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Ruth Yvonne Hsu started the topic CfP: International Conference: Migration Studies, Transnational Literature in the discussion
Ethnic Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 7 months agoCFP: Forms of Migration: An International Conference on Transnational Literature & Innovative Aesthetics
May 2—4, 2019: University of Graz (Graz, Austria)
The Department of American Studies and the Centre for Intermediality Studies at the University of Graz (Graz, Austria), in conjunction with the Austrian Science Fund (FWF), announces a call f…[Read more]
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religioncomics deposited It’s Time for LISSA in the group
GS Comics and Graphic Narratives on MLA Commons 7 years, 7 months agoReview of LISSA: A STORY ABOUT MEDICAL PROMISE, FRIENDSHIP, AND REVOLUTION (University of Toronto Press) by Sherine Hamdy, Coleman Nye, Sarula Bao, and Caroline Brewer
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andré carrington posted an update in the group
GS Comics and Graphic Narratives on Humanities Commons 7 years, 7 months agoThis may only be the case for a short while, but my article “Desiring Blackness: A Queer Orientation to Marvel’s Black Panther,” is currently the most read article in American Literature. It’s part of this wonderful special issue edited by Ramzi Fawaz and Darieck Scott. Free to read https:/…[Read more]
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Charles Gleek deposited Review of Chained in Silence: Black Women and Convict Labor in the New South by Talitha LeFlouria. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2015. in the group
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 7 years, 8 months agoTalitha LeFlouria’s Chained in Silence: Black Women and Convict Labor in the New South ambitiously takes on the task of highlighting the roles that black women played in the modernization of the Georgian economy and culture in the late 19th and early 20th centuries; roles that were products of material and ideological circumstances as well as a…[Read more]
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Marissa K. López deposited The Political Economy of Early Chicano Historiography: The Case of Hubert H. Bancroft and Mariano G. Vallejo in the group
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 7 years, 8 months agoThis article compares the historiographic methods of two 19th century, California historians.. Mariano Vallejo, former Mexican military commander of Alta California, wrote his Recuerdos at the request of San Francisco-based, Anglo-American historian Hubert H. Bancroft. In his own memoir, Literary Industries (1915), Bancroft describes his…[Read more]
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Geraldine Heng deposited Reinventing Race, Colonization, and Globalisms across Deep Time: Lessons from the Longue Durée in the group
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 7 years, 8 months agoCritically surveys the long premodern history of race and racism, colonization and imperialism, and globalism, across c. 1000-1500 CE.
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Geraldine Heng deposited INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER OF THE INVENTION OF RACE IN THE EUROPEAN MIDDLE AGES (Cambridge UP, March 8,, 2018) in the group
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 7 years, 9 months agoThis is the typescript of the Introductory chapter of the book, THE INVENTION OF RACE IN THE EUROPEAN MIDDLE AGES, published on March 8, 2018 by Cambridge UP (503 pp., 8 chapters, 10″ x 7″ format). The book discusses Jews, Muslims, Africans and blackness, Native Americans, Mongols, and the Romani (“Gypsies”) in 7 chapters, including a critical…[Read more]
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Catherine Marie Jaffe posted an update in the group
LLC 18th- and 19th-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 7 years, 9 months agoCall for Papers: International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies conference, Edinburgh, July 2019.
CFP: Deviation, Dissension, Defiance: Protesting in the Hispanic Enlightenment
This panel seeks papers that explore the theme of identities that originate in protest in the Hispanic eighteenth century. We welcome proposals that look at how…[Read more] -
Benita Sampedro replied to the topic New book about Spanish colonialism in Morocco in the discussion
Global Hispanophone on MLA Commons 7 years, 10 months agoCongratulations, Eric Calderwood, for such groundbreaking contribution to Global Hispanophone Studies!
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Eric Calderwood started the topic New book about Spanish colonialism in Morocco in the discussion
Global Hispanophone via email on MLA Commons 7 years, 10 months agoDear colleagues,
I’m delighted to announce the publication of my book, *Colonial al-Andalus:
Spain and the Making of Modern Moroccan Culture*
<https://www.amazon.com/Colonial-al-Andalus-Making-Moroccan-Culture/dp/0674980328/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1522093517&sr=8-1&keywords=colonial+al-andalus>
(Harvard University Press, 2018).Grounded in n…[Read more]
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Mahan Ellison uploaded the file: Congreso AMEII 2019 Formulario de inscripción to
CLCS Global Hispanophone on MLA Commons 7 years, 10 months agoCongreso AMEII 2019 Formulario de inscripción
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Mahan Ellison uploaded the file: I Congreso de la Asociación Marroquí de Estudios Ibéricos e Iberoamericanos 2019 to
CLCS Global Hispanophone on MLA Commons 7 years, 10 months agoLa Asociación Marroquí de Estudios Ibéricos e ibreoamericanos tiene el honor de enviarles la convocatoria oficial de su Primer Congreso Internacional que tendrá lugar en Agadir, los días 18, 19 y 20 de abril de 2019, sobre el tema: “Las literaturas africanas en lenguas ibéricas (1956-2018)”. Aprovechando esta ocasión, les invita para partic…[Read more]
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Mary Gallucci deposited The Black Prince of Florence: The Spectacular Life and Treacherous World of Alessandro de’ Medici. Catherine Fletcher. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. xxvii + 308 pp. $29.95. in the group
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 7 years, 10 months agoAs the first biography in English of Alessandro de’ Medici, this important book raises questions about how historical narratives are constructed and how race has evolved into a critical, if contested, category.
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Francisco Fernández de Alba started the topic CFP: Fashion in the discussion
Twentieth-Century Spanish Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 10 months agoWe warmly invite you to submit abstracts on all topics related to Iberian fashion. Please see the attached CFP
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Francisco Fernández de Alba started the topic CFP: Fashion in the discussion
Iberian Studies on MLA Commons 7 years, 10 months agoWe warmly invite you to submit abstracts on all topics related to Iberian fashion. Please see the attached CFP
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Catherine Marie Jaffe posted an update in the group
LLC 18th- and 19th-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoThe International Congress on the Enlightenment is the quadrennial meeting of the International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ISECS) and the world’s largest meeting of specialists on all aspects of the eighteenth century. Recent ISECS congresses have been held in Los Angeles (2003), Montpellier (2007), Graz (2011), and Rotterdam (…[Read more]
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Catherine Marie Jaffe posted an update in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoCFP Special Session MLA 2019: Paletos, palurdos, patanes: Constructions of the pueblo in Modern Spain
In the context of the emergence of a popular consciousness that since the 18th century had been revealing itself as essential in the configuration of Spain as a modern nation, this panel seeks to answer the question “what and who is the p…[Read more]
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Catherine Marie Jaffe posted an update in the group
LLC 18th- and 19th-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoCFP: MLA 2019
Paletos, palurdos, patanes: Constructions of the pueblo in Modern SpainIn the context of the emergence of a popular consciousness that since the 18th century had been revealing itself as essential in the configuration of Spain as a modern nation, this panel seeks to answer the question “what and who is the pueblo?” by exp…[Read more]
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Gabrielle Miller posted an update in the group
LLC 18th- and 19th-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoAsociación Internacional de Galdosistas Call for Papers, MLA Chicago 2019
Mapping Nature and Modernity in Benito Pérez GaldósThroughout the nineteenth century, Spain’s fraught path to modernity undoubtedly transformed the human relationship with the environment, changes that in turn elicited various responses from the country’s diverse popula…[Read more]
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