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Lisa Zunshine deposited May 2020 Bibliography for Cognitive Literary Studies in the group
MS Screen Arts and Culture on MLA Commons 5 years, 8 months agoa bibliography-in-progress for cognitive literary, film, theater, and media studies
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Albertine Fox deposited The end but not the end: twist, revolt, survive in the group
MS Screen Arts and Culture on MLA Commons 5 years, 9 months agoA write-up of my contribution to a roundtable panel that took place at King’s College London on 26th September 2019 to celebrate the English translation of Chantal Akerman’s My Mother Laughs. The speakers were Ros Murray (KCL), Jenny Chamarette (QMUL), Albertine Fox (Bristol), Frances Morgan (author of the Afterword, My Mother Laughs), Sarah Shi…[Read more]
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Elizabeth Scarlett deposited RECording the End time in Twenty-First-Century Spanish Film in the group
MS Screen Arts and Culture on MLA Commons 5 years, 10 months agoApocalyptic themes handled by Spanish directors of the current century, including Jaume Balagueró, Paco Plaza, Juan Carlos Fresnadillo, David and Álex Pastor, Álex de la Iglesia, Juan Antonio Bayona, Jorge Torregrossa, and Alfonso Cortés-Cavanillas, and F. Javier Gutiérrez.
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Ivan Sablin deposited Soviet federalism from below: The Soviet Republics of Odessa and the Russian Far East, 1917–1918 in the group
Soviet and Russian history and culture on Humanities Commons 5 years, 10 months agoIn early 1918, the Bolshevik-dominated Third Congress of Soviets declared the formation of a new composite polity—the Soviet Russian Republic. The congress’s resolutions, however, simultaneously proclaimed a federation of national republics and a federation of soviets. The latter seemed to recognize regionalism and localism as organizing pri…[Read more]
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Sydney Boyd started the topic CFP Guaranteed Session: Opera after World War II in the discussion
MS Opera and Musical Performance on MLA Commons 5 years, 11 months agoThe executive committee of the MLA Forum on Opera and Musical Performance has issued a call for papers for a session at the 2021 convention, “Opera after World War II: Production, Memory, Mourning,” on “how operatic productions after World War II participate in, elide, or mediate historical catastrophe or radical discontinuity.” The word limit f…[Read more]
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Ostap Kushnir deposited Ukraine in the post-truth environment, or Future shocks of the global village in the group
Soviet and Russian history and culture on Humanities Commons 5 years, 11 months agoAlvin Toffler and Marshall McLuhan: both are futurologists who theorized about the impact of information exchange on societies. In the late 1960s, Toffler came up with the concept of future shock, while McLuhan “invented” the global village. I dared combining these two concepts into a sort of “theory of everything” to explain political process…[Read more]
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Felipe Furtado Guimaraes deposited Adopting English as a Medium of Instruction (EMI) in Brazil and Flanders (Belgium): a comparative study in the group
Language requirements in higher education on Humanities Commons 5 years, 12 months agoThe objective of this study is to discuss the adoption of English as a Medium of Instruction (EMI) in the Brazilian and Flemish contexts, considering the influence of globalization and internationalization on the languages in higher education. To reach this goal, a bibliographic research was carried out, in order to analyze documents related to…[Read more]
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Ostap Kushnir deposited New dark times. A warning against the spread of Putinism in the group
Soviet and Russian history and culture on Humanities Commons 6 years agoBook review. Kate Langdon & Vladimir Tismaneanu “Putin’s Totalitarian Democracy: Ideology, Myth, and Violence in the Twenty-First Century”, Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
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Felipe Furtado Guimaraes deposited Affordances of language teacher training in the digital era in the group
Language requirements in higher education on Humanities Commons 6 years agoThe objective of this study is to discuss affordances in foreign language (L2) teacher education in the digital age. With that aim, some pedagogical interventions were carried out in the course of “Supervised Internship” within the context of the Undergraduate Degree in English Language Teaching, at a federal university in the Southeast of Bra…[Read more]
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Caroline Winter deposited The Future is Meta: Five Revolutionary Ideas for Cataloguing and Metadata in Libraries and Archives in the group
CLCS Romantic and 19th-Century on MLA Commons 6 years agoA job talk given as part of an interview for a faculty librarian position
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Cynthia Chase started the topic Voice: Remediated Embodiments, #414–"The Pitch of the Voice" & more in the discussion
MS Opera and Musical Performance on MLA Commons 6 years agoCome at 5:15 to 6:30 today, Fri., to Willow A in the Sheraton, for “‘Allo, c’est toi?’: Questioning the Telephone in La Voix Humaine” — by Jeremy Glazier
“The Diva as Hologram: opera, liveness, and audiovisual remediation” — by Joao Pedro Cachopo, U. of Lisbon
“The Pitch of the Voice: Beckett and Feldman’s Antiopera Neither” by Sydney…[Read more]
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Cynthia Chase started the topic Voice: Remediated Embodiments, #414, arranged by MS,Opera&Musical Performance in the discussion
CLCS Romantic and 19th-Century on MLA Commons 6 years ago“‘Allo, c’est toi?’: Questioning the Telephone in La Voix Humaine” — by Jeremy Glazier
“The Diva as Hologram: opera, liveness, and audiovisual remediation” — by Joao Pedro Cachopo, U. of Lisbon
“The Pitch of the Voice: Beckett and Feldman’s Antiopera Neither” by Sydney Boyd
Followed by discussion — Come to Willow A, Sheraton, at 5:15…[Read more]
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Felipe Furtado Guimaraes deposited Internationalization at Home, COIL and Intercomprehension: for more inclusive activities in the Global South in the group
Language requirements in higher education on Humanities Commons 6 years, 1 month agoThis study aims to explore the concept, benefits, challenges and activities related to Internationalization at Home (IaH), defined as the integration of international/intercultural dimensions into the formal/informal curriculum in domestic learning environments (Beelen & Jones, 2015), as an alternative for more inclusive activities in higher…[Read more]
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “Can the Biopic Subjects Speak? Disembodied Voices in The King’s Speech and The Theory of Everything.” A Companion to the Biopic, ed. Deborah Cartmell and Ashley D. Polasek (Chichester, UK: Wiley-Blackwell, 2020), 269-282 in the group
MS Screen Arts and Culture on MLA Commons 6 years, 1 month agoThe adaptations of King George VI’s and Stephen Hawking’s life stories show their uneasy relationship to the “troubled-white-male-genius” genre and to the vocal embodiment of their subjects who lose and gain a voice through therapy, technology, and their will to live a full life. The films carefully skirt the edges of public disgust and pity of…[Read more]
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Felipe Furtado Guimaraes deposited Internationalization and Language Policies in Brazil: evidence of the interface at UFES in the group
Language requirements in higher education on Humanities Commons 6 years, 1 month agoThis paper discusses the interface between internationalization and language policies in general in Brazil by looking for evidence and traces of evidence in a local context. More specifically, Brazilian national programs such as the Science without Borders (SwB), the Languages without Borders (LwB) and the Capes PrInt call are analysed in the…[Read more]
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Ostap Kushnir deposited Lysiak Rudnytsky’s prescience: Ukraine’s political turbulence and trauma of a “non-historical” nation in the group
Soviet and Russian history and culture on Humanities Commons 6 years, 2 months agoIf we look at the past three decades in the history of Eastern Europe, Ukraine may safely be placed at the top of the chart of “unstable” states. First was the student-led Revolution on Granite in the 1990s. The outcome of that revolution was a resignation of entrenched high-ranked Soviet officials under the pressure of public opinion. Then, if…[Read more]
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Lidiana de Moraes started the topic CFP – Symposium Documenting Diversity & Democracy in Brazil in the discussion
MS Screen Arts and Culture 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.
https://mailchi.mp/miami.edu/documenting-diversity-and-democracy-in-brazil-call-for-papers-2019
Please share with those who may be interested.
Thank you so much!
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “Others within: Ethics in the age of global Shakespeare.” Routledge Handbook of Shakespeare and Global Appropriation, ed. Christy Desmet, Sujata Iyengar, and Miriam Jacobson (London: Routledge, 2020), pp. 25-36 in the group
MS Screen Arts and Culture on MLA Commons 6 years, 2 months agoThis chapter theorizes global Shakespeare through two interrelated concepts: performance as an act of citation and the ethics of citation. Bringing the concept of performance as citation and the ethics of citation together, this chapter argues that acts of appropriation carry with them strong ethical implications. A crucial, ethical component of…[Read more]
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Ostap Kushnir deposited Putin’s long awaited opportunity, retaliation and revenge in the group
Soviet and Russian history and culture on Humanities Commons 6 years, 3 months agoBook review. Taras Kuzio “Putin’s War against Ukraine: Revolution, nationalism and crime,” CreateSpace Independent, in association with the Chair of Ukrainian Studies, University of Toronto, 2017
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