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James Gifford deposited HUMN 2439: Radical Political Thought in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 9 years agoThis course explores major currents of political radicalism both within and outside of the dominant western political tradition. Topics considered may include antidemocratic radicalism, democratic radicalism, Marxian radicalism, radical feminism, radical individualism, and post-colonial radicalism. Readings will include selections from Kant,…[Read more]
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Subramanian Shankar started the topic Report on Academic Freedom and Higher Education in Palestine in the discussion
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month agoLA members, and in particular members of this forum who will be attending this year’s MLA 2017 assembly meeting in Philadelphia may already know that there are a number of resolutions to be considered that address the question of boycotting Israeli academic institutions. The Resolution to endorse the Palestinian call for the boycott of Israeli in…[Read more]
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Subramanian Shankar started the topic Report on Academic Freedom and Higher Education in Palestine in the discussion
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month agoMLA members, and in particular members of this forum who will be attending this year’s MLA 2017 assembly meeting in Philadelphia may already know that there are a number of resolutions to be considered that address the question of boycotting Israeli academic institutions. The Resolution to endorse the Palestinian call for the boycott of Is…[Read more]
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Nicholas Rinehart deposited “I Talk More of The French”: Creole Folklore and the Federal Writers’ Project in the group
LLC Literatures of the United States in Languages Other Than English on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoThis essay tackles a question that has preoccupied Francophone postcolonial studies for several decades—namely, what is believed almost unanimously to be the absence of a Francophone equivalent to the slave narrative in English. My article challenges this assumption by reconciling the legacies of slavery in both the Anglophone and Francophone “…[Read more]
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David Palumbo-Liu deposited Open Letter to MLA Members: Why Think About Palestine Now? in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoAn argument for more, not less, attention to issues of Palestine, and beyond.
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Maria Teresa Ramos-Garcia posted an update in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoCALL FOR PAPERS
International Seminar on
LANGUAGES AND CULTURES IN CONTACT IN THE ROMANCE NOVEL
UNIVERSIDAD DE LAS PALMAS DE GRAN CANARIA
(Canary Islands, Spain)
June 21st-23rd 2017
Romance novels have often been dismissed by critics because of their nature as a popular genre and for being written and read largely by women. However, in the last…[Read more] -
Isabelle Hesse started the topic CFP – Palestine in the International Imaginary, 1987-2017 in the discussion
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoPalestine in the International Imaginary, 1987-2017
24<sup>th</sup> February 2017
John Woolley Common Room, Level 4, John Woolley Building
The University of Sydney, Australia
Organised by
Dr Isabelle Hesse, The Department of English, The University of Sydney
Dr Ben Etherington, The Writing and Society Research Centre, Western Sydney…[Read more]
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Jennifer Buckley started the topic CFP: Shaw at the Shaw Festival (Ontario) (due 30 Jan 2017) in the discussion
Drama on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months ago“Shaw at The Shaw” Conference in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, July 21-25, 2017
Deadline for submissions: January 30, 2017
Sponsored by the International Shaw Society, The Shaw Festival, and York University, “Shaw at The Shaw” seeks paper proposals that will cover a broad spectrum of topics but will give some preference to topics on the two Shaw…[Read more] -
Isabel Carrera Suárez uploaded the file: cfp Performing the Urban to
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoCall for EACLALS triennial conference in Oviedo, Spain. April 2017
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Miriam S. Gogol started the topic CFP — Dreiser and Gender at ALA in the discussion
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoDear Members of the Women’s and Gender Studies Group, you may be interested in the following Call for Papers:
The International Theodore Dreiser Society will sponsor two panels at the American Literature Association Conference in Boston, MA on May 25-28, 2017.
Panel One: Open Topic
Papers are invited on any topic concerning Dreiser
Panel Two:…[Read more]
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Miriam S. Gogol started the topic CFP — Dreiser at ALA in the discussion
Psychological Approaches to Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoDear Members of the Psychology, Psychoanalysis and Literature Group, you may be interested in the following Call for Papers
The International Theodore Dreiser Society will sponsor two panels at the American Literature Association Conference in Boston, MA on May 25-28, 2017.
Panel One: Open Topic
Papers are invited on any topic concerning…[Read more]
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