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Ela Gezen started the topic Literary Alliances, Networks, and Solidarities across Minoritized Communities in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century German on MLA Commons 2 years agoModern Language Association Conference
New Orleans, LA
January 9–12, 2025CfP Literary Alliances, Networks, and Solidarities across Minoritized Communities (organized by the 20th- and 21st-Century German Forum)
This panel series seeks to examine varied, sometimes intersecting forms, forums, and formats for facilitating, expressing, and p…[Read more] -
Oana Popescu-Sandu started the topic Romanian forum executive commitee and delegate in the discussion
LLC Romanian on MLA Commons 2 years agoHi everybody,
The LLC ROmanian executive committee is seeking self-nominations for 1) membership in the committee and 2) for the forum delegate to the MLA Delegate Assembly. Please review the requirements for each position carefully and send your self-nominations as soon as possible to Ileana…[Read more]
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Shashi Bhusan Nayak started the topic Call for Book Chapters: Memory Studies: An Anthology of Perspectives in the discussion
TC Memory Studies on MLA Commons 2 years, 6 months agoChapter proposals are invited for a volume on contemporary memory and literary studies edited by Dr. D. Sudha Rani ( VNRVJIET ), Dr. Rachel Irdaya Raj ( VNRVJIET ), Dr.Shashibhusan Nayak (MLA).
Memory studies is an increasingly diverse, interdisciplinary, and dynamic field of knowledge that spans multiple disciplines. Sociologists, psychologists,…[Read more]
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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
TC Memory Studies on MLA Commons 2 years, 10 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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Stef Craps started the topic Call for Papers Mnemonics 2023: The Industry of Memory in the discussion
TC Memory Studies on MLA Commons 2 years, 10 months agoCall for Papers Mnemonics 2023: The Industry of Memory

London, UK, 27-29 June 2023
The eleventh Mnemonics summer school will be hosted by King’s College London, the University of Westminster, and Goldsmiths, University of London from Tuesday 27 to Thursday 29 June 2023, and will take place on-site at King’s College London and the Regent’s Stre…[Read more]
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Subarno Chattarji deposited “Writing about War”: Dương Thu Hương’s Representations of the Vietnam-American War in the group
TC Memory Studies on MLA Commons 3 years agoWhile 30 April 1975 represented the end of hostilities between North and South Vietnam, it was not the end of internecine conflicts. The victorious communists treated Southerners with contempt and subjected them to humiliation and violence, including incarceration in so-called re-education camps. Dương Thu Hương served in the Women’s Youth Briga…[Read more]
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Elisa Kriza deposited Wer ist hier der Feind? Verbündete und Gegner in Alexander Solschenizyns Darstellung von Deutschland in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century German on MLA Commons 3 years, 2 months agoThe prominent Russian writer and Nobel Prize Laureate Alexander Solzhenitsyn (1918–2008) was known mainly for his work on the Soviet prison camps. In many of his fictional and non-fiction works, however, Solzhenitsyn dealt with the subject of Germany. This article analyses Solzhenitsyn’s depiction of Germany in the works August 1914, The Gulag A…[Read more]
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Elisa Kriza deposited Helena. La soledad en el laberinto. Epistolario de Helena Laura Paz Garro y Ernst Jünger, por: Elsa Margarita Schwarz Gasque y María del Carmen Vázquez Martínez, ISBN: 9786078706433, Ediciones del Lirio, 2020. in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century German on MLA Commons 3 years, 2 months agoThis is a book review that evaluates the Spanish-language edition of the letters written by the Mexican poet Helena Paz Garro to the German writer Ernst Jünger, which were originally written in French. The reviewer had access to the original letters in the German Literature Archive in Germany and she compares the original texts with the…[Read more]
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Seo-Young Chu deposited “Dear Stanford: You must reckon with your history of sexual violence” by Seo-Young Chu in the group
GS Life Writing on MLA Commons 3 years, 6 months agoIn 2000 a Stanford professor raped me. My rape is now older than I was. (I’m still not as old as he was.) The more time passes the more I’m struck by Stanford’s apathy and fecklessness about sexual violence. I wrote a letter asking Stanford to stop compounding the abuse and to reckon with its rape culture. This letter—including the “Incomp…[Read more]
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Seo-Young Chu deposited Dream Life of Waste: Archaeologies of the Soul in the Key of Capitalism in the group
GS Life Writing on MLA Commons 3 years, 7 months agoDream Life of Waste: Archaeologies of the Soul in the Key of Capitalism
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Thomas Oliver Beebee started the topic CFP: Redesigning Modernities Special Issue of Comparative Literature Studies in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century German on MLA Commons 3 years, 10 months agoThe journal Comparative Literature Studies invites proposals for a special issue titled “Redesigning Modernities Part II,” edited by Waïl Hassan (U of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) and Maria Truglio (Penn State U). The issue solicits inquiries into the divergences, inequalities, and commonalities that define “modernity” in different parts of t…[Read more]
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Lee Skallerup Bessette deposited The Past is Always Present: Social Media and Survival in the group
GS Life Writing on MLA Commons 3 years, 11 months agoIn this chapter, I connect my experience with abuse and intimate partner violence with my research projects and then radically changing my pedagogy away from coercion towards empathy.
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Oana Popescu-Sandu started the topic MLA forum and assembly elections in the discussion
LLC Romanian on MLA Commons 4 years, 2 months agoColleagues,
The election email from the MLA has been sent. Please submit your votes for the MLA committees and as well as for your forums, including Romanian (there are two ballots for Romanian). Looking forward to meeting many of you at the convention.
Oana
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Kimberly Mack started the topic GS Life Writing Forum Executive Committee Candidate Statement in the discussion
GS Life Writing on MLA Commons 4 years, 2 months agoDear All–My name is Kimberly Mack, and I am running to serve on the executive committee of the GS Life Writing forum. I would like to share a little bit about my work and, if elected, what I would hope to contribute to the GS Life Writing Forum over the next few years. I am very excited about this opportunity, and I look forward to getting to…[Read more]
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Kyle Frackman deposited ‘Coming Out’ Teaching Guide in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century German on MLA Commons 4 years, 4 months agoA teaching guide to accompany the East German film “Coming Out” (1989, directed by Heiner Carow).
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Hania A.M. Nashef deposited Suppressed Nakba Memories in Palestinian female narratives Susan Abulhawa’s The Blue Between Sky and Water and Radwa Ashour’s The Woman from Tantoura in the group
TC Memory Studies on MLA Commons 4 years, 9 months agoIsraeli officials have long denied that rape was used as an instrument of war against Palestinians. Most of the files relating to the expulsion of Palestinians during the Nakba in 1948 and its aftermath remain sealed in Israeli archives and have been reclassified as top secret. Palestinian oral narratives have long been considered a poor…[Read more]
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Jessie M. Labov started the topic LLC Hungarian Forum CFP for abstracts: MLA 2022 (Washington DC, Jan 6-9) in the discussion
LLC Slavic and East European on MLA Commons 4 years, 10 months agoHungarian gastronomy and terroir as a source of national identity
300 word abstract (and bio) on the culinary traditions of the nation; the effects of immigration, transnationalism, tourism, globalization, capital on Hungarian gastronomy; emerging gastro-revolution and haute cuisine; Hungary’s place in the world of wine Deadline for s…[Read more] -
Julia Elsky started the topic CFP (MLA): Making Waves: Two Decades of Experimental Romanian Cinema in the discussion
LLC Romanian on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoCall for Papers: MLA 2022 (6-9 January, Washington, D.C.)
Romanian Forum’s Guaranteed Panel
Making Waves: Two Decades of Experimental Romanian Cinema
2021 marks two decades since the symbolic launch of Romanian New Wave cinema, a movement that has received important recognition at international film festivals. The Romanian Forum of the MLA i…[Read more]
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Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2021 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
GS Life Writing on MLA Commons 5 years, 2 months agoThe next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2021, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets in January 2021. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nominate at least one candidate who…[Read more]
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Hania A.M. Nashef deposited Virtual Space: Palestinians Negotiate a Lost Homeland in Film in the group
TC Memory Studies on MLA Commons 5 years, 10 months agoIn his seminal study, Hollow Land: Israel’s Architecture of Occupation, Eyal Weizman argues how the Israeli occupation has forced a new imagined space to emerge, which is at once confining to the Palestinians and increases their sense of marginalization and loss. Changing the landscape through imposing architecture construction is a way to…[Read more]
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