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David A. Wacks deposited Las excelencias de los hebreos (Amsterdam 1679) in the group
LLC Sephardic on MLA Commons 6 years agoThis is a pedagogical edition of a selection of Las excelencias de los hebreos (Amsterdam 1679), in .pdf format with an English-language introduction and notes, with the original text in both the original Castilian and English translation.
Las excelencias de los hebreos (Amsterdam 1679) is a treatise describing the positive characteristics…[Read more]
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David A. Wacks deposited Isaac Cardoso, Las excelencias de los hebreos in the group
CLCS Mediterranean on MLA Commons 6 years agoThis is a pedagogical edition of a selection of Las excelencias de los hebreos (Amsterdam 1679), in .doc format with an English-language introduction and notes, with the original text in both the original Castilian and English translation.
Las excelencias de los hebreos (Amsterdam 1679) is a treatise describing the positive characteristics…[Read more]
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cynthia tompkins deposited call for papers in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 6 years agoCall for Proposals
Media, Lingualisms, Translations: Technologies of Language and Power
Conference to be held November 13-14, 2020; hosted by the School of International Letters and Cultures, Arizona State University, Tempe.
Keynote speakers: Jean-Noël Robert (Collège de France, Paris)
Lourdes Ortega (Georgetown University, W…[Read more] -
cynthia tompkins deposited call for papers in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 6 years agoCall for Proposals
Media, Lingualisms, Translations: Technologies of Language and Power
Conference to be held November 13-14, 2020; hosted by the School of International Letters and Cultures, Arizona State University, Tempe.
Keynote speakers: Jean-Noël Robert (Collège de France, Paris)
Lourdes Ortega (Georgetown University, W…[Read more] -
Scott Challener deposited Latinx Literatures and Cultures in the U.S. and Beyond in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 6 years agoThis course is a study of Latinx literatures and cultures produced in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. We will concentrate our attention on works by Chicanos, Mexican Americans, Puerto Ricans, Cuban Americans, and Dominican Americans. We will consider how these works represent and participate in the upheavals that characterize the…[Read more]
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Elizabeth N. Emery started the topic 19th-Century French at 2020 MLA + meetup in the discussion
LLC 19th-Century French on MLA Commons 6 years, 1 month agoBonne année!
If you are attending this week’s MLA Convention in Seattle, please feel free to join forum delegates and other 19th-century colleagues at the Friday night cash bar co-hosted by Women in French, which has organized a number of 19th-century sessions.
Jan 10, 2020, 7:15 PM–8:30 PM (Sheraton – Metropolitan B)
- Cash Bar Arranged by th…
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Nohemy Solorzano-Thompson started the topic MLA 2020 LLC Sephardic Forum Panel — Friday, January 10, 8:30 am, at WSCC 614 in the discussion
LLC Sephardic on MLA Commons 6 years, 1 month agoDear colleagues
I am writing to invite you to the LLC Sephardic Forum Panel for the 2020 MLA on Friday, January 10, 8:30 am, WSCC 614.
This year’s panel focuses on Sephardic Cultural Expressions in the Portuguese- and Spanish-Speaking Americas and Beyond.
Full details below and please note the title update for Dr. Bolorinos A…[Read more]
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David A. Wacks deposited Rev Haskell, Mystical Resistance: Uncovering the Zohar’s Conversations with Christianity in the group
CLCS Mediterranean on MLA Commons 6 years, 1 month agoReview of Ellen D. Haskell, Mystical Resistance: Uncovering the Zohar’s Conversations with Christianity (Oxford UP 2016), originally published in Speculum 94.4 (2019), 1167–1168.
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Hania A.M. Nashef deposited “‘Nothing is Left to Tell’ Beckettian Despair and Hope in the Arab World” in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 6 years, 3 months agoIn the Arab world, Beckett’s plays or their adaptations have not only been popular with audiences and directors but have also inspired other literary and media genres. The Beckettian wait itself has become synonymous with the condition of the Arab person. It is a wait that offers an unrealized potential of hope that reverberates with the d…[Read more]
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Payton Phillips-García Quintanilla replied to the topic Elections: Sephardic Forum Executive Committee Nomination in the discussion
LLC Sephardic on MLA Commons 6 years, 3 months agoDear Members of the MLA Sephardic Forum:
First of all, my thanks to Monique for beginning this thread; it is an honor to have been nominated alongside such a dynamic and accomplished professor. As an early career academic, I also welcome this opportunity to introduce myself to a community of scholars that I hope to work with in the years to…[Read more]
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Monique Rodrigues Balbuena started the topic Elections: Sephardic Forum Executive Committee Nomination in the discussion
LLC Sephardic on MLA Commons 6 years, 3 months agoDear MLA Sephardic Forum Members,
Thank you for the opportunity to run for a position on the Sephardic Forum Executive Committee. The voting will close at midnight (EST) on 10 December.
I would like to introduce myself and share some of my interests and goals. I am Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Jewish Studies in the Clark…[Read more]
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Joydeep Chakraborty deposited “Violence Has Changed Me” Private Trauma and Identity Crisis in Post-9/11 American Poetry in the group
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 6 years, 4 months agoThis article seeks to explore into the impact of 9/11 tragedy on the private lives of ordinary people and individuals and into the associated theme of identity crisis, as reflected in four important post-9/11 poems – “Someone Says They Looked Like Cartwheeling Birds” by Lyn Lifshin, “Making Love After September 11, 2001” by Aliki Barnstone…[Read more]
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Bradley J. Fest deposited Reading Now and Again: Hyperarchivalism and Democracy in Ranjan Ghosh and J. Hillis Miller’s Thinking Literature across Continents in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 6 years, 5 months agoThis review essay approaches Ranjan Ghosh and J. Hillis Miller’s Thinking Literature across Continents (2016) from a set of questions about what it means to read in the age of hyperarchival accumulation. Written against the background of events in the United States and elsewhere during the fall of 2017, the essay tracks and assesses Ghosh and…[Read more]
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Vicente Lledó-Guillem deposited The Making of Catalan Linguistic Identity in Medieval and Early Modern Times in the group
CLCS Mediterranean on MLA Commons 6 years, 5 months agoThe historical relationship between the Catalan and Occitan languages had a definitive impact on the linguistic identity of the powerful Crown of Aragon and the emergent Spanish Empire. Drawing upon a wealth of historical documents, linguistic treatises and literary texts, this book offers fresh insights into the political and cultural forces that…[Read more]
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Vicente Lledó-Guillem deposited La formación de la identidad lingüística catalana (siglos xiii-xvii) in the group
CLCS Mediterranean on MLA Commons 6 years, 5 months agoLa relación histórica entre las lenguas catalana y occitana tuvo un impacto decisivo en la formación de la identidad lingüística de la Corona de Aragón y, más tarde, en la del Imperio Español. Basándose en una gran variedad de documentos históricos, tratados lingüísticos y textos literarios, y mediante un análisis textual innovador, el presente…[Read more]
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Jefferson Gatrall started the topic Crisis and Chronicity: International Conference in the Medical Humanities in the discussion
TM Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 6 years, 6 months agoThe Montclair State University Medical Humanities Program and the Waiting Times Research Group are pleased to sponsor “Chronicity and Crisis: Time in the Medical Humanities.” Conference to be held at Montclair State University in Montclair, New Jersey, October 25–26, 2019.
To register: please click [Read more]
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Nohemy Solorzano-Thompson started the topic LASA 2020: Interest in a Latin American Sephardic Culture Panel?? in the discussion
LLC Sephardic on MLA Commons 6 years, 6 months agoHi everyone,
The Latin American Studies Association (LASA) just issued its call for the 2020 conference which will be held in Guadalajara, Mexico, on May 13 to 16, 2020.
The conference theme is entitled “Améfrica Ladina: vinculando mundos y saberes, tejiendo esperanzas” [Améfrica Ladina: link worlds, knowledge, and disciplines, weave h…[Read more]
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David A. Wacks deposited Romance of Evast and Blaquerna by Ramón Llull in the group
CLCS Mediterranean on MLA Commons 6 years, 7 months agoWacks, David A. “Romance of Evast and Blaquerna by Ramón Llull (Review).” La corónica: A Journal of Medieval Hispanic Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, vol. 47, no. 1, 2018, pp. 122–24. Project MUSE, doi:10.1353/cor.2018.0022.
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Judith Roumani replied to the topic Serving on the Sephardic Forum Executive Committee in the discussion
LLC Sephardic via email on MLA Commons 6 years, 7 months agoHello, Bethany,
Thank you for this opportunity, I am sorry but I have dropped my MLA
membership.
Good luck with your search,
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Bethany Beyer started the topic Serving on the Sephardic Forum Executive Committee in the discussion
LLC Sephardic on MLA Commons 6 years, 7 months agoThe MLA Sephardic Forum Executive Committee is looking for forum members who would be interested in serving as future committee members. This process involves running for election, and if successful, serving for 5 years. It’s not a lot of work; instead, the committee helps organize/plan the yearly (guaranteed) MLA panel, takes care of committee b…[Read more]
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