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David C. Lloyd started the topic Jeff Sacks responds to Anthony Appiah in the discussion
English Literature Other Than British and American on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month agoThis open letter by Jeff Sacks, in response to Anthony Apia’s recent blog on the Commons, appeared in the online journal Jadaliyya: http://www.jadaliyya.com/pages/index/25811/an-open-letter-to-kwame-anthony-appiah-president-o
Sacks writes:
With all of the talk about academic freedom, what is this “freedom” that we are talking about, if it i…[Read more]
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Carrie Johnston started the topic Join us for MLA 2017 Special Session, "Keep the H in DH" in the discussion
Methods of Literary Research on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month agoDear Colleagues,
Please join us at on Friday at 1:45 pm for a special session, “Keep the H in DH.” (105B, Pennsylvania Convention Center)
“Keep the H in DH” will address the contributions of humanistic inquiry to the computational tools and methods taken up by digital humanities practitioners. While many humanists acknowledge the ways tha…[Read more]
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David C. Lloyd started the topic John Berger (1926-2017): critic, essayist and BDS advocate in the discussion
Comparative Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month agoWe have received the sad news that the great essayist and art critic <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/jan/02/john-berger-obituary">John Berger</a> died today, January 2, at age 90. He was a principled supporter of BDS. In 2006 he wrote what is referred to as <a…[Read more]
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David C. Lloyd started the topic Daniel Boyarin on the boycott of Israeli Academic Institutions in the discussion
Comparative Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month agoJewish Studies scholar Daniel Boyarin has issued the following statement about academic boycott:
"I am on record, even on Israeli television, as a supporter of BDS and of a limited academic boycott as well. By limited boycott I mean that I do not countenance boycotts of individuals (Let he who is sinless cast the first stone) but of…[Read more]
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David C. Lloyd started the topic Jacques Lezra and Tim Reiss respond to Anthony Appiah in the discussion
Comparative Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month agoIn a recent blog issues in his capacity as MLA President, <a href="https://president.mla.hcommons-staging.org/2016/11/02/taking-issue-taking-stock/">Anthony Appiah</a> addressed the current debate around justice and academic freedom for our Palestinian colleagues.
MLA Colleagues Bill Mullen, Jacques Lezra and Tim Reiss respond…[Read more]
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Raphael Dalleo started the topic MLA 2017 Panel: Caribbean Specters in 1920s Harlem in the discussion
English Literature Other Than British and American on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month agoThis panel, about the presence of the Caribbean in the Harlem Renaissance, takes place on Sunday, January 8th at noon in the Pennsylvania Convention Center, Room 112A.
Vanessa K. Valdés, Imani Owens James C. Davis, and Raphael Dalleo will be part of the panel, presenting on Arturo Schomburg, Eulalie Spence, Nella Larsen, and Eric Walrond.
More…[Read more]
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David C. Lloyd started the topic Brandeis Center: another nuisance suit threatened in the discussion
Comparative Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month agoThe Brandeis Center, notorious these days for launching efforts to censor other people's freedom of speech, has just threatened the MLA with a lawsuit if it passes the boycott resolution. For responses to this clumsy effort at intimidation, see David Lloyd…[Read more]
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Anne Garland Mahler posted an update in the group
CLCS Global South on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoWe’ve got three exciting upcoming panels at the MLA Convention that have been organized by the Global South Forum. Please make plans to attend!
Digital Boundaries of the Global South (Co-organized with the Digital Humanities Forum)
Friday, January 6, 5:15- 6:30 PM
Presiding: Élika Ortega, Northeastern Univ.
Speakers: Radhika Gajjala, Bowling Gr…[Read more] -
James Gifford deposited A Variant of Lawrence Durrell’s Livia; or, Buried Alive and the Composition of Monsieur; or, the Prince of Darkness in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoWe propose an alternative reading of the sequential construction of Lawrence Durrell’s The Avignon Quintet. The form only became clear as he prepared the first volume, Monsieur; or, the Prince of Darkness, for publication. By contrasting the published variant of Livia; or, Buried Alive, we draw attention to Durrell’s structural preoccupations. By…[Read more]
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James Gifford deposited Summoned by Bells in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoUVic Libraries’ Special Collections and Archives hold prized materials in modern literature, ranging from nearly 400 letters by T.S. Eliot to Ezra Pound’s elucidation of his poetry for a German translation. A featured series in the leading journal Modernism/modernity recently discussed the former, with British scholars demonstrating their flu…[Read more]
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Aarthi Vadde deposited Chimeras of Form: Modernist Internationalism Beyond Europe, 1914-2016 in the group
CLCS Global Anglophone on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoIntroduction – excerpt from book published by Columbia University Press.
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Aarthi Vadde deposited Chimeras of Form: Modernist Internationalism Beyond Europe, 1914-2016 in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoIntroduction – excerpt from book published by Columbia University Press.
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James Gifford deposited Hellenism/Modernism: Negotiating Modernisms and the Philhellene in Greece in the group
CLCS Global Anglophone on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoPhilhellenism in modernist literature is familiar. I examine Lawrence Durrell’s works, locating him between Eliot’s Classicism (perhaps the hegemonic Modernism) and the Greek authors who responded to Eliot. Through his ties to Greek Modernists and Parisian Surrealists, Durrell contributed to the Anglo-American tradition in a mode that reflects the…[Read more]
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James Gifford deposited Hellenism/Modernism: Negotiating Modernisms and the Philhellene in Greece in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoPhilhellenism in modernist literature is familiar. I examine Lawrence Durrell’s works, locating him between Eliot’s Classicism (perhaps the hegemonic Modernism) and the Greek authors who responded to Eliot. Through his ties to Greek Modernists and Parisian Surrealists, Durrell contributed to the Anglo-American tradition in a mode that reflects the…[Read more]
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James Gifford deposited Durrell's Delta and Dylan Thomas' "Prologue to an Adventure" in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoThis article retraces the publication history of Dylan Thomas’ “Prologue to an Adventure” and concludes its publication in Delta reflects Thomas’ final intentions and revisions, despite the continued republication of its earlier witness in Wales in Thomas’ collected works.
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Isabelle Hesse started the topic CFP – Palestine in the International Imaginary, 1987-2017 in the discussion
Comparative Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoPalestine in the International Imaginary, 1987-2017
24<sup>th</sup> February 2017
John Woolley Common Room, Level 4, John Woolley Building
The University of Sydney, Australia
Organised by
Dr Isabelle Hesse, The Department of English, The University of Sydney
Dr Ben Etherington, The Writing and Society Research Centre, Western Sydney…[Read more]
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Kathleen Fitzpatrick deposited Peer Review in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoPeer review’s importance in academic research and scholarship suggests that it may present a particularly challenging and useful design problem for the digital humanities. How might scholars who are particularly engaged with the challenges presented by networks for the gathering, structuring, and analysis of data work together to develop flexible…[Read more]
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James E. Dobson deposited Digital American Cultural Studies in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoSyllabus for a graduate level methods survey (introductory) course for the digital humanities. Taught Fall 2016 at Dartmouth College for the Masters of Arts in Liberal Studies (MALS) program.
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John Charles Hawley started the topic Queer Theory in African Film and Fiction, for Yale ALA, proposed panel in the discussion
LLC African since 1990 on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoCFP for proposed panel on Queer Theory in African Film and Fiction, for Yale African Literature Association conference (June 14-17, 2017). How are African literatures and cultures mediating globalizing frameworks for gender and sexuality and shifting understandings of “queer”? From Woubi Cheri and Dakan to Stories of Our Lives, African film…[Read more]
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CLCS Global Anglophone on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoCall for EACLALS triennial conference in Oviedo, Spain. 3-7 April 2017.
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