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Helene Meyers deposited Got Jewish Milk? Screening Epstein and Van Sant for Intersectional Film History in the group
CLCS Global Jewish on MLA Commons 8 years, 3 months agoA B ST R A C T
Rob Epstein’s The Times of Harvey Milk (USA, 1984) and Gus Van Sant’s Milk (USA,
2008), the two major films that narrate the life and tragically dramatic death of gay
politician and activist Harvey Milk (1930–1978), are widely recognized as part of
the queer cinematic canon but are less often categorized as Jewish films. While…[Read more] -
Alex Feldman posted an update in the group
TC Law and the Humanities on MLA Commons 8 years, 3 months agoExecutive Committee Candidacy
Dear all,
I am writing to introduce myself as a candidate/ nominee for the upcoming Executive Committee elections. I am a Lecturer and Fellow (Asst. Prof.) in the English Department at the University of Haifa, specialising in Modern British, American and European drama, with a particular focus on the representation…[Read more] -
Melissa J. Ganz started the topic CFP: 2018 Law and Humanities Junior Scholar Workshop in the discussion
Law as Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 3 months agoCALL FOR PAPERS – 2018 Law & Humanities Junior Scholar Workshop
Columbia Law School, the University of Southern California Center for Law, History & Culture, UCLA School of Law, Georgetown University Law School, Stanford Law School, and the University of Pennsylvania invite submissions for the annual meeting of the Law & Humanities Junior S…[Read more]
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Simone Sacchi deposited HuMetricsHSS: towards value-based indicators in the Humanities and Social Sciences in the group
TC History and Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 4 months agoThis presentation will introduce the HuMetricsHSS (Humane Metrics in the Humanities and Social Sciences) initiative, which aims to develop and support a values-based framework of indicators for excellence for the humanities and social science in academia and, by extension, academic libraries. This value-based evaluation paradigm uses metrics only…[Read more]
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Laurence D. Roth started the topic CFP: American Jews and Music: Assembling New Canons and Contexts in the discussion
Jewish American Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 4 months agoSpecial Issue of Studies in American Jewish Literature
Guest editors: Jonathan Freedman and Laurence Roth
If the first major waves of popular interest in, philanthropic funding of, and scholarship on contemporary Jewish music and songwriters in the U.S. have finally receded, they’ve left a treasure in their wake. From Orthodox popular music and…[Read more]
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Jennifer R. Ballengee posted an update in the group
TC Law and the Humanities on MLA Commons 8 years, 4 months agoCFP for The American Comparative Literature Association’s 2018 Annual Meeting – University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) – March 29th to April 1st, 2018.
Dangerous Passages (Benjamin 1940/2018).
As is well known, Walter Benjamin undertook a dangerous passage over the Pyrenees, a route taken by many refugees hoping to flee Nazi-occupied Franc…[Read more] -
Carol Zuses started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2018 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
Jewish Cultural Studies on MLA Commons 8 years, 4 months agoThe next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2018, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets during the January 2018 convention in New York. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nom…[Read more]
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Janine M. Utell posted an update in the group
LLC Late-19th- and Early-20th-Century American on MLA Commons 8 years, 5 months agoSpecial Issue of The Space Between: Literature and Culture 1914–1945 : Call for Essays (of potential interest to scholars of American modernism and 20th-century studies)
Dada and Surrealism: Transatlantic Aliens on American Shores, 1914 – 1945deadline for submissions: December 31, 2017
Please submit full essays of 6,000-7,500 words in Times New…[Read more] -
David Squires deposited Outlawry: Ida B. Wells and Lynch Law in the group
LLC Late-19th- and Early-20th-Century American on MLA Commons 8 years, 5 months agoThis essay demonstrates how Lynch Law suspended normative criminal law and undermined constitutional amendments made after the US Civil War. Focusing on the period between Reconstruction and the rise of Jim Crow, the essay argues that “outlawry” provides the necessary juridical concept for understanding how a tradition of popular sovereignty wor…[Read more]
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Rose Casey posted an update in the group
TC Law and the Humanities on MLA Commons 8 years, 5 months agoCFP: Forms of Law: The Agentive Capacities of Literary and Legal Forms, ACLA 2018 (UCLA)
Organizers: Rose Casey (rose.casey@mail.wvu.edu) and Stephanie De Gooyer (sdegooye@willamette.edu)
Abstracts of 1500 characters due September 1 to 23rd via ACLA portal: https://www.acla.org/forms-law-agentive-capacities-literary-and-legal-formsIn their newly…[Read more]
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Christopher Warren deposited Henry V, Anachronism, and the History of International Law in the group
TC Law and the Humanities on MLA Commons 8 years, 5 months agoHistorians, literary scholars, and international lawyers interested in the early modern period have all grappled with the problem of anachronism, yet mostly independently of one another. This essay uses the question of war crime in Shakespeare’s Henry V to argue that early modernists interested in international law need not reject synchronic h…[Read more]
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Jesús Rodríguez-Velasco deposited The International National: Ius Commune and the fictions of citizenship. in the group
TC Law and the Humanities on MLA Commons 8 years, 6 months agoThe following text was presented as part of the Presidential Panel at the American Comparative Literature Association, Utrecht (The Netherlands), July 8th 2017. The panel was composed of Joseph Slaughter (ACLA President, English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University in the City of New York), Maria Aristodemou, Law, Birkbeck College,…[Read more]
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Veronica Schanoes replied to the topic CFP: Jewishness and Postcoloniality in Literature, Culture and Theory in the discussion
Jewish American Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 7 months agoThank you so much! I’m certain they will be.
–Veronica
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Sarah P. Casteel replied to the topic CFP: Jewishness and Postcoloniality in Literature, Culture and Theory in the discussion
Jewish American Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 7 months agoDear Veronica,
Thanks very much for your interest in our cfp. Below are the references you requested–I hope they are helpful!
All the best,
Sarah
Boyarin, Jonathan. Storm from Paradise: The Politics of Jewish Memory. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1992.
Cheyette, Bryan. Diasporas of the Mind: Jewish and Postcolonial Writing and the N…[Read more]
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Veronica Schanoes replied to the topic CFP: Jewishness and Postcoloniality in Literature, Culture and Theory in the discussion
Jewish American Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 7 months agoI’m sorry to show my ignorance, but these topics sound really important to a project I’m working on, and I don’t know the sources you are citing. I’d love to look them up. Would you be able to give me the citations you reference in the parentheses? Thank you so much. Again, I apologize if I should already know this.
–Veronica Schanoes
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Sarah P. Casteel started the topic CFP: Jewishness and Postcoloniality in Literature, Culture and Theory in the discussion
Jewish American Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 8 months ago<p style=”text-align: center;”>Jewishness and Postcoloniality in Literature, Culture and Theory</p>
<p style=”text-align: center;”>CFP – Special Issue of The Journal of Jewish Identities</p>
<p style=”text-align: center;”>Guest Edited by Sarah Phillips Casteel, Anna Guttman and Isabelle Hesse</p>
Similarities between Jewish and colonial subjects i…[Read more] -
Sarah P. Casteel started the topic CFP: Jewishness and Postcoloniality in Literature, Culture and Theory in the discussion
Jewish Cultural Studies on MLA Commons 8 years, 8 months ago<p style=”text-align: center;”>Jewishness and Postcoloniality in Literature, Culture and Theory</p>
<p style=”text-align: center;”>CFP – Special Issue of The Journal of Jewish Identities</p>
<p style=”text-align: center;”>Guest Edited by Sarah Phillips Casteel, Anna Guttman and Isabelle Hesse</p>
Similarities between Jewish and colonial su…[Read more] -
Gloria Lee McMillan deposited Jane Addams and Hull-House (historical novel Waking the Dead) in the group
TC History and Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 8 months agoThe historical novel Waking the Dead is now available at ResearchGate. This data file (there are 20) introduces Jane Addams
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Ross Tangedal deposited Refusing the Serious: Authorial Resistance in Ring Lardner’s Prefaces for Scribner’s in the group
LLC Late-19th- and Early-20th-Century American on MLA Commons 8 years, 8 months agoThough already famous, wealthy, and squarely established as a popular chronicler of the early
twentieth century, humorist Ring Lardner’s foray into a serious literary career with Charles Scribner’s
Sons Publishing Company is best characterized as an act of authorial resistance. Rather than evolve into
the “serious” author the firm had hoped f…[Read more] -
Janet Ruth Heller started the topic Michigan College English Association Conference on Friday, October 27, 2017 in the discussion
Late-Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 9 months ago<h3>Call for Papers: Michigan College English Association Conference on Friday, October 27, 2017</h3>
Themes: Authority and Agency in Divisive TimesFeatured Luncheon Speaker : Matthew Gavin Frank
Location: Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, MI 48197
Individuals often contest the issues of authority and agency in our classrooms, wor…[Read more]
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