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Melissa J. Ganz started the topic Law and the Humanities Forum Panels at MLA 2017 in the discussion
Law as Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month agoThe Law and the Humanities Forum is delighted to be sponsoring three panels at MLA next month. We hope that you can join us for these sessions:
Session 67. “Object Lessons in Personhood”
Thursday, 5 January, 1:45–3:00 p.m., 202B, Pennsylvania Convention Center
Program arranged by the forum TC Law and the Humanities
Presiding: Kevin Curr…[Read more]
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Melissa J. Ganz started the topic Law and the Humanities Forum Panels at MLA 2017 in the discussion
Law as Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month agoThe Law and the Humanities Forum is delighted to be sponsoring three panels at MLA next month. We hope that you can join us for these sessions:
Session 67. “Object Lessons in Personhood”
Thursday, 5 January, 1:45–3:00 p.m., 202B, Pennsylvania Convention Center
Program arranged by the forum TC Law and the Humanities
Presiding: Kevin Curr…[Read more]
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Nicholas Rinehart deposited The Man That Was a Thing: Reconsidering Human Commodification in Slavery in the group
TC Law and the Humanities on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month agoThis essay examines a longstanding normative assumption in the historiography of slavery in the Atlantic world: that enslaved Africans and their American-born descendants were bought and sold as “commodities,” thereby “dehumanizing” them and treating them as things rather than as persons. Such claims have, indeed, helped historians concept…[Read more]
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Petar Penda deposited CFP – TRANSCENDING BORDERS AND BINARIES: New Insights into Language, Literature, and Culture in the group
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoCALL FOR PAPERS
The Department of English, at the Faculty of Philology, University of Banja Luka (Bosnia and Herzegovina), in cooperation with the School of English and American Studies, University of Opole (Poland) and the College of Liberal Arts, University of Central Oklahoma (USA) are pleased to announce the third conference on English…[Read more]
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Erin Cowling started the topic CFP: Edited Volume on Social Justice and the Golden Age Comedia in the discussion
Comparative Studies in Renaissance and Baroque Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoCFP: Social Justice and the Golden Age Comedia
This is a call for an EDITED VOLUME on Social Justice in Spanish Golden Age Theater.
This edited volume will focus on issues of social justice in theatrical works of Golden Age Spain. For example, the 2013 Repertorio Español production of Fuenteovejuna illustrates how relevant social justice…[Read more]
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Erin Cowling started the topic CFP: Call for edited volume in the discussion
Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Spanish Drama on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoCFP: Social Justice and the Golden Age Comedia
This is a call for an EDITED VOLUME on Social Justice in Spanish Golden Age Theater.
This edited volume will focus on issues of social justice in theatrical works of Golden Age Spain. For example, the 2013 Repertorio Español production of Fuenteovejuna illustrates how relevant social justice…[Read more]
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Richard A. Strier started the topic NEH Seminar on King Lear in the discussion
Comparative Studies in Renaissance and Baroque Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoThis summer (July, 2017), Richard Strier is directing an NEH seminar on King Lear — text, sources, criticism, afterlife, etc. — at the U of Chicago. All interested tenured, tenure-track, and full-time non-tenure-track instructors at colleges and universities are invited to apply. The 16 accepted applicants will receive a stipend to attend t…[Read more]
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Jane S. Grogan started the topic International Spenser Society Hugh MacLean memorial lecture at MLA 2017 in the discussion
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<div>Please join us at MLA 2017 for the International Spenser Society’s Hugh MacLean Memorial Lecture, to be given by Prof. Anne Coldiron (Florida State University), on ‘Spenser and the Resources of Translation’. The lecture takes place during the International Spenser Society luncheon, to be held at Amada, 217-219 Chestnut St,…[Read more] -
Eloy Eduardo Merino started the topic Convocatoria para próximo número de revista in the discussion
Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Spanish Poetry and Prose on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoEstimados colegas:
Adjunta encontrarán la convocatoria para el próximo número de Aula lírica:
“Aula lírica. Revista sobre poesía ibérica e iberoamericana” invites submissions for its issue number 9 (2017). “Aula lírica is an electronic peer-reviewed academic journal dedicated to the study of Iberian and Ibero-American poetry. It publishes essays,…[Read more] -
Christopher Warren deposited Gentili, the Poets, and the Laws of War in the group
TC Law and the Humanities on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoThis chapter illuminates a different sense in which Gentili’s work was influenced by humanist sensibilities. Differentiating between legal humanism (the mos Gallicus) on one hand and rhetorical humanism on the other, it argues that Gentili did not subscribe to the rigid historical approach to legal sources as practised by the French humanist…[Read more]
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Christopher Warren deposited Hobbes's Thucydides and the Colonial Law of Nations in the group
TC Law and the Humanities on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoThis essay investigates why Thomas Hobbes translated Thucydides, published as Eight Bookes of the Peloponesian Warres, and why Hobbes chose it to be published in 1628. It argues that Hobbes’s translation should be seen not just as a precursor to his later treatises but as part of broader attempt on the part of English humanists in the mid-1620s…[Read more]
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Christopher Warren deposited When Self-Preservation Bids: Approaching Milton, Hobbes, and Dissent in the group
TC Law and the Humanities on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoCritics have long used the heuristic device of opposing John Milton and Thomas Hobbes, but this essay explores surprising affinities between the two. After observing that Milton and other Restoration dissenters often agreed with Hobbes on questions of ecclesiastic jurisdiction and toleration nearly as much as they disagreed with what seemed at…[Read more]
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Cristina León Alfar deposited "'Let's consult together': Women's Agency and the Gossip Network in THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR" in the group
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoIn THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR, a cozening knight and a jealous husband assume without question the availability of female bodies to adulterous liaisons, revealing their confidence in the cultural narrative of female inconstancy. Falstaff attempts to write a story in which he is the recipient of the wives’ sexual and economic favors. Ford, like T…[Read more]
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Kathryn D. Temple started the topic Exco Election: Temple in the discussion
Law as Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoDear Law and Humanities Colleagues,
I’m quite thrilled to have been nominated to the Exco this year and wanted to update you all a bit on my activities related to Law and the Humanities.
As some of you know, I’ve been publishing in this field since the early 90s. Currently I have essays forthcoming in ECTI (Wollstonecraft and legal subjectivity)…[Read more]
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Cristina León Alfar deposited "Elizabeth Cary’s Female Trinity: Breaking Custom with Mosaic Law in THE TRADGEY OF MARIAM" in the group
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoGiving voice to women who suffer the brunt of masculine anxieties, THE TRAGEDY OF MARIAM privileges what I call “feminine anxieties” in its depiction of all the female characters, especially in the trinity of Mariam, Doris, and Salome. By depicting women who defy convention, the play stages women’s multiple perspectives on, reactions again…[Read more]
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Cristina León Alfar deposited "'Blood will have blood:' Power, Performance, and Lady Macbeth's Gender Trouble" in the group
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoShakespeare’s MACBETH interrogates the tyranny of absolute monarchical practices and divorces them from naturalized gender constructions by placing Lady Macbeth at the center of the play’s violence. I argue that she provides a parodic inversion of the ideal wife and and puts pressure on masculinist and violent structures of relations that depend…[Read more]
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Leah Wood Middlebrook started the topic Abstracts – Surveillance in Early Modern Culture in the discussion
Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Spanish Poetry and Prose on MLA Commons 9 years, 4 months agoSunday, Jan. 8 – Noon – 1:15 p.m.
Franklin 10, Philadelphia MarriottPresiding: John Slater, U.C. Davis
Abstracts:
“Poetry and Espionage During the Spanish Armada and the Anglo-Spanish War” – Jesus- David Jerez-Gomez, C.S. San Bernardino
This paper will explore how the religious and political tensions originating from the conflict between…[Read more]
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Hugh M. Richmond deposited Challenges and Rewards for Digital Humanities in the group
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 9 years, 4 months agoThe English Department at U.C. Berkeley has developed two multimedia humanities websites at “Shakespeare’s Staging” and “Milton Revealed,” illustrating classic rewards and problems in digital humanities programs. Users are uniformly positive about the simple, selective, and fully organized structure. Visits are numerous, averaging 200-400 p…[Read more]
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Vicente Gomis-Izquierdo posted an update in the group
LLC 16th- and 17th-Century Spanish and Iberian Poetry and Prose on MLA Commons 9 years, 4 months agoThe editors of Hispanic Journal invite submissions of unpublished studies all year around. Hispanic Journal is published twice annually by the Department of Foreign Languages and the Graduate School of Indiana University of Pennsylvania. Its purpose is to publish research and criticism of the highest quality in the areas of Spanish, Spanish…[Read more]
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Cristina León Alfar started the topic Sept Meeting, NYC Chapter of Society for the Study of Women in the Renaissance in the discussion
Comparative Studies in Renaissance and Baroque Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoThe first meeting of the Society for the Study of Women in the Renaissance will take place on Thursday, September 15, from 6:00-7:30pm in room 9207 of the CUNY Graduate Center. Francesca Canadé Sautman (French, Hunter and Graduate Center) will speak on “Offstage Direction: French Women and the Shaping of the Renaissance Theater.”
Margaret Mike…[Read more] - Load More