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Jesús Rodríguez-Velasco deposited The International National: Ius Commune and the fictions of citizenship. in the group
Iberian Studies on MLA Commons 8 years, 5 months agoThe following text was presented as part of the Presidential Panel at the American Comparative Literature Association, Utrecht (The Netherlands), July 8th 2017. The panel was composed of Joseph Slaughter (ACLA President, English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University in the City of New York), Maria Aristodemou, Law, Birkbeck College,…[Read more]
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Jesús Rodríguez-Velasco deposited The International National: Ius Commune and the fictions of citizenship. in the group
CLCS Medieval on MLA Commons 8 years, 5 months agoThe following text was presented as part of the Presidential Panel at the American Comparative Literature Association, Utrecht (The Netherlands), July 8th 2017. The panel was composed of Joseph Slaughter (ACLA President, English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University in the City of New York), Maria Aristodemou, Law, Birkbeck College,…[Read more]
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Jesús Rodríguez-Velasco deposited The International National: Ius Commune and the fictions of citizenship. on MLA Commons 8 years, 5 months ago
The following text was presented as part of the Presidential Panel at the American Comparative Literature Association, Utrecht (The Netherlands), July 8th 2017. The panel was composed of Joseph Slaughter (ACLA President, English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University in the City of New York), Maria Aristodemou, Law, Birkbeck College,…[Read more]
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Rosemary G. Feal started the topic NLRB rules that grad students can unionize in the discussion
MLAgrads on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoThe National Labor Relations Board issued a decision on 23 August “that student assistants working at private colleges and universities are statutory employees covered by the National Labor Relations Act.” https://www.nlrb.gov/news-outreach/news-story/board-student-assistants-covered-nlra-0
Please use this discussion space to add resources for…[Read more]
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Russell A. Berman started the topic Against Academic Boycotts: Presentation at APA in the discussion
Scholarship, Censorship, Exclusion on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months ago(You can also read this piece here.)
Academic Boycotts and Professional ResponsibilityDelivered at the Annual Convention of the
American Philosophical Association,
San Francisco, March 31, 2016
Russell A. BermanI was invited to speak on this panel, having been reassured that it would be devoted to academic boycotts, in general, but I cannot…[Read more]
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Russell A. Berman started the topic The Ten Worst Things about BDS in the discussion
Scholarship, Censorship, Exclusion on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months ago
The Ten Worst Things About the BDS Movement
Cary Nelson1. BDS demonizes, antagonizes, and delegitimizes one of the two parties who have to negotiate a solution to the conflict by working together and uncritically idealizes the other.
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Russell A. Berman started the topic The Myth of Institutional Boycotts in the discussion
Scholarship, Censorship, Exclusion on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoProponents of BDS (currently) argue that they are (only) proposing a boycott of institutions (only Israeli universities) and that this will not harm individuals. In Inside Higher Education, David Hirsh dismantles this myth. Boycotts of institutions harm the individuals in those institutions.
Attacking Israeli universities is an attack on un…[Read more]
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Benjamin Fraser's profile was updated on MLA Commons 9 years, 7 months ago
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Benjamin Fraser's profile was updated on MLA Commons 9 years, 8 months ago
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Benjamin Fraser started the topic Call for Assistant Editors: Journal of Urban Cultural Studies in the discussion
Literary Geography on MLA Commons 9 years, 8 months agoCALL FOR
ASSISTANT EDITORS (2017 & 2018)APPLICATION DEADLINE IS 20 NOVEMBER 2016
The Journal of Urban Cultural Studies is a peer-reviewed interdisciplinary journal exploring the cultures of cities and blending humanities and social science approaches to the urban phenomenon. The journal publishes research articles (subject to peer review) of…[Read more]
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Benjamin Fraser started the topic Call for Assistant Editors: Journal of Urban Cultural Studies in the discussion
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 9 years, 8 months agoCALL FOR
ASSISTANT EDITORS (2017 & 2018)APPLICATION DEADLINE IS 20 NOVEMBER 2016
The Journal of Urban Cultural Studies is a peer-reviewed interdisciplinary journal exploring the cultures of cities and blending humanities and social science approaches to the urban phenomenon. The journal publishes research articles (subject to peer review) of…[Read more]
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Benjamin Fraser started the topic Call for Assistant Editors: Journal of Urban Cultural Studies in the discussion
Urban Cultural Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 8 months agoCALL FOR
ASSISTANT EDITORS (2017 & 2018)APPLICATION DEADLINE IS 20 NOVEMBER 2016
The Journal of Urban Cultural Studies is a peer-reviewed interdisciplinary journal exploring the cultures of cities and blending humanities and social science approaches to the urban phenomenon. The journal publishes research articles (subject to peer review) of…[Read more]
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Benjamin Fraser posted an update on MLA Commons 9 years, 8 months ago
Call for assistant editors: Journal of Urban Cultural Studies
CALL FOR
ASSISTANT EDITORS (2017 & 2018)APPLICATION DEADLINE IS 20 NOVEMBER 2016
The Journal of Urban Cultural Studies is a peer-reviewed interdisciplinary journal exploring the cultures of cities and blending humanities and social science approaches to the urban phenomenon. The…[Read more]
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Benjamin Fraser posted an update on MLA Commons 9 years, 10 months ago
New book in 2016, Cultures of Representation: Disability in World Cinema Contexts, edited
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Jeronimo Arellano started the topic CfP (MLA 2017): Post/Colonial Affect in the discussion
Colonial Latin American Literatures on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoThis panel invites papers that rethink the affective turn in the humanities from the vantage of colonial and postcolonial histories. The proposed focus in an exploration of colonial and postcolonial affects, both in general terms as well as in relation to specific cultural practices, visual objects, or written texts. How do we theorize and his…[Read more]
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