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Tobias Steiner deposited Subversion of Nostalgia as a Strategy of Engagement in Alternate History TV: 11.22.63 and The Man in the High Castle in the group
MS Visual Culture on MLA Commons 7 years, 8 months agoBeginning with television’s popularization and mass availability in the 1950s, TV has extensively been employed to transport and mediate history. From the early televisual experiments of The Twilight Zone and Star Trek to more recent examples such as Quantum Leap, The X-Files and Continuum, Science Fiction television and its subgenre of A…[Read more]
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Tea Rokolj started the topic European Studies Research Forum @ ALA Annual 2018 in the discussion
Libraries and Research in Languages and Literatures on MLA Commons 7 years, 8 months agoJoin us for the ACRL European Studies Research Forum at ALA Annual in New Orleans!
Sunday, June 24th, 8:30-10:00 a.m. Sheraton New Orleans, Bayside B
Brief welcome and introduction to the presenters
Presentations
The Nazi Conspiracy: German Fantasies and Jewish Power between Weimar and the Third Reich — Brendan Fay (Emporia State…[Read more]
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Tea Rokolj started the topic European Studies Research Forum @ ALA Annual 2018 in the discussion
Libraries and Research in Languages and Literatures on MLA Commons 7 years, 8 months agoJoin us for the ACRL European Studies Research Forum at ALA Annual in New Orleans!
Sunday, June 24th, 8:30-10:00 a.m. Sheraton New Orleans, Bayside B
Brief welcome and introduction to the presenters
Presentations
The Nazi Conspiracy: German Fantasies and Jewish Power between Weimar and the Third Reich — Brendan Fay (Emporia State…[Read more]
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Kathleen Fitzpatrick deposited Obsolescence and Innovation in the Age of the Digital in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 7 years, 8 months agoThe relationship between obsolescence and innovation in the digital age is a peculiar one, conveying not past and future but instead demonstrating their eternal simultaneity.
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Kathleen Fitzpatrick deposited Obsolescence and Innovation in the Age of the Digital in the group
Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 7 years, 8 months agoThe relationship between obsolescence and innovation in the digital age is a peculiar one, conveying not past and future but instead demonstrating their eternal simultaneity.
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Brian Lennon deposited Questions and answers on “JavaScript Affogato: Programming a Culture of Improvised Expertise” in the group
TC Translation Studies on MLA Commons 7 years, 9 months agoPublished by Johns Hopkins University Press Blog, 28 March 2018. A Q&A about the essay “JavaScript Affogato: Programming a Culture of Improvised Expertise,” published in Configurations 26.1 (2018): 47–72, DOI: 10.1353/con.2018.0002.
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Ryan Calabretta-Sajder started the topic Fulbright Lecturership in Italian American Studies in the discussion
2018 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 7 years, 9 months agoDear Colleagues,
Please see the attached opportunity for those who work in Italian American
Studies. This is a wonderful opportunity for scholars of any rank. For more
information, see the link below or write directly to Margherita Ganeri.A new Fulbright Lectureship in Italian American Culture and Literature has
been established at the…[Read more] -
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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Danica Savonick started the topic CFP: Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy Special Issue on Archives in the discussion
Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 7 years, 10 months ago<h4>The Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy
Themed Issue: Teaching and Research with Archives</h4>
Issue Editors:
Jojo Karlin, CUNY Graduate Center
Stephen Klein, Digital Service Librarian, CUNY Graduate Center
Danica Savonick, CUNY Graduate CenterAs an open-access journal comprised of educators, scholars, and librarians deeply c…[Read more]
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Danica Savonick started the topic CFP: Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy Special Issue on Archives in the discussion
Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 7 years, 10 months ago<h4 align=”center”><i>The Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy
</i>Themed <i></i>Issue</h4>
<p align=”center”><b><i></i></b>Issue Editors:
Jojo Karlin, CUNY Graduate Center
Stephen Klein, Digital Service Librarian, CUNY Graduate Center
Danica Savonick, CUNY Graduate Center</p><h2>Teaching and Research with Archives</h2>
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Lisa Zunshine deposited Groucho, Harpo, and Narrative Theory in the group
MS Visual Culture on MLA Commons 7 years, 10 months agoThis short piece on _Duck Soup_ (1933) and narrative theory is a response to Jim Phelan’s target essay “Authors, Resources, Audiences,” published in the double-issue of _Style_ (52.1 & 52.2).
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Lena Burgos-Lafuente posted an update in the group
Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoCFP: MLA 2019 in Chicago (Jan 3-6)
Puerto Rico in the Greater Caribbean: A Digital Perspective
Digital archives, mapping projects, sound projects, aesthetic digital interventions before/after María, oceanic perspectives, disaster capitalism in the insular and continental Caribbean. Please send 250-words abstract by 20 March 2018 to Lena…[Read more] -
Amanda L. Watson started the topic CfP for MLA 2019 in Chicago: Literary/Historical Research Partnerships in the discussion
Libraries and Research in Languages and Literatures on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoIn honor of the MLA Convention’s co-location with the American Historical Association’s annual meeting in 2019, this panel will feature short presentations by pairs or teams of literature scholars and historians who have worked collaboratively on research projects. We seek presentations of no longer than 15 minutes that address the challenges, met…[Read more]
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Tea Rokolj started the topic CFP: European Studies Research Forum #alaac18 in the discussion
Libraries and Research in Languages and Literatures on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoCFP: European Studies Research Forum
American Library Association Annual Conference, New Orleans, June 21-26, 2018The ACRL European Studies Section will host its annual European Studies Research Forum at the ALA annual conference in New Orleans on Sunday, June 24th, from 8:30 to 10:00 a.m.
The ESS Research and Planning Committee invites…[Read more]
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Brian Lennon deposited JavaScript Affogato: Programming a Culture of Improvised Expertise in the group
TC Translation Studies on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoThis essay attempts a philological, meaning a both technically and socially attentive historical study of an individual computer programming language, JavaScript. From its introduction, JavaScript’s reception by software developers, and its importance in web development as we now understand it, was structured by a continuous negotiation of e…[Read more]
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Kevin Brock deposited The ‘FizzBuzz’ Programming Test: A Case-Based Exploration of Rhetorical Style in Code in the group
Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoEvery code text is informed by stylistic decisions that impact how the text is interpreted and understood. While software developers have long discussed concerns of style in regards to writing code, scholars of computation would benefit from a rhetorical approach to style, an approach that links style to substance and sees style as situated and…[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, 12 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
significant intellectual departure from the standpoint alle…[Read more] -
Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “Global Shakespeare Criticism beyond the Nation State.” Chapter 25 of The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Performance, ed. James C. Bulman (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017), pp. 423-440 in the group
TC Translation Studies on MLA Commons 8 years agoTo move global Shakespeare studies beyond the more limiting scope of nation-state and cultural profiling, I would like to propose we consider a number of critical concepts as methodology. These concepts critique the limitations of cartographic imagination, and connect the performance site to spaces of knowledge production: (1) the site of…[Read more]
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Nhora Lucia Serrano posted an update in the group
TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography on MLA Commons 8 years agoGood Morning!
In the fall you’ll see my name on the ballot. I am a candidate to represent the TM Forum on Book History, Print Cultures, and Lexicography. I am thrilled to join the executive committee and to help to raise the profile of this group in its recently reconfigured form. Thus, I am writing to ask you for your support as well as i…[Read more] -
Andrea Charise posted an update in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 8 years agoHello everyone,
Here’s the CFP for the MLA forum “Medical Humanities and Health Studies” (guaranteed panel for MLA 2019). Please consider submitting or spreading the word:
Health Humanities and Digital Life
Short (10-15min) papers for guaranteed roundtable on health / illness / medicine / wellbeing and the digital realm. Diverse proje…[Read more] - Load More
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