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Nicky Agate deposited Humanities Commons Open Repository Exchange in the group
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 10 years, 5 months agoThe Modern Language Association (MLA) and the Columbia University Libraries / Information Services’ Center for Digital Research and Scholarship (CDRS) have been working together on a prototyped user interface that connects a library-quality repository system (Humanities Commons Open Repository Exchange, or CORE, modeled on Columbia’s Academic Com…[Read more]
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Hannah Swamidoss deposited The Interstitial Body and Moral Formation:Third-Culture Displacement and Subject Formation in Charles Kingsley’s The Water-Babies in the group
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 10 years, 5 months ago.Using the concept of “third culture” from social theory, this article examines Charles Kingsley’s use of displacement in his children’s book The Water Babies (1863). In trying to portray the site of moral formation, Kingsley displaces his central character Tom – the new, interstitial “third culture” subject. Through Tom’s displacement, Kingsle…[Read more]
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Patti Marxsen replied to the topic Member News in the discussion
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 10 years, 5 months agoWould like to send an email re: two new books… but don’t see how to send an email only to you, Nicky. And the message is too long for Twitter.
Please advise. Thanks.
Patti M. Marxsen email: thewritewoman@gmail.com
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Nicky Agate started the topic Member News in the discussion
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 10 years, 5 months agoMembers of the Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society Forum:
Hello!
In September, the Commons Wire, your monthly guide to how your fellow members are using the platform, will return from its summer hiatus with a new section, Member Report. If you have recently published a book or an article, won a fellowship or award, accepted a ne…[Read more]
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Hannah Swamidoss deposited “When I Cannot Still the Longing of My Heart”; Third-Culture Displacement and the Image of the Child in Allen Say’s Tree of Cranes and Grandfather’s Journey in the group
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months agoThis article examines Allen Say’s use of cultural displacement in his books Tree of Cranes and Grandfather’s Journey. Allen Say is an award-winning, Japanese-American, picture book author and illustrator.
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Alan Lopez deposited "Adam Smith and the Rights of the Dead in the group
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months agoAdam Smith closes the first chapter to Theory of Moral Sentiments, ‘Of Sympathy’, with a harmless enough assertion: ‘We sympathize even with the dead’. Death is not a topic that much interests Smith in Theory of Moral Sentiments. With the exception of a few miscellaneous thoughts in the text, the one paragraph Smith devotes to it is the extent of…[Read more]
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Laura J. Beard started the topic Deadline extended CFP Special Issue of a/b in the discussion
Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months agoCall for papers:
Special Issue of Indigenous Autobiographical Works in the Americas
a/b: Auto/Biography Studies http://www.tandfonline.com/raut
NEW DEADLINE: SEPTEMBER 25, 2015
Diana Taylor has referred to a shared hemispheric reality of “tangled systems of expression, representation, and economic and power relat…[Read more]
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Eric Cheyfitz deposited Disinformation: The Limits of Capitalism's Imagination and the End of Ideology in the group
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 10 years, 7 months ago“Disinformation: The Limits of Capitalism’s Imagination and the End of Ideology” analyzes the post-9/11 U.S., a state of massive income inequality, waging endless war at home (the militarization of the police) and abroad, within the context of two terms: “Disinformation” and “ideology.” The theoretical matrix of the essay distinguishes…[Read more]
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Laura Kiernan replied to the topic Book — Call for essays in the discussion
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 10 years, 7 months agoDear Members of the Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society Group,
I write on behalf of Miriam S. Gogol on an extended deadline for the following:
Call for Critical Essay Submissions: Working Women
For a book to be published by a major publisher, I am inviting eight to ten essays by literary, historical, and multicultural critics…[Read more]
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Victor Goldgel-Carballo started the topic CFP: Forms of Informality in the Global South, Madison, WI in the discussion
Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 7 months agoCFP
Forms of Informality: Textual Analysis and Popular Culture in the Global South
March 11-12, 2016Keynote speakers: Moradewun Adejunmobi (University of California, Davis) and Juan Poblete (University of California, Santa Cruz)
We invite scholars working on popular culture in/of the Global South to submit paper proposals that interrogate the…[Read more]
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Alberto Ribas-Casasayas replied to the topic Literature about business in the discussion
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 10 years, 7 months agoIn Spanish:
Isaac Rosa, La mano invisible
Rafael Chirbes, Crematorio, En la orilla
Antonio Ortuño, Recursos humanos
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Christopher Michaelson started the topic Literature about business in the discussion
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 10 years, 7 months agoI would value recommendations of novels and stories that explore, directly or allegorically, business, economic, and work-related behaviors – especially in the context of contemporary, developing markets. This is for a project to bring world literature into the business classroom, scholarly management research, and even the dialogue of busin…[Read more]
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Matthew H. Brown replied to the topic CFP: Forms of Informality: Textual Analysis and Popular Culture in the Global So in the discussion
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 10 years, 7 months agoPosting Error of some kind. Full title: “CFP: Forms of Informality: Textual Analysis and Popular Culture in the Global South, March 11-12, 2016”
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Matthew H. Brown started the topic CFP: Forms of Informality: Textual Analysis and Popular Culture in the Global So in the discussion
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 10 years, 7 months agoKeynote speakers: Moradewun Adejunmobi (University of California, Davis) and Juan Poblete (University of California, Santa Cruz)
We invite scholars working on popular culture in/of the Global South to submit paper proposals that interrogate the possibilities and limitations of combining formal textual analysis with the question of informal…[Read more]
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Yvonne Fuentes replied to the topic CFP- Interdisciplinary Conference in the Humanities, 10/2015 in the discussion
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 10 years, 7 months agoDeadline extended to JULY 12, 2015.
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Yvonne Fuentes started the topic CFP- Interdisciplinary Conference in the Humanities, 10/2015 in the discussion
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 10 years, 8 months agoThe 30th Annual Interdisciplinary Conference in the Humanities at UWG is on TRAVEL. We welcome abstracts and panels on TRAVEL and its many crossroads and intersections.
Send questions and abstracts to Yvonne Fuentes,uwgconference2015@gmail.com.
More information at http://www.westga.edu/forlang/2710_2846.php.
Deadline: June 12,…[Read more]
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Anu Aneja started the topic CfP: Gender in Distance Education in the discussion
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 10 years, 9 months agoCall For Papers for a Special Issue of Gender and Education
Gender in Distance Education
Do new forms of distance and virtual education promote or impede feminist pedagogy and gender equity across cultures?
Guest Editor: Anu Aneja, Director, School of Gender & Development Studies, Indira Gandhi National Open University, New Delhi.
The…[Read more]
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Luis Alvarez-Castro started the topic CFP – MLA book on Miguel de Unamuno in the discussion
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 10 years, 9 months agoDear colleagues,
The volume Approaches to Teaching the Works of Miguel de Unamuno, which I am editing, is now in development in the MLA Approaches to Teaching World Literature series. Instructors who have taught Unamuno’s works (from any academic or theoretical perspective) are encouraged to contribute to the volume by completing a survey about…[Read more]
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Carlos Vargas-Salgado started the topic Congreso Melgar y la Independencia, Arequipa, Perú, agosto de 2015 in the discussion
Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 9 months agoCONGRESO INTERNACIONAL “MARIANO MELGAR, 200 AÑOS: POESÍA E INDEPENDENCIA”
PRIMERA CIRCULAR (para los interesados en Mariano Melgar, el bicentenario de las independencias y el romanticismo en general)
La Asociación Internacional de Peruanistas (AIP), la Revista de Crítica Literaria Latinoamericana (RCLL), el Municipio de Mariano Melgar, Arequip…[Read more]
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Katherine Kim replied to the topic Book — Call for essays in the discussion
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 10 years, 10 months agoDear Members of the Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society Group,
I write on behalf of Miriam S. Gogol on an extended deadline for the following:
Call for Critical Essay Submissions: Working Women
For a book to be published by a major publisher, I am inviting eight to ten essays by literary, historical, and multicultural critics…[Read more]
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