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Amanda L. Watson started the topic MLA19 session 374: Open meeting of the Libraries and Research Forum in the discussion
TM Libraries and Research on MLA Commons 7 years, 6 months agoThe Libraries and Research Forum Executive Committee invites all interested MLA members to an open meeting at MLA 2019 in Chicago. Session 374, “Collaboration in the Digital Research Landscape,” will take place at 5:15 p.m. on January 5, 2019, and will take the form of an open discussion moderated by members of the Executive Committee. The session…[Read more]
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Amanda L. Watson started the topic MLA19 session 374: Open meeting of the Libraries and Research Forum in the discussion
TM Libraries and Research on MLA Commons 7 years, 6 months agoThe Libraries and Research Forum Executive Committee invites all interested MLA members to an open meeting at MLA 2019 in Chicago. Session 374, “Collaboration in the Digital Research Landscape,” will take place at 5:15 p.m. on January 5, 2019, and will take the form of an open discussion moderated by members of the Executive Committee. The session…[Read more]
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Amanda L. Watson started the topic MLA19 session 374: Open meeting of the Libraries and Research Forum in the discussion
Libraries and Research in Languages and Literatures on MLA Commons 7 years, 6 months agoThe Libraries and Research Forum Executive Committee invites all interested MLA members to an open meeting at MLA 2019 in Chicago. Session 374, “Collaboration in the Digital Research Landscape,” will take place at 5:15 p.m. on January 5, 2019, and will take the form of an open discussion moderated by members of the Executive Committee. The session…[Read more]
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Amanda L. Watson started the topic MLA19 session 374: Open meeting of the Libraries and Research Forum in the discussion
Libraries and Research in Languages and Literatures on MLA Commons 7 years, 6 months agoThe Libraries and Research Forum Executive Committee invites all interested MLA members to an open meeting at MLA 2019 in Chicago. Session 374, “Collaboration in the Digital Research Landscape,” will take place at 5:15 p.m. on January 5, 2019, and will take the form of an open discussion moderated by members of the Executive Committee. A longer…[Read more]
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Amanda L. Watson started the topic MLA19 session 374: Open meeting of the Libraries and Research Forum in the discussion
Libraries and Research in Languages and Literatures on MLA Commons 7 years, 6 months agoThe Libraries and Research Forum Executive Committee invites all interested MLA members to an open meeting at MLA 2019 in Chicago, on Friday, January 5, 2019 from 5:15 to 6:30 p.m. Session 374, Collaboration in the Digital Research Landscape, will feature a discussion moderated by members of the Executive Committee. A longer agenda with discussion…[Read more]
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Gerardo Augusto Lorenzino started the topic NeMLA 2019,CFP: Local and Global: ‘Spanish(es),’ Identity and Space in US Cities in the discussion
Language Change on MLA Commons 7 years, 7 months agoIn a society where urban life recreates otherness, dissolves geographical and social borders, creates transnational spaces and crafts new identities, how do Latinos and Hispanic immigrants of various Latin American regions living in cities in the US (re)build the local and global from inter- and cross-cultural perspectives: language, history,…[Read more]
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Jentery Sayers deposited Studying Media through New Media in the group
Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 7 years, 7 months agoThe Companion to Media Studies and Digital Humanities is about researching media through new media: for example, playing games to better understand their politics and mechanics, exhibiting new media art to witness how people engage it, building stories to become more familiar with their structures and narratives, making wearable technologies to…[Read more]
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Rachael King deposited “Interloping with my Question-Project”: John Dunton’s and Daniel Defoe’s Epistolary Periodicals in the group
TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography on MLA Commons 7 years, 7 months agoThis article revisits the under-appreciated connection between John Dunton and Daniel Defoe in the context of their epistolary periodicals, the Athenian Mercury and the Review. While the wide-scale use of reader letters in early periodicals has been acknowledged if not fully appreciated in contemporary scholarship, each author devoted copious…[Read more]
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Téa Rokolj deposited Many a Footnote and Afterword: Dubravka Ugrešić and the Essay in the group
TM Libraries and Research on MLA Commons 7 years, 7 months agoA widely translated author, and a prominent voice from post-communist Europe, Dubravka Ugrešić has published a variety of literary forms in addition to literary criticism and translations. Playful experimentation with language, boundaries between texts, and literary conventions as well as an acute awareness of the contemporary socio-political c…[Read more]
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Tea Rokolj started the topic European Studies Research Forum @ ALA Annual 2018 in the discussion
Libraries and Research in Languages and Literatures on MLA Commons 7 years, 8 months agoJoin us for the ACRL European Studies Research Forum at ALA Annual in New Orleans!
Sunday, June 24th, 8:30-10:00 a.m. Sheraton New Orleans, Bayside B
Brief welcome and introduction to the presenters
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The Nazi Conspiracy: German Fantasies and Jewish Power between Weimar and the Third Reich — Brendan Fay (Emporia State…[Read more]
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Tea Rokolj started the topic European Studies Research Forum @ ALA Annual 2018 in the discussion
Libraries and Research in Languages and Literatures on MLA Commons 7 years, 8 months agoJoin us for the ACRL European Studies Research Forum at ALA Annual in New Orleans!
Sunday, June 24th, 8:30-10:00 a.m. Sheraton New Orleans, Bayside B
Brief welcome and introduction to the presenters
Presentations
The Nazi Conspiracy: German Fantasies and Jewish Power between Weimar and the Third Reich — Brendan Fay (Emporia State…[Read more]
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James McElvenny deposited Georg von der Gabelentz in the group
History of Linguistics and Language Study on Humanities Commons 7 years, 8 months agoThe German sinologist and general linguist Georg von der Gabelentz (1840–1893) occupies an interesting place at the intersection of several streams of linguistic scholarship at the end of the nineteenth century. As Professor of East-Asian languages at the University of Leipzig from 1878 to 1889 and then Professor for Sinology and General L…[Read more]
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Kathleen Fitzpatrick deposited Obsolescence and Innovation in the Age of the Digital in the group
Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 7 years, 8 months agoThe relationship between obsolescence and innovation in the digital age is a peculiar one, conveying not past and future but instead demonstrating their eternal simultaneity.
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Brian Lennon deposited Questions and answers on “JavaScript Affogato: Programming a Culture of Improvised Expertise” in the group
LSL Language and Society on MLA Commons 7 years, 8 months agoPublished by Johns Hopkins University Press Blog, 28 March 2018. A Q&A about the essay “JavaScript Affogato: Programming a Culture of Improvised Expertise,” published in Configurations 26.1 (2018): 47–72, DOI: 10.1353/con.2018.0002.
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James McElvenny deposited August Schleicher and Materialism in 19th-Century Linguistics in the group
History of Linguistics and Language Study on Humanities Commons 7 years, 9 months agoTowards the end of his career, August Schleicher (1821–1868), the great consolidator of Indo-European historical-comparative linguistics in the mid-19th century, famously drew explicit parallels between linguistics and the new evolutionary theory of Darwinism. Based on this, it has become customary in linguistic historiography to refer to S…[Read more]
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Matthew Scarborough deposited Thematic Bibliography of Ancient Greek Dialectology (Preliminary Version) in the group
History of Linguistics and Language Study on Humanities Commons 7 years, 10 months agoDocument contains a preliminary partially annotated bibliography of key works on Ancient Greek dialectology, originally compiled in 2015.
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James McElvenny deposited Linguistic Aesthetics from the Nineteenth to the Twentieth Century: The Case of Otto Jespersen’s “Progress in Language” in the group
History of Linguistics and Language Study on Humanities Commons 7 years, 10 months agoFrom the early nineteenth century up until the first half of the twentieth century, many leading scholars in the emerging field of linguistics were occupied with what would today be considered a kind of linguistic typology. The various classifications of languages they proposed were generally intertwined with speculation about the “racial” tra…[Read more]
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Anna Zofia Gąsienica Byrcyn deposited Polish Culture in Lesson 0 in the group
LLC Slavic and East European on MLA Commons 7 years, 10 months agoCulture and traditions constitute the essential elements in the process of Polish language education. The textbook Hurra po polsku. Podręcznik studenta by Małgorzata Małolepsza & Aneta Szymkiewicz in Lesson 0 introduces briefly Polish phonetic system and greeting expressions without offering any follow up exercises in the Hurra po polsku. Ze…[Read more]
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Gerardo Augusto Lorenzino started the topic Language Change Forum: CFP deadline extended, March 15 in the discussion
Language Change on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoThe Forum on Language Change extended its CFP for the 2019 MLA in Chicago to March 15. See details below for each session.
“Performing Identity through Textual Transactions”
Papers should address mutually constitutive engagements of speakers/writers, texts, and/or their contexts in the area(s) of language change and identity performance. 300-…[Read more] -
Gerardo Augusto Lorenzino started the topic Language Change Forum, CFP 2019: deadline today in the discussion
Language Change on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoThe Forum on Language Change is accepting proposals on two planned sessions for the 2019 MLA in Chicago. See details below for each session.
“Performing Identity through Textual Transactions”
Papers should address mutually constitutive engagements of speakers/writers, texts, and/or their contexts in the area(s) of language change and identity per…[Read more] - Load More
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