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Eric Aronoff started the topic CFP MLA 2015: Disc. Group for Science Fiction, Utopian and Fantastic Literature in the forum
Literature and Science on MLA Commons 11 years, 11 months agoThis CFP might be of interest for members of this division:
<b>Science Fiction, Fantasy and the Concept of Culture</b>
How has sci-fi/fantasy explored (humanist and anthropological) concepts of “culture” and form? How does sci-fi/fantasy “world-making” engage/challenge anthropological ideas of culture/representation? Abstracts, brief cv by 15…[Read more] -
Joseph Paul Fisher started the topic CFP: Music behind Bars: Articulating Incarceration and Popular Music in the forum
Popular Culture on MLA Commons 11 years, 11 months agoPopular music’s relationship with incarceration has been a long and complicated one. The musician Lead Belly spent long stretches in prison for murder and other crimes but was eventually turned into a musical legend by folklorists John and Alan Lomax. In 1957, Elvis Presley had a number one hit with the Jerry Leiber/Mike Stoller composition “…[Read more]
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Eric Aronoff posted an update in the group
GS Speculative Fiction on MLA Commons 11 years, 11 months agoCFP: MLA 2015: Collaborative Session, Discussion Group for Science Fiction and Utopian and Fantastic Literature and Division for Slavic and East European Literatures
From Siberia to the Planet Mars
Papers should analyze science fiction narratives produced in Russia, Eurasia, Eastern Europe, in any medium: literature, television, film, etc.…[Read more] -
Eric Aronoff posted an update in the group
GS Speculative Fiction on MLA Commons 11 years, 11 months agoCFP: MLA 2015, Discussion Group in Science Fiction and Utopian and Fantastic Literature
Science Fiction, Fantasy and the Concept of Culture
How has sci-fi/fantasy explored (humanist and anthropological) concepts of “culture” and form? How does sci-fi/fantasy “world-making” engage/challenge anthropological ideas of culture/representation?…[Read more] -
Roberto Rey Agudo started the topic CFP Spaces of Dialogue: International Conference on Transatlantic Studies in the forum
Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 11 years, 12 months agoDear Colleagues,
The Real Colegio Complutense at Harvard is putting together an international conference on April 24-25th. Submissions from all relevant areas in literary and cultural studies are welcome. I am copying below the full text of the Call for Papers and relevant information for those interested in participating or attending.
Spaces of…[Read more]
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Marina Fedosik started the topic CFP MLA 2015: Transnational Adoption in Film in the forum
Popular Culture on MLA Commons 12 years agoAlliance for the Study of Adoption and Culture seeks paper proposals for its guaranteed session at the MLA Annual Convention in Vancouver, Canada. January 8-11, 2015
The panel will explore adoption in film with special focus on the ways national/transnational policies, politics, and ideologies shape the institution of adoption and lives of the…[Read more]
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Gabrielle Malcolm started the topic Jane Austen: Fan Phenomena – call for chapter submissions in the forum
Popular Culture on MLA Commons 12 years agoCall for Submissions
FAN PHENOMENA: JANE AUSTEN
Intellect Books
Editor: Gabrielle Malcolm
A Call for Essay/Chapter Submissions for a collection on the Fan Culture of Jane Austen.
This book will be an edited collection of essays and texts on the Fan Phenomena of Jane Austen. It will be a new addition to the successful Fan Phenomena…[Read more]
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Thomas Oliver Beebee started the topic CFP MLA 2015: How Should Comparatists ’Read’ Literature in the forum
Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 12 years agoCFP for the Comparative Literature Division (MLA 2015). Please consider submitting:
A session on ”How Should Comparatists ’Read’ Literature?” Given the renewed interest in methodologies/modes of reading: close, distant, surface, deep but not close, paranoid and reparative; reading as translation, reading translations; the turn to reading the “wo…[Read more] -
Daniel Hack posted an update in the group
LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English on MLA Commons 12 years agoFrom Sharon Aronofsky Weltman:
Applications are now open for “Performing Dickens: Oliver Twist and Great Expectations on Page Stage, and Screen,” a four-week National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar for College and University Teachers, sponsored by the Dickens Project at the University of California Santa Cruz. From Monday, July 7,…[Read more] -
Daniel Hack posted an update in the group
LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English on MLA Commons 12 years agoHere are the Victorian Division’s calls for papers for MLA 2015:
Victorian Animals
Human and nonhuman animals; reflections on the in-, non-, post-human. Papers welcome on the state of the field and on new methods and modes of inquiry. One-page abstracts and CVs by 1 March 2014; William A. Cohen (wcohen@umd.edu).
Victorian…[Read more]
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Gloria Lee McMillan replied to the topic New SF Display at U of Atizona Special Collecions Now through August in the forum
Science Fiction and Utopian and Fantastic Literature on MLA Commons 12 years agoAnd here is that good article in the University of Arizona newspaper with the abysmal photo…
http://www.wildcat.arizona.edu/article/2014/01/exhibit-links-sci-fi-and-the-arts
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Gloria Lee McMillan replied to the topic New SF Display at U of Atizona Special Collecions Now through August in the forum
Science Fiction and Utopian and Fantastic Literature on MLA Commons 12 years agoSorry about the typo. OBVIOUSLY it is ARIZONA, not Atizona…
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Gloria Lee McMillan replied to the topic New SF Display at U of Atizona Special Collecions Now through August in the forum
Science Fiction and Utopian and Fantastic Literature on MLA Commons 12 years agoHere is more for college instructors planning curriculum…
The library display is called “Mars Madness: Sci-Fi, Popular Culture and Ray Bradbury’s Literary Journey
to Outer Space”and it opens on January 21st-though August. I am guest curating this exhibit for them.We are opening an interdisciplinary display about science fiction writer Ray B…[Read more]
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Sharon Aronofsky Weltman started the topic Performing Dickens — NEH Summer Seminar in the forum
Popular Culture on MLA Commons 12 years agoApplications are now open for “Performing Dickens: Oliver Twist and Great Expectations on Page Stage, and Screen” a four-week National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar for College and University Teachers, sponsored by the Dickens Project at the University of California Santa Cruz. From Monday, July 7, 2014 to Friday, August 1, 2014[Read more]
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Gerry Canavan started the topic CFP: SFRA at WisCon in the forum
Science Fiction and Utopian and Fantastic Literature on MLA Commons 12 years agoHere’s the CFP for this year’s meeting of the Science Fiction Research Association, which will convene at the WisCon feminist fan convention in Madison, WI. The deadline is February 1.
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María Gil Poisa started the topic Call for Papers: Social Movements in the forum
Popular Culture on MLA Commons 12 years, 1 month agoTEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY’S FOURTH HISPANIC STUDIES ANNUAL GRADUATE CONFERENCE
Translating Social Movements
Friday March 21 – Saturday March 22 2014
The relationship between intellectual discourse and grassroots social movements has long been a contentious and conflictive one, but it is also one that has been shaped by mutual interaction. Just as…[Read more]
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María Gil Poisa started the topic Call for Papers: Social Movements in the forum
Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 12 years, 1 month agoTEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY’S FOURTH HISPANIC STUDIES ANNUAL GRADUATE CONFERENCE
Translating Social Movements
Friday March 21 – Saturday March 22 2014
The relationship between intellectual discourse and grassroots social movements has long been a contentious and conflictive one, but it is also one that has been shaped by mutual interaction. Just as…[Read more]
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A. Yemisi Jimoh started the topic Journal Editing Opportunity in the forum
Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 12 years, 3 months agoThe Society for the Study of the Multiethnic Literature of the United States (MELUS) invites proposals for an Editor-in-Chief to lead its award-winning, peer reviewed journal. The Editor-in-Chief will have oversight for all aspects of the publication, management, and promotion, and editing of the journal. The successful candidate should be a…[Read more]