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TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoCall for EACLALS triennial conference in Oviedo, Spain. April 2017
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David Rodriguez started the topic CFP – 2017 Cognitive Futures in the Arts and Humanities @ Stony Brook University in the discussion
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoCall for Proposals
(due – 9 January 2017)
stonybrook.edu/cognitivefuturesThe 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]
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Carol Zuses started the topic Make a Suggestion for the 2017 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
Language and Society on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoLSL Language and Society will elect a new Delegate Assembly representative in the fall of 2017, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets during the January 2017 convention in Philadelphia. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to n…[Read more]
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Joyce Lynn Tolliver replied to the topic Vote for Global Hispanophone Executive Committee new member in the discussion
Global Hispanophone on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoCorrection: I reversed the institutional affiliations in my post just now. Martin Repinecz is at University of San Diego and Elisa Rizo is at Iowa State. Sorry!
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Joyce Lynn Tolliver started the topic Vote for Global Hispanophone Executive Committee new member in the discussion
Global Hispanophone on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoPlease don’t forget to log in to the MLA site before December 10 to cast your vote for the newest member of the Global Hispanophone Executive Committee. There are two outstanding candidates this year: Martin Repinecz (Iowa State University) and Elisa Rizo (University of San Diego).
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Joyce Lynn Tolliver started the topic Global Hispanophone sessions at MLA 2017 in the discussion
Global Hispanophone on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoTo help you plan your schedule for the 2017 MLA Convention in Philadelphia, here is a list of the three officially sponsored GH sessions, and of other sessions you will want to be sure to attend:
MLA Global Hispanophone Sessions 2017
Thursday, 5 January
From Moroccan Mellahs to Turkish Synagogues: A Sephardic Diaspora
1:45–3:00 p.m…[Read more]
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Louise Bethlehem deposited “Genres of Identification: Holocaust Testimony and Postcolonial Witness,” in _Marking Evil: Holocaust Memory in the Global Age_, edited by Amos Goldberg and Haim Hazan, 171 – 192. Berghahn Books: New York and Oxford. in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoThis chapter explores the strange intimacies of dis/avowal that obtain between Holocaust studies and postcolonial theory, with particular reference to writing by Aimé Césaire and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. For all that the Jewish body remains, by and large, unmourned in the canonical texts of postcolonial theory, the Holocaust has, I seek to a…[Read more]
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Hania Nashef deposited Challenging the myth of "a land without a people": Mahmoud Darwishs Journal of an Ordinary Grief and In the Presence of Absence in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoIn his address at the Madrid Peace Conference, the Head of the Palestinian Delegation, Dr Haidar Abdul-Shafi challenged the persistent myth that has defined Palestinian existence for at least a century by saying: “For too long the Palestinian people have gone unheeded, silenced […] we have been victimized by the myth of ‘a land witho…[Read more]
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Carol Zuses started the topic 2017 Forum Delegate Election Membership Suggestions? in the discussion
Global Hispanophone on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoThe next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2017, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets during the January 2017 convention in Philadelphia. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to…[Read more]
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Barbara J. Eckstein deposited Carbon and Conferences (Again): The Austin MLA in the Flood of 2016 in the group
LSL Language and Society on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months ago“Carbon and Conferences (Again)” offers one person’s experience of trying to get to the Austin MLA conference by a means other than airplanes. It asks fellow MLA members for more collective, mindful attention to the carbon footprint of the conference generally. While acknowledging the intellectual and personal joy in face to face encounters, it…[Read more]
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Barbara J. Eckstein deposited Carbon and Conferences (Again): The Austin MLA in the Flood of 2016 in the group
CLCS Global South on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months ago“Carbon and Conferences (Again)” offers one person’s experience of trying to get to the Austin MLA conference by a means other than airplanes. It asks fellow MLA members for more collective, mindful attention to the carbon footprint of the conference generally. While acknowledging the intellectual and personal joy in face to face encounters, it…[Read more]
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