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Cynthia Chase replied to the topic MLA 2025 – Migrations and Diasporas in the discussion
LLC 19th-Century French via email on MLA Commons 1 year, 12 months agoDear Karen Quandt,
Thank you for thinking of me, and with regard to such a good topic. But, I am going to be in Europe, not coming to the MLA.
Best wishes for a very successful session.
Yours,
Cynthia Chase
From: Karen Quandt <noreply@hcommons-staging.org>
Sent: Friday, January 26, 2024 10:10 AM
To: Cynthia Chase <cc97@cornell.edu>
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Karen Quandt started the topic MLA 2025 – Migrations and Diasporas in the discussion
LLC 19th-Century French on MLA Commons 1 year, 12 months agoPlease consider submitting an abstract for this guaranteed 19th-c French LLC Forum session at the MLA 2025 in New Orleans.
We invite submissions of 250-word abstracts for a roundtable with short papers on migrations, diasporas, and centers of cultural exchange in the 19th-century francophone world. Special focus on Louisiana and New Orleans is e…[Read more]
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Karen Quandt started the topic MLA 2025 – Masks and Masquerades in the discussion
LLC 19th-Century French on MLA Commons 1 year, 12 months agoPlease consider submitting an abstract for this 19th-c French LLC Forum guaranteed session at the MLA 2025 in New Orleans.
This panel invites submissions of 250-word abstracts for papers related to masks and masquerade broadly defined. Topics may include various forms of deceit, disguise, performance, appearance, and secrets.
Submit abstract t…[Read more]
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Hannah Freed-Thall started the topic MLA 2025 CFP: Entomological Turns in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French on MLA Commons 1 year, 12 months agoFrom Proust’s queer bumblebee to Deleuze and Guattari’s tick, insects play an outsized role in 20th/21st-century literature, art, and critical thought. Speakers will explore the French/Francophone entomological imagination, examining concepts from swarm to camouflage, pollination, and beyond.
This is a guaranteed 2025 MLA panel. Please send 250…[Read more]
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “Open and Intersectional Pedagogy: Teaching the Early Modern with Generative Artificial Intelligence,” MLA, Philadelphia, January 6, 2024 in the group
MS Screen Arts and Culture on MLA Commons 1 year, 12 months agoWhat a piece of theatre work is AI. Since AI outputs can be seen as a theatrical performance, in her 10-minute paper at the MLA, Alexa Alice Joubin argued that we can teach critical questioning skills using generative AI. She demonstrated responsible and creative ways to teach students meta-cognition, using Shakespeare and early modern studies as…[Read more]
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “Open and Intersectional Pedagogy: Teaching the Early Modern with Generative Artificial Intelligence,” MLA convention, Philadelphia, January 6, 2024 in the group
MS Screen Arts and Culture on MLA Commons 1 year, 12 months agoWhat a piece of theatre work is AI Since AI outputs can be seen as a theatrical performance, in her 10-minute paper at the MLA, Alexa Alice Joubin argued that we can teach critical questioning skills using generative AI. She demonstrated responsible and creative ways to teach students meta-cognition, using Shakespeare and early modern studies as…[Read more]
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Laura G. Gutierrez replied to the topic Nominations for Forum Executive Committee in the discussion
MS Screen Arts and Culture via email on MLA Commons 2 years agoI have gotten this email close to 20 times. I am also no longer a member of MLA so I don’t have an active account and don’t know how to unsubscribe. Make it stop please
From: Alenda Chang <noreply@hcommons-staging.org>
Date: Thursday, January 18, 2024 at 1:11 PM
To: Gutierrez, Laura G <lauragutierrez@utexas.edu>
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David A. Wacks started the topic Online talk on Sephardi Diaspora in Algeria (14th-15th c.) (Jan 30) in the discussion
CLCS Mediterranean on MLA Commons 2 years agoProf. Amina Boukail (Univ. Jijel), “Written Sephardic Diaspora to Survive from Spain to Algeria (14th–15th Centuries)”
Respondent: Javier Castaño (U Complutense)Jan 30, 8:00am Pacific US/11:00am Eastern US/17:00 Paris
“Euro-Mediterranean Entanglements in Medieval History”, presented by the German Historical Institutes of Paris and Rome
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Crystal Anne Chemris deposited Flyer for The Spanish Baroque and latin American Literary Modernity: writing in Constellation in the group
CLCS Mediterranean on MLA Commons 2 years agoThis contains a table of contents and description for the book, The Spanish Baroque and Latin American Literary Modernity: Writing in Constellation, as a follow up to my paper for the 2024 MLA. Chapter One formed the basis for “Góngora, Inca Garcilaso, and the Meeting of Humanist and Indigenous Modes of Knowledge.”
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David A. Wacks started the topic Summer Workshop: “Sephardic Culture: An Introduction” (July 8-11, 2024) in the discussion
CLCS Mediterranean on MLA Commons 2 years agoThe Mediterranean Seminar Summer Skills Seminars are intensive, interactive four-day workshops that provide students, scholars, and professionals with the foundational training in technical skills related to Mediterranean Studies.
The Seminars, run by leading scholars, emphasize hands-on reading complemented by supplementary and contextual…[Read more]
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Siham Bouamer started the topic Call for Nominations: LLC Francophone (2025) in the discussion
LLC Francophone on MLA Commons 2 years agoDear Colleagues,The LLC Francophone Forum Executive Committee is seeking (self)nominations from our membership for one colleague (must be an MLA member) willing to serve a term of five convention years (from January 2025 through the close of the January 2029 convention). Members who would like to nominate themselves or other members for…[Read more]
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Gerald Joseph Prince started the topic Call Nominations LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French Forum Executive Committee in the discussion
LLC Francophone on MLA Commons 2 years agoDear Colleagues,The LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French Forum Executive Committee is seeking (self-)nominations from our membership for one colleague willing to serve a term of five convention years (from January 2025 through the close of the January 2029 convention) as member of the executive committee. Responsibilities of the committee members…[Read more]
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Gerald Joseph Prince started the topic Call Nominations LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French Forum Executive Committee in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French on MLA Commons 2 years agoDear Colleagues,The LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French Forum Executive Committee is seeking (self-)nominations from our membership for one colleague willing to serve a term of five convention years (from January 2025 through the close of the January 2029 convention) as member of the executive committee. Responsibilities of the committee members…[Read more]
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Ramzi Salti deposited Vivian and Her Son in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 2 years agoThis short story, written by Dr. Ramzi Salti, was published as part of his book titled “The Native Informant and Other Stories: Six Tales of Defiance from the Arab World”. It has been turned into a short film titled “The 40th Day’–available on YouTube at https://youtu.be/fspvJSiSQkc. Complete E-Book now available on Google Play and Kindle.
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Alenda Chang started the topic MS Screen Arts and Culture sessions at MLA 2024 in the discussion
MS Screen Arts and Culture on MLA Commons 2 years agoHi everyone! As this year’s forum executive committee chair for MS Screen Arts and Culture, I just wanted to alert everyone to the sessions that our forum has organized/sponsored. Thanks to our committee members for their hard work.
Organized by yours truly, tomorrow (THU) at 3:30PM we kick off with #92 “The Micropolitics of Environmental Media”…[Read more]
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Raj Chetty started the topic CLCS Caribbean Forum panel at MLA 2024 (in-person, Philadelphia) in the discussion
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 2 years agoHey all!
Please join us for this year’s Caribbean forum in-person panel, “Evolutions in Caribbean State Formation” (326), which has been selected by Frieda Ekotto, MLA President, to be included in this year’s Presidential Theme, “Celebration: Joy and Sorrow.”
- Friday, 5 January 2024
- 5:15 PM – 6:30 PM
- Loews – Congress B (4th Floor)
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Preetha Mani deposited The Literary Management of Multilingualism in Postcolonial India in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 2 years agoThis chapter explores a tension in postcolonial Indian literature between the monolingual form of the nation and the multilingual tendencies of the linguistic regions through a comparison between the Sahitya Akademi’s (India’s national academy of letters) activities and Tamil putukkavitai (new poetry) writing. By promoting translation and con…[Read more]
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Elizabeth Scarlett started the topic Religion in Modern Spanish Memoir and Autofiction. MLA Convention Session #154 in the discussion
TC Religion and Literature on MLA Commons 2 years, 1 month agoYou are cordially invited to the first of three sessions sponsored by this forum at the MLA 2024 Convention in Philadelphia:
#154 – Religion in Modern Spanish Memoir and Autofiction
Thursday, 4 January 2024 7:00 PM – 8:15 PM
Marriott – Grand K (Level 5)
Presider: Elizabeth Scarlett , U at Buffalo, State U of New York
Presentations
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Elizabeth Scarlett started the topic New executive committee member to be appointed soon in the discussion
TC Religion and Literature on MLA Commons 2 years, 1 month agoDear forum members,
If you are interested in being considered for appointment to the executive committee (EC) for this forum, please email me by 28 December 2023. Include your CV along with a message of intent. This is a five-year commitment during which you become secretary in your third year and chair in the fourth. You must be a member of MLA…[Read more]
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Arif Camoglu deposited Provincializing Romanticism: Ottoman Hayaliyyun and Literary Globality in the Nineteenth Century in the group
CLCS Romantic and 19th-Century on MLA Commons 2 years, 1 month agoThis essay considers the shortfalls of globalizing tendencies in nineteenth-century
literary studies with a focus on the Ottoman Turkish articulation of romanticism, i.e.,
hayaliyyun. Retrieving a historically and geographically hybrid genealogy of romanticism
through the Ottoman Turkish context, my discussion situates romantic imaginary…[Read more] - Load More
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