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William E. Lenz started the topic CFP Travel Culture at Popular Culture 2015 in the forum
Popular Culture on MLA Commons 11 years, 6 months agoDear Colleagues,
PCA/ACA Travel & Tourism
CALL FOR PAPERS AT NATIONAL PCA/ACA CONFERENCE IN NEW ORLEANS, WEDNESDAY TO SATURDAY, APRIL 1-4, 2015
We had 7 panels in Travel and Tourism last year in Chicago; I hope to see 15 this year.
I’m looking for any and all interesting papers or presentations regarding travel and tourist culture. This i…[Read more]
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Leigh Anne Duck started the topic CfP spec. issue “Global García Márquez” in the forum
Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 6 months agoSalmon Rushdie recently wrote, “Gabo lives. The extraordinary worldwide attention paid to the death of Gabriel García Márquez, and the genuine sorrow felt by readers everywhere at his passing, tell us that his books are still very much alive” (New York Times Book Review, May 18, 2014, p.1). This issue of The Global South seeks to further under…[Read more]
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Elena Valdez started the topic CFP LASA 2015 in the forum
Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 6 months agoCALL FOR PAPERS
Looking for participants for this LASA panel (MUST BE a current LASA member).
Session Title: From Beauty Pageants to Audiovisual Art: The portrayal of Precarious Bodies in Literature and Performance in the Dominican Republic
This panel examines how artistic and audiovisual representations of gendered and sexed bodies are…[Read more]
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Hilda Chacón started the topic CFP-2015 NeMLA Conference, Toronto Canada in the forum
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Panel: “Digital Humanities and Latin America: New Trends, Challenges, and Developments”
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Gregory F. Tague started the topic Call for papers in the forum
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 11 years, 6 months agoThe editors of ASEBL Journal invite queries for the January 2015 issue. Deadline for articles is 1 September 2014, though early submissions are encouraged as space in the journal is limited. Issues are housed on the St. Francis College (NY) website http://www.sfc.edu/page.cfm?p=3993. Before query or submission, please review the About tab on the…[Read more]
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Beth Ellen Jörgensen started the topic CFP NeMLA Roundtable, Disability Studies in LA in the forum
Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 6 months agoRoundtable fostering a dialogue about and with Latin American perspectives on disability studies in the humanities. Participants will give brief presentations on disability studies theory and criticism produced in Latin America in response to local and regional lived realities and cultural productions. Speakers may also highlight literature, film…[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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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, 7 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
and attention to in that novel. Oceania is always right, tells the truth, the other two…[Read more] -
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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Selma R. S. Vital replied to the topic CFP -roundtable for Ne MLA 46th annual convention in the forum
The Teaching of Language on MLA Commons 11 years, 8 months agoHi Dennis,
I would love to participate of this workshop, but unfortunately I cannot go to Ohio at this time. Please, keep us informed about any other similar event in the east coast. Due to our big load of work in the last week of classes, Marion and I were not able to put together a panel for Toronto. I still believe we can do something to make…[Read more]
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Lee B. Abraham started the topic MLA 2015, Recent Work in Narrative and Discourse, Division of Language Theory in the forum
Language Theory on MLA Commons 11 years, 9 months agoDear Colleagues:
Please join us for the following Division of Language Theory session at the 2015 Convention. Abstracts will be posted in the fall.
Recent Work in Narrative and Discourse
Temporal Relations in Narrative Discourse: Narrator’s Perspective through Tense and Aspect
Amruta Chandekar, University Of Washington
Lula versus Obama and t…[Read more] -
Lee B. Abraham started the topic MLA 2015, Studies in Cognitive Linguistics, Division of Language Theory in the forum
Language Theory on MLA Commons 11 years, 9 months agoDear Colleagues:
Please join us for the following Division of Language Theory session at the 2015 Convention.
Abstracts will be posted in the fall.
Studies in Cognitive Linguistics
Cognition in Interaction: Substantiating Context in Language Use and Grammaticalization
Anneliese Kuhle, Freie Universität Berlin
Grammaticalization and…[Read more] -
Dennis Looney replied to the topic CFP -roundtable for Ne MLA 46th annual convention in the forum
The Teaching of Language on MLA Commons 11 years, 9 months agoDear Colleagues,
I receive these posts as a member of this discussion group in my capacity as a faculty member of Italian at the University of Pittsburgh. Since January 2014, I have assumed the directorship of ADFL and in that new capacity I write to announce a workshop connected with the topic Selma and Marion are discussing. At the ADFL s…[Read more]
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Marion Gehlker replied to the topic CFP -roundtable for Ne MLA 46th annual convention in the forum
The Teaching of Language on MLA Commons 11 years, 9 months agoHi Selma,
I’d be interested. What topics did you have in mind? I teach German and include literature at all levels of language instruction.
Thanks,
Marion
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Selma R. S. Vital started the topic CFP -roundtable for Ne MLA 46th annual convention in the forum
The Teaching of Language on MLA Commons 11 years, 9 months agoI am proposing a round table discussing new ways/approaches and successfull strategies integrating the literary text into the language class. The subject is not new, however a lot has been changing in this particular “field”. If interested, please, contact me as soon as you can, since the deadline for submissions is approaching. The convention…[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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