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Margaret Hanzimanolis started the topic Deadline fast approaching for travel grants in the discussion
Part-Time Faculty Members on MLA Commons 10 years, 2 months agoPart-time faculty and other contingent faculty are eligible for travel grants to attend the convention in Austin.
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Margaret Hanzimanolis started the topic New documentary release yesterday! in the discussion
Part-Time Faculty Members on MLA Commons 10 years, 2 months agoFreeway Fliers can be found here. It contains very interesting observations, including a point about the tenure process now being very much complicit in the de-radicalization of the professoriate!
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Margaret Hanzimanolis posted a new activity comment on MLA Commons 10 years, 4 months ago
Yes, it’s great. I think Bennet Carpenter was the origin of the title!
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Margaret Hanzimanolis started the topic CFP: Between the Public and its Privates (MLA Subconference) in the discussion
Media and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 4 months agoThe Public and its Privates
Submission deadline: October 16, 2015
Submit to: mlasubconference@gmail.comBetween the Public and Its Privates
Third Annual MLA Subconference
in partnership with Punctum Books
January 6-7, 2016
Location: Studium Art Space
638 Tillery St., Austin, TX 78702Today it seems almost impossible to point to the public…[Read more]
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Margaret Hanzimanolis started the topic CFP: The Public and its Privates in the discussion
Autobiography, Biography, and Life Writing on MLA Commons 10 years, 4 months agoBetween the Public and Its Privates
Third Annual MLA Subconference
in partnership with Punctum BooksJanuary 6-7, 2016 (FREE)
Location: Studium Art Space (FREE)
638 Tillery St., Austin, TX 78702As the 2016 MLA Convention turns to consider “Literature and its Publics” the third annual meeting of the MLA Subconference challenges participants to…[Read more]
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Margaret Hanzimanolis started the topic MLA subconference call for papers in the discussion
Part-Time Faculty Members on MLA Commons 10 years, 4 months agoAs the 2016 MLA Convention turns to consider “Literature and its Publics” the third annual meeting of the MLA Subconference challenges participants to propose sessions somewhere “Between the Public and its Privates”.
Today it seems almost impossible to point to the public without uncovering its uncanny twin–the private. Consider Google’s Han…[Read more]
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Margaret Hanzimanolis started the topic New Initiative for articulating support for contingent faculty in the discussion
Part-Time Faculty Members on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months agoI hope members of his discussion group can utilize the MLA site for registering one’s support for contingent faculty both within the MLA and in one’s department, union, and institution. Here’s the…[Read more]
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Margaret Hanzimanolis replied to the topic Correction to the Record on the Delegate Assembly Vote in the discussion
MLA Members for Justice in Palestine on MLA Commons 11 years agoThank you all for the discussions.
One correction, Russell A. Berman (this claim was in another thread on the “other” MLA Commons Page) : Factually, I called for a suspension of a declared 15 minute break so that the DA could get to the MOTION on MLA governance and the inclusion of PTF, which I and others had spent many months developing, w…[Read more]
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Margaret Hanzimanolis replied to the topic #Precariat conversation at Shanker Institute in the discussion
Part-Time Faculty Members on MLA Commons 11 years agoThanks for doing this, Nicky! I was tweeting away on another channel until Fabian Banga oriented me…
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Margaret Hanzimanolis started the topic MOTION for more PTF in governance PASSED in the forum
Part-Time Faculty Members on MLA Commons 11 years agoWe were successful in moving that a PTF be a required member of the Executive Council! The motion, put forward by the radical caucus, also asked for more governance opportunities for PTF throughout the organization. The dominance of tenured faculty in the MLA is beginning to topple. Please get in touch with me at hanzimanolis@gmail.com if you w…[Read more]
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Margaret Hanzimanolis started the topic Useful to review past, ratified MLA resolutions in the forum
Scholarship, Censorship, Exclusion on MLA Commons 11 years agoSelect resolutions from 1981 and 1986, ratified by the membership
1981 Delegate Assembly Meeting; 1982 membership vote
Resolution 1
Be it resolved that the Modern Language Association express its outrage and sorrow at the suppression of human rights in Poland, which involves the persecution and harsh detention of students, teachers,…[Read more]
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Margaret Hanzimanolis replied to the topic Files and materials in the forum
MLA Members for Justice in Palestine on MLA Commons 11 years agoHere are a few key resolutions passed in the 1980s. They are indisputably engaged with national and international issues:
1981 Delegate Assembly Meeting; 1982 membership vote
Resolution 1
Be it resolved that the Modern Language Association express its outrage and sorrow at the suppression of human rights in Poland, which involves the…[Read more]
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Margaret Hanzimanolis started the topic Nominees sought for the PT and other Contingent Faculty committee in the forum
Part-Time Faculty Members on MLA Commons 11 years agoPlease write to Maria Maisto, the incoming chair, if you would like to serve on this committee. It is a potentially important committee in an environment of rapidly increasing hospitality toward contingent and adjunct participation in the business of the MLA!
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Margaret Hanzimanolis replied to the topic Resolution to Endorse the Boycott of Israeli Academic Institutions in the forum
MLA Members for Justice in Palestine on MLA Commons 11 years agoI am assuming that the agreement that this group made with the DAOC does not bind “other” groups or individuals from advancing a resolution similar to this one. How can the DA say that it will not entertain any resolutions before 2017 based on this agreement with a small group? Is that sort of pre-emptive maneuver not a violation of democratic…[Read more]
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Margaret Hanzimanolis started the topic 2015-1 MOTION WILL BE HEARD AT DELEGATE ASSEMBLY MTG. in the forum
The Teaching of Writing on MLA Commons 11 years agoMotion 2015-1:
Proposers of record: John Maerhofer and Margaret Hanzimanolis on behalf of the Radical Caucus in English and the Modern LanguagesWhereas Part-Time Faculty (PTF) constitute over 50% of the faculty in the US, and presumably a similar percentage of language and literature faculty;
Whereas PTF are presumably and anecdotally…[Read more]
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Margaret Hanzimanolis started the topic 2015-1 MOTION coming up at the Delegate Assembly mtg in the forum
Teaching as a Profession on MLA Commons 11 years agoPlease consider attending the Delegate Assembly in order to support this MOTION:
Motion 2015-1:
Proposers of record: John Maerhofer and Margaret Hanzimanolis on behalf of the Radical Caucus in English and the Modern Languages
Supporting materials: Click here to see the information provided by the proposers.Whereas Part-Time Faculty (PTF)…[Read more]
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Margaret Hanzimanolis started the topic Radical caucus sponsored motion in the forum
Radical Caucus on MLA Commons 11 years agoMotion 2015-1
Proposers of record: John Maerhofer and Margaret Hanzimanolis on behalf of the Radical Caucus in English and the Modern Languages
Supporting materials: Click here to see the information provided by the proposers.Whereas Part-Time Faculty (PTF) constitute over 50% of the faculty in the US, and presumably a similar percentage of…[Read more]
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Margaret Hanzimanolis started the topic MLA MOTION 2015-1 on Part-time faculty in governance in the forum
Part-Time Faculty Members on MLA Commons 11 years agoThis motion was submitted by the radical caucus of the MLA, and will be discussed at the open hearing on Friday and the Delegate assembly on Saturday. Please come to both venues, if you can, to support the motion and speak in its behalf!
Motion 2015-1
Proposers of record: John Maerhofer and Margaret Hanzimanolis on behalf of the Radical Caucus…[Read more]
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Margaret Hanzimanolis started the topic MLA Subconference in Vancouver Wed, Jan 7-9,2015 in the forum
Part-Time Faculty Members on MLA Commons 11 years agoPlease consider attending this important conference, to be held on two days before the regular MLA.
http://mlasubconference.org/2015-program/
Subconference of the MLA “Non-Negotiable Sites of Struggle” January 7-9, 2015
Location: Simon Fraser University
Harbour Centre Joseph and Rosalie Segal Room*co-sponsored by the TSSU
Wednesday, Jan…[Read more]
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