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Hatem Akil started the topic Please Join us for GAAM’s Sessions at MLA 2018 in the discussion
2018 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 8 years, 1 month agoDear Colleague,
Please join the Global Arab and Arab American forum at the following sessions during MLA 2018. This is a very crucial time for those engaged in Arab and Islamic topics at the MLA – and our solidarity is more essential than ever.
44A: Global Arab Precarity and the Contemporary US Academy: Race, Religion, Profession: …[Read more]
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Nicky Agate started the topic Have 45 minutes at the convention? Help us improve CORE! in the discussion
2018 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 8 years, 1 month agoThursday, Jan 4 at 2:30pm in the Sheraton
We will be hosting a focus group to find out more about MLA member use of CORE, our open-access repository for sharing scholarship and increasing the impact of your work. If you are free on Thursday, January 4 at 2:30pm, please consider taking part in this group and helping us improve the CORE platform. I…[Read more]
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Lena Burgos-Lafuente started the topic Puerto Rican Forum Panel: Caribbean Space and Bodies at War in the discussion
Puerto Rican Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 8 years, 1 month agoWe would like to share with you the details of our panel, in case you plan to come to the 2018 MLA in New York. The panel will be presided by Judith Sierra Rivera (Penn State U).
Caribbean Space and Bodies at War
Friday, January 5, 2018, 3:30-4:45 p.m., Concourse C, Hilton
“Community Under Duress,” Guillermina de Ferrari
“Crossing…[Read more] -
Lena Burgos-Lafuente started the topic Puerto Rican Forum Panel: Caribbean Space and Bodies at War in the discussion
Puerto Rican Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 8 years, 1 month agoWe would like to share with you the details of our panel, in case you plan to come to the 2018 MLA in New York. The panel will be presided by Judith Sierra Rivera (Penn State U).
Caribbean Space and Bodies at War
Friday, January 5, 2018, 3:30-4:45 p.m., Concourse C, Hilton
“Community Under Duress,” Guillermina de Ferrari
“Crossing…[Read more] -
Lena Burgos-Lafuente started the topic Puerto Rican Forum Panel: Caribbean Space and Bodies at War in the discussion
Puerto Rican Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 8 years, 1 month agoWe would like to share with you the details of our panel, in case you plan to come to the 2018 MLA in New York. The panel will be presided by Judith Sierra Rivera (Penn State U).
Caribbean Space and Bodies at War
Friday, January 5, 2018, 3:30-4:45 p.m., Concourse C, Hilton
“Community Under Duress,” Guillermina de Ferrari
“Crossing…[Read more] -
Lena Burgos-Lafuente started the topic Puerto Rican Forum Panel: Caribbean Space and Bodies at War in the discussion
Puerto Rican Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 8 years, 1 month agoWe would like to share with you the details of our panel, in case you plan to come to the 2018 MLA in New York.
Caribbean Space and Bodies at War
Friday, January 5, 2018, 3:30-4:45 p.m., Concourse C, Hilton
“Community Under Duress,” Guillermina de Ferrari
“Crossing Imperial Frontiers: Puerto Ricans in the Dominican Republic, Santiago…[Read more] -
Heekyoung Cho posted an update in the group
2018 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 8 years, 1 month agoYou are cordially invited to Korean Forum Reception at the MLA Convention!
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Korean Forum Reception
Sponsored by the Center for Korean Research, Columbia UniversityDate: Saturday, 6 January
Time: 8:45-10:00 p.m.
Place: Murray Hill East, Hilton, New York, NY
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Silvia G. Kurlat-Ares deposited Políticas de lo estético en la ilustración de ciencia ficción. El caso de “Think Blue, Count Two” de Cordwainer Smith in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American on Humanities Commons 8 years, 1 month agoDesde el período del Dadá se han ido borrando los límites entre las formas artísticas y sus soportes, entre las estéticas de uso y las estéticas formales, entre los espacios altos y bajos de producción cultural, y también, entre la percepción de centros y periferias que parecen haberse astillado y reproducido a la interioridad de espacios hasta ha…[Read more]
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Nicky Agate posted an update in the group
2018 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 8 years, 1 month agoIf you’d like to know more about MLA Commons/Humanities Commons and how to make the most of them, consider attending our workshop in NYC: Friday, January 05, 2018, 03:30 PM – 04:45 PM, Hilton – Hudson (session 362)
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Joydeep Chakraborty posted an update in the group
2018 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 8 years, 1 month agoWhat is the significance of post-9/11 American poetry sixteen years after the attack? It would be great if this topic is introduced in 2018 Covention under the forum head 20th and 21st century American. Interested MLA members are requested to talk to me on this point.
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Madhumita Lahiri deposited An Idiom for India: Hindustani and the Limits of the Language Concept in the group
LLC South Asian and South Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoThis essay explores the cultural legacy of Hindustani, which names the intimate overlap between two South Asian languages, Hindi and Urdu. Hindi and Urdu have distinct religious identities, national associations and scripts, yet they are nearly identical in syntax, diverging to some extent in their vocabulary. Hindi and Urdu speakers,…[Read more]
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Alberto Ribas-Casasayas started the topic Call for Articles. Spectral Mexico in the discussion
Mexican Cultural and Literary Studies on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoSpectral Mexico. Ghosts and the Talking Dead in Contemporary Mexican Culture
The persistence of death and its figurative representations is a recognizable commonplace in the visual and narrative discourses of Mexican culture. Underworlds like Mictlan and Xibalba, the Catrina skull, the Santa Muerte, ghosts, dancing skeletons, post-mortem…[Read more]
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Alberto Ribas-Casasayas started the topic Call for Articles. Spectral Mexico in the discussion
Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 2 months agoSpectral Mexico. Ghosts and the Talking Dead in Contemporary Mexican Culture
The persistence of death and its figurative representations is a recognizable commonplace in the visual and narrative discourses of Mexican culture. Underworlds like Mictlan and Xibalba, the Catrina skull, the Santa Muerte, ghosts, dancing skeletons, post-mortem…[Read more]
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Nicky Agate replied to the topic Restaurant Recommendations and More in the discussion
2018 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 8 years, 3 months agoAs an NYC local, I’d like to recommend the following around the convention area (if you’re looking for recommendations beyond a mile radius of the convention, particularly in Brooklyn, send me a message here @terrainsvagues):
BAR: Valhalla NYC, for a really good selection of craft beers. It’s a 10-minute walk west from the Sheraton along 53rd…[Read more]
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