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Michael Emmerich started the topic CFP Digital Humanities Approaches to Japanese-Language Texts in the discussion
LLC Japanese to 1900 on MLA Commons 8 years, 12 months agoPapers on the application of digital humanities techniques to pre-modern and modern Japanese literature. Challenges, possibilities, needs, and ideas. 250-word abstract and CV by 15 March 2017; Michael Emmerich (emmerich@humnet.ucla.edu).
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Matthew Fraleigh started the topic CFP for MLA 2018: Translation in pre-Meiji Japan in the discussion
LLC Japanese to 1900 on MLA Commons 9 years agoWe invite papers that examine translation and other aspects of
interlingual and/or intralingual textual practice in Japan prior to
the Meiji period. 250-300 word abstracts to Matthew Fraleigh
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Vyjayanthi Selinger started the topic CFP for MLA 2018: States of Precarity in premodern Japan in the discussion
LLC Japanese to 1900 on MLA Commons 9 years agoStates of precarity in premodern Japan
Papers on any state of precarious existence in premodern Japan. Reasons for insecurity might be economic, social, political, religious, gendered, or symbolic. 300 word abstract by 28 February 2017; Terry Kawashima (terry.kawashima@umb.edu).
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Gerardo Augusto Lorenzino started the topic MLA 2018, CFP: “Language Change: Global (Im-)gration and Linguistic Insecurity” in the discussion
Linguistic Approaches to Literature on MLA Commons 9 years agoDear colleagues,
The Executive Committee of the Forum on Language Change is seeking proposals for the session “Language Change: Global (Im-)migration and Linguistic Insecurity”. See short and long CFP below.
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Papers exploring how global and local migrations affect language practices and patterns (e.g. linguistic in…[Read more]
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Jina Kim started the topic Asianist Reception in the discussion
Korean on MLA Commons 9 years agoYou are invited!
Social Gathering and Networking Event Arranged by the Forums LLC Asian American, LLC East Asian, LLC Korean, LLC Ming and Qing Chinese, LLC Modern and Contemporary Chinese, and LLC Japanese to 1900
<span class=”aBn” tabindex=”0″ data-term=”goog_1889722906″><span class=”aQJ”>Saturday, 7 January, 8:45–10:00 p.m.</span></span>, 4…[Read more]
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Charlotte Eubanks started the topic MLA 2017/ Free food and drink to celebrate East Asia at the MLA! in the discussion
LLC Japanese to 1900 on MLA Commons 9 years agoYou are invited!
Social Gathering and Networking Event Arranged by the Forums LLC Asian American, LLC East Asian, LLC Korean, LLC Ming and Qing Chinese, LLC Modern and Contemporary Chinese, and LLC Japanese to 1900
<span id=”OBJ_PREFIX_DWT467_com_zimbra_date” class=”Object”>Saturday</span>, 7 January, 8:45–10:00 p.m., 411-412, Philadelphia M… -
Robert Troyer started the topic CFP (MLA 2018) Reading and Responding to Literary Texts in the discussion
Linguistic Approaches to Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month agoWe invite explorations of pedagogical practices addressing specific language structures in the context of a literary text, thus, uniting literature and English language studies.
Please send a 300-word abstract before 3 March 2017 to Rob Troyer, email: troyerr@wou.edu
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Robert Troyer started the topic CFP (MLA 2018) Literary and Non-literary Texts in the discussion
Linguistic Approaches to Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month agoWe invite abstracts that approach texts from a linguistic perspective in order to explore potential commonalities and differences between literary and non-literary language.
Please send a 300-word abstract before 3 March 2017 to Rob Troyer, email: troyerr@wou.edu
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Melek Ortabasi started the topic Japan *since* 1900 Business Meeting on Jan 6th in the discussion
LLC Japanese to 1900 on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoHi everyone,
An executive committee business meeting for the forum LLC Japanese since 1900 has been scheduled for 6 January 2017, 3:30-4:45 p.m., room 309, in the Philadelphia Marriott. Please join us after the below panel, sponsored by Japanese since 1900!
311. Nature and Disaster in the Contemporary Japanese Cultural Imagination
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Charlotte Eubanks started the topic Japan to 1900 Business Meeting on Jan 6th at MLA in the discussion
LLC Japanese to 1900 on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoHi all,
The executive committee business meeting for the forum LLC Japanese to 1900 has been scheduled for 6 January 2017, 12 noon-1:15 p.m., room 304, in the Philadelphia Marriott.
Come one, come all, and help plan MLA 2018!
All best,
Charlotte
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Ari Borrell deposited Ko-wu or Kung-an: Practice, Realization and Teaching in the thought of Chang Chiu-ch'eng in the group
LLC East Asian on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoAn overview of Zhang Jiucheng’s 張九成 (1092-1159) thought on mind-cultivation and Zhu Xi’s 朱熹 critique of Zhang and other Buddho-Confucians of the early Southern Song dynasty (1126-1279).
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Lijing Peng deposited Language Ideologies in Gao Xingjian’s Literature: a Linguistic Anthropological Study of Chinese Diaspora Literature in Europe in the group
LSL Linguistics and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 4 months agoInspired by Samuel Beckett’s attenuation of language, the French Nobel Prize laureate Gao Xingjian has conducted various language experiments in his literary creations in the past two decades. Gao’s literary works, as Diaspora literature, have received extensive attention from European readers due to their Western modernist literary style, the aut…[Read more]
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Alexa Huang deposited "It is the east": Shakespearean Tragedies in East Asia in the group
LLC East Asian on MLA Commons 9 years, 4 months agoShakespearean tragedies have played an important part in modern and contemporary East Asian engagements with Western cultures. Japanese, Korean, Chinese, and Singaporean translations, rewritings, films, and theatre productions have three important shared characteristics, namely hybridization of genres, intra-regional and trans-historical…[Read more]
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Alexa Huang deposited Shakespearean Performance as a Multilingual Event: Alterity, Authenticity, Liminality in the group
LLC East Asian on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoThe age of global Shakespeare has arrived. It is an age in which national and transnational performances become self-conscious of the contact zone they inhabit, where dramatic meanings are co-determined by linguistic cohesion and pluralism. If Jacque Derrida’s theory of translation makes all writing inherently multilingual, Shakespeare as…[Read more]
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Alexa Huang deposited Cosmopolitanism and Its Discontents: The Dialectic between the Global and the Local in Lao She's Fiction in the group
LLC East Asian on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoModern Chinese fiction dealing with cultural others can be taken as a lens through which to reread the cosmopolitan theory. At stake in the debate between communitarianism and liberalism are the viability of single cultural membership and its validity. Lao She’s Self-Sacrifice (1934) and Dr. Wen (1936-1937) question the viability of global c…[Read more]
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Martin Paul Eve deposited “You have to keep track of your changes”: The Version Variants and Publishing History of David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas in the group
LSL Linguistics and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoIn 2003, David Mitchell’s editorial contact at the US branch of Random House moved from the publisher, leaving the American edition of Cloud Atlas (2004) without an editor for approximately three months. Meanwhile, the UK edition of the manuscript was undergoing a series of editorial changes and rewrites that were never synchronised back into t…[Read more]
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Alexa Huang deposited “What Country, Friends, Is This?”: Touring Shakespeares, Agency, and Efficacy in Theatre Historiography in the group
LLC East Asian on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoTouring theatre is a place where theatre studies and globalization come into contact. The year of 2012 was a year of global festivities in which Shakespeare’s works played a major part. Through their exemplary power, the intersections of world cultures and Shakespeare provide a set of important issues for repositioning theatre studies in the w…[Read more]
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Alexa Huang deposited Global Shakespeares as Methodology in the group
LLC East Asian on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoHaving reached a critical mass of participants, performances and the study of Shakespeare in different cultural contexts are changing how we think about globalization. The idea of global Shakespeares has caught on because of site-specific imaginations involving early modern and modern Globe theatres that aspired to perform the globe. Seeing global…[Read more]
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Melek Ortabasi started the topic LLC Japanese since 1900 panels at MLA 2017! in the discussion
East Asian Languages and Literatures to 1900 on MLA Commons 9 years, 6 months agoWe are excited to present the following two panels at the next Annual Meeting, and hope to see you there! Sorry for cross postings.
311. “Nature and Disaster in the Contemporary Japanese Cultural Imagination” Friday Jan 6 1:45–3:00 p.m., 406, Philadelphia Marriott
Presiding: Karen Thornber, Harvard Univ.
1. “What about Animals? In the Wake of N…[Read more]
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Monika Dix started the topic 2017 MLA Panel Announcement in the discussion
East Asian Languages and Literatures to 1900 on MLA Commons 9 years, 6 months agoPlease note the following panel since it will be of interest to anyone working on East Asia.
“Literature as Experience of Crossing Boundaries in East Asia”, Friday 1/6, 8:30am-9:45am, 204 Marriott
Thanks and hope to see many of you at this panel!
Monika Dix
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