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Dr Rahul K Gairola deposited Lightening Talk: Brown Skin, White Masks: Predictive Technology, Colonial Histories, and Queer Sexuality Today in the group
TC Sexuality Studies on Humanities Commons 5 years, 6 months agoLightening Talk: Brown Skin, White Masks: Predictive Technology, Colonial Histories, and Queer Sexuality Today
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Dr Rahul K Gairola deposited Lightening Talk: Brown Skin, White Masks: Predictive Technology, Colonial Histories, and Queer Sexuality Today in the group
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 5 years, 6 months agoLightening Talk: Brown Skin, White Masks: Predictive Technology, Colonial Histories, and Queer Sexuality Today
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Dr Rahul K Gairola deposited Lightening Talk: Brown Skin, White Masks: Predictive Technology, Colonial Histories, and Queer Sexuality Today in the group
LLC Asian American on MLA Commons 5 years, 6 months agoLightening Talk: Brown Skin, White Masks: Predictive Technology, Colonial Histories, and Queer Sexuality Today
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Brian Bernards started the topic CFP: Multisensory Dissent & Alliance Building – Society of Sinophone Studies in the discussion
CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 5 years, 6 months agoCall For Papers: https://www.sinophonestudies.org/cfp
The Inaugural Biennial Conference of the Society of Sinophone Studies
Multisensory Dissent & Alliance Building
Friday-Saturday, April 23-24, 2021
University of Southern California*
Los Angeles, CA
The COVID-19 pandemic has wrought disproportionately negative effects on communities based…[Read more]
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Lisa L. Tyler deposited Ernest Hemingway, Global American Modernist in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 5 years, 7 months agoA Companion to World Literature. John Wiley and Sons, 2020. Available in Wiley Online Library, https://www.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9781118635193
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Zahid R. Chaudhary deposited The Politics of Exposure: Truth After Post-Facts in the group
2020 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 5 years, 7 months agoThis essay analyzes contemporary politics of truth across overlapping contexts: the predicament of whistleblowers, the proliferation of digital disinformation, the extractive imperatives of data economies, and the impossibility of exposing the truth when exposé becomes itself a game. The essay reads the recent cultural and political interest in…[Read more]
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Ben Vu Tran started the topic Southeast Asian Literary & Cultural Studies: Navigating the Job Market in the discussion
CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 5 years, 7 months agoSoutheast Asian Literary & Cultural Studies: Navigating the Job Market Wednesday, July 22, 2020 / 4:00pm EST (US & Canada) Please join members of the MLA Southeast Asian & Southeast Asian Diasporic forum to discuss how candidates working in Southeast Asian literary and cultural studies can effectively navigate the academic job market. This co…[Read more]
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John Hansen deposited “Defying Stereotypes: To Assimilate or Not Assimilate?” in the group
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 5 years, 8 months agoDoes the shift away from following or portraying the typical Asian male in my own life help Asians as a whole? Yes. Doing so can help Asian-Americans because it might allow others who view or interact with me to then change their perceptions about other Asian males and help them be more open-minded and accepting. This personal essay explores such notions.
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John Hansen deposited “Defying Stereotypes: To Assimilate or Not Assimilate?” in the group
LLC Asian American on MLA Commons 5 years, 8 months agoDoes the shift away from following or portraying the typical Asian male in my own life help Asians as a whole? Yes. Doing so can help Asian-Americans because it might allow others who view or interact with me to then change their perceptions about other Asian males and help them be more open-minded and accepting. This personal essay explores such notions.
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Ryan Calabretta-Sajder started the topic What’s the future have in store for the Italian American Studies Association? in the discussion
2018 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 5 years, 8 months agoWhat’s the future have in store for the Italian American Studies Association? Join the Italian American Studies Association on May 22, 2020 at 4:00 PM Eastern Time for a Zoom Q&A regarding the Lucca Symposium, Pittsburgh Conference, and the new IASA journal published by the University of Illinois Press. The participants will provide updates and a…[Read more]
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Jervette Ward started the topic CFP Women and Language in the discussion
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 5 years, 9 months agohttps://mla.hcommons-staging.org/groups/african-american/
Call for Papers | Women & LanguageEditor: Leland G. Spencer, PhD | Miami University Women & Language, an international, interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal publishes original scholarly articles and creative work covering all aspects of communication, language, and gender.…[Read more]
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Ifeoma C. Kiddoe Nwankwo started the topic In Memoriam: African American Literary and Scholarly Greats in the discussion
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 5 years, 10 months agoSubmit 300-word abstracts for an In Memoriam Panel celebrating and critically engaging with the works and legacies of recently departed writers and scholars to jervette@gmail.com by April 6.
LLC African American Forum
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Matthew Kirschenbaum deposited Books.Files: Preservation of Digital Assets in the Contemporary Publishing Industry (A Report) in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 5 years, 10 months agoThe book publishing industry is an important social, cultural, and economic institution whose records deserve to be preserved for the public good. Books.Files was an exploratory project funded in part by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation aimed at assessing the archival value of digital assets in the contemporary publishing industry for stakeholders…[Read more]
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Elena Margarita Past started the topic LLC 20th and 21st Century Italian in the discussion
2020 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 5 years, 10 months agoPlease consider submitting proposals for one of two guaranteed sessions organized by the Forum on 20th and 21st century Italian Literature at the 2021 MLA Convention in Toronto, from January 10-14, 2021.
1. MLA 2021, LLC 20th and 21st Century Italian, Guaranteed Session. Occupied Italy. This panel welcomes papers examining literary texts and…[Read more]
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Ahmed Idrissi Alami deposited CFPs: MLA 2021, CLCS Global Arab and Arab American in the group
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 5 years, 11 months agoGlobal Indigeneity
Considers theoretical and political questions raised by the model of “trans-indigeneity” paying attention to indigenous mythologies, histories of settler colonialism, and questions of comparison, translation, resistance, language, and appropriation. 300-word abstract and short bio.
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Elizabeth M. Holt deposited Al-Ṭayyib Ṣāliḥ’s Season of Migration to the North, the CIA, and the Cultural Cold War after Bandung in the group
2019 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 5 years, 11 months agoIn the fall of 1966, Ḥiwār magazine published al-Ṭayyib Ṣāliḥ’s novel Mawsim al-hijrah ilā al-shamāl [ Season of Migration to the North ]. Arabic literary critics both hailed the novel in the Arabic press and mourned that it had been published by the Paris-based Congress for Cultural Freedom’s Ḥiwār, part of a global covert cultural front of the C…[Read more]
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Brian Bernards started the topic MLA Toronto 2021 CFP: Archipelagic Studies in Asian Am & SE Asian Lit in the discussion
CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 5 years, 11 months ago2) Archipelagic Studies in Asian American and Southeast Asian Literature
We invite papers focused on the archipelagic relations between Asian American and South East Asian literary studies, and especially attuned to migration, environment, settler colonialism, and radical friction. Please submit 300-word abstract and 1-page CV.Deadline for…[Read more]
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Brian Bernards started the topic MLA Toronto 2021 CFP: Authoritarianism & SE Asia in the discussion
CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 5 years, 11 months agoCFP: “Authoritarianism and Southeast Asia”
Modern Language Association Annual Convention
January 7–10, 2021, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Presidential Theme: “Persistence”
The recent prominence of a global “New Right” has upended the progressivist teleology that, at the end of the Cold War, located the political and economic regime of the “moder…[Read more]
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Elena Machado Sáez started the topic MLA 2021 CFP: "Afro-Latinx Stories" and "Latinx Affect" in the discussion
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 5 years, 11 months agoDear MLA members,
Please consider submitting proposals for one of the following CFPs for the Modern Language Association’s 2021 convention in Toronto!
MLA 2021 Call For Papers: Afro-Latinx Stories
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Jeehyun Lim started the topic Asian American Forum CFPs for MLA 2021 Convention in the discussion
LLC Asian American via email on MLA Commons 5 years, 11 months agoDear all,
Please see the CFPs below for panels sponsored by the Asian American Forum. If you have any questions, please let us know.
Jeehyun Lim
Modern Language Association (MLA) Annual Convention
Toronto, January 7-10, 2021
1. (Guaranteed Session with Southeast Asian Forum)
We invite papers drawing attention to the archipelagic relation…[Read more] - Load More
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