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Pauline Homsi Vinson replied to the topic MLA 2017 CFP: Writing Migrant Selves in Transnational Arab Contexts in the discussion
Global Arab and Arab American on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoThank you, Ahmed. I hope you will considering submitting an abstract!
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Pauline Homsi Vinson started the topic MLA 2017 GAAM 2nd CFP: Beyond Bounds: The Refugee in Global Arab/Arab American S in the discussion
Global Arab and Arab American on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoHello everyone,
Please spread the word and consider submitting an abstract to the following panel idea for MLA 2017:
Beyond Bounds: The Refugee in Global Arab/Arab American Studies
Interrogating concepts of cosmopolitanism, exile, globally through the figure of the Arab refugee across historical/epistemic/disciplinary/geographical boundaries.…[Read more]
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Carol N. Fadda-Conrey started the topic SU Press Critical Arab American Studies Book Series in the discussion
Global Arab and Arab American on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoCritical Arab American Studies Series
CALL FOR PROPOSALS AND MANUSCRIPTS
Syracuse University Press invites proposals for book-length works for its newly launched series in Arab American Studies. Expanding the Press’s historical concentration in Arab American Writing and Gender, Culture, and Politics in the Middle East, the new series will f…[Read more] -
Pauline Homsi Vinson started the topic Two CFPs for JMEWS on Borders, Margins, and Sexuality in the discussion
Global Arab and Arab American on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoCall for Papers: The Gender and Sexuality of Borders and Margins
JMEWS invites feminist scholars working in any discipline or interdisciplinary area in the interpretive social sciences and humanities to submit area-specific manuscripts on any topic related to the theme of The Gender and Sexuality of Borders and Margins. Manuscripts may address…[Read more]
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Lisa Zunshine deposited "Cognitive Alternatives to Interiority" in the group
LLC Restoration and Early-18th-Century English on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months ago[from pp. 151-52:]
“Not only do we ourselves treat fictional characters as if they were capable of a broad variety of mental states (as real people are) to make sense of the story when we first read it; not only do we casually refer to these characters’ and the author’s mental states in our subsequent discussions with students; not only do we…[Read more]
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Ahmed Idrissi Alami replied to the topic MLA 2017 CFP: Writing Migrant Selves in Transnational Arab Contexts in the discussion
Global Arab and Arab American on MLA Commons 9 years, 12 months agoThanks Paula for posting this cfp on this interesting subject.
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Pauline Homsi Vinson started the topic MLA 2017 CFP: Writing Migrant Selves in Transnational Arab Contexts in the discussion
Global Arab and Arab American on MLA Commons 9 years, 12 months agoHello everyone,
Below is a CFP for a collaborative session organized by the Global Arab and Arab American Literature forum and the Life Writing forum at the MLA.
Writing Migrant Selves in Transnational Arab Contexts. Regional, transnational, cross-border, multilingual Arab constructions of selfhood. Please submit 250 word abstracts and bios by…[Read more]
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Ryan Calabretta-Sajder started the topic AATI @ MLA: Call for Papers in the discussion
Romance Literary Relations on MLA Commons 9 years, 12 months agoIl poeta civile: ieri, oggi e domani
Call for Papers: AATI @ MLA (Philadelphia, PA)
January 5-8, 2017
For Alberto Moravia, Pier Paolo Pasolini’s death marked the loss of a great poeta civile whose work uniquely bore a Leftist political stamp.
“La poesia civile era sempre stata a destra in Italia, dall’inizio dell’Ottocento, da Foscolo…[Read more]
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Ewa Lukaszyk deposited Is there Tunisian literature? Emergent writing and fractal proliferation of minor voices in the group
CLCS Mediterranean on MLA Commons 9 years, 12 months agoIs There Tunisian Literature? Emergent Writing and Fractal Proliferation of Minor Voices.
The article presents the Tunisian literature from the non-local perspective of the global literary market and the circulation of translated literature. The minor status of the studied phenomenon becomes obvious even when the Tunisian literature is compared…[Read more] -
Zoe Roth started the topic CFP: Transnational French Modernisms in the discussion
Romance Literary Relations on MLA Commons 10 years ago<div class=”bbp-reply-content”>
Call for Papers:
Transnational French Modernisms
7th-8th July 2016, Durham University, UK
Keynote speakers:
Dr. Jonathan Eburne (Penn State)
Professor Susan Harrow (Bristol)
Professor Debarati Sanyal (Berkeley)
The rise of France’s colonial empire in the 19th century shaped French culture as a global arena and fra…[Read more] -
Marielle R. Risse deposited Verstehen/ Einfühlen in Arabian Sands (1959): Wilfred Thesiger as Traveler and Anthropologist in the group
GS Travel Writing on MLA Commons 10 years agoUsing Geertz’s Verstehen/ Einfühlen distinction, this essay begins with an overview of the travel writing and anthropological work about Oman, concentrating on the southern region of Dhofar. The author then situates Wilfred Thesiger’s classic Arabian Sands (1959) within these two genres as an example of a writer who is able to show unde…[Read more]
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Hoda El Shakry started the topic MLA Graphic Interventions Arabic Panel Meeting Today at 1:45pm – Please Join! in the discussion
Global Arab and Arab American on MLA Commons 10 years agoJust a quick note that the Arabic division panel #77. Graphic Interventions: Visual Cultures of the Arab World will be meeting as scheduled today from 1:45–3:00 p.m. in room 402 of the JW Marriott.
We hope to see you there!!
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Suha Kudsieh started the topic FYI: MLA Panel (Jan. 7 @ 1:45 pm) on Russia & the Middle East (17th-19th Cent.) in the discussion
Travel Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month agoDear Colleagues,
FYI, this special panel at the MLA 2016:
48. Russia and the Middle East from the Seventeenth to the Nineteenth Century
Thursday, 7 January, 1:45–3:00 p.m., 202, JW MarriottA special session
Presiding: Suha Kudsieh, Coll. of Staten Island, City Univ. of New York
1. “The Middle East in Arseny Sukhanov’s Pro…[Read more] -
Pauline Homsi Vinson started the topic GAAM Sessions at the MLA! in the discussion
Global Arab and Arab American on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month agoDear all,
Below you can find the listing of the first ever sessions organized by the Global Arab and Arab American Literature Forum (GAAM) at the 2016 MLA convention in Austin, TX. Hope to see you there!
Politics of Solidarities and Cross-Racial Alliances
Friday, 8 January, 1:45–3:00 p.m., 18D, ACC
Program arranged by the forums CLCS G…[Read more]
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Pauline Homsi Vinson started the topic Election Results are in! in the discussion
Global Arab and Arab American on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month agoHello everyone,
We are excited to announce that Karim Mattar and Shaden Tageldin will be joining the executive committee of the Global Arab and Arab American Literature Forum!
Please help us give them a big welcome by posting your congratulations here on our Commons page!
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Peter C. Herman deposited review: The Complete Works of John Milton, Volume III: The Shorter Poems in the group
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month agoThis article is a review of the Haan-Lewalski OUP edition of Milton’s shorter. The book, I argue, is inexcusably difficult to use, and suggests that perhaps the time has come to replace long, very expensive tomes with digital editions.
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Pauline Homsi Vinson started the topic Remember to vote by tomorrow! in the discussion
Global Arab and Arab American on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month agoHello everyone,
If you haven’t yet done so, please be sure to vote for new members to the Global Arab and Arab American Literature Forum! The last day for voting is tomorrow, December 10, 2015!
Candidates running for election for the term 2016-close of Jan. 2021 convention:
Ghenwa Hayek, University of Chicago
Karim Mattar, University of C…[Read more] -
Ghenwa Hayek replied to the topic Candidate Statement – Exec Committee, Global Arab and Arab American Forum in the discussion
Global Arab and Arab American on MLA Commons 10 years, 2 months agoHello everyone,
I am writing in support of my nomination to the Global Arab and Arab American Executive Committee. I am Assistant Professor of Modern Arabic Literature in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago. My research focuses on the entangled relationships between literary and cultural…[Read more]
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Pauline Homsi Vinson started the topic Please Vote for new Executive Committee Members! in the discussion
Global Arab and Arab American on MLA Commons 10 years, 2 months agoHello everyone,
If you haven’t yet done so, please be sure to vote for new members to the Global Arab and Arab American Literature Forum!
Candidates running for election for the term 2016-close of Jan. 2021 convention:
Ghenwa Hayek, University of Chicago
Karim Mattar, University of Colorado, BoulderCandidates running for election for the…[Read more]
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James Gifford deposited Introduction to Panic Spring in the group
GS Travel Writing on MLA Commons 10 years, 2 months agoEditor’s Introduction to Panic Spring. First published in 1937, two years after Durrell took up residence on the Greek island Kerkyra, Panic Spring broke with the realist tradition in 1930s novels and shows the young author’s first attempts to extend High Modernist innovations in rural and personal landscapes. Cubist, surrealist, and imagist…[Read more]
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