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Vicente Lledó-Guillem deposited La formación de la identidad lingüística catalana (siglos xiii-xvii) in the group
LLC Catalan Studies on MLA Commons 6 years, 5 months agoLa relación histórica entre las lenguas catalana y occitana tuvo un impacto decisivo en la formación de la identidad lingüística de la Corona de Aragón y, más tarde, en la del Imperio Español. Basándose en una gran variedad de documentos históricos, tratados lingüísticos y textos literarios, y mediante un análisis textual innovador, el presente…[Read more]
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Corine Tachtiris deposited Transcultural Manipulations: Translation Workshop syllabus HACU 241 in the group
TC Translation Studies on MLA Commons 6 years, 5 months agoThis multilingual undergraduate translation workshop was co-taught in the Spring of 2014 with Prof. Norman Holland in the division of Humanities, Arts, and Cultural Studies at Hampshire College. During the course, students were introduced to translation theory and explored key concepts through intralingual translation exercises before embarking on…[Read more]
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Nohemy Solorzano-Thompson started the topic LASA 2020: Interest in a Latin American Sephardic Culture Panel?? in the discussion
LLC Sephardic on MLA Commons 6 years, 6 months agoHi everyone,
The Latin American Studies Association (LASA) just issued its call for the 2020 conference which will be held in Guadalajara, Mexico, on May 13 to 16, 2020.
The conference theme is entitled “Améfrica Ladina: vinculando mundos y saberes, tejiendo esperanzas” [Améfrica Ladina: link worlds, knowledge, and disciplines, weave h…[Read more]
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David A. Wacks deposited Romance of Evast and Blaquerna by Ramón Llull in the group
LLC Catalan Studies on MLA Commons 6 years, 6 months agoWacks, David A. “Romance of Evast and Blaquerna by Ramón Llull (Review).” La corónica: A Journal of Medieval Hispanic Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, vol. 47, no. 1, 2018, pp. 122–24. Project MUSE, doi:10.1353/cor.2018.0022.
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Judith Roumani replied to the topic Serving on the Sephardic Forum Executive Committee in the discussion
LLC Sephardic via email on MLA Commons 6 years, 6 months agoHello, Bethany,
Thank you for this opportunity, I am sorry but I have dropped my MLA
membership.
Good luck with your search,
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Bethany Beyer started the topic Serving on the Sephardic Forum Executive Committee in the discussion
LLC Sephardic on MLA Commons 6 years, 6 months agoThe MLA Sephardic Forum Executive Committee is looking for forum members who would be interested in serving as future committee members. This process involves running for election, and if successful, serving for 5 years. It’s not a lot of work; instead, the committee helps organize/plan the yearly (guaranteed) MLA panel, takes care of committee b…[Read more]
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David A. Wacks deposited Sepharadim/conversos and premodern Global Hispanism in the group
LLC Sephardic on MLA Commons 6 years, 8 months agoSepharadim participated in the Hispanic vernacular culture of the Iberian Peninsula. Even in the time of al-Andalus many spoke Hispano-Romance, and even their Hebrew literature belies a deep familiarity with and love of their native Hispano-Romance languages. However, since the early sixteenth century the vast majority of Sepharadim have never…[Read more]
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Bethany Beyer replied to the topic CFP MLA 2020 LLC Sephardic Cultural Expressions Panel in the discussion
LLC Sephardic on MLA Commons 6 years, 9 months agoHere are the abstracts for the 2020 LLC Sephardic Studies Panel:
Elisabeth Bolorinos Allard
Spanish Jew or Hispanist? Abraham Z. López-Penha and the Negotiation of Columbian, Pan-Hispanic, and Sephardic Identity
Abstract: This paper explores the negotiation of Sephardic, Columbian, and Hispanic identity in the poetry and correspondence of…[Read more]
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Bethany Beyer started the topic CFP MLA 2020 LLC Sephardic Cultural Expressions Panel in the discussion
LLC Sephardic on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months agoSephardic Cultural Expressions in the Portuguese- and Spanish-speaking Americas
This panel seeks to explore expressions of Sephardic culture in the Americas in Portuguese- and Spanish-speaking nations. Papers could examine cultural products from fields including literature, performance, music, visual art, or language. Submission deadline: Friday,…[Read more]
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Danny Barreto started the topic New Special Issue – Abriu: Estudos de Textualidade do Brasil, Galicia e Portugal in the discussion
LLC Galician on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months agoDear colleagues,
The latest special issue of Abriu, “Glocal Galicia: Redefining Galician Culture in the Global Age,” edited by José Colmeiro, is now available online.
The issue’s contents are listed here, but full-text versions of the articles can be found at the journal’s website: http://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/Abriu/issue/view/2109
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Samuel Amago deposited Local Landscapes, Global Cinemascapes, and the New Galician Documentary in the group
LLC Galician on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months agoThis essay analyzes recent experimental documentaries by Lois Patiño and Xurxo González (aka Xurxo Chirro) within the context of the Novo Cinema Galego, its digital modes of production, its geographical aesthetics, and the ways in which it visualizes ever-evolving notions of Galician identity and point of view. While these directors’ films pro…[Read more]
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Anne E. B. Coldiron started the topic CFP: Women and Language journal in the discussion
TC Translation Studies on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months agoThis CFP came to several of us on email, with a request to post to our group. So here it is:
Women & Language Editor <editorwomenandlanguage@gmail.com> Yesterday, 10:12 AM dbalder@pitt.edu; aebc@st-andrews.ac.uk; kljohnson@wm.edu;
Hi all,
Can you please share the Women & Language CFP with the MLA Translation Studies forum? I’ve pasted it b…[Read more] -
Anne E. B. Coldiron started the topic CFPs: Translation Studies Forum Sessions, MLA 2020 Seattle in the discussion
TC Translation Studies on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months agoDear Translation Studies scholars,
The CFPs for our Translation Studies Forum have been posted, and I repeat them here for your convenience and invite you to send proposals or abstracts:
(1) Translatability and World Literature: How best to acknowledge translation as a mediating factor in world literature? Incommensurability vs.…[Read more]
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Nohemy Solorzano-Thompson started the topic PANEL: 040 Echoes of Sepharad, Thurs, January 3 at 1:45 pm, Sheraton Grand Huron in the discussion
LLC Sephardic on MLA Commons 7 years ago040 Echoes of Sepharad Across the Humanities:
Strategies for Teaching Sephardic Content
1:45 pm – 3:00 pm
Thursday, January 3, 2019
Sheraton Grand – Huron
Session Information:
Scholars from different disciplines with an interest in Sephardic literature and culture present strategies for including Sephardic content in undergraduate and…[Read more]
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Corine Tachtiris deposited Syllabus for grad seminar on Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Translation in the group
TC Translation Studies on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoThis course was first taught at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in fall 2018.
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Danny Barreto started the topic CFP from 'Women & Language' in the discussion
LLC Galician on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months agoPosting this at the journal’s request. There may be members interested in submitting work related to Galician:
Call for Papers | Women & LanguageEditor: Leland G. Spencer, PhD | Miami University
Women & Language, an international, interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal publishes original scholarly articles and creative work covering all…[Read more]
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Catherine Barbour started the topic LLC Galician Forum Elections in the discussion
LLC Galician on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months agoDear colleagues and friends,
Just to let you know that I am standing for election for the executive committee of the LLC Galician Forum of the MLA, and would be very grateful for your support. I am keen to bring international representation to the forum, and hope to collaborate with US-based colleagues whilst helping to coordinate Galician…[Read more]
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Mariela Mendez deposited “De crepusculares y garotas modernas: Las columnas travestidas de Alfonsina Storni y Clarice Lispector” in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoHinging on the concept of transvestism, this article traces a trajectory that goes from Alfonsina Storni’s re-appropriation of the women’s page in the guise of a male persona, through Alejo Carpentier’s contributions to a fashion column disguised as Jacqueline, to Clarice Lispector’s unsettling use of the page addressed specifically to women i…[Read more]
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Oana Popescu-Sandu deposited “Translingualism as Dialogism in Romanian-American Poetry” in the group
TC Translation Studies on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoThis essay examines how translingual poetry by immigrant Romanian writers who live in or travel to the United States requires a transnational community framing rather than a national one and raises new questions about cultural and linguistic identity formation that reflect on both national and world literature issues. This analysis of the…[Read more]
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Jesús R. Velasco deposited Boundless Troubadours in the group
LLC Catalan Studies on MLA Commons 7 years, 4 months agoThis paper deals with the complicated sociopolitical space defined by the use and transformation of what we call Occitan language. Literary and cultural production in Occitan language during the late 12th and early 13th centuries light up the boundary conditions, the boundary values of what we call courtly culture making them visible in all their…[Read more]
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