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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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Benjamin Fraser posted an update on MLA Commons 11 years, 8 months ago
Two 2014 books: Antonio López García’s Everyday Urban Worlds: A Philosophy of Painting [August 2014] Bucknell University Press / Marxism and Urban Culture [edited volume 2014] Lexington Books [Rowman & Littlefield].
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Benjamin Fraser started the topic CFP-Disability in World Film Contexts [edited book] in the forum
Disability Studies on MLA Commons 11 years, 8 months agoDisability in World Film Contexts [cfp-edited volume]
The edited volume titled ‘Disability in World Film Contexts’ has received initial interest from Yoram Allon of renowned film publisher Wallflower Press (now part of Columbia UP). Contributions are invited in the form of chapters that focus on an individual film or films from a specific nat…[Read more]
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Benjamin Fraser replied to the topic Petition in the forum
Prospective Forum: TC Geography and Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 8 months agoBenjamin Fraser
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Kirsty Hooper replied to the topic Petition in the forum
Prospective Forum: CLCS Atlantic on MLA Commons 11 years, 8 months agoKirsty Hooper
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Kirsty Hooper changed their profile picture on MLA Commons 11 years, 8 months ago
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Alex Saum-Pascual posted an update in the group
21st Century Hybrid Spanish Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 9 months agoThe 2014 PAMLA Conference in Riverside, California (Oct. 31-Nov. 2, 2014) will encounter the theme “Familiar Spirits.” We invite participants to consider papers on magic, conjuring, spirits, hauntings, Spiritualism, and manifestations as well as presentations that treat the familiar, familial, and the commonplace in relation to the paranormal,…[Read more]
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Call for Papers
WORLDS and WORDS
29th Annual Interdisciplinary Conference in the Humanities
Sponsored by the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures
University of West Georgia, College of Arts and Humanities
Carrollton, Georgia
October 30-November 1, 2014Deadline Extended until July 22nd
We welcome submissions from across…[Read more]
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Kirsty Hooper posted an update on MLA Commons 12 years ago
New blog – interesting bits and bobs from my research into the connections between Britain & Spain during the long nineteenth century. http://hispanicbritain.wordpress.com/
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Kirsty Hooper changed their profile picture on MLA Commons 12 years ago
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Marcos Wasem uploaded the file: Technological Expropriation in Latin American Poetry: A Historical Perspective to
2014 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 12 years agoIn this paper, I will analyze the relationship between poetic language and the different technologies of communication developed since the beginning of the 20th century, in the Latin American context. I will depart from the very first technological innovations of phonographic recordings and photography, all the way to the current forms of…[Read more]
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Susan Larson posted an update in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 12 years, 4 months agoCALL FOR PAPERS
KIOSK LITERATURE IN SILVER AGE SPAIN: MODERNITY AND MASS CULTURE
Editors: Jeffrey Zamostny (University of West Georgia) and
Susan Larson (University of Kentucky)Starting in 1907 with the appearance of the novelette collection El Cuento Semanal, an astonishing array of literary texts flooded kiosks throughout Spain. Kiosk…[Read more]
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Benjamin Fraser posted an update on MLA Commons 12 years, 4 months ago
Two University Press books out in 2013:
Disability Studies and Spanish Culture: Films, Novels, the Comic and the Public Exhibition (Liverpool UP)
http://www.amazon.com/Disability-Studies-Spanish-Culture-Representations/dp/184631870X/Understanding Juan Benet: New Perspectives (U South Carolina…[Read more]
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Benjamin Fraser posted an update on MLA Commons 12 years, 5 months ago
Podcast series on the culture of cities launched with 5 conversational scholarly interviews at urbanculturalstudies.wordpress.com .
Cities discussed run from Madrid to Tokyo to LA/Hollywood to Valencia/Barcelona/Bilbao, and more.Click there on the Urbanculturalstudies Podcasts page or look for us on iTunes and Internet Archive. More to follow!
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Susan Larson started the topic ANNOUNCING Hispanic Urban Studies Roundtable — 2014 MLA in the forum
Urban Cultural Studies on MLA Commons 12 years, 6 months ago!–[if gte mso 9]>–
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Benjamin Fraser posted an update on MLA Commons 12 years, 7 months ago
I’ve just started a series of podcasts at:
UrbanCulturalStudies Podcasts
The first one is a conversational interview inspired by scholar Stephen Vilaseca’s recent article “From Graffiti to Street Art: How Urban Artists Are Democratizing Spanish City Centers and Streets,” originally published in the journal Trans…[Read more] - Load More
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