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Margaret Hanzimanolis started the topic New documentary release yesterday! in the discussion
Part-Time Faculty Members on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoFreeway Fliers can be found here. It contains very interesting observations, including a point about the tenure process now being very much complicit in the de-radicalization of the professoriate!
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Margaret Hanzimanolis started the topic CFP: Between the Public and its Privates (MLA Subconference) in the discussion
Media and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 4 months agoThe Public and its Privates
Submission deadline: October 16, 2015
Submit to: mlasubconference@gmail.comBetween the Public and Its Privates
Third Annual MLA Subconference
in partnership with Punctum Books
January 6-7, 2016
Location: Studium Art Space
638 Tillery St., Austin, TX 78702Today it seems almost impossible to point to the public…[Read more]
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Margaret Hanzimanolis started the topic CFP: The Public and its Privates in the discussion
Autobiography, Biography, and Life Writing on MLA Commons 10 years, 4 months agoBetween the Public and Its Privates
Third Annual MLA Subconference
in partnership with Punctum BooksJanuary 6-7, 2016 (FREE)
Location: Studium Art Space (FREE)
638 Tillery St., Austin, TX 78702As the 2016 MLA Convention turns to consider “Literature and its Publics” the third annual meeting of the MLA Subconference challenges participants to…[Read more]
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Margaret Hanzimanolis started the topic MLA subconference call for papers in the discussion
Part-Time Faculty Members on MLA Commons 10 years, 4 months agoAs the 2016 MLA Convention turns to consider “Literature and its Publics” the third annual meeting of the MLA Subconference challenges participants to propose sessions somewhere “Between the Public and its Privates”.
Today it seems almost impossible to point to the public without uncovering its uncanny twin–the private. Consider Google’s Han…[Read more]
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Russell A. Berman started the topic The "Institutional Boycott" and the MLA Bibliography in the discussion
Scholarship, Censorship, Exclusion on MLA Commons 10 years, 10 months agoBDS proponents claim only an “institutional boycott” is at stake that will not be directed against individuals. That distinction between institution and individual is untenable, as has been argued elsewhere.
But let’s assume–just for the sake of argument in this post–that one could have an exclusively “institutional boycott” that somehow s…[Read more]
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Russell A. Berman started the topic Boycott as Incitement in the discussion
Scholarship, Censorship, Exclusion on MLA Commons 10 years, 10 months agoBDS proponents downplay the likely practical consequences of the boycott. They claim it will only prohibit the institution (e.g. the MLA) from collaborating with Israeli universities and will not impinge on the scholarly life of individuals. Let us leave aside here the ambiguity of individual vs. institution (would the chair of a literature…[Read more]
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Russell A. Berman started the topic British Activists Oppose BDS in the discussion
Scholarship, Censorship, Exclusion on MLA Commons 10 years, 10 months agoCheck this out.
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Margaret Hanzimanolis started the topic New Initiative for articulating support for contingent faculty in the discussion
Part-Time Faculty Members on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months agoI hope members of his discussion group can utilize the MLA site for registering one’s support for contingent faculty both within the MLA and in one’s department, union, and institution. Here’s the…[Read more]
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Russell A. Berman started the topic Censorship, Self-Censorship and Half-Hearted "Justice in Palestine" in the discussion
Scholarship, Censorship, Exclusion on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months agoThose advocating that the MLA boycott Israeli academic institutions are rallying under the banner of “Justice for Palestine.” Everyone in fact should support justice, and not only in Palestine. Agreed? Unfortunately the slogan “Justice for Palestine” is just that, a slogan; it is a vehicle to attack Israel and is only concerned with “justice” when…[Read more]
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Russell A. Berman started the topic "Justice in Palestine" and the Kasabeh murder in the discussion
Scholarship, Censorship, Exclusion on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months agoDo BDS supporters have anything to say about the burning of pilot Kasabeh? Or will they blame it on Israel?
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Russell A. Berman started the topic Palestinian Human Rights Leader Attacks the Boycott in the discussion
Scholarship, Censorship, Exclusion on MLA Commons 11 years agoBassem Eid is the founder of the Palestinian Human Rights Monitoring Group. He has also become a strident critic of the Palestinian Authority–given the threat that the PA poses to human rights. Hence his dismissal of the boycott.
The question in our discussion is whether those who call for “justice in Palestine” are able to see any injustice…[Read more]
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Russell A. Berman replied to the topic Correction to the Record on the Delegate Assembly Vote in the discussion
MLA Members for Justice in Palestine on MLA Commons 11 years agoUnfortunately it cuts both ways. A former student of mine, with, let me say, centrist views on the Middle East, lost his job–he was just a lecturer, and the anti-Israel tenured faculty decided he was expendable.
That’s why we should work toward a culture in which academic decisions are not subordinated to political judgments, and that’s why I…[Read more]
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Russell A. Berman replied to the topic Correction to the Record on the Delegate Assembly Vote in the discussion
MLA Members for Justice in Palestine on MLA Commons 11 years agoMargaret–We’re in agreement at least about ambiguity! (and you and I are in agreement, unambiguously, about the previous year’s CCSF discussion). On point four, I recall speaking for a broadened franchise in governance and receiving lots of positive support for that. Had I been a delegate with voting rights on this matter, I too would have…[Read more]
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Margaret Hanzimanolis replied to the topic Correction to the Record on the Delegate Assembly Vote in the discussion
MLA Members for Justice in Palestine on MLA Commons 11 years agoThank you all for the discussions.
One correction, Russell A. Berman (this claim was in another thread on the “other” MLA Commons Page) : Factually, I called for a suspension of a declared 15 minute break so that the DA could get to the MOTION on MLA governance and the inclusion of PTF, which I and others had spent many months developing, w…[Read more]
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Russell A. Berman replied to the topic Correction to the Record on the Delegate Assembly Vote in the discussion
MLA Members for Justice in Palestine on MLA Commons 11 years agoI too am pleased that we can discuss here. The point remains that David Lloyd misrepresented the vote on point four. He is quite explicit about this in his Mondoweiss piece where he treats it (twice) as an endorsement of speech about Israel and Palestine, when it was a discussion about the MLA and faculty governance. In this discussion in which…[Read more]
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Russell A. Berman started the topic Where BDS Lost: Thinking Through the Vancouver Numbers in the discussion
Scholarship, Censorship, Exclusion on MLA Commons 11 years agoThe series of votes at the Delegate Assembly at the MLA convention in Vancouver showed some significant weaknesses to BDS and limits to its support. It’s important to look at the results closely and draw some conclusions.
Five votes deserve scrutiny: the initial vote to adopt the Delegate Assembly Organizing Committee (DAOC) two-year moratorium…[Read more]
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Russell A. Berman started the topic Correction to the Record on the Delegate Assembly Vote in the discussion
MLA Members for Justice in Palestine on MLA Commons 11 years agoThe recent Delegate Assembly meeting in Vancouver included a robust discussion on a set of issues, prompted by the clash of two different proposed resolutions–one supporting academic boycotts, one opposing them. The Delegate Assembly Organizing Committee has wisely created space for discussion of these matters (an agreement that included a w…[Read more]
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Russell A. Berman started the topic Correction to the Record on the Delegate Assembly Vote in the discussion
Scholarship, Censorship, Exclusion on MLA Commons 11 years agoThe recent Delegate Assembly meeting in Vancouver included a robust discussion on a set of issues, prompted by the clash of two different proposed resolutions–one supporting academic boycotts, one opposing them. The Delegate Assembly Organizing Committee has wisely created space for discussion of these matters (an agreement that included a…[Read more]
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Margaret Hanzimanolis replied to the topic #Precariat conversation at Shanker Institute in the discussion
Part-Time Faculty Members on MLA Commons 11 years agoThanks for doing this, Nicky! I was tweeting away on another channel until Fabian Banga oriented me…
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