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Brad Evans started the topic MLA 2015: Special Screening of In the Land of the Head Hunters (1914) in the forum
Anthropological Approaches to Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 1 month agoSpecial Centenary Film Screening: In the Land of the Head Hunters (1914)
Vancity Theater, Saturday, January 10, Noon
http://www.viff.org/theatre/series/vancity-theatre-screening
In the Land of the Head Hunters was the first feature film made in B.C. and is the oldest extant feature made in Canada. It’s also the first feature made with an e…[Read more]
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Anna Maria Nogar started the topic Ethnic Studies in Language and Literature: MLA 2015 in the forum
Ethnic Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 2 months ago131. Violence on the Borders: Memory, Gender, Geography
Thursday, 8 January, 5:15–6:30 p.m., 122, VCC WestProgram arranged by the Division on Ethnic Studies in Language and Literature
Presiding: Penelope M. Kelsey, Univ. of Colorado, Boulder; Amritjit Singh, Ohio Univ., Athens
1. “New Jurisdictions of Violence and Survivance in the Native B…[Read more]
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Anna Maria Nogar started the topic Announcing New Forum: CLCS Global Arab and Arab American Literature Forum in the forum
Ethnic Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 2 months agoWe are happy to share the good news that the MLA has approved the formation of the CLCS Global Arab and Arab American Literature Forum!
There will be an organizational meeting of the new CLCS Global Arab and Arab American Literature Forum at the upcoming MLA convention. The meeting will take place on Thursday, January 8, 2015 from 8:45 to 10:00…[Read more]
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María Gil Poisa uploaded the file: CFP: Body Memory Trauma // Exhibition: Water, Art, Women, Life to
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 11 years, 2 months ago5th Hispanic Studies Graduate Conference with the title of “Body, Memory, Trauma”, an interdisciplinary academic event open to every interested scholar. The conference will take place on March 6th and 7th in College Station/Bryan (Texas), together with an Italian-Argentinean artistic exhibition with the title of “Water, Art, Women, Life”, devoted…[Read more]
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María Gil Poisa uploaded the file: CFP: Body Memory Trauma // Exhibition: Water, Art, Women, Life to
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 11 years, 2 months ago5th Hispanic Studies Graduate Conference with the title of “Body, Memory, Trauma”, an interdisciplinary academic event open to every interested scholar. The conference will take place on March 6th and 7th in College Station/Bryan (Texas), together with an Italian-Argentinean artistic exhibition with the title of “Water, Art, Women, Life”, devoted…[Read more]
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Rhea Riegel replied to the topic CFP: Interdisciplinary Confernece on The World Upside-Down in the forum
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 11 years, 3 months agoGreat!
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Massimilla Pialorsi replied to the topic CFP: Interdisciplinary Confernece on The World Upside-Down in the forum
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 11 years, 3 months agoDear Rhea Riegel:
Taking into consideration the powerful topic of “The World Upside-Down”, I’ll go ahead and submit my proposal in English. Thanks.
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Rhea Riegel replied to the topic CFP: Interdisciplinary Confernece on The World Upside-Down in the forum
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 11 years, 3 months agoHi Massimilla – I hoped to meet with the conference committee before answering your question, but neither do I want to keep you waiting. I won’t be able to connect with the committee quickly enough, so I would say that you should go ahead and submit your abstract as you want to present it, but also to note whether or not you would be willing to…[Read more]
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Jesse Goldberg started the topic CFP: Harlem Renaissance Drama (SSAWW 2015) in the forum
Black American Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 11 years, 3 months ago<div class=”bbp-reply-content”>
2015 Society for the Study of American Women Writers Triennial Conference
Nov. 4-8, 2015
Philadelphia, PennsylvaniaProposed Panel: “Women Playwrights of the Harlem Renaissance”
Taking a cue from the conference theme, “Liminal Spaces, Hybrid Lives,” this panel asks how African American women playwrights worked…[Read more]
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Massimilla Pialorsi replied to the topic CFP: Interdisciplinary Confernece on The World Upside-Down in the forum
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 11 years, 3 months agoHi, my topic would be around Álvaro Cunqueiro, a Spanish A-vanguard author, who practices Magical Realism and who grounds his work into the World-up Side Down, parody, irony and humor (Bakhtin, etc.). Do you accept abstract (and paper) in Spanish? Thanks. Massimilla Pialorsi-Lewis.
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Rhea Riegel replied to the topic CFP: Interdisciplinary Confernece on The World Upside-Down in the forum
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 11 years, 3 months agoHi Marilyn – it is an interdisciplinary conference so politics is fine. The session that is open for paper submissions is “Carnival and Satire” so if your topic fits that, we would welcome your abstract. Either way, we hope you can attend the conference in April!
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Marilyn J. Shapiro replied to the topic CFP: Interdisciplinary Confernece on The World Upside-Down in the forum
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 11 years, 3 months agoI have a political topic for a “world upside down.”
It has nothing to do with literature but with political stances taken by literary organizations that I believe are unnecessarily naive and misguided.Marilyn Shapiro
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Rhea Riegel started the topic CFP: Interdisciplinary Confernece on The World Upside-Down in the forum
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 11 years, 3 months agoThe Center for the Humanities at the University of California, Merced will be hosting an interdisciplinary conference on the theme The World Upside-Down, April 10-11, 2015. We are interested in sub-themes that explore the notion of “the world upside-down”—the multifarious historical and contemporary meanings of the concept, as it expresses itself…[Read more]
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Andre Carrington started the topic CFP: Queers & Comics Conference in the forum
Black American Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 11 years, 4 months agoView the complete detailed CFP at http://www.clags.org/queers-comics/call-for-proposals
Queers & Comics Conference – Presented by CLAGS: The Center for LGBTQ Studies
Location: The Graduate Center, City University of New York
Date: May 7-8, 2015
Keynote Speakers: Howard Cruse (Stuck Rubber Baby, Gay Comics) and Alison Bechdel (Dykes to Watch Out F…[Read more] -
Andre Carrington started the topic CFP: Queers & Comics Conference in the forum
Ethnic Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 4 months agoView the complete detailed CFP at http://www.clags.org/queers-comics/call-for-proposals
Queers & Comics Conference – Presented by CLAGS: The Center for LGBTQ Studies
Location: The Graduate Center, City University of New York
Date: May 7-8, 2015
Keynote Speakers: Howard Cruse (Stuck Rubber Baby, Gay Comics) and Alison Bechdel (Dykes to Watch Out F…[Read more] -
Andre Carrington started the topic CFP: Queers & Comics Conference in the forum
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 11 years, 4 months agoView the complete detailed CFP at http://www.clags.org/queers-comics/call-for-proposals
Queers & Comics Conference – Presented by CLAGS: The Center for LGBTQ Studies
Location: The Graduate Center, City University of New York, 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY
Date: May 7-8, 2015
Keynote Speakers: Howard Cruse (Stuck Rubber Baby, Gay Comics) and A…[Read more] -
Shayani Bhattacharya started the topic CFP NeMLA: Writings about the Evolution of the Metropolis in the 20th Century in the forum
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 11 years, 5 months agoPanel: The (Ir)real City: Writing About the Changing Metropolis in the 20th Century (Session ID: 15391)
Submission Link: https://nemla.org/convention/2015/cfp.html#cfp15391
Deadline: September 30, 2014
Panel Chair: Shayani Bhattacharya (for questions: shayanib@buffalo.edu)
Conference Dates: April 30-May 03, 2015 (Toronto, Ontario)
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Shayani Bhattacharya started the topic CFP NeMLA: Writings about the Evolution of the Metropolis in the 20th Century in the forum
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 11 years, 5 months agoPanel: The (Ir)real City: Writing About the Changing Metropolis in the 20th Century (Session ID: 15391)
Submission Link: https://nemla.org/convention/2015/cfp.html#cfp15391
Deadline: September 30, 2014
Panel Chair: Shayani Bhattacharya (for questions: shayanib@buffalo.edu)
Conference Dates: April 30-May 03, 2015 (Toronto, Ontario)
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Shayani Bhattacharya started the topic CFP NeMLA: Writings about the Evolution of the Metropolis in the 20th Century in the forum
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 11 years, 5 months agoPanel: The (Ir)real City: Writing About the Changing Metropolis in the 20th Century (Session ID: 15391)
Submission Link: https://nemla.org/convention/2015/cfp.html#cfp15391
Deadline: September 30, 2014
Panel Chair: Shayani Bhattacharya (for questions: shayanib@buffalo.edu)
Conference Dates: April 30-May 03, 2015 (Toronto, Ontario)
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Sandra K. Soto started the topic Chicana/o Literature Division Panels (MLA 2015) in the forum
Ethnic Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 5 months agoPlease Circulate Widely!
Friday, 9 January
351. Chicano Narrative at Twenty-Five
3:30–4:45 p.m., West 202, VCC West
Program arranged by the Division on Chicana and Chicano Literature
Presiding: Yolanda Padilla, Univ. of Washington, Bothell
1. “The Diachronics of Difference: Chicano Narrative Then, Now, and before Chicanidad,” Jesse Alemán, Univ.…[Read more] - Load More
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