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Hannah Gillard deposited Que(e)rying Antiwork Politics: Queer Identities, Agency, Affect and the Normalcy of Work in the group
LGBTQ Studies on Humanities Commons 6 years, 1 month agoPeople’s relationships to paid work are many and varied. For some it is an important indicator of their identity, while for others it is a form of inescapable drudgery, boredom, or a place of exploitation. For those under- and unemployed, this unbearable state of boredom might itself be an aspiration. Current literature on queer identities and…[Read more]
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Nohemy Solorzano-Thompson started the topic MLA 2020 LLC Sephardic Forum Panel — Friday, January 10, 8:30 am, at WSCC 614 in the discussion
2020 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 6 years, 1 month agoDear colleagues
I am writing to invite you to the LLC Sephardic Forum Panel for the 2020 MLA on Friday, January 10, 8:30 am, WSCC 614.
This year’s panel focuses on Sephardic Cultural Expressions in the Portuguese- and Spanish-Speaking Americas and Beyond.
Full details below and please note the title update for Dr. B…[Read more]
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Raphael Dalleo started the topic 468 – Sylvia Wynter and/in the Undergraduate Classroom, Sat. 1/11 @ 10:15 am in the discussion
2020 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 6 years, 1 month ago2020 MLA convention session sponsored by the CLCS Caribbean forum:
Sylvia Wynter and/in the Undergraduate Classroom
Saturday, January 11th, 2020
10:15 am to 11:30 am
Washington State Convention Center, Skagit 3
Presiding: Kaiama Glover, Barnard College-Columbia University
Prose Fiction, Plays, and Pantomimes: Teaching…[Read more]
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Raphael Dalleo started the topic 200. The Caribbean 1970s, Friday 10 January 2020 at 8:30 am in the discussion
2020 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 6 years, 1 month ago2020 MLA convention panel, cosponsored by the CLCS Caribbean and TC Postcolonial Studies forums:
The Caribbean 1970s
Friday, January 10th, 2020
8:30 am to 9:45 am
Washington State Convention Center, Chelan 4
Presiding: Raphael Dalleo, Bucknell University
“Liberation of a Small Place: Political Narratives about the…[Read more]
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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
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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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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Raphael Grazziano deposited Virtualities and contradictions in the space under global patterns: LEED® and corporate architecture in São Paulo in the group
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 6 years, 1 month agoLEED® is a North American system created to assess sustainability parameters in buildings. It is managed by USGBC®, that was formed in the early 1990s. LEED®’s technical aspects are examined in order to clarify its operation premises, following the research hypothesis that these premises would have impact in the disciplines of architecture and ur…[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
LLC Shakespeare 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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Koca Mehmet Kentel deposited Doğanın “Kozmopolis”i: Terkos Suyolu Boyunca Kentliler, Köylüler ve Hayvanlar in the group
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 6 years, 2 months ago2019’da yayımlanan “Nature’s ‘Cosmopolis’: Villagers, Engineers, and Animals along Terkos Waterworks in Late Nineteenth-Century Istanbul.” In The Seeds of Power: Explorations in the Environmental History of the Ottoman Empire, edited by Onur Inal and Yavuz Köse, 155-183 (Winwick: The White Horse Press, 2019) makalemin, kısaltılarak Türkçe’ye çev…[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
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern 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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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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Frans Prasetyo deposited The Harbour City that Never Was… and the Smart City that May (Never) Become in the group
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 6 years, 2 months agoToronto has become known for applying ‘smart’ solutions to modern urban problems. In 2014, the city
was awarded the title of “Intelligent Community of the Year” by the Intelligent Community Forum for its
array of technological answers to housing, transportation, and environmental issues. More recently,
Waterfront Toronto has partnered with th…[Read more] -
James L. Smith deposited Rural Waterscape and Emotional Sectarianism in Accounts of Lough Derg, County Donegal in the group
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 6 years, 2 months agoThe story of Lough Derg in Ireland’s County Donegal is arranged around clusters of sectarian narratives in juxtaposition, synthesis and conflict. The Sanctuary of Saint Patrick sits on Station Island, a small rocky islet set within the waters of the lake. The site became well known in the early Middle Ages as the place of Saint Patrick’s del…[Read more]
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “Others within: Ethics in the age of global Shakespeare.” Routledge Handbook of Shakespeare and Global Appropriation, ed. Christy Desmet, Sujata Iyengar, and Miriam Jacobson (London: Routledge, 2020), pp. 25-36 in the group
LLC Shakespeare on MLA Commons 6 years, 2 months agoThis chapter theorizes global Shakespeare through two interrelated concepts: performance as an act of citation and the ethics of citation. Bringing the concept of performance as citation and the ethics of citation together, this chapter argues that acts of appropriation carry with them strong ethical implications. A crucial, ethical component of…[Read more]
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Jonathan Basile deposited Stijn De Cauwer, ed. Critical Theory at a Crossroads: Conversations on Resistance in Times of Crisis in the group
LGBTQ Studies on Humanities Commons 6 years, 2 months agoA review of a series of interviews with prominent political theorists (Wendy Brown, Braidotti, Jean-Luc Nancy, Negri, Vogl, Esposito, Tariq Ali, Saskia Sassen, Maurizio Lazzarato, and Angela McRobbie). All of them reflect on contemporary political crises and the concept of crisis itself. This review considers their political positions as well as…[Read more]
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