MLA 2016, Special Session 

Organizers: Thomas Beebee (Penn State – University Park) & Bhavya Tiwari (U of Houston) 

Papers that theorize a construction of polylingual literary history in local, national, and global contexts are invited to imagine a manifesto for a transnational and transregional comparative literary historiography for this spe…[Read more]

Call for Papers
Panel Topic: Evolution, Ethics, and Tragedy

Conference:
Why the Humanities: Answers from Cognitive and Neuroscience
Kent State University
Kent, Ohio
July 9-12, 2015
http://www.kent.edu/cas/why-humanities

Contact Person for this Panel:
David Palmer
Humanities Department
Massachusetts Maritime Academy
dpalmer@maritime.edu

I am…[Read more]

Dear Colleagues,

The Division (soon to be “Forum”) on Drama and Performance is pleased post below a lengthier description of our plans for Austin, 2016.

On behalf of Brian Herrera, Eng-Beng Lim, Nadia Ellis, and Shane Vogel, we are very much looking forward to your queries and proposals,

Jody Enders, Chair (2016)

What are the lim…[Read more]

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Dear Colleagues,

I hope you are well. The MLA has agreed to launch the new forum on Global Arab and Arab American Lit & Culture (a.k.a. GAAM).

GAAM would like to urge MLA members who are interested in the new focum  to sign up for it on the MLA Commons: http://mla.hcommons-staging.org/groups/global-arab-and-arab-a&hellip;[Read more]

In mid-2015, Shaw’s work will become “new media” in the most obvious of ways, when the National Theatre Live digitally broadcasts their high-profile production of Man and Superman (via satellite) to movie theatres around the world. While we invite papers on this and other examples of digital Shaw, we encourage proposals that adopt the broad, histo…[Read more]

In mid-2015, Shaw’s work will become “new media” in the most obvious of ways, when the National Theatre Live digitally broadcasts their high-profile production of Man and Superman (via satellite) to movie theatres around the world. While we invite papers on this and other examples of digital Shaw, we encourage proposals that adopt the broad, histo…[Read more]

ASAP/7: Arts & the Public

September 24-27, 2015

Hosted by Clemson University at the Hyatt Regency in Greenville, SC

Call for Papers

ASAP/7 invites proposals from scholars and artists on the relations between the public—broadly conceived – and contemporary visual, literary, performing, musical, and media arts. From parks, schools, and mus…[Read more]

If there are colleagues interested in signing the petition to establish a Forum on Modern and Contemporary Chinese, kindly go to it under “Prospective Forums” and under “Petitions” you can add your name by simply leaving a brief statement of support for the new Forum. We are close to finalizing a proposal, so please do so soon! Keep in mind that…[Read more]

If there are colleagues interested in signing the petition to establish a Forum on Modern and Contemporary Chinese, kindly go to it under “Prospective Forums” and under “Petitions” you can add your name by simply leaving a brief statement of support for the new Forum.

We are close to finalizing a proposal, so please do so soon! Keep in mind that…[Read more]

2015 Society for the Study of American Women Writers Triennial Conference
Nov. 4-8, 2015
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Proposed Panel: “Women Playwrights of the Harlem Renaissance”

Taking a cue from the conference theme, “Liminal Spaces, Hybrid Lives,” this panel asks how African American women playwrights worked out questions of liminal…[Read more]

 
Do you speak SoTL? Chances are you do. Come join the conversation at the SoTL Commons.
Leverage your knowledge, skills and passion for teaching and learning  as a presenter at the SoTL Commons.
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When engaging in Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL)

“the work of the classroom [becomes] a site for…[Read more]

46th annual convention, NeMLA 2015
Toronto; April 30- May 3, 2015
Host institution: Ryerson University
Panel: Embracing Language Musicality in L2 Classrooms

This panel is sponsored by the area on pedagogy and professional

The goal of this panel is to examine language musicality, both in terms of linguistic phenomena and as a teaching tool for L2…[Read more]

46th annual convention, NeMLA 2015

Toronto; April 30- May 3, 2015

Host institution: Ryerson University

Panel: Embracing Language Musicality in L2 Classrooms

This panel is sponsored by the area on pedagogy and professional

The goal of this panel is to examine language musicality, both in terms of linguistic phenomena and as a teaching tool for…[Read more]

Dear 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]

Watch for this exciting panel, which has just been approved, at the 2015 meeting!

“Writing the Future”
The East Asia to 1900 and East Asia after 1900 divisions have selected for a collaborative session four short papers that focus on the ways in which literature written for children addressed the often turbulent transitions to modernity in East…[Read more]