The exco is currently in the process of planning panels for next year’s MLA.  We have some ideas but are eager to hear suggestions and proposals from you.  If you would like to organize a panel, or to suggest a topic for one, please contact me.

Next year’s MLA will be in San Francisco, Jan. 5-8, 2023.  The Presidential Theme is described here, bu…[Read more]

As most of you know, forum executive committee members serve five-year terms; each year one new member joins the exco as one leaves.  Historically, new members have been elected by the forum membership.  However, beginning this cycle MLA is experimenting with a new policy.

Here’s MLA’s explanation:

The Program Committee has implemented a change t…

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We’ve just posted the following call for papers for a panel for MLA 2022:

Title:  The Translation’s Semivisibility: Interlingual, Intralingual, and Other Kinds of Translation in Premodern Japan

Description:  We invite papers exploring translation in premodern Japan, with particular emphasis on types of linguistic rendering that challenge or bro…[Read more]

We invite papers exploring relationships between text and image (broadly defined) in premodern Japan.  Scholars from a variety of disciplines welcome.  250-word abstracts to Glynne Walley (glynne@uoregon.edu) by February 29, 2020.