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Melissa J. Ganz started the topic Fwd: Announcement of the Zipporah B. Wiseman Prize for Scholarship on Law, Literature and Justice (deadline: June 15, 2021) in the discussion
TC Law and the Humanities via email on MLA Commons 4 years, 9 months agoDear all,
Please see below for information about a new prize for scholarship on law and literature by graduate students, professional school students, and recent graduates.
Best wishes,
Melissa GanzBegin forwarded message:
From: “Heinzelman, Susan S” <sheinz@austin.utexas.edu<mailto:sheinz@austin.utexas.edu>>
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Johann-Mattis List deposited Computer-Assisted Language Comparison in the group
History of Linguistics and Language Study on Humanities Commons 4 years, 9 months agoDer computergestützte Sprachvergleich (Wu et al. 2020) hat zum Ziel, Sprachvielfalt und Sprachgeschichte mit Hilfe einer Mischung aus computerbasierten und nicht-automatischen aber formalen Methoden zu untersuchen und dadurch grundlegende Fragen zur Entwicklung spezifischer Sprachfamilien (Sagart et al. 2019) oder zur Typologie von Sprachvielfalt…[Read more]
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Nicole Guenther Discenza started the topic Old English Forum CFP for MLA 2022 in the discussion
LLC Old English on MLA Commons 4 years, 10 months agoThe Old English Forum announces these calls for papers for MLA 2022, 6–9 January in Washington, DC.
Session (1) Broken but Wondrous: Finding Hope in Old English Literature
Old English literature is rarely associated with hope – indeed, much of its poetry is littered with the ruins of lost peoples, frozen and desolate landscapes, meditations on…[Read more] -
Wan-Chuan Kao started the topic MLA 2022 CFP: Care in the Age of Chaucer in the discussion
LLC Chaucer on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoCare in the Age of Chaucer
Premodern care across political, ethical, religious, medical, environmental discourses. Gender, conduct, and responsibility. Consolation and therapy. Justice and reparation. (Un)caring acts and affects. Pastoral, non-Foucauldian, Lordean paradigms. Self and community. Please submit 250-word abstracts to Wan-Chuan Kao…[Read more]
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Ingrid Nelson started the topic MLA 2022 CFP: Atmospheric Chaucer in the discussion
LLC Chaucer on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoWhat kinds of atmospheres does Chaucer’s work engage with or create? How can we understand the social, political, ecological, juridical, poetic, sensory, or media atmospheres within which his poetry circulates? To what extent is Chaucerian poetry part of our contemporary atmosphere? How can we engage with premodern and/or modern theories of a…[Read more]
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Robert J. Meyer-Lee started the topic MLA 2022 CFP: Remote Middle English 2: Present Negotiations with the Past in the discussion
LLC Middle English on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoSequestered away from our institutions, colleagues, and students, and yet continuing to seek connections with them, many medievalists have no doubt registered the uncanny resemblance between the newly remote experiences of our work and the already pervasive perceptions of that work as remote, both within and without academe. On the one hand, we…[Read more]
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David A. Wacks deposited ʿAlī ibn Ḥazm, Risāla fī rithāʼ madīnat Qurṭuba (A Treatise on Lamenting the City of Cordova) (Cordova, 1031) (Spanish version) in the group
CLCS Medieval on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoThis Spanish-language unit contains an excerpt of an Arabic treatise composed by ʿAlī ibn Ḥazm (d. 1063) to lament the capital of the province of Córdoba, a city in the southern Spanish region of Andalusia. This treatise was composed during the civil war (fitna) that started in 1009 and ended in 1031 with the collapse of the Umayyad Caliphate of C…[Read more]
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David A. Wacks deposited ʿAlī ibn Ḥazm, Risāla fī rithāʼ madīnat Qurṭuba (A Treatise on Lamenting the City of Cordova) (Cordova, 1031) (English version) in the group
CLCS Medieval on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoThis unit contains an excerpt of an Arabic treatise composed by ʿAlī ibn Ḥazm (d. 1063) to lament the capital of the province of Córdoba, a city in the southern Spanish region of Andalusia. This treatise was composed during the civil war (fitna) that started in 1009 and ended in 1031 with the collapse of the Umayyad Caliphate of Córdoba.
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Elizabeth M. Holt deposited Resistance Literature and Occupied Palestine in Cold War Beirut in the group
2019 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoFREE ACCESS: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0377919X.2020.1855933
For the last decade of his life, the Palestinian intellectual, author, and editor Ghassan Kanafani (d. 1972) was deeply immersed in theorizing, lecturing, and publishing on Palestinian resistance literature from Beirut. A refugee of the 1948 war, Kanafani presented…[Read more] -
Francisco Marcos-Marín deposited Afrorrománico, iberorrománico y orígenes del español in the group
CLCS Medieval on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoEl área de estudio de la Filología Románica comprendía en su origen las provincias romanas de Africa, Numidia y Mauretania, como parte de una
Romania submersa, territorios donde el latín había dejado de hablarse en un cierto tiempo por diversos factores históricos, sobre todo migraciones. Entre los siglos VI y X d. C. se produce un gran cambio…[Read more] -
Francisco Marcos-Marín deposited Computers and Text Editing: A Review of Tools, an Introduction to UNITE and Some Observations Concerning its Application to Old Spanish Texts. in the group
CLCS Medieval on Humanities Commons 4 years, 11 months agoComputerized editing avoids the sort of subjective preferences that have often led editors astray. This is not to say that human interventlon does not remain a constant necessity: the editor must either mark the relevant textual witnesses in advance by tagging significant features for recognition by the machine, or answer programmed queries about…[Read more]
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Francisco Marcos-Marín deposited Vascuences, vascos y euskera. Reflexiones sobre un proceso. in the group
CLCS Medieval on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoA concrete problem is addressed in this presentation: why vascones and vascos have been identified and why it has been assumed that the language of the seconds, Vascuence, Vasco or Euskera, would need to be the language of the first. Arguments that result from the interconnection of linguistics, archeology, history, biolinguistics and genetics are…[Read more]
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Francisco Marcos-Marín deposited El léxico latino en bereber en el marco del estudio de los romances africanos y el continuo lingüístico andalusí in the group
CLCS Medieval on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoLos contactos entre hablantes repercuten en las lenguas mediante los procesos de bilingüismo y conmutación de códigos, que están hoy bien estudiados. Estos procesos afectan a la gramática y al léxico. Al segundo se orienta este estudio, en el cual se considera que precisamente es el bereber el que enmarca al latín en África, lo que justifi…[Read more]
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Francisco Marcos-Marín deposited Miscelánea numeral diacrónica y tipológica con reflexiones sobre el Libro de Alexandre in the group
CLCS Medieval on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoThis work includes a series of aspects of the study of numerals, from different perspectives and with different applications. It is particularly relevant the application of diachronic analysis to the establishment of a date for the Libro de Alexandre. some of those aspects were already treated by the author in different publications; however, they…[Read more]
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Francisco Marcos-Marín deposited Tres maestros: Richard Kinkade, Federico Corriente, Manuel Alvar Ezquerra in the group
CLCS Medieval on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoHe decidido dedicar esta nota al recuerdo de tres maestros con los que tuve una relación personal y de los que puedo dar la imagen de pervivencia
en mi propia vida, más allá de lo estrictamente profesional. -
David A. Wacks deposited Fernando de Rojas, Celestina (1499) (Spanish version) in the group
CLCS Medieval on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoThis unit (Text, intro, and notes in Spanish) contains a brief introduction to the Spanish masterpiece Celestina, or The Tragicomedy of Calisto and Melibea, and a fragment from a dialogue in Act VII adapted for modern readers with notes, and a short bibliography. Celestina deals with love, the decline of nobility, prostitution, witchcraft, money,…[Read more]
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David A. Wacks deposited Fernando de Rojas, Celestina (1499) (English version) in the group
CLCS Medieval on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoThis bilingual unit (Spanish/English text and translation, with intro and notes in English) contains a brief introduction to the Spanish masterpiece Celestina, or The Tragicomedy of Calisto and Melibea, and a fragment from a dialogue in Act VII adapted for modern readers with notes, and a short bibliography. Celestina deals with love, the decline…[Read more]
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Raf Van Rooy deposited The early adopters of Neo-Latin dialectus – overview of sources in the group
History of Linguistics and Language Study on Humanities Commons 4 years, 11 months agoThis file contains an overview of the early adopters of the Neo-Latin term dialectus, together with sample passages in which the term features as well as information on the publication data of the works in which the term appears. The overview also offers information on the social, geographical, and scholarly background of the early adopters.
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Robert J. Meyer-Lee started the topic New Chaucer Society: Call for Future Forward Session for summer Expo 2021 in the discussion
LLC Middle English on MLA Commons 5 years agoNCS Expo, Future Forward Call for Nominees, #NCSExpo2021
Organisers: Seeta Chaganti; Bobby Meyer-Lee; Emily Steiner.
Whether in the context of long-term social justice commitments or in response to shifts in global politics over the last few years, medievalists have found themselves facing questions about the relation – or lack thereof – betw…[Read more]
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Raf Van Rooy deposited De Grieken, babbelziek volk! Julius Caesar Scaliger (1484–1558), lidwoordhater in the group
History of Linguistics and Language Study on Humanities Commons 5 years agoHet Latijn heeft geen lidwoord zoals bijvoorbeeld het Nederlands (de, het) of het Oudgrieks (ho, hē, tó), en dat vond de 16de-eeuwse humanist Julius Caesar Scaliger prima. De grootse taal van Rome kon het makkelijk stellen zonder dat pietluttige woordje. Toegegeven, het kan soms nuttig zijn om aan te geven dat je een specifiek object op het oog h…[Read more]
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