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Umar Anjum replied to the topic CFP for MLA 2022 panel that could include South Asian Languages taught in the US in the discussion
LLC South Asian and South Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoHi,
No worries.
Have a nice week ahead
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Umar Anjum replied to the topic CFP for MLA 2022 panel that could include South Asian Languages taught in the US in the discussion
LLC South Asian and South Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoThank you, this looks great. I am interested. Can you please share details? Thanks
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Thomas Oliver Beebee started the topic CFP for MLA 2022 panel that could include South Asian Languages taught in the US in the discussion
LLC South Asian and South Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoWorld Languages, World Literature, Comparative Literature
Description: Comparative and World Literature programs depend on world language education pipeliines — and vice versa. This panel explores articulations, pipeline building, language-planning advocacy, including dialogue with high school language and literature teachers and…[Read more]
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Brian Gregory Caraher deposited Tragedy, Euripides, Melodrama: Hamartia, Medea, Liminality in the group
GS Poetry and Poetics on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoThis article examines socio-historical dimensions and cultural and dramaturgic implications of the Greek playwright Euripides’ treatment of the myth of Medea. Euripides gives voice to victims of adventurism, aggression and betrayal in the name of ‘reason’ and the ‘state’ or ‘polity.’ Medea constitutes one of the most powerful mythic forces to…[Read more]
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Joanna Davis-McElligatt started the topic MLA 2022 CFP: Afrosouthernfuturism and the Black Speculative Arts in the discussion
LLC Southern United States on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoMLA 2022 CFP: Afrosouthernfuturism and the Black Speculative Arts
Recently scholars have begun to explore how black artists, writers, musicians, and filmmakers construct blackness, black embodiment, and black experiences in the speculative arts. Indeed, as Isiah Lavender III has argued, “one might argue that chattel slavery is an apocalyptic e…[Read more]
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Joanne Bernardi started the topic CFP Decolonial & Indigenous Interventions in Japanophone Media/Lit 1900-present in the discussion
East Asian Languages and Literatures after 1900 on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoCFP MLA 2022 – LLC Japanese since 1900 Forum (Guaranteed panel)
This panel invites papers that apply approaches in indigenous studies and epistemologies to the study of study Japanophone cultural, intellectual, and aesthetic productions. Given the long history and global legacy of Japanese colonialisms and settler colonialisms, this panel…[Read more]
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David A. Wacks deposited ʿAlī ibn Ḥazm, Risāla fī rithāʼ madīnat Qurṭuba (A Treatise on Lamenting the City of Cordova) (Cordova, 1031) (Spanish version) in the group
TM The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoThis Spanish-language unit contains an excerpt of an Arabic treatise composed by ʿAlī ibn Ḥazm (d. 1063) to lament the capital of the province of Córdoba, a city in the southern Spanish region of Andalusia. This treatise was composed during the civil war (fitna) that started in 1009 and ended in 1031 with the collapse of the Umayyad Caliphate of C…[Read more]
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David A. Wacks deposited ʿAlī ibn Ḥazm, Risāla fī rithāʼ madīnat Qurṭuba (A Treatise on Lamenting the City of Cordova) (Cordova, 1031) (English version) in the group
TM The Teaching of Literature on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoThis unit contains an excerpt of an Arabic treatise composed by ʿAlī ibn Ḥazm (d. 1063) to lament the capital of the province of Córdoba, a city in the southern Spanish region of Andalusia. This treatise was composed during the civil war (fitna) that started in 1009 and ended in 1031 with the collapse of the Umayyad Caliphate of Córdoba.
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “Five themes in Asian Shakespeare adaptations,” Oxford University Press blog, February 16, 2021 in the group
LLC East Asian on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoSince the nineteenth century, stage and film directors have mounted hundreds of adaptations of Shakespeare drawn on East Asian motifs, and by the late twentieth century, Shakespeare had become one of the most frequently performed playwrights in East Asia. There are five striking themes surrounding cultural, racial, and gender dynamics. Gender…[Read more]
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Frank Cha started the topic CFP: Subaltern Souths in the discussion
LLC Southern United States on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoFor MLA 2022:
Subaltern Souths
2022 MLA Convention
Washington, D.C., January 6–9, 2022
In her contribution to Keywords for Southern Studies (2016), Shirley Elizabeth Thompson contends that southern studies would benefit from “more precisely articulating the disruptive knowledge of subalterns.” This panel seeks to continue this work by problem…[Read more]
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Heidi Kathleen Kim started the topic CFP: Radical Care in the discussion
LLC Asian American on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoFor MLA 2022:
How does Asian American literary studies address radical care for collective survival, and as a critical method for creating reciprocity and justice? 300-word abstract and 1-page CV by 10 March to jinah.kim@csun.edu or itagakil@missouri.edu.
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Heidi Kathleen Kim started the topic CFP: Radical Care in the discussion
LLC Asian American on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoFor MLA 2022:
How does Asian American literary studies address radical care for collective survival, and as a critical method for creating reciprocity and justice? 300-word abstract and 1-page CV by 10 March to jinah.kim@csun.edu or itagakil@missouri.edu.
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited Shakespeare and East Asia (Oxford University Press, 2021) in the group
LLC East Asian on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoFour themes distinguish post-1950s East Asian cinemas and theaters from works in other parts of the world: Japanese innovations in sound and spectacle; Sinophone uses of Shakespeare for social reparation; the reception of South Korean presentations of gender identities in film and touring productions; and multilingual, disability, and racial…[Read more]
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Kristin Moriah deposited On the Record: Sissieretta Jones and Black Feminist Recording Praxes in the group
MS Sound on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoIn this article, I examine how Sissieretta Jones (frequently described as America’s first Black superstar, among other superlatives) strategically leveraged her European performance reviews in order to increase her listenership and wages in the United States. Jones toured Europe for the first (and only) time from February until November in 1895. A…[Read more]
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Kristin Moriah deposited On the Record: Sissieretta Jones and Black Feminist Recording Praxes in the group
LLC African American Forum on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoIn this article, I examine how Sissieretta Jones (frequently described as America’s first Black superstar, among other superlatives) strategically leveraged her European performance reviews in order to increase her listenership and wages in the United States. Jones toured Europe for the first (and only) time from February until November in 1895. A…[Read more]
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Alden Sajor Marte-Wood started the topic Call for papers: Big Data & Social Media in Southeast Asia (MLA 2022) in the discussion
CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 4 years, 12 months agoCall for papers: Big Data & Social Media in Southeast Asia (MLA 2022)
We invite papers for a proposed session on “Big Data & Social Media in Southeast Asia” for the 2022 Modern Language Association conference (6-9 January). This session is sponsored by the MLA’s Southeast Asia and Southeast Asia Diasporic forum. In The Costs of Connection: How D…[Read more]
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Brian Bernards started the topic Call for Applications: Southeast Asian Studies Archives Fellows in the discussion
CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 4 years, 12 months agoThe University of Washington Libraries invites applicants for our Southeast Asian Studies Archives Fellowship Program funded by the Henry Luce Foundation. We invite recent Ph.D. graduates, or finishing doctoral candidates across all disciplines in the arts, humanities and social sciences to apply for one of three one-quarter long full time paid…[Read more]
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Julia Elsky started the topic CFP (MLA): Making Waves: Two Decades of Experimental Romanian Cinema in the discussion
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 4 years, 12 months agoCall for Papers: MLA 2022 (6-9 January, Washington, D.C.)
Romanian Forum’s Guaranteed Panel
Making Waves: Two Decades of Experimental Romanian Cinema
2021 marks two decades since the symbolic launch of Romanian New Wave cinema, a movement that has received important recognition at international film festivals. The Romanian Forum of th…[Read more]
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Weihsin Gui started the topic Symposium: Literary / Media Histories of (Post)colonial Southeast Asia in the discussion
CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 4 years, 12 months agoA symposium on Literary / Media Histories of (Post)Colonial Southeast Asia. Friday 12 March at 9:30 AM US Pacific time (Los Angeles) on Zoom.
Speakers: Elizabeth Wijaya, Nadine Chan, Cheryl Narumi Naruse, & Philip Holden
Please register in advance: tinyurl.com/sealitmedia21
We have a website with talk abstracts, speaker bios, & helpful…[Read more]
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Doris Hambuch deposited Ecopoetic Elements in the Work of Sarah Kirsch, Ahmed Rashid Thani, and Derek Walcott in the group
GS Poetry and Poetics on MLA Commons 5 years agoComparative analyses of poetry by the German Sarah Kirsch, the Emirati Ahmed Rashid Thani, and the St Lucian Derek Walcott identify three distinct ecopoetic elements their work has in common. The three poets, born before the origin of ecocriticism, favour metaphors that represent natural landscapes. These metaphors express a certain…[Read more]
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