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Suha Kudsieh started the topic CFP: Russia and the Middle East" (Pre-modern) – MLA 2016 in the discussion
Slavic Literatures and Cultures on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months agoDear colleagues,
Please feel free to post the CFP in your department, circulate it as among colleagues and on other e-lists, and forward it to your grad students:
131st MLA Annual Convention, Austin, 7–10 January 2016
Title of panel: “Russia and the Middle East (Pre-modern)”
Description: this special panel examines broad cultural in…[Read more]
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Patti Marxsen replied to the topic CFP: Circulating Notions of TB in the discussion
Autobiography, Biography, and Life Writing on MLA Commons 10 years, 12 months agoThanks Amy!
Patti Marxsen
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Amy Rubens replied to the topic CFP: Circulating Notions of TB in the discussion
Autobiography, Biography, and Life Writing on MLA Commons 10 years, 12 months agoPatti,
Your angle is not off-point at all. What I’m interested in–and this intentionally connects with the conference theme–is the way that these imagined/reconstructed notions of patients’ experiences might shape public behavior (via public health initiatives) or public thought. Exploring how textual representations of TB might shape mu…[Read more]
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Patti Marxsen replied to the topic CFP: Circulating Notions of TB in the discussion
Autobiography, Biography, and Life Writing on MLA Commons 10 years, 12 months agoMy forthcoming biography of Helene Schweitzer (1879-1957), wife of Dr. Albert Schweitzer, addresses Helene’s struggle with TB throughout most of her life. It certainly shaped her image of “frailty”, thereby strengthening her husband’s persona of a larger-than-life, invincible male “hero.” Not sure if this is what you are looking for, Amy, as my “a…[Read more]
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Amy Rubens started the topic CFP: Circulating Notions of TB in the discussion
Autobiography, Biography, and Life Writing on MLA Commons 10 years, 12 months agoCFP: Special session proposal for the MLA 2016.
“Circulating Notions of TB”Papers examining the representation of patients’ experiences with tuberculosis. How do these narratives, metaphors, or images intersect with or actively shape prevailing public health initiatives?
Send 300-word abstracts to Amy Rubens, PhD at arubens@fmarion.edu by March 15.
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Stacey Lee Donohue started the topic Session 257. Reading Memory: Approaches to Teaching the Memoir in the forum
Autobiography, Biography, and Life Writing on MLA Commons 11 years, 1 month agoHere are abstracts for session 257: “Reading Memory: Approaches to Teaching the Memoir”:
Friday, 9 January: S. 257 Reading Memory: Approaches to Teaching the Memoir
10:15–11:30 a.m., West 210, VCC West
Program arranged by the Community College Humanities Association
Presiding: Stacey Lee Donohue, Central Oregon Community Co…[Read more]
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Lenuta Giukin posted an update in the group
LLC Romanian on MLA Commons 11 years, 8 months agoCALL FOR PAPERS
CRISIS IN FILM AND VISUAL MEDIA
An international conference hosted by Vilnius University (Vilnius, Lithuania), September 19-20, 2014Co-organized by Contemporary Art Centre (Vilnius, Lithuania), and Lithuanian Film Centre (Vilnius, Lithuania),
With the participation of keynote speakers dr. Dina Iordanova (University of St.…[Read more]
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Rebecca Jane Stanton replied to the topic CFPs for MLA 2015! in the forum
Slavic Literatures and Cultures on MLA Commons 11 years, 11 months agoAnd one more:
New approaches to Crime and Punishment
Panel proposed by the International Dostoevsky Society
New approaches to Dostoevsky’s novel welcome. How well do existing socio-political, religious, biographical, and psychoanalytic readings serve this text? Abstracts, maximum one page, by 15 March 2014 to Susan McReynolds (susan.mcreynolds@gmail.com). -
Rebecca Jane Stanton started the topic CFPs for MLA 2015! in the forum
Slavic Literatures and Cultures on MLA Commons 11 years, 11 months agoThe Cold War and Experimental Fiction
Panel proposed by the Slavic and East European Literatures Division
In what ways did the Cold War generate experimental narratives? What impact did the Cold War discourse have on unofficial literature? 300-word abstracts by 15 March 2014 to Julia Vaingurt (vaingurt@uic.edu).Central and Eastern Europe in…[Read more]
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Stacey Lee Donohue started the topic CFP: MLA15 Teaching Memoir in the forum
Autobiography, Biography, and Life Writing on MLA Commons 11 years, 11 months agoReading Memory: Approaches to Teaching the Memoir: MLA 2015 Vancouver BC
Stacey Lee Donohue/CCHA Allied Member of the MLA
Autobiography and memoir have become canonical staples, but also contested sites for discussing the boundaries of fictional and non-fictional self-representation. Presentations invited exploring the…[Read more]
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Hans Adler replied to the topic New Franz Kafka play in progress in the forum
Twentieth-Century German Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 11 months agoHello, I’d appreciate if you could send me your play to the following email address: hadler@wisc.edu. I might consider to use it for my annual Kafka lecture here at the UW Madison.
Thanks in advance and congratulations to your achievement!
Sincerely,
Hans Adler
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Gloria Lee McMillan replied to the topic New Franz Kafka play in progress in the forum
Twentieth-Century German Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 11 months agoGood afternoon, Kafka fans,
The play is finished! Anybody wish to read it? I would love comments.
This is a surreal play about the Franz Kafka few people know.
Intriguing?Just ask with a valid email address and I will sennd the play on to you.
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Phillip Lundberg uploaded the file: Josephine the Songstress to
Twentieth-Century German Literature on MLA Commons 12 years, 1 month agoFranz Kafka’s Last Word – a musical homage. More info in the Kafka Group.
Open access, open source, open to all
