Dear members,
I’m getting the ball rolling on trying to activate the prospective MLA forum CLCS Indian Ocean. The first step involved getting 35 signatures on the petition at MLA Commons as well as five volunteers for leadership positions. After that, a full proposal will be solicited by the MLA, probably in mid-June.

Here is a link to the…[Read more]

I am interested in trying to get this forum created, and the previous petition thread seems to be inactive, so I’ve started this one. Please sign below if you endorse the creation of this forum, and indicate if you want to volunteer for a leadership position. You can contact me at nienke.boer@yale-nus.edu.sg if you have thoughts about this!

The Global Far North: Arctic Literatures
The Global South has challenged Eurocentric narratives; what of the Global (Extreme) North? Colonial encounters; environmental extremes; imperial and indigenous literatures in the Arctic.
200-word abstract and CV or brief bio to Rebecca Stanton (rjs19@columbia.edu) by March 18.

(Sponsored by LLC…[Read more]

MLA 2019 Special Session. Honoring the centenary of Abrahams’ birth, we re-assess his epoch-making career as author-journalist-Panafricanist from Johannesburg to London to Kingston. Abstracts 100-300 words by 22 March 2018; Jason Frydman (jfrydman@brooklyn.cuny.edu).

MLA 2019 Special Session. Honoring the centenary of Abrahams’ birth, we re-assess his epoch-making career as author-journalist-Panafricanist from Johannesburg to London to Kingston. Abstracts 100-300 words by 22 March 2018; Jason Frydman (jfrydman@brooklyn.cuny.edu).

MLA 2019 Special Session. Honoring the centenary of Abrahams’ birth, we re-assess his epoch-making career as author-journalist-Panafricanist from Johannesburg to London to Kingston. Abstracts 100-300 words by 22 March 2018; Jason Frydman (jfrydman@brooklyn.cuny.edu).

Guaranteed panel sponsored by the Modern Language Association’s Committee of Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies, 20th and 21st century.

This panel takes its cue from Leopold Senghor’s writing on the ambiguities and paradoxes of the Bandung moment: as a call to shared independence that bears the risk of (ethno)-nationalist exploitations i…[Read more]

This is a call for papers for a special session at the annual MLA convention to take place in Chicago, Jan 3 – 6, 2019.

We live in the internet era with its mirrored online reality where (almost) everything seems quantifiable, searchable and generally predictable. Our minds are trained to apply logic and reason to analyze the world and organize…[Read more]