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Noelia Sol Cirnigliaro started the topic 2 additional Panels on Why Theater Matters and Performing Childhood @ Seattle in the discussion
LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Drama on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months agoAnd another reminder: there is still time to submit abstracts for these two panel @ Seattle [Send us your 250-word abstract and CV by 15 March 2019 to Noelia.Cirnigliaro@dartmouth.edu]. Panel on childhood is Co-sponsored by GEMELA.
Why Theater Matters: Then and Now
Theater clearly mattered in early modern times as evidenced by the…[Read more]
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Noelia Sol Cirnigliaro started the topic Panel on Comedia, Disability, Disease @ Seattle in the discussion
LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Drama on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months agoJust a reminder: there is still time to submit abstracts for this panel @ Seattle [Send us your 250-word abstract and CV by 15 March 2019 to Noelia.Cirnigliaro@dartmouth.edu]
Building on work in the history of medicine and disability studies, this panel will engage with the following questions: How was disease construed and negotiated in early…[Read more]
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Penelope Geng deposited Jurisprudence by Aphorisms: Francis Bacon and the “Uses” of Small Forms in the group
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months agoThe belief that Francis Bacon was, from the start, a stalwart defender of royal absolutism has prevailed in scholarship despite occasional comments about Bacon’s pluralist or collaborative legal and political imagination. Building on recent revisionist work, this article questions the standard historiography. It argues that Bacon’s jur…[Read more]
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Luis Restrepo started the topic PROPOSALS FOR MLA 2020 in the discussion
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months agoThe Early Modern Epic. Imperial, Providential or Otherwise?
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Imperial and Christian by design, the early modern epic nonetheless presents ambivalences, internal fissures and critical appropriations of the genre and its imperial past, allowing multiple nuanced readings. Send 1 page abstract and short bio.Deadline for…[Read more]
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Luis Alvarez-Castro started the topic New Issue of Decimononica in the discussion
LLC 18th- and 19th-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months agoDear colleagues,
I am pleased to announce the publication of issue 16.1 (Winter 2019) of Decimonónica, Revista de Producción Cultural Hispánica. Essays can be accessed and downloaded for free at http://www.decimononica.org.
Sincerely,
Luis Alvarez-Castro
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Jesús R. Velasco deposited The Invention of Invention in the group
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 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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Christopher Warren deposited Hugo Grotius and the Century of Revolution, 1613-1718: Transnational Reception in English Political Thought in the group
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 7 years agoReview for The Seventeenth Century of Oona A. Hathaway and Scott J. Shapiro, _The Internationalists: How a Radical Plan to Outlaw War Changed the World_ and Marco Barducci, _Hugo Grotius and the Century of Revolution, 1613-1718_
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Allison Margaret Bigelow deposited The Nature of Metallic Matter: Materials-Based Methods in the Study of Mining in the group
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern 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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Elvira L. Vilches started the topic Panel on Humanism, Coloniality, and Imperial Reason/ MLA 2019 in the discussion
LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Poetry and Prose on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoDear colleagues,
I think that this panel will be of interest to those of you working on Atlantic and Pacific frameworks .
Friday, Jan 4th
296. Humanism, Coloniality, and Imperial Reason.1:45-3:00 pm. Water Tower, Hyatt RegencyPresiding: Luis Fernando Restrepo, U of Arkansas, FayettevilleSpeakers: Glen Edgar Carman, DePaul U; Freddy…[Read more]
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Elvira L. Vilches started the topic Panels and Happy Hour for Colonial Latin American Literatures/ MLA 2019 in the discussion
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoDear Members,
Here is the list of activities sponsored by the Colonial Latin American forum, MLA 2019.
We are looking forward to seeing you there.
Thursday Jan 3rd
54. And What does Colonial Mean?
1:45-3:00 pm, Erie, Sheraton Grand
Presiding Mónica Díaz, U of Kentucky
Speakers: Ivonne del Valle, UC Berkley; Kathleen My…[Read more]
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Thomas Oliver Beebee started the topic Call for Papers | Women & Language journal Editor: Leland G. Spencer in the discussion
CLCS European Regions on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoWomen & Language, an international, interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal publishes original scholarly articles and creative work covering all aspects of communication, language, and gender. Contributions to Women & Language may be empirical, rhetorical-critical, interpretive, theoretical, or artistic. All appropriate research methodologies are…[Read more]
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Thomas Oliver Beebee started the topic Call for Papers | Women & Language journal in the discussion
CLCS European Regions on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoWomen & Language, an international, interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal publishes original scholarly articles and creative work covering all aspects of communication, language, and gender. Contributions to Women & Language may be empirical, rhetorical-critical, interpretive, theoretical, or artistic. All appropriate research methodologies are…[Read more]
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Maria Chouza-Calo started the topic Third Biennial Conference of the Iberian Theater and Performance Network (ITPN) in the discussion
LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Drama on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months agoThird Biennial Conference of the Iberian Theater and Performance Network (ITPN)School of Advanced Study, Senate House | University of London 25-27 June 2020CALL FOR PAPERSTHEATRICAL PROCESSESThe Third Biennial Conference of the Iberian Theater and Performance Network (ITPN) will focus on the topic of theatrical processes. We are particularly i…[Read more]
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George Prokhorov deposited Narrating and mapping Russia: From Terra Incognita to a charted space on the road to Cathay in the group
CLCS European Regions on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months agoIn the 16th century most of Russia is still a terra incognita with a highly dubious and mostly mythologized geography, anthropology, and sociology. In this article we look at some texts of the Early Modern period – Sir Thomas Smithes Voiage and Entertainment in Rushia (1605), Peter Mundy’s Travel Writings of 1640–1641, and The Voiages and Trave…[Read more]
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Carlo M. Bajetta deposited Elizabeth I ‘in Sight and View of all the World’: An Unpublished Spanish Letter (UPDATED VERSION) in the group
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months agoPrints an unpublished Spanish letter signed by Elizabeth I and addressed to Maria of Austria
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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 Renaissance and Early Modern 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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Whitney Sperrazza deposited Intimate Correspondence: Negotiating the Materials of Female Friendship in Margaret Cavendish’s Sociable Letters in the group
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months agoIn this article, I argue that Margaret Cavendish uses ‘Sociable Letters’ and the female friendship within its pages to intervene in early modern epistolary traditions and negotiate alternatives for conventional markers of intimacy between correspondents. Grounding the argument in current scholarly debates on familiar letter conventions, I…[Read more]
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Jeannette Acevedo Rivera started the topic CFP: The Nineteenth-Century in 2019 Conference in the discussion
LLC 18th- and 19th-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoEstimadas/os colegas, Les recuerdo que la fecha límite para someter su propuesta para la conferencia “The Nineteenth-Century in 2019: Mapping Women’s Writing in the Long Nineteenth Century” es el viernes, 30 de noviembre de 2018. Las conferencias magistrales estarán a cargo de Pura Fernández ([Read more]
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Shirin A. Khanmohamadi started the topic MLA election to CLCS-Medieval in the discussion
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoHi everyone, My name is Shirin Khanmohamadi and I’m honored to have been nominated for election to the executive committee of CLCS- Medieval and wanted to introduce myself a bit here. I am an Associate Professor of premodern literature in the Comparative and World Literature department at San Francisco State University, where I’ve been teac…[Read more]
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Louise Geddes deposited Unlearning Shakespeare Studies: Speculative Criticism and the Place of Fan Activism in the group
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoBound by market pressures, twenty-first century academia finds itself fettered by the demands of “student success” that a capitalist knowledge economy places on its participants. Humanities scholars are, as Jonathan Dollimore noted in his 2014 SAA address, pressed with their back against the wall, “in a marketplace pretty indifferent to what…[Read more]
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