #SpyFilms #Cinema #Espionagem #HistóriaCultural #SciComm

Do you wish to return to easier times?
Then check out our 3 new books on #nostalgia !
1) #CulturalHistory "Happy Days" by Benjamin L. Alpers examines how #popularculture in the 1970s reimagined their past - from 1950s teens to neo-slave narratives, the US #bicentennial or #filmnoir

#CulturalStudies

🇪🇸 Depois de França e Alemanha, chegou a vez da #Espanha, com mais uma mesa-redonda do ciclo "Lisboa, Capital da Intriga Internacional", organizada com o Instituto Cervantes: "Lisboa, Madrid, Europa" procurará enquadrar o contexto de produção dos filmes que integram o ciclo a partir da história política, económica e legal do #Franquismo.

ℹ️ https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/events/lisboa-madrid-europa/

#Histodons #Spain #España #Eurospy #CulturalHistory #HistóriaCultural #Cinema #FilmsAndPower #HistóriaPolítica #PoliticalHistory

🇩🇪 A terceira mesa-redonda do ciclo "Lisboa, Capital da Intriga Internacional", leva-nos até à Alemanha, com acolhimento do Goethe-Institut.

Amanhã, 10 de Março, Fernando Clara, Vera San Payo de Lemos e Jürgen Bock falam sobre "Encontros clandestinos na capital da espionagem: As relações luso-alemãs em Lisboa entre as décadas de 1940 e 1970".

ℹ️ https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/events/encontros-clandestinos-capital/

#Histodons #CulturalHistory #EstadoNovo #Eurospy #SpyFilms #Germany #Alemanha #Cinema #Espionagem #HistóriaCultural

I've recently read "Vertigo: The Rise and Fall of Weimar Germany" by Harald Jähner.

Specialists with a good knowledge of the political history of interwar Germany will probably agree with the criticisms of leading historian Richard Evans in his 29/11/ 24 TLS review, in which he notes the failure of the book to address important aspects of the republic's politics such as the nature of the constitution.

Evans goes on to criticise "Vertigo" as being overly focused on Berlin and its culture of modernity and its neglect of rural and small town Germany.

For a cultural history, though, this emphasis on Berlin is justified, because that metropolis was offering novel aspirations, norms, and ways of living for the country as a whole, even if the reaction to that agenda in much of rural Germany was one of suspicion, resentment, and finally hatred. One rural commentator Jähner quotes noted with bitterness the exodus of women to the city, "the mass grave of the German people", attracted as they were by "greed, by pleasure seeking, by hollow noise in every area of life, by noisy oriental Jewish nonsense in state politics, department stores and theatres."

I would guess that the these seductive possibilities were made known throughout the German speaking world by the mostly Berlin based media of cinema and the illustrated press. Even if the overwhelming majority of Germans neither actively participated in the new forms of art and entertainment flowering in Berlin nor experimented with new metropolitan practices and presentations in sex and gender, the very existence of this new culture could not do other than transform cultures beyond the metropolis, even if only by introducing within them a self-conscious note of antiurban antimodernity.

Jähner, a journalist, has a good feel for both aspects of everyday life that might pass unnoticed by too many historians, such as the yoyo craze of 1932, and also for the disparate and sometimes internally contradictory emotions, moods, and feelings underlying the republic's culture.

Although "Vertigo" is neither comprehensive nor unquestionable in its treatment of Weimar Germany , it is a rich and thoroughly readable resource for non-Germanists like me, and notable for its determination to treat the culture of the republic as worthy of examination and perhaps celebration in its own right, as opposed to being merely an interlude leading to the advent of the Third Reich.

#Books #History #Germany #WeimarRepublic #Vertigo #20thCentury #InterwarHistory #Modernity #HaraldJähner #CulturalHistory

E amanhã é dia de mesa-redonda na Cinemateca Portuguesa!

Com o título "Olhares sobre Lisboa, Capital do Cinema de Intriga Internacional", vai reunir especialistas em história, estudos de cinema, media e turismo para discutir alguns dos filmes mais interessantes do ciclo homónimo.

ℹ️ https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/events/olhares-sobre-lisboa/

#Histodons #SciComm #FilmCycle #SpyFilms #Lisbon #CulturalHistory #Cinema #FilmsAndPower #ColdWar #EstadoNovo #CicloDeCinema #CinemaDeEspionagem #HistóriaCultural

Os eventos paralelos do ciclo "Lisboa, Capital da Intriga Internacional" começam já amanhã, 6 de Março, com um encontro na Casa do Comum do Bairro Alto organizado em colaboração com o Institut français.

Luís Trindade, Víctor Barros e @victorpereira juntam-se para uma conversa sobre Paris e a resistência ao Estado Novo.

ENTRADA LIVRE

ℹ️ https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/events/dinamicas-culturais-transnacionais/

#Histodons #CulturalHistory #EstadoNovo #HistóriaCultural #Lisbon #Lisboa #Paris #CapitalDaIntrigaInternacional

#Event | The Jewish Culture Forum hosts Dr. Samantha M. Cooper on Undesirables in the Diamond Horseshoe: A Jewish History of the New York Opera Industry | @UCalgary
Registration: https://ucalgary.zoom.us/meeting/register/WoKvce1jQz6GwUfuj4sztw#/registration

#CulturalHistory #Opera

March 19, 2026 09:00 PM CET | On Zoom

🎥 Entre 2 e 31 de Março, a Cinemateca vai acolher o ciclo "Lisboa, Capital da Intriga Internacional", com curadoria de Rui Lopes.

🍿O ciclo mostra como Lisboa foi uma presença recorrente em thrillers sobre espionagem, redes criminosas e outros tipos de conspiração. Além disso, vem acompanhado de um conjunto de actividades paralelas em diferentes locais da cidade.

👉 Contamos tudo aqui: https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/marco-lisboa-capital-intriga/

#Histodons #Cinema #CulturalHistory #FilmCycle #ColdWar #EstadoNovo #CicloDeCinema

🆕 Foi publicado mais um número da Aniki: Revista Portuguesa da Imagem em Movimento, o primeiro de 2026. Inclui o dossier temático "Espaços “Periféricos” Contemporâneos da Imagem em Movimento", editado por Filipa Rosário, André Francisco e Fran Rebelatto.

🔓 https://aim.org.pt/ojs/index.php/revista/issue/view/35

#Histodons #OpenAccess #MovingImage #AcessoAberto #ImagemEmMovimento #Periferias #Periphery #CriticalGeography #UrbanSociology #CulturalStudies #CulturalHistory #Geografia #SociologiaUrbana #EstudosCulturais

✍️ Está aberta a chamada para artigos do dossier temático "Culturas do Fogo", coordenado por Frederico Ágoas e Miguel Carmo e a ser publicado na Revista de História das Ideias. O dossier pretende focar-se nos quadros culturais, epistémicos e políticos através dos quais o fogo tem sido experienciado, contestado e representado através do tempo.

ℹ️ https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/chamada-historiaideias-2026/

#Histodons #CallForPapers #EnvironmentalHistory #SocialHistory #Fire #Wildfires #CulturalHistory #Fogo #Incêndios #FogosPT

Explore the rich history of Valentine’s Day, shaped by saints, poets, and scholars who turned love into a lasting culture. #ValentinesDay #SaintValentine #Chaucer #Shakespeare #RomanHistory #MedievalCulture #CourtlyLove #HistoryOfLove #CulturalHistory #PhilosophyOfLove #SeekReflectEvolve
https://sm.stayingalive.in/did-you-know/when-love-became-a-public.html

📘 'Cartoon Conflicts. Contemporary Controversies and Historical Precedents' was edited by Richard Scully, Paulo Jorge Fernandes, and Ritu Gairola Khanduri.

It is 'the first collection of its kind to explore cartoon controversies on a global scale'.

👉 https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-69762-3

#Histodons #MastoBooks #CulturalHistory #Cartoons #GraphicHumour #Censorship

📚 The second session of the #RESONANCE reading group will take place on 9 February and, this time, it will be online.

Participants will discuss one of the chapters from André Lepecki's book ‘Exhausting Dance: Performance and the Politics of Movement’.

✍️ Registration is now open!

ℹ️ https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/en/events/resonance-reading-group-02/

#Histodons #BookClub #Performance #Dance #ClubeDeLeitura #CulturalHistory #HistóriaCultural #Modernity #AbdréLepecki

🆕 As part of the IHC's efforts to consolidate scientific careers, we are pleased to announce the signing of eleven new permanent contracts.

👉 Read more here: https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/en/eleven-permanent-contracts/

#Histodons #ScienceJobs #History #ContemporaryHistory #Migrations #SocialMovements #ModernHistory #Anthropocene #Colonialism #HistoryOfScience #Imperialism #Fascism #Capitalism #SocialHistory #PoliticalHistory #ColonialHistory #EnvironmentalHistory #CulturalHistory

Denmark just became the first country to end postal letter delivery after 400+ years. Those red mailboxes? Now garden ornaments. Digital communication has fully won, but what happens to those who can't keep up with the shift
https://theurb.co/denmark-postal-end

#Denmark #Technology #Digital #Communication #History #Innovation #Society #Culture #Europe #Future #DigitalTransformation #PostalService #MailDelivery #TechNews #SocialChange #ModernLife #DigitalAge #EndOfAnEra #CulturalHistory #NordicCountries

🆕 We resume our Visiting Scholars programme with a visit from Matt Cook, a distinguished social and cultural historian from the University of Oxford.

🗣️ Matt Cook will give a public lecture on 22 January, focusing on methods, archives and challenges of the social and #CulturalHistory of specific communities, and conduct a workshop on the #HistoryOfEmotions (for PhD students) on 23 January.

👉 https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/en/matt-cook-visiting-scholar/

#Histodons #SocialHistory #MattCook #LGBTQIA+ #QueerHistory

What the fuck? Dude can't even bring himself to say "culture."

Hey. Dimwit! The habit of smiling is not acquired upon American naturalization, nor is it distributed by Customs and Immigration Services. It's acquired through FUCKING CULTURE.

Whiteness, folks. It bleaches all away and leaves only emptiness and hunger. Stop fucking feeding it.

In-fucking-credible the lengths people will go to redefine words because they can't fucking conceive of "white" not being "default."

P.S. BTW, research shows Americans developed the habit of smiling in order to appear non-threatening to out-group members. It's what happens when you live in—despite how shitty we sometimes are about it—one of the most pluralistic cultures on the planet. So erasing its history erases the efforts we have made to coexist with folks with whom we share nothing in common.

Imagine that. Fuck this guy and his whole white website.

​#Sociolinguistics #AmericanCulture #Pluralism #WhitenessStudies #CulturalHistory #StructuralErasure #TheAmericanSmile #Coexistence #WhiteIsPoison #WhiteDeath

The programme for the workshop ‘Intellectual Exchanges Between Revolutionary Africa and Latin America, 1950-1990’ is now available on our website.

It aims to critically examine the fertile intellectual, political and cultural exchanges that took place in the context of the revolution in/and/between Africa and Latin America.

https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/en/events/intellectual-exchanges-afam/

#Histodons #AntiColonialism #Solidarity #Africa #LatinAmerica #LiberationWars #CulturalHistory #IntelectualHistory #PoliticalViolence

SELLING “COUNTERCULTURAL” FASCISM via Westernized versions of yoga didn’t start as a TikTok trend: witty, opinionated, well researched book traces the origins of today’s granola Fascism to the early twentieth-century right. SOLID B

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/fascist-yoga-stewart-home/1146243474?ean=9780745351124

@bookstodon

#book #Books #bookreview #bookreviews #bookstodon #nonfiction #history #culturalhistory #socialhistory #politics #yoga #smallpresssunday