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Benigno Trigo started the topic Introduction and many thanks! in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American on MLA Commons 5 years, 3 months agoHello, everyone! I’ve been nominated for a seat on the Executive Committee of the LLC Puerto Rican Forum Panel, so I’d like to tell you a little about myself. My research interests include nineteenth and twentieth century Latin American and Caribbean Literature; Women’s Writing; Psychoanalysis and Autobiography. My publications include Malady a…[Read more]
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Mark Bracher deposited Compassion-Cultivating Pedagogy: Advancing Social Justice by Improving Social Cognition through Literary Study in the group
TC Marxism, Literature, and Society on MLA Commons 5 years, 5 months agoPrevious studies suggest that narrative fiction promotes social justice by increasing empathy, but critics have argued that the partiality of empathy severely limits its effectiveness as an engine of social justice, and that what needs to be developed is universal compassion rather than empathy. We created Compassion-Cultivating Pedagogy (CCP) to…[Read more]
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Anastasia Salter deposited Syllabus: Social Media Research in the group
MS Visual Culture on MLA Commons 5 years, 5 months agoSocial media is a key contemporary site of activity for politics, entertainment, and relationships, but how can we study it? This course combines theory and practice; students will both read canonical and contemporary social media research from leading scholars and learn to engage with social media platforms to collect and analyze their own data.…[Read more]
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Doris Hambuch deposited Liberating Bicycles in Niki Caro’s ‘Whale Rider’ and in Haifaa Al Mansour’s ‘Wadjda’ in the group
MS Visual Culture on MLA Commons 5 years, 5 months agoSusan B. Anthony declared in 1896 that the bicycle “has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world.” The comparative study of ‘Whale Rider’ (2002) and ‘Wadjda’ (2012) demonstrates that this liberating effect of the basic tool of transportation is being reinforced in the new millennium. The analysis further situates two con…[Read more]
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Fabian Banga started the topic Revista Zama – Universidad de Buenos Aires in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American on MLA Commons 5 years, 6 months agoRevista Zama
Facultad de Filosofía y Letras de la Universidad de Buenos Aires. Número actual Vol. 11 Núm. 11 (2019) http://revistascientificas.filo.uba.ar/index.php/zama/issue/view/596 -
Fabian Banga started the topic Revista Zama in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American on MLA Commons 5 years, 6 months agoRevista Zama
Facultad de Filosofía y Letras de la Universidad de Buenos Aires. Número actual Vol. 11 Núm. 11 (2019) http://revistascientificas.filo.uba.ar/index.php/zama/issue/view/596 -
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Zahid R. Chaudhary deposited The Politics of Exposure: Truth After Post-Facts in the group
2020 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 5 years, 7 months agoThis essay analyzes contemporary politics of truth across overlapping contexts: the predicament of whistleblowers, the proliferation of digital disinformation, the extractive imperatives of data economies, and the impossibility of exposing the truth when exposé becomes itself a game. The essay reads the recent cultural and political interest in…[Read more]
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Cesar Dominguez started the topic Reading Group: (Re)Thinking Post-/De-Colonialism in the Hispanophone World in the discussion
CLCS Global South on MLA Commons 5 years, 8 months agoI’d like to invite you to join a virtual reading group on key texts to (re)think post-/de-colonialism in the Hispanophone world. A meeting will be held every three weeks for a two-hour session. The aim is to foster collaboration in both teaching and research on these topics, as well as creating synergies for future actions. If you’re interested,…[Read more]
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Jennifer M. Wilks replied to the topic CFP: Extra-Anthropcentric Subjects in and from the Global South (MLA 2021) in the discussion
CLCS Hemispheric American on MLA Commons 5 years, 10 months agoDeadline extended to 3/31!
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Vanessa Valdés started the topic CFP: Deportation and Affect: Mapping the Hemispheric Americas (MLA 2021 Toronto in the discussion
CLCS Hemispheric American on MLA Commons 5 years, 10 months agoThis panel explores a variety of methodological and disciplinary approaches to the topic of mass deportations and immigrant justice from the perspective of the humanities. Please submit 300-word abstracts and short presenter’s biographies to Laura Torres-Rodriguez, New York U (ljt233@nyu.edu ) Deadline for submissions: Thursday, 2 April 2020. (C…[Read more]
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Vanessa Valdés started the topic CFP: Survival Strategies in the Americas (MLA 2021 Toronto) in the discussion
CLCS Hemispheric American on MLA Commons 5 years, 10 months agoWhat can we learn from indigenous and Black strategies for survival in the Americas, as we face the enduring legacies of capitalist settler colonialism? Please send a 200-word abstract and a brief biographical statement to Vanessa K. Valdés (vvaldes@ccny.cuny.edu) Please share broadly. Deadline for submissions: Friday, 3 April 2020
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Vanessa Valdés started the topic Standing for Election of Executive Committee of CLCS Hemispheric American in the discussion
CLCS Hemispheric American on MLA Commons 5 years, 10 months agoWe invite you to stand for election to our Executive Committee — come guide our group in upcoming years! Note that you are only allowed to serve on one executive committee at a time. If you are interested, please email Vanessa K. Valdés (vvaldes@ccny.cuny.edu) as soon as possible. Thank you!
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Elena Margarita Past started the topic LLC 20th and 21st Century Italian in the discussion
2020 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 5 years, 10 months agoPlease consider submitting proposals for one of two guaranteed sessions organized by the Forum on 20th and 21st century Italian Literature at the 2021 MLA Convention in Toronto, from January 10-14, 2021.
1. MLA 2021, LLC 20th and 21st Century Italian, Guaranteed Session. Occupied Italy. This panel welcomes papers examining literary texts and…[Read more]
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Ted Underwood deposited Machine Learning and Human Perspective in the group
2020 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 5 years, 11 months agoNumbers appear to have limited value for literary study, since our discipline is usually more concerned to explore differences of interpretation than to describe the objective features of literary works. But it may be time to re-examine the assumption that numbers are only useful for objective description. Machine learning algorithms are actually…[Read more]
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Jennifer M. Wilks started the topic CFP: Extra-Anthropcentric Subjects in and from the Global South (MLA 2021) in the discussion
CLCS Hemispheric American on MLA Commons 5 years, 11 months agoExtra- and non-anthropocentric subjects of the Global South, notably the Caribbean. Who/ what is the human-animal-other subject? Narratives/poetics extrinsic to the colonial mind/body split? Old materialisms ‘with soul’. 300 word abstract and 1 page CV by 3/15 to Jennifer M. Wilks (jmwilks@austin.utexas.edu) and Rosemary J. Jolly (rjj14@psu.edu).
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Franziska Katharina Ninett Lallinger deposited Online Database of Middle High German Translations of Latin Hymns: ‘Berliner Repertorium’ in the group
2020 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 5 years, 12 months agoThe Berliner Repertorium (http://opus.ub.hu-berlin.de/repertorium/page/home), online since June 2017, provides a database of Middle High and Low German translations of Latin hymns, sequences, and antiphons until the year 1600. In this contribution on our database of hymn translations, the ‘Berliner Repertorium’, I will introduce you to its str…[Read more]
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Joanne Bernardi deposited “Re-Envisioning Japan” DH project overview – MLA2020 Collaborative Round Table (DH in Japan & Korea Studies: Approaches and Challenges) in the group
2020 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 6 years agoPowerpoint presentation for the MLA2020 collaborative roundtable “Digital Humanities in Japan and Korea: Approaches and Challenges,” organized by the LLC Korean and LLC Japanese since 1900 Forums. This brief introduction to “Re-Envisioning Japan: Japan as Destination in 20th Century Visual and Material Culture” was one of seven presentations by…[Read more]
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Isabel Jaén-Portillo started the topic CALL FOR PAPERS: V LALISA Conference Southern Oregon University, Ashland, OR in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American on MLA Commons 6 years agoDear colleagues,
Please find attached the CFP for the V LALISA Conference Southern Oregon University, Ashland, Oregon.
We look forward to your participation!
Best regards,
Isabel
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