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Suha Kudsieh started the topic CFP: Panel on Disability in Anglophone Literature (NeMLA, Baltimore, March 23-26 in the discussion
English Literature Other Than British and American on MLA Commons 9 years, 7 months agoNeMLA 2017 – Disability in Anglophone Literature (Panel)
48th Annual NeMLA Convention
Baltimore, Maryland
March 23 – 26th, 2017Deadline to submit abstract: 09/30/2016
Categories: Anglophone and British Literature.
Location: Baltimore, MD, USA
Institutional host: Johns Hopkins UniversityCFP: panel on “Disability in Anglophone Literature”
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Laila Amine deposited A House with Two Doors? Creole Nationalism and Nomadism in Multicultural London in the group
CLCS Global Anglophone on MLA Commons 9 years, 8 months agoThis article focuses on the limits of liberal discourses such as multiculturalism in an increasing global world. I focus on multicultural London and juxtapose Black British writer, Zadie Smith’s novel, White Teeth to Stephen Frears’ Dirty Pretty Things, to underline the multiple intersections between the status of colored immigrants, their des…[Read more]
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Chandrima Chakraborty started the topic History, Memory, Grief: A 30th Air India Anniversary Conference, McMaster U. Ma in the discussion
South Asian Languages and Literatures on MLA Commons 9 years, 9 months agoHistory, Memory, Grief: A 30th Air India Anniversary Conference
Department of English & Cultural Studies
May 6-7, 2016
McMaster Innovation Park
<div class=”entry-content”>On June 23, 1985 a bomb detonated on Air India Flight 182 en route from Toronto to New Delhi via Montreal. The mid-air explosion killed all 329 passengers and crew, the…[Read more]
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Greg Forter deposited Atlantic and Other Worlds: Critique and Utopia in Postcolonial Historical Fiction in the group
CLCS Global Anglophone on MLA Commons 9 years, 9 months agoThis essay explores the meanings and effects of postcolonial authors’ recent refashioning of classical historical fiction. That refashioning has two aims: a materialist cartography that counters the nationalist vocation of classical historical fiction by revealing the supra-national, global aspirations of colonial capitalism as a system; and an e…[Read more]
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Heidi Bostic deposited The Humanities Must Engage Global Grand Challenges in the group
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 9 years, 10 months agoThe humanities must work together with STEM if we are to succeed in articulating relevant, historically informed, and culturally nuanced responses to grand challenges.
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Binod Paudyal deposited "Reimagining Transnational Identities in Lahiri’s The Namesake" in the group
LLC South Asian and South Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 9 years, 10 months agoThis essay demonstrates that Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Namesake goes beyond conventional wisdom about immigrant experiences in so far as it explores how the South Asian diaspora participates in transnational connections, shaping and transforming the notion of American identity in the contemporary global era. Lahiri’s novel offers us a striking acc…[Read more]
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Rajender Kaur started the topic MLA 2017 Panels: South Asian and South Asian Diasporic Forum in the discussion
South Asian Languages and Literatures on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoHi Folks,
Please consider submitting abstracts for the following panels of the Forum on South Asian and South Asian Diasporic Literatures and Cultures
Thanks,
Raje Kaur
Guaranteed Panel:
Feasting, Fasting, Famine: Representations of Hunger in South Asian Literatures and Cultures
Forum: LLC South Asian and South Asian Diasporic
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Emily Hegarty started the topic CFP: MLA 2017: Teaching Eco-composition at the Community College in the discussion
Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoSpecial Session (to be proposed)
Teaching first-year writing to community college students through an ecocritical lens: interdisciplinary aspects, nature writing, journaling, environmental research, field trips, service learning, etc. 300-500 word abstracts by 15 March 2016; Emily A. Hegarty (emily.hegarty@ncc.edu). -
Giovanna Montenegro started the topic CFP: MLA 2017: The Colonial Americas:Ecocritical Perspectives in the discussion
Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoThis panel seeks papers that address the environment in literature and film of the Early Americas through a Hemispheric perspective (South, Central, North, Caribbean). Papers may address the representation of natural catastrophes and theories on climatology, the representation of endemic vs. invasive species in fiction and travel narratives,…[Read more]
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Moradewun Adejunmobi started the topic CPF for MLA 2017 Illegal Diasporas in African Literature and Cinema in the discussion
LLC African since 1990 on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoIllegal Diasporas in African Literature and Cinema
The Afropolitan is an increasingly salient but contested figure in African literary studies. This panel focuses on alternative figures of diaspora for whom an Afropolitan identity appears beyond reach or ill-advised. The panel provides an opportunity to build on the work of Khalid Koser in the…[Read more]
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Cheryl Narumi Naruse started the topic Petition for Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic in the discussion
South Asian Languages and Literatures on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoPlease support efforts to establish an LLC Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic Forum by signing the petition.
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Ruth Yvonne Hsu started the topic MLA Teaching Volume on Karen Tei Yamashita: Survey and CFP in the discussion
Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoPlease tell us about your experience (use this link) teaching the work of Karen Tei Yamashita and help shape a new MLA volume in the series, Approaches to World Literature. Information about proposing an essay for this volume is included at the end of the survey. Deadline: June 1, 2016.
Note: Survey and CFP in addition to CFP for an MLA 2017…[Read more]
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Binod Paudyal deposited Breaking the Boundary: Reading Lahiri’s The Lowland as a Neo-cosmopolitan Fiction in the group
LLC South Asian and South Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 10 years agoThis essay offers a critical reading of Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Lowland as a “neo-cosmopolitan fiction,” one which is invested in imagining a transnational and global community, in order to initiate a new analytical framework for South Asian diasporic literature. I argue that this critical framework not only challenges the notion of literary canon…[Read more]
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Peter J. Kalliney deposited Modernism in a Global Context (introduction) in the group
CLCS Global Anglophone on MLA Commons 10 years agoExploring the transnational dimension of literary modernism and its increasing centrality to our understanding of 20th-century literary culture, Modernism in a Global Context surveys the key issues and debates central to the ‘global turn’ in contemporary Modernist Studies.
Topics covered include:
– Transnational literary exchange
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Rajender Kaur started the topic Feasting, Fasting, Famine: Representations of Hunger in South Asian Literatures in the discussion
South Asian Languages and Literatures on MLA Commons 10 years agoFeasting, Fasting, Famine: Representations of Hunger in South Asian Literatures and Culture
South Asia and South Asian Diasporic Forum of the MLA invites proposals on theorizing the politics, aesthetics, ethics, affect, of figurations of hunger in South Asian literatures and cultures. Presentations may focus on hunger in a range of contexts…[Read more]
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Jeffrey Jerome Cohen deposited Midhumanism in the group
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 10 years agocontribution to roundtable on “Becoming Human” co-sponsored by the Middle English and Chaucer forums
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Serpil Oppermann started the topic EASLCE: 7th Biennial Conference "Wildness without Wilderness" in the discussion
Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 10 years ago“Wildness without Wilderness”: The Poiesis of Energy and Instability
The European Association for the Study of Literature, Culture and Environment (EASLCE): 7th Biennial Conference (Brussels, Belgium— from 27 to 30 October 2016)
Hosted by the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) and its Department of Languages and Literatures, in associ…[Read more]
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Stephanie LeMenager started the topic Ecomedia Roundtable for 2017 in the discussion
Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 10 years agoDear Forum Members,
Please check out our CFP for the sponsored Forum for 2017!!! The topic, “Ecomedia,” reflects your requests from last year.
Looking forward to seeing your abstracts!
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Allison Carruth started the topic Future of Food Studies conference at Princeton in April in the discussion
Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 10 years agoCritical Consumption: The Future of Food Studies
Princeton University American Studies Program
April 1-2, 2016For those interested in food studies and its intersections with the environmental humanities, American Studies, ethnic studies and/or media studies, this promises to be an exciting two-day invitational conference open to the public to…[Read more]
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Joela Jacobs posted an update in the group
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 10 years agoGerman Studies Association Conference Seminar (September 29 ‐ October , 2016 in San Diego)
THE LITERARY LIFE OF PLANTS: AGENCY, LANGUAGES, AND POETICS OF THE VEGETALCONVENERS
Joela Jacobs, University of Arizona (joelajacobs@email.arizona.edu)
Isabel Kranz, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (isabel.kranz@lrz.uni-muenchen.de)SEMINAR DES…[Read more]
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