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Betsy Dahms replied to the topic CFP: Discussion Group for Science Fiction, Utopian and Fantastic Literature in the forum
Anthropological Approaches to Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 7 months agoCall for Papers
WORLDS and WORDS
29th Annual Interdisciplinary Conference in the Humanities
Sponsored by the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures
University of West Georgia, College of Arts and Humanities
Carrollton, Georgia
October 30-November 1, 2014
Deadline Extended until July 22nd
We welcome submissions from across…[Read more]
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Laura E. Savu replied to the topic The Good Life and the Greater Good in a Global Context in the forum
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 11 years, 7 months agoThank you for your prompt reply, Erin. You could e-mail me your submission at laura_savu@yahoo.com by Aug. 15.
I look forward to reading it, especially since I have also drawn on her work (specifically, her argument about cruel optimism) in my reading of Hamid’s text.
All the best,
Laura
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Laura E. Savu started the topic The Good Life and the Greater Good in a Global Context in the forum
Literature and Religion on MLA Commons 11 years, 7 months agoDear colleagues,
I’m writing to invite you to submit proposals for a collection of essays that is tentatively titled The Good Life and the Greater Good in a Global Context. The essays need to focus on the discourses and practices of the good life, understood in all of its dimensions—material, psychological, ethical, spiritual, etc. –and appro…[Read more]
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Erin Cowling replied to the topic The Good Life and the Greater Good in a Global Context in the forum
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 11 years, 7 months agoSounds very interesting. I might be interested in submitting something on the good life and gender theory as theorized by Judith Butler. How would you like to receive submissions? Here? Or via email?
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Laura E. Savu started the topic The Good Life and the Greater Good in a Global Context in the forum
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 11 years, 7 months agoDear colleagues,
I’m writing to invite you to submit proposals for a collection of essays that is tentatively titled The Good Life and the Greater Good in a Global Context. The essays need to focus on the discourses and practices of the good life, understood in all of its dimensions—material, psychological, ethical, spiritual, etc. –and appro…[Read more]
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Anne W. Anderson replied to the topic Orwell Rhetorical Analysis for News Photos in the forum
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 11 years, 8 months agoGloria — You might look for David Altheide and Chris Schneider’s Qualitative Media Analysis, which describes using ethnographic content analysis to examine various forms of news media in the manner you suggest, although it is focused more on the process of producing news than the product. The method might help you organize the work initially;…[Read more]
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Hania A.M. Nashef replied to the topic Orwell Rhetorical Analysis for News Photos in the forum
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 11 years, 8 months agoFraming the subject is something you can look at–the place and angle the camera is placed; what you decide to include or exclude from the frame. These factors and others can affect how the ‘story’ is told. And to add on Pamela’s comments, even within an orgnaization such as Al Jazeera, the visual is not presented the same. AJA is not the same…[Read more]
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Gloria Lee McMillan started the topic Orwell Rhetorical Analysis for News Photos in the forum
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 11 years, 8 months agoHi, Everybody!
A Rich Field for Rhetorical Analysis
I know you are all familiar with the Orwell novel 1984, with its permanently at war nations of Oceania,
Eurasia, and Eastasia. The Newsspeak and media coverage were something that Orwell gave some time
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Louise Bethlehem started the topic Postdoctoral Fellowships "Apartheid–The Global Itinerary" in the forum
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 11 years, 8 months agoApartheid—The Global Itinerary: South African Cultural Formations in Transnational Circulation 1948-1990
Post-Doctoral Fellowships
The European Research Council (ERC) project “Apartheid—The Global Itinerary: South African Cultural Formations in Transnational Circulation 1948-1990” under the direction of Dr. Louise Bethlehem (English & The Progr…[Read more]
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Gaurav G. Desai started the topic Katrina (CFP) Repost in the forum
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 11 years, 10 months agoCall for Papers
Special Issue: Katrina – A Decade Afterthe minnesota review, a journal of creative and critical writing, invites submissions for a Special Issue on “Katrina – A Decade After” to be guest edited by Gaurav Desai (English/African and African Diaspora Studies, Tulane University). Our aim is to reflect on the hurricane, the measure…[Read more]
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Gaurav G. Desai started the topic Katrina — A Decade After (CFP) in the forum
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Matt Cohen posted an update in the group
TM Bibliography and Scholarly Editing on MLA Commons 11 years, 11 months agoCFP for MLA 2015: Bibliography for the twenty-first century.
A collaborative session proposal by the discussion groups for Bibliography and Textual Studies and Libraries and Research.
Seeking discussions of projects, research, issues, controversies, trends, and other topics. 250-word abstracts by 15 March 2014 to Dawn Childress (dawn@psu.edu) and…[Read more] -
Eric Aronoff replied to the topic CFP: Discussion Group for Science Fiction, Utopian and Fantastic Literature in the forum
Anthropological Approaches to Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 11 months agoTo clarify, this CFP is for MLA 2015…
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Eric Aronoff started the topic CFP: Discussion Group for Science Fiction, Utopian and Fantastic Literature in the forum
Anthropological Approaches to Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 11 months agoThe CFP below may be of interests for members of this division:
<b>Science Fiction, Fantasy and the Concept of Culture</b>
How has sci-fi/fantasy explored (humanist and anthropological) concepts of “culture” and form? How does sci-fi/fantasy “world-making” engage/challenge anthropological ideas of culture/representation? Abstracts, brief cv by 15…[Read more] -
Roberto Rey Agudo started the topic CFP Spaces of Dialogue: International Conference on Transatlantic Studies in the forum
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 12 years agoDear Colleagues,
The Real Colegio Complutense at Harvard is putting together an international conference on April 24-25th. Submissions from all relevant areas in literary and cultural studies are welcome. I am copying below the full text of the Call for Papers and relevant information for those interested in participating or attending.
Spaces of…[Read more]
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WORLDS and WORDS
29th Annual Interdisciplinary Conference in the Humanities
Sponsored by the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures
University of West Georgia, College of Arts and Humanities
Carrollton, Georgia
October 30-November 1, 2014
Deadline Extended until July 22nd
We welcome submissions from across…[Read more]