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Cesar Braga-Pinto replied to the topic Call for Papers: Convocatoria Revista de Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos in the discussion
Twentieth-Century Spanish Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoSo, should I assume that Brazil/ Portuguese is not be included?
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Maria Lujan Figueredo started the topic Call for Papers: Convocatoria Revista de Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos in the discussion
Twentieth-Century Spanish Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoREVISTA CANADIENSE DE ESTUDIOS HISPANICOS
by <u>Laura Kiernan</u>· in Announcements of General Interest
Proposals are sought in Spanish or English for one issue 2018 of the Revista de Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos, to be devoted to the study of manifestations of literary suicides in Hispanic Literature (Spain and Spanish America). In t…[Read more]
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Melek Ortabasi started the topic CFP: Children's Literature Crossing Borders (ACLA 2017) in the discussion
Children’s Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 6 months agoHi everyone,
Vanessa Joosen and I have proposed a children’s literature-related seminar for the American Comparative Literature Association’s 2017 Annual Meeting, which will be held in Utrecht July 7-9.
Here’s the CFP:
Children’s Literature Crossing Borders
Children’s literature has long been viewed as an agent for international peace. Fr…[Read more]
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Gema Pérez-Sánchez started the topic Convocatoria para enviar propuestas IV Jornadas de ALCESXXI Julio 4-8 de 2017 in the discussion
Twentieth-Century Spanish Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 7 months agoSEMINARIO DE TRABAJO Y ESTUDIO: “Acercamientos transnacionales y afectivos al estudio del género y la sexualidad en la literatura y la cultura visual contemporáneas en el Estado Español”
Fecha de envío de propuestas: 10 de agosto de 2016
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Alfredo Martínez-Expósito (m@unimelb.edu.au), Head of School of Languages and Lingu…[Read more]
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Edgar Illas uploaded the file: Cfps. NACS Colloquium to
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 9 years, 7 months agoAttached please find the call for papers for the 16th International Colloquium of the North American Catalan Society (Indiana University, Bloomington, May 18-20, 2017). The deadline for proposals is October 1, 2016.
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Edgar Illas started the topic Cfps. NACS Colloquium in the discussion
Twentieth-Century Spanish Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 7 months agoPlease find under files the Cfps. for the 16th International Colloquium of the North American Catalan Society (Indiana University, Bloomington, May 18-20, 2017).
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Laila Amine deposited A House with Two Doors? Creole Nationalism and Nomadism in Multicultural London in the group
CLCS European Regions on MLA Commons 9 years, 7 months agoThis article focuses on the limits of liberal discourses such as multiculturalism in an increasing global world. I focus on multicultural London and juxtapose Black British writer, Zadie Smith’s novel, White Teeth to Stephen Frears’ Dirty Pretty Things, to underline the multiple intersections between the status of colored immigrants, their des…[Read more]
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Victor Ochoa replied to the topic CFP: Morality, Moral Philosophy, and the Humanities in the Age of Neuroscience in the discussion
Psychological Approaches to Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 10 months agoI shall be delighted to submit a proposal for your conference, Professor Bracher. It is an honor to meet you, as it were, as I am quite taken by your book Lacan, Discourse, and Social Change: A Psychoanalytic Cultural Critique. Victor
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Hania Nashef deposited "Let the Demon in: Death and Guilt in The Master of Petersburg." in the group
TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 10 months agoUnlike his earlier novels, J.M. Coetzee’s The Master of Petersburg, has not received the attention that it deserves from the critics. The novel, which is set in Russia not only draws on real aspects of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s life but also on certain events in the Russian author’s novels, specifically The Devils. Coetzee’s Dostoevsky is an aging a…[Read more]
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Hania Nashef deposited Specters of Doom: Saramago's Dystopias in Blindness and The Cave in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 9 years, 10 months agoAlthough Plato’s Utopia or ideal city is the non-place that holds the promise of perfection, it remains the place in which citizens are categorized by a rigid structure. José Saramago, on the other hand, introduces us to a dystopia in his novel Blindness, in which one event leads to the ruin of a city. Yet, as with Plato’s Utopia, a similar…[Read more]
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Marina Fedosik started the topic CFP: Adoption and Culture Deadline April 1 in the discussion
Psychological Approaches to Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 10 months agoCall for Proposals: Sixth Biennial Conference for the Alliance for the Study of Adoption and Culture ASAC 2016: Building Communities, Changing Discourses
Crowne Plaza Minneapolis Northstar Downtown Hotel, 27-29 October 2016
Proposal deadline April 1 2016
Keynote speakers: Lorraine Dusky, Margaret Jacobs, and Deann Borshay Liem, introducing her…[Read more]
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Lorelei Caraman deposited Literature and Psychoanalysis: Whose Madness is it anyway? in the group
TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 10 months agoExaminer/examined, analyst/analysand, subject/object, sane/mad, science/art: the relationship between psychoanalysis and literature appears to conform to this binary logic, with the first term in each set clearly privileged over the second. The realm of the literary is populated with an impressive assortment of mad characters and mad authors:…[Read more]
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Joyce Lynn Tolliver started the topic Please circulate: MLA 2017 CFPs for Global Hispanophone Forum in the discussion
Global Hispanophone on MLA Commons 9 years, 10 months agoWe are proposing three sessions for the 2017 session in Philadelphia. In order to allow plenty of time for interaction, we will limit each session to three presentations. While you do have to be a member of MLA to present, you do not have to be a member of the Forum (although we’d love to have you!)
Guaranteed session
“Questioning the Glo…[Read more]
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Debra J. Ochoa started the topic Gender in Spanish Urban Spaces- (Palgrave Macmillan) in the discussion
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Joyce Lynn Tolliver started the topic "Empire's End" book is out! in the discussion
Global Hispanophone on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoJust received my copy of the wonderful anthology edited by Akiko Tsuchiya and Billy Acree, Empire’s End: Transnational Connections in the Hispanic World (Vanderbilt, 2016). I think every single essay is relevant to Global Hispanophone issues. Take a look…[Read more]
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Serguei Alex Oushakine deposited Postcolonial Estrangements: Claiming a Space between Stalin and Hitler. in the group
CLCS European Regions on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoIn this essay, I follow debates about forms and sites of memorialization in post- Soviet Belarus. Begun during perestroika, the public discussions about Khatyn’ and Kuropaty eventually evolved into persistent attempts to realign the Soviet past along new narrative axes. Most prominently, this discursive reformatting of the socialist experience w…[Read more]
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Mark Bracher started the topic CFP: Morality, Moral Philosophy, and the Humanities in the Age of Neuroscience in the discussion
Psychological Approaches to Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoPsychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature Colleagues,
Anthropology and Literature Colleagues,
An international conference, Morality, Moral Philosophy, and the Humanities in the Age of Neuroscience, will be held at Kent State University, Kent, OH, November 17-20, 2016. Sponsored by KSU’s Neurocognitive Research Program for the Advancement of…[Read more]
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Joyce Lynn Tolliver replied to the topic 2017 Global Hispanophone CFPs in the discussion
Global Hispanophone on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoHere is our third call for papers. We are proposing this non-guaranteed session in collaboration with the forum on Sephardic Studies. Please consider proposing a paper, and share all three CFPs widely.
From “Moroccan Mellahs to Filipino Sinagogas: Sephardic Diaspora.”
Studies of Sephardic communities in African or Asian Spanish colonies. How…[Read more]
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Joyce Lynn Tolliver started the topic 2017 Global Hispanophone CFPs in the discussion
Global Hispanophone on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoColleagues, for 2017 the theme for our guaranteed session is
“Questioning the Global Hispanophone”:
The Global Hispanophone offers both the potential for an expanded, destabilized Hispanism, and the limitations of being a pseudo-imperial category. Can a postnational, postimperial approach avoid this imperialist framework without undermining the…[Read more] -
Kenneth Pinion started the topic [MLA 2017 CFP] Looking for a Light in the Dark: On Mental Health in Pedagogy in the discussion
Psychological Approaches to Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months ago“Looking for a Light in the Dark: On Mental Health in Humanistic Pedagogy”
This session seeks papers that offer effective strategies for confronting mental health issues amongst educators. Potential topics may include (but not necessarily exclude): the rise in depression amongst graduate students and faculty; autobiographical insight on personal…[Read more]
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