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Nancy Schrock replied to the topic Film Project: Sci. and Lit. in the forum
Literature and Science on MLA Commons 11 years, 7 months agoA project that crosses the arts and the sciences sounds like an interesting one if there is a focus relevant to current issues. I have to bridge the two daily. I have a Ph.D. in chemistry and an M.A. in creative writing and teach both chemistry and writing classes. I find the cultural differences between workers in the sciences and humanities…[Read more]
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Jenna Mead replied to the topic Film Project: Sci. and Lit. in the forum
Literature and Science on MLA Commons 11 years, 7 months agoHello Gloria and Lisa,
This sounds fascinating. I’m an out-of-towner on this one but the connections are intriguing, especially given their speculative nature. I work on Chaucer’s Treatise on the Astrolabe and so have a (deeply) vested interest in crossing the borders between Arts and Sciences. I’ll be watching this space with a lot of…[Read more]
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Gloria Lee McMillan replied to the topic Film Project: Sci. and Lit. in the forum
Literature and Science on MLA Commons 11 years, 7 months agoHi, Lisa,
We chose the two contemporaries because of new information we had from Ewen Whitaker, a British astronomer who has made a working Digges Perspective Glass. After researching that Will and his men stayed at the Digges family home in Stratford, where he almost certainly saw the copy of astronomer Tycho Brahe’s Epistolae (with the name…[Read more]
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Lisa-Ann Robertson replied to the topic Film Project: Sci. and Lit. in the forum
Literature and Science on MLA Commons 11 years, 7 months agoHi Gloria,
Just out of curiosity, why Galileo and Shakespeare? There are so many examples of poets and men of science who really did cross the line between arts and sciences. Why not some of them?
Cheers,
Lisa Ann
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Gloria Lee McMillan started the topic Film Project: Sci. and Lit. in the forum
Literature and Science on MLA Commons 11 years, 7 months agoHello,
A group of us have been thinking and rethinking a documentary film project that would show the value of crossing the line between science and the arts.
At first we were going to make it a conversation between Galileo and Shakespeare–roughly contemporaries.
But granting agencies didn’t like the fictional parts.So then we opened up to…[Read more]
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Gloria Lee McMillan started the topic Film Project: Sci. and Lit. in the forum
Literature and Science on MLA Commons 11 years, 7 months agoHello,
A group of us have been thinking and rethinking a documentary film project that would show the value of crossing the line between science and the arts.
At first we were going to make it a conversation between Galileo and Shakespeare–roughly contemporaries.
But granting agencies didn’t like the fictional parts.So then we opened up to…[Read more]
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Erin Cowling started the topic CFP: “Social Justice in the Golden Age/Justicia social en el Siglo de Oro.” in the forum
Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Spanish Drama on MLA Commons 11 years, 8 months agoCall for Papers – Special Session: “Social Justice in the Golden Age/Justicia social en el Siglo de Oro.”
The Association for Hispanic Classical Theater (AHCT)
Annual Spanish Golden Age Theater Symposium
March 19 – 21, 2015, Hilton Garden Inn, El Paso.
Deadline for submissions for special session: July 15, 2014This is a call for a SPECI…[Read more]
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Cynthia R. Port started the topic CFP MLA 2015: Aging and the Posthuman in the forum
Literature and Science on MLA Commons 11 years, 11 months agoIn a scholarly context that is increasingly turning to the posthuman, the transhuman, and the virtual, explorations of the embodied experience of age and its cultural resonances offer crucial insights into the uniquely human awareness of the experience of living through time. For a guaranteed panel, sponsored by the MLA’s Age Studies Discussion G…[Read more]
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Lori Angela Lammert replied to the topic Memory in the Latin American Novel of the Dictatorship in the forum
Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 11 months agoSend me an abstract. I met her in 2007. She is really nice. Saludos, Lori
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Erica M. Frouman-Smith replied to the topic Memory in the Latin American Novel of the Dictatorship in the forum
Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 11 months agoHi Lori:
I recently have done work on Liliana Heker’s El fin de la historia, which is about her recollection of the dictatorship. I just had a paper on it accepted by Hispanofila. I might be interested in presenting a paper on this. What do you think?
Saludos,
Erica
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Lori Angela Lammert started the topic Memory in the Latin American Novel of the Dictatorship in the forum
Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 11 months agoCall for papers for Special Session. What is the importance of memory in the Latin American Novel of the Dictatorship? 250 word abstract and CV. by 14 March 2014; Lori Angela Lammert (llammert@yahoo.com).
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Beth Ellen Jörgensen started the topic CFP, MLA Roundtable on E. Poniatowska Criticism in the forum
Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 11 months agoMLA 2015: ROUNDTABLE
Of interest to members of the 20th-C Lat Am Lit Division
Elena Poniatowska: Five Decades of Critical Inquiry
Elena Poniatowska’s corpus has inspired three generations of scholars to engage in highly diverse approaches to literary theory and criticism, including approaches to testimonio, journalism, the specificity of w…[Read more]
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Jeronimo Arellano started the topic Call for papers, MLA 2015: Comparative Media Studies in Latin America in the forum
Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 11 months agoWe’re looking for papers for a panel on comparative media studies in Latin America to be held at the 2015 MLA convention. While most often comparative media studies is practiced in relation to new narrative forms and emergent literacies in the twentieth- and twenty-first centuries, this panel welcomes proposals focusing on other historical periods…[Read more]
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Leigh Anne Duck started the topic CfP: MLA 2015/journal special issue in the forum
Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 11 months agoWe’re seeking proposals for a panel at MLA 2015 (Vancouver, Jan. 8-11) and for a special issue of the journal The Global South (Indiana UP, available via JSTOR and Project Muse) on the topic “Narrating Global South Cities.” Even though the “global South” has emerged as a “new and powerful ordering system for academic disciplines,” its promise…[Read more]
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Eric Aronoff started the topic CFP MLA 2015: Disc. Group for Science Fiction, Utopian and Fantastic Literature in the forum
Literature and Science on MLA Commons 11 years, 11 months agoThis CFP might be of interest for members of this division:
<b>Science Fiction, Fantasy and the Concept of Culture</b>
How has sci-fi/fantasy explored (humanist and anthropological) concepts of “culture” and form? How does sci-fi/fantasy “world-making” engage/challenge anthropological ideas of culture/representation? Abstracts, brief cv by 15…[Read more] -
George Louis Scheper replied to the topic Performing Dickens — NEH Summer Seminar in the forum
Literature and Other Arts on MLA Commons 12 years agoSplendidn — for Litrerature and the Other arts, here is another NEH summer Institute fellowship opportunity
NEH Fellowship Opportunity
<b>Pictorial Histories and Myth-Histories: “Graphic Novels” of the Mixtecs and Aztecs</b>
<p align=”center”> A Summer Institute in Oaxaca, Cholula, and Mexico City. June 29 – July 26, 2014</p>
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David Palmer started the topic CFP MLA 2015: "Arthur Miller: Reflections on the American Dream" in the forum
Drama on MLA Commons 12 years ago2015 is the centennial of Arthur Miller’s birth. As part of the celebration of this event, the Arthur Miller Society is organizing a session at the 2015 MLA convention in Vancouver on a central theme in Miller’s literary work and his career as a public intellectual: the elusiveness of the American Dream, the Dream’s foundations in what often are c…[Read more]
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Sharon Aronofsky Weltman started the topic Performing Dickens — NEH Summer Seminar in the forum
Literature and Other Arts on MLA Commons 12 years agoApplications are now open for “<b>Performing Dickens: <i>Oliver Twist</i> and <i>Great Expectations</i> on Page Stage, and Screen</b>,” a four-week National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar for College and University Teachers, sponsored by the Dickens Project at the University of California Santa Cruz. From <b>Monday, July 7, 2014 to F…[Read more]
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Sharon Aronofsky Weltman started the topic Performing Dickens in the forum
Drama on MLA Commons 12 years agoApplications are now open for “<b>Performing Dickens: <i>Oliver Twist</i> and <i>Great Expectations</i> on Page Stage, and Screen</b>,” a four-week National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar for College and University Teachers, sponsored by the Dickens Project at the University of California Santa Cruz. From <b>Monday, July 7, 2014 to F…[Read more]
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April Logan started the topic PEHS Calls for Papers in the forum
Drama on MLA Commons 12 years, 1 month agoCall for Papers
American Literature Association
25th Annual Conference
May 22-25, 2014
Hyatt Regency, Capitol HillSessions Sponsored By
The Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins SocietyPanel 1: Pauline Hopkins and Washington D.C.
As a writer with a keen interest in national politics at a crucial moment in American history, Pauline Hopkins frequently…[Read more] - Load More
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