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Yomaira Figueroa deposited Faithful Witnessing as Practice: Decolonial Readings of Shadows of Your Black Memory and The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao in the group
CLCS Global Hispanophone on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoThis article considers Marıa Lugones’s concept of faithful witnessing as a point of departure to think about the ethics and possibilities of faithful witnessing in literary contexts. For Lugones, faithful witnessing is an act of aligning oneself with oppressed peoples against the grain of power and recognizing their humanity, oppression, and re…[Read more]
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Loren Kruger deposited Chicago / Johannesburg in the group
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoJohannesburg, Chicago of South Africa
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Victor Goldgel-Carballo deposited The Reappropriation of Poverty and the Art of “Making Do” in Contemporary Argentine Cultural Productions in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoThrough an analysis of two post-crisis films (Estrellas, Federico León
and Marcos Martínez, 2007; El nexo, Sebastián Antico, 2005) shot in
the largest slum in Buenos Aires, Argentina, this essay sketches the
terms for conceptualizing a cultural dimension of the Global South
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Yolanda M. Martinez-San Miguel started the topic Postdoc in Caribbean Studies at Rutgers in the discussion
Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoPostdoctoral Fellowship in Critical Caribbean Studies 2016-2017
Critical Caribbean Studies at Rutgers, in collaboration with the Department of Latino and Hispanic Caribbean Studies, is pleased to announce a one-year competitive postdoctoral fellowship for a humanities or social science scholar pursuing research in Caribbean Studies. Scholars…[Read more]
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Luis I. Pradanos started the topic CFP–Iberian, Latin American, and Lusophone African Transatlantic Ecocriticism in the discussion
Global Hispanophone on MLA Commons 10 years, 4 months agoCFP Ecozon@. European Journal of Literature, Culture and Environment
http://www.ecozona.eu/index.php/journal/announcement/view/29
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Stephanie Rountree started the topic CPF: Region and National Technologies in the discussion
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 10 years, 4 months agoCall for Papers for a prospective panel at the Society for the Study of Southern Literature’s Biennial Conference in Boston, March 10-12, 2016
“Region and National Technologies”
Pursuant to SSSL’s conference theme “The South in the North,” this panel welcomes proposals for papers that consider the formation and/or manifestation of region in…[Read more]
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Thomas Berenato started the topic CFP: ACLA 2016 Seminar on Poetry and Forgiveness in the discussion
Poetry on MLA Commons 10 years, 5 months agoSubmit an abstract by 23 September 2015 at http://www.acla.org/seminar/poetry-and-forgiveness:
W. H. Auden: “Every beautiful poem presents an analogy to the forgiveness of sins.” Geoffrey Hill: “the technical perfecting of a poem is an act of atonement, in the radical etymological sense—an act of at-one-ment, a setting at one, a bringing…[Read more]
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Nate Mickelson started the topic CFP: ACLA 2016 – Poetry as Practice, Practice as Poetry in the discussion
Poetry on MLA Commons 10 years, 5 months agoAbstracts due September 23 via http://www.acla.org/seminar/poetry-practice-practice-poetry
The philosopher Pierre Hadot worked throughout his career to locate poetry, particularly Goethe’s, within forms of “spiritual exercise” grounded in western philosophical and religious traditions. For Hadot, spiritual exercises (or practices) are forms…[Read more]
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Yomaira Figueroa started the topic CFP: (ACLA 2016) Love as Theory, Desire, and Performance in the discussion
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 10 years, 5 months agoWe welcome submissions for the 2016 ACLA proposed seminar:
What’s Love Got To Do With It? Love as Theory, Desire, and Performance
http://www.acla.org/seminar/what%E2%80%99s-love-got-do-it-theory-desire-and-performance
Organizer: Yomaira Figueroa, Michigan State University
Co-Organizer: Carolyn Ureña, Rutgers University
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Gretchen Head started the topic CFP (ACLA): The City in the Life Narratives of the Global South in the discussion
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 10 years, 5 months agoWe welcome submissions to our upcoming ACLA seminar:
The City in the Life Narratives of the Global South
Organizer: Gretchen Head, Yale-NUS College
Co-Organizer: Rania Said, Binghamton University
Contact the Seminar Organizers:
In Speech Genres and Other Late Essays, Mikhail…[Read more]
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Nhora Lucia Serrano started the topic CFP: ACLA 2016 Visual (Inter)Changes in the Mediterranean Basin in the discussion
Comparative Studies in Renaissance and Baroque Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 5 months agoCFP: ACLA 2016 Visual (Inter)Changes in the Mediterranean Basin
Visual (Inter)Changes in the Mediterranean Basin: Medieval & Renaissance Western and Eastern Illuminated Manuscripts
Please consider submitting an abstract to the “ Visual (Inter)Changes in the Mediterranean Basin: Medieval & Renaissance Western and Eastern Illuminated M…[Read more]
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Giovanna Montenegro started the topic ACLA 2016: CFP Hemispheric Approaches to Literature and Cartography in the Americas in the discussion
Colonial Latin American Literatures on MLA Commons 10 years, 5 months agoPlease consider submitting your paper to this seminar proposed for the American Comparative Literature Association Conference from March 17-20, 2016 at Harvard University in Cambridge, MA.
Organizer: Giovanna Montenegro, Binghamton University gmontene@binghamton.edu
Co-Organizer: Adriana Méndez Rodenas, University of Iowa
The use and interest…[Read more]
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Nicky Agate deposited Humanities Commons Open Repository Exchange in the group
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 10 years, 5 months agoThe Modern Language Association (MLA) and the Columbia University Libraries / Information Services’ Center for Digital Research and Scholarship (CDRS) have been working together on a prototyped user interface that connects a library-quality repository system (Humanities Commons Open Repository Exchange, or CORE, modeled on Columbia’s Academic Com…[Read more]
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Hannah Swamidoss deposited The Interstitial Body and Moral Formation:Third-Culture Displacement and Subject Formation in Charles Kingsley’s The Water-Babies in the group
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 10 years, 5 months ago.Using the concept of “third culture” from social theory, this article examines Charles Kingsley’s use of displacement in his children’s book The Water Babies (1863). In trying to portray the site of moral formation, Kingsley displaces his central character Tom – the new, interstitial “third culture” subject. Through Tom’s displacement, Kingsle…[Read more]
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Patti Marxsen replied to the topic Member News in the discussion
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 10 years, 5 months agoWould like to send an email re: two new books… but don’t see how to send an email only to you, Nicky. And the message is too long for Twitter.
Please advise. Thanks.
Patti M. Marxsen email: thewritewoman@gmail.com
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Nicky Agate started the topic Member News in the discussion
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months agoMembers of the Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society Forum:
Hello!
In September, the Commons Wire, your monthly guide to how your fellow members are using the platform, will return from its summer hiatus with a new section, Member Report. If you have recently published a book or an article, won a fellowship or award, accepted a ne…[Read more]
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Hannah Swamidoss deposited “When I Cannot Still the Longing of My Heart”; Third-Culture Displacement and the Image of the Child in Allen Say’s Tree of Cranes and Grandfather’s Journey in the group
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months agoThis article examines Allen Say’s use of cultural displacement in his books Tree of Cranes and Grandfather’s Journey. Allen Say is an award-winning, Japanese-American, picture book author and illustrator.
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Alan Lopez deposited "Adam Smith and the Rights of the Dead in the group
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months agoAdam Smith closes the first chapter to Theory of Moral Sentiments, ‘Of Sympathy’, with a harmless enough assertion: ‘We sympathize even with the dead’. Death is not a topic that much interests Smith in Theory of Moral Sentiments. With the exception of a few miscellaneous thoughts in the text, the one paragraph Smith devotes to it is the extent of…[Read more]
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Janet Ruth Heller posted an update in the group
GS Poetry and Poetics on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months agoDear Colleagues,
Joyce Meier of Michigan State University and I are editing a collection of scholarly essays on the theme of Voice and Empowerment in English studies. Cambridge Scholars Publishing is interested in publishing this book.
As faculty members, we try to empower our students and to encourage them to develop their own voices. We also…[Read more]
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Laura J. Beard started the topic Deadline extended CFP Special Issue of a/b in the discussion
Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months agoCall for papers:
Special Issue of Indigenous Autobiographical Works in the Americas
a/b: Auto/Biography Studies http://www.tandfonline.com/raut
NEW DEADLINE: SEPTEMBER 25, 2015
Diana Taylor has referred to a shared hemispheric reality of “tangled systems of expression, representation, and economic and power relat…[Read more]
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