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]

Hello everyone, thank you for becoming members and signing the petition! We are getting closer to satisfying the requirements for the creation of a new forum. Here’s what we still need:
5 people to volunteer for the initial executive committee of this forum (do so under the topic entitled “Volunteer”).
14 more people to officially sign the petitio…[Read more]

Hello everyone,

Thanks to those who have signed the petitions for the prospective fora. As there seems to be a little bit of confusion about how to navigate to/sign the petitions, however, please allow me to post some instructions:

If you can read this, you are logged into the Commons, which is the first step. Next, you need to know the names of…[Read more]

Hello everyone, another PLEA TO SIGN THE PETITION(S) SUPPORTING THE PROPOSED NEW FORA. We are under-enrolled in all of the proposed Asian fora (except for Korean — nice work folks!), which means that they will not be established. This would be a shame, since we have the potential for much more participation of Asianists at the MLA with fora in…[Read more]

Dear colleagues,

If you have not already done so, I would urge you to sign the petitions for the formation of Japanese and Chinese LLC groups.

If I were to appeal to “our” self-interest, it would be to “self-interest properly understood” — i.e. our common welfare. The MLA would be a much more interesting place with Chinese, Japanese, Korean,…[Read more]