The Center for Research Libraries and its Collaborative Initiative for French Language Collections (CIFNAL) and German-North American Resources Partnership (GNARP) international programs, together with French and German partners, invite proposals for papers, presentations, and posters to be presented at an international symposium.  New Directions…[Read more]

Greetings, Colleagues!

On behalf of the Committee on the Status of Women in the Profession, I’d like to invite you to the two linked panels we’ve organized for this year’s convention, which we hope will be of interest to many of you:

Friday, 6 January

<b>283. Embattled Rhetorics: Claiming Otherness, Recasting Privilege</b>

<i>12:00 noon–1:15 p…[Read more]

Dear Colleagues,

Please join us at on Friday at 1:45 pm for a special session, “Keep the H in DH.” (105B, Pennsylvania Convention Center)

“Keep the H in DH” will address the contributions of humanistic inquiry to the computational tools and methods taken up by digital humanities practitioners. While many humanists acknowledge the ways tha…[Read more]

Dear Colleagues,

Please join the LLC African American Forum for the following panels and cash bar at this year’s MLA in Philadelphia:

41A. Imagining New Literary Histories: Mapping Aesthetics and Poetics in the Black Arts Movement

Thursday, 5 January, 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., 103A, Pennsylvania Convention Center

Presiding: Dana A. Wil…[Read more]

Dear Colleagues,

Please join the LLC African American Forum for the following panels and cash bar at this year’s MLA in Philadelphia:

41A. Imagining New Literary Histories: Mapping Aesthetics and Poetics in the Black Arts Movement

Thursday, 5 January, 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., 103A, Pennsylvania Convention Center

Presiding: Dana A. Williams, How…[Read more]

This panel, about the Caribbean presence (both demographic and discursive) in 1920s Harlem, takes place on Sunday, January 8th at noon in the Pennsylvania Convention Center, Room 112A.

Vanessa K. Valdés, Imani Owens James C. Davis, and Raphael Dalleo will be part of the panel, presenting on Arturo Schomburg, Eulalie Spence, Nella Larsen, and…[Read more]

This panel, about the presence of the Caribbean presence (both demographic and discursive) in 1920s Harlem, takes place on Sunday, January 8th at noon in the Pennsylvania Convention Center, Room 112A.

Vanessa K. Valdés, Imani Owens James C. Davis, and Raphael Dalleo will be part of the panel, presenting on Arturo Schomburg, Eulalie Spence, Nella…[Read more]

<p>MLA members who are also involved in the Electronic Literature Organization are hosting an evening of readings & performances during the Modern Language Association conference. The event takes place in the Connelly Auditorium (room 806) in the Terra Building at The University of the Arts, on January 5, 2017, from 8-10 p.m. The University of th…[Read more]

Colleagues, hello. I am writing today to call your attention to a newly released document of potential interest as posted to Humanities Commons at https://printrecord.mla.hcommons-staging.org/ and to a discussion session about the document from 1:45-3:00 PM Fri, 6 January, Marriott 401-403. The meeting immediately precedes the Libraries and Re…[Read more]

LA members, and in particular members of this forum who will be attending this year’s MLA 2017 assembly meeting in Philadelphia may already know that there are a number of resolutions to be considered that address the question of boycotting Israeli academic institutions.  The Resolution to endorse the Palestinian call for the boycott of Israeli in…[Read more]

MLA members, and in particular members of this forum who will be attending this year’s MLA 2017 assembly meeting in Philadelphia may already know that there are a number of resolutions to be considered that address the question of boycotting Israeli academic institutions.  The Resolution to endorse the Palestinian call for the boycott of Is…[Read more]