040 Echoes of Sepharad Across the Humanities:

Strategies for Teaching Sephardic Content

1:45 pm – 3:00 pm

Thursday, January 3, 2019

Sheraton Grand – Huron

Session Information:

Scholars from different disciplines with an interest in Sephardic literature and culture present strategies for including Sephardic content in…[Read more]

Heading to MLA in Chicago? Looking for mentoring in writing for and publishing in peer-reviewed journals in your specialization? It’s not too late to sign up for Chat with an Editor! Sessions with experienced editors from MELUS, English Literary Renaissance, Legacy, Papers on Language and Literature and more still available for Friday and S…[Read more]

Dear Members,

Here is the list of activities sponsored by the Colonial Latin American forum, MLA 2019.

We are looking forward to seeing you there.

Thursday Jan 3rd

54. And What does Colonial Mean? 

1:45-3:00 pm, Erie, Sheraton Grand

Presiding Mónica Díaz, U of Kentucky

Speakers: Ivonne del Valle, UC Berkley; Kathleen Myers, Indiana U, Bl…[Read more]

233: Spain, World War II, and the Holocaust: History, Literature, Memory  10:15 AM–11:30 AM Friday, Jan 4, 2019  Sheraton Grand – Superior B

Join us for a pair of roundtable discussions at the MLA and AHA meetings in Chicago on Spain, World War II and the Holocaust. Panelists examine how the history, literature, and memory of World War II and the…[Read more]

Natural Language: Readings and PerformancesJanuary 4, 2019 @ School of the Art Institute of ChicagoReception at 6:30,; Readings at 7:30
In conjunction with the 2019 MLA conference, the Electronic Literature Organization and the Art & Technology Studies (ATS) department at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) will host an evening of…[Read more]

We are creating an invited proposal based upon my performance as a reviewer of another text.
Essays are to be about 8,000 words each.

I have a model and this text will be an scholarly companion to literature using the tools of rhetorical or
cultural studies analysis (possibly other types of analysis). The Companion to Victorian Literature
is…[Read more]

Hope to see everyone there! Please share this with all your colleagues!

*First 60 people get a free drink ticket, and everyone has a chance at the door-prize raffle for new books.*

177: Social Hour for East Asianists, Hosted by LLC East Asian, LLC Japanese since 1900, LLC Ming and Qing Chinese, LLC Modern and Contemporary Chinese, LLC…[Read more]

Hope to see everyone there! Please share this with all your colleagues!

*First 60 people get a free drink ticket, and everyone has a chance at the door-prize raffle for new books.*

177: Social Hour for East Asianists, Hosted by LLC East Asian, LLC Japanese since 1900, LLC Ming and Qing Chinese, LLC Modern and Contemporary Chinese, LLC…[Read more]

All Ming/Qing Forum members and prospective members are welcome to bring their ideas and join the conversation on Thursday evening just before the East Asia Social Event. (8:00-8:30 p.m., and we can walk over to the social event together.)

We will meet for 30 minutes in the Old Town Room at the Sheraton Grand. Agenda items: session topics for…[Read more]

We need to start planning our 2020 Forum Collaborative Session Proposal now. If you have any ideas about session topics and/or interested participants, please post to the brainstorm Google-doc below. Thank you!

https://docs.google.com/document/d/14cJFY-3yhgnR_iOba0GUjYNXjnW1VBpRilt_y7ZGJO4/edit?usp=sharing

We need to start planning our 2020 Forum Collaborative Session Proposal now. If you have any ideas about session topics and/or interested participants, please post to the brainstorm Google-doc below. Thank you!

https://docs.google.com/document/d/14cJFY-3yhgnR_iOba0GUjYNXjnW1VBpRilt_y7ZGJO4/edit?usp=sharing

Hope to see everyone there! Please share this with all your colleagues!

First 60 people get a free drink ticket, and everyone has a chance at the door-prize raffle for new books.

177: Social Hour for East Asianists, Hosted by LLC East Asian, LLC Japanese since 1900, LLC Ming and Qing Chinese, LLC Modern and Contemporary Chinese, LLC…[Read more]

177: Social Hour for East Asianists, Hosted by LLC East Asian, LLC Japanese since 1900, LLC Ming and Qing Chinese, LLC Modern and Contemporary Chinese, LLC Pre-14th-Century Chinese, LLC Japanese to 1900, and LLC Korean<i></i> 8:45 PM–10:00 PM Thursday, Jan 3, 2019<i></i> Sheraton Grand – Chicago Ballroom VIII

From the EBSN: The European Beat Studies Network is a vibrant association of scholars that holds annual conferences in Europe. Past conferences have been held in Tangier, Brussels, Paris, and Vienna, among other cities. The 2019 conference will be in Cyprus, October 9-12, 2019.

The call for papers for the 2019 conference in Nicosia, Cyprus, has…[Read more]