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Lennie Amores started the topic Call For Papers MLA 2025 Critical Disability in Contemporary Iberian Studies in the discussion
TC Disability Studies on MLA Commons 1 year, 12 months agoMLA New Orleans, January 9-12, 2025
CALL FOR PAPERS
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian Section. The members of the Executive Committee invite colleagues to submit proposals:
Critical Disability in Contemporary Iberian Studies
Theoretical contributions, personal or pedagogical practices, and case studies on the relation between d…[Read more] -
Francisco Marcos-Marín deposited Serán ceniza, mas tendrán sentido: orígenes de las humanidades digitales en España in the group
Computer Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 2 years agoSe recogen en este capítulo los movimientos iniciales y proyectos de humani-dades digitales sobre la lengua española entre 1971 y 1993. Se trata, sobre todo, de proyectos españoles desarrollados principalmente en relación con universidades y centros de investigación de Madrid. Se hace referencia también a otros centros y otros proyectos, sobre…[Read more]
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Regenia Gagnier deposited The Geopolitics of Beauty in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 2 years agoBuilding on eighteenth-century philosophical traditions, Victorian aesthetics were often posed as an antidote to the vicissitudes of the Industrial Revolution and the political and economic demands of the marketplace, and in most cultures undergoing modernization the Beautiful has often functioned in opposition to the forces of power and…[Read more]
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Regenia Gagnier deposited The Futures of English: Introduction from the UK in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 2 years agoWill students raised on social media still read English literature?
• What is the role of English/American literature in the PRC, India,
Australasia, the USA?
• What is the role of English language in relation to other global
and local languages?
• What is the role of decolonising efforts?
• How do our respective state apparatuses affect…[Read more] -
Regenia Gagnier deposited The Futures of English: Introduction from the UK in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 2 years agoWill students raised on social media still read English literature?
• What is the role of English/American literature in the PRC, India,
Australasia, the USA?
• What is the role of English language in relation to other global
and local languages?
• What is the role of decolonising efforts?
• How do our respective state apparatuses affect…[Read more] -
Mimi Winick deposited Abstracts for panel, “Anthropology and Speculative Fiction,” MLA 2024 in the group
TC Anthropology and Literature on MLA Commons 2 years ago“Anthropologists, Aliens, and Indigenous Futurism: Writing against Culture in Rebecca Roanhorse’s Trail of Lightning” Eric Aronoff, Michigan State U
“Alberto Vanasco: An Alien Ethnography of Argentina,” Caleb Delorme, Rutgers U, New Brunswick
“H. G. Wells’s Fetishism ” Jayne Hildebrand, Barnard C
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andré carrington started the topic Open General Business Meeting for the Forum:MS Sound at #MLA2024 in the discussion
MS Sound on MLA Commons 2 years agoGood day everyone! If you’re attending the annual convention and you’d like to join the Forum MS Sound (or you’re already a member) please join us at 3:30p.m. on Saturday, January 6, in the Marriott – Grand D (Level 5). We’ll catch up and solicit interest in potential topics for sponsored sessions, and we have seats opening up, so you can become a…[Read more]
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Setsuko Yokoyama started the topic The Executive Committee endorses the Radical Caucus’s motion in the discussion
MS Sound on MLA Commons 2 years agoDear Forum Participants,
The executive committee of the Sound Forum is writing to let you know of our intention to endorse the Radical Caucus’s emergency motion in defense of academic freedom. The draft text of the motion is included below and our endorsement will be listed as “The Sound Forum Executive Committee.” There will be an open hearing…[Read more]
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Setsuko Yokoyama started the topic The Executive Committee endorses the Radical Caucus’s motion in the discussion
MS Sound on MLA Commons 2 years agoDear Forum Participants,
The executive committee of the Sound Forum is writing to let you know of our intention to endorse the Radical Caucus’s emergency motion in defense of academic freedom. The draft text of the motion is included below and our endorsement will be listed as “The Sound Forum Executive Committee.” There will be an open hearing…[Read more]
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Raj Chetty started the topic CLCS Caribbean Forum panel at MLA 2024 (in-person, Philadelphia) in the discussion
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 2 years agoHey all!
Please join us for this year’s Caribbean forum in-person panel, “Evolutions in Caribbean State Formation” (326), which has been selected by Frieda Ekotto, MLA President, to be included in this year’s Presidential Theme, “Celebration: Joy and Sorrow.”
- Friday, 5 January 2024
- 5:15 PM – 6:30 PM
- Loews – Congress B (4th Floor)
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Shashi Bhusan Nayak started the topic Call For Book Chapters: Beyond Networks of Domination: Rethinking Machinic Media in the discussion
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 2 years agoCall For Book Chapters: Beyond Networks of Domination: Rethinking Machinic Media, Digitality & Cinema of our Times
Editors: Ananya Roy Pratihar(IMIS,Bhubaneswar), Saswat Samay Das (IIT, Kharagpur) & Shashibhushan Nayak(GP Nayagarh)
The biopolitical schemas for restructuring machinic networks of Media, Digital, and cinema do not stand as…[Read more]
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Karin Bagnall started the topic Restaurant Recommendations and More in the discussion
2018 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 2 years, 1 month agoIf you’re a Philadelphia local (or power user!), please share your expertise by suggesting nearby restaurants, bars, or things to see or do. Provide as much information as you can: Distance from the convention venue, price range, URL, and what you like about a place are particularly useful.
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Fatma Fulya Tepe started the topic new article: Angela Carter’s Adaptations of the Ashputtle Story in the discussion
GS Folklore, Myth, and Fairy Tale on MLA Commons 2 years, 1 month agoDear Colleagues,
We recently published an article titled as “Deconstructing a Disempowering Normative Identity: Angela Carter’s Adaptations of the Ashputtle Story” in Interlitteraria journal. We present the information and the abstract of the article below. If you would like to have a copy of it, please click this l…[Read more]
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Fatma Fulya Tepe started the topic New creative feminist work: A Misogynist Triptych from 1945 in the discussion
GS Comics and Graphic Narratives on MLA Commons 2 years, 1 month agoDear Colleagues,
I , Assoc. Prof. Dr. Fatma Fulya Tepe, from Istanbul Aydin University, Faculty of Education and Emeritus Prof. Dr. Per Bauhn from Sweden’s Linnaeus University prepared “A Misogynist Triptych from 1945” based on cartoon material coming from the Turkish Boşboğaz (Bigmouth) Humor Gazette from 1945. This project was supported by…[Read more]
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Fatma Fulya Tepe started the topic New creative feminist work: A Misogynist Triptych from 1945 in the discussion
TC Popular Culture on MLA Commons 2 years, 1 month agoDear Colleagues,
I , Assoc. Prof. Dr. Fatma Fulya Tepe, from Istanbul Aydin University, Faculty of Education and Emeritus Prof. Dr. Per Bauhn from Sweden’s Linnaeus University prepared “A Misogynist Triptych from 1945” based on cartoon material coming from the Turkish Boşboğaz (Bigmouth) Humor Gazette from 1945. This project was supported by the…[Read more]
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Fatma Fulya Tepe started the topic New creative feminist work: A Misogynist Triptych from 1945 in the discussion
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 2 years, 1 month agoDear Colleagues,
I , Assoc. Prof. Dr. Fatma Fulya Tepe, from Istanbul Aydin University, Faculty of Education and Emeritus Prof. Dr. Per Bauhn from Sweden’s Linnaeus University prepared “A Misogynist Triptych from 1945” based on cartoon material coming from the Turkish Boşboğaz (Bigmouth) Humor Gazette from 1945. This project was supported by the…[Read more]
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Golam Rabbani deposited The Creative Industries in Bangladesh: The Case of Coke Studio Bangla’s “Deora” in the group
TC Popular Culture on MLA Commons 2 years, 1 month agoThis article analyzes the case of Coke Studio Bangla’s music and performance production titled “Deora.”
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Golam Rabbani deposited Media and Peeping Tom Culture: Violating Familial Privacy and Communal Responsibility in the Evolution of Voyeurism in the group
TC Popular Culture on MLA Commons 2 years, 1 month agoIn the name of visual pleasure, there are different entertainments in today’s media that instigate voyeurism among common viewers. In this study, the author intends to focus on two phases where the spectators are turning voyeurs without their consent. In the first phase, the study reveals the process where film influences voyeuristic behavior. T…[Read more]
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Hania A.M. Nashef deposited Canines: Unlikely Protagonists in the Novels of Coetzee, Saramago and Shibli in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 2 years, 2 months agoAnthropomorphism, which combines two Greek words, anthropos and morphe, meaning “human” and “form’ respectively, is a term that reflects our attribution of human characteristics to non-human animals and objects, bestowing upon them agency (Taylor 2011: 266). In this respect, we elevate the status of the non-human animal, moving it from being a…[Read more]
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Hania A.M. Nashef deposited Canines: Unlikely Protagonists in the Novels of Coetzee, Saramago and Shibli in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 2 years, 2 months agoAnthropomorphism, which combines two Greek words, anthropos and morphe, meaning “human” and “form’ respectively, is a term that reflects our attribution of human characteristics to non-human animals and objects, bestowing upon them agency (Taylor 2011: 266). In this respect, we elevate the status of the non-human animal, moving it from being a…[Read more]
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