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Liam Corley started the topic CFP: Religion and Early Literature (MLA in Austin, TX, 7-10 Jan, 2016) in the discussion
Literature and Religion on MLA Commons 10 years, 12 months agoReligion and Early Literature (MLA 2016 in Austin, TX, 7-10 January)
Given the difficulty of distinguishing between literary and religious texts in early periods, how do literary scholars differ in their approaches to early texts from scholars of religious studies? We invite papers on religious literature from the sixth to the seventeenth…[Read more]
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Liam Corley started the topic CFP: Pedagogical Approaches to Sacred Texts and Literature (MLA 2016 in Austin, in the discussion
Literature and Religion on MLA Commons 10 years, 12 months agoPedagogical Approaches to Sacred Texts and Literature (MLA 2016 in Austin, TX, 7-10 January)
Strategies and issues related to teaching sacred texts/selections as literature or literature as religious practice. All religions and periods. Panel sponsored by MLA Forum on Religion and Literature. Abstract/CV by 15 March 2015; Lisa Gordis, lgordis@barnard.edu
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Liam Corley started the topic CFP: Heavens Above: Envisioning Religion in Science Fiction, MLA 2016 in the discussion
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Alien religions, post-secular numinous experience, evolutionary religious developments, neo-religious epiphanies–science fiction rarely leaves religion behind as it leaps to the stars. Papers addressing… -
Keith Dorwick started the topic CFP: Chronicles of Narnia at 60, Austin in the discussion
Literature and Religion on MLA Commons 11 years agoI am seeking speakers for a panel at the next meeting of the Modern Language Association in Austin TX, 7-10 January 2015. Successful panelists will present short critical papers (20 mins; 6 double spaced pages single sided; this is a firm limit) that discuss C. S. Lewis’ Chronicles of Narnia as a whole on the 60th anniversary of the completion o…[Read more]
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Ivonne del Valle started the topic CALL FOR PAPERS 131st MLA ANNUAL CONVENTION Austin, 7-10 January 2016 in the discussion
Colonial Latin American Literatures on MLA Commons 11 years agoSESSIONS: FORUM OF COLONIAL LATIN AMERICAN LITERATURES
Colonial Texts and Communities of Readers
Chair: Mónica Díaz, University of Kentucky
Engaging with the presidential theme for MLA 2016, “Literature and Its Publics,” this panel focuses on the material history of the production of texts – in both manuscript and printed forms – an…[Read more]
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Beth Ellen Jörgensen started the topic CFP MLA 2016, Mexican Forum Panel in the discussion
Mexican Cultural and Literary Studies on MLA Commons 11 years agoMateriality and Mexican Culture
Material culture—the production, possession, display, gifting and consumption of material goods and the built environment—plays an active role in the construction and reception of socially determined meanings. We measure core cultural values such as authenticity, tradition and progress in part through our rel…[Read more]
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Sara Vicuna Guengerich replied to the topic MLA Convention: Colonial Latin American Literatures Division Panels in the forum
Colonial Latin American Literatures on MLA Commons 11 years, 1 month agoDear Colleagues,
Another session of interest for colonialists is the GEMELA sponsored panel “In Search of Forgotten Women in Pre 1800 Iberia and the Americas.” Thursday, January 8, 7:00-8:15 pm, VCC East.
Presider: Emily Francomano
Sara Vicuña Guengerich, Texas Tech University, “Daughters of the Inca Conquest: Native Women in Spanish Colonial Pr…[Read more] -
Anna More started the topic MLA Convention Colonial Happy Hour in the forum
Colonial Latin American Literatures on MLA Commons 11 years, 1 month agoThe Division of Colonial Latin American Literatures would like to invite you to join us for our annual Colonial Happy Hour at the upcoming MLA Conference in Vancouver:
Colonial Happy Hour
Bellagio Wine Bar
Friday, January 9, 5 pm – 7 pmBellagio Wine Bar is located in the Convention Centre. More information may be found at the webs…[Read more]
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Anna More started the topic MLA Convention: Colonial Latin American Literatures Division Panels in the forum
Colonial Latin American Literatures on MLA Commons 11 years, 1 month agoThe Division of Colonial Latin American Literatures has sponsored the following panels at the upcoming MLA Conference in Vancouver:
228. Connecting Spanish and Portuguese Empires
Friday, 9 January, 10:15–11:30 a.m., 3, VCC East
428. The Enlightenment in the Colonies
Saturday, 10 January, 8:30–9:45 a.m., 17, VCC East
739. Indigenous Texts a…[Read more]
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Cathleen Carris uploaded the file: CFP: JHU Program in Latin American Studies Spring Conference 2015 to
Colonial Latin American Literatures on MLA Commons 11 years, 2 months agoThe graduate students of the Program in Latin American Studies at Johns Hopkins University invite the submission of abstracts for our Spring Conference, “Urban Transformations in Latin America”, to take place April 3rd, 2015.
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Cathleen Carris uploaded the file: CFP: JHU Program in Latin American Studies Spring Conference 2015 to
Colonial Latin American Literatures on MLA Commons 11 years, 2 months agoThe graduate students of the Program in Latin American Studies at Johns Hopkins University invite the submission of abstracts for our Spring Conference, “Urban Transformations in Latin America”, to take place April 3rd, 2015.
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Cathleen Carris uploaded the file: CFP: JHU Program in Latin American Studies Spring Conference 2015 to
Colonial Latin American Literatures on MLA Commons 11 years, 2 months agoThe graduate students of the Program in Latin American Studies at Johns Hopkins University invite the submission of abstracts for our Spring Conference, “Urban Transformations in Latin America”, to take place April 3rd, 2015.
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Cathleen Carris uploaded the file: CFP: JHU Program in Latin American Studies Spring Conference 2015 to
Colonial Latin American Literatures on MLA Commons 11 years, 2 months agoThe graduate students of the Program in Latin American Studies at Johns Hopkins University invite the submission of abstracts for our Spring Conference, “Urban Transformations in Latin America”, to take place April 3rd, 2015.
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Cathleen Carris uploaded the file: CFP: JHU Program in Latin American Studies Spring Conference 2015 to
Colonial Latin American Literatures on MLA Commons 11 years, 2 months agoThe graduate students of the Program in Latin American Studies at Johns Hopkins University invite the submission of abstracts for our Spring Conference, “Urban Transformations in Latin America”, to take place April 3rd, 2015.
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Leila Tarakji started the topic CFP: Global Halal Conference in the forum
Literature and Religion on MLA Commons 11 years, 3 months agoGlobal Halal
An International Conference on Muslims and the Cultural Politics of the PermissibleFebruary 19-21, 2015
Michigan State University
East Lansing, Michigan
Global Halal is an international conference organized by the Muslim Studies Program at Michigan State University in partnership with the UK-based Muslim, Trust and Cultural…[Read more] -
Gerardo Pignatiello started the topic CFP Dossier "Crime/Detective Fiction in Latin America and the Caribbean" in the forum
Mexican Cultural and Literary Studies on MLA Commons 11 years, 4 months agoCFP Revista Badebec, University of Rosario, Argentina. Dossier “Crime/Detective Fiction in Latin America and the Caribbean (1980-2014)” (literature, film, and TV). First deadline: November 30th, 2014. Contact: badebec@gmail.com
BADEBEC INVITA A PARTICIPAR DE SU PRÓXIMO DOSSIER
“Ficciones policiales en Latinoamérica y el Caribe”
Para el númer…[Read more]
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Laura E. Savu started the topic The Good Life and the Greater Good in a Global Context in the forum
Literature and Religion on MLA Commons 11 years, 7 months agoDear colleagues,
I’m writing to invite you to submit proposals for a collection of essays that is tentatively titled The Good Life and the Greater Good in a Global Context. The essays need to focus on the discourses and practices of the good life, understood in all of its dimensions—material, psychological, ethical, spiritual, etc. –and appro…[Read more]
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Juan Carlos Ramírez-Pimienta started the topic MLA 2015.NAFTA, Neoliberalism, and 21st-Century Mexican Narratives. A Roundtable in the forum
Mexican Cultural and Literary Studies on MLA Commons 11 years, 11 months agoMLA 2015
NAFTA, Neoliberalism, and 21st-Century Mexican Narratives. A Roundtable
Position papers on how Mexico is imagined and narrated after two decades of NAFTA’s implementation. Send abstract and bio by 15 March 2014; Juan Carlos Ramírez-Pimienta (jcramire@rohan.sdsu.edu).
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