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Allison Hobgood started the topic Disability, Contingency, Neoliberalism, MLA 2016 in the discussion
Disability Studies on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months agoThursday, 7 January
120. Disability, Contingency, Neoliberalism
3:30–4:45 p.m.
Program arranged by the Forum TC Disability Studies
Presiding: Susan Antebi, Univ. of Toronto
1. “The Biopolitics of Disability,” David Mitchell, George Washington Univ.; Sharon Snyder, George Washington Univ.
2. “Crip Figures: Disability, Austerity, and As…[Read more]
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Allison Hobgood started the topic Disability and Interdependence, MLA 2016 in the discussion
Disability Studies on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months agoFriday, 8 January
325. Disability and Interdependence
1:45–3:00 p.m.
Program arranged by the Forum TC Disability Studies
Presiding: Elizabeth Bearden, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison
1. “Disforming Cure,” Katherine Schaap Williams, New York Univ., Abu Dhabi
2. “‘The Servant . . . Formed Himself into a Sort of Crutch’: Disability, Dependency, an…[Read more]
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Allison Hobgood started the topic Queer Crips across Time, MLA 2016 in the discussion
Disability Studies on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months agoSaturday, 9 January
619. Queer Crips across Time
3:30–4:45 p.m.
Program arranged by the Forum TC Disability Studies and the Forum TC Sexuality Studies
Presiding: Allison Hobgood, Willamette Univ.
Presiding: Martha Nell Smith, Univ. of Maryland, College Park
Speakers: Cam Awkward-Rich, Stanford Univ.; Simone Chess, Wayne State Univ.; Petr…[Read more]
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Sören Fröhlich started the topic CFP C19, "Unsettling Medicine." in the discussion
Nineteenth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months ago“Unsettling Medicine: Politics, Society, and Economy in Nineteenth-Century American Medical Practice.”
C19: The Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists
March 17-20, 2016 at Pennsylvania State University
Chair: Sari Altschuler
Deadline: August 16, 2015.
This panel is looking for papers that expand the political, social, and economic con…[Read more]
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Carrie Johnston started the topic CFP: Unsettling the Gendered West, C19 in the discussion
Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months agoCFP: Unsettling the Gendered West
<div>C19: The Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists</div>
<div>March 17-20, 2016 at Pennsylvania State University</div>
<div>http://c19conference.org
This panel examines nineteenth-century women’s writing as a political tool for unsettling notions of the American West as masculine, anti-modern, and u…[Read more] -
Alan Lopez deposited "Emerson's Bayonet" in the group
Law as Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months agoThe essay reads Ralph Waldo Emerson’s argument for a “nation of friends,” in “Politics,” as Emerson’s response to his lament, also in “Politics,” that the “power of love, as the basis of the State, has never been tried.” By a careful reading of that essay, which includes locating “Politics” within the debate in Thomas Hobbes’s Leviathan be…[Read more]
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Alan Lopez deposited "Adam Smith and the Rights of the Dead in the group
Law as Literature 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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Stefania Irene Sini deposited The fictive persons of a serious poem: on Vico's anthropology of "literature" in the group
Law as Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months agoThe present essay will explore legal areas of Giambattista Vico’s thought from a rhetorical and literary perspective. In particular, the essay will focus on the idea of «person» as it is investigated in De uno and New Science. The euristic quality of the notion of fictio iuris will be identified as generative core of the imaginative universal the…[Read more]
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Carrie Johnston started the topic CFP: C19 Conference, Penn State, March 2016 in the discussion
Nineteenth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months agoPlease consider submitting an abstract to the panel to be proposed for the c19 Conference at Penn State, March 17-20, 2016:
Unsettling the Gendered West
This panel examines nineteenth-century women’s writing as a political tool for unsettling notions of the American West as masculine, anti-modern, and untouched. As recent work by Nina Baym and K…[Read more]
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Janet Ruth Heller posted an update in the group
LLC 19th-Century American 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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Janet Ruth Heller posted an update in the group
LLC Late-19th- and Early-20th-Century American 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 Kiernan replied to the topic Book — Call for essays in the discussion
Late-Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 7 months agoDear Members of the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth-century literature group,
I write on behalf of Miriam S. Gogol on an extended deadline for the following:
Call for Critical Essay Submissions: Working Women
For a book to be published by a major publisher, I am inviting eight to ten essays by literary, historical, and multicultural…[Read more]
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Beth Ellen Jörgensen started the topic CFP: LASA2016, DS Pedagogies and the Global South in the discussion
Disability Studies on MLA Commons 10 years, 7 months agoPanel for the Latin American Studies Association, XXXIV International Congress
New York City, May 27-30, 2016Title of panel: Disability Studies Pedagogies and the Global South
In celebration of its 50th anniversary, LASA is organizing its annual congress around broad themes of the “evolution of Latin American studies,” the “challenges of cr…[Read more] -
Doug Steward deposited Taking Liberties: Academic Freedom and the Humanities in the group
Literary and Cultural Theory on MLA Commons 10 years, 9 months agoThe state of academic freedom today, the particular vulnerability of certain areas of study, and the special relevance of scholarship in the humanities to defenses of academic freedom.
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Erin Lamb started the topic Seeking educators of undergrads who address aging in the classroom in the discussion
Disability Studies on MLA Commons 10 years, 10 months agoGreetings colleagues,
I am writing to ask for your help in completing a brief survey about teaching age studies. I am looking to find respondents who both:
teach undergraduates (baccalaureate or associate level) in the American higher education system, and
address the topics of aging, old age, and/or ageism in those undergraduate c…[Read more] -
Nicky Agate started the topic Comments on the Commons Newswire in the discussion
Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months agoHi all,
I just wanted to alert this group’s members to the fact that there have been a couple of comments on the Commons Newswire piece on your work. I thought one of you might like to respond.
https://thewire.mla.hcommons-staging.org/ecocriticism-environmental-humanities/
Yours,
Nicky
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Allison Hobgood started the topic cfp: Disability and Interdependence, MLA 2016 in the discussion
Disability Studies on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months agoDisability and Interdependence
What are alternatives to the binary of independence/dependence in disability discourse? How might rhetorics of care illuminate and intervene in disability’s perception/representation? 250 word abstract and 1 page CV by 15 March 2015; Elizabeth Bearden (ebearden@wisc.edu).
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Peter Leman started the topic Special Session Proposal on "Legal and Literary Persons" in the discussion
Law as Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months agoHi All,
I am proposing a special session on literary and legal approaches to personhood for the 2016 MLA in Austin. I’m hoping to receive a few more abstracts by March 15. Please see the CFP and description below. Thank you.
Best regards,
Peter Leman
CFP: Legal and Literary Persons
Personhood, personality, impersonation,…[Read more]
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Jeffrey Jerome Cohen replied to the topic Syllabi in the discussion
Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months agoThank you Simon Richter for uploading the latest syllabus. Your course on Waterworlds looks terrific!
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Simon Richter uploaded the file: Water Worlds: Cultural Responses to Sea Level Rise & Catastrophic Flooding to
Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months agoAs a result of climate change, the world that will take shape in the course of this century will be more water inundated than we’re accustomed to. The polar ice caps are melting, glaciers are retreating, ocean levels are rising, polar bear habitat is disappearing, countries are jockeying for control over a new Arctic passage, while low-lying c…[Read more]
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