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Mariana Ou replied to the topic Suitcase of SCW photos in the news in the discussion
Spanish Civil War Studies on Humanities Commons 7 years, 7 months agoAmazing! Didn’t hear about it. On the El País article, the photo of a doctor treating a man: I’m pretty sure that’s Dr. Reginald Saxton, who developed a mobile infrastructure for blood transfusion in the SCW. We have his papers in the Marx Memorial Library, including a diary he kept–more like a block for note taking, with many illegible bits but…[Read more]
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Mariana Ou replied to the topic Introductions in the discussion
Spanish Civil War Studies on Humanities Commons 7 years, 7 months agoHello! I’m Mariana, based in London, and since last October I’ve been working at the Marx Memorial Library, cataloguing the Spanish Collection: a major archive that includes the whole archive from the International Brigade Association/International Brigade Memorial Trust. I’ve been dealing mostly with the collection of 500+ pamphlets: aprox. half…[Read more]
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Mariana Ou replied to the topic SCW + Catalan referendum in the news in the discussion
Spanish Civil War Studies on Humanities Commons 7 years, 7 months agoHello Anne, I’ve just joined the group so the reply comes very late. I have read The Winterlings and loved it. It’s really my type of fiction. Have you read it in the end?
That said, I wonder why the author decided to suggest that Spanish/Basque children may have suffered or been exploited in their time as refugees in the UK? In the Marx Memorial…[Read more]
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Mariana Ou replied to the topic Collections of SCW materials / images in the discussion
Spanish Civil War Studies on Humanities Commons 7 years, 7 months agoAlso here in the UK, the University of Warwick has an archive on the Spanish Civil War from papers of the Trades Union Congress. They are all digitised which is quite amazing. My favourite items are in Spanish Situation: Pamphlets, leaflets etc.
Attached is cover of pamphlet by the Labour Party, one that we also hold at the MML. I find it…[Read more]
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Mariana Ou replied to the topic Collections of SCW materials / images in the discussion
Spanish Civil War Studies on Humanities Commons 7 years, 7 months agoI’m working at the Marx Memorial Library in London. The library is home to the Spanish Collection, which is an archive of more than 7000 items, initially gathered by British International Brigaders and their families. We have just completed cataloguing the collection thanks to a grant from the National Archives (link below). Only very few items…[Read more]
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religioncomics deposited It’s Time for LISSA in the group
TC Religion and Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 7 months agoReview of LISSA: A STORY ABOUT MEDICAL PROMISE, FRIENDSHIP, AND REVOLUTION (University of Toronto Press) by Sherine Hamdy, Coleman Nye, Sarula Bao, and Caroline Brewer
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Doris Hambuch deposited The Pleasures of Polyglossia in Emirati Cinema: Focus on From A to B and Abdullah in the group
MS Screen Arts and Culture on MLA Commons 7 years, 8 months agoPolyglot films highlight the coexistence of multiple languages at the level of dialogue and narration. Even the notoriously monolingual Hollywood film industry has recently seen an increase in polyglot productions. Much of Europe’s polyglot cinema reflects on postwar migration. Hamid Naficy has coined the phrase ” accented cinema ” to define…[Read more]
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Tobias Steiner deposited Subversion of Nostalgia as a Strategy of Engagement in Alternate History TV: 11.22.63 and The Man in the High Castle in the group
MS Screen Arts and Culture on MLA Commons 7 years, 8 months agoBeginning with television’s popularization and mass availability in the 1950s, TV has extensively been employed to transport and mediate history. From the early televisual experiments of The Twilight Zone and Star Trek to more recent examples such as Quantum Leap, The X-Files and Continuum, Science Fiction television and its subgenre of A…[Read more]
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Matthew Reznicek deposited A City She Must Postpone: The Parisian Geography of Kate O’Brien’s Bildungsromane in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 7 years, 8 months agoBy reading each of the novels of Kate O’Brien’s oeuvre as ‘a travel story’, just as we read Balzac’s Père Goriot, it becomes necessary to read them as ‘a spatial practice’, a narrative that locates itself in and responds to a specific space. The specific geography of Kate O’Brien’s Parisian novels of development, Without My Cloak (1931), The…[Read more]
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Kathleen Fitzpatrick deposited Obsolescence and Innovation in the Age of the Digital in the group
MS Screen Arts and Culture on MLA Commons 7 years, 8 months agoThe relationship between obsolescence and innovation in the digital age is a peculiar one, conveying not past and future but instead demonstrating their eternal simultaneity.
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Catherine Marie Jaffe posted an update in the group
LLC 18th- and 19th-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 7 years, 9 months agoCall for Papers: International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies conference, Edinburgh, July 2019.
CFP: Deviation, Dissension, Defiance: Protesting in the Hispanic Enlightenment
This panel seeks papers that explore the theme of identities that originate in protest in the Hispanic eighteenth century. We welcome proposals that look at how…[Read more] -
Anne Donlon replied to the topic Introductions in the discussion
Spanish Civil War Studies on Humanities Commons 7 years, 10 months agoI noticed we have some new members. Welcome! Please feel free to introduce yourselves. I’d love to hear what people are working on.
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A. Lewis deposited The Ancestral Lands of Black Panther and Killmonger Unburied in the group
TC Religion and Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 10 months agoThis is one of a series of film reviews of Black Panther (2018), directed by Ryan Coogler.
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Stacey Lee Donohue deposited Eng 260 Introduction to Women Writers, or,Books That Cook! Syllabus in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 7 years, 10 months agoCourse syllabus for Eng 260: Introduction to Women Writers focused on the theme of food fiction. Taught at Central Oregon Community College as a general education course. We are on the quarter system which limits the number of readings. The course will require that students complete a collaborative digital project.
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Annabel Kim deposited The Riddle of Racial Difference in Anne Garréta’s Sphinx in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 7 years, 10 months agoThis article examines Sphinx, the debut novel of the French novelist Anne Garréta, which was recently published in English translation in 2015. The reception of Sphinx in both French and English has focused primarily on Garréta’s virtuosic removal of gender from a love story, passing over a caricatural and crude rendering of racial difference tha…[Read more]
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Francisco Fernández de Alba started the topic CFP: Fashion in the discussion
Twentieth-Century Spanish Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 10 months agoWe warmly invite you to submit abstracts on all topics related to Iberian fashion. Please see the attached CFP
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Francisco Fernández de Alba started the topic CFP: Fashion in the discussion
Iberian Studies on MLA Commons 7 years, 10 months agoWe warmly invite you to submit abstracts on all topics related to Iberian fashion. Please see the attached CFP
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Catherine Marie Jaffe posted an update in the group
LLC 18th- and 19th-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoThe International Congress on the Enlightenment is the quadrennial meeting of the International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ISECS) and the world’s largest meeting of specialists on all aspects of the eighteenth century. Recent ISECS congresses have been held in Los Angeles (2003), Montpellier (2007), Graz (2011), and Rotterdam (…[Read more]
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Catherine Marie Jaffe posted an update in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoCFP Special Session MLA 2019: Paletos, palurdos, patanes: Constructions of the pueblo in Modern Spain
In the context of the emergence of a popular consciousness that since the 18th century had been revealing itself as essential in the configuration of Spain as a modern nation, this panel seeks to answer the question “what and who is the p…[Read more]
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Catherine Marie Jaffe posted an update in the group
LLC 18th- and 19th-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoCFP: MLA 2019
Paletos, palurdos, patanes: Constructions of the pueblo in Modern SpainIn the context of the emergence of a popular consciousness that since the 18th century had been revealing itself as essential in the configuration of Spain as a modern nation, this panel seeks to answer the question “what and who is the pueblo?” by exp…[Read more]
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