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Jesse A. Rhines, PhD started the topic Conjuring Multi-Ethnic Futures in the discussion
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months agoSession type: Special Session
Title of session: Conjuring Multi-Ethnic Futures
Submission requirements: Abstract of about 250 words.
Deadline for submissions: 20 March 2015
Description: Utopia? How should nations want their human societies to look in 150 years? Color, gender, heritage differences, sure. Religious too? Visual ar…[Read more] -
Jesse A. Rhines, PhD started the topic Conjuring Multi-Ethnic Futures in the discussion
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months agoUtopia? How should nations want their human societies to look in 150 years? Color, gender, heritage differences, sure. Religious too? Visual arts welcome.
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Jesse A. Rhines, PhD started the topic Conjuring Multi-Ethnic Futures in the discussion
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months agoUtopia? How should nations want their human societies to look in 150 years? Color, gender, heritage differences, sure. Religious too? Visual arts welcome.
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Anna Maria Nogar started the topic CFP: MLA 2016- Collaborative panel offered with Chicana/o Studies Division in the discussion
Ethnic Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months agoThis Bridge Called My Back
In honor of This Bridge’s 35th anniversary, we invite engagements with its historical impact, attendant contexts, and continuing salience. Brief CV & 300-word abstracts by 15 March 2015 to Laura Halperin lhalperi@email.unc.edu and Ruby Tapia rtapia@umich.edu. -
Hatem Akil started the topic CFP: MLA Panels for 2016 – Forum on Global Arab and Arab American Literature in the discussion
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 10 years, 12 months agoCFP: MLA Panels for 2016 – Forum on Global Arab and Arab American Literature:
Dear Friends,
The Global Arab and Arab American MLA Forum invites proposals for the following two panels at the MLA convention in Austin, Texas (Jan 7-10, 2016):
Global Arab Texts and their Publics
Displaced writers. Deterritorialized texts. How do recent Arab é…[Read more]
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Hatem Akil started the topic CFP: MLA Panels for 2016 – Forum on Global Arab and Arab American Literature in the discussion
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 10 years, 12 months agoCFP: MLA Panels for 2016 – Forum on Global Arab and Arab American Literature:
Dear Friends,
The Global Arab and Arab American MLA Forum invites proposals for the following two panels at the MLA convention in Austin, Texas (Jan 7-10, 2016):
Global Arab Texts and their Publics
Displaced writers. Deterritorialized texts. How do recent Arab é…[Read more]
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Hatem Akil started the topic CFP: MLA Panels for 2016 – Forum on Global Arab and Arab American Literature in the discussion
Ethnic Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 12 months agoCFP: MLA Panels for 2016 – Forum on Global Arab and Arab American Literature:
Dear Friends,
The Global Arab and Arab American MLA Forum invites proposals for the following two panels at the MLA convention in Austin, Texas (Jan 7-10, 2016):
1. Global Arab Texts and their Publics
Displaced writers. Deterritorialized texts. How do recent Arab é…[Read more]
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Cynthia Franklin started the topic Q&A about Academic Boycott in the discussion
Ethnic Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 12 months agoIn the wake of the Delegate Assembly’s discussion of the boycott of Israeli academic institutions at MLA 2015, a DA member sent the following important queries regarding the scope and practice of the boycott. Some MLA Members for Justice in Palestine reply to her questions here. It’s a long document, but provides a concrete sense what is implied (…[Read more]
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Benita Sampedro started the topic CFP: Forum on Global Hispanophone in the discussion
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 10 years, 12 months 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).
Hispanophone Literatures and Postcolonial Theory
The term ‘Hispanophone li…[Read more]
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Nhora Lucia Serrano started the topic CFP: MLA: Satire and the Editorial Cartoon (Austin, 7-10 Jan 16) in the discussion
Comparative Studies in Romanticism and the Nineteenth Century on MLA Commons 10 years, 12 months agoCall for Papers for a guaranteed panel at the Modern Language Association
(MLA) Annual Convention, 7-10 Jan. 2016, in Austin.
Satire and the Editorial Cartoon
Ever since the days of William Hogarth and his brand of pictorial satire, expressing an opinion on the politics of the day in print demanded a combination of humor, hyperbole, and c…[Read more]
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Thomas Oliver Beebee started the topic CFP MLA 2016, Special Session Comparing Literary Historiography in the discussion
Comparative Studies in Romanticism and the Nineteenth Century on MLA Commons 10 years, 12 months agoOrganizers: Thomas Beebee (Penn State – University Park) & Bhavya Tiwari (U of Houston)
Papers that theorize a construction of polylingual literary history in local, national, and global contexts are invited to imagine a manifesto for a transnational and transregional comparative literary historiography for this special session of MLA 2016 at Au…[Read more]
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Anna Maria Nogar started the topic Calls for Papers for the 2016 MLA: Ethnic Studies in Language and Literature in the discussion
Ethnic Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 12 months ago“Citizenship and Social Death”
Explorations in literature and film of “social death” (Orlando Paterson, Jared Sexton) in relation to issues of citizenship and quality of life for all ethnic groups. 300 word abstract, one page CVs by March 8.
Stephen Knadler (knadlers@spelman.edu) and Amritjit Singh (singha@ohio.edu)
“Archival Legibility an…[Read more]
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Suha Kudsieh started the topic Invitation to Join New MLA Forum: Global Arab and Arab American in the discussion
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 11 years ago<div class=”bbp-reply-content”>
Dear Colleagues,
I hope you are well. The MLA has agreed to launch the new forum on Global Arab and Arab American Lit & Culture (a.k.a. GAAM).
GAAM would like to urge MLA members who are interested in the new focum to sign up for it on the MLA Commons: http://mla.hcommons-staging.org/groups/global-arab-and-arab-a…[Read more]
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Cynthia Franklin started the topic MLA Members for Justice in Palestine in the discussion
Ethnic Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 11 years agoPlease consider joining the new commons group MLA Members for Justice in Palestine. http://mla.hcommons-staging.org/…/mla-members-for-justice-in-palest…/ …
As well, we have a Facebook page by the same name, that now has 655 members and we’d like it to reach 1000:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/MLAM4JP/
Please consider joining these sites to bu…[Read more]
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Cynthia Franklin started the topic Pls. join MLA Members for Justice in Palestine in the discussion
Ethnic Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 11 years agoPlease consider joining the new commons group MLA Members for Justice in Palestine. http://mla.hcommons-staging.org/…/mla-members-for-justice-in-palest…/ …
As well, it would be great if you want to join the Facebook page by the same name:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/MLAM4JP/
These are spaces to build support for a resolution on Acade…[Read more]
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Cynthia Franklin started the topic Please consider joining MLA Members for Justice in Palestine in the discussion
Ethnic Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 11 years agoPlease consider joining the new commons group MLA Members for Justice in Palestine. http://mla.hcommons-staging.org/…/mla-members-for-justice-in-palest…/ …
As well, it would be great if you’d like to join the Facebook page set up for this group, that has the same name:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/MLAM4JP/
After more than 3 hours of commit…[Read more]
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María Gil Poisa uploaded the file: CFP: Body Memory Trauma // Exhibition: Water, Art, Women, Life to
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 11 years agoCFP: Body Memory Trauma // Exhibition: Water, Art, Women, Life
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Adolfo Campoy-Cubillo started the topic CFP: “Considering the Western Sahara. in the forum
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 11 years agoCall for Papers. “Considering the Western Sahara: Multi-Discipinary Approaches to Post-Colonialism”Special Issue on the Western Sahara for the Journal
Transmodernity, co-edited “y Adolfo Campoy-Cubillo and Jill Robbins.
Call for Papers:
This special issue aims to provide an interdisciplinary assessment of the representations of the unreso…[Read more]
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Adolfo Campoy-Cubillo started the topic CFP: Considering the Western Sahara. in the forum
Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 11 years agoCall for Papers. “Considering the Western Sahara: Multi-Discipinary Approaches to Post-Colonialism”Special Issue on the Western Sahara for the JournalTransmodernity, co-edited by Adolfo Campoy-Cubillo and Jill Robbins.
Call for Papers:
This special issue aims to provide an interdisciplinary assessment of the representations of the unresol…[Read more]
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Cheryl A. Higashida started the topic #BlackLivesMatter solidarity action at MLA TODAY, Friday 1/9 in the forum
Ethnic Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 1 month agoThere will be a #BlackLivesMatter solidarity action at MLA on FRI at 1:30PM. Please assemble at 1:30 in Ballroom D, on the first floor (not ground floor) of the convention center.
We plan to have speakers and an open mic there, and then march outside.
Participants without MLA badges can access Ballroom D through the south entrance. We will have…[Read more]
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