Joela Jacobs
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Beth Widmaier Capo started the topic CFP Reproductive Justice and Literature Handbook in the discussion
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 5 years, 11 months agoCFP for Reproductive Justice and Literature Handbook
We seek contributing authors for a handbook on Reproductive Justice and Literature to be edited
by Laura Lazzari and Beth Widmaier Capo and published by Palgrave Macmillan.
This handbook will include essays of 8,000-10,000 words each that analyze reproductive justice
issues as they play out…[Read more] -
Beth Widmaier Capo started the topic CFP Reproductive Justice and Literature Handbook in the discussion
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 5 years, 11 months agoCFP for Reproductive Justice and Literature Handbook
We seek contributing authors for a handbook on Reproductive Justice and Literature to be edited
by Laura Lazzari and Beth Widmaier Capo and published by Palgrave Macmillan.
This handbook will include essays of 8,000-10,000 words each that analyze reproductive justice
issues as they play out…[Read more] -
Anita Harris Satkunananthan started the topic CFP: Interrogating Folklore and the Literary Fairy-tale in the Anthropocene in the discussion
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 5 years, 11 months agoApologies, a repost because the formatting was messed up on my previous post!
Dear Everyone,
My co-editors and I will be submitting a book proposal on the topic above to a university press. Please do consider contributing a chapter!
Deadline for submissions: May 31, 2020
Full name / name of organization: Dr. Anita Harris Satkunananthan,…[Read more]
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Dirk Schmidt deposited A Speech Corpus of Dharamsala Tibetan in the group
History of Linguistics and Language Study on Humanities Commons 5 years, 11 months agoIn 2016-2017, a 10-person team worked for 3 months with the goal of creating a multi-use, balanced corpus, similar to the Brown Corpus (BROWN Corpus search online). The speech section of the completed Nanhai Corpus—named for its sponsors, the Nanhai Nunnery of Taiwan—is a 289,497 word corpus of collected, transcribed, and word-split natural spe…[Read more]
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Michelle A. Massé replied to the topic Contribute to Edited Volume: Historicizing #Metoo in the discussion
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 6 years agoThis is a great idea that will bring together the many discussions that have been held not only at MLA and elsewhere. I too am looking forward to more information!
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Beth Widmaier Capo replied to the topic Contribute to Edited Volume: Historicizing #Metoo in the discussion
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 6 years agoThis sounds fantastic. Do you have instructions (deadline, length, address) for abstract submissions?
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Shannon Herbert started the topic Contribute to Edited Volume: Historicizing #Metoo in the discussion
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 6 years agoIn 2017, when Alyssa Milano encouraged women to use the hashtag #metoo if they’d ever “been sexually harassed or assaulted” social media feeds were suddenly flooded with the phrase. People were quick to point out that #metoo did not originate with Milano, but with Tarana Burke, a social worker and activist who proposed the phrase in 2006. Since…[Read more]
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James McElvenny deposited La grammaticalisation et la circulation internationale des idées linguistiques in the group
History of Linguistics and Language Study on Humanities Commons 6 years agoResearch into grammaticalization has an established genealogy, which records the birth of the term “grammaticalization” in more or less its present-day sense with Antoine Meillet (1866–1936), but recognizes an intellectual lineage extending back to at least the Enlightenment. Among the immediate predecessors of Meillet, Georg von der Gabel…[Read more]
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Johann-Mattis List deposited Annual contributions to the Genealogical World of Phylogenetic Networks III in the group
History of Linguistics and Language Study on Humanities Commons 6 years, 2 months agoThis is a summary of 12 contributions made by me for the blog “The Genealogical World of Phylogenetic Networks” in 2018. The contributions are shared in form of a PDF document with a table of contents that allows for a quick search of the contributions and offers also the direct links to the blog.
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Lidiana de Moraes started the topic CFP – Symposium Documenting Diversity & Democracy in Brazil in the discussion
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 6 years, 2 months agoHello everyone,
I am happy to share the Call for Papers for this symposium that will take place at the University of Miami, in March 2020.
<a title=”Original URL:
https://mailchi.mp/miami.edu/documenting-diversity-and-democracy-in-brazil-call-for-papers-2019Click to follow link.”…[Read more]
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Juliane Braun deposited Bioprospecting Breadfruit: Imperial Botany, Transoceanic Relations, and the Politics of Translation in the group
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 6 years, 2 months agoThis article traces the breadfruit tree’s strange career as an eighteenth-century superfood, its journey from the Pacific world to the Caribbean islands, and the rhetorical practices, epistemological slippages, and linguistic permutations that undergirded these developments. Comparing indigenous, Spanish, English, Dutch, French, and US-American d…[Read more]
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Karsten Schubert deposited The Democratic Biopolitics of PrEP in the group
Queer and Trans German Studies GSA Network on Humanities Commons 6 years, 3 months agoPrEP (Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis) is a relatively new drug-based HIV prevention technique and an important means to lower the HIV risk of gay men who are especially vulnerable to HIV. From the perspective of biopolitics, PrEP inscribes itself in a larger trend of medicalization and the rise of pharmapower. This article reconstructs and evaluates…[Read more]
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Karsten Schubert deposited Sexuelle und geschlechtliche Selbstbestimmung als Menschenrecht in the group
Queer and Trans German Studies GSA Network on Humanities Commons 6 years, 3 months agoDiskriminierung und Menschenrechtsverletzungen gegenüber LSBTI-Personen werden heute international thematisiert und angeprangert – ein vergleichsweise neues Phänomen. Dennoch tragen die herrschenden Normen von Zweigeschlechtlichkeit und Heterosexualität weiterhin zur Diskriminierung bei: So sind gleichgeschlechtliche Partnerschaften in fast alle…[Read more]
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Karsten Schubert deposited Langer Weg zur sexuellen Selbstbestimmung. Der Schutz von LSBTI durch die Vereinten Nationen in the group
Queer and Trans German Studies GSA Network on Humanities Commons 6 years, 3 months agoMenschenrechtsverletzungen aufgrund sexueller Orientierung und Geschlechtsidentität (SOGI) wurden auf internationaler Ebene lange Zeit kaum zur Kenntnis genommen. Doch seit einigen Jahren wird dem Thema in den Vereinten Nationen breiterer Raum eingeräumt. Die Yogyakarta-Prinzipien und eine Studie des Amtes des Hohen Kommissars für Me…[Read more]
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Katrina Dunn started the topic Reimagining Theatre Education in the Era of Climate Crisis in the discussion
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 6 years, 3 months agoPlease consider contributing to the proposed volume and pass the information to interested colleagues.
What might we teach Swedish student activist Greta Thunberg if she were to choose post-secondary education in theatre? As she says, she has no reason to fear speaking the truth: what approach to acting and theatre-making might we take with…[Read more]
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Pamela Phillips started the topic CFP — Edited Collection The Enlightened Nightscape 1700-1830 in the discussion
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities via email on MLA Commons 6 years, 3 months agoDear colleagues:
Please consider contributing to the proposed volume* The Enlightened
Nightscape 1700-1830* and feel free to pass this information to interested
contacts.Call for Proposals
*The Enlightened Nightscape 1700-1830*
Edited by:
Pamela Phillips, Ph.D.
Department of Hispanic Studies
University of Puerto Rico, Río PiedrasTraditional…[Read more]
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Kathryn Chew uploaded the file: Health Humanities Tenure-track position, specialization in Disability Studies to
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 6 years, 4 months agoThe Comparative World Literature program at CSULB is excited to announce a new tenure-track position. We are looking for a colleague whose research is in the medical or health humanities and who could teach courses in our health humanities minor (that we are constructing at this very moment), such as Literature and Medicine. We are particularly…[Read more]
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Francesco Giancane deposited La «nuova filologia». Precursori e protagonisti in the group
History of Linguistics and Language Study on Humanities Commons 6 years, 4 months agoCatalogue of the Exhibition held in Pisa in October 2015.
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