Maybe of interest to some folks here. I’m sure it will be great.</div>
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MLA 2018 Call for Papers! Calling Dumbledore’s Army: Activist Children’s Literature

Books can encourage children to question rather than accept the world as it is. Literature for young people can invite them to imagine a world where black lives matter, wom…[Read more]

Papers on the application of digital humanities techniques to pre-modern and modern Japanese literature. Challenges, possibilities, needs, and ideas. 250-word abstract and CV by 15 March 2017; Michael Emmerich (emmerich@humnet.ucla.edu).

Papers on the application of DH techniques to pre-modern and modern Japanese literature. Challenges, possibilities, needs, and ideas. 250-word abstract and CV by 15 March 2017; Michael Emmerich (emmerich@humnet.ucla.edu).

We invite you to use this space to strategize and make plans for humanities advocacy. These efforts might include joining the March for Science, participating in Humanities Advocacy Day, or other means of organizing communication with policy makers. Your ideas and energy are most welcome!

Use this thread to suggest resources for advocating on behalf of the humanities. A few to begin:

National Humanities Alliance: A coalition of organizations dedicated to advancing humanities education, research, preservation, and public programs. The NHA has its own advocacy group here on Humanities Commons too.

4Humanities: An advocacy…[Read more]

Hi, all. The office of scholarly communication is thinking about the future of the Literary Research Guide, and we would benefit from your input.

Simply put, we’d like to know more about how you, your faculty members, and/or your students use the LRG. Anything you’d be willing to share, either here or via direct message to me, would be e…[Read more]

Thank you to De Gruyter Mouton for supporting Asian Studies at the MLA through a generous donation to the East Asia Reception!

Thank you to De Gruyter Mouton for supporting Asian Studies at the MLA through a generous donation to the East Asia Reception!

Thank you, everyone, for the hugely successful East Asia Reception at the MLA in Philadelphia 2017!

Thank you, everyone, for the hugely successful East Asia Reception at the MLA in Philadelphia 2017!

Hi all,

Asian-themed panels were well-attended, and the Saturday night reception was a hit! Thank you all for supporting each other. Let’s build on this momentum for MLA 2018.

We have a lot of ideas that will be shared soon, but in the meantime, if there is someone who’d like to take over organizing another reception for next year, contact…[Read more]

Hi all,

Asian-themed panels were well-attended, and the Saturday night reception was a hit! Thank you all for supporting each other. Let’s build on this momentum for MLA 2018.

We have a lot of ideas that will be shared soon, but in the meantime, if there is someone who’d like to take over organizing another reception for next year, contact me…[Read more]