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Thomas Robert Ward deposited The Formation of Latin American Nations in the group
LLC Colonial Latin American on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months agoThis book brings the pre-Columbian and colonial history of Latin America home: rather than starting out in Spain and following Columbus and the conquistadores as they “discover” New World peoples, The Formation of Latin American Nations begins with the Mesoamerican and South American nations as they were before the advent of European col…[Read more]
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Danny Barreto started the topic New Special Issue – Abriu: Estudos de Textualidade do Brasil, Galicia e Portugal in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months agoDear colleagues,
The latest special issue of Abriu, “Glocal Galicia: Redefining Galician Culture in the Global Age,” edited by José Colmeiro, is now available online.
The issue’s contents are listed here, but full-text versions of the articles can be found at the journal’s website: http://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/Abriu/issue/view/2109
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Alice Rachel Ridout replied to the topic Contemporary Women’s Writing Association International Conference CFP in the discussion
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months agoThank you for posting! My MLA membership renewal had not processed in time for me to post. Expressions of interest with late proposal to follow will be considered.
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Krilka Stavreva started the topic CFP International Contemporary Women’s Writing Association Conference in the discussion
TC Women’s and Gender Studies via email on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months agoLocations and Dislocations: Places and Spaces in Contemporary Women’s Writing
International Contemporary Women’s Writing Association Conference
3-5 July 2019, Algoma University, Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada
Call for PapersThe 2019 Contemporary Women’s Writing Association International Conference theme is inspired by its location at Algom…[Read more]
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Krilka Stavreva started the topic CFP Women & Language in the discussion
TC Women’s and Gender Studies via email on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months agoWomen & Language, an international, interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal publishes original scholarly articles and creative work covering all aspects of communication, language, and gender. Contributions to Women & Language may be empirical, rhetorical-critical, interpretive, theoretical, or artistic. All appropriate research methodologies are…[Read more]
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Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Useful Object in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months agoExplores Maureen Folan, in Martin McDonagh’s “The Beauty Queen of Leenane,” as a psychological borderline, someone who is afraid to achieve a man she can have a relationship with, and so defaults to using him as simply another object she can use in warfare against a mother she is only yet capable of playing at being able to leave behind her.
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Neelofer Qadir started the topic CFP MLA 2020: Roundtable for Global Black Studies in the discussion
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months agoEnthusiastically inviting participants for a roundtable on global Black studies for the Modern Language Association’s 2020 convention in Seattle, Washington, USA, 9-12 January.
For this non-guaranteed session, the organizers seek short provocations in response to the following prompt:How does the prefix “global” alter, expand, or complicate no…[Read more]
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Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Worthy Companions in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months agoCompares Evelina, from Frances Burney’s “Evelina,” and Werther, from Goethe’s “Young Werther.” Argues that though they could readily be made to seem opposite to one another, as they seek company with such disparate groups of people, the difference is superficial, and their motivations, the same — namely, to make use of their associations with…[Read more]
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Shannon Herbert started the topic CFP MLA 2020: #Metoo's Feminisms in the discussion
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months agoThis panel aims to chart the continuities and corrections between this movement and its second and first wave forerunners. 300-word abstract and bio(s) to Shannon Herbert, Santa Monica College: shans305@gmail.com
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Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Not Meat in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months agoExplores a passage of Angela Carter’s “The Company of Wolves.” Delineates how Carter makes play with such things as the dialogue between the subconsciously experienced meanings of actual words ostensibly serving as only overt alphabetic components within words, to dramatize the fitfulness of the protagonist’s emergence at the finish of the story…[Read more]
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Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Not Meat in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months agoExplores a passage of Angela Carter’s “The Company of Wolves.” Delineates how Carter makes play with such things as the dialogue between the subconsciously experienced meanings of actual words ostensibly serving as only overt alphabetic components within words, to dramatize the fitfulness of the protagonist’s emergence at the finish of the story…[Read more]
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Brian Rosenblum started the topic CFP for MLA 2020: Scholarly Communication: Voices from the Global South in the discussion
TM Libraries and Research on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months agoRoundtable on Open Access and Scholarly Communication: Voices from the Global South
Policies and initiatives intended to achieve a fair, open and sustainable scholarly publishing system continue to proliferate among publishers, funding agencies, and research institutions. Often missing from these conversations, however, are voices of the…[Read more]
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Brian Rosenblum started the topic CFP for MLA 2020: Scholarly Communication: Voices from the Global South in the discussion
TM Libraries and Research on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months agoRoundtable on Open Access and Scholarly Communication: Voices from the Global South
Policies and initiatives intended to achieve a fair, open and sustainable scholarly publishing system continue to proliferate among publishers, funding agencies, and research institutions. Often missing from these conversations, however, are voices of the…[Read more]
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Brian Rosenblum started the topic CFP for MLA 2020: Scholarly Communication: Voices from the Global South in the discussion
TM Libraries and Research on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months agoRoundtable on Open Access and Scholarly Communication: Voices from the Global South
Policies and initiatives intended to achieve a fair, open and sustainable scholarly publishing system continue to proliferate among publishers, funding agencies, and research institutions. Often missing from these conversations, however, are voices of the…[Read more]
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Brian Rosenblum started the topic CFP for MLA 2020: Scholarly Communication: Voices from the Global South in the discussion
TM Libraries and Research on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months ago<h1>Roundtable on Open Access and Scholarly Communication: Voices from the Global South</h1>
Policies and initiatives intended to achieve a fair, open and sustainable scholarly publishing system continue to proliferate among publishers, funding agencies, and research institutions. Often missing from these conversations, however, are voices of the…[Read more] -
Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Poet as Physician in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months agoDaphne Marlatt’s “Healing” as a poem about re-cooperating from the infliction of a triggering, caustic word upon one’s mental composition, using efficacy, experience in knowing composure and competency, as a rebutting counter.
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Paige Morgan deposited Delivering on the Deliverables in the group
TM Libraries and Research on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months agoMany digital humanists in centers or libraries—interdisciplinary positions that cater to multiple departments—are expected to demonstrate the products of their digital labor to high-ranking administrators and stakeholders on a consistent basis. As such, they often are on tight and over-extended timelines to produce high-quality digital sch…[Read more]
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Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Privileging Marlow in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months agoArgues that the way in which Marlow is presented, ensures that Joseph Conrad’s “Heart of Darkness” is vulnerable as a text that ostensibly helps justify the maintenance of separate spheres between men and women; argues that Marlow’s successful agency is more about his being craftily evasive, a man who doesn’t impose but dodges.
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Elvira L. Vilches started the topic CFP MLA 2020JOINT SESSION– COLONIAL LATIN AMERICA FORUM AND GLOBAL HISPANOPHON in the discussion
LLC Colonial Latin American on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months agoThe Global Hispanophone Forum and the Colonial Latin American Forum seek proposals for a multidisciplinary panel with the title “Overlapping Colonialisms”in which panelists will have the opportunity to make brief presentations of their research projects on the conflicts and gaps created in territories, past and present, where one colonial pow…[Read more]
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Galen Brokaw started the topic Call for proposals 2020 MLA panel on Colonial Translation in the discussion
LLC Colonial Latin American on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months agoThe Latin American Colonial Forum invites proposals for a panel on colonial translation for the 2020 MLA convention. This panel seeks to explore the effects of translation in the relationship between Europeans and indigenous Americans. Beyond the issue of mere accuracy in translation, what kind of effects does translation produce? For example, to…[Read more]
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