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Anne Donlon started the topic Seattle recommendations in the discussion
2020 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 6 years agoDo you know a restaurant other convention-goers might want to check out? Discover a good spot for lunch or coffee? You can use this thread to share your recommendations for restaurants, coffeeshops, bookshops, excursions, and more. Or if you are looking for suggestions, you can ask here.
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Nohemy Solorzano-Thompson started the topic MLA 2020 LLC Sephardic Forum Panel — Friday, January 10, 8:30 am, at WSCC 614 in the discussion
2020 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 6 years, 1 month agoDear colleagues
I am writing to invite you to the LLC Sephardic Forum Panel for the 2020 MLA on Friday, January 10, 8:30 am, WSCC 614.
This year’s panel focuses on Sephardic Cultural Expressions in the Portuguese- and Spanish-Speaking Americas and Beyond.
Full details below and please note the title update for Dr. B…[Read more]
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Raphael Dalleo started the topic 468 – Sylvia Wynter and/in the Undergraduate Classroom, Sat. 1/11 @ 10:15 am in the discussion
2020 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 6 years, 1 month ago2020 MLA convention session sponsored by the CLCS Caribbean forum:
Sylvia Wynter and/in the Undergraduate Classroom
Saturday, January 11th, 2020
10:15 am to 11:30 am
Washington State Convention Center, Skagit 3
Presiding: Kaiama Glover, Barnard College-Columbia University
Prose Fiction, Plays, and Pantomimes: Teaching…[Read more]
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Raphael Dalleo started the topic 200. The Caribbean 1970s, Friday 10 January 2020 at 8:30 am in the discussion
2020 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 6 years, 1 month ago2020 MLA convention panel, cosponsored by the CLCS Caribbean and TC Postcolonial Studies forums:
The Caribbean 1970s
Friday, January 10th, 2020
8:30 am to 9:45 am
Washington State Convention Center, Chelan 4
Presiding: Raphael Dalleo, Bucknell University
“Liberation of a Small Place: Political Narratives about the…[Read more]
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Anne Donlon started the topic Tips for the MLA Convention (especially for first-time attendees) in the discussion
2020 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 6 years, 1 month agoHello all,
Let’s use this thread to gather tips for attending the MLA convention, especially for first-time attendees! For those who have attended previous conventions, what have you learned? What has helped you enjoy and make the most of your time at the convention?
Some years ago, Natalie Houston wrote a guest post for the MLA Convention b…[Read more]
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Pamela Lothspeich replied to the topic Arranging shared accommodations in the discussion
2020 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 6 years, 1 month agoHello: I am seeking a roommate to share my Airbnb, a 3-minute walk from the Convention Center, reserved January 9-12. (My old roommate had to cancel.)
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MLA Commons started the topic Arranging shared accommodations in the discussion
2020 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 6 years, 1 month agoConvention registrants can use this forum thread to identify other participants who may wish to share accommodations. The MLA assumes no responsibility or liability for these arrangements, since a decision to share accommodations is one made by the participant, not the MLA.
Please note that in order to make reservations at MLA rates at the…[Read more]
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Gema Pilar Pérez-Sánchez started the topic Working Group-Affective Appr. to LGBTQI Spanish Culture in the discussion
2020 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 6 years, 1 month agoMLA 2020 Seattle Working Group on Affective Approaches to the Study of Contemporary Spanish LGBTQI Culture. This is the SCHEDULE of meetings and presentes at the conference and the ABSTRACTS of papers.Attached please find a detailed scheduled for each of the three MLA Conventions sessions of this working group and the abstracts of each of the p…[Read more]
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Gema Pilar Pérez-Sánchez started the topic Affective Appr. to the Study of Contemp. Spanish LGBTQI Culture – Schedule MLA in the discussion
2020 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 6 years, 1 month agoMLA 2020 Seattle Working Group on Affective Approaches to the Study of Contemporary Spanish LGBTQI Culture. This is the SCHEDULE of meetings and presentes at the conference and the ABSTRACTS of papers.
Attached please find a detailed scheduled for each of the three MLA Conventions sessions of this working group and the abstracts of each of the p…[Read more]
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Adolfo Campoy-Cubillo started the topic 2019 Global Hispanophone Panels in the discussion
2020 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 6 years, 1 month agoThe CLCS Global Hispanophone is organizing
129 – Teaching the Humanities through the Global Hispanophone.
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- Thursday, 9 January 20205:15 PM – 6:30 PM
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- WSCC – 205
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Description: The global hispanophone practices a mode of inquiry that decenters national narratives and regional ones (Latin America versus Spain). It…[Read more]
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Enrique Fernandez deposited Database of titles of presentations in the annual conferences of the Canadian Association of Hispanists 1998-2018 in the group
TM Bibliography and Scholarly Editing on MLA Commons 6 years, 1 month agoDatabase in Excel format with all the titles and authors of the papers presented during the last 21 years in the annual conferences of the Canadian Association of Hispanists – Asociación Canadiense de Hispanistas
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Magalí Armillas-Tiseyra started the topic MLA2020: Global South panel in the discussion
2020 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 6 years, 1 month ago248 – Race, Indigeneity, and Articulations of Sovereignty across the Global South
Friday, 10 January 2020 | 10:15 AM – 11:30 AM | WSCC – Skagit 4
- “Shame and the Question of Identity in Jacobs and Manzano,” David Luis-Brown, Claremont Graduate U
- “Becoming Indigenous in Haiti: Land and Labor in Edwidge Danticat’s The Farming of Bones
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Jennifer Buckley started the topic CFP — 2020 Shaw Symposium @ Shaw Festival (Ontario, CA) in the discussion
GS Drama and Performance on MLA Commons 6 years, 1 month agoCall for Papers
2020 Shaw Symposium
The Shaw Festival, Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, CA
23-25 July 2020
The International Shaw Society and the Shaw Festival invite proposals to present new critical or creative research at the Seventeenth Annual Summer Shaw Symposium. We especially welcome proposals that offer a focused analysis of The…[Read more]
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James Gifford deposited Hobgoblins of Fantasy: American Fantasy Fiction in Theory in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 6 years, 1 month ago“A frightful hobgoblin stalks through Europe. We are haunted by a ghost, the ghost of Communism.” This epigraph comes from the 1850 translation of The Communist Manifesto by Helen Macfarlane, and this special feature in The New Americanist assumes that a similarly frightful hobgoblin stalks through genre fiction, too. Fantasy as a genre is haunted…[Read more]
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Francesco Ardolino deposited Violència i Identitat in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 6 years, 1 month agoHi ha concepte que semblen diàfans, però que poden tornar-se ambigus quan hi reflexionem amb atenció, com el de la violència. Si bé actualment aquest terme envaeix el nostre espai i sovint el llegim de manera unívoca, en el moment en què hi aprofundim hem de reconsiderar-ne el significat. Així mateix, la identitat, que ha estat el tema nuclear…[Read more]
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Miles McCrimmon uploaded the file: Abstracts for the 2020 MLA HEP Community Colleges Forum Sponsored Session to
HEP Community Colleges on MLA Commons 6 years, 1 month agoSession 326. Human or Student? Faculty Members Respond to the Real Co-Curriculum
Friday 10 January from 1:45-3:00 p.m. in Room 615 WSCC
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John Levin started the topic London: Barbican: Into The Night in the discussion
dada on Humanities Commons 6 years, 1 month agoThe Barbican in London (in collaboration with the Belvedere of Vienna, a very fine museum) is presenting “Into The Night”, an exhibition on nightclubs and cabaret related to modern art. I’ve not seen it yet, but the Cabaret Voltaire does feature, as does the work of Sophie Taeuber and Hans Arp in the recreation of L’Aubette.
More details…[Read more]
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “Can the Biopic Subjects Speak? Disembodied Voices in The King’s Speech and The Theory of Everything.” A Companion to the Biopic, ed. Deborah Cartmell and Ashley D. Polasek (Chichester, UK: Wiley-Blackwell, 2020), 269-282 in the group
GS Drama and Performance on MLA Commons 6 years, 1 month agoThe adaptations of King George VI’s and Stephen Hawking’s life stories show their uneasy relationship to the “troubled-white-male-genius” genre and to the vocal embodiment of their subjects who lose and gain a voice through therapy, technology, and their will to live a full life. The films carefully skirt the edges of public disgust and pity of…[Read more]
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Toby Wikström started the topic Panels organized by the Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century French Forums at MLA in the discussion
2020 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 6 years, 2 months agoPanels organized by the Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century French Forums at MLA Seattle 2020
THURSDAY, JANUARY 9, 5:15–6:30pm, WSCC – Chelan 5
THE DISCOURSES OF LUXURY IN SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY FRANCE
Presiding: Sylvaine Guyot, Harvard University
Claire B. Goldstein, University of California, Davis, “Luxury Accessories and Body Net…[Read more]
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