177: Social Hour for East Asianists, Hosted by LLC East Asian, LLC Japanese since 1900, LLC Ming and Qing Chinese, LLC Modern and Contemporary Chinese, LLC Pre-14th-Century Chinese, LLC Japanese to 1900, and LLC Korean<i></i> 8:45 PM–10:00 PM Thursday, Jan 3, 2019<i></i> Sheraton Grand – Chicago Ballroom VIII

Will you be in Chicago on January 2nd? Join the AHA-MLA THATCamp at the Institute for the Humanities, University of Illinois, Chicago. We’ll be taking advantage of the fact that AHA and MLA are meeting in Chicago at the same time to have some interdisciplinary exchanges about digital tools and methods.

Please register by December 17th. And you…[Read more]

Will you be in Chicago on January 2nd? Join the AHA-MLA THATCamp at the Institute for the Humanities, University of Illinois, Chicago. We’ll be taking advantage of the fact that AHA and MLA are meeting in Chicago at the same time to have some interdisciplinary exchanges about digital tools and methods.

Please register by December 17th. And you…[Read more]

Dear Colleagues,

I would like to invite you to submit an abstract to the 2019 conference of the Association of Chinese and Comparative Literature, to be held from July 17-19, 2019, on the campus of Hunan Normal University in Changsha, China.  The deadline for receipt of abstracts has been extended to January 7. The ACCL welcomes papers on a…[Read more]

Dear Colleagues,

I would like to invite you to submit an abstract to the 2019 conference of the Association of Chinese and Comparative Literature, to be held from July 17-19, 2019, on the campus of Hunan Normal University in Changsha, China.  The deadline for receipt of abstracts has been extended to January 7. The ACCL welcomes papers on a wide…[Read more]

The Chat with an Editor event takes place at the MLA each year.  This professional development opportunity, sponsored by the Council of Editors of Learned Journals, gives advanced doctoral candidates, postdocs, and new faculty the opportunity to meet one-on-one with editors from some of the top journals in the discipline, including Modernism/modern…[Read more]

For those of you interested in cognitive approaches to literature, don’t miss our panel on the last day of the conference:

740: Lying Minds, Social Minds: Cognitive Approaches to Chinese Literature

Date: Sunday, Jan 6, 2019
Time: 1:45 PM–3:00 PM
Location: <i></i>Sheraton Grand – Ontario

Gothic Terror, Gothic Horror: 15th Conference of the International Gothic Association

July 30 – August 2, 2019, Lewis University, Romeoville, IL

Gothic writers from Ann Radcliffe to Stephen King have differentiated terror and horror: the former is intellectual, imminent, and escapable; the latter, visceral, immediate, and unavoidable. Te…[Read more]

I am honored to be one of your nominees for the TC DH Executive Committee. I thought it might be helpful to share a quick bio here to help you make your decision. Currently, I am the Assistant Professor of Digital Rhetoric at Stevenson University, a member of the MLA Executive Council, and serve on the Editorial Collective of the Journal of…[Read more]

Dear all,

Sten Kauber at Tallinn University  has asked me to share this opportunity with the group. Please, see below:

Tallinn University (TLU) is launching a European Commission
funded ERA Chair project on Cultural Data Analytics (CUDAN). As a first step we seek to fill the Chair itself – a professorship in cultural data analytics. This wo…[Read more]

The deadline for submitting papers to the inaugural conference of the Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH) is coming up on Saturday, November 10th. Have you submitted an abstract yet?

The conference will take place in Pittsburgh, PA, July 23-26, 2019 at the Pittsburgh Marriott City Center.

ACH is the United States-based c…[Read more]

On January 2nd, we’re going to have an MLA + AHA THATCamp at University of Illinois at Chicago. We’re looking for a few people to take the lead on organizing it.

A THATCamp doesn’t have a program set ahead of time, so the work would mainly be to manage the registrations ahead of time and to facilitate on the day. Seth Denbo (director of sc…[Read more]

Dear Members of the Ming-Qing Forum,

My name is Guojun Wang. I am an assistant professor of Asian Studies at Vanderbilt University; and I am running for the LLC Ming and Qing Chinese group Executive Committee. Below is a brief introduction about myself and my participation in the Ming/Qing group.

1. My Research

I specialize in late imperial…[Read more]

LITERARY UNIVERSALS WORKSHOP

The University of Connecticut, Storrs24 May 2019

Announcement and Call for Papers

Literary universals include properties and structures ranging, for example, from genre patterns through metaphor and imagery, and from ethical or political themes through formal features of prosody. Technically, literary universals are…[Read more]

Dear Members of the LLC Ming and Qing Chinese Forum,

I am honored to be nominated as a candidate of the executive committee of the LLC Ming and Qing Chinese Forum in 2018. My name is Yuanfei Wang, an assistant professor of Chinese and comparative literature at the University of Georgia. I obtained my Ph.D degree from the department of East Asian…[Read more]