Hello everyone,

We hope you will join us for the following panels organized for the 2017 MLA by the Global Arab and Arab American Literature Forum. They are as follows (sorry for cross-posting)

Session 200: States of In/Security: Global Palestine in Literature, Culture, Art, and Activism
Friday, 6 January, 8:30–9:45 a.m., 104B, Pe…[Read more]

<p>MLA members who are also involved in the Electronic Literature Organization are hosting an evening of readings & performances during the Modern Language Association conference. The event takes place in the Connelly Auditorium (room 806) in the Terra Building at The University of the Arts, on January 5, 2017, from 8-10 p.m. The University of th…[Read more]

The MLA Committee on Academic Freedom and Professional Rights and Responsibilities will offer two panels and a special session at the MLA Convention in Philadelphia.  Please join us as we consider challenges to shared governance, bullying, and climates of fear.

Combat Management: The End of Shared Governance?

Thursday, 5 January, 7:00–8:15 p.m…[Read more]

MLA Sessions Relevant to Age Studies

Note: All of the sessions below relate to the Presidential Theme, Boundary Conditions

Thursday 5 January

Session 9

“Reimagining Adolescence: Where Are We Going, Where Have We Been?”

12 noon-1:15 p.m.

102B, Pennsylvania Convention Center

Session 96

“Out of Narrative Bounds: Medical Humani…[Read more]

Call for Proposals
(due – 9 January 2017)
stonybrook.edu/cognitivefutures

The fifth annual conference of the Cognitive Futures in the Arts and Humanities, to be held at Stony Brook University on Long Island, New York, aims to bring together a wide array of papers from the cognitive sciences, philosophy, literary studies, linguistics, cultural…[Read more]

“Psyche, Suasion, Style: Comparative rhetoric and the mind” (ACLA 2017)

Despite Socrates’ (wary) definition of rhetoric as an “art of leading the mind by words” (τέχνη ψυχαγωγία τις διὰ λόγων), scholarship on the interplay between persuasion and psychology in pre-Modern rhetoric remains in its infancy. Cognitive linguistics, psychoanalysi…[Read more]

Rust Belt Literature
Public Group active 5 hours, 52 minutes ago
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We welcome your participation in the Rust Belt Literature group.

This group will host discussions of all types of literary responses to living in the Rust Belt, defined here as industrial communities in the United States. Those ho have been affected by the rust…[Read more]

CFP: Culture Analytics Workshop at SocInfo 2016

The Culture Analytics Working Group invites proposals for papers to be part of a day-long workshop on Culture Analytics at this year’s International Conference on Social Informatics.

Previous workshops have focused on the intersections of text and media, on UX design, on multiscale data-driven…[Read more]

Our Digital Humanities Center at Texas A&M, the IDHMC, is offering an introductory course — four one-hour sessions; participation online. Here follows the flyer we sent out–please pass it on to anyone who might be interested. Thank you!
P4H: What is Digital Humanities?
An official course in the Programming 4 Humanists Series

Beginning Friday, Au…[Read more]

Of interest to the group for interdisciplinary approaches to culture and society:

The Comics of Alison Bechdel: From the Outside In

“The Comics of Alison Bechdel: From the Outside In” is a proposed volume in the series Critical Approaches to Comics Artists at the University Press of Mississippi. This volume will contain an array of criti…[Read more]

What if disciplines were organized differently — or didn’t exist at all? Or existed, but none of us “belonged” to one? What if literary scholars were to go about interdisciplinary work the way scientists do, building large teams from distinct disciplines to produce work with many co-authors? How do other disciplines reach their audiences? What…[Read more]

CALL FOR
ASSISTANT EDITORS (2017 & 2018)

APPLICATION DEADLINE IS 20 NOVEMBER 2016

The Journal of Urban Cultural Studies is a peer-reviewed interdisciplinary journal exploring the cultures of cities and blending humanities and social science approaches to the urban phenomenon. The journal publishes research articles (subject to peer review) of…[Read more]

History, Memory, Grief: A 30th Air India Anniversary Conference
Department of English & Cultural StudiesMay 6-7, 2016
McMaster Innovation Park
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On June 23, 1985 a bomb detonated on Air India Flight 182 en route from Toronto to New Delhi via Montreal. The mid-air explosion killed all 329 passengers and crew, the…[Read more]