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Cristian Roa started the topic CFP 2018 MLA Convention. Sor Juana: Securing Women’s Writing in the discussion
Colonial Latin American Literatures on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoCFP
2018 MLA Convention
Collaborative Session: GEMELA and Colonial Latin American Forum
As is known, misogynist scholarly and ecclesiastical practices challenged women’s cultural
production in seventeenth-century New Spain. Nevertheless, inconsistencies and insecurities
weakened gendered discourses, and women found ways to make their voices h…[Read more]
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Jorge Tellez started the topic MLA 2018 Call For Papers: New Itineraries of the Colonial Picaresque in the discussion
Colonial Latin American Literatures on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoThis special session seeks contributions that rethink the picaresque tradition from a colonial and post-colonial perspective. Following the 2018 presidential theme, #States of Insecurity, papers may explore the journey of the precarious and vulnerable figure of the pícaro from Spain to Spanish America, and study how the picaresque is received, a…[Read more]
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James Gifford deposited NOTES Essay on Authority in the group
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoLecture/class notes on Herbert Marcuse’s Essay on Authority. I’m sharing my teaching notes (rough) for works that may be helpful to others and are widely taught.
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James Gifford deposited NOTES Civilization and its Discontents in the group
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoLecture/class notes on Sigmund Freud’s Civilization and its Discontents. I’m sharing my teaching notes (rough) for works that may be helpful to others and are widely taught.
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Julie Ward started the topic CFP: SCMLA 2017 “Moving Words: Migrations, Translations, and Transformations" in the discussion
Drama on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoMODERN DRAMA This session welcomes abstracts on any topic related to modern drama, but is especially interested in those related to the conference theme: “Moving Words: Migrations, Translations, and Transformations”
The South Central Modern Languages Association has chosen Tulsa, Oklahoma for the site of its 2017 annual convention. Tulsa is bot…[Read more]
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Julie Ward started the topic CFP: SCMLA 2017 “Moving Words: Migrations, Translations, and Transformations" in the discussion
Drama on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoMODERN DRAMA This session welcomes abstracts on any topic related to modern drama, but is especially interested in those related to the conference theme: “Moving Words: Migrations, Translations, and Transformations”
The South Central Modern Languages Association has chosen Tulsa, Oklahoma for the site of its 2017 annual convention. Tulsa is bot…[Read more]
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Christian Supiot started the topic CFP: historical and ethnohistorical data in past maritime comm. EXTENDED in the discussion
Anthropological Approaches to Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 12 months agoThe eye of the beholder: historical and ethnohistorical data in the study of past maritime communities
Deadline: 8th/Febr/2017
ConvenorsVeronica Walker-Vadillo (University of Oxford)
Christian Supiot (Ohio State University)Short Abstract
In this panel we hope to further explore the role of historical and ethno-historical data in MCL…[Read more] -
Mario Ortiz-Robles deposited Artaud y México in the group
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 9 years agoThis essay proposes the concept of literary immanence as a new critical model for reading world literature from the perspective of the specific situation experienced by the subject as he or she encounters the world. The literary event is instantiated within three discursive domains: literary immanence, the literary situation into which the subject…[Read more]
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Matthew Davis deposited “As Above, So Below: Staging the Digby Mary Magdalene in the group
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 9 years agoWith thirty-seven named locations, the Digby Mary Magdalene is rightfully considered to require the most elaborate staging of the Middle English dramatic corpus. In this article, I re-examine the manuscript to find evidence of how the various locations in the play can be grouped into what I term staging complexes. Beginning with the division of…[Read more]
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Matthew Davis deposited “As Above, So Below: Staging the Digby Mary Magdalene in the group
GS Drama and Performance on MLA Commons 9 years agoWith thirty-seven named locations, the Digby Mary Magdalene is rightfully considered to require the most elaborate staging of the Middle English dramatic corpus. In this article, I re-examine the manuscript to find evidence of how the various locations in the play can be grouped into what I term staging complexes. Beginning with the division of…[Read more]
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Matthew Davis deposited Lydgate at Long Melford: Reassessing the Testament and “Quis Dabit Meo Capiti Fontem Lacrimarum” in Their Local Context in the group
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 9 years agoThe extracodical stanzas of John Lydgate’s Testament and “Quis Dabit Meo Capiti Fontem Lacrimarum” in the Clopton chantry chapel of the Great Church of Holy Trinity, Long Melford, not only are two intriguing witnesses differing in presentation and language from the manuscript copies but also can be considered as part of a rhetorical program where…[Read more]
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Christian Supiot started the topic CFP: historical and ethnohistorical data in past maritime comm. CHAM Lisbon 2017 in the discussion
Anthropological Approaches to Literature on MLA Commons 9 years agoThe eye of the beholder: historical and ethnohistorical data in the study of past maritime communities
Deadline: 01/02/2017
ConvenorsVeronica Walker-Vadillo (University of Oxford)
Christian Supiot (Ohio State University)Short Abstract
In this panel we hope to further explore the role of historical and ethno-historical data in MCL…[Read more] -
Christian Supiot started the topic CFP: historical and ethnohistorical data in past maritime comm. CHAM Lisbon 2017 in the discussion
Anthropological Approaches to Literature on MLA Commons 9 years ago<div class=”panel-title”>The eye of the beholder: historical and ethnohistorical data in the study of past maritime communities</div>
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<h4>Convenors</h4>Veronica Walker-Vadillo (University of Oxford)
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Sharon Lois Mazer replied to the topic CFP 2018 special session: National Theaters Around the Globe in the discussion
Drama on MLA Commons 9 years agoKia ora, Michael. Just a quick question: Will you be posting a longer CFP, or can I push on with this in mind?
Best
Sharon
Dr Sharon Mazer
Associate Professor, Theatre & Performance Studies
Auckland University of Technology
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Michael Schinasi started the topic CFP 2018 special session: National Theaters Around the Globe in the discussion
Drama on MLA Commons 9 years agoNational Theaters Around the Globe
Special Session
Any aspect of worldwide National Theaters (the institution usually manifest in buildings; not dramatic literatures). All periods: history, ideology, relation to culture industry, etc. 250 word abstract by 15 March 2017; Michael Schinasi (schinasim@ecu.edu). -
David Rodriguez-Solas started the topic CFP: Marginality in Iberian Theater, MLA 2018 in the discussion
Drama on MLA Commons 9 years ago
Call For Papers: Marginality in Iberian Theater (MLA Convention, New York City, 4-7 January, 2018)
Proposals should address the topic of marginality in Iberian drama and performance from the 16th to the 21st centuries. 250 word abstract by 1 March 2017; David Rodríguez-Solás (dsolas@umass.edu); Esther Fernández (ef14@rice.edu) -
Ryan Calabretta-Sajder started the topic AATI@Palermo 2017: Call for Papers in the discussion
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 9 years agoCALL For Papers
AATI International Conference Abroad
Università degli Studi di Palermo
28 giugno – 2 luglio 2017
L’AATI (American Association of Teachers of Italian) comunica che il prossimo convegno internazionale si terrà nella città di Palermo, 28 giugno-2 luglio 2017, presso l’Università degli Studi di Palermo, co…[Read more]
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Hatem Akil started the topic Invitation to the sessions of the Forum on Global Arab/ Arab American Literature in the discussion
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month agoHello everyone,
We hope you will join us for the following panels organized for the 2017 MLA by the Global Arab and Arab American Literature Forum. They are as follows (sorry for cross-posting)
Session 200: States of In/Security: Global Palestine in Literature, Culture, Art, and Activism
Friday, 6 January, 8:30–9:45 a.m., 104B, Pe…[Read more] -
André Carrington deposited Blackness & Utopia in the group
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month agoPilot for a modular course in-person, hybrid, or online format. Texts and other materials available in digital and streaming formats.
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Cristina León Alfar started the topic MLA Committee on Academic Freedom and Professional Rights and Responsibilities in the discussion
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month agoThe MLA Committee on Academic Freedom and Professional Rights and Responsibilities will offer two panels and a special session at the MLA Convention in Philadelphia. Please join us as we consider challenges to shared governance, bullying, and climates of fear.
Combat Management: The End of Shared Governance?
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