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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, 11 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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Ela Gezen started the topic Literary Alliances, Networks, and Solidarities across Minoritized Communities in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century German on MLA Commons 2 years agoModern Language Association Conference
New Orleans, LA
January 9–12, 2025CfP Literary Alliances, Networks, and Solidarities across Minoritized Communities (organized by the 20th- and 21st-Century German Forum)
This panel series seeks to examine varied, sometimes intersecting forms, forums, and formats for facilitating, expressing, and p…[Read more] -
Regenia Gagnier deposited The Geopolitics of Beauty in the group
LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English on MLA Commons 2 years agoBuilding on eighteenth-century philosophical traditions, Victorian aesthetics were often posed as an antidote to the vicissitudes of the Industrial Revolution and the political and economic demands of the marketplace, and in most cultures undergoing modernization the Beautiful has often functioned in opposition to the forces of power and…[Read more]
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Regenia Gagnier deposited The Futures of English: Introduction from the UK in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 2 years agoWill students raised on social media still read English literature?
• What is the role of English/American literature in the PRC, India,
Australasia, the USA?
• What is the role of English language in relation to other global
and local languages?
• What is the role of decolonising efforts?
• How do our respective state apparatuses affect…[Read more] -
Regenia Gagnier deposited The Futures of English: Introduction from the UK in the group
LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English on MLA Commons 2 years agoWill students raised on social media still read English literature?
• What is the role of English/American literature in the PRC, India,
Australasia, the USA?
• What is the role of English language in relation to other global
and local languages?
• What is the role of decolonising efforts?
• How do our respective state apparatuses affect…[Read more] -
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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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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Fatma Fulya Tepe started the topic new article: Angela Carter’s Adaptations of the Ashputtle Story in the discussion
TC Philosophy and Literature on MLA Commons 2 years, 1 month agoDear Colleagues,
We recently published an article titled as “Deconstructing a Disempowering Normative Identity: Angela Carter’s Adaptations of the Ashputtle Story” in Interlitteraria journal. We present the information and the abstract of the article below. If you would like to have a copy of it, please write t…[Read more]
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Fatma Fulya Tepe started the topic New creative feminist work: A Misogynist Triptych from 1945 in the discussion
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 2 years, 1 month agoDear Colleagues,
I , Assoc. Prof. Dr. Fatma Fulya Tepe, from Istanbul Aydin University, Faculty of Education and Emeritus Prof. Dr. Per Bauhn from Sweden’s Linnaeus University prepared “A Misogynist Triptych from 1945” based on cartoon material coming from the Turkish Boşboğaz (Bigmouth) Humor Gazette from 1945. This project was supported by…[Read more]
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Hania A.M. Nashef deposited Canines: Unlikely Protagonists in the Novels of Coetzee, Saramago and Shibli in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 2 years, 1 month agoAnthropomorphism, which combines two Greek words, anthropos and morphe, meaning “human” and “form’ respectively, is a term that reflects our attribution of human characteristics to non-human animals and objects, bestowing upon them agency (Taylor 2011: 266). In this respect, we elevate the status of the non-human animal, moving it from being a…[Read more]
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Hania A.M. Nashef deposited Canines: Unlikely Protagonists in the Novels of Coetzee, Saramago and Shibli in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 2 years, 1 month agoAnthropomorphism, which combines two Greek words, anthropos and morphe, meaning “human” and “form’ respectively, is a term that reflects our attribution of human characteristics to non-human animals and objects, bestowing upon them agency (Taylor 2011: 266). In this respect, we elevate the status of the non-human animal, moving it from being a…[Read more]
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Sharon Smulders deposited “Medicated Music”: Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Sonnets from the Portuguese in the group
LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English on MLA Commons 2 years, 2 months agoAlthough Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s experience of love undoubtedly informs the female speaker’s curative restoration in Sonnets from the Portuguese (1850), the series also shows the conscious deliberation of a Victorian poet engaged in the task of renovating generic imperatives to release feminine subjectivity — which had been invalidated by t…[Read more]
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Epifanio San Juan deposited INTER-CROSSCULTURAL DIALOGUES AND POSTCOLONIAL INDIGENIZATION IN LATE MODERNITY in the group
TC Philosophy and Literature on MLA Commons 2 years, 2 months agoSurvey of the rise of sikolohiyang Pilipino (Filipino psychology) in the context of decolonization and indigenization movements in the Philippines in the last decades of the 20th century.
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Steven Schroeder deposited as murder is to crow in the group
TC Philosophy and Literature on MLA Commons 2 years, 2 months agoThomas à Kempis wrote that everyone desires peace but not the things that make for peace. Such a universal desire would be a hopeful sign, a foundation to build on as we contemplate (and, no doubt, debate) “the things that make for peace.” I offer as murder is to crow as a record of “perchings” in my contemplation of things that make for peace.…[Read more]
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Mike Phillips deposited Through a Tube, Darkly: Critical Remediation in High and Low (1963) in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 2 years, 2 months agoAkira Kurosawa’s 1963 police procedural is, as its title suggests, intensely interested in the socioeconomic valences of spatial relationships, literalized in Yokohama’s affluent hills and its low-lying slums. The central conflict between inhabitants of these two spaces articulates this local topography into a global framework, in which con…[Read more]
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Katina Rogers replied to the topic CFP: On Gathering: Exploring Collective and Embodied Modes of Schol Comm (JEP) in the discussion
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 2 years, 2 months agoAnd…. here’s a link to the full CFP! https://journals.publishing.umich.edu/jep/news/106/
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Katina Rogers started the topic CFP: On Gathering: Exploring Collective and Embodied Modes of Schol Comm (JEP) in the discussion
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 2 years, 2 months agoDear friends,
I’m pleased to share this call for papers for a special issue of Journal of Electronic Publishing. The issue title is On Gathering: Exploring Collective and Embodied Modes of Scholarly Communication, and I am the issue editor.
Changes in scholarly communication have shifted the boundaries of where and how we share our work, and…[Read more]
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Simon Stern started the topic 2024 LAW AND HUMANITIES WORKSHOP FOR JUNIOR SCHOLARS in the discussion
TC Law and the Humanities on MLA Commons 2 years, 3 months ago2024 LAW AND HUMANITIES WORKSHOP FOR JUNIOR SCHOLARS Call for Participation
Georgetown University Law Center, Stanford Law School, UCLA School of Law, the University of Pennsylvania, and the University of Southern California Center for Law, History, and Culture invite submissions for the 23d meeting of the Law and Humanities Workshop for Junior…[Read more]
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Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2024 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 2 years, 3 months agoThe next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2024, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets in January 2024. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nominate at least one candidate who…[Read more]
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Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2024 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 2 years, 3 months agoThe next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2024, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets in January 2024. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nominate at least one candidate who…[Read more]
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