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Jay Clayton deposited The Ridicule of Time: Science Fiction, Bioethics, and the Posthuman in the group
TC Medical Humanities and Health Studies on MLA Commons 8 years, 6 months agoThe article traces two phases of SF about human species change, the first in the 1940s and early 1950s, the so called “golden age” of SF. In this first phase the advent of the posthuman is brought on by eugenics or sudden mutations caused by fallout from nuclear war. It consists of well-known books by most of the leading authors of the period: C…[Read more]
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Xiaofan Amy Li started the topic CFP – interdisciplinary conference 'Play, Recreation, Experimentation' in the discussion
Twentieth-Century French Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 6 months ago<div class=”entry-content”>
Call For Papers: ‘Play, Recreation, and Experimentation: Literature and the Arts since the Early Modern Times’, 8-9 Dec 2017, University of Kent, Canterbury. (details of dates and venue tbc)
Invited speakers: Professor Peter Dayan (Edinburgh), Professor Ulrike Zitzlsperger (Exeter), Dr Thomas Karshan (UEA)
This inte…[Read more]
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Anne Donlon posted an update in the group
TC Medical Humanities and Health Studies on MLA Commons 8 years, 7 months agoLiterature, Medicine & Medical Humanities (https://medicalhumanities.mla.hcommons-staging.org/) is the new featured site on the MLA Commons homepage (https://mla.hcommons-staging.org/).
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Lee B. Abraham started the topic CfP: Approaches to Teaching and Learning with Urban Spaces – NeMLA 2018 in the discussion
Literature and Other Arts on MLA Commons 8 years, 8 months agoCall for Papers
Approaches to Teaching and Learning with Urban Spaces49th Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) Convention
Global Spaces, Local Landscapes and Imagined Worlds
April 12-15, 2018, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
NeMLA Web Site: http://www.buffalo.edu/nemla/convention.htmlThe late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries have…[Read more]
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Carl Gelderloos deposited A Review of “Andreas Huyssen, Miniature Metropolis” in the group
MS Visual Culture on MLA Commons 8 years, 8 months agoA review of Andreas Huyssen’s “Miniature Metropolis: Literature in an Age of Photography and Film” (2015)
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Carl Gelderloos deposited A Review of “Andreas Huyssen, Miniature Metropolis” in the group
MS Visual Culture on MLA Commons 8 years, 8 months agoA review of Andreas Huyssen’s “Miniature Metropolis: Literature in an Age of Photography and Film” (2015)
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Marisa Verna deposited Corps connaissant(s) et pensée matérielle chez Proust. Les sens du Temps”. in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French on MLA Commons 8 years, 9 months agoThis paper aims to define the concepts of “material thought” and “material time,” as they are theorized by Proust in the Preface of his Ruskin’s Amiens Bible translation, and as they are developed throughout the Recherche. In Proust’s oeuvre ‘material thought’ manifests itself mostly in linguistic and stylistic features, or in concrete images,…[Read more]
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Erin Lamb started the topic CFP: Methods of Health Humanities in the discussion
Medical Humanities and Health Studies on MLA Commons 8 years, 9 months agoCFP: Methods of Health Humanities
Chapter proposals due July 1, 2017
The health humanities are taking shape as a unique field of study, promoted through international organizations and journals, formalized through a wide variety of curricular structures with similarly varied learning objectives. This diversity raises the question of what…[Read more]
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Erin Lamb started the topic still time — international Hippocrates Poetry and Medicine Symposium May 5-6 in the discussion
Medical Humanities and Health Studies on MLA Commons 8 years, 9 months agoI am posting the following on behalf of poet and physician Rafael Campo:
Dear Colleagues,
We hope you’ll consider joining us at Harvard Medical School in Boston on May 5-6 for the international Hippocrates Symposium on Poetry and Medicine. This gathering of health humanities scholars and poets from around the globe is being convened this ye…[Read more]
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Angus Grieve-Smith deposited The Spread of Change in French Negation in the group
LLC 19th-Century French on MLA Commons 8 years, 10 months agoMany varieties of French have changed over the years from expressing predicate
negation (Geurts 1998) with ne alone, to the embracing construction ne … pas, and then
to postverbal pas alone (Jespersen 1917). When the increase in the frequency of
ne … pas over time is plotted on a graph, it takes the S shape of the logistic function
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Alvan Ikoku posted an update in the group
TC Medical Humanities and Health Studies on MLA Commons 8 years, 10 months ago“Health, Humanities, and Insecurity”
MLA ‘18 NY Conference Forum PanelHow does work at the meeting of health and humanities address contemporary questions about
precarity and insecurity? Panel will draw from a range of literatures, theories, and methods to explore these questions.Send 300-word abstract and CV to Alvan Ikoku, ikoku…[Read more]
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