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Edward B. Kamens started the topic Planning for the 2025 MLA Conference in the discussion
LLC East Asian on MLA Commons 2 years agoThe LLC Japanese to 1900 Forum Executive Committee asks members and other interested individuals to share ideas for panels and round tables to be proposed for sponsorship by the Forum for the program of the 2025 MLA Convention, which will be held in New Orleans, January 9-12. We are especially interested in suggestions of innovative panel or round…[Read more]
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Matthew Fraleigh started the topic Scaglione Prize for East Asian Studies in the discussion
LLC East Asian on MLA Commons 2 years agoGreetings.
Last year, the generosity of Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione enabled the Modern Language Association to create the Scaglione Prize for East Asian Studies, to be awarded annually to an outstanding scholarly work in East Asian literary studies. Works of literary history, literary criticism, philology, and literary theory are eligible, as are…[Read more]
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Sarah Allen started the topic Call for nominations: LLC Pre-14th-Century Chinese forum executive committee in the discussion
LLC East Asian on MLA Commons 2 years agoP14 Chinese Forum members, the forum executive committee is soliciting nominations for a new member to join the executive committee for a five-year term starting January 13, 2025. We are particularly interested in mid-level senior scholars with a track record of mentoring younger scholars and an interest in working in comparative and world…[Read more]
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Ramzi Salti deposited Vivian and Her Son in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 2 years agoThis short story, written by Dr. Ramzi Salti, was published as part of his book titled “The Native Informant and Other Stories: Six Tales of Defiance from the Arab World”. It has been turned into a short film titled “The 40th Day’–available on YouTube at https://youtu.be/fspvJSiSQkc. Complete E-Book now available on Google Play and Kindle.
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Raj Chetty started the topic CLCS Caribbean Forum panel at MLA 2024 (in-person, Philadelphia) in the discussion
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 2 years agoHey all!
Please join us for this year’s Caribbean forum in-person panel, “Evolutions in Caribbean State Formation” (326), which has been selected by Frieda Ekotto, MLA President, to be included in this year’s Presidential Theme, “Celebration: Joy and Sorrow.”
- Friday, 5 January 2024
- 5:15 PM – 6:30 PM
- Loews – Congress B (4th Floor)
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Fatma Fulya Tepe started the topic new article: Osman Hamdi Bey – an Ottoman Orientalist or a Humanist Ottoman? in the discussion
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 2 years, 1 month agoDear Colleagues,
Emeritus Prof. Dr. Per Bauhn from Linnaeus University, Sweden published an article titled “Osman Hamdi Bey – an Ottoman Orientalist or a Humanist Ottoman?” in Nordic Review of Iconography.
I present the abstract of this article below and the article can be downloaded for free from the link b…[Read more] -
Dorothy Stringer replied to the topic Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature Panels at the 2024 MLA Convention in the discussion
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 2 years, 1 month agoApologies for missing info; dates and times as follows:
194 – Lacan and the Event: Papers in Honor of Mari Ruti
Friday, 5 January 2024 8:30 AM – 9:45 AM
Marriott – Franklin 7 (Level 4)
648 – Queer Theory and Psychoanalysis
Sunday, 7 January 2024 8:30 AM – 9:45 AM
Marriott – Franklin 2 (Level 4)
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Hania A.M. Nashef deposited Canines: Unlikely Protagonists in the Novels of Coetzee, Saramago and Shibli in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 2 years, 2 months agoAnthropomorphism, which combines two Greek words, anthropos and morphe, meaning “human” and “form’ respectively, is a term that reflects our attribution of human characteristics to non-human animals and objects, bestowing upon them agency (Taylor 2011: 266). In this respect, we elevate the status of the non-human animal, moving it from being a…[Read more]
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited Generative AI as Shadow Publics in an Inquiry-Driven Society, Symposium on Digital Scholarship. Hong Kong Baptist University, October 27, 2023 in the group
LLC East Asian on MLA Commons 2 years, 2 months agoGenerative AI tools, such as ChatGPT, simulate human writing and complicate the inquiry-driven culture we live in. These tools use singular first-person pronouns in their textual outputs and are often associated with anthropomorphic qualities. Within the humanities, conversations tend to focus on detecting new forms of plagiarism. What is missing…[Read more]
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Mike Phillips deposited Through a Tube, Darkly: Critical Remediation in High and Low (1963) in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 2 years, 2 months agoAkira Kurosawa’s 1963 police procedural is, as its title suggests, intensely interested in the socioeconomic valences of spatial relationships, literalized in Yokohama’s affluent hills and its low-lying slums. The central conflict between inhabitants of these two spaces articulates this local topography into a global framework, in which con…[Read more]
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Corine Tachtiris deposited Syllabus for grad seminar on Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Translation – revised in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 2 years, 3 months agoThis is a revised 2023 version of a course was first taught at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in fall 2018. It addresses feminism, gender and sexuality studies, queer theory, and critical race and ethnic studies in conjunction with translation studies.
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Brian Bernards started the topic Job Opening: Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in Premodern Korean Studies, USC in the discussion
LLC East Asian on MLA Commons 2 years, 4 months agoAssistant Professor in Premodern Korean Studies
The Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures in the Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences at the University of Southern California (Los Angeles, CA) invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in Premodern Korean Studies. The position is…[Read more]
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Brian Bernards started the topic Kyoto University CSEAS 47th Southeast Asia Seminar: Call for Applications in the discussion
CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 2 years, 5 months ago“Health, Border, and Marginality: Toward Transdisciplinarity?”:
The call for applications for the 47th Southeast Asia Seminar, organized by the Center for Southeast Asian Studies (CSEAS) and co-organized by the Shoklo Malaria Research Unit (SMRU), is now open:
https://kyoto.cseas.kyoto-u.<wbr />ac.jp/seas47/The Center for Southeast Asian Stu…[Read more]
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Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Wolfenheimer in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 2 years, 5 months agoMakes use of the opportunity of the release of “Oppenheimer” to explore how Gene Wolfe uses his texts as factories into which guilt is inserted, but emerge ameliorated. Narrative serving the primary purpose of restructuring subconscious memory.
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Monique Rodrigues Balbuena deposited The Shoah in the Sephardic World in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 2 years, 6 months agoAbstract of panel organized by the Sephardic Studies Discussion Group for the 2024 MLA Annual Convention.
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Brian Bernards started the topic AAS 2024 Seattle CFP: Verge-sponsored panel on Inter-Asia Intermediality in the discussion
LLC East Asian on MLA Commons 2 years, 6 months ago
Inter-Asia Intermediality: The Transboundary Production of Global Asian Mediascapes
Organizers: Brian Bernards (bernards@usc.edu) and Elmo Gonzaga…[Read more] -
Brian Bernards started the topic AAS 2024 Seattle CFP: Verge-sponsored panel on Inter-Asia Intermediality in the discussion
CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 2 years, 6 months ago
Inter-Asia Intermediality: The Transboundary Production of Global Asian Mediascapes
Organizers: Brian Bernards (bernards@usc.edu) and Elmo Gonzaga…[Read more] -
Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “Lin Shu.” The Chaucer Encyclopedia Edited by Richard Newhauser (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2023), pp. 1085-1086 in the group
LLC East Asian on MLA Commons 2 years, 6 months agoAlexa Alice Joubin’s entry expands the global scope of The Chaucer Encyclopedia (4 vols). This entry, in Volume 3, examines the work by the Chinese translator Lin Shu’s (1852-1924). Lin translated and rewrote several key stories from the Canterbury Tales. Joubin argues that Lin’s works exemplify early twentieth-century Chinese imaginaries of medie…[Read more]
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Brian Bernards started the topic Call for Applications: Humanities Grants for Scholars from SE & S. Asia in the discussion
CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 2 years, 7 months agoCALL FOR APPLICATIONS
Cultivating the Humanities and Social Sciences (CHSS) Research Grants for scholars from South and Southeast Asia
Submission Deadline: September 1, 2023The Cultivating the Humanities and Social Sciences Research Grants are made possible thanks to the generous support of Sweden. This grant program is part of a new c…[Read more] -
Bradley J. Fest deposited Consider David Foster Wallace: Critical Essays edited by David Hering in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 2 years, 8 months agoReview of Consider David Foster Wallace.
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