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Galen Brokaw started the topic Call for proposals 2020 MLA panel on Colonial Translation in the discussion
LLC Colonial Latin American on MLA Commons 6 years, 12 months agoThe Latin American Colonial Forum invites proposals for a panel on colonial translation for the 2020 MLA convention. This panel seeks to explore the effects of translation in the relationship between Europeans and indigenous Americans. Beyond the issue of mere accuracy in translation, what kind of effects does translation produce? For example, to…[Read more]
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Galen Brokaw started the topic Call for proposals 2020 MLA panel on Colonial Translation in the discussion
LLC Colonial Latin American on MLA Commons 6 years, 12 months agoThe Latin American Colonial Forum invites proposals for a panel on colonial translation. This panel seeks to explore the ways in which translation shaped the relationship between Europeans and indigenous Americans. Beyond the issue of mere accuracy in translation, what kind of effects does translation produce? For example, to what extent does…[Read more]
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Jesús R. Velasco deposited The Invention of Invention in the group
LLC Medieval Iberian on MLA Commons 6 years, 12 months agoAlfonso de Toledo (15th century) was, indeed, a curious guy. But he was doing something with his curiosity. He was researching and translating. He was focusing on particular themes and institutions, and giving a legal and juridical reading of them –he, as he confesses, has very little theology to forget, so even theological inventions are, for h…[Read more]
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Thomas Robert Ward deposited Decolonizing Indigeneity: New Approaches to Latin American Literature in the group
LLC Colonial Latin American on MLA Commons 7 years agoWhile there are differences between cultures in different places and times, colonial representations of indigenous peoples generally suggest they are not capable of literature nor are they worthy of being represented as nations. Colonial representations of indigenous people continue on into the independence era and can still be detected in our…[Read more]
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David Wacks started the topic CFP MLA 2020 Seattle: New Currents in Medieval Iberian Studies in the discussion
LLC Medieval Iberian on MLA Commons 7 years agoThe MLA Forum for Medieval Iberian Literatures, Languages, and Cultures seeks proposals for a session titled “New Currents in Medieval Iberian Studies.” We invite abstracts for 15 minute papers featuring new work, issues or approaches in medieval Hispanic or Iberian studies. Deadline for submission of abstracts is March 8, 2019. Please send…[Read more]
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Billy Clark started the topic Minutes from Committee Meeting in Chicago in the discussion
LSL Linguistics and Literature on MLA Commons 7 years agoDear all,
With apologies for the delay, here (pasted below) are minutes from our Committee meeting in Chicago.
Two key things are:
- nominations for committee membership need to be sent to Anja and Martin by 8th February
- Rhona and I will draft two calls for papers by the 8th of February and we will agree and submit these by the 28th of…
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Billy Clark started the topic Minutes from Committee Meeting in Chicago in the discussion
LSL Linguistics and Literature on MLA Commons 7 years agoDear all,
With apologies for the delay, here (pasted below) are minutes from our Committee meeting in Chicago.
Two key things are:
- nominations for committee membership need to be sent to Anja and Martin by 8th February
- Rhona and I will draft two calls for papers by the 8th of February and we will agree and submit these by the 28th of…
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Allison Margaret Bigelow deposited The Nature of Metallic Matter: Materials-Based Methods in the Study of Mining in the group
LLC Colonial Latin American on MLA Commons 7 years agoIn 1526, royal refiner and natural historian Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo (1478-1557) praised the singular quality of the “muchos tesoros de oro labrado / en poder delos indios q̄ se hā cōquistado” (lxv, v). By 1535, however, he had to define what, exactly, he meant by gold: “No hablo aquí en el oro que se ha habido por rescates, o en la guerra, ni…[Read more]
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Spencer Keralis deposited Disrupting Labor in the Digital Humanities; or, The Classroom Is Not Your Crowd in the group
Computer Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoDigital humanists have a labor problem, but it’s not what you might think. In this chapter, I describe the problem of student labor in digital humanities as I see it, and examine some of the structural issues that drive the use of student labor. I place the labor economy of digital humanities projects within the broader context of the innovation e…[Read more]
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Billy Clark replied to the topic Linguistics and Literature in Chicago in the discussion
LSL Linguistics and Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoThanks to all of you who came to Lizzie McNeill’s on Friday. It was a lovely evening and we will make sure we do it again.
I’ll be in touch soon (via all of the relevant fora) with other thoughts about how those of us with interests in language, linguistics and lang-lit can keep in touch and work together in future.
Best wishes,
Billy
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Billy Clark replied to the topic Linguistics and Literature in Chicago in the discussion
LSL Linguistics and Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoHi everybody,
Looking forward to seeing some of you in Lizzie McNeill’s at 7.30.
I thought it worth letting you know that it’s really close to the Sheraton where the presidential address is from 6.45 to 7.30, so quite possible to go to both and to get from one to the other very quickly.
Best wishes,
Billy
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Billy Clark started the topic Linguistics and Literature in Chicago in the discussion
LSL Linguistics and Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoDear all,
Happy new year from London! I’m looking forward to seeing you all in Chicago!
Here is some info on our sessions and a new idea we have this year for an informal get-together for members of all forums/fora with an interest in language, linguistics or ‘lang-lit’ on Friday evening.
Theater as Communication and Where Do The Voices Com…[Read more]
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Elvira L. Vilches started the topic Colonial Latin American History Panels/ AHA 2019 in the discussion
LLC Colonial Latin American on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoDear colleagues,
Here is the list of the AHA 2019 Colonial Latin American History panels, you may find interesting
- Religion and Society in the Early Modern Portuguese Atlantic World
Thursday, January 3, 2019: 3:30 PM-5:00 PMSalon 1 (Palmer House Hilton, Third Floor)Chair: Darlene Abreu-Ferreira, University of WinnipegPapers:Becoming “…[Read more]
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Billy Clark started the topic CFP: Women and Language in the discussion
LSL Linguistics and Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoDear all,
We are looking forward to seeing (some of) you in Chicago.
Before emailing you about the convention, here is a call for papers which I meant to pass on earlier in the year.
Best wishes,
Billy
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Call for Papers | Women & LanguageEditor: Leland G. Spencer, PhD | Miami University
Women & Language, an international,…[Read more]
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Dennis Looney deposited From Hell to Harlem: African American Responses to Dante’s Divine Comedy from 1850 to Today in the group
CLCS Medieval on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months agoA course (MA level) I taught at the University of Pittsburgh in 2001, the research for which culminated in my book Freedom Readers (Notre Dame 2011).
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Tom White deposited Dust and the Digital Archive in the group
CLCS Medieval on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months agoThis paper links the medieval and early modern production of parchment and paper with modern electronics manufacturing, in order to examine some of the occluded ecological and political dimensions of archival study.
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Patricia M. Hswe started the topic CFP for 2019 Association for Computers and the Humanities Conference—due Nov. 10 in the discussion
Computer Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoDear Colleagues,
November 10, the deadline to submit proposals for the Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH) conference, is fast approaching! Have you sent in your proposal yet?
ACH is the U.S.-based constituent organization in the Alliance for Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO). Next summer, in partnership with Carnegie Mellon…[Read more]
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Paul Fyfe deposited HON 313, Reading Machines syllabus and assignments (Fall 2017) in the group
Computer Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoSyllabus, project assignments, and milestones for HON 313, “Reading Machines” (Fall 2017), a first-year interdisciplinary experience course at NC State University. Reading Machines invites students into a historically ranging, critically intensive, and hands-on learning environment about the technologies by which humans transmit ideas. The course…[Read more]
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Susan M. Nakley deposited “Rowned She a Pistel”: National Institutions and Identities According to Chaucer’s Wife of Bath in the group
CLCS Medieval on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoThis article analyzes the politics of anachronism in Chaucer’s Wife of Bath’s Tale. It argues that the Wife of Bath counters the Man of Law’s descending model of sovereignty and regulation of feminine agency with a powerful heroine who wields ascending sovereignty. The Old Wife lives in her Arthurian present and its English future simul…[Read more]
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Susan M. Nakley deposited On the Unruly Power of Pain in Middle English Drama in the group
CLCS Medieval on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoLate medieval culture tends to value pain highly and positively. Accordingly, much medievalist scholarship links pain with fear and emphasizes their usefulness in the period’s philosophy, literature, visual art, and drama. Yet, key moments in The York Play of the Crucifixion, The Second Shepherds’ Play, and The Tretise of Miraclis Pleyinge tro…[Read more]
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