<div>In April, 2013, the Association for Asian American Studies became the first academic organization within the US to pass a resolution calling for the academic boycott of Israel for its systematic and wholesale violation of the rights of Palestinians in all areas of life, including education. In December 2013, the American Studies Association…[Read more]

It is my great pleasure to invite everyone to a late evening reception celebrating the creation of the new Asian literature forums at the MLA. Charlotte Eubanks is your host for the evening!

Saturday, 7 January, 8:45–10:00 p.m., 411-412, Philadelphia Marriott

Wine and appetizers generously provided by cosponsorship from Columbia UP, De Gru…[Read more]

Hi everyone,

An executive committee business meeting for the forum LLC Japanese since 1900 has been scheduled for 6 January 2017, 3:30-4:45 p.m., room 309, in the Philadelphia Marriott. Please join us after this panel, sponsored by this forum!

311. Nature and Disaster in the Contemporary Japanese Cultural Imagination
1:45–3:00 p.m., room 406, P…[Read more]

Hi post-1900ers,

The executive committee business meeting for the forum LLC Japanese TO 1900 has been scheduled for 6 January 2017, 12 noon-1:15 p.m., room 304, in the Philadelphia Marriott.

Come one, come all, and help plan pre-1900 Japan for MLA 2018!

All best,

Charlotte

The first election of a Delegate Assembly representative for LLC Japanese since 1900 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 no…[Read more]

The next scheduled election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2017; 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 req…[Read more]

This forum will need to 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. The executive committee is responsible for making nominations, but it is required to nominate at l…[Read more]

Dear Members of the LLC Francophone Forum,

I am honored to have been nominated by the current members of our executive committee to stand for election to the committee this year.

I am an Associate Professor of French and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley, where I teach francophone and anglophone literatures of…[Read more]

Dear Fellow LLC Francophone Forum members, I’m running for a seat on our executive committee, so please allow me to tell you a little about my work.

My name is John Walsh, and I’m an Associate Professor in the Department of French & Italian at the University of Pittsburgh. My teaching and research include the literature and history of Haiti and t…[Read more]

As a member of the executive committee of the Asian American Literature Forum, my hope would be to use the wide audience of MLA as a showcase and an educational opportunity about advancements in the field. Asian American studies’ numerous directions, which have caused a lot of self-examinations within the field, offer us a unique opportunity to…[Read more]