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María Gil Poisa uploaded the file: CFP: Body Memory Trauma // Exhibition: Water, Art, Women, Life to
Literature and Other Arts on MLA Commons 11 years, 2 months ago5th Hispanic Studies Graduate Conference with the title of “Body, Memory, Trauma”, an interdisciplinary academic event open to every interested scholar. The conference will take place on March 6th and 7th in College Station/Bryan (Texas), together with an Italian-Argentinean artistic exhibition with the title of “Water, Art, Women, Life”, devoted…[Read more]
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Andre Carrington started the topic CFP: Queers & Comics Conference in the forum
Literature and Other Arts on MLA Commons 11 years, 3 months agoView the complete detailed CFP at http://www.clags.org/queers-comics/call-for-proposals
Queers & Comics Conference – 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, 2015
Keynote Speakers: Howard Cruse (Stuck Rubber Baby, Gay Comics) and A…[Read more] -
Laura E. Savu started the topic The Good Life and the Greater Good in a Global Context in the forum
Comparative Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 7 months agoDear colleagues,
I’m writing to invite you to submit proposals for a collection of essays that is tentatively titled The Good Life and the Greater Good in a Global Context. The essays need to focus on the discourses and practices of the good life, understood in all of its dimensions—material, psychological, ethical, spiritual, etc. –and appro…[Read more]
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Melek Ortabasi started the topic Comparative Children's Lit panel at MLA 2015 in the forum
Comparative Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 8 months agoWatch for this exciting panel, which has just been approved, at the 2015 meeting!
“Writing the Future”
The East Asia to 1900 and East Asia after 1900 divisions have selected for a collaborative session four short papers that focus on the ways in which literature written for children addressed the often turbulent transitions to modernity in East…[Read more] -
Leigh Anne Duck started the topic CfP: MLA 2015/journal special issue in the forum
Comparative Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 11 months agoWe’re seeking proposals for a panel at MLA 2015 (Vancouver, Jan. 8-11) and for a special issue of the journal The Global South (published by Indiana UP, available via JSTOR and Project Muse) on the topic “Narrating Global South Cities.” Even though the “global South” has emerged as a “new and powerful ordering system for academic disci…[Read more]
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Nhora Lucia Serrano started the topic MLA 2015: CFP "Immigration and Comics" in the forum
Comparative Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 11 months agoCall for Papers for a proposed panel at the Modern Language Association (MLA) Annual Convention, 8-11 Jan. 2015, in Vancouver. Jointly sponsored by the MLA Division on <i>European Literary Relations </i>and the MLA Discussion Group on <i>Comics and Graphic Narratives</i>.
Recently, the Cité Nationale de l’Histoire de l’Immigration in Pari…[Read more]
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Thomas Oliver Beebee started the topic CFP for MLA 2015: Comparative Studies of the Long (or Short) 20th Century. in the forum
Comparative Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 12 months agoMLA-style calendar dates (in this case, 1900-2000) as markers of emergence or deliquescence of cultural or literary formations are obviously artificial, especially when the use of alternate periodization systems (e.g., Spanish generational, modern Japanese by emperor name, etc.) is taken into consideration. Yet such dating is also apt to take on…[Read more]
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George Louis Scheper replied to the topic Performing Dickens — NEH Summer Seminar in the forum
Literature and Other Arts on MLA Commons 11 years, 12 months agoSplendidn — for Litrerature and the Other arts, here is another NEH summer Institute fellowship opportunity
NEH Fellowship Opportunity
<b>Pictorial Histories and Myth-Histories: “Graphic Novels” of the Mixtecs and Aztecs</b>
<p align=”center”> A Summer Institute in Oaxaca, Cholula, and Mexico City. June 29 – July 26, 2014</p>
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Sangeeta Ray posted an update in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 12 years agoFor the session on reading comparative literature, the division is really interested in the ways in which new directions in reading have influenced, affected or perhaps not affected comparative literature. Thanks
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Call for Papers
WORLDS and WORDS
29th Annual Interdisciplinary Conference in the Humanities
Sponsored by the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures
University of West Georgia, College of Arts and Humanities
Carrollton, Georgia
October 30-November 1, 2014Deadline Extended until July 22nd
We welcome submissions from across…[Read more]
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Sangeeta Ray posted an update in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 12 years agoCFP for the Comparative Literature Division (MLA 2015). Please consider submitting:
A session on ”How Should Comparatists ’Read’ Literature?” Given the renewed interest in methodologies/modes of reading: close, distant, surface, deep but not close, paranoid and reparative; reading as translation, reading translations; the turn to reading the “wo…[Read more]-
greetings! the texts below may be of interest:
1) Companion to Comparative Literature, World Literatures, and Comparative Cultural Studies. Ed. Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek and Tutun Mukherjee. New Delhi: Cambridge University Press India, 2013. ISBN 9789382993667. 538 pages, bibliography, index. h…[Read more]
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Thomas Oliver Beebee replied to the topic CFP for 2016 MLA: How Should Comparatists ’Read’ Literature? in the forum
Comparative Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature on MLA Commons 12 years agoYes, I really meant the 2015 MLA…
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Thomas Oliver Beebee started the topic CFP for 2016 MLA: How Should Comparatists ’Read’ Literature? in the forum
Comparative Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature on MLA Commons 12 years agoCFP for the Comparative Literature Division (MLA 2015). Please consider submitting:
A session on ”How Should Comparatists ’Read’ Literature?” Given the renewed interest in methodologies/modes of reading: close, distant, surface, deep but not close, paranoid and reparative; reading as translation, reading translations; the turn to reading the “wo…[Read more] -
Sharon Aronofsky Weltman started the topic Performing Dickens — NEH Summer Seminar in the forum
Literature and Other Arts on MLA Commons 12 years agoApplications are now open for “<b>Performing Dickens: <i>Oliver Twist</i> and <i>Great Expectations</i> on Page Stage, and Screen</b>,” a four-week National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar for College and University Teachers, sponsored by the Dickens Project at the University of California Santa Cruz. From <b>Monday, July 7, 2014 to F…[Read more]
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Alice Rachel Ridout started the topic Doris Lessing Memorial in the forum
Comparative Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature on MLA Commons 12 years, 1 month agoThe Doris Lessing Society is organizing an event to mark the recent passing of Doris Lessing. It will be held on Saturday, 12 January at 8:45-10:00pm in Chicago G, Chicago Marriott hotel. All are welcome.
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Dennis Renner replied to the topic Invitation to an MLA Panel: Arthur Miller – Self and Tragedy in the forum
Comparative Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature on MLA Commons 12 years, 1 month agoI am writing from Portland, Oregon, hoping that you will be able to post or send attachments to me (dkrenner@gmail.com) from your Arthur Miller session. It is just a little too impractical for me to come to Chicago for your session, although it is of tremendous significance for a comparative project in which I am using Whitman’s thinking about the…[Read more]
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David Palmer started the topic Invitation to an MLA Panel: Arthur Miller – Self and Tragedy in the forum
Comparative Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature on MLA Commons 12 years, 1 month agoI would like to invite anyone interested in theater, psychological or philosophical issues in literature, narratology, or cognitive approaches to literary analysis to consider attending the following MLA special-session round-table discussion sponsored by the Arthur Miller Society. We plan to allow at least 25 minutes of this 75-minute session for…[Read more]
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María Gil Poisa started the topic Call for Papers: Social Movements in the forum
Literature and Other Arts on MLA Commons 12 years, 1 month agoTEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY’S FOURTH HISPANIC STUDIES ANNUAL GRADUATE CONFERENCE
Translating Social Movements
Friday March 21 – Saturday March 22 2014
The relationship between intellectual discourse and grassroots social movements has long been a contentious and conflictive one, but it is also one that has been shaped by mutual interaction. Just as…[Read more]
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María Gil Poisa started the topic Call for Papers: Social Movements in the forum
Comparative Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature on MLA Commons 12 years, 1 month ago<p align=”center”><b>TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY’S FOURTH HISPANIC STUDIES ANNUAL GRADUATE CONFERENCE</b></p>
<p align=”center”><b>Call for Papers</b></p>
<p align=”center”>Conference Title:</p>
<p align=”center”>Translating Social Movements</p>
<p align=”center”><i>Friday March 21 – Saturday March 22 2014</i></p>
The relationship b…[Read more] -
Phillip Lundberg uploaded the file: Josephine the Songstress to
Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century German Literature on MLA Commons 12 years, 1 month agoKafka’s last word – the spiritual underpinnings of Kafka’s life work is apparent in his last alter-ego – Josephine – the mouse that roars to those who have ears…-? More info at the Kafka group or on my website.
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Good afternoon, Kafka fans,
RE: Gregor’s Hard Hat, a one-act play by Gloria Ptacek McMillanThe play is finished! Anybody wish to read it? I would love comments.
This is a surreal play about the Franz Kafka few people know.
Intriguing?Just ask with a valid email address and I will sennd the play on to you.
Thanks,
Gloria
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Ana Simon uploaded the file: Pre-Civil War (1936) Images of Iberian Masculinity(ies). Nemla 2014 to
Literature and Other Arts on MLA Commons 12 years, 4 months agoThis panel will discuss different types of male hegemonic discourses which circulated in Spain until 1936. Panelists will analyze types of masculinities that did not adhere to archetypical hegemonic models, but that shared the same spheres of influence, and had similar visual and textual expression. Topics to be discussed include, but are not…[Read more]
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Call for Papers
WORLDS and WORDS
29th Annual Interdisciplinary Conference in the Humanities
Sponsored by the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures
University of West Georgia, College of Arts and Humanities
Carrollton, Georgia
October 30-November 1, 2014Deadline Extended until July 22nd
We welcome submissions from across…[Read more]
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