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Vanessa Valdés started the topic CFP: Deportation and Affect: Mapping the Hemispheric Americas (MLA 2021 Toronto in the discussion
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 5 years, 10 months agoThis panel explores a variety of methodological and disciplinary approaches to the topic of mass deportations and immigrant justice from the perspective of the humanities. Please submit 300-word abstracts and short presenter’s biographies to Laura Torres-Rodriguez, New York U (ljt233@nyu.edu ) Deadline for submissions: Thursday, 2 April 2020. (C…[Read more]
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Ari Borrell deposited Criticisms of Buddhism, Daoism, and the Learning of the Heart-Mind (in Zhu Xi: Selected Wrtings) in the group
LLC Pre-14th-Century Chinese on MLA Commons 5 years, 10 months agoAbstract and Keywords
Part of this chapter deals with Zhu Xi’s critique of Buddhism and Daoism: his distinction of the neo-Confucian concept of pattern-principle and virtuous governance from seemingly similar Buddhist and Daoist ideas, his concern with what he saw as both schools’ lack of social and political engagement and their rejection of eth…[Read more] -
Ari Borrell deposited Criticisms of Buddhism, Daoism, and the Learning of the Heart-Mind (in Zhu Xi: Selected Wrtings) in the group
LLC Ming and Qing Chinese on MLA Commons 5 years, 10 months agoAbstract and Keywords
Part of this chapter deals with Zhu Xi’s critique of Buddhism and Daoism: his distinction of the neo-Confucian concept of pattern-principle and virtuous governance from seemingly similar Buddhist and Daoist ideas, his concern with what he saw as both schools’ lack of social and political engagement and their rejection of eth…[Read more] -
Vanessa Valdés started the topic CFP: Survival Strategies in the Americas (MLA 2021 Toronto) in the discussion
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 5 years, 10 months agoWhat can we learn from indigenous and Black strategies for survival in the Americas, as we face the enduring legacies of capitalist settler colonialism? Please send a 200-word abstract and a brief biographical statement to Vanessa K. Valdés (vvaldes@ccny.cuny.edu) Please share broadly. Deadline for submissions: Friday, 3 April 2020
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Vanessa Valdés started the topic Standing for Election of Executive Committee of CLCS Hemispheric American in the discussion
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 5 years, 10 months agoWe invite you to stand for election to our Executive Committee — come guide our group in upcoming years! Note that you are only allowed to serve on one executive committee at a time. If you are interested, please email Vanessa K. Valdés (vvaldes@ccny.cuny.edu) as soon as possible. Thank you!
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Kerry Manzo started the topic CFP MLA 2021 Trans Persistence in South Asia and Beyond in the discussion
LLC South Asian and South Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 5 years, 10 months agoLiterary and cultural engagements with trans* bodies, politics, and assembly in literature of South Asia, its Diaspora, comparative, or transnational framework. 250 word abstract to Kerry.manzo@purchase.edu by March 20.
Deadline for submissions: Sunday, 20 March 2020 Kerry Manzo, Purchase C, SU of New York (kerry.manzo@purchase.edu )
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Jervette Ward started the topic CFPs — MLA LLC African American 2021 Panels – Toronto in the discussion
GS Children’s and Young Adult Literature on MLA Commons 5 years, 11 months agoLLC African American Forum
Call for Papers for MLA 2021 in Toronto
Theories of Black Women Intellectualism in the Nineteenth Century
Inviting talks on diverse iterations of intellectual thought amongst C19th Black women thinkers; Intellectual productions beyond the usual confines of the slave narrative or sentimental novel. 250 word…[Read more]
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Brian Bernards started the topic MLA Toronto 2021 CFP: Archipelagic Studies in Asian Am & SE Asian Lit in the discussion
LLC East Asian on MLA Commons 5 years, 11 months ago2) Archipelagic Studies in Asian American and Southeast Asian Literature
We invite papers focused on the archipelagic relations between Asian American and South East Asian literary studies, and especially attuned to migration, environment, settler colonialism, and radical friction. Please submit 300-word abstract and 1-page CV.Deadline for…[Read more]
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Brian Bernards started the topic MLA Toronto 2021 CFP: Archipelagic Studies in Asian Am & SE Asian Lit in the discussion
East Asian Languages and Literatures after 1900 on MLA Commons 5 years, 11 months ago2) Archipelagic Studies in Asian American and Southeast Asian Literature
We invite papers focused on the archipelagic relations between Asian American and South East Asian literary studies, and especially attuned to migration, environment, settler colonialism, and radical friction. Please submit 300-word abstract and 1-page CV.Deadline for…[Read more]
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Brian Bernards started the topic MLA Toronto 2021 CFP: Archipelagic Studies in Asian Am & SE Asian Lit in the discussion
CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 5 years, 11 months ago2) Archipelagic Studies in Asian American and Southeast Asian Literature
We invite papers focused on the archipelagic relations between Asian American and South East Asian literary studies, and especially attuned to migration, environment, settler colonialism, and radical friction. Please submit 300-word abstract and 1-page CV.Deadline for…[Read more]
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Brian Bernards started the topic MLA Toronto 2020 CFP: Authoritarianism & SE Asia in the discussion
LLC East Asian on MLA Commons 5 years, 11 months agoCFP: “Authoritarianism and Southeast Asia”
Modern Language Association Annual Convention
January 7–10, 2021, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Presidential Theme: “Persistence”
The recent prominence of a global “New Right” has upended the progressivist teleology that, at the end of the Cold War, located the political and economic regime of the…[Read more]
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Brian Bernards started the topic MLA Toronto 2020 CFP: Authoritarianism & SE Asia in the discussion
East Asian Languages and Literatures after 1900 on MLA Commons 5 years, 11 months agoCFP: “Authoritarianism and Southeast Asia”
Modern Language Association Annual Convention
January 7–10, 2021, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Presidential Theme: “Persistence”
The recent prominence of a global “New Right” has upended the progressivist teleology that, at the end of the Cold War, located the political and economic regime of the…[Read more]
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Brian Bernards started the topic MLA Toronto 2021 CFP: Authoritarianism & SE Asia in the discussion
CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 5 years, 11 months agoCFP: “Authoritarianism and Southeast Asia”
Modern Language Association Annual Convention
January 7–10, 2021, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Presidential Theme: “Persistence”
The recent prominence of a global “New Right” has upended the progressivist teleology that, at the end of the Cold War, located the political and economic regime of the “moder…[Read more]
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Tiffany Yun-Chu Tsai started the topic CFP: The Horror of Capitalist Modernity: the Vampire, Zombie, and Cannibal in the discussion
LLC East Asian on MLA Commons 5 years, 11 months agoThe Horror of Capitalist Modernity: the Vampire, Zombie, and Cannibal
Session Proposal (MLA 2021 – Toronto)
Tiffany Yun-Chu Tsai
The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina
“Capital,” Marx tells us, “is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks;” for a ce…[Read more]
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Tiffany Yun-Chu Tsai started the topic CFP: The Horror of Capitalist Modernity: the Vampire, Zombie, and Cannibal in the discussion
East Asian Languages and Literatures after 1900 on MLA Commons 5 years, 11 months agoThe Horror of Capitalist Modernity: the Vampire, Zombie, and Cannibal
Session Proposal (MLA 2021 – Toronto)
Tiffany Yun-Chu Tsai
The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina
“Capital,” Marx tells us, “is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks;” for a ce…[Read more]
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Christopher M. Lupke started the topic CFP East Asian Literature and Dialectical Thinking in the discussion
LLC East Asian on MLA Commons 5 years, 11 months agoEast Asian Literature and Dialectical Thinking
Session Proposal (MLA 2021 – Toronto)
Christopher Lupke
University of Alberta
The study of literature and dialectical thinking has been around for a long time and is still going strong. What is less studied is the impact of dialectical thinking on East Asian literary texts. To be sure, Marxism has…[Read more]
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Gian Piero Persiani started the topic CFP "The Location of Culture: Places and Spaces of the East Asian Imaginary" in the discussion
LLC East Asian on MLA Commons 5 years, 11 months agoWe invite proposals for the following, non-guaranteed session of the LLC Japanese to 1900 Forum @ MLA 2021:
Session title: The Location of Culture: Places and Spaces of the East Asian Imaginary
As either unmovable physical locations or portable culturally-mediated psychological spaces, places are an essential feature of our world. Throughout…[Read more]
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Gian Piero Persiani started the topic CFP for MLA2021 “The Location of Culture: Places/Spaces of the Asian Imaginary” in the discussion
LLC Japanese since 1900 on MLA Commons 5 years, 11 months agoWe invite proposals for the following, non-guaranteed session of the LLC Japanese to 1900 Forum @ MLA 2021:
Session title: The Location of Culture: Places and Spaces of the East Asian Imaginary
As either unmovable physical locations or portable culturally-mediated psychological spaces, places are an essential feature of our world.…[Read more]
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Gian Piero Persiani started the topic CFP for MLA2021 "The Location of Culture: Places/Spaces of the Asian Imaginary" in the discussion
LLC Japanese to 1900 on MLA Commons 5 years, 11 months agoWe invite proposals for the following, non-guaranteed session of the LLC Japanese to 1900 Forum @ MLA 2021:
Session title: The Location of Culture: Places and Spaces of the East Asian Imaginary
As either unmovable physical locations or portable culturally-mediated psychological spaces, places are an essential feature of our world. Throughout…[Read more]
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Jeehyun Lim started the topic Asian American Forum CFPs for MLA 2021 Convention in the discussion
LLC Asian American via email on MLA Commons 5 years, 11 months agoDear all,
Please see the CFPs below for panels sponsored by the Asian American Forum. If you have any questions, please let us know.
Jeehyun Lim
Modern Language Association (MLA) Annual Convention
Toronto, January 7-10, 2021
1. (Guaranteed Session with Southeast Asian Forum)
We invite papers drawing attention to the archipelagic relation…[Read more] - Load More
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