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Jenna Mead replied to the topic Film Project: Sci. and Lit. in the forum
Literature and Science on MLA Commons 11 years, 7 months agoHello Gloria and Lisa,
This sounds fascinating. I’m an out-of-towner on this one but the connections are intriguing, especially given their speculative nature. I work on Chaucer’s Treatise on the Astrolabe and so have a (deeply) vested interest in crossing the borders between Arts and Sciences. I’ll be watching this space with a lot of…[Read more]
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Gloria Lee McMillan replied to the topic Film Project: Sci. and Lit. in the forum
Literature and Science on MLA Commons 11 years, 7 months agoHi, Lisa,
We chose the two contemporaries because of new information we had from Ewen Whitaker, a British astronomer who has made a working Digges Perspective Glass. After researching that Will and his men stayed at the Digges family home in Stratford, where he almost certainly saw the copy of astronomer Tycho Brahe’s Epistolae (with the name…[Read more]
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Lisa-Ann Robertson replied to the topic Film Project: Sci. and Lit. in the forum
Literature and Science on MLA Commons 11 years, 7 months agoHi Gloria,
Just out of curiosity, why Galileo and Shakespeare? There are so many examples of poets and men of science who really did cross the line between arts and sciences. Why not some of them?
Cheers,
Lisa Ann
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Gloria Lee McMillan started the topic Film Project: Sci. and Lit. in the forum
Literature and Science on MLA Commons 11 years, 7 months agoHello,
A group of us have been thinking and rethinking a documentary film project that would show the value of crossing the line between science and the arts.
At first we were going to make it a conversation between Galileo and Shakespeare–roughly contemporaries.
But granting agencies didn’t like the fictional parts.So then we opened up to…[Read more]
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Gloria Lee McMillan started the topic Film Project: Sci. and Lit. in the forum
Literature and Science on MLA Commons 11 years, 7 months agoHello,
A group of us have been thinking and rethinking a documentary film project that would show the value of crossing the line between science and the arts.
At first we were going to make it a conversation between Galileo and Shakespeare–roughly contemporaries.
But granting agencies didn’t like the fictional parts.So then we opened up to…[Read more]
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Benjamin Fraser started the topic CFP-Disability in World Film Contexts [edited book] in the forum
Disability Studies on MLA Commons 11 years, 8 months agoDisability in World Film Contexts [cfp-edited volume]
The edited volume titled ‘Disability in World Film Contexts’ has received initial interest from Yoram Allon of renowned film publisher Wallflower Press (now part of Columbia UP). Contributions are invited in the form of chapters that focus on an individual film or films from a specific nat…[Read more]
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Cynthia R. Port started the topic CFP MLA 2015: Aging and the Posthuman in the forum
Literature and Science on MLA Commons 11 years, 10 months agoIn a scholarly context that is increasingly turning to the posthuman, the transhuman, and the virtual, explorations of the embodied experience of age and its cultural resonances offer crucial insights into the uniquely human awareness of the experience of living through time. For a guaranteed panel, sponsored by the MLA’s Age Studies Discussion G…[Read more]
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Sören Fröhlich started the topic CFP – JLDCS Special Issue: “Disability and Blood: Blood and the Crips” in the forum
Disability Studies on MLA Commons 11 years, 11 months agoJournal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies – Call for Papers
Special Issue: “Disability and Blood: Blood and the Crips”
Guest Editors: Michael Davidson (UCSD) and Sören Fröhlich (UCSD)Since the HIV/AIDS blood feuds of the 1990s, scholarship into social and cultural definitions of blood has provided much-needed insights into statis…[Read more]
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Eric Aronoff started the topic CFP MLA 2015: Disc. Group for Science Fiction, Utopian and Fantastic Literature in the forum
Literature and Science on MLA Commons 11 years, 11 months agoThis CFP might be of interest for members of this division:
<b>Science Fiction, Fantasy and the Concept of Culture</b>
How has sci-fi/fantasy explored (humanist and anthropological) concepts of “culture” and form? How does sci-fi/fantasy “world-making” engage/challenge anthropological ideas of culture/representation? Abstracts, brief cv by 15…[Read more] -
Abby Goode started the topic CFP "Sustainability and Population," MLA 2015 in the forum
Late-Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 11 months ago<div>”Sustainability and Population”
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<div>This panel invites papers that examine the intersections of “sustainability” and “population” in literature. Papers may consider how race, demography, biopolitics, fertility, economics, agriculture, and spatial distribution help clarify, illuminate, and evaluate “sustainability”—what literary…[Read more] -
Brad Evans started the topic Possible MLA Division Changes in the forum
Late-Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 12 years agoDear Members of the Division of Late-Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century American Literature:
During our annual meeting at the MLA Conference in Chicago, the division’s executive committee had a long discussion about the proposal to restructure the divisions in American literature. The committee feels that the general shift from “…[Read more]
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Brad Evans started the topic Possible MLA Division Changes in the forum
Late-Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 12 years agoDear Members of the Division of Late-Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century American Literature:
<span style=”line-height: 1.5em;”>During our annual meeting at the MLA Conference in Chicago, the division’s executive committee had a long discussion about the proposal to restructure the </span>divisions<span style=”line-height: 1.5em;”> in Ame…[Read more]
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April Logan started the topic Deadline Extended CFP: Pauline Hopkins in the forum
Late-Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 12 years agoCall for Papers
***DEADLINE EXTENDED***
American Literature Association
25th Annual Conference
May 22-25, 2014
Hyatt Regency, Capitol HillSession Sponsored By
The Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins SocietyPanel: Pauline Hopkins and Washington D.C.
As a writer with a keen interest in national politics at a crucial moment in American history, Pauline…[Read more] -
Steven J. Venturino replied to the topic MLA Convention Access Guidelines in the forum
Disability Studies on MLA Commons 12 years, 1 month agoThanks! Good all around.
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Elizabeth J. Donaldson started the topic MLA Convention Access Guidelines in the forum
Disability Studies on MLA Commons 12 years, 1 month agoDear all,
I’d like to remind everyone of the MLA Convention Access Guidelines, which you can read here:
http://www.mla.org/conv_access_guide
Happy new year and have a great convention!
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April Logan started the topic CFPs: Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins Society in the forum
Late-Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 12 years, 1 month agoCall for Papers
American Literature Association
25th Annual Conference
May 22-25, 2014
Hyatt Regency, Capitol HillSessions Sponsored By
The Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins SocietyPanel 1: Pauline Hopkins and Washington D.C.
As a writer with a keen interest in national politics at a crucial moment in American history, Pauline Hopkins frequently…[Read more]