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Valeria Graziano deposited Das Kollektive komponieren: Vom Praktizieren der Kongruenz in der Wissensproduktion in the group
Feminist Humanities on Humanities Commons 2 years, 4 months agoKongruenz, Sorge und Technologie. Tricks des Verschwindens: Dienstleistung als eine Kulturtechnik des Delegierens. #Syllabi und Schattenbibliotheken: Mittel der kollektiven Gestaltung. Eine durch das Wissen um ihre Werkzeuge und Quellen definierte Gemeinschaft werden.
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Ellie Bennett started the topic CfP: Gender and Methodology in the Ancient Near East (GeMANE 6, Malta) in the discussion
Feminist Humanities on Humanities Commons 2 years, 4 months agoThe Sixth Workshop on Gender, Methodology and the Ancient Near East (GeMANE 6) will take place as a hybrid event on the 8–11 April, 2024, hosted by University of Malta’s Department of Middle Eastern and Asian Languages and Cultures and the International School for Foundation Studies. Previous GeMANE workshops were held in Helsinki (2014), Barcel…[Read more]
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SBussey started the topic Invitation for Self Nomination in the discussion
TC Age Studies on MLA Commons 2 years, 4 months agoGreetings to all of you, and especially to those of you new to this Forum, or at least new to me!
The Age Studies Exec committe will be looking to elect 2 positions in January.
- Someone to represent us at the delegates meeting held at MLA each January. This is a position described by Leigh, below.
- Someone to step in as a new member of the…
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SBussey replied to the topic Membership Suggestions for 2023 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
TC Age Studies on MLA Commons 2 years, 4 months agoYes! I want to encourage all of you to think about stepping into a more active role in this Forum. If you have never served as a Delegate, but often look for an opportunity to attend MLA, this is a great opportunity. My underfunded Dean saw this as scholarly work, paid my registration, and provided travel funds during the time that I served as a…[Read more]
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Janine M. Utell started the topic MLA Sit and Writes Announced for Fall 2023! in the discussion
GS Comics and Graphic Narratives on MLA Commons 2 years, 4 months agoPlease join us for our first MLA Sit and Write of Fall 2023! Katherine Fusco will offer a Snack on “How to Write a Book Proposal in Five Easy Steps,” Thursday, 21 September.
Learn more about this fall’s Sit and Write sessions, and last year’s recordings, here: https://www.mla.org/Resources/Career/MLA-Sit-and-Write-Sessions
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Golam Rabbani deposited When the Subaltern Screams: Pedophilia and Patriarchy in Humayun Ahmed’s Pleasure Boy Kômola. in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 2 years, 4 months agoThis paper aims to analyze the depiction of pedophilia in Humayun Ahmed’s film ‘Pleasure Boy Kômola.’ It concentrates on the social and psychological reasons for this rarely existing sexual practice or perversion and the oppressive consequences it causes on the subalterns in Bangladesh during the colonial period.
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Golam Rabbani deposited When the Subaltern Screams: Pedophilia and Patriarchy in Humayun Ahmed’s Pleasure Boy Kômola. in the group
TC Popular Culture on MLA Commons 2 years, 4 months agoThis paper aims to analyze the depiction of pedophilia in Humayun Ahmed’s film ‘Pleasure Boy Kômola.’ It concentrates on the social and psychological reasons for this rarely existing sexual practice or perversion and the oppressive consequences it causes on the subalterns in Bangladesh during the colonial period.
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Golam Rabbani deposited Heterogeneity and Baul Spirituality: The Songs of Baul Taskir Ali in Bangladesh in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 2 years, 4 months agoThis article briefly explores the contemporary heterogeneous song-texts of Taskir Ali (popularly known as Baul Taskir) from Sunamgonj, in the district of Sylhet, Bangladesh. Bauls are nomadic communities in Bangladesh and West Bengal, India, and they express their profound spiritual philosophy and thoughts through their songs and performance.…[Read more]
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Golam Rabbani deposited Review of Music Downtown Eastside: Human Rights and Capability Development through Music in Urban Poverty by Klisala Harrison in the group
TC Popular Culture on MLA Commons 2 years, 4 months agoThis book points out new ways to identify and resolve human rights and improve the competencies of urban poor communities in Vancouver, Canada.
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Shannan Palma deposited God the Father: Religious and militaristic rhetoric in the construction of patriarchal traditionalist masculinities in the group
Feminist Humanities on Humanities Commons 2 years, 4 months agoThe role of the internet in fomenting male supremacist ideology must be understood within the larger cultural context that undergirds and naturalizes such rhetoric. Traditional conservative (TradCon) sections of the manosphere valorize a patriarchal social order centering traditional gender roles. According to TradCon reasoning, men, under attack…[Read more]
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Lisa Zunshine deposited How Memories Become Literature in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 2 years, 4 months agoCognitive science can help literary scholars formulate specific questions to be answered by archival research. This essay takes as its starting point embedded mental states (that is, mental states about mental states) and their role in generating literary subjectivity. It then follows the transformation of embedded mental states throughout several…[Read more]
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Lisa Zunshine deposited Manipulating Metacognition in Witness for the Prosecution in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 2 years, 4 months agoThis essay exemplifies a cognitive approach to literary and film studies, with particular emphasis on fictional reimagining of legal institutions. It draws on research of cognitive scientists who study metacognition—specifically, the difference between reflective and intuitive beliefs—to suggest that courtroom dramas, such as Billy Wilder’s Witne…[Read more]
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Lisa Zunshine deposited Manipulating Metacognition in Witness for the Prosecution in the group
TC Popular Culture on MLA Commons 2 years, 4 months agoThis essay exemplifies a cognitive approach to literary and film studies, with particular emphasis on fictional reimagining of legal institutions. It draws on research of cognitive scientists who study metacognition—specifically, the difference between reflective and intuitive beliefs—to suggest that courtroom dramas, such as Billy Wilder’s Witne…[Read more]
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Lisa Zunshine deposited Manipulating Metacognition in Witness for the Prosecution in the group
MS Screen Arts and Culture on MLA Commons 2 years, 4 months agoThis essay exemplifies a cognitive approach to literary and film studies, with particular emphasis on fictional reimagining of legal institutions. It draws on research of cognitive scientists who study metacognition—specifically, the difference between reflective and intuitive beliefs—to suggest that courtroom dramas, such as Billy Wilder’s Witne…[Read more]
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Hania A.M. Nashef deposited Against Stereotypical Representations: On young Saudi directors in the group
MS Visual Culture on MLA Commons 2 years, 4 months agoIn his writing, Cultural theorist Stuart Hall has often argued that an image or a set of images has the capability of condensing a number of attributes into a single picture, producing a misleading representation of what other people and cultures are like. As a result, multiple stories evolve into the one story that is told repeatedly and usually…[Read more]
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Hania A.M. Nashef deposited Against Stereotypical Representations: On young Saudi directors in the group
MS Screen Arts and Culture on MLA Commons 2 years, 4 months agoIn his writing, Cultural theorist Stuart Hall has often argued that an image or a set of images has the capability of condensing a number of attributes into a single picture, producing a misleading representation of what other people and cultures are like. As a result, multiple stories evolve into the one story that is told repeatedly and usually…[Read more]
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Danny Barreto started the topic CFP: COUNTERDISCOURSES OF FAMILY: UNDOING (THE) TIES in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 2 years, 4 months agoIn this thematic issue of Journal 2i we explore the images and the discourses of the family that circulate in literature and cultural production. The articles in this volume, therefore, will offer a broad vision of non-normative families, past or present. Some of the topics to be explored in this issue include:
- Representations of chosen…
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Carl Gelderloos posted an update in the group
MS Visual Culture on Humanities Commons 2 years, 4 months agoVery happy to share that my article on Kracauer’s “Photography” essay (1927) and its weird use of Bachofen’s theory of the archaic matriarchy has just been published in The Germanic Review. E-prints here: https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/CNSXEEHMUQYSFFXG3TZ9/full?target=10.1080/00168890.2023.2232511
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Pramod Ranjan deposited मणिपुर हिंसा: परतों के भीतर कितनी परतें होती हैं? in the group
Feminist Humanities on Humanities Commons 2 years, 5 months agoयह मणिपुर में 2023 में हुई हिंसा पर केंद्रित प्रमोद रंजन के रिपोर्ताजों का पहला भाग है।
प्रमोद रंजन इसमें पूर्वोत्तर भारत के इतिहास, संस्कृति और समाज में आ रहे परिवर्तनों को चिन्हित किया है तथा उसका संवेदनशील, मर्मस्पर्शी और विचारोत्तेजक चित्र प्रस्तुत किया है।
उन्होंने इस रिपोर्ताज में यह भी बताया है कि हिंसा के दौरान मैतेई महिलाओं के…[Read more]
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Swati Arora deposited A manifesto to decentre theatre and performance studies in the group
Postcolonial Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 5 months agoWith the climate of Brexit, xenophobia and white supremacy on the rise, health and safety of Black and Global Majority people under threat during the spread of Covid in the UK and elsewhere, a discussion of colonialism, migration, borders, and equality – in the classrooms and outside – is more pertinent than ever. Situating the ongoing Dec…[Read more]
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