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Erin Lamb started the topic Do you teach about aging to undergraduate students? in the discussion
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 10 months agoGood morning colleagues,
I am conducting a brief survey about teaching age studies, and am looking to find respondents who both:
teach undergraduates (baccalaureate or associate level) in the American higher education system, and
address the topics of aging, old age, and/or ageism in those undergraduate classrooms, even if only briefly or…[Read more] -
Janet Ruth Heller started the topic Call for Papers: MCEA Conference on Fri. Oct. 16 and Sat. Oct. 17, 2015 in the discussion
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 10 months agoCall for Papers: Michigan College English Association Conference on Friday, October 16 and Saturday, October 17, 2015
Theme: Conflicts and ResolutionsFeatured Luncheon Speaker: Poet Linda Nemec Foster
Location: Davenport University, Robert W. Sneden Center, 6191 Kraft Avenue, Grand Rapids, Michigan, 49512
We live in a society that has c…[Read more]
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Martha G. Satz started the topic Book on Toni Morrison and Motherhood in the discussion
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months agoWe are seeking and welcome perspectives from a variety of disciplines, historical, comparative, and cross-cultural, for a collection of essays entitled Toni Morrison and Mothering/Motherhood. In her vast body of work, fiction and non-fiction, Toni Morrison explores and critiques American/African American culture. While Morrison’s novels examine m…[Read more]
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Martha G. Satz started the topic Book on Toni Morrison and Motherhood in the discussion
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months agoFamilial/Communal Structures
Black Motherhood
The Presence of the ancestor
Other Mothering
Collective Memory/Cultural Trauma
Mothering-Controlled Reproduction (racialized maternity)
Language Theory (Julia Kristeva)
Violence
Cultural/Individual Meaning of Motherhood
Relationships between mothers and daughters/sons
Mothers & Sexual…[Read more]
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Sharon Achinstein started the topic CFP MLA 2016: 17-Century Britain and/or/in Europe in the discussion
Comparative Studies in Renaissance and Baroque Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months agoCall for Proposals: MLA 2016:
17th-Century Britain/and/or/in Europe
Special Session
A panel reframing geographical and literary contours: literary, political, or philosophical concerns; networks; thinking beyond ‘Crisis’; questioning current institutional barriers. 300 word abstract by 21 March 2015; Sharon Achinstein (sachins1@jhu.edu) and…[Read more] -
Michelle A. Massé started the topic CFP Extension: Age Studies Forum panel, MLA 2016 in the discussion
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months agoThe deadline for proposals about “The Oldest Profession: Teaching and Aging” has been extended to 3/15/15. The panel, co-sponsored by the Age Studies Forum and Teaching in the Profession Forums will take place at the annual convention of the Modern Language Association, in Austin, Texas January 7-10, 2016.
What difference does age make in what we…[Read more]
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Suha Kudsieh started the topic MLA, Austin: Russia & the Middle East in the Pre-Modern Period in the discussion
Comparative Studies in Renaissance and Baroque Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months agoDear colleagues,
Please feel free to post the CFP in your department, circulate it as among colleagues and on other e-lists, and forward it to your grad students:
131st MLA Annual Convention
Austin, 7–10 January 2016Title of panel: “Russia and the Middle East (Pre-modern)”
Description: this special panel examines broad cultural in…[Read more]
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Hatem Akil started the topic CFP: MLA Panels for 2016 – Forum on Global Arab and Arab American Literature in the discussion
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months agoCFP: MLA Panels for 2016 – Forum on Global Arab and Arab American Literature:
Dear Friends,
The Global Arab and Arab American MLA Forum invites proposals for the following two panels at the MLA convention in Austin, Texas (Jan 7-10, 2016):
Global Arab Texts and their Publics
Displaced writers. Deterritorialized texts. How do recent Arab é…[Read more]
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Margaret Morganroth Gullette replied to the topic CFP: Arab American Women: Representation, Reception and Subjectivity in the discussion
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 11 years agoFYI. A feminist thriller, Traitors, filmed in Morocco, in Arabic and French with English subtitles, now available from Amazon in DVD and VOD.
When writer/ director Sean Gullette’s feature film–a feminist thriller, shot in Morocco with a new Moroccan star, Chaimae ben Acha– opened at the Tribeca Film Festival, an African-American woman in the au…[Read more]
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Suha Kudsieh started the topic CFP: Arab American Women: Representation, Reception and Subjectivity in the discussion
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 11 years agoCall for Proposals:
Society for the Study of American Women Writers (SSAWW) Triennial Conference
November 4-8, 2015
Sheraton Society Hill, Philadelphia, PAPanel on “Arab American Women: Representation, Reception and Subjectivity in Contemporary American Literature by Women”
This panel welcomes papers that examine how Arab American women…[Read more]
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Suha Kudsieh started the topic Invitation to Join New MLA Forum on Global Arab and Arab American in the discussion
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 11 years ago<div class=”bbp-reply-content”>
Dear Colleagues,
The MLA has agreed to launch the new forum on Global Arab and Arab American Lit & Culture (a.k.a. GAAM).
GAAM would like to urge MLA members who are interested in the new focum to sign up for it on the MLA Commons: http://mla.hcommons-staging.org/groups/global-arab-and-arab-american/
We still…[Read more]
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Todd W. Reeser started the topic CFA MLA 2016: 16th C Fr Lit in the discussion
Sixteenth-Century French Literature on MLA Commons 11 years agoCall for Abstracts for MLA 2016 in Austin, Texas
MLA Sixteenth-Century French Literature Executive Committee
Affect in Sixteenth-century France
How is affect intersubjective, defined/undefined, related to emotion? Close or distant readings welcome. 200-word abstracts to Todd Reeser, reeser@pitt.edu, by 3/15/15.
Prefiguring “Disability” in Ren…[Read more]
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Miriam S. Gogol started the topic Call for essays in the forum
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 11 years agoCall for Critical Essay Submissions: Working Women
For a book to be published by a major publisher, I am inviting essays on working women in late-nineteenth to mid-twentieth century American literature. The volume will focus on the American working woman and how she has been represented and underrepresented in American realistic and…[Read more]
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David Alworth replied to the topic Volunteer in the forum
Prospective Forum: TC History and Literature on MLA Commons 11 years agoI would be delighted to volunteer.
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Elena Machado Sáez started the topic CFP: Southeastern Women's Studies Conference (deadline: Jan. 9, 2015) in the forum
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 1 month agoThe Center for Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Florida Atlantic University has extended the deadline for general CFP submissions until January 9, 2015. Please also note that this CFP includes below a link for SEWSA conference registration and membership.
The FAU WGSS Center is proud to host SEWSA 2015: “Trafficking in Gender: Feminist Di…[Read more]
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Elena Machado Sáez started the topic Southeastern Women's Studies Conference CFP (Deadline: Jan. 9, 2015) in the forum
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 1 month agoThe Center for Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Florida Atlantic University has extended the deadline for general CFP submissions until January 9, 2014. Please also note that this CFP includes below a link for SEWSA conference registration and membership.
The FAU WGSS Center is proud to host SEWSA 2015: “Trafficking in Gender: Feminist Di…[Read more]
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Jesse Goldberg started the topic CFP: Harlem Renaissance Drama (SSAWW 2015) in the forum
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 3 months agoSociety for the Study of American Women Writers Triennial Conference
Nov. 4-8, 2015
Philadelphia, PennsylvaniaProposed Panel: “Women Playwrights of the Harlem Renaissance”
Taking a cue from the conference theme, “Liminal Spaces, Hybrid Lives,” this panel asks how African American women playwrights worked out questions of liminality and hybridi…[Read more]
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Andre Carrington started the topic CFP: Queers & Comics Conference in the forum
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 3 months agoView the complete detailed call for proposals: http://www.clags.org/queers-comics/call-for-proposals/
Queers & Comics – Presented by CLAGS: The Center for LGBTQ Studies
Location: The Graduate Center, City University of New York, 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY
Date: May 7-8, 2015Keynote Speakers: Howard Cruse (Stuck Rubber Baby, Gay Comics) a…[Read more]
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Monica C. Miller started the topic 2014 Women's Caucus for the Modern Languages Awards in the forum
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 4 months agoThe Women’s Caucus for the Modern Languages
welcomes submissions for its annual awards.
The 2014 Florence Howe Award
Each year, the Florence Howe Award for feminist scholarship recognizes two outstanding essays by feminist scholars, one from the field of English and one from a foreign language. Each recipient receives $250 and is honored at a…[Read more]
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Shayani Bhattacharya started the topic CFP NeMLA: Writings about the Evolution of the Metropolis in the 20th Century in the forum
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 5 months agoPanel: The (Ir)real City: Writing About the Changing Metropolis in the 20th Century (Session ID: 15391)
Submission Link: https://nemla.org/convention/2015/cfp.html#cfp15391
Deadline: September 30, 2014
Panel Chair: Shayani Bhattacharya (for questions: shayanib@buffalo.edu)
Conference Dates: April 30-May 03, 2015 (Toronto, Ontar…[Read more]
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