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Mariana Ou replied to the topic Introductions in the discussion
Spanish Civil War Studies on Humanities Commons 7 years, 6 months agoHello! I’m Mariana, based in London, and since last October I’ve been working at the Marx Memorial Library, cataloguing the Spanish Collection: a major archive that includes the whole archive from the International Brigade Association/International Brigade Memorial Trust. I’ve been dealing mostly with the collection of 500+ pamphlets: aprox. half…[Read more]
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Mariana Ou replied to the topic SCW + Catalan referendum in the news in the discussion
Spanish Civil War Studies on Humanities Commons 7 years, 6 months agoHello Anne, I’ve just joined the group so the reply comes very late. I have read The Winterlings and loved it. It’s really my type of fiction. Have you read it in the end?
That said, I wonder why the author decided to suggest that Spanish/Basque children may have suffered or been exploited in their time as refugees in the UK? In the Marx Memorial…[Read more]
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Mariana Ou replied to the topic Collections of SCW materials / images in the discussion
Spanish Civil War Studies on Humanities Commons 7 years, 6 months agoAlso here in the UK, the University of Warwick has an archive on the Spanish Civil War from papers of the Trades Union Congress. They are all digitised which is quite amazing. My favourite items are in Spanish Situation: Pamphlets, leaflets etc.
Attached is cover of pamphlet by the Labour Party, one that we also hold at the MML. I find it…[Read more]
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Mariana Ou replied to the topic Collections of SCW materials / images in the discussion
Spanish Civil War Studies on Humanities Commons 7 years, 6 months agoI’m working at the Marx Memorial Library in London. The library is home to the Spanish Collection, which is an archive of more than 7000 items, initially gathered by British International Brigaders and their families. We have just completed cataloguing the collection thanks to a grant from the National Archives (link below). Only very few items…[Read more]
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Mario Santana started the topic Call for Papers, 17th Colloquium of the North American Catalan Society in the discussion
European Literary Relations on MLA Commons 7 years, 7 months agoAttached please find the call for papers for the 17th International Colloquium of the North American Catalan Society (University of Chicago, April 25-27, 2019).
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Téa Rokolj deposited Many a Footnote and Afterword: Dubravka Ugrešić and the Essay in the group
TC Translation Studies on MLA Commons 7 years, 7 months agoA widely translated author, and a prominent voice from post-communist Europe, Dubravka Ugrešić has published a variety of literary forms in addition to literary criticism and translations. Playful experimentation with language, boundaries between texts, and literary conventions as well as an acute awareness of the contemporary socio-political c…[Read more]
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Téa Rokolj deposited Many a Footnote and Afterword: Dubravka Ugrešić and the Essay in the group
CLCS European Regions on MLA Commons 7 years, 7 months agoA widely translated author, and a prominent voice from post-communist Europe, Dubravka Ugrešić has published a variety of literary forms in addition to literary criticism and translations. Playful experimentation with language, boundaries between texts, and literary conventions as well as an acute awareness of the contemporary socio-political c…[Read more]
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Nicholas Rinehart deposited Reaping Something New: African American Transformations of Victorian Literature in the group
TC Translation Studies on MLA Commons 7 years, 7 months agoReview of Daniel Hack, “Reaping Something New: African American Transformations of Victorian Literature” (Princeton UP, 2017).
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Brian Lennon deposited Questions and answers on “JavaScript Affogato: Programming a Culture of Improvised Expertise” in the group
TC Translation Studies on MLA Commons 7 years, 8 months agoPublished by Johns Hopkins University Press Blog, 28 March 2018. A Q&A about the essay “JavaScript Affogato: Programming a Culture of Improvised Expertise,” published in Configurations 26.1 (2018): 47–72, DOI: 10.1353/con.2018.0002.
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Zane Koss deposited Coastal Flows: Situating Vancouver Poetry in the Americas in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American on MLA Commons 7 years, 9 months agoIn a 1972 poem about Vancouver Island, Mexican writer José Emilio Pacheco wonders, “Acaso fue el Aztlán de las mexicas / De allí partieron siete tribus.” Though Pacheco spent several years living in Vancouver during the late 1960s and early 1970s—and was published in a 1971 anthology of poetry “From Canada’s Unofficial Languages”—h…[Read more]
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Anne Donlon replied to the topic Introductions in the discussion
Spanish Civil War Studies on Humanities Commons 7 years, 9 months agoI noticed we have some new members. Welcome! Please feel free to introduce yourselves. I’d love to hear what people are working on.
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Anna Zofia Gąsienica Byrcyn deposited Polish Culture in Lesson 0 in the group
LSL Second-Language Teaching and Learning on MLA Commons 7 years, 10 months agoCulture and traditions constitute the essential elements in the process of Polish language education. The textbook Hurra po polsku. Podręcznik studenta by Małgorzata Małolepsza & Aneta Szymkiewicz in Lesson 0 introduces briefly Polish phonetic system and greeting expressions without offering any follow up exercises in the Hurra po polsku. Ze…[Read more]
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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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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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Brian Lennon deposited JavaScript Affogato: Programming a Culture of Improvised Expertise in the group
TC Translation Studies on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoThis essay attempts a philological, meaning a both technically and socially attentive historical study of an individual computer programming language, JavaScript. From its introduction, JavaScript’s reception by software developers, and its importance in web development as we now understand it, was structured by a continuous negotiation of e…[Read more]
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Luz Angélica Kirschner started the topic International Conference on Global Human Rights in the discussion
Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoDear Colleagues,
please find attached the CfP for the International Conference on Human Rights that will take place at the South Dakota State University, Oct. 4-6, 2018. We are looking forward to you panel proposals, round tables, and individual presentations.
Many thanks,
Luz Angélica Kirschner
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Juan E. De Castro deposited Alfonso Reyes, Jorge Luis Borges, y Nuestra América in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoThis article studies the uses made of the phrase “Nuestra América” by both Alfonso Reyes and Jorge Luis Borges. It also traces the influence of the Reyes on Borges.
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “Global Shakespeare Criticism beyond the Nation State.” Chapter 25 of The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Performance, ed. James C. Bulman (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017), pp. 423-440 in the group
TC Translation Studies on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoTo move global Shakespeare studies beyond the more limiting scope of nation-state and cultural profiling, I would like to propose we consider a number of critical concepts as methodology. These concepts critique the limitations of cartographic imagination, and connect the performance site to spaces of knowledge production: (1) the site of…[Read more]
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Anne Donlon replied to the topic Introductions in the discussion
Spanish Civil War Studies on Humanities Commons 7 years, 12 months agoCongratulations! That’s fantastic news.
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Lisa Kirschenbaum replied to the topic Introductions in the discussion
Spanish Civil War Studies on Humanities Commons 7 years, 12 months agoI am happy to announce that my book International Communism and the Spanish Civil War is now available in paperback.
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