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Heekyoung Cho posted an update in the group
2018 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 8 years, 1 month agoYou are cordially invited to Korean Forum Reception at the MLA Convention!
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Korean Forum Reception
Sponsored by the Center for Korean Research, Columbia UniversityDate: Saturday, 6 January
Time: 8:45-10:00 p.m.
Place: Murray Hill East, Hilton, New York, NY
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Silvia G. Kurlat-Ares deposited Políticas de lo estético en la ilustración de ciencia ficción. El caso de “Think Blue, Count Two” de Cordwainer Smith in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American on Humanities Commons 8 years, 1 month agoDesde el período del Dadá se han ido borrando los límites entre las formas artísticas y sus soportes, entre las estéticas de uso y las estéticas formales, entre los espacios altos y bajos de producción cultural, y también, entre la percepción de centros y periferias que parecen haberse astillado y reproducido a la interioridad de espacios hasta ha…[Read more]
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Nicky Agate posted an update in the group
2018 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 8 years, 1 month agoIf you’d like to know more about MLA Commons/Humanities Commons and how to make the most of them, consider attending our workshop in NYC: Friday, January 05, 2018, 03:30 PM – 04:45 PM, Hilton – Hudson (session 362)
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Joydeep Chakraborty posted an update in the group
2018 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoWhat is the significance of post-9/11 American poetry sixteen years after the attack? It would be great if this topic is introduced in 2018 Covention under the forum head 20th and 21st century American. Interested MLA members are requested to talk to me on this point.
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Charles Gleek deposited Looking Anywhere But At You: The Gaze in Kara Walker’s Silhouettes in the group
MS Visual Culture on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoThe silhouetted cutouts in Kara Walker’s Gone: An Historical Romance of a Civil War as It Occurred b’tween the Dusky Thighs of One Young Negress and Her Heart are fine with being seen but care little for the actual presence of the viewer. They’re kissing and sucking, fucking and birthing, playing and pillorying all without shame or service to the…[Read more]
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Charles Gleek deposited Of Unfettered Light and Limitless Energy: An Ecocritical Reading of Gregory Crewdson’s Beneath the Roses in the group
MS Visual Culture on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoGregory Crewdson’s cinematic, tableaux photographs often depict an anonymous, banal, and tension-filled life in suburban and rural communities. Working as a self-described American realist and strongly influenced by a tradition of American vernacular artists, including work by Arbus, Eggleson, Friedlander, and Hopper, Crewdson actively seeks to c…[Read more]
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Charles Gleek deposited Of Unfettered Light and Limitless Energy: An Ecocritical Reading of Gregory Crewdson’s “Beneath the Roses” in the group
MS Visual Culture on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoGregory Crewdson’s cinematic, tableaux photographs often depict an anonymous, banal, and tension-filled life in suburban and rural communities. Working as a self-described American realist and strongly influenced by a tradition of American vernacular artists, including work by Arbus, Eggleson, Friedlander, and Hopper, Crewdson actively seeks to c…[Read more]
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Robert Troyer posted an update in the group
LSL Second-Language Teaching and Learning on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoDear Members of the MLA Second-Language Teaching and Learning Forum,
If you will be at the 2018 Convention, please join us at the Hilton Saturday evening 7:15-8:30 for a cash bar organized by the Linguistics Forums of the MLA. The event is listed on page 953 of the convention program.
710. Cash Bar Arranged by the Language Studies and…[Read more] -
Alberto Ribas-Casasayas started the topic Call for Articles. Spectral Mexico in the discussion
Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 3 months agoSpectral Mexico. Ghosts and the Talking Dead in Contemporary Mexican Culture
The persistence of death and its figurative representations is a recognizable commonplace in the visual and narrative discourses of Mexican culture. Underworlds like Mictlan and Xibalba, the Catrina skull, the Santa Muerte, ghosts, dancing skeletons, post-mortem…[Read more]
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Nicky Agate replied to the topic Restaurant Recommendations and More in the discussion
2018 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 8 years, 3 months agoAs an NYC local, I’d like to recommend the following around the convention area (if you’re looking for recommendations beyond a mile radius of the convention, particularly in Brooklyn, send me a message here @terrainsvagues):
BAR: Valhalla NYC, for a really good selection of craft beers. It’s a 10-minute walk west from the Sheraton along 53rd…[Read more]
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Julie Ward posted an update in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American on MLA Commons 8 years, 3 months agoHi, As I am on the ballot for the Forum Executive Committee, I was invited to introduce myself here in the Commons.
I work on representations of reality in contemporary Latin American cultural production, in particular in Mexican theatre and drama, though I write about South American theatre, including Brazilian, as well.
My goals for the LLC…[Read more]
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Mary Gallucci posted an update in the group
HEP Part-Time and Contingent Faculty Issues on MLA Commons 8 years, 4 months agoA sobering look at adjunct faculty: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/sep/28/adjunct-professors-homeless-sex-work-academia-poverty?CMP=share_btn_fb
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Karin Bagnall started the topic Restaurant Recommendations and More in the discussion
2018 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 8 years, 4 months agoIf you’re a New York City local, please share your expertise by suggesting nearby restaurants, bars, or things to see or do. Provide as much information as you can: Distance from the convention venue, price range, URL, and what you like about a place are particularly useful.
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Karin Bagnall created the group
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