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Anne Donlon started the topic Tips for the MLA Convention (especially for first-time attendees) in the discussion
2020 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 6 years, 1 month agoHello all,
Let’s use this thread to gather tips for attending the MLA convention, especially for first-time attendees! For those who have attended previous conventions, what have you learned? What has helped you enjoy and make the most of your time at the convention?
Some years ago, Natalie Houston wrote a guest post for the MLA Convention b…[Read more]
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Pamela Lothspeich replied to the topic Arranging shared accommodations in the discussion
2020 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 6 years, 1 month agoHello: I am seeking a roommate to share my Airbnb, a 3-minute walk from the Convention Center, reserved January 9-12. (My old roommate had to cancel.)
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MLA Commons started the topic Arranging shared accommodations in the discussion
2020 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 6 years, 1 month agoConvention registrants can use this forum thread to identify other participants who may wish to share accommodations. The MLA assumes no responsibility or liability for these arrangements, since a decision to share accommodations is one made by the participant, not the MLA.
Please note that in order to make reservations at MLA rates at the…[Read more]
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Gema Pilar Pérez-Sánchez started the topic Working Group-Affective Appr. to LGBTQI Spanish Culture in the discussion
2020 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 6 years, 1 month agoMLA 2020 Seattle Working Group on Affective Approaches to the Study of Contemporary Spanish LGBTQI Culture. This is the SCHEDULE of meetings and presentes at the conference and the ABSTRACTS of papers.Attached please find a detailed scheduled for each of the three MLA Conventions sessions of this working group and the abstracts of each of the p…[Read more]
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Gema Pilar Pérez-Sánchez started the topic Affective Appr. to the Study of Contemp. Spanish LGBTQI Culture – Schedule MLA in the discussion
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 6 years, 1 month agoMLA 2020 Seattle Working Group on Affective Approaches to the Study of Contemporary Spanish LGBTQI Culture. This is the SCHEDULE of meetings and presentes at the conference and the ABSTRACTS of papers.
Attached please find a detailed scheduled for each of the three MLA Conventions sessions of this working group and the abstracts of each of t…[Read more]
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Gema Pilar Pérez-Sánchez started the topic Affective Appr. to the Study of Contemp. Spanish LGBTQI Culture – Schedule MLA in the discussion
2020 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 6 years, 1 month agoMLA 2020 Seattle Working Group on Affective Approaches to the Study of Contemporary Spanish LGBTQI Culture. This is the SCHEDULE of meetings and presentes at the conference and the ABSTRACTS of papers.
Attached please find a detailed scheduled for each of the three MLA Conventions sessions of this working group and the abstracts of each of the p…[Read more]
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Adolfo Campoy-Cubillo started the topic 2019 Global Hispanophone Panels in the discussion
2020 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 6 years, 1 month agoThe CLCS Global Hispanophone is organizing
129 – Teaching the Humanities through the Global Hispanophone.
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- Thursday, 9 January 20205:15 PM – 6:30 PM
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- WSCC – 205
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Description: The global hispanophone practices a mode of inquiry that decenters national narratives and regional ones (Latin America versus Spain). It…[Read more]
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Elvira L. Vilches started the topic MLA 2020 LLC Colonial Latin American HAPPY HOUR in the discussion
LLC Colonial Latin American on MLA Commons 6 years, 1 month agoDear friends,
Please join the LLC Colonial Latin American Forum Happy Hour. As she usually does, Lisa Voigt has picked the coolest place: The Belmont Bar. https://www.belmontseattle.com/January 10th, 8:00 pm at the Belmont Bar.
518 Pike StreetSeattle 98122 206-557-0733
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Elvira L. Vilches started the topic MLA 2020 LLC Colonial Latin American Sessions in the discussion
LLC Colonial Latin American on MLA Commons 6 years, 1 month ago46. Colonial Translation: Rendering Indigenous and Western Exchanges
Organizer and Chair: Galen Brokaw
THURSDAY, 9 JANUARY 1:45 PM-3:00 PM, 203 (WSCC)
- Marlena Cravens, U of Texas, “Quechua Dictionaries: Catholicism and Tribute in the Wake of Castilian Conquest, 1535-1620”
- Ben Post, Murray State U, “Calderón reducido: Theological Drama in…
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Magalí Armillas-Tiseyra started the topic MLA2020: Global South panel in the discussion
2020 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 6 years, 1 month ago248 – Race, Indigeneity, and Articulations of Sovereignty across the Global South
Friday, 10 January 2020 | 10:15 AM – 11:30 AM | WSCC – Skagit 4
- “Shame and the Question of Identity in Jacobs and Manzano,” David Luis-Brown, Claremont Graduate U
- “Becoming Indigenous in Haiti: Land and Labor in Edwidge Danticat’s The Farming of Bones
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Jennifer Buckley started the topic CFP — 2020 Shaw Symposium @ Shaw Festival (Ontario, CA) in the discussion
GS Drama and Performance on MLA Commons 6 years, 1 month agoCall for Papers
2020 Shaw Symposium
The Shaw Festival, Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, CA
23-25 July 2020
The International Shaw Society and the Shaw Festival invite proposals to present new critical or creative research at the Seventeenth Annual Summer Shaw Symposium. We especially welcome proposals that offer a focused analysis of The…[Read more]
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Karl Ashoka Britto started the topic LLC Francophone Sessions — MLA Seattle 2020 in the discussion
LLC Francophone on MLA Commons 6 years, 1 month agoDear Colleagues,
Just a reminder about our three sponsored sessions at the 2020 MLA Convention next month. We hope to see many of you in Seattle!
On behalf of the LLC Francophone Executive Committee,
Karl Ashoka Britto
Francophone Studies and the New Humanities
THURSDAY, 9 JANUARY 7:00 PM-8:15 PM, 205 (WSCC)
Keywords: cognitive l…[Read more]
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James Gifford deposited Hobgoblins of Fantasy: American Fantasy Fiction in Theory in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 6 years, 1 month ago“A frightful hobgoblin stalks through Europe. We are haunted by a ghost, the ghost of Communism.” This epigraph comes from the 1850 translation of The Communist Manifesto by Helen Macfarlane, and this special feature in The New Americanist assumes that a similarly frightful hobgoblin stalks through genre fiction, too. Fantasy as a genre is haunted…[Read more]
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Francesco Ardolino deposited Violència i Identitat in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 6 years, 1 month agoHi ha concepte que semblen diàfans, però que poden tornar-se ambigus quan hi reflexionem amb atenció, com el de la violència. Si bé actualment aquest terme envaeix el nostre espai i sovint el llegim de manera unívoca, en el moment en què hi aprofundim hem de reconsiderar-ne el significat. Així mateix, la identitat, que ha estat el tema nuclear…[Read more]
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A. David Lewis deposited 2020 New England Graphic Medicine Conference Call for Papers (CFP) in the group
TC Popular Culture on MLA Commons 6 years, 1 month ago2020 New England Graphic Medicine Conference
Call for Papers
MARCH 26-28, 2020
[Deadline: January 10, 2020]Graphic Medicine is a genre, a field, a tool, a community, and a cause. It is large enough to accommodate all health and medical experiences, from that of the doctor to that of the patient – from that of a microbe to that of a p…[Read more]
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “Can the Biopic Subjects Speak? Disembodied Voices in The King’s Speech and The Theory of Everything.” A Companion to the Biopic, ed. Deborah Cartmell and Ashley D. Polasek (Chichester, UK: Wiley-Blackwell, 2020), 269-282 in the group
MS Screen Arts and Culture on MLA Commons 6 years, 1 month agoThe adaptations of King George VI’s and Stephen Hawking’s life stories show their uneasy relationship to the “troubled-white-male-genius” genre and to the vocal embodiment of their subjects who lose and gain a voice through therapy, technology, and their will to live a full life. The films carefully skirt the edges of public disgust and pity of…[Read more]
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “Can the Biopic Subjects Speak? Disembodied Voices in The King’s Speech and The Theory of Everything.” A Companion to the Biopic, ed. Deborah Cartmell and Ashley D. Polasek (Chichester, UK: Wiley-Blackwell, 2020), 269-282 in the group
GS Drama and Performance on MLA Commons 6 years, 1 month agoThe adaptations of King George VI’s and Stephen Hawking’s life stories show their uneasy relationship to the “troubled-white-male-genius” genre and to the vocal embodiment of their subjects who lose and gain a voice through therapy, technology, and their will to live a full life. The films carefully skirt the edges of public disgust and pity of…[Read more]
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Lidiana de Moraes started the topic DEADLINE EXTENDED – CFP Symposium Documenting Diversity & Democracy in Brazil in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 6 years, 2 months agoDEADLINE EXTENDED
Submit papers to the Documenting Diversity & Democracy in Brazil Symposium (University of Miami). Papers are accepted in Portuguese and English.
For more information and questions,…[Read more]
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Toby Wikström started the topic Panels organized by the Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century French Forums at MLA in the discussion
2020 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 6 years, 2 months agoPanels organized by the Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century French Forums at MLA Seattle 2020
THURSDAY, JANUARY 9, 5:15–6:30pm, WSCC – Chelan 5
THE DISCOURSES OF LUXURY IN SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY FRANCE
Presiding: Sylvaine Guyot, Harvard University
Claire B. Goldstein, University of California, Davis, “Luxury Accessories and Body Net…[Read more]
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