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Margaret Hanzimanolis started the topic Agenda for delegate assembly meeting. in the forum
2015 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 11 years, 2 months agoPlease publicize the full motion that the DA will be considering in the ‘agenda” section of the DA materials webpage.
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Margaret Hanzimanolis started the topic Travel Grant eligibility for Delegate Assembly members who are Part time, in the forum
2015 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 11 years, 2 months agoThe existence of travel grants to sitting DA members does not seem to be posted anywhere. I found out about this grant “by accident” on an unrelated twitter conversation. Please make sure that the travel grant page informs people of this grant, and please make the existence of this grant known to DA members who might be able to use it, and…[Read more]
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Margaret Hanzimanolis started the topic OPEN LETTER: Radical Caucus critique of the MLA Taskforce on graduate study in the forum
Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 11 years, 2 months agoThe following letter was sent on behalf of the radical caucus of the MLA members as a critique of the Taskforce Report on graduate study. The analysis of the taskforce report took part over a period of time on the radical caucus list, and was written by Margaret Hanzimanolis and Richard Ohmann, with help from many radical caucus members.
We…[Read more]
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Margaret Hanzimanolis started the topic Critique of the MLA taskforce report on graduate study in the humanities in the forum
Radical Caucus on MLA Commons 11 years, 2 months agoThe following letter, based upon a close analysis of the MLA Taskforce Report on Graduate Study (2013) in the Humanities, written by Margaret Hanzimanolis, Dick Ohmann and others, and based upon discussion on the radical caucus list serve.
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Bruce W. Robbins posted an update on MLA Commons 11 years, 7 months ago
As many of you will have heard, Resolution 2014-1 got 60% of the votes cast but did not reach the minimum of 10% of the total membership required (by a recent rule) in order to be officially adopted. Thank you to all who voted. I attach an op-ed by David Lloyd that to my mind gives a good sense of the meaning of the event:
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Bruce W. Robbins posted an update on MLA Commons 11 years, 7 months ago
Thank you to everyone who voted on resolution 2014-1. As you will have heard, the resolution got 60% of the votes in its favor but did not pass because it did not reach the minimum of 10% of the membership required (by a recent rule). This still counts as a major victory. I attach an op-ed by David Lloyd:
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Bruce W. Robbins posted an update on MLA Commons 11 years, 7 months ago
Prove participatory citizenship is still alive! Vote on the MLA resolution! Last 8 hours!
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Bruce W. Robbins posted an update on MLA Commons 11 years, 7 months ago
Please forgive me for being exceedingly tedious on the subject of the vote, which ends at midnight tonight. The bar of 10% of the membership that resolutions have to pass is a relatively new one, and arguably not a good one, given the general indifference (which those who proposed it probably were counting on). But it is still possible to prove…[Read more]
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Bruce W. Robbins posted an update on MLA Commons 11 years, 8 months ago
a bit more than 24 hours left to vote on the MLA resolution!
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Bruce W. Robbins posted an update on MLA Commons 11 years, 8 months ago
I’m writing to encourage people to vote on the Israel resolution (right of entry for Americans of Palestinian and Arab descent). I co-sponsored it, so obviously I believe it’s a good and fair and appropriate thing, but I think you will agree if you take a moment to look it over. Voting ends at midnight on Sunday. traditionally MLA resolutions hav…[Read more]
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I support this and I will vote. Thanks for reaching out and reminding me of the importance of taking our membership votes seriously.
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I support this and I will vote. Thanks for reaching out and reminding me of the importance of taking our membership votes seriously.
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I support this and I will vote. Thanks for reaching out and reminding me of the importance of taking our membership votes seriously
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me too :-)!
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Bruce W. Robbins posted an update on MLA Commons 11 years, 8 months ago
I apologize for possibly repeating myself. I’m writing to encourage people to vote on the Israel resolution (right of entry for Americans of Palestinian and Arab descent). I co-sponsored it, so obviously I believe it’s a good and fair and appropriate thing, but I think you will agree if you take a moment to look it over. Voting ends at midnight…[Read more]
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Bruce W. Robbins changed their profile picture on MLA Commons 11 years, 8 months ago
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Bruce W. Robbins posted an update on MLA Commons 11 years, 8 months ago
Please forgive this graceless appeal. The Israel resolution (Right to Enter) that I co-sponsored with Dick Ohmann is now being voted on. I think it’s a moderate and necessary gesture of support for our Palestinian and Arab colleagues who, though US citizens, have been denied entry to the West Bank to teach, do research, lecture, or attend…[Read more]
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Margaret Hanzimanolis posted an update on MLA Commons 11 years, 11 months ago
@rfeal Would you consider reading a two page section of Joe Berry’s classic, Reclaiming the Ivory Tower? Here is the sign up spreadsheet@ https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AnRu6M-k0cvidEVNUktzUGtBUUlDRFJQNHZKYzEtYkE#gid=0
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Margaret Hanzimanolis posted an update in the group
HEP Part-Time and Contingent Faculty Issues on MLA Commons 11 years, 11 months agoPLEASE Consider reading a chapter of Joe Berry’s book about organizing contingent workers. 12 sections still need readers! Collaboration! Once you sign up, you can write to the organizers (email on the spreadsheet) for further instructions. It’s easy with audacity, a recording program easily downloadable.…[Read more]
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Margaret Hanzimanolis posted an update in the group
HEP Part-Time and Contingent Faculty Issues on MLA Commons 11 years, 11 months agoPLEASE Consider reading a chapter of Joe Berry’s book about organizing contingent workers. 12 sections still need readers! Collaboration! Once you sign up, you can write to the organizers (email on the spreadsheet) for further instructions. It’s easy with audacity, a recording program easily downloadable.
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Margaret Hanzimanolis started the topic ADE Bulletin contains five or six articles about contingent and PTF in the forum
Teaching as a Profession on MLA Commons 12 years agoI Encourage folks to read this important issue of the ADE bulletin, and contribute to the conversation about the issues raised by posting in this forum!
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Margaret Hanzimanolis started the topic ADE Bulletin contains five or six articles about part time faculty in the forum
Part-Time Faculty Members on MLA Commons 12 years agoFive or six articles in the current issue of the ADE Bulletin address important statistical and other issues related to PTF. Bayta Weinbaum, Karen Lentz Madison, Sue Doe, Jack Longmate and other contingent and precarious faculty members, or their allies, have written excellent analyses of the current status of PTF in the academy. We would like…[Read more]
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Margaret Hanzimanolis started the topic Election of new members! Next Year's Panel ideas? in the forum
Part-Time Faculty Members on MLA Commons 12 years agoVirginia Cooper joins us from Montana, and Lee Skallerup Bessette from Kentucky! We are overjoyed to have new members join the committee!
If you would like to work with the committee as a non-member of the Executive committee, please use this forum to direct us to initiatives that you believe will be useful for MLA 2015 in Vancouver, or during…[Read more]
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Margaret Hanzimanolis posted an update in the group
HEP Part-Time and Contingent Faculty Issues on MLA Commons 12 years, 1 month agoNOMINATIONS DUE BY DEC 23 for the PTF Committee!
The Executive Committee for the Part-time Faculty Discussion Group would encourage members of this MLA Commons group to nominate themselves or some other active and hard-working Part time faculty member to serve on the committee. The term is four years. The group is eligible to put forward a…[Read more]
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I’m among the 1500, but what worries me more than the opposition is the apathy of those who did not care to cast any vote. Not that we are much different here in Poland… Thank you for your post.