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Nicole Guenther Discenza started the topic Candidate introduction in the discussion
Old English Language and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoI am a candidate for the Old English forum and would like to introduce myself and my goals.
Old English has long had a strong presence at MLA. I want to continue the mix of panels and paper sessions we have had in recent years, with representation including all levels of the profession from graduate students through senior scholars.
I am a…[Read more]
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John MacKay deposited Christ Among the Herdsmen: From Refugee to Propagandist (1918-1922) in the group
LLC Slavic and East European on MLA Commons 9 years, 6 months agoVertov’s early years in film: the Kino-Nedelia newsreels, the work on the agitational trains, the anti-religious propaganda films.
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John MacKay deposited The Beating Pulse of Living Life: Musical, Futurist and Newsreel Matrices (1916-18) in the group
LLC Slavic and East European on MLA Commons 9 years, 6 months agoVertov in 1917, and an investigation of some of his shaping contexts: musical practice, Futurist poetry, early non-fiction filmmaking, and Marxism.
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John MacKay deposited Social Immortality: David Kaufman at the Psychoneurological Institute (1914-1916) in the group
LLC Slavic and East European on MLA Commons 9 years, 6 months agoDziga Vertov’s education during the early years of World War: his changing personal situation as a war refugee, the connections he made at the Institute, the ideas that exerted an influence.
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John MacKay deposited Province of Universality: Vertov before the War (1896-1914) in the group
LLC Slavic and East European on MLA Commons 9 years, 6 months agoOn Dziga Vertov’s early life and the city (Bialystok) and situations in which he grew up.
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Anna Zofia Gąsienica Byrcyn deposited Ballads in the Polish Heritage Composition Class in the group
LLC Slavic and East European on MLA Commons 9 years, 6 months agoAdam Mickiewicz’s “Lilije,” Miron Białoszewski “Lilie,” and Agnieszka Kuciak’s “Ballada elektroniczna” in a Polish heritage composition class.
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Anna Zofia Gąsienica Byrcyn deposited Fairy Tales in Polish Advanced Heritage Composition Classes in the group
LLC Slavic and East European on MLA Commons 9 years, 6 months agoPowerPoint on the use of Bolesław Leśmian’s Fairy Tales in Polish Advanced Heritage Composition Classes.
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Martin Paul Eve deposited Book review: A new republic of letters: Memory and scholarship in the age of digital reproduction in the group
LSL Germanic Philology and Linguistics on MLA Commons 9 years, 10 months agoA book review of Jerome McGann’s A New Republic of Letters: Memory and Scholarship in the Age of Digital Reproduction (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2013).
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Serguei Alex Oushakine deposited Postcolonial Estrangements: Claiming a Space between Stalin and Hitler. in the group
LLC Slavic and East European on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoIn this essay, I follow debates about forms and sites of memorialization in post- Soviet Belarus. Begun during perestroika, the public discussions about Khatyn’ and Kuropaty eventually evolved into persistent attempts to realign the Soviet past along new narrative axes. Most prominently, this discursive reformatting of the socialist experience w…[Read more]
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M. Emma Ticio Quesada started the topic Selected Topics in Romance Linguistics 2017 in the discussion
Comparative Romance Linguistics on MLA Commons 9 years, 12 months agoThe Comparative Romance Linguistics Discussion Group welcomes a wide range of participants and approaches to Romance Linguistics and invites the submission of abstracts for the 2017 Convention exploring any area of Romance Linguistics (theoretical or applied) within any framework. Although preference is given to papers addressing more than one…[Read more]
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Ian Cornelius deposited The Accentual Paradigm in English metrics: Or, why we don’t talk more about quantity in the group
LLC Old English on MLA Commons 10 years agoRead 8 January 2016 in Austin, TX, at the annual meeting of the Modern Language Association, session number 218, “Quantity in English Verse: Linguistic and Neuroscience-Based Challenges to the Accentual Paradigm.” This short historiographical paper was the half-time show in our roundtable—an interlude between the session’s more substantive linguis…[Read more]
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Joela Jacobs posted an update in the group
LSL Germanic Philology and Linguistics on MLA Commons 10 years agoGerman Studies Association Conference Seminar (September 29 ‐ October , 2016 in San Diego)
THE LITERARY LIFE OF PLANTS: AGENCY, LANGUAGES, AND POETICS OF THE VEGETALCONVENERS
Joela Jacobs, University of Arizona (joelajacobs@email.arizona.edu)
Isabel Kranz, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (isabel.kranz@lrz.uni-muenchen.de)SEMINAR DES…[Read more]
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Serguei Alex Oushakine deposited “Address your questions to Dostoevsky”: Privatizing Punishment in Russian Cinema. In: Russia’s New Fin de Siècle: Contemporary Culture between Past and Present. Edited by Birgit Beumers. Intellect: Chicago. in the group
LLC Slavic and East European on MLA Commons 10 years agoThe chapter offers a close reading of two cinematic cases, Andrei Zviagintsev’s Elena (2011) and Govorukhin’s Voroshilov Sniper, in order to demonstrate in a reverse engineering move how publically executed punishments of the late 1990s were translated into quiet murders a decade later. This transition from ‘punishments outside the law’ to ‘crimes…[Read more]
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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
Slavic Literatures and Cultures 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] -
Aurangzeb Alamgir Hashmi deposited Eponymous Écriture and the Poetics of Reading a Transnational Epic in the group
LLC Old English on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoThe article enacts the essay as the mainstay of scholarly discourse in a knowledgeable community. It deals with (con)textualized readings of poetry (or literature) mainly through the medium of translation as an important intercultural phenomenon involving poetics, episteme, borders.
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Ruth Cecile Wehlau started the topic CFP Darkness, Depression and Descent in Anglo-Saxon England in the discussion
Old English Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 4 months agoI’d like to bring the following CFP to the attention of any interested Anglo-Saxonists:
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Suha Kudsieh started the topic Still looking for proposals: “Russia & the Middle East” (Premodern-19th Cent.) in the discussion
Slavic Literatures and Cultures on MLA Commons 10 years, 10 months agoDear Colleagues,
I am still looking for proposals for the panel on “Russia and the Middle East.” We welcome proposals that examine the interaction and cultural exchange between these two areas from the premodern period up to the nineteenth century. The extended deadline is March 21, 2015.
Here is the updated CFP and the new deadline:
131st…[Read more]
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Rebecca Jane Stanton started the topic CFPs for MLA 2016! Deadline March 15 in the discussion
Slavic Literatures and Cultures on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months ago<div>Following is a list of the calls for papers for the 2016 MLA Convention (Austin, TX, January 7-10) for panels sponsored by the Russian and Eurasian Forum, the Slavic and East European Forum, and the American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages (AATSEEL). The deadline for submitting a proposal is March 15 for all p…[Read more]
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Suha Kudsieh started the topic CFP: Russia and the Middle East" (Pre-modern) – MLA 2016 in the discussion
Slavic Literatures and Cultures on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months agoDear colleagues,
Please feel free to post the CFP in your department, circulate it as among colleagues and on other e-lists, and forward it to your grad students:
131st MLA Annual Convention, Austin, 7–10 January 2016
Title of panel: “Russia and the Middle East (Pre-modern)”
Description: this special panel examines broad cultural in…[Read more]
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Francisco Martinez-Ibarra started the topic Selected Topics in Romance Linguistics in the discussion
Comparative Romance Linguistics on MLA Commons 10 years, 12 months agoThe Comparative Romance Linguistics Discussion Group welcomes a wide range of participants and approaches to Romance Linguistics and invites the submission of abstracts for the 2016 Convention exploring any area of Romance Linguistics (theoretical or applied) within any framework. Although preference is given to papers addressing more than one…[Read more]
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