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Laura E. Savu replied to the topic The Good Life and the Greater Good in a Global Context in the forum
Sociological Approaches to Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 7 months agoPlease accept my apologies, Joe Lockard. It was my first time using this forum.
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Joe Lockard replied to the topic The Good Life and the Greater Good in a Global Context in the forum
Sociological Approaches to Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 7 months agoPrivate correspondence resulting from a CFP is inconsiderate use of a shared common forum. These messages go to 155 forum participants, not simply to the corresponding parties. Thanks for understanding.
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Laura E. Savu replied to the topic The Good Life and the Greater Good in a Global Context in the forum
Sociological Approaches to Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 7 months agoDear Prof. Whitney,
Thank you for your prompt reply and especially for your interest in this project. Your proposal sounds very promising as no viable notion of the good life can be conceived without taking into account its complicated relationship with economic growth. If I’m not mistaken, The Skidelskys, whom I cite in my brief descri…[Read more]
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Charles Whitney replied to the topic The Good Life and the Greater Good in a Global Context in the forum
Sociological Approaches to Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 7 months agoHi Laura,
Thanks for developing this topic. I would be interested in writing on “the good life” as it is addressed by economists and others offering proposals about how to deal with global warming, particularly concerning attitudes toward future economic growth. In my admittedly limited experience, mainstream economists don’t go much beyond t…[Read more]
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Laura E. Savu started the topic The Good Life and the Greater Good in a Global Context in the forum
Sociological Approaches to Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 7 months agoDear colleagues,
I’m writing to invite you to submit proposals for a collection of essays that is tentatively titled The Good Life and the Greater Good in a Global Context. The essays need to focus on the discourses and practices of the good life, understood in all of its dimensions—material, psychological, ethical, spiritual, etc. –and appro…[Read more]
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Laura E. Savu started the topic The Good Life and the Greater Good in a Global Context in the forum
Sociological Approaches to Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 7 months agoDear colleagues,
I’m writing to invite you to submit proposals for a collection of essays that is tentatively titled The Good Life and the Greater Good in a Global Context. The essays need to focus on the discourses and practices of the good life, understood in all of its dimensions—material, psychological, ethical, spiritual, etc. –and appro…[Read more]
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Rebecca Jane Stanton posted an update in the group
LLC Russian and Eurasian on MLA Commons 11 years, 11 months agoAnd one more CFP:
NEW APPROACHES TO CRIME AND PUNISHMENT
Panel proposed by the International Dostoevsky Society
New approaches to Dostoevsky’s novel welcome. How well do existing socio-political, religious, biographical, and psychoanalytic readings serve this text? Abstracts, maximum one page, by 15 March 2014 to Susan McReynolds…[Read more] -
Julien Jacques Simon posted an update in the group
TC Cognitive and Affect Studies on MLA Commons 11 years, 11 months agoCall for Papers — MLA 2015, Vancouver
Division on Cognitive Approaches to Literature (Guaranteed sessions)
Experiments, Cross-disciplinary Research, and Scientific Engagements
A panel devoted to experiment and collaboration between literary scholars and cognitive scientists. How do science experiments illuminate literary or aesthetic experience?…[Read more] -
Rebecca Jane Stanton posted an update in the group
LLC Russian and Eurasian on MLA Commons 11 years, 11 months agoDear all,
Please note the following Slavic-related CFPs for the MLA 2015 conference!
The Cold War and Experimental Fiction
Panel proposed by the Slavic and East European Literatures Division
In what ways did the Cold War generate experimental narratives? What impact did the Cold War discourse have on unofficial literature? 300-word abstracts by…[Read more] -
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] -
Julien Jacques Simon posted an update in the group
TC Cognitive and Affect Studies on MLA Commons 12 years, 2 months agoOTHER COGNITIVE PANELS at 2014 MLA
51. Literature and Affordances: Rhetoric, Perception, Design
Thursday, 9 January, 1:45–3:00 p.m., Chicago F, Chicago Marriott
A special session
Presiding: Julian D. Yates, Univ. of Delaware, Newark
1. “Furnitura: Disclosing Shakespearean Affordances,” Julia Reinhard Lupton, Univ. of California, Irvine
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Julien Jacques Simon posted an update in the group
TC Cognitive and Affect Studies on MLA Commons 12 years, 2 months agoPANELS at 2014 MLA
22. Cognitive Approaches to Film
Thursday, 9 January, 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Chicago X, Sheraton Chicago
Program arranged by the Division on Cognitive Approaches to Literature
Presiding: Julien Jacques Simon, Indiana Univ. East
1. “Seeing Is Not Believing: How Cognitive Science Can Redeem Popular Film,” Jennifer M. William, P…[Read more]
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