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Laura E. Savu started the topic Call for Contributions: "The Good Life and the Greater Good in a Global Context" in the forum
Film on MLA Commons 11 years, 7 months agoDear colleagues,
I’m writing to invite you to submit proposals for a collection of essays that is tentatively titled The Good Life and the Greater Good in a Global Context. The essays need to focus on the discourses and practices of the good life, understood in all of its dimensions—material, psychological, ethical, spiritual, etc. –and appro…[Read more]
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Sylvie Eve Blum-Reid uploaded the file: International Jarmusch colloquium/ April 2014 Call for papers to
Film on MLA Commons 11 years, 7 months agoAppel à communications
Colloque international Français/Anglais
Le cinéma de Jim Jarmusch
8-9 avril 2015, Université d’Artois, Arras (Pas-de-Calais), France
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Elisa Martí-López started the topic NACS Conference Barcelona 2015 in the forum
Catalan Language and Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 8 months agoCONVOCATÒRIA
15è Col•loqui Internacional de la North American Catalan Society
Institut d’Estudis Catalans, Barcelona, 29-30 de juny-1 de juliol del 2015CATALAN STUDIES AS GLOBAL CRITICAL PRACTICE(S):
TRANSFERENCES, TRANSFORMATIONS, TRANSITIONS, TRANSLATIONSConvidem a presentar propostes de comunicacions o sessions sobre qualsevol tema rel…[Read more]
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Ana Simon started the topic Call for papers "Narraciones de Masculinidad(es)" in the forum
Twentieth-Century Spanish Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 9 months agoC/ Zalamea, 1 · 28290 Las Matas · Tel. 91 630 09 58 E-mail: arodriguez@isdfundacion.org / ismasd@isdfundacion.org · CIF J84935840 Nº Registro Fundaciones 954
CONVOCATORIA DE ARTÍCULOS (CALL FOR PAPERS): REVISTA PRISMA SOCIAL Nº 13 – NARRACIONES DE MASCULINIDAD(ES)
Desde la Fundación iS+D para la Investigación Social Avanzada les informa…[Read more]
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Selma R. S. Vital started the topic CFP -roundtable for Ne MLA 46th annual convention in the forum
Ethnic Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 9 months agoI am proposing a roundtable about new approaches and strategies to integrate the literary text into the language class. The subject is not new and it is time for an update. The NeMLA convention will meet in Toronto, Ontario April 30 – May 3rd. Each participant will have about 10 minutes to present a project or class experience and the re…[Read more]
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Chandrima Chakraborty started the topic Unfinished South Asian Pasts in the forum
Ethnic Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 11 months agoSpecial Session for MLA 2015 (in association with South Asian Literatures and Languages (SALL) Discussion Group)
This special session seeks papers that examine literary or cinematic representations of unfinished South Asian and South Asian diasporic pasts. Papers could examine events such as the Partition of British India, the civil war in Sri…[Read more]
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Leigh Anne Duck started the topic CfP: MLA 2015/journal special issue in the forum
Film on MLA Commons 11 years, 11 months agoWe’re seeking proposals for a panel at MLA 2015 (Vancouver, Jan. 8-11) and for a special issue of the journal The Global South (published by Indiana UP, available via JSTOR and Project Muse) on the topic “Narrating Global South Cities.” Even though the “global South” has emerged as a “new and powerful ordering system for academic disci…[Read more]
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Cheryl A. Higashida posted an update in the group
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 11 years, 11 months agoEthnic Studies Division CFPs for MLA 2015:
Violence on the Borders
Intersections of memory, gender, race, ethnicity, and geography— Indigenous Indignities, The (New) Jim Crow, Cuidad Juárez, Highway of Tears, Japanese Internment, etc. 300-word abstract and one-page CV by 15 March 2014; Penelope Kelsey (penelope.kelsey@colorado.edu) and Am…[Read more] -
Joseph Paul Fisher started the topic CFP: Music behind Bars: Articulating Incarceration and Popular Music in the forum
Popular Culture on MLA Commons 11 years, 11 months agoPopular music’s relationship with incarceration has been a long and complicated one. The musician Lead Belly spent long stretches in prison for murder and other crimes but was eventually turned into a musical legend by folklorists John and Alan Lomax. In 1957, Elvis Presley had a number one hit with the Jerry Leiber/Mike Stoller composition “…[Read more]
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Marina Fedosik started the topic CFP MLA 2015: Transnational Adoption in Film in the forum
Popular Culture on MLA Commons 12 years agoAlliance for the Study of Adoption and Culture seeks paper proposals for its guaranteed session at the MLA Annual Convention in Vancouver, Canada. January 8-11, 2015
The panel will explore adoption in film with special focus on the ways national/transnational policies, politics, and ideologies shape the institution of adoption and lives of the…[Read more]
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Marina Fedosik started the topic Call For Papers: MLA Convention 2015 Transnational Adoption in Film in the forum
Film on MLA Commons 12 years agoAlliance for the Study of Adoption and Culture seeks paper proposals for its session at the MLA Annual Convention in Vancouver, Canada. January 8-11, 2015
The panel will explore adoption in film with special focus on the ways national/transnational policies, politics, and ideologies shape the institution of adoption and lives of the adoption…[Read more]
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Gabrielle Malcolm started the topic Jane Austen: Fan Phenomena – call for chapter submissions in the forum
Film on MLA Commons 12 years agoCall for Submissions
FAN PHENOMENA: JANE AUSTEN
Intellect Books
Editor: Gabrielle Malcolm
A Call for Essay/Chapter Submissions for a collection on the Fan Culture of Jane Austen.
This book will be an edited collection of essays and texts on the Fan Phenomena of Jane Austen. It will be a new addition to the successful Fan Phenomena…[Read more]
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Gabrielle Malcolm started the topic Jane Austen: Fan Phenomena – call for chapter submissions in the forum
Popular Culture on MLA Commons 12 years agoCall for Submissions
FAN PHENOMENA: JANE AUSTEN
Intellect Books
Editor: Gabrielle Malcolm
A Call for Essay/Chapter Submissions for a collection on the Fan Culture of Jane Austen.
This book will be an edited collection of essays and texts on the Fan Phenomena of Jane Austen. It will be a new addition to the successful Fan Phenomena…[Read more]
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Cheryl A. Higashida started the topic CFP "Sexing the Left"/ English Language Notes in the forum
Ethnic Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 12 years agoCFP: “Sexing the Left” <i>English Language Notes</i> 53.2 (Spring/Summer 2015)
Sex is everywhere – even on the left. Then why have many of us been so heedless of its presence there, or so reluctant to acknowledge it? Even in scholarship where the left is at its most sexual, and sex is at its most left, there are unexplored avenues, missed…[Read more]
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Sharon Aronofsky Weltman started the topic Performing Dickens — NEH Summer Seminar in the forum
Popular Culture on MLA Commons 12 years agoApplications are now open for “Performing Dickens: Oliver Twist and Great Expectations on Page Stage, and Screen” a four-week National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar for College and University Teachers, sponsored by the Dickens Project at the University of California Santa Cruz. From Monday, July 7, 2014 to Friday, August 1, 2014[Read more]
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Sharon Aronofsky Weltman started the topic Performing Dickens — NEH Summer Seminar in the forum
Film on MLA Commons 12 years agoApplications are now open for “Performing Dickens: Oliver Twist and Great Expectations on Page Stage, and Screen” a four-week National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar for College and University Teachers, sponsored by the Dickens Project at the University of California Santa Cruz. From Monday, July 7, 2014 to Friday, August 1, 2014<…[Read more]
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April Logan started the topic CFPs: Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins Society in the forum
Ethnic Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 12 years, 1 month ago<p align=”center”><b>Call for Papers</b></p>
<p align=”center”><b>American Literature Association</b></p>
<p align=”center”><b>25th Annual Conference</b></p>
<p align=”center”>May 22-25, 2014</p>
<p align=”center”>Hyatt Regency, Capitol Hill</p>
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<p align=”center”><b>Sessions Sponsored By</b></p>
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María Gil Poisa started the topic Call for Papers: Social Movements in the forum
Film on MLA Commons 12 years, 1 month agoTEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY’S FOURTH HISPANIC STUDIES ANNUAL GRADUATE CONFERENCE Translating Social Movements Friday March 21 – Saturday March 22 2014 The relationship between intellectual discourse and grassroots social movements has long been a contentious and conflictive one, but it is also one that has been shaped by mutual interaction. Just as the…[Read more]
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María Gil Poisa started the topic Call for Papers: Movimientos sociales in the forum
Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Spanish Literature on MLA Commons 12 years, 1 month agoCUARTA CONFERENCIA DE ESTUDIANTES GRADUADOS DE ESTUDIOS HISPÁNICOS (TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY)
Call for Papers
Título de la conferencia:
Traduciendo Movimientos Sociales
Viernes 21 de marzo – sábado 21 de marzo 2014
La relación entre el discurso intelectual y la raíz de los movimientos sociales ha sido siempre polémica y conflictiva, pero también…[Read more]
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the Jarmusch Colloquium is in French and/or English (see flyer)