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Daniela Goldfine started the topic CFP Gender and Sexuality in Jewish Latin American Cultural Production in the discussion
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 10 months agoCall for Proposals
Gender and Sexuality in Jewish Latin American Cultural Production
The editors of a volume titled “Gender and Sexuality in Jewish Latin American Cultural Production” invite proposals from potential contributors. The volume is planned for publication with Lexington Books as part of their Latin American Gender and Sexu…[Read more] -
Carrie Johnston started the topic CFP: Gender and the Cultural Preoccupations of the American West in the discussion
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 10 months ago(Apologies for cross-posting)
CFP – Studies in the NovelSpecial Issue: “Gender and the Cultural Preoccupations of the American West”
Deadline for submissions: 9/1/2016
Studies in the Novel is currently seeking submissions for a special issue on “Gender and the Cultural Preoccupations of the American West,” guest edited by Sigrid Anderson Cord…[Read more] -
Paul Fyfe deposited Interpretive Machines in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 9 years, 10 months agoThis syllabus describes an interdisciplinary course for first-year students in the NC State University Honors program in Fall 2015. “Interpretive Machines” offers a historically ranging, critically intensive, and hands-on learning environment about the technologies by which humans transmit our cultural inheritance and ideas. The course also…[Read more]
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Paul Fyfe deposited Reading Literature in the Digital Age in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 9 years, 10 months agoThis syllabus describes a first-year interdisciplinary honors course undertaken in fall 2014 at NC State University. It welcomes students into a hands-on environment for thinking about and practicing with new and old platforms for reading, interpretation, and understanding. It attempts to bridge book history and digital humanities into an…[Read more]
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Patricia M. Hswe started the topic CFP for special session, "Archival Boundaries" in the discussion
Methods of Literary Research on MLA Commons 9 years, 10 months agoPosting this on behalf of colleagues – a special session called “Archival Boundaries” that will have the format of a roundtable discussion. Please consult the CFP: https://apps.mla.org/cfp_detail_9146. 200-word abstracts are due by Friday, March 18.
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Brooke Carlson deposited Effective Practices for Teaching Online??? in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoIn 2011, U.S. News & World Report indicated that online courses had been increasing for nine straight years in a row. Or, the online presence has been continuously growing since roughly the turn of the century. The Online Learning Consortium just published a report on online learning for 2015, from which we can the pervasiveness of the online…[Read more]
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Roy Pérez started the topic CFP for MLA: Pre-Stonewall/Post-Modern in the discussion
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoMLA 2017 Session Sponsored by the GLQ Caucus:
Pre-Stonewall/Post-Modern
Given recent debates on the nature and centrality of the Stonewall rebellion of 1969, we seek papers that examine cultural production that reaches forward or backward across this historic flashpoint for conjuring queer aesthetic and political imaginaries, from modernist…[Read more]
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Nancy Caronia started the topic MLA Sessions through Italian American LLC in the discussion
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months ago<h2 class=”title”>The Streets of Philadelphia: From Rocky to Creed
The MLA Italian American Forum seeks paper proposals for a possible session at the MLA Annual Convention in Philadelphia, PA January 5-8, 2017. Taking a cue from the presidential conference theme “Boundary Conditions,” this panel seeks submissions that explore the boundaries of rac…[Read more] -
Marina Fedosik started the topic CFP: Adoption and Culture: Sixth Biennial Conference of ASAC in the discussion
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 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 15 March 2016
Keynote speakers: Lorraine Dusky, Margaret Jacobs, and Deann Borshay Liem, introducing her…[Read more]
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Caroline Edwards deposited The New Open Access Environment: Innovation in Research, Editing and Publishing in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoThis panel was designed to address the convention’s featured issues of the academic profession, publishing & editing, open access, and new technologies. Using a roundtable format, the panel discussed how open access publications are transforming the kind of research that is possible and necessitating new editorial practices. The session hosted an…[Read more]
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Letitia Ileana Guran started the topic CFP MLA 2017–reading Eastern Europe Digitally in the discussion
Methods of Literary Research on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoCFP: MLA 2017
Reading Eastern Europe Digitally: Promises for the New Millennium
What does the Digital Age hold in store for Eastern European cultures? In an era dominated by the opening of secret archives, by an intense re-writing of the socialist past, the opportunities offered by a wide dissemination of texts and works of art too long hidden…[Read more]
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Kathleen Fitzpatrick deposited Giving It Away: Sharing and the Future of Scholarly Communication in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoOpen access has great potential to transform the future of scholarly communication, but its success will require a focus on values — and particularly generosity — rather than on costs.
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Susana Sevilla Aho deposited Things are not what they seem in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoA video essay about title sequences from films by Alfred Hitchcock and David Fincher. An exploration of motion graphic design from analog to digital.
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Maia Gil'Adi started the topic CFP – Speculative Latin@: Histories of the Future in the discussion
Latina and Latino on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoCall for Papers, non-guaranteed session sponsored by the Latina and Latino Forum.
Speculative Latin@: Histories of the Future
Papers engaging speculative fiction by Latin@ authors: alternative archives; utopias/dystopias; futurity; disruption of nationhood, racial identity; historical violence; decolonial critiques. 300 word abstracts, CV, March…[Read more]
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Raúl Coronado started the topic CFP: Latina/o Materialisms in the discussion
Latina and Latino on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoPlease consider submitting an abstract for a panel on Latina/o Materialisms.
queer, feminist, cultural, new &/or old materialisms; Marxisms; text as material object, comparative Chicana/o, PuertoRican, CubanAm, CentralAm, DominicanAm print cultures & histories of writing.
Send CV and 300 word abstract by 15 March 2016; Raúl Coronado (…[Read more]
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Josef Raab started the topic New Deadline: Inter-American Studies Conference "Human Rights in the Americas" in the discussion
Latina and Latino on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoThe International Association of Inter-American Studies (IAS) will hold its Fourth Biennial Conference at the University of California at Santa Barbara (UCSB) October 4 through 6, 2016. The conference topic is on “Human Rights in the Americas.” Keynote addresses will be given by Professor Lisa Hajjar (UCSB), Professor David Palumbo-Liu (Stanford…[Read more]
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Amanda M. Smith started the topic Chiricú Journal Call for Submissions: Latina/o(s) and the Politics of Language in the discussion
Latina and Latino on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoDeadline July 1, 2016
Chiricú Journal: Latina/o Literatures, Arts, and Cultures invites submissions for our Spring 2017 issue, “The Politics of Language.” This issue will explore language as an instrument of power, identity, and politics from multiple disciplinary perspectives. We welcome submissions that, collectively, convey the linguistic dive…[Read more]
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Elena Machado Sáez started the topic CFP: (MLA 2017) US Latino/a Performance in the discussion
Latina and Latino on MLA Commons 10 years agoMLA 2017 Proposed Special Session
“Margins to Mainstream: US Latino/a Performance”
This proposed special session for the 2017 MLA Convention in Philadelphia will focus on the genre of US Latino/a performance, which can include performance poetry, drama, performance art, and/or film. Submissions that focus on mainstream productions (Bro…[Read more]
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Sarah Werner deposited When Is A Source Not a Source? in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 10 years agoNearly all scholars who work on medieval or early modern texts at some point work from digital facsimiles. There are advantages and disadvantages to such objects: what they might offer in terms of convenience and availability, they lack in material information. We can adjust the nature of what questions we ask of which object, consulting digital…[Read more]
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Carrie Johnston started the topic CFP ASA 2016: Home Screens in the discussion
Methods of Literary Research on MLA Commons 10 years agoCFP for American Studies Association Annual Meeting, Nov. 17-20, Denver, CO
Home Screens: Digitizing Belonging and Place in American Studies
This panel seeks contributors who have been involved with a digital project that preserves, recreates, or generates notions of “home” in the American context. In keeping with the conference theme, Home/Not H…[Read more]
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