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Joanne Bernardi started the topic CFP (MLA 2022) "Antiracist Pedagogy in Modern Japanese Studies (1900-present)" in the discussion
LLC Japanese since 1900 on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoCFP MLA 2022 (Guaranteed panel): We invite papers exploring antiracist pedagogies in modern (1900 to the present) Japanese Studies classrooms, program curricula, and campus/disciplinary outreach. In particular, we seek presentations that are intersectional in approach, taking into consideration relations between race and class, gender, sexuality,…[Read more]
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Joanne Bernardi started the topic CFP Decolonial & Indigenous Interventions in Japanophone Media/Lit 1900-present in the discussion
East Asian Languages and Literatures after 1900 on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoCFP MLA 2022 – LLC Japanese since 1900 Forum (Guaranteed panel)
This panel invites papers that apply approaches in indigenous studies and epistemologies to the study of study Japanophone cultural, intellectual, and aesthetic productions. Given the long history and global legacy of Japanese colonialisms and settler colonialisms, this panel…[Read more]
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Joanne Bernardi started the topic CFP Decolonial & Indigenous Interventions in Japanophone Media/Lit 1900-present in the discussion
LLC Japanese since 1900 on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoCFP MLA 2022 – LLC Japanese since 1900 Forum (Guaranteed panel)
This panel invites papers that apply approaches in indigenous studies and epistemologies to the study of study Japanophone cultural, intellectual, and aesthetic productions. Given the long history and global legacy of Japanese colonialisms and settler colonialisms, this panel…[Read more]
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “Five themes in Asian Shakespeare adaptations,” Oxford University Press blog, February 16, 2021 in the group
LLC East Asian on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoSince the nineteenth century, stage and film directors have mounted hundreds of adaptations of Shakespeare drawn on East Asian motifs, and by the late twentieth century, Shakespeare had become one of the most frequently performed playwrights in East Asia. There are five striking themes surrounding cultural, racial, and gender dynamics. Gender…[Read more]
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Elizabeth M. Holt deposited Resistance Literature and Occupied Palestine in Cold War Beirut in the group
2019 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoFREE ACCESS: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0377919X.2020.1855933
For the last decade of his life, the Palestinian intellectual, author, and editor Ghassan Kanafani (d. 1972) was deeply immersed in theorizing, lecturing, and publishing on Palestinian resistance literature from Beirut. A refugee of the 1948 war, Kanafani presented…[Read more] -
Caroline Winter deposited Romantic Literature and the Emergence of Modern Commercial Society (Syllabus) in the group
CLCS Romantic and 19th-Century on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoA syllabus for a 300-level (3rd year) English literature course taught at the University of Victoria’s English department
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited Shakespeare and East Asia (Oxford University Press, 2021) in the group
LLC East Asian on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoFour themes distinguish post-1950s East Asian cinemas and theaters from works in other parts of the world: Japanese innovations in sound and spectacle; Sinophone uses of Shakespeare for social reparation; the reception of South Korean presentations of gender identities in film and touring productions; and multilingual, disability, and racial…[Read more]
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Marisa Verna deposited Il cuore moltiplicato di Baudelaire in the group
LLC 19th-Century French on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoWhere was Baudelaire standing, when facing the “great questions” of the Infinite, of evil, and of the christian faith? Was he a Christian? This article does not aim to respond once for all to this question, instead it states two key words that may help to ask it in a more correct way: incarnation and charity.
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Julia Elsky started the topic CFP (MLA): Making Waves: Two Decades of Experimental Romanian Cinema in the discussion
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century 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 th…[Read more]
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Weihsin Gui started the topic CFP: Archipelagic Thinking in Asian American and Southeast Asian Literature in the discussion
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 4 years, 12 months agoCall for papers: Archipelagic Thinking in Asian American and Southeast Asian Literature (MLA 2022)
We invite papers for a proposed session on “Archipelagic Thinking in Asian American and Southeast Asian Literature” for the 2022 Modern Language Association conference (6-9 January). The session is co-sponsored by the MLA’s Asian American Liter…[Read more]
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Scott Challener deposited Contemporary Latinx Literatures & Cultures in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 4 years, 12 months agoThis course is a study of Latinx literatures and cultures produced in the last two decades. We will concentrate our attention on how contemporary art works represent and participate in the upheavals of the twenty-first century—9/11, global economic and ecological crisis, mass migration and mass deportation, political and social mobilization, s…[Read more]
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Christopher M. Lupke started the topic CFP Ritual and Representation in East Asian Literature in the discussion
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 5 years agoRitual and Representation in East Asian Literature We are inviting proposals for papers featuring ritual as a theme or structuring device in East Asian (including diasporic) literature in relation to belief, kinship, and/or community. This will be a collaborative session between the TC Anthropology and Literature and TC Religion and Literature…[Read more]
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “The Roots of Anti-Asian Racism in the U.S.: The Pandemic and ‘Yellow Peril’.” Global Social Security Review Vol. 15 (Winter 2020): 50-59 in the group
LLC East Asian on MLA Commons 5 years agoScroll down to read the Korean, followed by English, versions :::::: COVID-19 has exacerbated anti-Asian racism—the demonization of a group of people based on their perceived social value—in the United States in the cultural and political life. Offering strategies for inclusion during and after the pandemic, this article analyzes the his…[Read more]
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Lisa Nalbone posted an update in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 5 years agoAnnouncing the “1st Biannual Conference of the Center for José Martí Studies Affiliate” Jan. 28-30, 2021. For more information, please visit: https://www.ut.edu/academics/college-of-arts-and-letters/center-for-jos%C3%A9-mart%C3%AD-studies-affiliate/1st-biannual-conference-registration
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Gian Piero Persiani started the topic "Pre-1900 Japanese Literature: What Next?" Post-panel Discussion in the discussion
LLC Japanese to 1900 on MLA Commons 5 years agoPerhaps someone is interested (hopefully many are) in continuing the conversation on the directions of our field? There is so much to say. I share Paul’s concern about the shrinking of premodern, which is why I was stressing the importance of history and studying the past as past. But that’s just one angle. Anyway, just creating a space to…[Read more]
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Elizabeth N. Emery started the topic 19th-century French at this year's convention in the discussion
LLC 19th-Century French on MLA Commons 5 years agoHappy New Year to all on behalf of the Modern Language Association LLC 19th-century French committee members!
In case you’re finding Confex a bit daunting, we have compiled below a list of sessions pertinent to nineteenth-century French studies (broadly writ). If your paper/panel is not featured, please feel free to reply to the list so…[Read more]
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Tariq Sheikh deposited This Side of the Long Tunnel: The Emergence of the Idea of Japan’s ‘Snow Country’ in the Nineteenth Century in the group
LLC Japanese to 1900 on MLA Commons 5 years agoIn Nobel laureate Kawabata Yasunari’s novel Snow Country, the protagonist Shimamura refers to an “old book” which gave him in-depth knowledge about the region known in Japan as the “Snow Country”. The name of the book is not disclosed by Kawabata, but it is now known that the “old book” is Hokuetsu Seppu (first published in 1837), written by Su…[Read more]
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Li Guo started the topic Invitation to LLC Ming Qing Chinese Social Event, Session 11077 in the discussion
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 5 years agoInvitation to MLA 2021 LLC Ming and Qing Chinese Social EventSession 11077: January 7th, TR, 8:45pm-10:00pm EST
Event in the program: https://mla.confex.com/mla/2021/meetingapp.cgi/Session/11077
Dear colleagues attending the upcoming MLA,
Please join us for lively conversations and networking with colleagues at MLA.
Forum members:…[Read more]
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Ryan Hintzman started the topic MLA 2021: Pre-1900 Japanese Literature: What Next? (9 Jan, 10:15am; Session 382) in the discussion
LLC Japanese to 1900 on MLA Commons 5 years, 1 month agoSaturday, 9 January 10:15AM-11:30AM EST (Session #382)
Scholars at various career stages from the United States, Europe, and Japan think together with the audience about strategies for ensuring the vitality of pre-1900 Japanese literary studies given the field’s distinctive history and configuration and the challenges of teaching and conducting r…[Read more]
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Carmela Mattza deposited VARIEDADES INTERMEDIATE / INTERMEDIATE ADVANCED SPANISH CONVERSATION in the group
2020 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 5 years, 1 month agoVARIEDADES is a Spanish conversation book for the student at the intermediate / advanced intermediate level. Through audiovisual activities, the student is expected to put their previous knowledge into practice and continue to develop their ability to understand, write, listen, and speak in Spanish.
VARIEDADES offers communicative activities…[Read more] - Load More