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Benjamin Fraser posted an update on MLA Commons 10 years, 9 months ago
Two new books in 2015:
Toward an Urban Cultural Studies: Henri Lefebvre and the Humanities (NY: Palgrave, Hispanic Urban Studies series).
Digital Cities: The Interdisciplinary Future of the Urban Geo-Humanities (NY: Palgrave Pivot).
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Merle Lyn Bachman started the topic CFP for Yiddish Forum Panel in Austin in the discussion
Yiddish Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months agoYiddish Literature’s Diverse “Publics”
Forum: LLC Yiddish
Translation of Yiddish texts and its effects on Jewish and non-Jewish audiences, on representation of the Jewish past, and construction of new Jewish identities. 250-word abstracts by 15 March 2015; Merle Lyn Bachman (mbachman@spalding.edu). -
Merle Lyn Bachman changed their profile picture on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months ago
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Merle Lyn Bachman's profile was updated on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months ago
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Benjamin Fraser uploaded the file: CFP: DISSH Digital Symposium to
Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 11 years agoCFP: DISSH Digital Symposium
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Benjamin Fraser started the topic Digital Symposium at East Carolina Univ. March 18, 2015 with 5 invited speakers in the discussion
Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 11 years agoPls. spread the word, East Carolina University is hosting a Digital Innovation and Scholarship in the Social Sciences and Humanities Symposium in Greenville, NC, March 18th, 2015. Speakers below, guests welcome, 5-7-minute lightning-round presentations are currently being solicited at our website. Both graduate students and faculty welcome.
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Tana Jean Welch replied to the topic CFP: Contemporary American Poetry and Science Panel for ALA 201 in the forum
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 1 month agoALA 2015 Panel Reminder:
Quantum Metaphors and Fractal Verse: Intersections in Contemporary American Poetry and Science
How are contemporary American poets utilizing science-based theories and ideas to create verse relevant to the concerns of the 21st century? Seeking abstracts for a panel that explores intersections between science and…[Read more]
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Tana Jean Welch replied to the topic CFP: Contemporary American Poetry and Science Panel for ALA 2015 in the forum
Poetry on MLA Commons 11 years, 1 month agoALA 2015 Panel Reminder:
Quantum Metaphors and Fractal Verse: Intersections in Contemporary American Poetry and Science
How are contemporary American poets utilizing science-based theories and ideas to create verse relevant to the concerns of the 21st century? Seeking abstracts for a panel that explores intersections between science and…[Read more]
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Tana Jean Welch replied to the topic CFP: Contemporary American Poetics and Science Panel for ALA 2015 in the forum
Literature and Science on MLA Commons 11 years, 1 month agoALA Panel Reminder:
Quantum Metaphors and Fractal Verse: Intersections in Contemporary American Poetry and Science
How are contemporary American poets utilizing science-based theories and ideas to create verse relevant to the concerns of the 21st century? Seeking abstracts for a panel that explores intersections between science and contemporary…[Read more]
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Tana Jean Welch started the topic CFP: Contemporary American Poetics and Science Panel for ALA 2015 in the forum
Literature and Science on MLA Commons 11 years, 2 months agoQuantum Metaphors and Fractal Verse: Intersections in Contemporary American Poetry and Science
Panel for ALA 2015 (Boston, May 21-24)How are contemporary American poets utilizing science-based theories and ideas to create verse relevant to the concerns of the 21st century? Seeking abstracts for a panel that explores intersections between science…[Read more]
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Tana Jean Welch started the topic CFP: Contemporary American Poetry and Science Panel for ALA 2015 in the forum
Poetry on MLA Commons 11 years, 2 months agoQuantum Metaphors and Fractal Verse: Intersections in Contemporary American Poetry and Science Panel for ALA 2015 (Boston, May 21-24)
How are contemporary American poets utilizing science-based theories and ideas to create verse relevant to the concerns of the 21st century? Seeking abstracts for a panel that explores intersections between science…[Read more]
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Tana Jean Welch started the topic CFP: Contemporary American Poetry and Science Panel for ALA 201 in the forum
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 2 months agoQuantum Metaphors and Fractal Verse: Intersections in Contemporary American Poetry and Science
Panel for ALA 2015 (Boston, May 21-24)How are contemporary American poets utilizing science-based theories and ideas to create verse relevant to the concerns of the 21st century? Seeking abstracts for a panel that explores intersections between science…[Read more]
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Tana Jean Welch changed their profile picture on MLA Commons 11 years, 7 months ago
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Gloria Lee McMillan replied to the topic Film Project: Sci. and Lit. in the forum
Literature and Science on MLA Commons 11 years, 7 months agoI thought some of you who have posted might like to see the power point I have been using to speak to groups about our film project. This is the older version, centered upon Galileo and Shakespeare but i think you will find it fun to view. I am thinking of adding chapter two–the plot thickens with the Shakespearean scholars vs. astronomers who…[Read more]
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Gloria Lee McMillan replied to the topic Film Project: Sci. and Lit. in the forum
Literature and Science on MLA Commons 11 years, 7 months agoAn April issue of New Scientist had an article on Shakespeare and his understanding of astronomy. It mentioned many of the points you make. Just an FYI.
http://www.newscientist.com/special/shakespeare
Yes, Nancy, my husband brought that article to my attention and that is the article that made me think it may be more useful to pose the issue of…[Read more]
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Gloria Lee McMillan replied to the topic Film Project: Sci. and Lit. in the forum
Literature and Science on MLA Commons 11 years, 7 months agoThanks, Lila. I will keep that in mind. I am stepping back from the F2F meeting of Galileo and Will Shakespeare to focus on why Shakespeareans get apoplexy over the attempts of astronomers who attempt to read Hamlet (Peter Usher), for example as containing clues to Shakespeare’s knowledge of “the new philosophy” of Copernicus’ heliocentric solar…[Read more]
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Gloria Lee McMillan replied to the topic Film Project: Sci. and Lit. in the forum
Literature and Science on MLA Commons 11 years, 7 months agoHi, Lisa,
We chose the two contemporaries because of new information we had from Ewen Whitaker, a British astronomer who has made a working Digges Perspective Glass. After researching that Will and his men stayed at the Digges family home in Stratford, where he almost certainly saw the copy of astronomer Tycho Brahe’s Epistolae (with the name…[Read more]
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Gloria Lee McMillan started the topic Sci. and Lit. (Shakespeare) Film Project looking for comments in the forum
Shakespeare on MLA Commons 11 years, 7 months agoHello, Everybody Shakespearean,
A group of us have been thinking and rethinking a documentary film project that would show the value of crossing the line between science and the arts.
At first we were going to make it a conversation between Galileo and Shakespeare–roughly contemporaries.
But granting agencies didn’t like the fictional…[Read more] -
Gloria Lee McMillan started the topic Film Project: Sci. and Lit. in the forum
Literature and Science on MLA Commons 11 years, 7 months agoHello,
A group of us have been thinking and rethinking a documentary film project that would show the value of crossing the line between science and the arts.
At first we were going to make it a conversation between Galileo and Shakespeare–roughly contemporaries.
But granting agencies didn’t like the fictional parts.So then we opened up to…[Read more]
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