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Karen Gevirtz started the topic CFP: Aphra Behn Society sessions at ASECS in the forum
Seventeenth-Century English Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 7 months agoThe Aphra Behn Society will be hosting two sessions at ASECS in 2015. Abstracts due to session organizers by September 1, 2014.
SESSION 1:
Collaborations: Women in the Arts
Dr. Carolyn Woodward
During most of the eighteenth century, copyright was still in flux and of benefit mainly to booksellers. Although in the middle of…[Read more]
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Karen Gevirtz started the topic CFP: Aphra Behn Society sessions at ASECS in the forum
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 7 months agoThe Aphra Behn Society is hosting two sessions at ASECS 2015. Abstracts due to session organizer by September 1, 2014.
SESSION 1:
Collaborations: Women in the Arts
Dr. Carolyn Woodward
During most of the eighteenth century, copyright was still in flux and of benefit mainly to booksellers. Although in the middle of the…[Read more]
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Rita Bode started the topic NeMLA WGSC cfp for individual paper abstracts in the forum
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 7 months agoNortheast Modern Language Association 46th Annual Convention
Toronto, Ontario – April 30-May 3, 2015
NeMLA’s Women’s and Gender Studies Caucus seeks abstracts for the approved panels below – panel descriptions, submission guidelines and the full cfp are available at: http://www.nemla.org/convention/2015.html
Abstract Deadline: September 30, 2014[Read more]
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Laura E. Savu started the topic Call for Contributions: The Good Life and the Greater Good in a Global Context in the forum
Classical Studies and Modern Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 7 months agoDear 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]
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Laura E. Savu replied to the topic Call for Contributions: "The Good Life and the Greater Good in a Global Context" in the forum
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 7 months agoPlease submit your abstract by August 15. Thank you.
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Susan Gorman replied to the topic Call for Contributions: "The Good Life and the Greater Good in a Global Context" in the forum
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 7 months agoThanks for posting this Laura. It sounds really interesting. Where/when should we send abstracts?
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Lisa Propst started the topic CFP: Representing the Singularity of Suffering (NeMLA 2015) in the forum
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 7 months agoThis CFP might be of interest to the Women’s Studies forum:
Giving Voice, Appropriating Voices: Representing the Singularity of Suffering (NeMLA 2015)
Efforts to give voice to the silenced are central to postcolonial and feminist thought. Yet scholars in both disciplines, following Gayatri Spivak and Chandra Mohanty, have insisted that…[Read more]
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Laura E. Savu started the topic Call for Contributions: "The Good Life and the Greater Good in a Global Context" in the forum
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 7 months agoDear 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. The essays need to focus on the discourses and practices of the good life, understood in all of its dimensions—material, psychological, ethical, spiritual, etc. –and appro…[Read more]
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Laura E. Savu started the topic The Good Life and the Greater Good in a Global Context in the forum
Literature and Religion on MLA Commons 11 years, 7 months agoDear 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. The essays need to focus on the discourses and practices of the good life, understood in all of its dimensions—material, psychological, ethical, spiritual, etc. –and appro…[Read more]
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John Harlan Underhill replied to the topic Sci. and Lit. (Shakespeare) Film Project looking for comments in the forum
Shakespeare on MLA Commons 11 years, 7 months agoI personally love the idea of Shakespeare and Galileo. Your intuition seems exactly right to see a parallel in the cultural (mental) achievement of the two. For both, the essence was personal observation rather than illustration of pious dogma, such as we think of when we think of medieval thought. But Shakespeare confined himself to the s…[Read more]
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Gloria Lee McMillan started the topic Sci. and Lit. (Shakespeare) Film Project looking for comments in the forum
Shakespeare on MLA Commons 11 years, 7 months agoHello, Everybody Shakespearean,
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…[Read more] -
Katina Rogers posted an update in the group
Prospective Forum: TM Manuscript Culture and Textual Studies on MLA Commons 11 years, 8 months agoThe Program Committee will evaluate those prospective forums that obtained at least thirty-five signatures and five leadership volunteers by 15 June. Though that deadline has passed, we still encourage you to join groups that interest you and voice your support by signing the petition and volunteering. Support for prospective forums will be…[Read more]
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Anna Faktorovich started the topic Electronic Review Copies of George Sand Novel in the forum
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 8 months ago“The Romances of George Sand” (9/12/2014): email me for a free review copy at director@anaphoraliterary.com. Also, I hope you’ll add me as a friend/ fan/ or follow me on LibraryThing, Goodreads, Twitter, Facebook, or LinkedIn (search for my full name). Cheers, Anna Faktorovich, PhD, Director, Anaphora Literary Press
More information on the book a…[Read more]
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Stephen G. Nichols replied to the topic Petition in the forum
Prospective Forum: TM Manuscript Culture and Textual Studies on MLA Commons 11 years, 8 months agoI support this petition. It’s a great idea to have an active forum on Manuscript Studies and Textual Studies. The threads so far proposed are excellent.
Steve Nichols
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Sandra M. Donaldson replied to the topic Petition in the forum
Prospective Forum: TM Manuscript Culture and Textual Studies on MLA Commons 11 years, 8 months agoI support this petition. Sandra Donaldson
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Jennifer C. Forsyth replied to the topic Petition in the forum
Prospective Forum: TM Manuscript Culture and Textual Studies on MLA Commons 11 years, 8 months agoI support this petition, and, if necessary, I would serve in a leadership position.
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Lisa A. Freeman replied to the topic Petition in the forum
Prospective Forum: TM Manuscript Culture and Textual Studies on MLA Commons 11 years, 8 months agoI support this petition.
Lisa A. Freeman, University of Illinois at Chicago
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Morris E. Eaves replied to the topic Petition in the forum
Prospective Forum: TM Manuscript Culture and Textual Studies on MLA Commons 11 years, 8 months agoSupporting the petition.
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Tyler Curtain replied to the topic Petition in the forum
Prospective Forum: TM Manuscript Culture and Textual Studies on MLA Commons 11 years, 8 months agoYes, of course, a terrific idea.

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Cristina Maria Cervone replied to the topic Petition in the forum
Prospective Forum: TM Manuscript Culture and Textual Studies on MLA Commons 11 years, 8 months agoI support this petition.
Cristina Maria Cervone
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