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Monika Dix started the topic CFP: Literature as Experience of Crossing Boundaries in East Asia in the discussion
East Asian Languages and Literatures to 1900 on MLA Commons 10 years agoThe cfp for my panel “The Experience of Crossing Boundaries in East Asia” is posted on the MLA website. I look forward to receiving your submisisons.
Monika Dix
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Charlotte Eubanks started the topic Sonding the Premodern Sinoshpere (a second CFP for MLA 2017) in the discussion
LLC Japanese to 1900 on MLA Commons 10 years agoThe Japan to 1900 Division of the MLA invites you to submit paper proposals for either of the following panel, which we are planning for the January 2017 Modern Language Association annual conference, to convene in Philadelphia.
Collaborative Session (with the East Asia forum):
Sounding the Premodern Sinosphere
How should we understand the…[Read more]
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Phillip Lundberg started the topic Transl. the esoteric – Soul in Metamorphosis. in the discussion
Translation on MLA Commons 10 years agoAnyone who is interested in digging DEEP into Kafka’s esoteric dimension and connecting his works of t r a n s f o r m a t i o n — to Plato, John the Evangelist and other romantics is encouraged to join the KAFKA group >> the proof, of course >> is in the pudding!
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Lisa Zunshine deposited "Culture of Greedy Mind Readers" in the group
TC Popular Culture on MLA Commons 10 years agoThis primer in “cognitive cultural studies” explores the cultural fantasy of perfect access to mind through body. It shows that different genres and media—movies, novels, classic Chinese operas, medieval ribald tales, musicals, paintings, documentaries, stand-up comedy, and photography—have different strategies for making us think that we have ju…[Read more]
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Philip Smith deposited Writing in the rain: Erasure, trauma, and Chinese Indonesian identity in the recent work of FX Harsono in the group
LLC East Asian on MLA Commons 10 years agoThis is an examination of the recent work of Indonesian visual artist FX Harsono in relation to Chinese Indonesian identity, the erasure of history, and the challenge of communicating through trauma. It is my hope that this work will contribute to the dialogue on both the Chinese Indonesian experience and large-scale ethnic violence.
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Shiao-ling S. Yu replied to the topic LLC EAST ASIAN Panel Topic in the discussion
East Asian Languages and Literatures to 1900 on MLA Commons 10 years agoDear Monica,
I would like to propose a topic “Border-Crossing: Uncle Tom in Japan and China” for your panel “Literature as Experience of Crossing Boundaries in East Asia.” Uncle Tom refers to the American novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin, which was adapted into plays three times: the first time in Japan and the next two times in China. All three…[Read more]
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Shiao-ling S. Yu replied to the topic LLC EAST ASIAN Panel Topic in the discussion
East Asian Languages and Literatures to 1900 on MLA Commons 10 years agoDear Monica Dix,
I would be interested to propose a topic for your panel: “Border-Crossing: Uncle Tom in China.” Uncle Tom refers to the American novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin, which was adapted into plays in China three times during the past one hundred years.
Shiao-ling Yu
Oregon State University
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Charlotte Eubanks started the topic Soundscapes in Premodern Japan (CFP for MLA 2017) in the discussion
LLC Japanese to 1900 on MLA Commons 10 years agoSoundscapes in Premodern Japan (guaranteed panel) CFP
How do sound imaginaries in literature (the racket of the street and the warbling of birds) represent space? Who hears, listens in, or overhears, and what power do they enjoy in this sonic culture? What constitutes a sacred sound or its profane or transgressive counterpart? What role is…[Read more]
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Christopher M. Lupke replied to the topic LLC EAST ASIAN Panel Topic in the discussion
East Asian Languages and Literatures to 1900 on MLA Commons 10 years agoTo Monica and All —
This sounds great. Just to let you know, LLC Modern and Contemporary Chinese Forum will propose as our guaranteed session something like “Breaking Media Boundaries in Chinese Literature and Culture.” It looks like it will fit well with what your team is planning. We also selected it with the Presidential Theme of “Boundary…[Read more]
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Charlotte Eubanks started the topic Proposed Collaborative Session for MLA 2017 in the discussion
East Asian Languages and Literatures to 1900 on MLA Commons 10 years agoThe Japan to 1900 group would like to propose a collaborative panel with the East Asia group, on the topic of
‘Sounding the Pre-Modern Sinosphere’
which would focus on Chinese-language compositions from across Asia (such as kanshi in Japan).
I’ll be interested in your thoughts, and will hope for a ‘go ahead’ from the leadership! 🙂
Charlotte…[Read more]
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Charlotte Eubanks replied to the topic LLC EAST ASIAN Panel Topic in the discussion
East Asian Languages and Literatures to 1900 on MLA Commons 10 years agoSounds good, Monika! I’ll be interested to see what others post, but if you need someone to talk, I could do something on ‘sutras as a genre of world literature’ in the trans-Asian sphere.
Cheers,
Charlotte (Eubanks)
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Monika Dix started the topic LLC EAST ASIAN Panel Topic in the discussion
East Asian Languages and Literatures to 1900 on MLA Commons 10 years agoI would like to propose the following panel for the 2017 MLA:
“Literature as the Experience of Crossing Boundaries in East Asia”
I am posting it to see if there is any interest from group members to present on this topic.
Monika Dix
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Monika Dix started the topic LLC East Asian Business Meeting Minutes in the discussion
East Asian Languages and Literatures to 1900 on MLA Commons 10 years agoDear LLC East Asian Executive Committee Members,
On Saturday, January 9, 2016, the LLC EAST ASIAN forum had its business meeting at MLA. The meeting took place from 4:30-5:45pm in room 302 in the JW Marriott in Austin, TX. The following people attended: Ming-Bao Yue (Skype), Michael Emmerich (Skype), Rivi Handler-Spitz (Skype), Charlotte Eubanks,…[Read more]
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Charlotte Eubanks started the topic Panel Topics for MLA 2017 in the discussion
LLC Japanese to 1900 on MLA Commons 10 years agoThe second item of business is organizing panel(s) for MLA 2017.
We get 1 guaranteed panel. Jayanthi (your current Secretary) and I (your current Chair) will organize a panel on
“Soundscapes in Pre-modern Japanese Literature.”
CFP to be circulated shortly. (NB: the Japan *from* 1900 forum is also doing their guaranteed panel on sound, and the…[Read more]
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Charlotte Eubanks started the topic Want to be on the executive committee? in the discussion
LLC Japanese to 1900 on MLA Commons 10 years agoFor the first time in MLA history, pre-modern Japan has a designated ‘place at the table.’ Thanks, all, for your efforts to help make this vision a reality!
With MLA 2016 just over, it’s time to start preparing for MLA 2017, to be held in Philadelphia. We have a couple of items of business, one of which is to collect nominations (including sel…[Read more]
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Thomas Mazanec started the topic CFP: "Machine Translation Before 1800" (MLA 2017) in the discussion
Translation on MLA Commons 10 years agoContributors are invited for a special session on “Machine Translation Before 1800” for the 2017 MLA Convention in Philadelphia (January 5–8, 2017).
Translation has usually been conceived as a relationship between individual persons or texts across languages. How does thinking in terms of systems, teams, and conditions instead of indiv…[Read more]
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Linda V Troost deposited The Undead Eighteenth Century in the group
TC Popular Culture on MLA Commons 10 years agoIf Jane Austen had wanted to write about zombies, what might she have known about the walking dead in the early nineteenth century? In this 2010 presidential address for EC/ASECS, subsequently published in the society’s newsletter, I examine this question and take a look at Pride and Prejudice and Zombies and Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters.
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Amy L. Friedman started the topic CFP- Beat Studies at ALA 2016 in the discussion
Popular Culture on MLA Commons 10 years agoThe Beat Studies Association invites papers for 2 panels at the upcoming American Literature Association Annual Conference in San Francisco (May 26-29, 2016): papers on all aspects of Beat Literature and Beats Studies OR papers on the work and contributions to Beat Studies of the scholar Ann Charters, for the panel “Mapping Beat Movements…[Read more]
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Melek Ortabasi started the topic FYI: LLC Japan since 1900 meeting in the discussion
East Asian Languages and Literatures to 1900 on MLA Commons 10 years agoHello everyone,
We are holding our first executive committee meeting on Skype this Friday at 2 p.m. PST. Please email me, your inaugural chair, at mso1@sfu.ca if you’d like to be patched in.
If you can’t make it, please send us your ideas for
a) the one guaranteed panel our new forum gets, and
b) potential nominees for the executive com…[Read more]
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Melek Ortabasi started the topic FYI: Japan after 1900 info in the discussion
LLC Japanese to 1900 on MLA Commons 10 years agoHello everyone,
We are holding our first executive committee meeting on Skype this Friday at 2 p.m. PST. Please email me, your inaugural chair, at mso1@sfu.ca if you’d like to be patched in.
If you can’t make it, please send us your ideas for
a) the one guaranteed panel our new forum gets, and
b) potential nominees for the executive com…[Read more]
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