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Ryan Calabretta-Sajder started the topic 51ST ANNUAL IASA CONFERENCE AT UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS, CHICAGO in the discussion
2018 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 7 years, 9 months ago51st Annual IASA Conference at University of Illinois, Chicago
— Call for Papers: Reminder —
“The Conflicts of Immigration Past and Present:
The Position[ing] of Italians and the Diaspora”
October 18-20, 2018
Submission Deadline: Friday, April 27, 2018
Upload/submit proposals to Submitta…[Read more]
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Magalí Armillas-Tiseyra replied to the topic Petition {new thread] in the discussion
Prospective Forum: CLCS Indian Ocean on MLA Commons 7 years, 10 months agoI support the creation of this forum,
Magalí Armillas-Tiseyra
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Alok Amatya posted an update in the group
Prospective Forum: CLCS Indian Ocean on MLA Commons 7 years, 10 months agoI support the creation of this forum.
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Maryam Fatima replied to the topic Petition {new thread] in the discussion
Prospective Forum: CLCS Indian Ocean on MLA Commons 7 years, 10 months agoI support the creation of this forum. As someone working within a global south framework, I’ve found Indian Ocean perspectives particularly insightful for uncovering south-south connections. This forum will contribute to the study of this very rich literary and geopolitical space. Thank you for putting this together!
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Laurence Hooper deposited Realisms and idealisms in Italian culture, 1300–2017 in the group
CLCS Medieval on MLA Commons 7 years, 10 months agoThis special issue of the Italianist collects ten essays that consider the multiple manifestations of realism and idealism in Italy from the Trecento to the present day. Notions of the ‘real Italy’ (and of ‘Italian realism’) remain fundamental for scholars working in various disciplines, while the exploration of the ideal Italies constru…[Read more]
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Weihsin Gui replied to the topic Petition {new thread] in the discussion
Prospective Forum: CLCS Indian Ocean on MLA Commons 7 years, 10 months agoI support the creation of this forum. As a member of the Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic CLCS Forum, I think the creation of a CLCS Forum focused on the Indian Ocean will contribute to the study of historical and contemporary connections and exchanges between Africa, South Asia, and Southeast Asia.
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Pallavi Rastogi posted an update in the group
Prospective Forum: CLCS Indian Ocean on MLA Commons 7 years, 10 months agoI support the creation of this forum
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I am also happy to take on a leadership position if needed.
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Shuchi Kapila posted an update in the group
Prospective Forum: CLCS Indian Ocean on MLA Commons 7 years, 10 months agoI support the creation of this forum.
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Kanika Batra posted an update in the group
Prospective Forum: CLCS Indian Ocean on MLA Commons 7 years, 10 months agoI support the creation of this group. I cannot volunteer for a co-leadership position this year as I’m presiding over the Forum on South Asian and Diasporic literatures for 2019. We can think of a collaborative panel if the CLCS Indian Ocean gets approved.
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Neelofer Qadir replied to the topic Petition {new thread] in the discussion
Prospective Forum: CLCS Indian Ocean on MLA Commons 7 years, 10 months agoThanks for reviving this petition, Nienke!
I support the creation of this forum and would like to volunteer for one of the co-leadership positions.
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Sean Kennedy replied to the topic Petition {new thread] in the discussion
Prospective Forum: CLCS Indian Ocean on MLA Commons 7 years, 10 months agoI support the creation of this forum, and I’d be interested in volunteering as one of the co-leaders. Thank you for your initiative, Nienke!
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Mukoma Ngugi posted an update in the group
Prospective Forum: CLCS Indian Ocean on MLA Commons 7 years, 10 months agoIn support – Mukoma Wa Ngugi
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Gaurav G. Desai replied to the topic Petition {new thread] in the discussion
Prospective Forum: CLCS Indian Ocean on MLA Commons 7 years, 10 months agoI support the creation of this forum!
Gaurav Desai
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Deepika Marya posted an update in the group
Prospective Forum: CLCS Indian Ocean on MLA Commons 7 years, 10 months agoI strongly support this forum. Deepika Marya
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Nienke Boer started the topic Petition {new thread] in the discussion
Prospective Forum: CLCS Indian Ocean on MLA Commons 7 years, 10 months agoI 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!
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Rebecca Jane Stanton started the topic CFP for MLA 2019: The Global Far North: Arctic Literatures in the discussion
Scandinavian Languages and Literatures on MLA Commons 7 years, 10 months agoThe 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 Russian…[Read more]
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Juliet Shields posted an update in the group
LLC Scottish on MLA Commons 7 years, 10 months agoCFP: Ways of Reading Scotland
I’m seeking papers for a guaranteed panel at the 2018 MLA on the topic “Ways of Reading Scotland.”
How have new technologies and modes of reading (digital, distant, surface, affective, ethical, ecocritical…) changed our understanding of Scottish literature—whether of an individual text, a corpus of works, a particula…[Read more] -
Wan-Chuan Kao started the topic IPPS Miami 2019 Call for Session Proposals in the discussion
Comparative Studies in Medieval Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 10 months agoTHE SEVENTH INTERNATIONAL PIERS PLOWMAN CONFERENCE
April 4-7, 2019
University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida (Co-sponsored by the University of Miami and Florida International University)
The Programming Committee invites you to submit Session Proposals by May 15, 2018. Please send proposals (150-300 words) to ippsmiami2019@gmail.com
Session…[Read more]
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Joydeep Chakraborty deposited Afghanistan in Post-9/11 American Poetry: A Creative Response to Orientalism in the group
2018 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoOn the basis of the assumption that poetic response to Edward Said’s Orientalism is
rare, this article seeks to read three post-9/11 American poems on Afghanistan – “The Weavers” and
“Burka Women” by Gerald Wheeler, and “Kabul 2002 (From Dislocations)” by Dr. Bronwyn Winter – as a
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Susan Oliver deposited Byron’s Eastern Tales: Eastern Themes and Contexts in the group
LLC Scottish on MLA Commons 8 years agoThis sample chapter is a pre-copy edited version, in accordance with copyright and open access regulations.
ABSTRACT OF SCOTT, BYRON AND THE POETICS OF CULTURAL ENCOUNTER:
Scott, Byron and the Poetics of Cultural Encounter is an innovative study of Scott’s and Byron’s poetical engagement with borders (actual and metaphorical) and the people…[Read more] - Load More
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