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Maria Luisa Martinez started the topic CFP for 46th annual convention, NeMLA 2015: Embracing Language Musicality in L2 in the forum The Teaching of Language on MLA Commons 11 years, 4 months ago

46th annual convention, NeMLA 2015
Toronto; April 30- May 3, 2015
Host institution: Ryerson University
Panel: Embracing Language Musicality in L2 Classrooms

This panel is sponsored by the area on pedagogy and professional

The goal of this panel is to examine language musicality, both in terms of linguistic phenomena and as a teaching tool for L2…[Read more]
Maria Luisa Martinez started the topic CFP for 46th annual convention, NeMLA 2015: Embracing Language Musicality in L2 in the forum The Teaching of Language on MLA Commons 11 years, 4 months ago

46th annual convention, NeMLA 2015

Toronto; April 30- May 3, 2015

Host institution: Ryerson University

Panel: Embracing Language Musicality in L2 Classrooms

This panel is sponsored by the area on pedagogy and professional

The goal of this panel is to examine language musicality, both in terms of linguistic phenomena and as a teaching tool for…[Read more]
Elizabeth Hochberg started the topic CFP, NeMLA 2015 (Spanish / Portuguese) in the forum Media and Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 5 months ago

Advertising and Counterculture in Spanish and Latin American Film
This panel invites 20-minute contributions on filmic portrayals of TV and radio commercials, magazine ads, billboards, and other aspects of marketing in connection to emerging forms of oppositional culture during the 1960s and 70s. Topics s may include material and consumer…[Read more]
Hilda Chacón started the topic CFP-2015 NeMLA Conference, Toronto Canada in the forum Media and Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 6 months ago

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This roundtable explores the impact of the Humanities going digital in Latin America, from both a Latin American and United States perspective. Papers will explore new trends a…[Read more]
Hilda Chacón started the topic CFP-2015 NeMLA Conference, Toronto Canada in the forum Media and Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 6 months ago

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This roundtable explores the impact of the Humanities going digital in Latin America, from both a Latin American and United States perspective. Papers will explore new…[Read more]
Stephanie Rountree started the topic Small-Screen Souths: Interrogating the Televisual Archive [Edited Collection] in the forum Media and Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 7 months ago

Small-Screen Souths: Interrogating the Televisual Archive [Edited Collection]

Proposals due September 1, 2014

In recent years, the advent of reality television’s “hicksploitation” alongside the rise of scripted dramatic series such as True Blood and The Walking Dead has seemingly kept the U.S. South as a small-screen spectacle of wonder and…[Read more]
Laura E. Savu started the topic CFP: The Good Life and the Greater Good in a Global Context in the forum Media and Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 7 months ago

Dear colleagues,

I’m writing to invite you to submit proposals for a collection of essays that is tentatively titled The Good Life and the Greater Good in a Global Context. Please take a look at the brief description of the topic and the research questions below. Feel free to add any other comments and questions and let me know if you are i…[Read more]
Selma R. S. Vital replied to the topic CFP -roundtable for Ne MLA 46th annual convention in the forum The Teaching of Language on MLA Commons 11 years, 8 months ago

Hi Dennis,

I would love to participate of this workshop, but unfortunately I cannot go to Ohio at this time. Please, keep us informed about any other similar event in the east coast. Due to our big load of work in the last week of classes, Marion and I were not able to put together a panel for Toronto. I still believe we can do something to make…[Read more]
Lisa Brown started the topic CFP: Comparative Media, PAMLA 2015 in the forum Media and Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 8 months ago

If, as Marshall McLuhan famously asserts, media act as prosthesis, then our increasingly haptic relationship to digital technologies (think the nearly ubiquitous touchscreen interface of tablets and smart phones, as well as the rise of immersive VR as evidenced by Facebook’s recently announced acquisition of Oculus) seems only natural. What, then,…[Read more]
Dennis Looney replied to the topic CFP -roundtable for Ne MLA 46th annual convention in the forum The Teaching of Language on MLA Commons 11 years, 9 months ago

Dear Colleagues,

I receive these posts as a member of this discussion group in my capacity as a faculty member of Italian at the University of Pittsburgh. Since January 2014, I have assumed the directorship of ADFL and in that new capacity I write to announce a workshop connected with the topic Selma and Marion are discussing. At the ADFL s…[Read more]
Marion Gehlker replied to the topic CFP -roundtable for Ne MLA 46th annual convention in the forum The Teaching of Language on MLA Commons 11 years, 9 months ago

Hi Selma,

I’d be interested. What topics did you have in mind? I teach German and include literature at all levels of language instruction.

Thanks,

Marion
Selma R. S. Vital started the topic CFP -roundtable for Ne MLA 46th annual convention in the forum The Teaching of Language on MLA Commons 11 years, 10 months ago

I am proposing a round table discussing new ways/approaches and successfull strategies integrating the literary text into the language class. The subject is not new, however a lot has been changing in this particular “field”. If interested, please, contact me as soon as you can, since the deadline for submissions is approaching. The convention…[Read more]
Jeremy Douglass started the topic CFP MLA 2015: Literature in Weird Media in the forum Media and Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 11 months ago

This panel explores theoretical implications and analytical challenges of literary works in ‘weird’ non-print forms. 500-word abstract and two-page vita in one PDF. by 15 March 2014; Jason Camlot (jason.camlot@concordia.ca).
Hans Adler replied to the topic New Franz Kafka play in progress in the forum Twentieth-Century German Literature on MLA Commons 12 years ago

Hello, I’d appreciate if you could send me your play to the following email address: hadler@wisc.edu. I might consider to use it for my annual Kafka lecture here at the UW Madison.

Thanks in advance and congratulations to your achievement!

Sincerely,

Hans Adler
Gloria Lee McMillan replied to the topic New Franz Kafka play in progress in the forum Twentieth-Century German Literature on MLA Commons 12 years ago

Good afternoon, Kafka fans,

The play is finished! Anybody wish to read it? I would love comments.
This is a surreal play about the Franz Kafka few people know.
Intriguing?

Just ask with a valid email address and I will sennd the play on to you.

Thanks,
Gloria
María Gil Poisa started the topic Call for Papers: Social Movements in the forum Media and Literature on MLA Commons 12 years, 1 month ago

TEXAS 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]
Phillip Lundberg uploaded the file: Josephine the Songstress to Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century German Literature on MLA Commons 12 years, 1 month ago

Kafka’s last word – the spiritual underpinnings of Kafka’s life work is apparent in his last alter-ego – Josephine – the mouse that roars to those who have ears…-? More info at the Kafka group or on my website.
PL.
- Gloria Lee McMillan replied 12 years ago
  
  Good afternoon, Kafka fans,
  RE: Gregor’s Hard Hat, a one-act play by Gloria Ptacek McMillan
  
  The play is finished! Anybody wish to read it? I would love comments.
  This is a surreal play about the Franz Kafka few people know.
  Intriguing?
  
  Just ask with a valid email address and I will sennd the play on to you.
  
  Thanks,
  Gloria
Phillip Lundberg uploaded the file: Josephine the Songstress to Twentieth-Century German Literature on MLA Commons 12 years, 2 months ago

Franz Kafka’s Last Word – a musical homage. More info in the Kafka Group.
Jeremy Douglass started the topic CFP MLA 2014: Literary and Social Media, Past and Present in the forum Media and Literature on MLA Commons 12 years, 11 months ago

Media and Literature’s session CFP for MLA2014 is out — please circulate widely. Proposals are due March 12.

Literary Social Media, Past and Present

Relationships between social media (broadly conceived) and literary history, including networks of production / dissemination as mediated in any genre / period. 300 word abstracts. by 12 Mar…[Read more]

Fred Yaniga

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Fred Yaniga

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