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aecklund started the topic New recorded presentation from the Charleston Library Conference, November 2020 in the discussion
MLA International Bibliography on MLA Commons 4 years, 10 months agoMLA staff member and University of Scranton instructor Dan Connor shares his recent experience teaching with the MLA International Bibliography in this recorded presentation from the November 2020 Charleston Library Conference.
View the recording on Vimeo here: Searching to Engage: Teaching with the MLA International Bibliography
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aecklund started the topic New recorded presentation from the Charleston Library Conference, November 2020 in the discussion
Bibliographic Instruction Materials Group on MLA Commons 4 years, 10 months agoMLA staff member and University of Scranton instructor Dan Connor shares his recent experience teaching with the MLA International Bibliography in this recorded presentation from the November 2020 Charleston Library Conference.
View the recording on Vimeo here: Searching to Engage: Teaching with the MLA International Bibliography
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited Fulbright Snapshot: Snapshot: Shakespeare & East Asia by Alexa Alice Joubin, March 24, 2021 in the group
LLC East Asian on MLA Commons 4 years, 10 months agoShakespeare and East Asia (Oxford, 2021) explores distinctive themes in post-1950s Asian-themed performances and adaptations of Shakespeare. In this Snapshot, Alexa Alice Joubin discusses the book and the importance of wider research into Global Shakespeares.
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “The Roots of Anti-Asian Racism in the U.S.” George Washington University Department of English Blog, March 23, 2021 in the group
LLC East Asian on MLA Commons 4 years, 10 months agoCOVID-19 has exacerbated anti-Asian racism—the demonization of a group of people based on their perceived social value—in the United States in the cultural and political life. This article that analyzes the language of racism and misogyny. It also offers strategies for inclusion during and after the pandemic. Racialized thinking is ins…[Read more]
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Glynne Walley replied to the topic CFP: Japan to 1900 in the discussion
LLC Japanese to 1900 on MLA Commons 4 years, 10 months agoWe’re extending the deadline on this CFP. If you’re interested in participating in this panel please send an abstract by March 26, 2021.
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Andrea Mendoza started the topic Deadline extension in the discussion
LLC Japanese since 1900 on MLA Commons 4 years, 10 months agoHi all,
We are still accepting papers for the LLC Japanese since 1900 panels, “Antiracist Pedagogy in Modern Japanese Studies” and “Decolonial and Indigenous Interventions in Japanophone Media/Literature.” Please share and consider submitting!
https://mla.confex.com/mla/2022/webprogrampreliminary/Session11305.html
Below are the longer versions…[Read more]
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Andrea Mendoza started the topic Deadline extension in the discussion
LLC Japanese since 1900 on MLA Commons 4 years, 10 months agoHi all,
We are still accepting papers for the LLC Japanese since 1900 panels, “Antiracist Pedagogy in Modern Japanese Studies” and “Decolonial and Indigenous Interventions in Japanophone Media/Literature.” Please share and consider submitting!
https://mla.confex.com/mla/2022/webprogrampreliminary/Session11305.html
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited Review of Margaret Hillenbrand. Negative Exposures: Knowing What Not to Know in Contemporary China. Chinese Literature Today 9.2 (2020): 89-90 in the group
LLC East Asian on MLA Commons 4 years, 10 months agoWestern observers often attribute Chinese suppression of undesirable information to state crackdowns on dissidents, pervasive censorship apparatus, and even self-censorship. For contemporary Chinese citizens under a certain age, Tiananmen Square protests allegedly did not happen. The PRC leadership’s private lives are shrouded in secrecies, m…[Read more]
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Nick Admussen started the topic CFP: Translations of Song, MLA 2022 (Washington, D. C.) in the discussion
East Asian Languages and Literatures after 1900 on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoHi everyone,
The Ming-Qing forum and the Modern and Contemporary Chinese forum are collaborating to offer a panel on the translation of song. Here’s the CFP:
We invite papers that explore how song forms from early modern and modern China have been/can be translated in ways that engage with their extant or lost musical dimensions. Contact…[Read more]
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Glynne Walley started the topic CFP: Japan to 1900 in the discussion
LLC Japanese to 1900 on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoWe’ve just posted the following call for papers for a panel for MLA 2022:
Title: The Translation’s Semivisibility: Interlingual, Intralingual, and Other Kinds of Translation in Premodern Japan
Description: We invite papers exploring translation in premodern Japan, with particular emphasis on types of linguistic rendering that challenge or bro…[Read more]
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Katsuyo Motoyoshi started the topic MLA INTERNATIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHY Fellowships in the discussion
LLC Korean on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoApplication deadline: April 1, 2021
The MLA International Bibliography would like to expand the coverage of Korean-language scholarly publications, and we believe our fellowship program for field bibliographers might be of interest to members of this forum and other faculty and graduate students in their departments.
We are now accepting appl…[Read more]
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Joanne Bernardi started the topic CFP (MLA 2022) "Antiracist Pedagogy in Modern Japanese Studies (1900-present)" in the discussion
LLC Japanese since 1900 on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoCFP MLA 2022 (Guaranteed panel): We invite papers exploring antiracist pedagogies in modern (1900 to the present) Japanese Studies classrooms, program curricula, and campus/disciplinary outreach. In particular, we seek presentations that are intersectional in approach, taking into consideration relations between race and class, gender, sexuality,…[Read more]
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Joanne Bernardi started the topic CFP Decolonial & Indigenous Interventions in Japanophone Media/Lit 1900-present in the discussion
East Asian Languages and Literatures after 1900 on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoCFP MLA 2022 – LLC Japanese since 1900 Forum (Guaranteed panel)
This panel invites papers that apply approaches in indigenous studies and epistemologies to the study of study Japanophone cultural, intellectual, and aesthetic productions. Given the long history and global legacy of Japanese colonialisms and settler colonialisms, this panel…[Read more]
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Joanne Bernardi started the topic CFP Decolonial & Indigenous Interventions in Japanophone Media/Lit 1900-present in the discussion
LLC Japanese since 1900 on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoCFP MLA 2022 – LLC Japanese since 1900 Forum (Guaranteed panel)
This panel invites papers that apply approaches in indigenous studies and epistemologies to the study of study Japanophone cultural, intellectual, and aesthetic productions. Given the long history and global legacy of Japanese colonialisms and settler colonialisms, this panel…[Read more]
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “Five themes in Asian Shakespeare adaptations,” Oxford University Press blog, February 16, 2021 in the group
LLC East Asian on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoSince the nineteenth century, stage and film directors have mounted hundreds of adaptations of Shakespeare drawn on East Asian motifs, and by the late twentieth century, Shakespeare had become one of the most frequently performed playwrights in East Asia. There are five striking themes surrounding cultural, racial, and gender dynamics. Gender…[Read more]
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited Shakespeare and East Asia (Oxford University Press, 2021) in the group
LLC East Asian on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoFour themes distinguish post-1950s East Asian cinemas and theaters from works in other parts of the world: Japanese innovations in sound and spectacle; Sinophone uses of Shakespeare for social reparation; the reception of South Korean presentations of gender identities in film and touring productions; and multilingual, disability, and racial…[Read more]
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “The Roots of Anti-Asian Racism in the U.S.: The Pandemic and ‘Yellow Peril’.” Global Social Security Review Vol. 15 (Winter 2020): 50-59 in the group
LLC East Asian on MLA Commons 5 years agoScroll down to read the Korean, followed by English, versions :::::: COVID-19 has exacerbated anti-Asian racism—the demonization of a group of people based on their perceived social value—in the United States in the cultural and political life. Offering strategies for inclusion during and after the pandemic, this article analyzes the his…[Read more]
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Gian Piero Persiani started the topic "Pre-1900 Japanese Literature: What Next?" Post-panel Discussion in the discussion
LLC Japanese to 1900 on MLA Commons 5 years agoPerhaps someone is interested (hopefully many are) in continuing the conversation on the directions of our field? There is so much to say. I share Paul’s concern about the shrinking of premodern, which is why I was stressing the importance of history and studying the past as past. But that’s just one angle. Anyway, just creating a space to…[Read more]
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Tariq Sheikh deposited This Side of the Long Tunnel: The Emergence of the Idea of Japan’s ‘Snow Country’ in the Nineteenth Century in the group
LLC Japanese to 1900 on MLA Commons 5 years agoIn Nobel laureate Kawabata Yasunari’s novel Snow Country, the protagonist Shimamura refers to an “old book” which gave him in-depth knowledge about the region known in Japan as the “Snow Country”. The name of the book is not disclosed by Kawabata, but it is now known that the “old book” is Hokuetsu Seppu (first published in 1837), written by Su…[Read more]
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Ryan Hintzman started the topic MLA 2021: Pre-1900 Japanese Literature: What Next? (9 Jan, 10:15am; Session 382) in the discussion
LLC Japanese to 1900 on MLA Commons 5 years, 1 month agoSaturday, 9 January 10:15AM-11:30AM EST (Session #382)
Scholars at various career stages from the United States, Europe, and Japan think together with the audience about strategies for ensuring the vitality of pre-1900 Japanese literary studies given the field’s distinctive history and configuration and the challenges of teaching and conducting r…[Read more]
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