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Noelia Sol Cirnigliaro started the topic 2 additional Panels on Why Theater Matters and Performing Childhood @ Seattle in the discussion
LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Drama on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months agoAnd another reminder: there is still time to submit abstracts for these two panel @ Seattle [Send us your 250-word abstract and CV by 15 March 2019 to Noelia.Cirnigliaro@dartmouth.edu]. Panel on childhood is Co-sponsored by GEMELA.
Why Theater Matters: Then and Now
Theater clearly mattered in early modern times as evidenced by the…[Read more]
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Noelia Sol Cirnigliaro started the topic Panel on Comedia, Disability, Disease @ Seattle in the discussion
LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Drama on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months agoJust a reminder: there is still time to submit abstracts for this panel @ Seattle [Send us your 250-word abstract and CV by 15 March 2019 to Noelia.Cirnigliaro@dartmouth.edu]
Building on work in the history of medicine and disability studies, this panel will engage with the following questions: How was disease construed and negotiated in early…[Read more]
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Penelope Geng deposited Jurisprudence by Aphorisms: Francis Bacon and the “Uses” of Small Forms in the group
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months agoThe belief that Francis Bacon was, from the start, a stalwart defender of royal absolutism has prevailed in scholarship despite occasional comments about Bacon’s pluralist or collaborative legal and political imagination. Building on recent revisionist work, this article questions the standard historiography. It argues that Bacon’s jur…[Read more]
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Luis Restrepo started the topic PROPOSALS FOR MLA 2020 in the discussion
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months agoThe Early Modern Epic. Imperial, Providential or Otherwise?
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Imperial and Christian by design, the early modern epic nonetheless presents ambivalences, internal fissures and critical appropriations of the genre and its imperial past, allowing multiple nuanced readings. Send 1 page abstract and short bio.Deadline for…[Read more]
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Eric Calderwood started the topic CFP: Reel Iberia (March 27-28, 2020) in the discussion
CLCS Global Hispanophone on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months agoDear members of the Global Hispanophone Forum:
I’m writing to let you know about an exciting conference that I’m organizing with my colleague Javier Irigoyen-García. The conference, scheduled for March 2020, will explore film and television representations of Iberian history. We are hoping for a diverse group of papers, covering many geogra…[Read more]
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Baltasar Fra-Molinero started the topic CFP Teaching the Humanities through the Global Hispanophone in the discussion
CLCS Global Hispanophone on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months agoThis session seeks proposals that address the study of the Global Hispanophone as a mode of inquiry thatde-centers national narratives as well as regional ones (Latin America vs Spain) and reviews and critique past and present literary canons. We want to pay close attention to geographic/historical peripheries and cultural practices that challenge…[Read more]
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Jesús R. Velasco deposited The Invention of Invention in the group
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months agoAlfonso de Toledo (15th century) was, indeed, a curious guy. But he was doing something with his curiosity. He was researching and translating. He was focusing on particular themes and institutions, and giving a legal and juridical reading of them –he, as he confesses, has very little theology to forget, so even theological inventions are, for h…[Read more]
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Adolfo Campoy-Cubillo started the topic 2019 MLA Panels in the discussion
CLCS Global Hispanophone on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months agoThe Global Hispanophone Forum and the Colonial Latin American Forum seek proposals for a multidisciplinary panel with the title “Overlapping Colonialisms”in which panelists will have the opportunity to make brief presentations of their research projects on the conflicts and gaps created in territories, past and present, where one colonial pow…[Read more]
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Christopher Warren deposited Hugo Grotius and the Century of Revolution, 1613-1718: Transnational Reception in English Political Thought in the group
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 7 years agoReview for The Seventeenth Century of Oona A. Hathaway and Scott J. Shapiro, _The Internationalists: How a Radical Plan to Outlaw War Changed the World_ and Marco Barducci, _Hugo Grotius and the Century of Revolution, 1613-1718_
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Allison Margaret Bigelow deposited The Nature of Metallic Matter: Materials-Based Methods in the Study of Mining in the group
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 7 years agoIn 1526, royal refiner and natural historian Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo (1478-1557) praised the singular quality of the “muchos tesoros de oro labrado / en poder delos indios q̄ se hā cōquistado” (lxv, v). By 1535, however, he had to define what, exactly, he meant by gold: “No hablo aquí en el oro que se ha habido por rescates, o en la guerra, ni…[Read more]
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Elvira L. Vilches started the topic Panel on Humanism, Coloniality, and Imperial Reason/ MLA 2019 in the discussion
LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Poetry and Prose on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoDear colleagues,
I think that this panel will be of interest to those of you working on Atlantic and Pacific frameworks .
Friday, Jan 4th
296. Humanism, Coloniality, and Imperial Reason.1:45-3:00 pm. Water Tower, Hyatt RegencyPresiding: Luis Fernando Restrepo, U of Arkansas, FayettevilleSpeakers: Glen Edgar Carman, DePaul U; Freddy…[Read more]
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Elvira L. Vilches started the topic Panels and Happy Hour for Colonial Latin American Literatures/ MLA 2019 in the discussion
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoDear 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 My…[Read more]
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Stefania Licata replied to the topic Session Proposal:Production and circulation of Afro-Hispanophone/ Lusophone arts in the discussion
CLCS Global Hispanophone on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoDear colleagues,
the session is for the 2019 ALA (African Literature Association) Conference, which will take place at Renaissance Columbus Downtown Hotel, from May 15 to May 18, 2019.
Thank you very much
Stefania
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Maria Chouza-Calo started the topic Third Biennial Conference of the Iberian Theater and Performance Network (ITPN) in the discussion
LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Drama on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoThird Biennial Conference of the Iberian Theater and Performance Network (ITPN)School of Advanced Study, Senate House | University of London 25-27 June 2020CALL FOR PAPERSTHEATRICAL PROCESSESThe Third Biennial Conference of the Iberian Theater and Performance Network (ITPN) will focus on the topic of theatrical processes. We are particularly i…[Read more]
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Maria Chouza-Calo started the topic Third Biennial Conference of the Iberian Theater and Performance Network (ITPN) in the discussion
Iberian Theater and Performance Network (ITPN) on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoThird Biennial Conference of the Iberian Theater and Performance Network (ITPN)
Institute of Modern Languages Research (IMLR)
School of Advanced Study, Senate House | University of London
25-27 June 2020
CALL FOR PAPERS
THEATRICAL PROCESSES
The Third Biennial Conference of the Iberian Theater and Performance Network (ITPN) will focus on t…[Read more]
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Carlo M. Bajetta deposited Elizabeth I ‘in Sight and View of all the World’: An Unpublished Spanish Letter (UPDATED VERSION) in the group
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months agoPrints an unpublished Spanish letter signed by Elizabeth I and addressed to Maria of Austria
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Dennis Looney deposited From Hell to Harlem: African American Responses to Dante’s Divine Comedy from 1850 to Today in the group
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months agoA course (MA level) I taught at the University of Pittsburgh in 2001, the research for which culminated in my book Freedom Readers (Notre Dame 2011).
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Whitney Sperrazza deposited Intimate Correspondence: Negotiating the Materials of Female Friendship in Margaret Cavendish’s Sociable Letters in the group
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months agoIn this article, I argue that Margaret Cavendish uses ‘Sociable Letters’ and the female friendship within its pages to intervene in early modern epistolary traditions and negotiate alternatives for conventional markers of intimacy between correspondents. Grounding the argument in current scholarly debates on familiar letter conventions, I…[Read more]
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Shirin A. Khanmohamadi started the topic MLA election to CLCS-Medieval in the discussion
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months agoHi everyone, My name is Shirin Khanmohamadi and I’m honored to have been nominated for election to the executive committee of CLCS- Medieval and wanted to introduce myself a bit here. I am an Associate Professor of premodern literature in the Comparative and World Literature department at San Francisco State University, where I’ve been teac…[Read more]
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Louise Geddes deposited Unlearning Shakespeare Studies: Speculative Criticism and the Place of Fan Activism in the group
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoBound by market pressures, twenty-first century academia finds itself fettered by the demands of “student success” that a capitalist knowledge economy places on its participants. Humanities scholars are, as Jonathan Dollimore noted in his 2014 SAA address, pressed with their back against the wall, “in a marketplace pretty indifferent to what…[Read more]
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