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Juan E. De Castro deposited Alfonso Reyes, Jorge Luis Borges, y Nuestra América in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoThis article studies the uses made of the phrase “Nuestra América” by both Alfonso Reyes and Jorge Luis Borges. It also traces the influence of the Reyes on Borges.
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Joela Jacobs posted an update in the group
TC Science and Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 12 months agoJoin the Literary and Cultural Plant Studies Network for scholarly exchange and collaboration about the study of plants in the Humanities and Social Sciences. You can join our listserv and visit our website at http://plants.sites.arizona.edu/. We invite you to add your publications and/or artwork to our bibliography of primary and secondary…[Read more]
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Claire Nettleton posted an update in the group
TC Medical Humanities and Health Studies on MLA Commons 8 years agoCFP: Viral Culture: How CRISPR Genome Editing and the Microbiome are Reshaping Humanity and the Humanities. This will be a daylong, interdisciplinary symposium at Pomona College in Claremont, California on April 27th, 2018 on the relationship between biotechnology (CRISPR, interventions into microbiome and the history of medical innovation) and…[Read more]
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Andrea Charise posted an update in the group
TC Medical Humanities and Health Studies on MLA Commons 8 years agoHello everyone,
Here’s the CFP for the MLA forum “Medical Humanities and Health Studies” (guaranteed panel for MLA 2019). Please consider submitting or spreading the word:
Health Humanities and Digital Life
Short (10-15min) papers for guaranteed roundtable on health / illness / medicine / wellbeing and the digital realm. Diverse…[Read more] -
Kathryn J. McKnight posted an update in the group
TC Medical Humanities and Health Studies on MLA Commons 8 years agoWill there be a CFP for MLA 2019 for Medical Humanities & Health Sciences?
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Hi Kathryn,
We will have at least two — one on digital health humanities, and one on graphic medicine. I’m pasting in a draft of the graphic medicine one below. We would love to encourage forum members to collaborate and propose multiple health humanities themed panels.
Erin Lamb
Short Version for MLA Website (limited to 35 words)
Graphic…[Read more]
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Rebecca Garden deposited Class and Ethnicity in the Global Market for Organs: The Case of Korean Cinema in the group
TC Medical Humanities and Health Studies on MLA Commons 8 years agoWhile organ transplantation has been established in the medical imagination since the 1960s, this technology is currently undergoing a popular re-imagination in the era of global capitalism. As transplantation procedures have become routine in medical centers in non-Western and developing nations, and as organ sales and transplant tourism become…[Read more]
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Molly Appel deposited The Pedagogical Poetics of Testimony: How in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American on MLA Commons 8 years agoFeminist resistance has been crucial for Argentina’s recovery from the military dictatorship of 1976-1983. Alicia Partnoy was “disappeared” into one of hundreds of torture centers sardonically called “Little Schools.” After her release and exile to the United States, she published her poetic testimony, The Little School, with Cleis Press in 1986.…[Read more]
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Allison Carruth posted an update in the group
TC Science and Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 1 month agoMLA 2018 Panel Announcement
Crisis, Science, and Mexican Texts
Sunday, January 7
12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Concourse C, HiltonProgram arranged by the forums LLC Mexican and TC Science and Literature
1. “From Translation to Discovery: The Emergence of Early Modern Sciences and New Spain’s Cultural Borders,” Jaime Marroquin, Western Oregon Univers…[Read more]
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Allison Carruth posted an update in the group
TC Science and Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 1 month agoMLA 2018 Panel Announcement
S. Weir Mitchell’s Fiction
Friday, January 5
1:45–3:00 p.m., Bowery, SheratonPresiding: Anne Stiles, St. Louis University
1. “Medical Eclecticism in the Fiction of Silas Weir Mitchell,” Kristine L. Swenson, Missouri University of Science and Technology
2. “Fractional Phantoms: Gothic Bodies in S. Weir Mitchell’…[Read more]
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Allison Carruth posted an update in the group
TC Science and Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 1 month agoMLA 2018 Panel Announcement
Climate Science, Climate Narrative: Historical Perspectives
Friday, January 5
12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Beekman, HiltonPresiding: Allison Carruth, UCLA
1. “The Dark Green: Plants, Cli- Fi, and the Anthropocene,”Heather I. Sullivan, Trinity University
2. “Cloud Extinction and Speculative Climate Change in Mexican…[Read more]
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Silvia G. Kurlat-Ares deposited Políticas de lo estético en la ilustración de ciencia ficción. El caso de “Think Blue, Count Two” de Cordwainer Smith in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American on Humanities Commons 8 years, 1 month agoDesde el período del Dadá se han ido borrando los límites entre las formas artísticas y sus soportes, entre las estéticas de uso y las estéticas formales, entre los espacios altos y bajos de producción cultural, y también, entre la percepción de centros y periferias que parecen haberse astillado y reproducido a la interioridad de espacios hasta ha…[Read more]
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