Dear colleagues,

We welcome proposals that examine translations of books and exchange of knowlege between the Middle East and Russia in the pre-modern period:

131st MLA Annual Convention, Austin, 7–10 January 2016

Title of panel: “Russia and the Middle East (Pre-modern)”

Description: this  special panel examines broad cultural interaction be…[Read more]

I’m starting to get some great information from the first round of responses to the “Using Online Shakespeare Sources” survey I created as part of my SAA ’15 workshop (“Using Data in Shakespeare Studies”). If you’ve already responded: THANK YOU! If you haven’t yet, I’d be grateful if you could answer a few quick questions and please share the link…[Read more]

I’m starting to get some great information from the first round of responses to the “Using Online Shakespeare Sources” survey I created as part of my SAA ’15 workshop (“Using Data in Shakespeare Studies). If you’ve already responded: THANK YOU! If you haven’t yet, I’d be grateful if you could answer a few quick questions and please share the link…[Read more]

CFP: MLA Panels for 2016 – Forum on Global Arab and Arab American Literature:

Dear Friends,

The Global Arab and Arab American MLA Forum invites proposals for the following two panels at the MLA convention in Austin, Texas (Jan 7-10, 2016):

Global Arab Texts and their Publics

Displaced writers. Deterritorialized texts. How do recent Arab é…[Read more]

This special session at the 2016 MLA Convention in Austin will examine the role of translation in developing new audiences for literary texts, especially texts with multiple translations in different languages and for different time periods. How have translations created new audiences in the past and created contemporary audiences for classical t…[Read more]

This special session at the 2016 MLA Convention in Austin will examine the role of translation in developing new audiences for literary texts, especially texts with multiple translations in different languages and for different time periods. How have translations created new audiences in the past and created contemporary audiences for classical t…[Read more]

This announcement from Anne Neveu should be of interest:

ANNOUNCEMENT

2015 NEH Summer Institute for College and University Instructors

What Is Gained in Translation? Learning How to Read Translated Literature

Applications are now being accepted for a three-week summer institute for college and university instructors on the topic “What Is G…[Read more]

Dear colleagues and friends,

The journal Religion and Literature and the University of Notre Dame are happy to announce a new resource for the teaching of religion and literature. The religion and literature syllabus archive, housed through the University of Notre Dame, offers access to syllabi from instructors across the many fields that the s…[Read more]

Religion and Early Literature (MLA 2016 in Austin, TX, 7-10 January)

Given the difficulty of distinguishing between literary and religious texts in early periods, how do literary scholars differ in their approaches to early texts from scholars of religious studies? We invite papers on religious literature from the sixth to the seventeenth…[Read more]

Pedagogical Approaches to Sacred Texts and Literature (MLA 2016 in Austin, TX, 7-10 January)

Strategies and issues related to teaching sacred texts/selections as literature or literature as religious practice. All religions and periods. Panel sponsored by MLA Forum on Religion and Literature. Abstract/CV by 15 March 2015; Lisa Gordis, lgordis@barnard.edu

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<div>Heavens Above: Envisioning Religion in Science Fiction (MLA 2016 in Austin, TX, 7-10 January)
Alien religions, post-secular numinous experience, evolutionary religious developments, neo-religious epiphanies–science fiction rarely leaves religion behind as it leaps to the stars. Papers addressing…

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I am seeking speakers for a panel at the next meeting of the Modern Language Association in Austin TX, 7-10 January 2015. Successful panelists will present short critical papers (20 mins; 6 double spaced pages single sided; this is a firm limit) that discuss C. S. Lewis’ Chronicles of Narnia as a whole on the 60th anniversary of the completion o…[Read more]

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<div>I am pleased to send you the Call for Papers for the next issue of TranscUlturAl: A Journal of Translation and Cultural Studies (http://ejournals.library.<wbr />ualberta.ca/index.php/TC/<wbr />announcement)
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I look forward to receiving your…[Read more]

Call for Proposals:

Society for the Study of American Women Writers (SSAWW) Triennial Conference
November 4-8, 2015
Sheraton Society Hill, Philadelphia, PA

Panel on “Arab American Women: Representation, Reception and Subjectivity in Contemporary American Literature by Women”

This panel welcomes papers that examine how Arab American women…[Read more]

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Dear Colleagues,

The MLA has agreed to launch the new forum on Global Arab and Arab American Lit & Culture (a.k.a. GAAM).

GAAM would like to urge MLA members who are interested in the new focum  to sign up for it on the MLA Commons: http://mla.hcommons-staging.org/groups/global-arab-and-arab-american/

We still…[Read more]