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Neelofer Qadir replied to the topic Petition {new thread] in the discussion
Prospective Forum: CLCS Indian Ocean on MLA Commons 7 years, 10 months agoThanks for reviving this petition, Nienke!
I support the creation of this forum and would like to volunteer for one of the co-leadership positions.
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Sean Kennedy replied to the topic Petition {new thread] in the discussion
Prospective Forum: CLCS Indian Ocean on MLA Commons 7 years, 10 months agoI support the creation of this forum, and I’d be interested in volunteering as one of the co-leaders. Thank you for your initiative, Nienke!
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Mukoma Ngugi posted an update in the group
Prospective Forum: CLCS Indian Ocean on MLA Commons 7 years, 10 months agoIn support – Mukoma Wa Ngugi
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Gaurav G. Desai replied to the topic Petition {new thread] in the discussion
Prospective Forum: CLCS Indian Ocean on MLA Commons 7 years, 10 months agoI support the creation of this forum!
Gaurav Desai
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Deepika Marya posted an update in the group
Prospective Forum: CLCS Indian Ocean on MLA Commons 7 years, 10 months agoI strongly support this forum. Deepika Marya
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Nienke Boer started the topic Petition to create new MLA forum: CLCS Indian Ocean in the discussion
English Literature Other Than British and American on MLA Commons 7 years, 10 months agoDear members,
I’m getting the ball rolling on trying to activate the prospective MLA forum CLCS Indian Ocean. The first step involved getting 35 signatures on the petition at MLA Commons as well as five volunteers for leadership positions. After that, a full proposal will be solicited by the MLA, probably in mid-June.Here is a link to the…[Read more]
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Nienke Boer started the topic Petition to create new MLA forum: CLCS Indian Ocean in the discussion
Global South on MLA Commons 7 years, 10 months agoDear members,
I’m getting the ball rolling on trying to activate the prospective MLA forum CLCS Indian Ocean. The first step involved getting 35 signatures on the petition at MLA Commons as well as five volunteers for leadership positions. After that, a full proposal will be solicited by the MLA, probably in mid-June.Here is a link to the…[Read more]
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Nienke Boer started the topic Petition {new thread] in the discussion
Prospective Forum: CLCS Indian Ocean on MLA Commons 7 years, 10 months agoI am interested in trying to get this forum created, and the previous petition thread seems to be inactive, so I’ve started this one. Please sign below if you endorse the creation of this forum, and indicate if you want to volunteer for a leadership position. You can contact me at nienke.boer@yale-nus.edu.sg if you have thoughts about this!
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Weihsin Gui started the topic Southeast Asia session proposals for 2019 MLA (deadline March 15) in the discussion
Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoDear academic colleagues: there’s still time (deadline March 15) to submit a paper to one of these three proposed sessions about Southeast Asia for the 2019 MLA conference in Chicago. Details below.
* “Diasporas, Aesthetics, and Southeast Asia”: What aesthetics (or anesthetics) do diasporic movements into/out of/within Southeast Asia generate? C…[Read more]
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Madhurima Chakraborty posted an update in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoCFP: South Asian Literatures in the World
South Asian Literary Association Annual Conference
January 6-7, 2019
The Wits Hotel, Chicago, ILThe South Asian Literary Association invites papers, panels, and roundtable proposals for the 2019 annual conference to be held in Chicago January 6-7 on the topic “South Asian Literatures in the World.” We…[Read more]
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Melek Ortabasi started the topic ADCPL CFP MLA 2019: “Transacting Comparative Studies” in the discussion
Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoHi all, I’m on the board of the Association of Departments and Programs of Comparative Literature and I’m posting on behalf of the chair, Thomas Beebee, to publicize our CFP for MLA 2019. Here it is, inspired by the Presidential Theme of “Textual Transactions”:
Transacting Comparative Studies with other Disciplines and Units
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Jason Frydman started the topic CFP MLA 2019: Peter Abrahams, RIP – Commemorating a Pan-African Life. in the discussion
English Literature Other Than British and American on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoMLA 2019 Special Session. Honoring the centenary of Abrahams’ birth, we re-assess his epoch-making career as author-journalist-Panafricanist from Johannesburg to London to Kingston. Abstracts 100-300 words by 22 March 2018; Jason Frydman (jfrydman@brooklyn.cuny.edu).
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Jason Frydman started the topic CFP MLA 2019: Peter Abrahams, RIP – Commemorating a Pan-African Life. in the discussion
English Literature Other Than British and American on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoMLA 2019 Special Session. Honoring the centenary of Abrahams’ birth, we re-assess his epoch-making career as author-journalist-Panafricanist from Johannesburg to London to Kingston. Abstracts 100-300 words by 22 March 2018; Jason Frydman (jfrydman@brooklyn.cuny.edu).
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Jason Frydman started the topic CFP MLA 2019: Peter Abrhamas, RIP – Commemorating a Pan-African Life. in the discussion
English Literature Other Than British and American on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoMLA 2019 Special Session. Honoring the centenary of Abrahams’ birth, we re-assess his epoch-making career as author-journalist-Panafricanist from Johannesburg to London to Kingston. Abstracts 100-300 words by 22 March 2018; Jason Frydman (jfrydman@brooklyn.cuny.edu).
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Magalí Armillas-Tiseyra posted an update in the group
CLCS Global South on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoCFPs for Global South panels at MLA 2019 (Chicago):
**Waste, Garbage, and Effluence in the Global South**
Encounters with waste in narratives both historical and contemporary welcomed. Possible entanglements include animality, comparative modernities, labor and the environment.
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Claudia Cabello-Hutt deposited Redes queer: escritoras, artistas y mecenas en la primera mitad del siglo XX in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoA partir de la lectura del epistolario de Anna Melissa Graves, este trabajo recompone la relación de complicidad entre la escultora chilena Laura Rodig y la, hasta ahora desconocida “mecenas”, Consuelo Lemetayer. De manera específica, esta indagación de archivo analiza las redes queer de cooperación transnacional y transatlántica en las que part…[Read more]
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Benita Sampedro deposited Call for Proposals MLA 2019 Convention Forum on Global Hispanophone in the group
CLCS Global Hispanophone on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoPanel: “Teaching the Global Hispanophone”. Many of the challenges inherent in teaching the Global Hispanophone are apparent: curricula structured according to wentieth-century conceptions of Hispanism; language issues; or texts availability. How have you met these challenges? What are other less obvious challenges? We welcome proposals that will…[Read more]
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Sheela Jane Menon posted an update in the group
CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoCFP for MLA 2019: “Race, Nation, and Empire in Southeast Asian Life Writing.” How does Southeast Asian life writing reframe questions of race, nation, empire, and history? Comparative approaches welcomed. 300-word abstract and short bio to John David Zuern (zuern@hawaii.edu) and Sheela Jane Menon (menons@dickinson.edu) due 15 March 2018. Please…[Read more]
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Mariana Romo-Carmona replied to the topic International Conference on Global Human Rights in the discussion
Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoThanks for attaching, Luz Angélica.
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Benita Sampedro posted an update in the group
CLCS Global Hispanophone on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoMLA 2019 Session: Expanding Colonial Geographies
This panel aims to re-conceptualize traditional colonial geographies in the Spanish speaking world by considering the transactions between Colonial Latin America and the Global Hispanophone world. How did colonial commercial and knowledge networks between Latin America and the Global Hispanophone…[Read more]
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