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Karim Mattar started the topic CLCS Global Arab and Arab American Panels at MLA 2020 in the discussion
CLCS Global Arab and Arab American on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months agoDear Friends,
We write to invite submissions for one or both of the CLCS Global Arab and Arab American Panels at MLA 2020:
- Poetics and Politics of Defeat: Reconfiguring the Human after the Arab Spring. This panel reconsiders representations of the human / inhuman / posthuman in relation to the Arab Spring and its aftermath. Papers welcome on…
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Anne E. B. Coldiron started the topic CFPs: Translation Studies Forum Sessions, MLA 2020 Seattle in the discussion
TC Translation Studies on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months agoDear Translation Studies scholars,
The CFPs for our Translation Studies Forum have been posted, and I repeat them here for your convenience and invite you to send proposals or abstracts:
(1) Translatability and World Literature: How best to acknowledge translation as a mediating factor in world literature? Incommensurability vs.…[Read more]
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Karl Ashoka Britto started the topic LLC Francophone Calls for Papers — Seattle 2020 in the discussion
LLC Francophone on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months agoCinéma-monde francophone
Papers addressing scholarly debates around cinéma-monde through analysis of recent cinematic texts from throughout the Francophone world. 250-word abstracts to Denis Provencher (denisprovencher@email.arizona.edu) by Thursday, March 7, 2019.
The Multilingual Maghreb (in collaboration with LLC Arabic)
Papers addressing m…[Read more]
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Karl Ashoka Britto started the topic News from H-France Salon in the discussion
LLC Francophone on MLA Commons 7 years agoAs the new year is getting under way, we wanted to remind readers of the opportunities and resources of H-France Salon.
Originating in 2009, H-France Salon is a multimedia journal of French Studies in its broadest sense, encompassing history, literature, cinema, art history, theory, and culture. Salons have included debates and collective…[Read more]
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Karl Ashoka Britto started the topic News from H-France Salon in the discussion
LLC Francophone on MLA Commons 7 years agoAs the new year is getting under way, we wanted to remind readers of the opportunities and resources of H-France Salon.
Originating in 2009, H-France Salon is a multimedia journal of French Studies in its broadest sense, encompassing history, literature, cinema, art history, theory, and culture. Salons have included debates and collective…[Read more]
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Karl Ashoka Britto started the topic News from H-France Salon in the discussion
LLC Francophone on MLA Commons 7 years agoAs the new year is getting under way, we wanted to remind readers of the opportunities and resources of H-France Salon.
Originating in 2009, H-France Salon is a multimedia journal of French Studies in its broadest sense, encompassing history, literature, cinema, art history, theory, and culture. Salons have included debates and collective…[Read more]
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Corine Tachtiris deposited Syllabus for grad seminar on Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Translation in the group
TC Translation Studies on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoThis course was first taught at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in fall 2018.
It addresses feminism, gender and sexuality studies, queer theory, and critical race and ethnic studies in conjunction with translation studies. -
Bernard C. Aresu started the topic Executive Committee Candidate Statement in the discussion
LLC Francophone on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months agoI am happy to contribute this brief statement in connection with my nomination as candidate to the executive committee of the MLA’s LLC Francophone.
Currently, I am Laurence H. Favrot Professor emeritus at Rice University whence I just retired from teaching to turn to full time research.
My current book project, The Self in Dissidence: Me…[Read more]
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Hania A.M. Nashef deposited Palestinian Culture and the Nakba: Bearing Witness in the group
LLC Arabic on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months agoThe Nakba not only resulted in the loss of the homeland, but also caused the dispersal and ruin of entire Palestinian communities. Even though the term Nakba refers to a singular historic event, the consequence of 1948 has symptomatically become part of Palestinian identity, and the element that demarcates who the Palestinian is. Palestinian exile…[Read more]
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Hania A.M. Nashef deposited Palestinian Culture and the Nakba: Bearing Witness in the group
CLCS Global Arab and Arab American on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months agoThe Nakba not only resulted in the loss of the homeland, but also caused the dispersal and ruin of entire Palestinian communities. Even though the term Nakba refers to a singular historic event, the consequence of 1948 has symptomatically become part of Palestinian identity, and the element that demarcates who the Palestinian is. Palestinian exile…[Read more]
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Tobias Warner started the topic Warner — Executive Committee Candidate Statement in the discussion
LLC Francophone on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoDear Members of the LLC Francophone Forum,
I am honored to have been nominated by the current members of our executive committee to stand for election to the committee this year.
I am an Assistant Professor of French and Francophone Studies at the University of California, Davis where I teach literature and film from West Africa, the Caribbean,…[Read more]
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Ghenwa Hayek started the topic Position: Arabic Lecturer, Full-Time, University of Chicago in the discussion
Arabic Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months ago<div>The Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations and the Humanities Collegiate Division at the University of Chicago are announcing a position for a full-time Lecturer in Arabic, for a one-year, renewable, appointment. The successful candidate will typically teach a</div>
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Oana Popescu-Sandu deposited “Translingualism as Dialogism in Romanian-American Poetry” in the group
TC Translation Studies on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoThis essay examines how translingual poetry by immigrant Romanian writers who live in or travel to the United States requires a transnational community framing rather than a national one and raises new questions about cultural and linguistic identity formation that reflect on both national and world literature issues. This analysis of the…[Read more]
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Ghenwa Hayek started the topic ACLA CfP: Palestine/Israel: The Vocabulary of the Conflict and its Circulation in the discussion
Global Arab and Arab American on MLA Commons 7 years, 4 months agoWe invite submissions of proposals to participate in our ACLA seminar titled “Palestine/Israel: The Vocabulary of the Conflict and its Circulation.” A detailed description of the seminar here and at the end of this email. Feel free to contact us for more information. The deadline for submission through the ACLA website is Sept. 20.
Many thanks an…[Read more]
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Tahia Abdel Nasser started the topic Johns Hopkins University Job Search in the discussion
Arabic Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 7 years, 5 months agoThe Department of Comparative Thought and Literature at Johns Hopkins University searches for a tenure-track assistant professor, with an anticipated start date on <span class=”aBn” tabindex=”0″ data-term=”goog_285680215″><span class=”aQJ”>July 1, 2019</span></span>. We are looking to hire a promising scholar and teacher with a focus at the…[Read more]
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Alexa Joubin deposited Local and Global Myths in Shakespearean Performance in the group
TC Translation Studies on MLA Commons 7 years, 5 months agoThis collection of scholarly essays offers a new understanding of local and global myths that have been constructed around Shakespeare in theatre, cinema, and television from the nineteenth century to the present. Drawing on a definition of myth as a powerful ideological narrative, Local and Global Myths in Shakespearean Performance examines…[Read more]
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Lee Skallerup Bessette deposited The Language and Culture of Quebec in the group
LLC Francophone on MLA Commons 7 years, 5 months agoDetailed Syllabus and outline for a 7-week course in the history of the language and culture of Quebec.
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Hania A.M. Nashef deposited Coming of Age in Troubled Times: Son of Babylon and Theeb in the group
LLC Arabic on MLA Commons 7 years, 6 months agoJordan and Iraq are not countries that are often associated with a local film culture. Recently, however, a nascent film industry has started to grow in both Iraq and Jordan, producing films that have been shown in international film festivals. Even though the Jordanian film industry remains in its infancy, the films that have emerged of late…[Read more]
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Alexa Joubin deposited Preface, The Shakespearean International Yearbook 17: Shakespeare and Value, Edited by Tom Bishop, Alexa Alice Joubin, Simon Haines (New York: Routledge, 2018) in the group
TC Translation Studies on MLA Commons 7 years, 6 months agoHow do Shakespearean plays sustain clashing values within them, or imposed on them? Is Shakespeare anti-Semitic? Can Shakespeare be a feminist? How is value subject to context, to market, and demand? A wide range of moral, political, and aesthetic values—profitable or heartening or threatening from case to case—have been associated with Sha…[Read more]
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Alexa Joubin deposited “‘To unpath’d waters, undream’d shores’: Shakespeare in the World.” The Score : An Insider’s Guide to the Performing Arts (New York: Lincoln Center, June 28, 2018) in the group
TC Translation Studies on MLA Commons 7 years, 7 months agoIn the centuries since William Shakespeare’s death, numerous stage and, more recently, film and television adaptations of his work have emerged to inspire, comfort, and provoke audiences in far-flung corners of the globe. As early as 1619, for example, Hamlet was performed in colonial Indonesia to entertain European expatriates. In 1845, U.S. Army…[Read more]
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