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Daniel Williams deposited Life among the Vermin: Nineveh and Ecological Relocation in the group
CLCS Global Anglophone on MLA Commons 5 years, 7 months agoHenrietta Rose-Innes’s novel Nineveh (2011) catalogs the activities of a humane pest expert as she discovers, on an estate under construction outside Cape Town, how human and insect actors undermine the spatial expectations of post-apartheid South Africa. Rose-Innes advances a vision of interspecies connection by recasting controversial themes…[Read more]
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Cesar Dominguez started the topic Reading Group: (Re)Thinking Post-/De-Colonialism in the Hispanophone World in the discussion
CLCS Global South on MLA Commons 5 years, 9 months agoI’d like to invite you to join a virtual reading group on key texts to (re)think post-/de-colonialism in the Hispanophone world. A meeting will be held every three weeks for a two-hour session. The aim is to foster collaboration in both teaching and research on these topics, as well as creating synergies for future actions. If you’re interested,…[Read more]
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Melissa J. Ganz started the topic Joint Legal Studies/American Studies Assistant Professor of Instruction in the discussion
TC Law and the Humanities on MLA Commons 5 years, 10 months agoNorthwestern University is hiring an Assistant Professor of Instruction to be appointed jointly in the Legal Studies program and the American Studies program. This is a full-time, benefits eligible position with a path to promotion. The initial contract is for two years.
The Assistant Professor of Instruction will offer six courses per year…[Read more]
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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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Elizabeth M. Holt deposited Al-Ṭayyib Ṣāliḥ’s Season of Migration to the North, the CIA, and the Cultural Cold War after Bandung in the group
2019 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 5 years, 10 months agoIn the fall of 1966, Ḥiwār magazine published al-Ṭayyib Ṣāliḥ’s novel Mawsim al-hijrah ilā al-shamāl [ Season of Migration to the North ]. Arabic literary critics both hailed the novel in the Arabic press and mourned that it had been published by the Paris-based Congress for Cultural Freedom’s Ḥiwār, part of a global covert cultural front of the C…[Read more]
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Janice Ho started the topic CFPs for Global Anglophone Forums for MLA Toronto 2021 in the discussion
CLCS Global Anglophone on MLA Commons 5 years, 11 months agoDear Global Anglophone members,
Please find our CFPs for the guaranteed Global Anglophone sessions for MLA Toronto 2021 below: one is on “Languages of Class” and the second is a joint collaboration with the Global Arab and Arab American Executive Forum on “Global Indigeneity.” We hope you will consider submitting abstracts for…[Read more]
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Melissa J. Ganz started the topic CFP: Law and the Humanities Forum panels at MLA 2021 in the discussion
TC Law and the Humanities on MLA Commons 5 years, 11 months agoDear all,
Please see below for three panels sponsored by the Law and the Humanities Forum at MLA 2021. If you have any questions, please let us know.
Best wishes,
Melissa Ganz
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Modern Language Association (MLA) Annual Convention
Toronto, January 7-10, 2021
1. Law at the Border (Guaranteed Session)
Papers on how law is m…[Read more]
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Anita Harris Satkunananthan deposited Monsters at the End of Time: Alternate Hierarchies and Ecological Disasters in Alaya Dawn Johnson’s Spirit Binders Novels in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 5 years, 11 months agoThis paper interrogates the connection between entities that hover in the liminal state between life and death (such as vampires and spirits) and the manner in which these entities relate to Alaya Dawn Johnson’s conjurings of alternate political structures and hierarchies in her Spirit Binders series. Johnson’s alternate hierarchies are com…[Read more]
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Ben Streeter deposited Reparation in W. G. Sebald’s Austerlitz and Patrick Modiano’s Dora Bruder in the group
CLCS Global Anglophone on MLA Commons 6 years agoW. G. Sebald and Patrick Modiano are two contemporary authors who share similar themes and literary practices. They are both fastidiously or even obsessively historical in their narrative development. And they seem preoccupied with the sins of World War II. Critics have divided feelings about their accomplishments. Skeptics say their trauma…[Read more]
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Cynthia Chase replied to the topic Call For Candidates: LLC Pre-14th Chinese Forum Executive Committee in the discussion
2019 MLA Convention via email on MLA Commons 6 years agoNo, thank you.
Cynthia Chase
From: Xiaowen Xu [mailto:noreply@hcommons-staging.org]
Sent: mardi 14 janvier 2020 17:08
To: Cynthia Chase
Subject: [MLA Commons] Call For Candidates: LLC Pre-14th Chinese Forum… (2019 MLA Convention) -
Xiaowen Xu started the topic Call For Candidates: LLC Pre-14th Chinese Forum Executive Committee in the discussion
2019 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 6 years agoDear Colleagues,
The LLC Pre-14th Forum is calling for your volunteering to be an alternate candidate for the executive committee 2021 to 2026. Please contact Xiaowen Xu (xiaowen.xu@ubc.ca) or Benjamin Ridgway (brdgwa1@swarthmore.edu) if you are interested. Or you could reply to this thread directly.
We would need four forum members who are…
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Brian Bernards started the topic SE Asian CLCS Forum-Hosted Happy Hour: Fri, Jan 10 at the MLA in the discussion
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 6 years agoMembers and friends of the Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic CLCS MLA Forum:Our forum invites you to a MLA 2020 Happy Hour at 9pm on Friday, January 10 at the Frolik Kitchen + Cocktails, which is located on the 5th floor of the Motif Seattle Hotel (3 blocks from the Washington State Convention Center). Come mingle and decompress…[Read more]
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Raphael Dalleo started the topic 648 – Cash Bar co-sponsored by Caribbean forum, Sat 1/11 @ 7:15 pm in the discussion
CLCS Global Anglophone on MLA Commons 6 years ago648 – Cash Bar Arranged by the Forums LLC Latina and Latino, LLC Chicana and Chicano, LLC Literatures of the United States in Languages Other Than English, LLC Cuban and Cuban Diasporic, LLC Puerto Rican, and CLCS Caribbean
Saturday, 11 January 2020
7:15 PM – 8:30 PM
Sheraton -…[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
CLCS Global Anglophone on MLA Commons 6 years 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
CLCS Global Anglophone on MLA Commons 6 years 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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Melissa J. Ganz started the topic Law and the Humanities Forum panels at MLA 2020 in the discussion
TC Law and the Humanities on MLA Commons 6 years, 1 month agoPlease join us at MLA 2020 for the following sessions sponsored by the Law and the Humanities Forum:
Session 189: What’s Next for Law and the Humanities?
Thursday, January 9, 7:00-8:15 p.m.
WSCC – Skagit 3
Presiding: Kathryn D. Temple, Georgetown U
1. “The Constitution as the Aesthetic Representation of the People,” David Tse-chien Pa…[Read more]
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Magalí Armillas-Tiseyra started the topic MLA2020: Global South panel in the discussion
CLCS Global South 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
Presiding: Magali Armillas-Tiseyra, Penn State U, University Park
- “Can the Subaltern Blush? Shame and the Question of Identity in Slave Narratives by Jacobs and Manzano,” David Luis-Brown, Claremon…
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James Gifford deposited An Improbably Moveable Mediterranean: translating, Transplanting, & Transforming Global Surrealisms in the group
CLCS Global Anglophone on MLA Commons 6 years, 2 months agoThe Egyptian Surrealist Art et Liberté group was recuperated in two exhibitions beginning in 2016 and continuing through 2018. The larger exhibition by Sam Bardaouil and Till Fellrath emphasizes the group’s internationalism and the complexity of its engagement with various forms of Surrealism, including André Breton and Leon Trotsky’s 1938 manif…[Read more]
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Shane Graham started the topic CFP: Langston Hughes Review Special Issue—”‘The Negro Speaks of Rivers’ at 100″ in the discussion
LLC African to 1990 on MLA Commons 6 years, 2 months agoLangston Hughes Review
Guest Editor: Shane Graham
Expected Publication: May 2021
In June 1921, Crisis published Langston Hughes’ first adult poem, “The Negro Speaks of Rivers.” In many ways it contained the blueprint for the poet’s entire subsequent career, and established many of his key themes: black pride and self-assertion; the validat…[Read more] -
Lidiana de Moraes started the topic CFP – Symposium Documenting Diversity & Democracy in Brazil in the discussion
LLC African since 1990 on MLA Commons 6 years, 2 months agoHello everyone,
I am happy to share the Call for Papers for this symposium that will take place at the University of Miami, in March 2020.
https://mailchi.mp/miami.edu/documenting-diversity-and-democracy-in-brazil-call-for-papers-2019
Please share with those who may be interested.
Thank you so much!
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