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Shayani Bhattacharya started the topic CFP NeMLA: Writings about the Evolution of the Metropolis in the 20th Century in the forum
Popular Culture on MLA Commons 11 years, 5 months agoPanel: The (Ir)real City: Writing About the Changing Metropolis in the 20th Century
(Session ID: 15391)
Submission Link: https://nemla.org/convention/2015/cfp.html#cfp15391
Deadline: September 30, 2014
Panel Chair: Shayani Bhattacharya (for questions: shayanib@buffalo.edu)
Conference Dates: April 30-May 03, 2015 (Toronto, Ontario)
For Ra…[Read more]
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William E. Lenz started the topic CFP Travel Culture at Popular Culture 2015 in the forum
Popular Culture on MLA Commons 11 years, 6 months agoDear Colleagues,
PCA/ACA Travel & Tourism
CALL FOR PAPERS AT NATIONAL PCA/ACA CONFERENCE IN NEW ORLEANS, WEDNESDAY TO SATURDAY, APRIL 1-4, 2015
We had 7 panels in Travel and Tourism last year in Chicago; I hope to see 15 this year.
I’m looking for any and all interesting papers or presentations regarding travel and tourist culture. This i…[Read more]
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Beth Ellen Jörgensen started the topic CFP: L.A. Perspectives on Disability Studies, NeMLA in the forum
Disability Studies on MLA Commons 11 years, 7 months agoNeMLA 2015, Toronto
Roundtable fostering a dialogue about and with Latin American perspectives on disability studies in the humanities. Participants will give brief presentations on disability studies theory and criticism produced in Latin America in response to local and regional lived realities and cultural productions. Speakers may also…[Read more] -
Claire Oberon Garcia replied to the topic Is this forum still active? in the forum
Francophone Literatures and Cultures on MLA Commons 11 years, 8 months agoDear Nelly~
This and all of the other forums I am involved in is/are very inactive, which is why I wrote to the MLA organizer thinking that I was having some technical difficulty. I’m deeply disappointed that this forum in particular isn’t a space for lively conversation and sharing research among our 152 members. As far as I know, this forum…[Read more]
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Nelly Noury started the topic CFP: Revue CELAAN Assia Djebar in the forum
Francophone Literatures and Cultures on MLA Commons 11 years, 8 months agoAppel à communications : numéro spécial de la revue CELAAN consacré à Assia Djebar
Hommage à Assia Djebar : Sortir de la marge et du harem
En 1975, Hélène Cixous révolutionna la discipline de la théorie des genres (gender theory) en publiant son fameux texte sur Le Rire de la Méduse dans lequel elle exhorte les femmes ‘’à sortir de la marg…[Read more]
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Benjamin Fraser started the topic CFP-Disability in World Film Contexts [edited book] in the forum
Disability Studies on MLA Commons 11 years, 8 months agoDisability in World Film Contexts [cfp-edited volume]
The edited volume titled ‘Disability in World Film Contexts’ has received initial interest from Yoram Allon of renowned film publisher Wallflower Press (now part of Columbia UP). Contributions are invited in the form of chapters that focus on an individual film or films from a specific nat…[Read more]
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Cedric R. Tolliver started the topic Afro-Modernist Lit/Film and the Long Durée in the forum
Black American Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 11 years, 11 months agoMLA 2015 Vancouver Panel Proposal:
We solicit papers on afro-modernist literature and film that reveal the usefulness and limits of the long durée as an analytical tool. How do African American and other Black diasporic texts engage the dialectic between modernist aesthetics and philosophical concerns with history? Does this engagement move…[Read more]
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Sören Fröhlich started the topic CFP – JLDCS Special Issue: “Disability and Blood: Blood and the Crips” in the forum
Disability Studies on MLA Commons 11 years, 11 months agoJournal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies – Call for Papers
Special Issue: “Disability and Blood: Blood and the Crips”
Guest Editors: Michael Davidson (UCSD) and Sören Fröhlich (UCSD)Since the HIV/AIDS blood feuds of the 1990s, scholarship into social and cultural definitions of blood has provided much-needed insights into statis…[Read more]
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Joseph Paul Fisher started the topic CFP: Music behind Bars: Articulating Incarceration and Popular Music in the forum
Popular Culture on MLA Commons 11 years, 11 months agoPopular music’s relationship with incarceration has been a long and complicated one. The musician Lead Belly spent long stretches in prison for murder and other crimes but was eventually turned into a musical legend by folklorists John and Alan Lomax. In 1957, Elvis Presley had a number one hit with the Jerry Leiber/Mike Stoller composition “…[Read more]
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Marina Fedosik started the topic CFP MLA 2015: Transnational Adoption in Film in the forum
Popular Culture on MLA Commons 12 years agoAlliance for the Study of Adoption and Culture seeks paper proposals for its guaranteed session at the MLA Annual Convention in Vancouver, Canada. January 8-11, 2015
The panel will explore adoption in film with special focus on the ways national/transnational policies, politics, and ideologies shape the institution of adoption and lives of the…[Read more]
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Gabrielle Malcolm started the topic Jane Austen: Fan Phenomena – call for chapter submissions in the forum
Popular Culture on MLA Commons 12 years agoCall for Submissions
FAN PHENOMENA: JANE AUSTEN
Intellect Books
Editor: Gabrielle Malcolm
A Call for Essay/Chapter Submissions for a collection on the Fan Culture of Jane Austen.
This book will be an edited collection of essays and texts on the Fan Phenomena of Jane Austen. It will be a new addition to the successful Fan Phenomena…[Read more]
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David Palmer started the topic CFP MLA 2015: "Arthur Miller: Reflections on the American Dream" in the forum
Drama on MLA Commons 12 years ago2015 is the centennial of Arthur Miller’s birth. As part of the celebration of this event, the Arthur Miller Society is organizing a session at the 2015 MLA convention in Vancouver on a central theme in Miller’s literary work and his career as a public intellectual: the elusiveness of the American Dream, the Dream’s foundations in what often are c…[Read more]
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Sharon Aronofsky Weltman started the topic Performing Dickens — NEH Summer Seminar in the forum
Popular Culture on MLA Commons 12 years agoApplications are now open for “Performing Dickens: Oliver Twist and Great Expectations on Page Stage, and Screen” a four-week National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar for College and University Teachers, sponsored by the Dickens Project at the University of California Santa Cruz. From Monday, July 7, 2014 to Friday, August 1, 2014[Read more]
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Sharon Aronofsky Weltman started the topic Performing Dickens in the forum
Drama on MLA Commons 12 years agoApplications are now open for “<b>Performing Dickens: <i>Oliver Twist</i> and <i>Great Expectations</i> on Page Stage, and Screen</b>,” a four-week National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar for College and University Teachers, sponsored by the Dickens Project at the University of California Santa Cruz. From <b>Monday, July 7, 2014 to F…[Read more]
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April Logan started the topic Pauline Hopkins's Politics in the forum
Black American Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 12 years agoCall for Papers
***DEADLINE EXTENDED***
American Literature Association
25th Annual Conference
May 22-25, 2014
Hyatt Regency, Capitol HillSession Sponsored By
The Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins SocietyPanel: Pauline Hopkins and Washington D.C.
As a writer with a keen interest in national politics at a crucial moment in American history, Pauline…[Read more] -
Ayesha Hardison started the topic MLA Reception in the forum
Black American Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 12 years, 1 month agoPlease join us!
Reception Arranged by the Division on Black American Literature and Culture
Saturday, January 11, 7-8:15
Chicago Marriott, Chicago A-B
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Ayesha Hardison posted an update in the group
LLC African American Forum on MLA Commons 12 years, 1 month agoPlease join us!
Reception Arranged by the Division on Black American Literature and Culture
Saturday, January 11, 7:00–8:15 p.m.
Chicago Marriott, Chicago A–B -
April Logan started the topic Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins Society in the forum
Black American Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 12 years, 1 month agoCall for Papers
American Literature Association
25th Annual Conference
May 22-25, 2014
Hyatt Regency, Capitol HillSessions Sponsored By
The Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins SocietyPanel 1: Pauline Hopkins and Washington D.C.
As a writer with a keen interest in national politics at a crucial moment in American history, Pauline Hopkins frequently…[Read more] -
Steven J. Venturino replied to the topic MLA Convention Access Guidelines in the forum
Disability Studies on MLA Commons 12 years, 1 month agoThanks! Good all around.
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Elizabeth J. Donaldson started the topic MLA Convention Access Guidelines in the forum
Disability Studies on MLA Commons 12 years, 1 month agoDear all,
I’d like to remind everyone of the MLA Convention Access Guidelines, which you can read here:
http://www.mla.org/conv_access_guide
Happy new year and have a great convention!
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Open access, open source, open to all
Call for Papers
WORLDS and WORDS
29th Annual Interdisciplinary Conference in the Humanities
Sponsored by the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures
University of West Georgia, College of Arts and Humanities
Carrollton, Georgia
October 30-November 1, 2014
Deadline Extended until July 22nd
We welcome submissions from across…[Read more]