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Betsy Dahms started the topic CFP: U of West Georgia Interdisciplinary Conference in the Humanities in the forum
Chaucer 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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John Harlan Underhill replied to the topic Sci. and Lit. (Shakespeare) Film Project looking for comments in the forum
Shakespeare on MLA Commons 11 years, 7 months agoI personally love the idea of Shakespeare and Galileo. Your intuition seems exactly right to see a parallel in the cultural (mental) achievement of the two. For both, the essence was personal observation rather than illustration of pious dogma, such as we think of when we think of medieval thought. But Shakespeare confined himself to the s…[Read more]
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Gloria Lee McMillan started the topic Sci. and Lit. (Shakespeare) Film Project looking for comments in the forum
Shakespeare on MLA Commons 11 years, 7 months agoHello, Everybody Shakespearean,
A group of us have been thinking and rethinking a documentary film project that would show the value of crossing the line between science and the arts.
At first we were going to make it a conversation between Galileo and Shakespeare–roughly contemporaries.
But granting agencies didn’t like the fictional…[Read more] -
Robert J. Meyer-Lee started the topic Medieval Academy Meeting 2015 in the forum
Chaucer on MLA Commons 11 years, 7 months agoHi all,
The deadline for Medieval Academy 2015 submissions is just around the corner–June 15. The full CFP is here:
http://c.ymcdn.com/sites/www.medievalacademy.org/resource/resmgr/pdfs/maa2015_cfp_final.pdf
Among the threads is one on manuscript studies, consisting of the following sessions:
o English Manuscript Studies
o Women in the Sc…[Read more] -
Alex Mueller started the topic CFP for MLA 2015 in Vancouver: Disability and the Arthurian World in the forum
Chaucer on MLA Commons 11 years, 11 months agoDisability and the Arthurian World
From the maimed king to the leprous beggar to the blind queen to dwarves and giants, Arthurian characters exhibit a wide variety of disabilities and modes of embodiment that offer insights into social and cultural understandings of health, identity, sexuality, and language, among other subjects. The Arthurian…[Read more]
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Eric Aronoff replied to the topic CFP: Discussion Group for Science Fiction, Utopian and Fantastic Literature in the forum
Anthropological Approaches to Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 11 months agoTo clarify, this CFP is for MLA 2015…
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Eric Aronoff started the topic CFP: Discussion Group for Science Fiction, Utopian and Fantastic Literature in the forum
Anthropological Approaches to Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 11 months agoThe CFP below may be of interests for members of this division:
<b>Science Fiction, Fantasy and the Concept of Culture</b>
How has sci-fi/fantasy explored (humanist and anthropological) concepts of “culture” and form? How does sci-fi/fantasy “world-making” engage/challenge anthropological ideas of culture/representation? Abstracts, brief cv by 15…[Read more] -
Hester Blum posted an update in the group
GS Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 11 years, 11 months agoPlease consider the Prose Fiction Division’s panels for the 2015 MLA convention:
Attention Spans
Meditations on the span of popular or critical attention to works; or, contours of attention span possible for prose fiction in various media. 500 word proposals by 15 March 2014; Hester Blum (hester.blum@psu.edu).
Shapes of the Nonhuman
From…[Read more]
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Alex Mueller started the topic CFP for MLA 2015 in Vancouver: Disability and the Arthurian World in the forum
Middle English Language and Literature, Excluding Chaucer on MLA Commons 11 years, 11 months ago<div>From the maimed king to the leprous beggar to the blind queen to dwarves and giants, Arthurian characters exhibit a wide variety of disabilities and modes of embodiment that offer insights into social and cultural understandings of health, identity, sexuality, and language, among other subjects. The Arthurian Literature Discussion Group will…[Read more]
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Shannon Gayk posted an update in the group
LLC Middle English on MLA Commons 11 years, 11 months agoCFP for MLA 2015 in Vancouver: “Middle English Science”
Sponsored by the MLA Division on Middle English Literature (excluding
Chaucer)Send abstracts by March 5, 2014 to me at sgayk@indiana.edu and Erin Labbie at labbie@bgsu.edu.
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We seek papers that address the forms, production, consumption, and articulation of science in Middle…[Read more] -
Jeffery Stoyanoff started the topic CFP: Framing Memory in Late Medieval English Narrative – Sp. Session MLA 2015 in the forum
Middle English Language and Literature, Excluding Chaucer on MLA Commons 12 years agoHow do late medieval English narratives frame cultural memory? From the great famines at the beginning of the fourteenth century to the ongoing Hundred Years War, the twilight of the Middle Ages in England contains many memorable events itself, yet poets and writers during this period also draw on a fantasized English past – Arthurian legend – and…[Read more]
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Steve Rowland started the topic Call for participants: Survey for development of Shakespeare Central in the forum
Shakespeare on MLA Commons 12 years agoDear Wonderful Teachers of Shakespeare,
CultureWorks Productions, in partnership with Shakespeare’s Globe (London), is developing an exciting new service called<b> Shakespeare Central</b>, an easily accessible database of all kinds of Shakespeare media.
<b>Shakespeare Central</b> will be the hub for a vast collection of Shakespeare inf…[Read more]
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Hester Blum posted an update in the group
GS Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 12 years, 1 month agoPlease join us for the Prose Fiction Division’s panels at the MLA Convention in Chicago next week. The Division is hosting two panels and co-sponsoring a third; details below.
335. Mass versus Coterie: The Rare Book
Friday, 10 January, 1:45–3:00 p.m., Los Angeles–Miami, Chicago Marriott
Program arranged by the Division on Prose Fic…[Read more]
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Janelle A. Jenstad replied to the topic Globe to Globe Shakespeare in the forum
Shakespeare on MLA Commons 12 years, 1 month agoSteve: I’m the Assistant Coordinating Editor of the Internet Shakespeare Editions (internetshakespeare.uvic.ca). If you are willing to share your work in our open-access environment (used by students and scholars in 149+ countries), we’d love to host your stories and interview excerpts. Would you be in touch at your convenience?
Janelle Jenstad…[Read more]
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Hester Blum posted an update in the group
GS Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 12 years, 3 months agoDear Colleagues,
A collective of critics, scholars, and public intellectuals based at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is pleased to announce the official launch of Ethos: A Digital Review of Arts, Humanities, and Public Ethics (http://www.ethosreview.org/). Supported by the Institute for the Arts and Humanities at UNC, our…[Read more]
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Helen Fulton uploaded the file: Call for book proposals: New Century Chaucer to
Chaucer on MLA Commons 12 years, 6 months agoNew Century Chaucer is a book series launched by University of Wales Press. We are looking for editions of individual texts, monographs, and edited collections of essays on any aspect of Chaucer and his contemporaries. Send ideas and enquiries to Helen Fulton (helen.fulton@york.ac.uk) and see our Facebook page at:
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Robert J. Meyer-Lee uploaded the file: Call for Manuscripts: Boydell and Brewer's Chaucer Studies series to
Chaucer on MLA Commons 12 years, 8 months agoBoydell and Brewer is seeking book proposals for its venerable Chaucer Studies series. Monographs are particularly encouraged but volumes of essays will be included when appropriate. Send proposals and inquiries to Caroline Palmer, Editorial Director, PO Box 9, Woodbridge, Suffolk, IP12 3DF, UK cpalmer@boydell.co.uk.
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Ruth Evans uploaded the file: NCS Letter to MLA to
Middle English Language and Literature, Excluding Chaucer on MLA Commons 12 years, 9 months agoThis letter is the New Chaucer Society’s response to the proposal that Old English, Middle English, and Chaucer might wish to reconfigure themselves into one new Division.
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Ruth Evans uploaded the file: NCS Letter to MLA to
Chaucer on MLA Commons 12 years, 9 months agoThis letter is the New Chaucer Society’s response to the proposal that Old English, Middle English, and Chaucer might wish to reconfigure themselves into one new Division.
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