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Joela Jacobs started the topic CfP: Future Past (GSA 2019, Environmental Studies Network) in the discussion
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoGerman Studies Association
Oct. 3-6, 2019 – Portland, Oregon“Future Past”
Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies Network
Abstracts due Jan. 15, 2019
The Environmental Studies Network invites submissions for a series of panels for the GSA 2019, taking place October 3-6, 2019 in Portland, Oregon.
We invite submissions for a series of pan…[Read more]
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Joela Jacobs started the topic MLA 2020 CfP: Vegetal Imaginations: Plants in German Literature and Culture in the discussion
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoVegetal Imaginations: Plants in German Literature and Culture
This panel will explore the role of plants in the German literary and cultural imagination, with a special focus on questions of gender, sexuality, and ecofeminism.
Please send 300-word abstracts and a short bio or CV by 1 March 2019 to Joela Jacobs (joelajacobs@email.arizona.edu) and…[Read more]
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John Alba Cutler started the topic Latinx Forum Sessions at MLA 2019 in the discussion
LLC Chicana and Chicano on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoHi, everyone,
Please mark your calendars for the following Latinx Forum sessions at MLA in January:
- 466: Chicanx-Riqueñx Chicago Date: Saturday, Jan 5, 2019 Time: 10:15 AM–11:30 AM Location: Hyatt Regency – Michigan 2
- 537: Latinx Chicago: Contemporary Latinx Authors Write on and from Chicago Date: Saturday, Jan 5, 2019 Time: 1:45 PM…
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Katherine Hummel started the topic "Resisting Otherwise" CFP: Guaranteed Panel for ASLE, June 26-30, 2019, Davis CA in the discussion
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoResisting Otherwise: Mobilizing Submerged Perspectives in Global Social Ecologies (Guaranteed Panel for ASLE, June 26-30, 2019, Davis CA)
Ends on December 15, 2018
Organizers: Katherine Hummel (hummel@umich.edu) and Constanza Contreras (cbcontre@umich.edu), University of Michigan
Planned Format: Roundtable (5-6 Presenters)
For decades, i…[Read more]
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Dennis Looney deposited From Hell to Harlem: African American Responses to Dante’s Divine Comedy from 1850 to Today in the group
CLCS Classical and Modern on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months agoA course (MA level) I taught at the University of Pittsburgh in 2001, the research for which culminated in my book Freedom Readers (Notre Dame 2011).
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Dennis Looney deposited Scientific Discourse in Italian Literature in the group
CLCS Classical and Modern on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months agoVersion (MA level) of a course I taught in several iterations at the University of Pittsburgh between 1995 and 2006.
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Dennis Looney deposited Science and Literature, Italian Style in the group
CLCS Classical and Modern on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months agoVersion (BA level) of a course I taught at the University of Pittsburgh over several iterations between 1995 and 2006. Team taught in 2006 with Peter Machamer, professor in HPS at Pitt.
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Luis I. Pradanos started the topic Postgrowth Imaginaries (Liverpool University Press, 2018) Available Open Access in the discussion
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months agoThis book demonstrates that a postgrowth imaginary is emerging on the Iberian Peninsula today and offers several ways of reading its cultural implications from a degrowth-inspired environmental humanities perspective. The complex interrelations among cultural practices, economic paradigms, and ecological processes are vastly under-theorized. I…[Read more]
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Luis I. Pradanos started the topic Postgrowth Imaginaries (Liverpool University Press, 2018) Available Open Access in the discussion
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months agoPostgrowth Imaginaries (Liverpool University Press, 2018). This book demonstrates that a postgrowth imaginary is emerging on the Iberian Peninsula today and offers several ways of reading its cultural implications from a degrowth-inspired environmental humanities perspective. The complex interrelations among cultural practices, economic paradigms,…[Read more]
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Luis I. Pradanos started the topic Postgrowth Imaginaries (Liverpool University Press, 2018) Available Open Access in the discussion
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months agoPostgrowth Imaginaries (Liverpool University Press, 2018). This book demonstrates that a postgrowth imaginary is emerging on the Iberian Peninsula today and offers several ways of reading its cultural implications from a degrowth-inspired environmental humanities perspective. The complex interrelations among cultural practices, economic paradigms,…[Read more]
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George Prokhorov deposited WHAT SORT OF JEW DOSTOEVSKY LIKED AND DISLIKED: A NARRATIVE OF A LOVE-HATE RELATIONSHIP in the group
TC Religion and Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months agoIn his fiction, journalism and letters, Dostoevsky recurrently mentions ethnicity of his protagonists. Russians, Poles, Englishmen, Germans, Turks, Greeks etc. never act as individuals with their personal life but rather as ‘carriers’ of some national idea. Amidst the nations represented in Dostoevsky’s oeuvre, there are some Jews. The fashi…[Read more]
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Stephen E. Lewis deposited Seeing, or Seeing Oneself Seen: Nicholas of Cusa’s Contribution in De visione Dei in the group
TC Religion and Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoNicholas of Cusa’s _De visione Dei sive de Icona_ (1453), in addition to its contribution to the question of the vision of God, engages with numerous debates concerning visibility in general, and thus addresses the dimensions of phenomenality–namely, questions concerning the icon as a type of phenomenon, the reversal of vision into a…[Read more]
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Phillip Usher started the topic French Natures featuring Bruno Latour's "Inside" at NYU, October 26-27 in the discussion
Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months ago=======================================================
FRENCH NATURES featuring BRUNO LATOUR’s conference-spectacle “INSIDE”
October 26-27, 2018, New York UniversityA two-day conference-festival about how literature, film, visual art, theater, and philosophy mediate our relationship to the planet in our times of environmental catas…[Read more]
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Phillip Usher started the topic French Natures featuring Bruno Latour's "Inside" at NYU, October 26-27 in the discussion
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Carl Gelderloos deposited Alien Evolution and Dialectical Materialism in Eastern European Science Fiction in the group
GS Speculative Fiction on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoThis essay reads Ivan Efremov’s “Andromeda Nebula” (1957), Stanisław Lem’s “Solaris” (1961), and Angela and Karlheinz Steinmüller’s “Andymon” (1982) in order to explore the relationship between biological evolution and dialectical materialism, as it was negotiated through the trope of the alien in the context of the cultural politics of Eastern E…[Read more]
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Ida Yoshinaga started the topic CFP International Fantastic Division for ICFA #40 (proposals due 10/31) in the discussion
Science Fiction and Utopian and Fantastic Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 4 months agoInternational Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts #40
March 2019
Orlando, Florida
CFP Deadline 10/31/18
Please join us on <u>March 13-16, 2019</u>, for the International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts (ICFA) #40 in its theme of “Politics and Conflicts.” We welcome ideas for papers and panels on science fiction, fant…[Read more]
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yasser elhariry deposited CFP // Re-Membering Hospitality in the Mediterranean: Essays in Anglophone Literature, Arts, and Culture in the group
CLCS Classical and Modern on MLA Commons 7 years, 4 months agoCall for Papers for Peer-Reviewed Edited Volume
Re-Membering Hospitality in the Mediterranean:
Essays in Anglophone Literature, Arts, and CultureCo-edited by yasser elhariry, Isabelle Keller-Privat & Edwige Tamalet Talbayev
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Carol Zuses started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2019 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
Classical Studies and Modern Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 4 months agoThe next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2019, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets during the January 2019 convention in Chicago. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nom…[Read more]
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Tom White deposited Written in Trees in the group
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 7 years, 5 months agoSeminar paper for ‘Translating the Nonhuman’, organised by Liam Lewis (University of Warwick) and Haylie Swenson (The George Washington University)
Seminar Abstract — This seminar invites participants to consider the connections created by translations of the nonhuman into human languages. To what extent is language the domain of the human,…[Read more]
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Ben Click started the topic CFP: Mark Twain and the Natural World in the discussion
Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 7 years, 6 months agoSPECIAL ISSUE: Mark Twain and the Natural World
The Mark Twain Annual is seeking article-length submissions that examine aspects of Twain’s work that comment on the relation between human beings and the natural world. This broad scope allows for critical examinations of Twain’s writing about the natural world in any number of ways: as nat…[Read more]
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