-
Gian Piero Persiani started the topic CFP "The Location of Culture: Places and Spaces of the East Asian Imaginary" in the discussion
LLC East Asian on MLA Commons 5 years, 11 months agoWe invite proposals for the following, non-guaranteed session of the LLC Japanese to 1900 Forum @ MLA 2021:
Session title: The Location of Culture: Places and Spaces of the East Asian Imaginary
As either unmovable physical locations or portable culturally-mediated psychological spaces, places are an essential feature of our world. Throughout…[Read more]
-
Clara Iwasaki started the topic CFP Reimagining Wartime Incarceration in East Asia in the discussion
LLC East Asian on MLA Commons 5 years, 11 months agoGuaranteed Session Sponsored by LLC East Asia Forum
Reimagining Wartime Incarceration in East Asia
World War II remains the focus of intense contemporary interest across the transpacific and particularly in East Asia, where contested borders and competing narratives collide. Although these nationalist discourses are historically articulated in…[Read more]
-
Chia-rong Wu posted an update in the group
LLC Modern and Contemporary Chinese on Humanities Commons 5 years, 11 months agoCall for Papers
Sun Yat-sen Journal of Humanities
ISSN: 1024-3631Special Issue: Sinophone Literature in the Global South
Guest Editors:
Min-xu Zhan, Assistant Professor of the Graduate Institute of Taiwan Literature and Transnational Cultural Studies, National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan
Chia-rong Wu, Senior Lecturer of the Global,…[Read more] -
David Holloway started the topic CFP MLA 2021 “Japanese Cultural Expressions After Hirohito” in the discussion
LLC East Asian on MLA Commons 5 years, 11 months agoThe passing of Emperor Hirohito in 1989 brought the long postwar to an end, at least symbolically. While older Japanese may have felt a sense of closure in his death, those growing up in the years that followed knew a cultural landscape determined not by imperialism, war, or economic growth (as a panacea for the Emperor himself), but rather…[Read more]
-
Shirin A. Khanmohamadi started the topic MLA 2021 in Toroto – cpf – CLCS Medieval in the discussion
CLCS Medieval on MLA Commons 6 years agoMLA 2021 in Toronto, CLCS Medieval — two CFPs:
Objects
How do objects circulating within and around premodern literary texts reframe or intervene in traditional (national or imperial) literary histories or unearth new “global” literary histories? 250-word abstracts to Shirin Khanmohamadi (shirin1@sfsu.ed) by March 15.
Medieval Empir…[Read more]
-
Franziska Katharina Ninett Lallinger deposited Online Database of Middle High German Translations of Latin Hymns: ‘Berliner Repertorium’ in the group
CLCS Medieval on MLA Commons 6 years agoThe Berliner Repertorium (http://opus.ub.hu-berlin.de/repertorium/page/home), online since June 2017, provides a database of Middle High and Low German translations of Latin hymns, sequences, and antiphons until the year 1600. In this contribution on our database of hymn translations, the ‘Berliner Repertorium’, I will introduce you to its str…[Read more]
-
Benjamin Ridgway started the topic 2021 MLA Conference, LLC Pre-14th Century Chinese: Open Call for Panel Topic in the discussion
LLC Ming and Qing Chinese on MLA Commons 6 years agoThe Pre-14th Century Chinese Literature Forum is making an open call for panel proposals on a topic of broad appeal to scholars of literary history, comparative literature, or language and literary pedagogy. MLA sessions can be either roundtables or panels with 3-4 short papers and a discussant. Panel organizers would have the opportunity to c…[Read more]
-
Benjamin Ridgway started the topic 2021 MLA Conference, LLC Pre-14th Century Chinese: Open Call for Panel Topic in the discussion
LLC East Asian on MLA Commons 6 years agoThe Pre-14th Century Chinese Literature Forum is making an open call for panel proposals on a topic of broad appeal to scholars of literary history, comparative literature, or language and literary pedagogy. MLA sessions can be either roundtables or panels with 3-4 short papers and a discussant. Panel organizers would have the opportunity to c…[Read more]
-
Joanne Bernardi started the topic Call for Candidates: Japanese since 1900 Executive Committee Election in the discussion
LLC East Asian on MLA Commons 6 years agoThe Japanese since 1900 forum’s executive committee seeks nominations, including self nominations, for candidates and alternate candidates to stand for election on the committee. This year we need to fill two positions (term 2020-2025 and 2021-2026) so please consider self-nominating as a way to help promote East Asian presence in MLA. Please c…[Read more]
-
Amanda L. French deposited Alcott’s “Rigmarole”: The Composition and Publication History of Little Women in the group
TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography on MLA Commons 6 years ago_Little Women_ is a work composed piecemeal and narrated in more than one generic mode. Alcott’s complete financial dependence on what she could earn from her writing, her ambivalence toward conventional narratives for women, and, most importantly, her alternating submission to and rebellion against the demands (real and imagined) of her readers…[Read more]
-
Xiaowen Xu started the topic Call For Candidates: LLC Pre-14th Chinese Forum Executive Committee in the discussion
LLC Pre-14th-Century Chinese on MLA Commons 6 years agoDear Colleagues,
The LLC Pre-14th Chinese Forum is calling for your volunteering to be an alternate candidate for the executive committee 2021 to 2026. Please contact Xiaowen Xu (xiaowen.xu@ubc.ca) or Benjamin Ridgway (brdgwa1@swarthmore.edu) if you are interested. Or you could reply to this thread directly.
We would need four forum members who…
-
Madeline Gangnes replied to the topic MLA 2020: Bibliopedagogy in the discussion
TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography on MLA Commons 6 years agoIf it’s of interest to anyone, I livetweeted this excellent panel: https://twitter.com/maddohere/status/1215367439988350976
-
Madeline Gangnes started the topic MLA 2020 Panel #265 "Databases and Print Culture Studies" Livetweet Thread in the discussion
TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography on MLA Commons 6 years agoI was asked by the moderator of this morning’s MLA session #265 “Databases and Print Culture Studies” panel, so here is the link: https://twitter.com/maddohere/status/1215697238107750404. (Official panel info found here: https://www.sharpweb.org/main/mla-2020-sharp-session-databases-and-print-culture-studies/) I hope it will be of some use to the…[Read more]
-
Brian Bernards started the topic SE Asian CLCS Forum-Hosted Happy Hour: Fri, Jan 10 at the MLA in the discussion
LLC Modern and Contemporary Chinese on MLA Commons 6 years agoMembers and friends of the Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic CLCS MLA Forum:Our forum invites you to a MLA 2020 Happy Hour at 9pm on Friday, January 10 at the Frolik Kitchen + Cocktails, which is located on the 5th floor of the Motif Seattle Hotel (3 blocks from the Washington State Convention Center). Come mingle and decompress…[Read more]
-
Laura Forsberg started the topic MLA 2020: Bibliopedagogy in the discussion
TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography on MLA Commons 6 years, 1 month agoPlease consider attending our forum’s session on “Bibliopedagogy” at MLA in Seattle on Thursday, 9 January in WSCC – 401. Our panel features three presentations:
“Student-Scribe: A Hands-On Approach to Codicology and Book History” — Sarah J. Sprouse and Sarah Banschbach Valles
“Rewriting the Canon: Cultivating Student Creativity in the…[Read more]
-
David A. Wacks deposited Rev Haskell, Mystical Resistance: Uncovering the Zohar’s Conversations with Christianity in the group
CLCS Medieval on MLA Commons 6 years, 1 month agoReview of Ellen D. Haskell, Mystical Resistance: Uncovering the Zohar’s Conversations with Christianity (Oxford UP 2016), originally published in Speculum 94.4 (2019), 1167–1168.
-
Thomas Mazanec deposited How Poetry Became Meditation in Late-Ninth-Century China in the group
LLC East Asian on MLA Commons 6 years, 1 month agoIn late-ninth-century China, poetry and meditation became equated — not just metaphorically, but as two equally valid means of achieving stillness and insight. This article discusses how several strands in literary and Buddhist discourses fed into an assertion about such a unity by the poet-monk Qiji 齊己 (864–937?). One strand was the aesthet…[Read more]
-
Brian Bernards started the topic SE Asian CLCS Forum-Hosted Happy Hour: Fri, Jan 10 at the MLA in the discussion
LLC East Asian on MLA Commons 6 years, 1 month agoMembers and friends of the Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic CLCS MLA Forum:
Our forum invites you to a MLA 2020 Happy Hour at 9pm on Friday, January 10 at the Frolik Kitchen + Cocktails, which is located on the 5th floor of the Motif Seattle Hotel (3 blocks from the Washington State Convention Center). Come mingle and decompress…[Read more]
-
Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “Others within: Ethics in the age of global Shakespeare.” Routledge Handbook of Shakespeare and Global Appropriation, ed. Christy Desmet, Sujata Iyengar, and Miriam Jacobson (London: Routledge, 2020), pp. 25-36 in the group
LLC Modern and Contemporary Chinese on MLA Commons 6 years, 2 months agoThis chapter theorizes global Shakespeare through two interrelated concepts: performance as an act of citation and the ethics of citation. Bringing the concept of performance as citation and the ethics of citation together, this chapter argues that acts of appropriation carry with them strong ethical implications. A crucial, ethical component of…[Read more]
-
Michael Hancher deposited Dictionary vs. Encyclopedia, Then and Now in the group
TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography on MLA Commons 6 years, 2 months agoThe New English Dictionary was originally distinguished from an encyclopedia in reach and function by its proponent Richard Chenevix Trench and its principal editor James A. H. Murray as differing in responsibilities: a dictionary described the meanings of words, an encyclopedia described the nature of things. The distinction had philosophical and…[Read more]
- Load More
Open access, open source, open to all
