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Hilda Chacón started the topic CFP-2015 NeMLA Conference, Toronto Canada in the forum
Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 11 years, 6 months ago<div class=”entry-content”>
Panel: “Digital Humanities and Latin America: New Trends, Challenges, and Developments”
This roundtable explores the impact of the Humanities going digital in Latin America, from both a Latin American and United States perspective. Papers will explore new trends and developments on the subject such as the inclusion of…[Read more] -
Wendy Galgan started the topic CFP NeMLA 2015: Walk Poems: Moving Through America on Foot in the forum
Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 11 years, 7 months ago46th Annual NeMLA Conference
April 30 through May 3, 2015
Toronto, Ontario, CanadaSubmission Deadline: September 30, 2014
This panel seeks papers on the ways in which American poets write about walking and the significant role the walk poem has played in American literature. What is it about the walk poem that suits American poets so well? How…[Read more]
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Betsy Dahms started the topic CFP: 29th Annual Interdisciplinary Conference in the Humanities in the forum
Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 11 years, 7 months agoCall for Papers
WORLDS and WORDS
29th Annual Interdisciplinary Conference in the Humanities
Sponsored by the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures
University of West Georgia, College of Arts and Humanities
Carrollton, Georgia
October 30-November 1, 2014
Deadline Extended until July 22nd
We welcome submissions from across…[Read more]
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Gaurav G. Desai started the topic Re-Imagining Theory Conference, Goa, Dec 2014 in the forum
Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 11 years, 7 months agoXVII International Conference
(A Silver Jubilee Event of the Forum on Contemporary Theory)Jointly Organized by
The Forum on Contemporary Theory, Baroda
&
The International Lincoln Centre for American Studies
Louisiana State University, Shreveport, USA
Re-Imagining Theory:
Towards New Horizons in the Humanities and the Social Sciences21-24…[Read more]
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Rivka Swenson started the topic Deadline: Midnight: Request to Vote in the forum
Restoration and Early-Eighteenth-Century English Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 8 months agoDelegates have been very reasonably reminded that we ought to encourage members of the Divisions to vote on the ratification ballot for the below items (deadline: MIDNIGHT tonight).
The link is here: http://www.mla.org/ballot_ratification
You will have received Rosemary Feal’s recent email about the actions on the ballot. N.B.: the short…[Read more]
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Rivka Swenson started the topic Deadline: Midnight: Request to Vote in the forum
Restoration and Early-Eighteenth-Century English Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 8 months agoDelegates have been very reasonably reminded that we ought to encourage members of the Divisions to vote on the ratification ballot for the below items (deadline: MIDNIGHT tonight).
The link is here: http://www.mla.org/ballot_ratification
You will have received Rosemary Feal’s recent email about the actions on the ballot. N.B.: the short…[Read more]
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Petar Ramadanovic started the topic Special Session MLA on Forgetting in the forum
Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 11 years, 11 months agoAnd Forgetting? And future? Negotiating sites of memory focuses on various forms of remembering and seldom on the role that forgetting plays in creating a past. This is because we in literary studies normally assume that forgetting is the opposite of remembering, which is a rather narrow, Aristotelian way to understand this process and phenomenon.…[Read more]
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Deidre Lynch posted an update in the group
LLC Late-18th-Century English on MLA Commons 11 years, 11 months agoHello, members of the MLA Division for Late Eighteenth-Century English Literature.
The executive is proposing three panels for the 2015 Vancouver MLA meeting. Here are our calls for papers:
“Literary Science.”
Given the 18th-Century use of “science” as a term for knowledge and “literature” as writings that bear knowledge, can this his…[Read more] -
Roberto Rey Agudo started the topic CFP Spaces of Dialogue: International Conference on Transatlantic Studies in the forum
Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 11 years, 11 months agoDear Colleagues,
The Real Colegio Complutense at Harvard is putting together an international conference on April 24-25th. Submissions from all relevant areas in literary and cultural studies are welcome. I am copying below the full text of the Call for Papers and relevant information for those interested in participating or attending.
Spaces of…[Read more]
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Thomas Oliver Beebee started the topic CFP MLA 2015: How Should Comparatists ’Read’ Literature in the forum
Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 12 years agoCFP for the Comparative Literature Division (MLA 2015). Please consider submitting:
A session on ”How Should Comparatists ’Read’ Literature?” Given the renewed interest in methodologies/modes of reading: close, distant, surface, deep but not close, paranoid and reparative; reading as translation, reading translations; the turn to reading the “wo…[Read more] -
David Samuel Mazella started the topic MLA 2014 Revised Draft, Open Hearings on Forum Changes in the forum
Late-Eighteenth-Century English Literature on MLA Commons 12 years agoThis is a reminder to the members of the late 18th century division that the proposed reorganization and consolidation of the 18c period divisions has been abandoned by the latest version of the Draft Proposal, which is now available here:
http://groupsdiscussion.mla.hcommons-staging.org/
If you are attending MLA, please try to make an…[Read more]
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David Samuel Mazella started the topic MLA 2014 Revised Draft, Open Hearings in the forum
Restoration and Early-Eighteenth-Century English Literature on MLA Commons 12 years agoThis is a reminder to the members of the Restoration and early 18th century division that the proposed reorganization and consolidation of the 18c period divisions has been abandoned by the latest version of the Draft Proposal, which is now available here:
If you are attending MLA, please try to…[Read more]
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Pilar Cuder-Dominguez started the topic CFP-6th conference-Aphra Behn Europe Society in the forum
Restoration and Early-Eighteenth-Century English Literature on MLA Commons 12 years, 1 month ago<p align=”center”><b>6TH CONFERENCE OF THE APHRA BEHN EUROPE SOCIETY</b></p>
<p align=”center”><b><i>Aphra Behn and the Challenges of Genre</i></b></p>
<p align=”center”><b>University of Huelva, Spain</b></p>
<p align=”center”><b>12-14 June, 2014</b></p>
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<p align=”center”><b>CALL FOR PAPERS</b></p>
Aphra Behn was…[Read more]
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Lisa Berglund replied to the topic Division Sessions at the MLA in the forum
Restoration and Early-Eighteenth-Century English Literature on MLA Commons 12 years, 1 month ago<div>
On behalf of the Lexicography Discussion Group, which has also been threatened with consolidation (and effective elimination), let me draw the attention of members of this group our session, which should be of interest:
194. Title: Typography and Paratext in Early Modern Lexicography
Friday, 10 January, 8:30–9:45 a.m., O’Hare, Chicago Mar…[Read more] -
Rivka Swenson started the topic Division Sessions at the MLA in the forum
Restoration and Early-Eighteenth-Century English Literature on MLA Commons 12 years, 1 month agoDear All, in light of Deidre Lynch’s post on the Commons site in the “Later Eighteenth Century” group, in which she helpfully listed the sessions for that Division and encouraged all MLA-attending members to attend as many of the Division sessions as possible, I’m posting here the information about the sessions for “Restoration and Early…[Read more]
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Deidre Lynch posted an update in the group
LLC Late-18th-Century English on MLA Commons 12 years, 1 month agoWe were so heartened by the outpouring of support on the MLA Commons and elsewhere for our attempts to resist the MLA’s proposal for a reorganization that would have seen the Divisions for Restoration and early 18th-century English literature and the Division for Later 18th Century English Literature collapsed into one very long Division indeed…[Read more]
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Thank you for posting this useful information, Deidre, and these encouragement to attend the Division sessions. I’m about to post something similar on the site for the Restoration & Early Eighteenth Century. I hope that the members of our Divisions who are attending MLA will be able to attend as many sessions as possible in both the Divisions.…[Read more]
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On behalf of the Lexicography Discussion Group, which has also been threatened with consolidation (and effective elimination), let me draw the attention of members of this group our session, which should be of interest:
194. Title: Typography and Paratext in Early Modern Lexicography
Friday, 10 January, 8:30–9:45 a.m., O’Hare, Chicago M…[Read more]
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María Gil Poisa started the topic Call for Papers: Social Movements in the forum
Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 12 years, 1 month agoTEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY’S FOURTH HISPANIC STUDIES ANNUAL GRADUATE CONFERENCE
Translating Social Movements
Friday March 21 – Saturday March 22 2014
The relationship between intellectual discourse and grassroots social movements has long been a contentious and conflictive one, but it is also one that has been shaped by mutual interaction. Just as…[Read more]
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A. Yemisi Jimoh started the topic Journal Editing Opportunity in the forum
Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 12 years, 3 months agoThe Society for the Study of the Multiethnic Literature of the United States (MELUS) invites proposals for an Editor-in-Chief to lead its award-winning, peer reviewed journal. The Editor-in-Chief will have oversight for all aspects of the publication, management, and promotion, and editing of the journal. The successful candidate should be a…[Read more]
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