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Elisa Martí-López replied to the topic NACS Conference Barcelona 2015 in the discussion
Catalan Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 5 months agoHola a tots,
Us faig cinc cèntims del Col·loqui de la NACS que es va celebrar a Barcelona a començament d’estiu. M’alegra poder dir que va anar molt bé perquè es va constatar la fortalesa i varietat de la catalanística. A continuació us en faig un resum. Per aquells que no vau poder assistir-hi, al resum trobareu els enllaços que reprodu…[Read more]
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Isabel Alvarez Sancho started the topic ACLA seminars on Exile Studies: in the discussion
Exile Studies on MLA Commons 10 years, 5 months ago<h2 class=”seminarTitle”>Writing Diaspora: Myth, History and Reinvention of the Self
<h2 class=”seminarTitle”>Challenges to Universality: Re-imagining Europe through Narratives and Poetics of Diaspora, Migration, and Exile
<h2 class=”seminarTitle”>Paradoxes of Displacement and Diaspora: Beyond Textualist Criticism of Modernity
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Yomaira Figueroa started the topic CFP: (ACLA 2016) Love as Theory, Desire, and Performance in the discussion
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 10 years, 5 months agoWe welcome submissions for the 2016 ACLA proposed seminar:
What’s Love Got To Do With It? Love as Theory, Desire, and Performance
http://www.acla.org/seminar/what%E2%80%99s-love-got-do-it-theory-desire-and-performance
Organizer: Yomaira Figueroa, Michigan State University
Co-Organizer: Carolyn Ureña, Rutgers University
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Gretchen Head started the topic CFP (ACLA): The City in the Life Narratives of the Global South in the discussion
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 10 years, 5 months agoWe welcome submissions to our upcoming ACLA seminar:
The City in the Life Narratives of the Global South
Organizer: Gretchen Head, Yale-NUS College
Co-Organizer: Rania Said, Binghamton University
Contact the Seminar Organizers:
In Speech Genres and Other Late Essays, Mikhail…[Read more]
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Nhora Lucia Serrano started the topic CFP: ACLA 2016 Visual (Inter)Changes in the Mediterranean Basin in the discussion
Iberian Studies on MLA Commons 10 years, 5 months agoVisual (Inter)Changes in the Mediterranean Basin: Medieval & Renaissance Western and Eastern Illuminated Manuscripts
Please consider submitting an abstract to the “ Visual (Inter)Changes in the Mediterranean Basin: Medieval & Renaissance Western and Eastern Illuminated Manuscripts ” seminar of the 2016 American Comparative Literature…[Read more]
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Luis Alvarez-Castro started the topic MLA Volume on Unamuno in the discussion
Twentieth-Century Spanish Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 5 months ago<div class=”activity-inner”>
Dear colleagues,
The volume Approaches to Teaching the Works of Miguel de Unamuno is now in development in the MLA Approaches to Teaching World Literature series. Instructors who have taught Unamuno’s works (from any academic or theoretical perspective) are encouraged to contribute to the volume by completing a s…[Read more]
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Isabel Alvarez Sancho uploaded the file: Convocatoria Cuadernos de ALDEEU to
Exile Studies on MLA Commons 10 years, 5 months agoEl exilio republicano y el hispanismo en Estados Unidos
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Nicky Agate deposited Humanities Commons Open Repository Exchange in the group
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 10 years, 5 months agoThe Modern Language Association (MLA) and the Columbia University Libraries / Information Services’ Center for Digital Research and Scholarship (CDRS) have been working together on a prototyped user interface that connects a library-quality repository system (Humanities Commons Open Repository Exchange, or CORE, modeled on Columbia’s Academic Com…[Read more]
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Hannah Swamidoss deposited The Interstitial Body and Moral Formation:Third-Culture Displacement and Subject Formation in Charles Kingsley’s The Water-Babies in the group
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 10 years, 5 months ago.Using the concept of “third culture” from social theory, this article examines Charles Kingsley’s use of displacement in his children’s book The Water Babies (1863). In trying to portray the site of moral formation, Kingsley displaces his central character Tom – the new, interstitial “third culture” subject. Through Tom’s displacement, Kingsle…[Read more]
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Patti Marxsen replied to the topic Member News in the discussion
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 10 years, 5 months agoWould like to send an email re: two new books… but don’t see how to send an email only to you, Nicky. And the message is too long for Twitter.
Please advise. Thanks.
Patti M. Marxsen email: thewritewoman@gmail.com
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Nicky Agate started the topic Member News in the discussion
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months agoMembers of the Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society Forum:
Hello!
In September, the Commons Wire, your monthly guide to how your fellow members are using the platform, will return from its summer hiatus with a new section, Member Report. If you have recently published a book or an article, won a fellowship or award, accepted a ne…[Read more]
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Mario Santana started the topic CFP Translation and Iberian Literatures in the discussion
Iberian Studies on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months agoPasavento: Revista de Estudios Hispánicos has posted a call for papers for a special issue on “Traducción y literaturas ibéricas” (http://www.pasavento.com/convocatoria.html).
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Durante las últimas tres décadas, el fenómeno de la traducción ha ido cobrando mayor visibilidad y relevancia dentro de los estudios literarios. No es ajeno…[Read more]
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Hannah Swamidoss deposited “When I Cannot Still the Longing of My Heart”; Third-Culture Displacement and the Image of the Child in Allen Say’s Tree of Cranes and Grandfather’s Journey in the group
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months agoThis article examines Allen Say’s use of cultural displacement in his books Tree of Cranes and Grandfather’s Journey. Allen Say is an award-winning, Japanese-American, picture book author and illustrator.
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Alan Lopez deposited "Adam Smith and the Rights of the Dead in the group
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months agoAdam Smith closes the first chapter to Theory of Moral Sentiments, ‘Of Sympathy’, with a harmless enough assertion: ‘We sympathize even with the dead’. Death is not a topic that much interests Smith in Theory of Moral Sentiments. With the exception of a few miscellaneous thoughts in the text, the one paragraph Smith devotes to it is the extent of…[Read more]
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Jodi Melamed started the topic Finance Capital and the University in the discussion
Sociological Approaches to Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months agoPlease consider attending the following panel sponsored by our division:
Sunday, 10 January
803. Finance Capital and the University
12:00 noon–1:15 p.m.
Program arranged by the Forum TC Marxism, Literature, and Society
Presiding: Christopher John Newfield, Univ. of California, Santa Barbara
1. “Securitization and University of Finance,” Am…[Read more]
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Eric Cheyfitz deposited Disinformation: The Limits of Capitalism's Imagination and the End of Ideology in the group
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 10 years, 7 months ago“Disinformation: The Limits of Capitalism’s Imagination and the End of Ideology” analyzes the post-9/11 U.S., a state of massive income inequality, waging endless war at home (the militarization of the police) and abroad, within the context of two terms: “Disinformation” and “ideology.” The theoretical matrix of the essay distinguishes…[Read more]
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Laura Kiernan replied to the topic Book — Call for essays in the discussion
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 10 years, 7 months agoDear Members of the Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society Group,
I write on behalf of Miriam S. Gogol on an extended deadline for the following:
Call for Critical Essay Submissions: Working Women
For a book to be published by a major publisher, I am inviting eight to ten essays by literary, historical, and multicultural critics…[Read more]
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Alberto Ribas-Casasayas replied to the topic Literature about business in the discussion
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 10 years, 7 months agoIn Spanish:
Isaac Rosa, La mano invisible
Rafael Chirbes, Crematorio, En la orilla
Antonio Ortuño, Recursos humanos
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Christopher Michaelson started the topic Literature about business in the discussion
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 10 years, 7 months agoI would value recommendations of novels and stories that explore, directly or allegorically, business, economic, and work-related behaviors – especially in the context of contemporary, developing markets. This is for a project to bring world literature into the business classroom, scholarly management research, and even the dialogue of busin…[Read more]
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Matthew H. Brown replied to the topic CFP: Forms of Informality: Textual Analysis and Popular Culture in the Global So in the discussion
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 10 years, 8 months agoPosting Error of some kind. Full title: “CFP: Forms of Informality: Textual Analysis and Popular Culture in the Global South, March 11-12, 2016”
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