The following are panels sponsored by the Ethnic Studies in Language and Literature Division at MLA 2016:

113, Social Death and Citizenship, is scheduled to take place at 3:30+4:45 p.m. on 07-JAN-16 in 7, ACC.

568, Archival Legibility and Invisibility, is scheduled to take place at 12:00 noon+1:15 p.m. on 09-JAN-16 in 311, JW Marriott.

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The Ethnic Studies in Language and Literature Division Panel 568 on Archival Legibility and Invisibility has been selected for inclusion in this year’s Presidential theme, Literature and Its Publics: Past, Present, and Future.”

Saturday, 9 January, 2016

568. Archival Legibility and Invisibility

12:00 noon–1:15 p.m.

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Thursday, 7 January 2016

113. Social Death and Citizenship

3:30–4:45 p.m.

Program arranged by the Forum TC Race and Ethnicity Studies

Presiding: Stephen P. Knadler, Spelman Coll.; Amritjit Singh, Ohio Univ., Athens

1. “Declaration of Independence: Origin of American Social Death in Barbara Chase-Riboud’s Sally Hemings,” Michael Lackey, Uni…[Read more]

The topic for this special session is Indigenous literatures and languages of record (alphabetic, hieroglyphic, syllabic, signed/gestured, mnemonic, etc.) in the face of settler-colonialism, the wired atmosphere, climate change, and resource extraction. 300-word abstracts and CVs due March 15 to penelope.kelsey@colorado.edu.