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Suha Kudsieh uploaded the file: MLA 2015: Abstracts for Panel # 738: Untiming the Medieval to
Arabic Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 11 years, 4 months agoMLA 2015: Panel # 738: Untiming the Medieval, secheduled on
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Suha Kudsieh uploaded the file: MLA 2015: Panel # 503 – Memory, Trauma, and Violence in Arabic Literature and Culture to
Arabic Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 11 years, 4 months agoMLA 2015: Panel # 503 – Memory, Trauma, and Violence in Arabic Literature and Culture; schedueld on Saturday, 10 January, 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., 16, VCC East.
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Suha Kudsieh uploaded the file: MLA 2015: Panel #120 – Adaptation and Appropriation in Palestinian Literature and Culture to
Arabic Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 11 years, 4 months agoMLA 2015: Panel #120 – Adaptation and Appropriation in Palestinian Literature and Culture; scheduled on: Thursday, 8 January, 5:15–6:30 p.m., 18, VCC East
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Suha Kudsieh uploaded the file: Abstracts: Panel # 237 – Twenty-First Century Turns in Arabic Literature and Culture (MLA 2015) to
Arabic Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 11 years, 4 months agoAbstracts: Panel # 237 – Twenty-First Century Turns in Arabic Literature and Culture (MLA 2015), scheduled on: Friday, 9 January, 10:15–11:30 a.m., 12, VCC East
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A. E. B. Coldiron replied to the topic Books on History of Translation. in the forum
Translation on MLA Commons 11 years, 4 months agoHi, Prithviraj,
Agreed with the excellent suggestions in previous posts; and it is a huge topic. See also the just-released 2nd ed of Douglas Robinson’s anthology of texts (Western Translation Theory from Herodotus to Nietzsche; Routledge). At the risk of self-reference, I’d like to mention to a resource coming out soon that might prove helpful,…[Read more]
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Jessica Winston replied to the topic Books on History of Translation. in the forum
Translation on MLA Commons 11 years, 4 months agoThat’s a big topic. One recent book, focused on the English Renaissance, is English Renaissance Translation Theory (ed. by Neil Rhodes, with Gordon Kendal and Louise Wilson, MHRA, 2013). The introduction provides a nice overview of this trend, at least in England, between about 1485 and 1660. Another source is the series, The Oxford History of…[Read more]
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Prithvirajsingh Thakur started the topic Books on History of Translation. in the forum
Translation on MLA Commons 11 years, 4 months agoDear Friends,
Can anybody suggest me some good book/s or articles on the History of Translation ?
Best,
Prithviraj
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John Harlan Underhill replied to the topic Sci. and Lit. (Shakespeare) Film Project looking for comments in the forum
Shakespeare on MLA Commons 11 years, 7 months agoI personally love the idea of Shakespeare and Galileo. Your intuition seems exactly right to see a parallel in the cultural (mental) achievement of the two. For both, the essence was personal observation rather than illustration of pious dogma, such as we think of when we think of medieval thought. But Shakespeare confined himself to the s…[Read more]
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Gloria Lee McMillan started the topic Sci. and Lit. (Shakespeare) Film Project looking for comments in the forum
Shakespeare on MLA Commons 11 years, 7 months agoHello, Everybody Shakespearean,
A group of us have been thinking and rethinking a documentary film project that would show the value of crossing the line between science and the arts.
At first we were going to make it a conversation between Galileo and Shakespeare–roughly contemporaries.
But granting agencies didn’t like the fictional…[Read more] -
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LLC Arabic on MLA Commons 11 years, 7 months agoHello everyone,
I would like to ask those of you who are current MLA members to take a couple of minutes of your time to endorse the new MLA forum on Global Arab and Arab American Literature and Culture. All you have to do is follow the four steps I listed below.
You don’t need to be working on Global Arab or Arab American to endorse the new…[Read more]
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S K posted an update in the group
LLC Arabic on MLA Commons 11 years, 8 months agoDear Colleagues,
The MLA will establish a new forum for “Global Arab and Arab American Lit” to be listed under “Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies.” According to the MLA’s FAQ regarding Prospective new forums (http://executivecouncil.mla.hcommons-staging.org/new-forum-structure-faq/):
“Members are nominating themselves for these…[Read more]
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I support the new division though would like it to be part of U.S. Literature.
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I support the new division though would like it to be part of U.S. Literature.
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I support the new division though would like it to be part of U.S. Literature.
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I support the new division though would like it to be part of U.S. Literature.
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I support the new division though would like it to be part of U.S. Literature.
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I also add my voice in support of this new division.
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Shaden M. Tageldin started the topic MLA Resolution 2014-1 regarding entry to West Bank in the forum
Arabic Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 11 years, 8 months agoDear colleagues in the MLA Division on Arabic Literature and Culture:
As your Divisional Delegate to the MLA Delegate Assembly, I write to remind you of the fast-approaching deadline of 12:00 a.m. EDT on 2 June 2014 (in other words, Sunday 1 June 2014, before midnight EDT), to cast your online ballot for the MLA member ratification vote on R…[Read more]
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S K posted an update in the group
LLC Arabic on MLA Commons 11 years, 9 months agoFYI:
Dear Colleagues,
If you’re an MLA member, here is your opportunity to vote for or against Resolution 2014-1, criticizing Israel’s policy of denying visas to American academics suspected of being of Palestinian descent:
http://jerusalem.usconsulate.gov/border-crossings.htmlThe Resolution was approved by the MLA Delegates Assembly in…[Read more]
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Dear colleagues in the MLA Division on Arabic Literature and Culture:
As your Divisional Delegate to the MLA Delegate Assembly, I write to remind you of the fast-approaching deadline of 12:00 midnight EDT on Sunday, 1 June 2014, to cast your online ballot for the MLA member ratification vote on Resolution 2014-1. This resolution, passed at the…[Read more]
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The message above failed to include the link to the online ballot, so I am reposting here. –SMT
Dear colleagues in the MLA Division on Arabic Literature and Culture:
As your Divisional Delegate to the MLA Delegate Assembly, I write to remind you of the fast-approaching deadline of 12:00 midnight EDT on Sunday, 1 June 2014, to cast your online…[Read more]
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S K posted an update in the group
LLC Arabic on MLA Commons 11 years, 11 months agoHello everyone,
Here is also another reminder regarding the approaching deadline of two panels on Arab American and Latin American Literature and Culture. Please note that the deadline for the first panel (Narrating Arab American) is Monday March 10, i.e. in just 2 days, while the deadline for the second panel is Sat. March 15.
• Narrating “…[Read more]
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S K posted an update in the group
LLC Arabic on MLA Commons 11 years, 11 months agoDear colleagues,
I hope you are all well. I thought I’d post a reminder regarding the deadline to submit proposals for the panels proposed by the Division of Arabic Literature and Culture for the MLA’s annual convention to be held in Vancouver, 2015. The deadline is next Saturday on March 15, 2014.
The proposed panels are:
1) Untiming the…[Read more]
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Gaurav G. Desai posted an update in the group
GS Travel Writing on MLA Commons 11 years, 11 months agoCALL FOR PAPERS — MLA 2015, VANCOUVER
Around the World in Eighty Clicks: Travel and New Technologies
Discussion Group: Travel Literature
How have new technologies – the internet, planes, trains and automobiles influenced the experience of travel? 250 word abstract and c.v. by 15 March 2014; Gaurav G. Desai (gaurav@tulane.edu).
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Rebecca Jane Stanton posted an update in the group
LLC Russian and Eurasian on MLA Commons 11 years, 11 months agoAnd one more CFP:
NEW APPROACHES TO CRIME AND PUNISHMENT
Panel proposed by the International Dostoevsky Society
New approaches to Dostoevsky’s novel welcome. How well do existing socio-political, religious, biographical, and psychoanalytic readings serve this text? Abstracts, maximum one page, by 15 March 2014 to Susan McReynolds…[Read more] - Load More
