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Stefania Irene Sini deposited The fictive persons of a serious poem: on Vico's anthropology of "literature" in the group
Law as Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months agoThe present essay will explore legal areas of Giambattista Vico’s thought from a rhetorical and literary perspective. In particular, the essay will focus on the idea of «person» as it is investigated in De uno and New Science. The euristic quality of the notion of fictio iuris will be identified as generative core of the imaginative universal the…[Read more]
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Jaime Brenes Reyes deposited Farmacia literaria: Cortázar y compañía in the group
Global Hispanophone on MLA Commons 10 years, 8 months agoLiteratura (búsqueda) + Fármaco (remedio y veneno) = literatura fantástica. Posibles reacciones: lectura obsesionada y sin parar, entrada a otras dimensiones de la realidad, nuevas maneras de entender la relación entre sujeto y objeto. Este curso se centra en la farmacia literaria del escritor argentino Julio Cortázar, además de aquéllos que in…[Read more]
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Sharon Achinstein started the topic CFP MLA 2016: 17-Century Britain and/or/in Europe in the discussion
Comparative Studies in Renaissance and Baroque Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months agoCall for Proposals: MLA 2016:
17th-Century Britain/and/or/in Europe
Special Session
A panel reframing geographical and literary contours: literary, political, or philosophical concerns; networks; thinking beyond ‘Crisis’; questioning current institutional barriers. 300 word abstract by 21 March 2015; Sharon Achinstein (sachins1@jhu.edu) and…[Read more] -
Peter Leman started the topic Special Session Proposal on "Legal and Literary Persons" in the discussion
Law as Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months agoHi All,
I am proposing a special session on literary and legal approaches to personhood for the 2016 MLA in Austin. I’m hoping to receive a few more abstracts by March 15. Please see the CFP and description below. Thank you.
Best regards,
Peter Leman
CFP: Legal and Literary Persons
Personhood, personality, impersonation,…[Read more]
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Suha Kudsieh started the topic MLA, Austin: Russia & the Middle East in the Pre-Modern Period in the discussion
Comparative Studies in Renaissance and Baroque Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months agoDear colleagues,
Please feel free to post the CFP in your department, circulate it as among colleagues and on other e-lists, and forward it to your grad students:
131st MLA Annual Convention
Austin, 7–10 January 2016Title of panel: “Russia and the Middle East (Pre-modern)”
Description: this special panel examines broad cultural in…[Read more]
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Adolfo Campoy-Cubillo started the topic 2016 MLA Global Hispanophone Calls For Papers in the discussion
Global Hispanophone on MLA Commons 11 years agoThe new MLA Forum on Global Hispanophone is delighted to invite submissions for our inaugural session/s, which will take place at the MLA Annual Convention in Austin, Texas, on 7-10 January, 2016. (Note: these Calls for Papers are also available on the MLA website).
Global Hispanophone Literatures and Postcolonial Theory
The term…[Read more]
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Ivonne del Valle started the topic CALL FOR PAPERS 131st MLA ANNUAL CONVENTION Austin, 7-10 January 2016 in the discussion
Colonial Latin American Literatures on MLA Commons 11 years agoSESSIONS: FORUM OF COLONIAL LATIN AMERICAN LITERATURES
Colonial Texts and Communities of Readers
Chair: Mónica Díaz, University of Kentucky
Engaging with the presidential theme for MLA 2016, “Literature and Its Publics,” this panel focuses on the material history of the production of texts – in both manuscript and printed forms – an…[Read more]
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Sara Vicuna Guengerich replied to the topic MLA Convention: Colonial Latin American Literatures Division Panels in the forum
Colonial Latin American Literatures on MLA Commons 11 years, 1 month agoDear Colleagues,
Another session of interest for colonialists is the GEMELA sponsored panel “In Search of Forgotten Women in Pre 1800 Iberia and the Americas.” Thursday, January 8, 7:00-8:15 pm, VCC East.
Presider: Emily Francomano
Sara Vicuña Guengerich, Texas Tech University, “Daughters of the Inca Conquest: Native Women in Spanish Colonial Pr…[Read more] -
Anna More started the topic MLA Convention Colonial Happy Hour in the forum
Colonial Latin American Literatures on MLA Commons 11 years, 1 month agoThe Division of Colonial Latin American Literatures would like to invite you to join us for our annual Colonial Happy Hour at the upcoming MLA Conference in Vancouver:
Colonial Happy Hour
Bellagio Wine Bar
Friday, January 9, 5 pm – 7 pmBellagio Wine Bar is located in the Convention Centre. More information may be found at the webs…[Read more]
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Anna More started the topic MLA Convention: Colonial Latin American Literatures Division Panels in the forum
Colonial Latin American Literatures on MLA Commons 11 years, 1 month agoThe Division of Colonial Latin American Literatures has sponsored the following panels at the upcoming MLA Conference in Vancouver:
228. Connecting Spanish and Portuguese Empires
Friday, 9 January, 10:15–11:30 a.m., 3, VCC East
428. The Enlightenment in the Colonies
Saturday, 10 January, 8:30–9:45 a.m., 17, VCC East
739. Indigenous Texts a…[Read more]
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Cathleen Carris uploaded the file: CFP: JHU Program in Latin American Studies Spring Conference 2015 to
Colonial Latin American Literatures on MLA Commons 11 years, 2 months agoThe graduate students of the Program in Latin American Studies at Johns Hopkins University invite the submission of abstracts for our Spring Conference, “Urban Transformations in Latin America”, to take place April 3rd, 2015.
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Cathleen Carris uploaded the file: CFP: JHU Program in Latin American Studies Spring Conference 2015 to
Colonial Latin American Literatures on MLA Commons 11 years, 2 months agoThe graduate students of the Program in Latin American Studies at Johns Hopkins University invite the submission of abstracts for our Spring Conference, “Urban Transformations in Latin America”, to take place April 3rd, 2015.
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Cathleen Carris uploaded the file: CFP: JHU Program in Latin American Studies Spring Conference 2015 to
Colonial Latin American Literatures on MLA Commons 11 years, 2 months agoThe graduate students of the Program in Latin American Studies at Johns Hopkins University invite the submission of abstracts for our Spring Conference, “Urban Transformations in Latin America”, to take place April 3rd, 2015.
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Cathleen Carris uploaded the file: CFP: JHU Program in Latin American Studies Spring Conference 2015 to
Colonial Latin American Literatures on MLA Commons 11 years, 2 months agoThe graduate students of the Program in Latin American Studies at Johns Hopkins University invite the submission of abstracts for our Spring Conference, “Urban Transformations in Latin America”, to take place April 3rd, 2015.
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Cathleen Carris uploaded the file: CFP: JHU Program in Latin American Studies Spring Conference 2015 to
Colonial Latin American Literatures on MLA Commons 11 years, 2 months agoThe graduate students of the Program in Latin American Studies at Johns Hopkins University invite the submission of abstracts for our Spring Conference, “Urban Transformations in Latin America”, to take place April 3rd, 2015.
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Jeronimo Arellano started the topic CfP Comparative Media Studies in Latin America in the forum
Colonial Latin American Literatures on MLA Commons 11 years, 11 months agoCall for papers for a special session on comparative media studies in Latin America to be held at the 2015 MLA convention. While most often comparative media studies is practiced in relation to emergent literacies and narrative forms in the twentieth- and twenty-first centuries, this panel invites proposals focusing on other historical periods as…[Read more]
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Collin Jennings replied to the topic 2014 NEH Seminar: "The Meanings of Property" in the forum
Law as Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 11 months agoREMINDER – 2014 NEH Summer Seminar – “The Meanings of Property” – Applications are due 3/5/2014.
Contact information: ann.davis@marist.edu
For further information and application instructions, see
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Anna More posted an update in the group
LLC Colonial Latin American on MLA Commons 12 years agoCall for Papers, Division of Colonial Latin American Literatures
MLA Convention
Vancouver, January 8-11, 2015
Collaborative Session with APSA (American Portuguese Studies Association) (non-guaranteed)Connecting Spanish and Portuguese Empires
Although intertwined historically and structurally similar, Spanish and Portuguese empires are most…[Read more]
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Call for Papers
WORLDS and WORDS
29th Annual Interdisciplinary Conference in the Humanities
Sponsored by the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures
University of West Georgia, College of Arts and Humanities
Carrollton, Georgia
October 30-November 1, 2014Deadline Extended until July 22nd
We welcome submissions from across…[Read more]
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Cristian Roa posted an update in the group
LLC Colonial Latin American on MLA Commons 12 years agoCall for papers
Panel at the 2015 MLA Convention in Vancouver
Executive Committee for the Division of Colonial Latin American Literatures
Organizer: Cristian Roa (roa@uic.edu)
Indigenous Texts and the Colonial Experience
Native American voices and related subject positions have been recognized as an integral part of colonial Spanish American…[Read more] -
Ivonne del Valle posted an update in the group
LLC Colonial Latin American on MLA Commons 12 years agoPanel proposals for the 2015 MLA Vancouver Convention
Division of Colonial Latin American LiteraturesThe Enlightenment in the Colonies
Organizer: Ivonne del ValleGeneral consensus locates the Enlightenment in a secularized18th-century, when reason and order appeared to take at least partial control over multiple areas with the objective of…[Read more]
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