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Edgar Illas started the topic Cfps. NACS Colloquium in the discussion
Catalan Language and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 7 months agoPlease find under files the Cfps. for the 16th International Colloquium of the North American Catalan Society (Indiana University, Bloomington, May 18-20, 2017).
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Edgar Illas uploaded the file: Cfps. NACS Colloquium to
LLC Catalan Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 7 months agoAttached please find the call for papers for the 16th International Colloquium of the North American Catalan Society (Indiana University, Bloomington, May 18-20, 2017).
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Hania Nashef deposited Specters of Doom: Saramago's Dystopias in Blindness and The Cave in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 9 years, 10 months agoAlthough Plato’s Utopia or ideal city is the non-place that holds the promise of perfection, it remains the place in which citizens are categorized by a rigid structure. José Saramago, on the other hand, introduces us to a dystopia in his novel Blindness, in which one event leads to the ruin of a city. Yet, as with Plato’s Utopia, a similar…[Read more]
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Debra J. Ochoa started the topic Gender in Spanish Urban Spaces- (Palgrave Macmillan) in the discussion
Twentieth-Century Spanish Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 10 months ago<div></div>
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<div>Gender in Spanish Urban Spaces- (Palgrave Macmillan/Hispanic Urban Studies Series)</div>
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Anton Pujol replied to the topic Call For Papers Submission–MLA in the discussion
Catalan Language and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoArt, Non-Art, Post-Media, Installation: Catalan Museums Today
The role and function of the Museum when art and non-art, exhibit and installation, media and post-media blur in an amalgam of options on-page abstract by 15 March 2016; Teresa M. Vilarós (vilaros@tamu.edu). -
Mark Bracher started the topic CFP: Morality, Moral Philosophy, and the Humanities in the Age of Neuroscience in the discussion
Cognitive Approaches to Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoAn 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 the Humanities (NRPAH), this conference will explore the implications for the humanities of cogn…[Read more]
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Vicente Gomis-Izquierdo started the topic Hispanic Journal Call for Papers in the discussion
Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Spanish Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoThe editors of Hispanic Journal invite submissions of unpublished studies all year around. Hispanic Journal is published twice annually by the Department of Foreign Languages and the Graduate School of Indiana University of Pennsylvania. Its purpose is to publish research and criticism of the highest quality in the areas of Spanish, P…[Read more]
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Paula A. Sprague replied to the topic North American Catalan Society Award (Nominations) in the discussion
Catalan Language and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoAmended announcement posting:
THE NORTH AMERICAN CATALAN SOCIETY (NACS) PRIZE
For outstanding work in the field of Catalan Studies
COMPETITION GUIDELINES
1) The prize was created to recognize rigorous and high quality contributions to the field of Catalan Studies made by scholars whose prime professional affiliation is with a university or…[Read more]
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Nicky Agate replied to the topic Article of Interest? in the discussion
Catalan Language and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoThank you, @99522ps! We definitely encourage all our members to explore the materials in CORE and upload their own syllabi, course materials, and research so that others might benefit from it too.
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Paula A. Sprague started the topic North American Catalan Society Award (Nominations) in the discussion
Catalan Language and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoFor outstanding work in the field of Catalan Studies
COMPETITION GUIDELINES
1) The prize was created to recognize rigorous and high quality contributions to the field of Catalan Studies made by scholars whose prime professional affiliation is with a university or research institute in North America.
2) All studies published between the 1st of…[Read more]
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Lisa Zunshine deposited "Cognitive Alternatives to Interiority" in the group
TC Cognitive and Affect Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months ago[from pp. 151-52:]
“Not only do we ourselves treat fictional characters as if they were capable of a broad variety of mental states (as real people are) to make sense of the story when we first read it; not only do we casually refer to these characters’ and the author’s mental states in our subsequent discussions with students; not only do we…[Read more]
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Anton Pujol started the topic Call For Papers Submission–MLA in the discussion
Catalan Language and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoCatalan Cinema and New Media
Papers should examine Catalan cinema and new media with a focus on the global, intercultural and transnational aspects of Catalan society. Send 300 word abstract to Anton Pujol at apujol@uncc.edu by March 15th.
2017 MLA (Philadelphia, 5-8 January 2017)
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Patrick Colm Hogan started the topic CFP: MLA 2017, "Sexual Cognition" in the discussion
Cognitive Approaches to Literature on MLA Commons 10 years ago2017 Modern Language Association Convention
Call for Papers
For a session on “Sexual Cognition”
Sponsored by the Forum on Cognitive and Affect Studies
Topics may include how cognitive study advances our understanding of sexualities and how LGBTQIA, gender, or feminist theories complicate cognitive approaches.
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Lisa Zunshine deposited "Culture of Greedy Mind Readers" in the group
TC Cognitive and Affect Studies on MLA Commons 10 years agoThis primer in “cognitive cultural studies” explores the cultural fantasy of perfect access to mind through body. It shows that different genres and media—movies, novels, classic Chinese operas, medieval ribald tales, musicals, paintings, documentaries, stand-up comedy, and photography—have different strategies for making us think that we have ju…[Read more]
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Alexandra Berlina started the topic conference on Shklovsky's ostranenie: cognitive aspects in the discussion
Cognitive Approaches to Literature on MLA Commons 10 years agoDear all,
I’m organizing a conference at which I’d love to meet some of you:
A Hundred Years of Ostranenie: an International Conference
<u>University of Erfurt, December 15-17 2016</u>
A century ago, in 1916, a young student named Viktor Shklovsky self-published his precocious essay-cum-manifesto “Art as Device”. In it, he coined a term whi…[Read more]
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Nicky Agate started the topic Article of Interest? in the discussion
Catalan Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month agoDear All,
Happy (almost) end of semester! I wanted to alert you to the following publication that have been shared with this forum by MLA members via CORE. (You can see any such items by clicking the “Deposits” box to the left of the group’s page.) I encourage you to read your colleague’s work and to perhaps share your own course materia…[Read more]
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Mary Ann Newman replied to the topic Thoughts on new publications of Catalan literature in English in the discussion
Catalan Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month agoDear Jennifer,
Thank you for your message, and for your kind words. I didn’t know you taught Catalan Literature in Translation at Rutgers. That is wonderful news. Well, as you see, there is a terrific new crop of translations. I hope you can also acquire them for the Rutgers library.
All the best,
Mary Ann
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Jennifer Duprey replied to the topic Thoughts on new publications of Catalan literature in English in the discussion
Catalan Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month agoDear Mary Ann:
I received your translation a week ago. Thank so much for undertaking such a difficult and migthy task! I’m looking forward to read it. I agree with Elisa and Aurelie. As you know I teach Catalan Literature in Translation at Rutgers, and, more often than not, is quite difficult to find translations.
Jennifer
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Mary Ann Newman replied to the topic Thoughts on new publications of Catalan literature in English in the discussion
Catalan Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month agoDear Elisa and Aurélie,
Thanks for responding. I will continue posting in English because this is a topic that could be of interest beyond the Catalan community.
Is there any way for us to use the Commons to post news of new translations? I will gladly make a pdf of the most recent crop of translations. Perhaps we could also circulate it…[Read more]
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Aurelie Vialette replied to the topic Thoughts on new publications of Catalan literature in English in the discussion
Catalan Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month agoMoltes gràcies, Mary Ann. Estic completament d’accord amb l’Elisa –és una gran cosa tenir notificació de les traduccions de textos catalans. Ensenyo cursos en anglès i sempre tinc problemes per incorporar textos catalans perquè no trobo traducció (en particular textos del segle 19).
Em sembla que una de les coses que hem de fer és crear una re…[Read more]
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