Hello everyone,

Thanks to those who have signed the petitions for the prospective fora. As there seems to be a little bit of confusion about how to navigate to/sign the petitions, however, please allow me to post some instructions:

If you can read this, you are logged into the Commons, which is the first step. Next, you need to know the names of…[Read more]

Dear 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. Please take a look at the brief description of the topic and the research questions below. Feel free to add any other comments and questions and let me know if you are i…[Read more]

Cities are sites of profound paradoxes, and this is currently nowhere more apparent than in South Asia where they simultaneously represent both the frontiers of globalization as well as the deeply troubling social and political inequalities of the global south. We argue that South Asian cities operate as what Rashmi Verma in her analysis of…[Read more]

I support the establishment of the forum “East Asian Languages and Literatures to 1900”

Hello everyone, another PLEA TO SIGN THE PETITION(S) SUPPORTING THE PROPOSED NEW FORA. We are under-enrolled in all of the proposed Asian fora (except for Korean — nice work folks!), which means that they will not be established. This would be a shame, since we have the potential for much more participation of Asianists at the MLA with fora in…[Read more]

How do cultural texts address, in our times, the limits and achievements of South Asian nationalisms? The essays invited for South Asian Review’s 2014 Special Issue, “Nation and Its Discontents,” will examine this central question from various perspectives. Despite a long history of the critique of nationalism in and through South Asian cultu…[Read more]

I am proposing a round table discussing new ways/approaches  and successfull strategies integrating the literary text into the language class. The subject is not new, however a lot has been changing in this particular “field”. If interested, please, contact me as soon as you can, since the deadline for submissions is approaching. The convention…[Read more]

We’re seeking proposals for a panel at MLA 2015 (Vancouver, Jan. 8-11) and for a special issue of the journal The Global South (published by Indiana UP, available via JSTOR and Project Muse) on the topic “Narrating Global South Cities.” Even though the “global South” has emerged as a “new and powerful ordering system for academic disci…[Read more]

Please consider submitting:
A session on ”How Should Comparatists ’Read’ Literature?” Given the renewed interest in methodologies/modes of reading: close, distant, surface, deep but not close, paranoid and reparative; reading as translation, reading translations; the turn to reading the “world” in world literature; to the “planet” in planetarity;…[Read more]

The Modernist Studies Association invites proposals of all types for its annual conference.  We are especially interested in the work of scholars who expand the field of modernism and avant-garde studies in new directions through studies of translation and other related topics.  The conference will be held in the historic Omni William Penn hotel i…[Read more]

<p align=”center”><b>Call for Papers</b></p>
<p align=”center”><b>14^th Annual Portsmouth Translation Conference</b></p>
<p align=”center”><b>8 November 2014</b></p>
<p align=”center”><b>From classroom to workplace</b></p>
Translation studies is always at the meeting point of theory and practice. Professional practice affects and…[Read more]

South Asian Languages and Literatures Discussion Group will hold its general meeting today, January 11, from 5-6 pm in Sheraton Parlor G.  Please join us if you can.