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Laura C. Mandell started the topic Curious about Digital Humanities? in the discussion
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 9 years, 6 months agoOur Digital Humanities Center at Texas A&M, the IDHMC, is offering an introductory course — four one-hour sessions; participation online. Here follows the flyer we sent out–please pass it on to anyone who might be interested. Thank you!
P4H: What is Digital Humanities?
An official course in the Programming 4 Humanists SeriesBeginning Friday, Au…[Read more]
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Janine M. Utell started the topic CFP: The Comics of Alison Bechdel (edited collection; 12/1/16) in the discussion
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 9 years, 7 months agoOf interest to the group for interdisciplinary approaches to culture and society:
The Comics of Alison Bechdel: From the Outside In
“The Comics of Alison Bechdel: From the Outside In” is a proposed volume in the series Critical Approaches to Comics Artists at the University Press of Mississippi. This volume will contain an array of criti…[Read more]
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Patrick Herald deposited Eng 260/AAS 264 – Introduction to Black Writers: Global Black Fiction in the group
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 7 months agoThis course focuses on developing skills of close reading and literary analysis, both in class discussion and in assignments, through the study of major black writers. This section will be a study of global black literature—novels, drama, and poetry—written in English from the twentieth century to the present. We will consider how major aut…[Read more]
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Laila Amine deposited A House with Two Doors? Creole Nationalism and Nomadism in Multicultural London in the group
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 8 months agoThis article focuses on the limits of liberal discourses such as multiculturalism in an increasing global world. I focus on multicultural London and juxtapose Black British writer, Zadie Smith’s novel, White Teeth to Stephen Frears’ Dirty Pretty Things, to underline the multiple intersections between the status of colored immigrants, their des…[Read more]
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Laila Amine deposited The Paris Paradox: Colorblindness and Colonialism in African American Expatriate Fiction in the group
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 8 months agoThis essay maps out a six-year literary transformation of Paris noir from 1957 to 1963 that overlaps with the Algerian war for independence from France (1954–1962). In this journey that transits from Parisian utopianism to postcolonial criticism, from Richard Wright and James Baldwin’s love songs to racially liberal Paris to William Gardner S…[Read more]
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Laila Amine deposited The Paris Paradox: Colorblindness and Colonialism in African American Expatriate Fiction in the group
LLC African American on MLA Commons 9 years, 8 months agoThis essay maps out a six-year literary transformation of Paris noir from 1957 to 1963 that overlaps with the Algerian war for independence from France (1954–1962). In this journey that transits from Parisian utopianism to postcolonial criticism, from Richard Wright and James Baldwin’s love songs to racially liberal Paris to William Gardner S…[Read more]
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Thomas Oliver Beebee started the topic CFP for ACL(x) '16: Extra-Disciplinarity Due date 30 June in the discussion
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 9 years, 8 months agoWhat if disciplines were organized differently — or didn’t exist at all? Or existed, but none of us “belonged” to one? What if literary scholars were to go about interdisciplinary work the way scientists do, building large teams from distinct disciplines to produce work with many co-authors? How do other disciplines reach their audiences? What…[Read more]
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Benjamin Fraser started the topic Call for Assistant Editors: Journal of Urban Cultural Studies in the discussion
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 9 years, 9 months agoCALL FOR
ASSISTANT EDITORS (2017 & 2018)APPLICATION DEADLINE IS 20 NOVEMBER 2016
The Journal of Urban Cultural Studies is a peer-reviewed interdisciplinary journal exploring the cultures of cities and blending humanities and social science approaches to the urban phenomenon. The journal publishes research articles (subject to peer review) of…[Read more]
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Chandrima Chakraborty started the topic History, Memory, Grief: A 30th Air India Anniversary Conference, McMaster U in the discussion
Ethnic Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 9 months agoHistory, Memory, Grief: A 30th Air India Anniversary Conference
Department of English & Cultural Studies, McMaster University
May 6-7, 2016
<div class=”entry-content”>On June 23, 1985 a bomb detonated on Air India Flight 182 en route from Toronto to New Delhi via Montreal. The mid-air explosion killed all 329 passengers and crew, the majority of…[Read more]
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Chandrima Chakraborty started the topic History, Memory, Grief: A 30th Air India Anniversary Conference, McMaster U in the discussion
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 9 years, 9 months agoHistory, Memory, Grief: A 30th Air India Anniversary Conference
Department of English & Cultural StudiesMay 6-7, 2016
McMaster Innovation Park
<div class=”entry-content”>On June 23, 1985 a bomb detonated on Air India Flight 182 en route from Toronto to New Delhi via Montreal. The mid-air explosion killed all 329 passengers and crew, the…[Read more]
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Gregory F. Tague posted an update in the group
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 9 years, 9 months agoYou might be interested in my recent book, *Art and Adaptation*, which presents a comprehensive survey and discussion of the dominant ideas by leading thinkers on why we make art. Approaches that examine the evolution of art behavior embrace natural selection, sexual selection, social selection, and cognition. Plenty of more information at my…[Read more]
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Heidi Bostic deposited The Humanities Must Engage Global Grand Challenges in the group
TC Anthropology and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 10 months agoThe humanities must work together with STEM if we are to succeed in articulating relevant, historically informed, and culturally nuanced responses to grand challenges.
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Scott Challener deposited 'Some Reckonings with the Not-Old and with Surprise': Postmodern Ballads of Urban Crisis in the group
LLC African American on MLA Commons 9 years, 10 months agoThis paper offers a brief consideration of the literary ballad as a register of what by the mid-’60s economists had diagnosed as “urban crisis” and in 1970 John Ashbery called “urban chaos.” I’m particularly interested in how poets used the ballad to see and see into the failures of the “spatio-temporal fix” of urban renewal. My general idea is…[Read more]
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Binod Paudyal deposited "Reimagining Transnational Identities in Lahiri’s The Namesake" in the group
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 10 months agoThis essay demonstrates that Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Namesake goes beyond conventional wisdom about immigrant experiences in so far as it explores how the South Asian diaspora participates in transnational connections, shaping and transforming the notion of American identity in the contemporary global era. Lahiri’s novel offers us a striking acc…[Read more]
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Miriam Thaggert started the topic MLA Session CFP – Af. Am. Interrogations of American National Narratives in the discussion
Black American Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 9 years, 10 months agoAfrican American Interrogations of American National Narratives: how do African American texts (e.g. Morrison’s Playing in the Dark, Paradise, or A Mercy) question the stability of American mythologies? 250-word abstracts, 2page cv to thabiti@wsu.edu by March 25.
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Miriam Thaggert started the topic MLA Session CFP – Nat Turner: From Confessions to Film in the discussion
Black American Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 9 years, 10 months agoNat Turner: From Confessions to Film: How do various media re-imagine black rebellion/revolt as related to the 1831 “Confessions,” Styron’s 1967 novel, and/or Nate Parker’s film “Birth of a Nation”? 250-word abstracts, CV to miriam-thaggert@uiowa.edu by March 25.
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Miriam Thaggert started the topic MLA Session CFP – Contemporary African American Theatre in the discussion
Black American Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 9 years, 10 months agoContemporary African American Theatre: what critical conversations and new directions must emerge to sustain the vitality of African American theatre and performance and our understanding of its role in society? 250-word abstracts, 2page cv to d_williams@howard.edu by March 25.
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Marina Fedosik started the topic CFP: Adoption and Culture Deadline April 1 in the discussion
Anthropological Approaches to Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoCall for Proposals: Sixth Biennial Conference for the Alliance for the Study of Adoption and Culture ASAC 2016: Building Communities, Changing Discourses
Crowne Plaza Minneapolis Northstar Downtown Hotel, 27-29 October 2016
Proposal deadline April 1 2016
Keynote speakers: Lorraine Dusky, Margaret Jacobs, and Deann Borshay Liem, introducing her…[Read more]
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Sonia Nora Feder-Lewis deposited Leadership in Literature Course Syllabus in the group
TC Anthropology and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoThis course, designed for a graduate program in education which focuses on leadership, explores works of literature that have had a significant cultural impact and shaped ways in which societies view social issues from the perspective of how leadership is enacted within the texts. For students from disciplines outside of literature studies, this…[Read more]
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Roy Pérez started the topic CFP: Pre-Stonewall/Post-Modern in the discussion
Ethnic Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoMLA 2017 Session Sponsored by the GLQ Caucus:
Pre-Stonewall/Post-Modern
Given recent debates on the nature and centrality of the Stonewall rebellion of 1969, we seek papers that examine cultural production that reaches forward or backward across this historic flashpoint for conjuring queer aesthetic and political imaginaries, from modernist…[Read more]
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