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Sheela Jane Menon posted an update in the group
CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoCFP for MLA 2019: “Race, Nation, and Empire in Southeast Asian Life Writing.” How does Southeast Asian life writing reframe questions of race, nation, empire, and history? Comparative approaches welcomed. 300-word abstract and short bio to John David Zuern (zuern@hawaii.edu) and Sheela Jane Menon (menons@dickinson.edu) due 15 March 2018. Please…[Read more]
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Annette Damayanti Lienau started the topic CFP: Afro-Asian Cultural Solidarity and Unfinished Projects of Independence in the discussion
Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoGuaranteed panel sponsored by the Modern Language Association’s Committee of Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies, 20th and 21st century.
This panel takes its cue from Leopold Senghor’s writing on the ambiguities and paradoxes of the Bandung moment: as a call to shared independence that bears the risk of (ethno)-nationalist exploitations i…[Read more]
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Brian Bernards posted an update in the group
CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoCFP for MLA 2019 Special Session sponsored by the CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic Forum:
Southeast Asian Textual Translations and Transactions
Each year, the Southeast Asian Writers Award (S.E.A. Write) is awarded to an author from each of the member states of ASEAN. The awardees are typically authors whose works are written…[Read more]
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Cheryl Narumi Naruse posted an update in the group
CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoCFP for the CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic Forum’s first guaranteed session for MLA 2019:
Diasporas, Aesthetics, and Southeast Asia
What aesthetics (or anesthetics) do diasporic movements into/out of/within Southeast Asia generate? Comparative and multimedia approaches welcomed. 300 word abstracts and bios by 15 March 2018;…[Read more]
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Brian Bernards posted an update in the group
CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 7 years, 12 months agoMLA 2019 Update — CFP for Special Session:
Southeast Asian Textual Translations and Transactions
How does one teach/research/compare Southeast Asian texts (literature, cinema, etc.) from different linguistic/national/cultural contexts in translation? 300-word abstracts and short bios due to Brian Bernards (bernards@usc.edu) March 15.
CFP now…[Read more]
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Sheela Jane Menon posted an update in the group
CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 7 years, 12 months agoIncluded in the Griffith Review 59 issue linked below, is this important piece on the Batang Kali Massacre by Bernice Chauly. https://griffithreview.com/articles/truth-still-denied-batang-kali-massacre/
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Sheela Jane Menon posted an update in the group
CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 7 years, 12 months agoGriffith Review 59: Commonwealth Now, co-edited by Julianne Schultz and Jane Camens, features writers from around the world who explore the contemporary experience of Commonwealth citizens – confronting new challenges, reconciling the past, creating a sustainable and equitable future, settling scores and opening new exchanges. Some great S…[Read more]
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Weihsin Gui deposited Contemporary Literature from Singapore in the group
CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 8 years agoLiterature in Singapore is written in the country’s four official languages: Chinese, English, Malay, and Tamil. Since 1999, with the state’s implementation of the Renaissance City Plan to revitalize arts and culture in Singapore, there have been various initiatives to increase the visibility of contemporary Singaporean writing both within the cou…[Read more]
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Weihsin Gui deposited Contemporary Literature from Singapore in the group
CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 8 years agoLiterature in Singapore is written in the country’s four official languages: Chinese, English, Malay, and Tamil. Since 1999, with the state’s implementation of the Renaissance City Plan to revitalize arts and culture in Singapore, there have been various initiatives to increase the visibility of contemporary Singaporean writing both within the cou…[Read more]
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Weihsin Gui replied to the topic Critical texts in Southeast Asian studies? in the discussion
Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 8 years ago(Apologies for the thread necromancy. I hope we can keep this discussion thread active since there’s a lot of new and interesting scholarship being published about SEAsia in recent years.)
Hello everyone! Some time ago I borrowed a copy of the 1939 _Higher Education in Malaya_ report, which is a 150-page document by a commission appointed by the…[Read more]
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Cheryl Narumi Naruse posted an update in the group
CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoPlease note the following sessions for MLA 2018!
THURSDAY 4 JANUARY 2018
#1. “Southeast Asia and Its Empires” (Roundtable)
Date/Time: Thursday 4 January 5:15 PM-6:30 PM
Location: Concourse B (Hilton)
From the Dutch in Indonesia to the British and Japanese in Malaya to the Americans in Vietnam and the Philippines, Southeast Asia has had lon…[Read more]
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Cheryl Narumi Naruse posted an update in the group
CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoMLA members are invited to the first business meeting of the newly established Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies (CLCS) forum. The meeting will be held at the 2018 MLA Convention on 4 January 2018, 8:45-10:00 p.m., room Clinton, in the New York Hilton Midtown. This meeting will be an…[Read more]
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Weihsin Gui started the topic Call for proposals: Southeast Asia special session for 2018 MLA in the discussion
Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoI’m planning to put together a panel/special session on Southeast Asian literary/cultural narratives for the January 2018 Modern Language Association conference in New York, NY.
The theme for the MLA conference is “States of Insecurity” and I thought a panel dealing with contemporary narratives that negotiate insecurities in or resist the…[Read more]
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Ben Vu Tran replied to the topic Petition to Create a Forum LLC Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic in the discussion
Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoI am in full support of the creation of a Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic Forum, and I volunteer for the executive committee to advance the forum.
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Arnika Fuhrmann replied to the topic Petition to Create a Forum LLC Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic in the discussion
Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoI volunteer for the executive committee.
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Brian Bernards replied to the topic Petition to Create a Forum LLC Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic in the discussion
Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoIn addition to reiterating my support for the creation of this forum, I am also happy to volunteer for the executive committee.
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Cheow Thia Chan replied to the topic Petition to Create a Forum LLC Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic in the discussion
Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoI support the creation of a Forum LLC Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic.
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Robert Troyer replied to the topic Petition to Create a Forum LLC Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic in the discussion
Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoI support the creation of a Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic Forum
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Weihsin Gui started the topic Talks about SEAsian writing at PAMLA and MSA 2016 in the discussion
Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoHello all! Hope you don’t mind me doing a bit of self-promotion here. I’ll be giving two talks about Southeast Asian / Southeast Asian diasporic writing in November 2016 at the PAMLA and MSA conferences in Pasadena, California. Both conferences will be held at the Westin hotel, Pasadena. If you happen to be attending these conferences, do consider…[Read more]
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Weihsin Gui replied to the topic MLA 2017 in the discussion
Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 9 years, 4 months agoOur special session on “Genre and Boundary Conditions in Literature from Contemporary Malaysia and Singapore” (see below for details) will be taking place 30 minutes after the roundtable listed above. — Weihsin
Thursday, 5 January
106. Genre and Boundary Conditions in Literature from Contemporary Malaysia and Singapore
3:30–4:45 p.m., 407, P…[Read more]
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