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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “The Tempest as Trans Archive: An Interview with Scholar Mary Ann S. Saunders.” Borrowers and Lenders: The Journal of Shakespeare and Appropriation 14.2 (2023) in the group
LLC Shakespeare on MLA Commons 2 years, 9 months agoThis interview with Dr. Mary Ann Saunders, conducted by Alexa Alice Joubin, offers a new interpretation of Julie Taymor’s 2010 film The Tempest. Bringing her life experience to bear on cisgender biases in non-trans artists’ works, Saunders proposes a new interpretation of Ariel, as performed by Ben Whishaw, as a trans woman who is “both beautiful…[Read more]
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “‘The winter of our discontent’: An Interview with Playwright Terri Power.” Borrowers and Lenders: The Journal of Shakespeare and Appropriation 14.2 (2023) in the group
LLC Shakespeare on MLA Commons 2 years, 9 months agoThis interview with Terri Power, conducted by Alexa Alice Joubin, focuses on the representations of trans masculinity in Power’s play Drag King Richard III. For nearly two decades Power has been at the forefront of trans and queer representation in performances of Shakespeare. Weaving a personal story of the 1990s with Shakespeare’s early modern d…[Read more]
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “Identities in Drag: An Interview with King Sammy Silver.” Borrowers and Lenders: The Journal of Shakespeare and Appropriation 14.2 (2023) in the group
LLC Shakespeare on MLA Commons 2 years, 9 months agoThis interview with King Sammy Silver, conducted by Alexa Alice Joubin and Terri Power, explores drag as a stage practice. A London-based actor and YouTube personality, he represents a new generation of trans artists. He has worked with Power on multiple Shakespeare productions at Bath Spa University in the UK and elsewhere, and has been…[Read more]
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “Identities in Flux: An Interview with Jess Chanliau.” Borrowers and Lenders: The Journal of Shakespeare and Appropriation 14.2 (2023) in the group
LLC Shakespeare on MLA Commons 2 years, 9 months agoThis interview with non-binary actor Jess Chanliau, conducted by Alexa Alice Joubin, explores genderplay onstage. A bilingual actor, Chanliau has played Viola, “an intrinsically trans character” in Twelfth Night and a queer Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet. They spoke candidly on their experience of either being toke-nized or being cast frequently as…[Read more]
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited Contemporary Transgender Performance of Shakespeare, Special Issue of Borrowers and Lenders: The Journal of Shakespeare and Appropriation 14.2 (2023) in the group
LLC Shakespeare on MLA Commons 2 years, 10 months agoCross-gender roles and performances permeate many of Shakespeare’s plays. This special issue on contemporary transgender performance of Shakespeare was published by the open-access journal dedicated to Shakespeare and appropriation, Borrowers and Lenders, and edited by Alexa Alice Joubin. It contains research articles and interviews of actors. S…[Read more]
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Sarah Collins started the topic New issue of Music & Letters now available in the discussion
MSA Forum on Humanities Commons 2 years, 10 months agoThe latest issue (104.1) of Music & Letters is now available!
(https://academic.oup.com/ml/issue)
Articles:
James Burke, ‘The Custodial History of the Sadler Partbooks (Oxford, Bodleian Library MSS Mus. e. 1–5)’
Danielle Padley, ‘From Ancient to Modern: Identifying Anglicanism in an Anglo-Jewish Hymnal’
Esther M. Morgan-Ellis, ‘Mediated…[Read more]
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Sarah Kirby started the topic Welcome! in the discussion
Music and Cultural Collections Study Group on Humanities Commons 2 years, 10 months agoHello!
This forum is intended to be a place for news, announcements, questions, advice, and anything else you might want to share with the music cultural collections hive mind. Please share the link with anyone else interested
Sarah
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Sarah Kirby started the topic Seminar: Using the Eyes to Guide the Ears: On Visualizing Music Eric J. Isaacson in the discussion
MSA Forum on Humanities Commons 2 years, 10 months agoSeminar at UNSW Kensington, April 3, 12noon – All welcome
Using the Eyes to Guide the Ears: On Visualizing Music – Eric J. Isaacson (Indiana University)
Musical experience is ephemeral and unique to each person. To communicate about music, scholars therefore sometimes employ graphical musical representations. Such musical images can repr…[Read more]
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Aarthi Vadde started the topic MLA 2024 Global Anglophone Forum CFP (deadline today) in the discussion
CLCS Global Anglophone on MLA Commons 2 years, 10 months agoDigitality, Postcoloniality, Globality (sponsored by CLCS Global Anglophone Forum) Deadline today!
This panel considers how digital technologies intersect with categories of knowledge, namely postcoloniality and globality. Possible topics: conceptions of digitality from the Global South, decolonizing DH, born-digital/post-digital literature and…[Read more] -
Aarthi Vadde started the topic MLA 2024 GA Forum CFP (Guaranteed Panel) in the discussion
CLCS Global Anglophone on MLA Commons 2 years, 10 months agoDigitality, Postcoloniality, Globality (sponsored by CLCS Global Anglophone Forum) Deadline today!
This panel considers how digital technologies intersect with categories of knowledge, namely postcoloniality and globality. Possible topics: conceptions of digitality from the Global South, decolonizing DH, born-digital/post-digital literature and…[Read more] -
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Tim Daly started the topic CFP Musical Topics and Performance: A Symposium in the discussion
MSA Forum on Humanities Commons 2 years, 10 months agoMUSICAL TOPICS AND PERFORMANCE PRACTICE: A SYMPOSIUM
(With apologies for cross-posting)
Date: 1-2 June 2023 Melbourne Conservatorium of Music |Faculty of Fine Arts and Music The University of Melbourne
Over the past four decades, the theory of musical topics has evolved into a powerful tool for studying the construction of meaning and…[Read more]
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Sarah Kirby started the topic CFP (articles): Musicology Australia in the discussion
MSA Forum on Humanities Commons 2 years, 10 months agoMusicology Australia is now calling for submissions for consideration for our 2023 issues.
Submissions are accepted at any time, and contributors are not required to write on Australian music or be Australian-based. Musicology Australia is the scholarly journal of the Musicological Society of Australia. Since its inception in 1963, the journal h…[Read more]
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Rachel Orzech started the topic Wagner Symposium: Rivers of Gold! Wagner in Bendigo, 22 April 2023 in the discussion
MSA Forum on Humanities Commons 2 years, 11 months agoWagner Symposium: Rivers of Gold! Wagner in Bendigo, 22 April 2023
A symposium held in collaboration with the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music, University of Melbourne.
Delve into Wagner’s works and their afterlives through a series of talks given by leading musicologists and performers. Full program and booking details available here: https://…[Read more]
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Andrea R. Malone started the topic CFP for MLA Convention 2024 in the discussion
TM Libraries and Research on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months agoHello to you all. On behalf of this forum’s Executive Committee, we invite you to consider submitting a proposal for our sponsored session at MLA 2024. Details follow.
Addressing Underrepresentation of Marginalized Populations in Institutional Archives – A Roundtable
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Sana Asif deposited Tangible Heritage and Intangible Memory: (Coping) Precarity in the Select Partition Writings by Muslim Women in the group
LLC South Asian and South Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months agoThe partition of British India into two sovereign independent nations of India and Pakistan in 1947 was one of the most defining moments of the socio-political course of the sub-continent. The fight for independence from colonial rule and the rise of nationalism rooted in the religious discourse of two prominent religious communities- Hindus and…[Read more]
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “Translational Agency in Liang Shiqiu’s Vernacular Sonnets,” Shakespeare’s Global Sonnets: Translation, Adaptation, Performance, ed. Jane Kingsley-Smith and W. Reginald Rampone, Jr. (Palgrave, 2023), pp. 161-179 in the group
LLC Shakespeare on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months agoLike Virginia Woolf’s Orlando, Shakespeare’s Sonnets challenge the binaries between gender and between the vernacular and the literary. Translators take up this challenge and turn it into an opportunity for humanist interpretations of literature, as in the case of Taiwanese essayist Liang Shiqiu’s (1903–1987) translation. Widely known in the Sin…[Read more]
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited Alexa Alice Joubin and Elizabeth Rivlin, “Remedial Uses of Shakespeare,” Shakespeare and Cultural Appropriation, ed. Vanessa I. Corredera, L.Monique Pittman, Geoffrey Way (Routledge, 2023), pp. 222-233 in the group
LLC Shakespeare on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months agoThis chapter argues that cultural appropriation can be an exploitative act but need not be; it all depends on what users do with Shakespeare. Due to the unequal status of the parties engaged in appropriative exchange, some appropriations deploy Shakespeare to protect conventional power structures. Appropriations are rarely negotiated on a level…[Read more]
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Michael Christoforidis started the topic CFP: Picasso and Musical Modernity (c.1900-1940) – 12-14 October 2023 in the discussion
MSA Forum on Humanities Commons 2 years, 11 months agoSYMPOSIUM: Picasso and Musical Modernity (c.1900-1940) – 12-14 October 2023
Parador de Mojácar, Spain – University of Melbourne, Australia; Hybrid (in person and online)
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) was a witness and frontline actor of the music currents developing in Barcelona, Paris, and other sites prior to World War II. Coinciding with the 50th…[Read more]
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “Collaborative Rhizomatic Learning and Global Shakespeares,” Reimagining Shakespeare Education: Teaching and Learning through Collaboration, ed. Liam E. Semler, Claire Hansen, and Jacqueline Manuel (Cambridge University Press, 2023), 225-238 in the group
LLC Shakespeare on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months agoCollaborative learning as a pedagogical method effectively reflects the communal character of the performing arts. By creating knowledge about Shakespearean performance collaboratively, students and educators lay claim to the ethics and ownership of that knowledge, an act that is particularly urgent and meaningful in the age of COVID-19 when we…[Read more]
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