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Anne Donlon posted an update in the group
TC Medical Humanities and Health Studies on MLA Commons 8 years, 7 months agoLiterature, Medicine & Medical Humanities (https://medicalhumanities.mla.hcommons-staging.org/) is the new featured site on the MLA Commons homepage (https://mla.hcommons-staging.org/).
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Lee B. Abraham started the topic CfP: Approaches to Teaching and Learning with Urban Spaces – NeMLA 2018 in the discussion
The Teaching of Language on MLA Commons 8 years, 8 months agoCall for Papers
Approaches to Teaching and Learning with Urban Spaces
49th Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) Convention
“Global Spaces, Local Landscapes and Imagined Worlds”
April 12-15, 2018, Pittsburgh, PennsylvaniaNeMLA Web Site: http://www.buffalo.edu/nemla/convention.html
The late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries…[Read more]
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Marisa Verna deposited Corps connaissant(s) et pensée matérielle chez Proust. Les sens du Temps”. in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French on MLA Commons 8 years, 9 months agoThis paper aims to define the concepts of “material thought” and “material time,” as they are theorized by Proust in the Preface of his Ruskin’s Amiens Bible translation, and as they are developed throughout the Recherche. In Proust’s oeuvre ‘material thought’ manifests itself mostly in linguistic and stylistic features, or in concrete images,…[Read more]
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Erin Lamb started the topic CFP: Methods of Health Humanities in the discussion
Medical Humanities and Health Studies on MLA Commons 8 years, 9 months agoCFP: Methods of Health Humanities
Chapter proposals due July 1, 2017
The health humanities are taking shape as a unique field of study, promoted through international organizations and journals, formalized through a wide variety of curricular structures with similarly varied learning objectives. This diversity raises the question of what…[Read more]
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Erin Lamb started the topic still time — international Hippocrates Poetry and Medicine Symposium May 5-6 in the discussion
Medical Humanities and Health Studies on MLA Commons 8 years, 9 months agoI am posting the following on behalf of poet and physician Rafael Campo:
Dear Colleagues,
We hope you’ll consider joining us at Harvard Medical School in Boston on May 5-6 for the international Hippocrates Symposium on Poetry and Medicine. This gathering of health humanities scholars and poets from around the globe is being convened this ye…[Read more]
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Alvan Ikoku posted an update in the group
TC Medical Humanities and Health Studies on MLA Commons 8 years, 10 months ago“Health, Humanities, and Insecurity”
MLA ‘18 NY Conference Forum PanelHow does work at the meeting of health and humanities address contemporary questions about
precarity and insecurity? Panel will draw from a range of literatures, theories, and methods to explore these questions.Send 300-word abstract and CV to Alvan Ikoku, ikoku…[Read more]
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suzanne lalonde posted an update in the group
TC Medical Humanities and Health Studies on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months ago“Trauma and Literature”
MLA ‘18 NY Conference Special SessionHow precisely might literature prove therapeutic to those who have endured traumatic experiences and how might it fail to heal? Drawing on pieces of literature as well as theories from illness narratives, narrative medicine, and trauma theories, among others, this panel seeks resea…[Read more]
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Pedro Esteban Ponce started the topic Introductory / Director's Courses for Study Abroad in the discussion
Applied Linguistics on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoHello:
I’m in my first year of directing a study abroad program in Madrid. I was interested in hearing from current or former study abroad directors about how they approach the introductory or “orientation” course while abroad. How do you balance providing necessary information (about security, getting to know the host campus, etc.) with course…[Read more]
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Mary Wildner-Bassett deposited Applying Theories in Language Programs in the group
LSL Second-Language Teaching and Learning on MLA Commons 8 years, 12 months agoSelected Topics in Applied Linguistics: How to Choose a Theory. I offer a critical exploration of some of the conditions involved in Instructed Second Language Acquisition (ISLA), as well as of the paradoxical approaches in the theoretical questions, methods, categories, and perspectives of ISLA.
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Mary Wildner-Bassett deposited Applying Theories in Language Programs in the group
LSL Applied Linguistics on MLA Commons 8 years, 12 months agoSelected Topics in Applied Linguistics: How to Choose a Theory. I offer a critical exploration of some of the conditions involved in Instructed Second Language Acquisition (ISLA), as well as of the paradoxical approaches in the theoretical questions, methods, categories, and perspectives of ISLA.
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Jennifer Cazenave started the topic CFP: "La France est en guerre" (MLA 2018) in the discussion
Twentieth-Century French Literature on MLA Commons 9 years ago“La France est en guerre” : Witnessing War in Contemporary French Culture
Engaging with the 2018 Presidential theme “States of Insecurity,” this special session seeks cross-disciplinary papers addressing the rhetoric of war in recent French film, literature, and thought.
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Erin Lamb started the topic major poetry and medicine events and awards at Harvard Medical School in the discussion
Medical Humanities and Health Studies on MLA Commons 9 years agoPosted on behalf of poet and physician Rafael Campo, rcampo@bidmc.harvard.edu:
Call for Proposals: 8th Annual Hippocrates Poetry and Medicine Symposium at Harvard Medical School on 6th May 2017
Proposals for abstracts and oral presentation are now being accepted for 8th Annual Hippocrates Poetry and Medicine Symposium, to be convened at Harva…[Read more]
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