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Julien Jacques Simon started the topic CfP: Narrative, Cognition & Science Lab (Abstracts Due Aug. 31st) in the discussion
Literature and Science on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoCall for Papers
Symposium: Narrative, Cognition & Science Lab
Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany
21-23 October 2016
Organized by ELINAS: Research Center for Literature and Natural Science
http://elinas.fau.de/
Confirmed Keynote Speakers:– Marie-Laure Ryan, Independent Scholar in Residence, University of Colorado
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Laura C. Mandell deposited Going Public: Bringing the Humanities Home in the group
TC Science and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 6 months agoThis syllabus describes a group of meetings among faculty, proposing a sustained course of study in which we would ask:
1) Can humanities methods be made available to the public?
2) Do digital methodologies capture and operationalize humanities principles, advance humanistic methodologies, or impede humanities work? -
Kathryn J. McKnight replied to the topic Pre-Health Students and the Study of Literature in the discussion
Medical Humanities and Health Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 7 months agoDear Rosemary and Erin,
Thank you both! Your posts are so helpful. Erin, I have downloaded the report on Baccalaureate Health Humanities programs and I look forward to the special issue. Rosemary, yes, I would love to see materials. I will email you separately.
Thank you,
Kathy
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Erin Lamb replied to the topic Pre-Health Students and the Study of Literature in the discussion
Medical Humanities and Health Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 7 months agoHi Kathryn and Rosemary,
Kathryn, I’m intrigued by your inquiry: “I am interesting in studying whether awareness of this linkage would have a positive impact on their engagement in learning critical textual analysis as well as whether it would encourage them to enroll in additional literature/culture classes.” I don’t know anyone else who is…[Read more]
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Rosemary Ila Weatherston replied to the topic Pre-Health Students and the Study of Literature in the discussion
Medical Humanities and Health Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 7 months agoHi Kathryn,
I have been looking at similar questions in my own courses and research and have found some success adapting required general education literature courses for undergraduate health professions students. These modified courses draw on the discipline of narrative medicine for their framework and combine a general study of fiction and l…[Read more]
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Kathryn J. McKnight started the topic Pre-Health Students and the Study of Literature in the discussion
Medical Humanities and Health Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 7 months agoDear Colleagues,
I just found this group and am thrilled you are here!
I am very interested in connecting with anyone who is engaged in transforming their undergraduate teaching of literature (and cultural studies) in ways that explicitly engage students with the arguments for the humanities in medical education. To be direct, many of our pr…[Read more]
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Suha Kudsieh started the topic CFP: Panel on Disability in Anglophone Literature (NeMLA, Baltimore, March 23-26 in the discussion
Disability Studies 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”
This…[Read more]
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Julian Grajewski deposited the coming heath death of the science fiction universe – against heteronomy in the group
TC Science and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 7 months agodiscussion of the may 2004 issue of pmla that treated science fiction as a scholarly genre. my question was, instead of writing strung-out, dystopian lit, why not ask what will be the level of consciousness of an individual human biped in a galactic economy of quadrilions and quintillions of people, each utilizing near- infinity numbers of…[Read more]
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Joseph Paul Fisher started the topic CFP–Disability, Athletes, and Athletics in the discussion
Disability Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 7 months agoOn the DL: Athletes, Athletics, and Disability is the title of a proposed essay collection that will read competitive athletics through a disability studies lens. Given the myriad definitions of “sport” across the globe, On the DL is interested in compiling a wide variety of theoretically-engaged analyses of sporting culture. In addition to…[Read more]
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Heidi Bostic deposited The Humanities Must Engage Global Grand Challenges in the group
TC Science and Literature 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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Victor Ochoa replied to the topic CFP: Morality, Moral Philosophy, and the Humanities in the Age of Neuroscience in the discussion
Psychological Approaches to Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 10 months agoI shall be delighted to submit a proposal for your conference, Professor Bracher. It is an honor to meet you, as it were, as I am quite taken by your book Lacan, Discourse, and Social Change: A Psychoanalytic Cultural Critique. Victor
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Hania Nashef deposited "Let the Demon in: Death and Guilt in The Master of Petersburg." in the group
TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 10 months agoUnlike his earlier novels, J.M. Coetzee’s The Master of Petersburg, has not received the attention that it deserves from the critics. The novel, which is set in Russia not only draws on real aspects of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s life but also on certain events in the Russian author’s novels, specifically The Devils. Coetzee’s Dostoevsky is an aging a…[Read more]
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Carrie Johnston started the topic CFP: Gender and the Cultural Preoccupations of the American West in the discussion
Late-Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 10 months ago(Apologies for cross-posting)
CFP – Studies in the NovelSpecial Issue: “Gender and the Cultural Preoccupations of the American West”
Deadline for submissions: 9/1/2016
Studies in the Novel is currently seeking submissions for a special issue on “Gender and the Cultural Preoccupations of the American West,” guest edited by Sigrid Anderson Cord…[Read more] -
Marina Fedosik started the topic CFP: Adoption and Culture Deadline April 1 in the discussion
Psychological Approaches to Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 10 months agoCall for Proposals: Sixth Biennial Conference for the Alliance for the Study of Adoption and Culture ASAC 2016: Building Communities, Changing Discourses
Crowne Plaza Minneapolis Northstar Downtown Hotel, 27-29 October 2016
Proposal deadline April 1 2016
Keynote speakers: Lorraine Dusky, Margaret Jacobs, and Deann Borshay Liem, introducing her…[Read more]
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Lorelei Caraman deposited Literature and Psychoanalysis: Whose Madness is it anyway? in the group
TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 10 months agoExaminer/examined, analyst/analysand, subject/object, sane/mad, science/art: the relationship between psychoanalysis and literature appears to conform to this binary logic, with the first term in each set clearly privileged over the second. The realm of the literary is populated with an impressive assortment of mad characters and mad authors:…[Read more]
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Mark Bracher started the topic CFP: Morality, Moral Philosophy, and the Humanities in the Age of Neuroscience in the discussion
Psychological Approaches to Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoPsychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature Colleagues,
Anthropology and Literature Colleagues,
An international conference, Morality, Moral Philosophy, and the Humanities in the Age of Neuroscience, will be held at Kent State University, Kent, OH, November 17-20, 2016. Sponsored by KSU’s Neurocognitive Research Program for the Advancement of…[Read more]
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Kenneth Pinion started the topic [MLA 2017 CFP] Looking for a Light in the Dark: On Mental Health in Pedagogy in the discussion
Psychological Approaches to Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months ago“Looking for a Light in the Dark: On Mental Health in Humanistic Pedagogy”
This session seeks papers that offer effective strategies for confronting mental health issues amongst educators. Potential topics may include (but not necessarily exclude): the rise in depression amongst graduate students and faculty; autobiographical insight on personal…[Read more]
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Thomas Lawrence Long started the topic MLA 2017 CFP: Environment, Illness, Literature, Health/care in the discussion
Medical Humanities and Health Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoThe Modern Language Association’s Transdisciplinary Conversations Medical Humanities and Health Studies Forum announces this call for proposals for its guaranteed session at MLA 2017 in Philadelphia:
Environment, Illness, Literature, Health/careLiterature of environmental illness, critical perspectives on health, policy, practice. Topics and t…[Read more]
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Philip Smith deposited Re-visioning Romantic-Era Gothicism: An Introduction to Key Works and Themes in the Study of H.P. Lovecraft in the group
LLC Late-19th- and Early-20th-Century American on MLA Commons 10 years agoHoward Phillips Lovecraft was an author, letter writer and poet who lived between 1890 and 1937. His works blend science fiction with Gothic themes. Lovecraft was, by the majority of accounts (including his own), a bad writer. He was also an outspoken racist for the majority of his life to a degree which makes much of his work, to a modern reader,…[Read more]
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Thomas Lawrence Long started the topic 2016 MLA Medical Humanities Executive Committee in the discussion
Medical Humanities and Health Studies on MLA Commons 10 years agoDuring the 2016 annual convention of the MLA, the new TC Medical Humanities and Health Studies Forum’s executive committee met to plan session proposals for the 2017 convention and other initiatives.
The forum’s executive committee leadership for 2016:
Rebecca Garden, president
Thomas Lawrence Long, secretary
Andrea Charise, member
Erin L…[Read more]
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