The second item of business is organizing panel(s) for MLA 2017.

We get 1 guaranteed panel. Jayanthi (your current Secretary) and I (your current Chair) will organize a panel on

“Soundscapes in Pre-modern Japanese Literature.”

CFP to be circulated shortly. (NB: the Japan *from* 1900 forum is also doing their guaranteed panel on sound, and the…[Read more]

For the first time in MLA history, pre-modern Japan has a designated ‘place at the table.’ Thanks, all, for your efforts to help make this vision a reality!

With MLA 2016 just over, it’s time to start preparing for MLA 2017, to be held in Philadelphia. We have a couple of items of business, one of which is to collect nominations (including sel…[Read more]

Hello everyone,

We are holding our first executive committee meeting on Skype this Friday at 2 p.m. PST. Please email me, your inaugural chair, at mso1@sfu.ca if you’d like to be patched in.

If you can’t make it, please send us your ideas for

a) the one guaranteed panel our new forum gets, and

b) potential nominees for the executive com…[Read more]

Hello everyone,

We are holding our first executive committee meeting on Skype this Friday at 2 p.m. PST. Please email me, your inaugural chair, at mso1@sfu.ca if you’d like to be patched in.

If you can’t make it, please send us your ideas for

a) the one guaranteed panel our new forum gets, and

b) potential nominees for the executive com…[Read more]

Hello everyone,

We are holding our first executive committee meeting on Skype this Friday at 2 p.m. PST. Please email me, your inaugural chair, at mso1@sfu.ca if you’d like to be patched in.

If you can’t make it, please send us your ideas for

a) the one guaranteed panel our new forum gets, and

b) potential nominees for the executive committee…[Read more]

Hi everyone,

If you aren’t already a member, head on over to “LLC Japanese since 1900” and join. We are now official! Rosemary Feal informs us:

“I am pleased to inform you that the Executive Council, acting on the recommendation of the Program Committee, has approved the creation of the forum LLC Japanese since 1900.

The first official sessions…[Read more]

I’m just reposting this — please do consider applying! Looks like a great opportunity.

Children’s Literature Association

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Call for Papers: 
International Committee Focus Panel Session
Deadline: September 15, 2015

43rd Annual Children’s Literature Association Conference
Hosted by Th…[Read more]

Children’s Literature Association

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Call for Papers: 
International Committee Focus Panel Session
Deadline: September 15, 2015

43rd Annual Children’s Literature Association Conference
Hosted by The Ohio State University

The Sheraton Columbus at Capitol Squar…[Read more]

Call for papers: MLA 2016
We invite you to submit paper proposals for any of the following panels, which we are planning for the January 2016 Modern Language Association annual conference, to convene in Austin, TX.

A Public Face for East Asian Poetry?
Investigating contemporary poetry’s impact on readerships large and small. Papers could address…[Read more]

Dear Colleagues:

Please see the CFP below. Feel free to distribute it wherever you feel it would be effective. I say that especially for the Japan and Korea specialists, because you know better than I the best avenues for distributing information. Thanks for your support on this.

Best wishes,
Christopher Lupke

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A Public Face for East Asian…[Read more]

Reiterating Melek’s invitation to submit panel ideas, anyone who has an idea for panels on Asian literature, broadly conceived, feel free to email them to Melek or I (cde13@psu.edu) and/or to attend either of the Executive Committee meetings in-person at Vancouver.

Any and all interested parties are invited to attend the Executive Committee meeting for the East Asia to 1900 group, which will be held on:

10 January 2015, 7:00-8:15 pm, 7 East, in the Vancouver Convention Centre.

At the meeting, we will drink wine, nominate people to fill the open seat(s) on the committee, and propose panel topics for the…[Read more]

If you do, please contact me or another member of the current ExCo with a brief proposal. We will discuss them at our January ExCo meeting and select the best. This Forum will have two guaranteed panels in 2016, and may propose two further panels (non-guaranteed). We are eager to hear your ideas, so fire away! MLA deadlines are quite far in…[Read more]