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Hania A.M. Nashef deposited What Does a Nascent Film Movement of Popular Genres Reveal About Emirati Culture? in the group
TC Popular Culture on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months agoDespite a lack of a traditional cinema culture, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), has recently witnessed an increase in film production. This rise can be attributed to a number of factors, not least of which, is the opening of movie theaters, the establishment of international film festivals and the arrival of film companies. These ventures have…[Read more]
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Paulino Capdepon deposited Pauline Viardot García (1821-1910), una compositora en la Europa del siglo XIX (1821-1910) in the group
Digital Humanists on Humanities Commons 2 years, 11 months agoArticle about the composer Pauline Viardot
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Paulino Capdepon deposited Felipe Pedrell Sabaté. Compositor, musicólogo, docente y gran maestro de la música in the group
Digital Humanists on Humanities Commons 2 years, 11 months agoArticle about the Spanish composer, teacher and musicologist Felipe Pedrell, founder of the Modern Musicology in Spain
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Hania A.M. Nashef deposited Suppressed Narrator, Silenced Victim in Adania Shibli’s Minor Detail in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months agoAlthough the systematic eviction of Palestinians from their homeland has been recorded at length since the establishment of the state of Israel in 948, the documentation has namely concerned itself with urban centers or villages. Expulsion and removal of marginalized communities, namely the Bedouins’, from their ancestral encampments or homes h…[Read more]
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Margaret Frohlich deposited Sexual Diversity in Young Cuban Cinema in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months agoThis book explores how young Cuban filmmakers have expanded the range of sexual subjectivities on screen. It analyzes cine joven (films made by young directors) from the late 1980s to the early 2020s, film reviews, articles, and materials from the Cinematheque of Cuba’s archive to illustrate the confluence of sexuality, cinema, and discourses of…[Read more]
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Priya Wadhera started the topic CFP: Afrofuturisme/Afropessimisme in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months agoThis panel seeks to examine contemporary Francophone cultural productions (broadly defined from comics to novels and films) which provide a rich ground for imagining Blackness in the future. Is there a future after anti-Blackness? How do these cultural productions imagine collective liberation? Papers are invited to discuss joy and sorrow in…[Read more]
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Priya Wadhera started the topic CFP: Disgust in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months agoThis roundtable explores the rhetoric of disgust—along with its conceptual cousins (spleen, nausea, informe, abjection, etc.)—as generative forces for 20th- and 21st-century French/Francophone thought. Speakers will examine dégoût as a complex, historically situated feeling that connects and binds even as it repels, drawing attention to margins,…[Read more]
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Matthew Calihman started the topic MLA Proposed Session: Political Oratory and African Am Lit (abstracts by 3/13) in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months agoI am proposing a special session at MLA 2024 on “Political Oratory and African American Literature.” Papers will examine speeches by elected officials as contributions to African American literary discourse. Please email 300-word abstracts to matthewcalihman@missouristate.edu by March 13.
Matthew Calihman, Professor of English, Missouri S…[Read more]
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Johann-Mattis List deposited Sprachwandel (Seminar) in the group
Digital Humanists on Humanities Commons 2 years, 11 months agoIn dem Seminar wird Sprachwandel aus verschiedenen Perspektiven beleuchtet.
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johnpendergast started the topic Request for Titles in the discussion
LSL Language and Society on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months agoDear Colleagues,
I’m doing a study of how the words “Russian” and “Russia” are used in English-language history textbooks. I would be extremely grateful if you could send me (at this address john.pendergast@westpoint.edu ) the titles, publisher, and year (if possible) of history textbooks used in your Russian courses and in Russian History c…[Read more]
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Salim Said Bani Orabah deposited Omani Students’ Satisfaction with Independent Learning Tools during Covid-19 in the group
Education and Pedagogy on Humanities Commons 2 years, 11 months agoOmani students were introduced to Independent Learning Tools, such as MyELT, Moodle, and MS Teams, during the Covid-19 pandemic. They used these tools for their study throughout the pandemic. Hence, this research investigated how satisfied were Omani students with independent learning tools during Covid-19. This study is significant because it…[Read more]
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Prof Muhammad Subhan Qureshi deposited New Advances in the Dairy Industry in the group
Digital Humanists on Humanities Commons 2 years, 11 months agoThis book discusses advances in the dairy industry in various parts of the world. It is divided into four sections on “Dairy Technology”, “Reproductive Biotechnology”, “Entrepreneurship Development”, and “Sustainable Development”. Chapters address such topics as regional dairy breeds, farming innovations, mineral nutrition, folliculogenesi…[Read more]
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Weihsin Gui started the topic Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic Forum CFPs for MLA 2024 in the discussion
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months agoFor the 2024 Modern Language Association in Philadelphia (January 4 to 7), the Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic Forum is organizing or co-organizing four sessions / panels. Please click on the links below to see the full CFPs and submission deadlines.
1) Postcolonial Southeast Asia?: Limits and…[Read more]
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Kathryn Anne Everly deposited Intersectional Silencing in the Archive: Salaria Kea and The Spanish Civil War in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months agoSalaria Kea was the only African American woman to serve with the American Medical Unit during the Spanish Civil War. Her experience has been silenced and edited within the archive by traditionally more authoritative voices. Reconsidering the impact of intersectionality on personal experience can lead to a better understanding of Black U.S.…[Read more]
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Laura M. O'Brien deposited Reading Her Queenly Coiffure: A Collaborative Approach to the Study of Marie-Antoinette’s Hairstyles in the group
Digital Humanists on Humanities Commons 2 years, 11 months agoFour colleagues–a faculty member, a digital services librarian, a research librarian, and a curator of Special Collections–take turns describing their role in creating an undergraduate student project around an eighteenth-century almanac that belonged to Marie-Antoinette. In recounting the steps taken, the collaborative process, the student…[Read more]
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Sean Mark started the topic new book on Pound and Pasolini in the discussion
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months agoDear group members,
I’m pleased to announce that my book on Ezra Pound and Pier Paolo Pasolini, Pound and Pasolini: Poetics of Crisis, has been published by Palgrave Macmillan: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-91948-1
The Introduction and a translation of the Pasolini-Pound interview of 1967 are available for free download in th…[Read more]
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Paulino Capdepon deposited Influencia y recepción de la obra musicológica de Constantin Floros [Influence and reception of the musicological output of Constantin Floros] in the group
Digital Humanists on Humanities Commons 2 years, 12 months agoResearch about the influence of the musicological outpput of relevant Researcher Constantin Floros
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Paulino Capdepon deposited La teoría musical española en la época de Tomás Vicente Tosca [The Spanish musical theory at the time of Tomás Vicente Tosca] in the group
Digital Humanists on Humanities Commons 2 years, 12 months agoIntroductory overview of musical theory and thought in Spain in the 17th and first half of the 18th century.
Panorama introductorio sobre la teoría y el pensamiento musicales de España en el siglo XVII y primera mitad del XVIII. -
Paulino Capdepon deposited La Orquesta Sinfónica de Madrid y los actos conmemorativos del Centenario de Beethoven de Ludwig van Beethoven (1927) [The Madrid Symphony Orchestra and the Ludwig van Beethoven’s Centenary Celebrations (1927)] in the group
Digital Humanists on Humanities Commons 2 years, 12 months agoAnalysis of the participation of the Orquesta Sinfónica de Madrid in the commemorative events of the first centenary of Beethoven’s death (1927)
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Paulino Capdepon deposited La Real Capilla de Madrid durante el magisterio del compositor italiano Francisco Corselli (1705-1778) [The Madrid Royal Chapel at the time of Italian composer Francesco Corselli (1705-1778)] in the group
Digital Humanists on Humanities Commons 2 years, 12 months agoBefore arriving in Spain, Francisco Corselli had developed an important career as opera composer and sacred music when he arrived in Spain in 1733 from Parma thanks to his previous relations with Isabella de Farnese, the future queen of Spain, and with the ducal house of Parma. At the Madrid court, he began his career as ‘maestro de música’ for…[Read more]
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