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Jessie M. Labov started the topic LLC Hungarian Forum CFP for abstracts: MLA 2022 (Washington DC, Jan 6-9) in the discussion
LLC Slavic and East European on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoHungarian gastronomy and terroir as a source of national identity
300 word abstract (and bio) on the culinary traditions of the nation; the effects of immigration, transnationalism, tourism, globalization, capital on Hungarian gastronomy; emerging gastro-revolution and haute cuisine; Hungary’s place in the world of wine Deadline for s…[Read more] -
Caroline Winter deposited Romantic Literature and the Emergence of Modern Commercial Society (Syllabus) in the group
CLCS Romantic and 19th-Century on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoA syllabus for a 300-level (3rd year) English literature course taught at the University of Victoria’s English department
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Carl Gelderloos deposited Anthropology, Philosophy, and Politics in Weimar Germany—Helmuth Plessner in Translation (review essay) in the group
TC Science and Literature on MLA Commons 4 years, 12 months agoIn this short essay I discuss two new translations of Helmuth Plessner’s work, “Political Anthropology,” translated by Nils F. Schott (Northwestern University Press, 2018), and “Levels of Organic Life and the Human: An Introduction to Philosophical Anthropology,” translated by Millay Hyatt (Fordham University Press, 2019).
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Ivan Sablin deposited Khural democracy: Imperial transformations and the making of the first Mongolian constitution, 1911–1924 in the group
ASEEES Convention on ASEEES Commons 5 years agoThe political system of early socialist-era Mongolia, established by the first Constitution in 1924, can be interpreted as a vernacular version of the Soviet system, in which the formally supreme representative body, the State Great Khural (“assembly”), was sidelined by the standing Presidium of the Small Khural and the Cabinet and eclipsed by the…[Read more]
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Andrew C. Parker deposited Derrida and Victorian Studies – slides for roundtable discussion in the group
LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English on MLA Commons 5 years, 1 month agoThis is the PowerPoint presentation to accompany my comments for the Theoretical Foundations of Victorian Studies roundtable on January 7, 2021.
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George Phillips deposited Are trees forms? On formalism, material feminism, and historical literature in the group
LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English on MLA Commons 5 years, 1 month agoThis essay draws on formalist cultural studies and material feminism to argue for a new approach in modernist studies, which I call formalist materialism, an approach that reads ecological forms alongside aesthetic forms. Such an approach may have distinct advantages. Formalist materialism illuminates a new direction for formalists by connecting…[Read more]
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Susan Smith-Peter deposited The Struggle to Create a Regional Public in the Early Nineteenth-Century Russian Empire: the Case of Kazanskie izvestiia in the group
ASEEES Convention on ASEEES Commons 5 years, 1 month agoIn the early part of the reign of Alexander I (1801-1825), the emperor sought to reform Russia through the creation of new European-style institutions. The aim was to ensure that Russia’s great-power status would be retained through updating its institutions, in line with a reform impulse dating back to Peter the Great and before. Among the new i…[Read more]
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Steven Swarbrick deposited Renaissance Posthumanism and Its Afterlives in the group
TC Science and Literature on MLA Commons 5 years, 1 month agoIntroduction to a special issue on Renaissance post-humanism and its afterlives.
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Dennis Denisoff started the topic Election for the Victorian and Early-Twentieth Century Forum in the discussion
LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English on MLA Commons 5 years, 2 months agoDear colleagues,
Thank you for considering me for the position on the Executive Committee of the Victorian and Early Twentieth-Century English Forum. The MLA has supported and inspired me since I was a graduate student in the queer ’90s, and I would greatly appreciate this opportunity to serve the MLA and its members in return—especially in add…[Read more]
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Matthew Levay started the topic MLA Forum Executive Committee Elections in the discussion
LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English on MLA Commons 5 years, 3 months agoDear colleagues,
I’m honored to stand for election to the Executive Committee of the MLA’s Victorian and Early Twentieth-Century English Forum. A role on that Committee demands real attention to a host of responsibilities, chief among them the responsibility to ensure that all of the Forum’s convention panels, roundtables, and workshops refle…[Read more]
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Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2021 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
LLC Russian and Eurasian on MLA Commons 5 years, 3 months agoThe next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2021, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets in January 2021. 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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Lila Marz Harper deposited “Swimming among the Jellyfish”: travel guides, Elizabeth von Arnim, and Rügen in the group
LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English on MLA Commons 5 years, 3 months agoIn the opening of Elizabeth von Arnim’s The Adventures of Elizabeth in Rügen (1904), the protagonist, Elizabeth, comes across Marianne North’s autobiography, Recollections of a Happy Life (1894) and her description of the bathing near Putbus, “a sandy cove where the water was always calm, and of how you floated about on its crystal surface, and be…[Read more]
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Lila Marz Harper deposited “These Things Are a Parable”: Natural History Metaphors and Audience in Felix Holt (1866) in the group
TC Science and Literature on MLA Commons 5 years, 3 months agoIt is apparent that George Eliot’s novels were heavily engaged with development in natural history; her metaphors made use of and reflected on mid-1800s discussions of evolution and taxonomy. In this essay, research in science history and Eliot studies leads to evidence of how, in Felix Holt (1866), Eliot was influenced by evolutionary s…[Read more]
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Lila Marz Harper deposited “These Things Are a Parable”: Natural History Metaphors and Audience in Felix Holt (1866) in the group
LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English on MLA Commons 5 years, 3 months agoIt is apparent that George Eliot’s novels were heavily engaged with development in natural history; her metaphors made use of and reflected on mid-1800s discussions of evolution and taxonomy. In this essay, research in science history and Eliot studies leads to evidence of how, in Felix Holt (1866), Eliot was influenced by evolutionary s…[Read more]
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Esha Sil uploaded the file: Call for Papers: SPEAKING AS THE 'OTHER': CALLIOPE International Conference, University of Helsinki: 10-12 May 2021 to
CLCS Romantic and 19th-Century on MLA Commons 5 years, 3 months agoCall for Papers: SPEAKING AS THE ‘OTHER’: CALLIOPE International Conference, University of Helsinki: 10-12 May 2021
“SPEAKING AS THE ‘OTHER’: Coloniality, Subalternity, and Embodied Political Articulations”
(late 18th – early 20th centuries)
10-12 May 2021
Live in Helsinki and online
This multidisciplinary conference seeks to examine perfo…[Read more] -
Ivan Sablin deposited Russia in the Global Parliamentary Moment, 1905–1918: Between a Subaltern Empire and an Empire of Subalterns (Locating the Global: Spaces, Networks and Interactions from the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Century, ed. by Holger Weiss. Berlin: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2020, pp. 257–282) in the group
ASEEES Convention on ASEEES Commons 5 years, 4 months agoThe chapter analyzed the debates on parliamentarism in the late Russian Empire and revolutionary Russia and explored how the idea of parliament helped intellectuals locate Russia globally. The establishment of the legislative State Duma and the adoption of the Fundamental Laws of the Russian Empire during the Revolution of 1905–1907 seemed to m…[Read more]
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Ivan Sablin deposited Parliamentary Formations and Diversities in (Post-)Imperial Eurasia, ed. by Ivan Sablin (Journal of Eurasian Studies, vol. 11, nos. 1 and 2, 2020, Special Issue) in the group
ASEEES Convention on ASEEES Commons 5 years, 4 months agoAddressing the entangled histories of deliberative decision making, political representation, and constitutionalism in several geographic and temporal contexts, this Special Issue offers nuanced political and intellectual histories and anthropologies of parliamentarism in Eurasia. It explores parliaments and quasi-parliamentary formations and the…[Read more]
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Jonathan Basile deposited Other Matters: Karen Barad’s Two Materialisms and the Science of Undecidability in the group
TC Science and Literature on MLA Commons 5 years, 4 months agoKaren Barad’s Meeting the Universe Halfway relies on mutually incompatible grounding gestures, one of which describes the relationality of an always already material-discursive reality, while the other seeks to ground this relation one-sidedly in matter. These two materialisms derive from the gesture she borrows from the New Materialist (and o…[Read more]
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Dennis Looney deposited Dennis Looney, Paper delivered at session on pedagogy of Early Modern Period, MLA Convention, December 2005 in the group
TC Science and Literature on MLA Commons 5 years, 6 months agoA paper describing an undergraduate course on science and literature in the Italian cultural tradition.
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Lisa Zunshine deposited Who Is He to Speak of My Sorrow? in the group
LLC Russian and Eurasian on MLA Commons 5 years, 6 months agoThis article suggests that comparative literature scholars may benefit from the awareness that different communities around the world subscribe to different models of mind and that works of fiction can thus be fruitfully analyzed in relation to those local ideologies of mind. Taking as her starting point the “opacity of mind” doctrine, the aut…[Read more]
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