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Francisco Marcos-Marín deposited Serán ceniza, mas tendrán sentido: orígenes de las humanidades digitales en España in the group
Computer Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 2 years agoSe recogen en este capítulo los movimientos iniciales y proyectos de humani-dades digitales sobre la lengua española entre 1971 y 1993. Se trata, sobre todo, de proyectos españoles desarrollados principalmente en relación con universidades y centros de investigación de Madrid. Se hace referencia también a otros centros y otros proyectos, sobre…[Read more]
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Regenia Gagnier deposited The Futures of English: Introduction from the UK in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 2 years agoWill students raised on social media still read English literature?
• What is the role of English/American literature in the PRC, India,
Australasia, the USA?
• What is the role of English language in relation to other global
and local languages?
• What is the role of decolonising efforts?
• How do our respective state apparatuses affect…[Read more] -
andré carrington started the topic Open General Business Meeting for the Forum:MS Sound at #MLA2024 in the discussion
MS Sound on MLA Commons 2 years agoGood day everyone! If you’re attending the annual convention and you’d like to join the Forum MS Sound (or you’re already a member) please join us at 3:30p.m. on Saturday, January 6, in the Marriott – Grand D (Level 5). We’ll catch up and solicit interest in potential topics for sponsored sessions, and we have seats opening up, so you can become a…[Read more]
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Setsuko Yokoyama started the topic The Executive Committee endorses the Radical Caucus’s motion in the discussion
MS Sound on MLA Commons 2 years agoDear Forum Participants,
The executive committee of the Sound Forum is writing to let you know of our intention to endorse the Radical Caucus’s emergency motion in defense of academic freedom. The draft text of the motion is included below and our endorsement will be listed as “The Sound Forum Executive Committee.” There will be an open hearing…[Read more]
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Setsuko Yokoyama started the topic The Executive Committee endorses the Radical Caucus’s motion in the discussion
MS Sound on MLA Commons 2 years agoDear Forum Participants,
The executive committee of the Sound Forum is writing to let you know of our intention to endorse the Radical Caucus’s emergency motion in defense of academic freedom. The draft text of the motion is included below and our endorsement will be listed as “The Sound Forum Executive Committee.” There will be an open hearing…[Read more]
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Richard A. Strier replied to the topic Call for Self-Nominations for Appointment to Executive Committee in the discussion
LLC 17th-Century English via email on MLA Commons 2 years agoDear Professor Su Fan Ng,
I might be willing to help out, BUT I have to tell you that I no longer attend MLA, and could only work virtually.
Richard Strier
Sulzberger Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus
Editor, Modern Philology, 2004-2016
Department of English
University of…[Read more] -
Su Fang Ng started the topic Call for Self-Nominations for Appointment to Executive Committee in the discussion
LLC 17th-Century English on MLA Commons 2 years agoDear all:We are calling for self-nominations for appointment to the Executive Committee of the LLC 17th-Century English. One new member is appointed annually for a five-year term. Our major work on the EC is to organize panels at the MLA convention. In some years we also nominate a delegate to represent the forum. The eligibility requirements…[Read more]
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Arif Camoglu deposited Provincializing Romanticism: Ottoman Hayaliyyun and Literary Globality in the Nineteenth Century in the group
LLC English Romantic on MLA Commons 2 years, 1 month agoThis essay considers the shortfalls of globalizing tendencies in nineteenth-century
literary studies with a focus on the Ottoman Turkish articulation of romanticism, i.e.,
hayaliyyun. Retrieving a historically and geographically hybrid genealogy of romanticism
through the Ottoman Turkish context, my discussion situates romantic imaginary…[Read more] -
Fatma Fulya Tepe started the topic new article: Angela Carter’s Adaptations of the Ashputtle Story in the discussion
TC Philosophy and Literature on MLA Commons 2 years, 1 month agoDear Colleagues,
We recently published an article titled as “Deconstructing a Disempowering Normative Identity: Angela Carter’s Adaptations of the Ashputtle Story” in Interlitteraria journal. We present the information and the abstract of the article below. If you would like to have a copy of it, please write t…[Read more]
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Arif Camoglu deposited “Supreme in Ruin”: Empire’s Afterlife in Romantic Encounters with Imperial Ruins in the group
LLC English Romantic on MLA Commons 2 years, 1 month agoRegistered in Romantic depictions of imperial ruins is the endurance of empire in its immateriality: the imageries of empire’s ruination announce a future where imperial sovereignty maintains its presence spectrally. Using Jacques Derrida’s notion of hauntology, and recruiting further insight from political theory, this essay argues that emp…[Read more]
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Hania A.M. Nashef deposited Canines: Unlikely Protagonists in the Novels of Coetzee, Saramago and Shibli in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 2 years, 1 month agoAnthropomorphism, which combines two Greek words, anthropos and morphe, meaning “human” and “form’ respectively, is a term that reflects our attribution of human characteristics to non-human animals and objects, bestowing upon them agency (Taylor 2011: 266). In this respect, we elevate the status of the non-human animal, moving it from being a…[Read more]
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Hania A.M. Nashef deposited Songs of Nostalgia: Creative Activism and Exile in Elia Suleiman’s “It Must be Heaven” and Panah Panahi’s “Hit the Road” in the group
MS Sound on MLA Commons 2 years, 2 months agoAbstract | The final scene of Elia Suleiman’s film, It Must be Heaven (2019), ends with the actor/director sitting in an Arab bar in the city of Haifa, while the young crowd is dancing to “Arabyon Ana” (2000) by Lebanese singer Yuri Mrakadi. The Arabic music is a testimony to a Palestinian-Arab culture that resists erasure.
The songs in Sulei…[Read more]
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Epifanio San Juan deposited INTER-CROSSCULTURAL DIALOGUES AND POSTCOLONIAL INDIGENIZATION IN LATE MODERNITY in the group
TC Philosophy and Literature on MLA Commons 2 years, 2 months agoSurvey of the rise of sikolohiyang Pilipino (Filipino psychology) in the context of decolonization and indigenization movements in the Philippines in the last decades of the 20th century.
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Steven Schroeder deposited as murder is to crow in the group
TC Philosophy and Literature on MLA Commons 2 years, 2 months agoThomas à Kempis wrote that everyone desires peace but not the things that make for peace. Such a universal desire would be a hopeful sign, a foundation to build on as we contemplate (and, no doubt, debate) “the things that make for peace.” I offer as murder is to crow as a record of “perchings” in my contemplation of things that make for peace.…[Read more]
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Katina Rogers replied to the topic CFP: On Gathering: Exploring Collective and Embodied Modes of Schol Comm (JEP) in the discussion
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 2 years, 2 months agoAnd…. here’s a link to the full CFP! https://journals.publishing.umich.edu/jep/news/106/
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Katina Rogers started the topic CFP: On Gathering: Exploring Collective and Embodied Modes of Schol Comm (JEP) in the discussion
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 2 years, 2 months agoDear friends,
I’m pleased to share this call for papers for a special issue of Journal of Electronic Publishing. The issue title is On Gathering: Exploring Collective and Embodied Modes of Scholarly Communication, and I am the issue editor.
Changes in scholarly communication have shifted the boundaries of where and how we share our work, and…[Read more]
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Simon Stern started the topic 2024 LAW AND HUMANITIES WORKSHOP FOR JUNIOR SCHOLARS in the discussion
TC Law and the Humanities on MLA Commons 2 years, 3 months ago2024 LAW AND HUMANITIES WORKSHOP FOR JUNIOR SCHOLARS Call for Participation
Georgetown University Law Center, Stanford Law School, UCLA School of Law, the University of Pennsylvania, and the University of Southern California Center for Law, History, and Culture invite submissions for the 23d meeting of the Law and Humanities Workshop for Junior…[Read more]
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Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2024 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 2 years, 3 months agoThe next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2024, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets in January 2024. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nominate at least one candidate who…[Read more]
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Lisa Zunshine deposited How Memories Become Literature in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 2 years, 4 months agoCognitive science can help literary scholars formulate specific questions to be answered by archival research. This essay takes as its starting point embedded mental states (that is, mental states about mental states) and their role in generating literary subjectivity. It then follows the transformation of embedded mental states throughout several…[Read more]
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Lisa Zunshine deposited Manipulating Metacognition in Witness for the Prosecution in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 2 years, 4 months agoThis essay exemplifies a cognitive approach to literary and film studies, with particular emphasis on fictional reimagining of legal institutions. It draws on research of cognitive scientists who study metacognition—specifically, the difference between reflective and intuitive beliefs—to suggest that courtroom dramas, such as Billy Wilder’s Witne…[Read more]
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