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Melissa J. Ganz started the topic Law and the Humanities Forum Panels at MLA 2017 in the discussion
Law as Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month agoThe Law and the Humanities Forum is delighted to be sponsoring three panels at MLA next month. We hope that you can join us for these sessions:
Session 67. “Object Lessons in Personhood”
Thursday, 5 January, 1:45–3:00 p.m., 202B, Pennsylvania Convention Center
Program arranged by the forum TC Law and the Humanities
Presiding: Kevin Curr…[Read more]
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Nicholas Rinehart deposited The Man That Was a Thing: Reconsidering Human Commodification in Slavery in the group
TC Law and the Humanities on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month agoThis essay examines a longstanding normative assumption in the historiography of slavery in the Atlantic world: that enslaved Africans and their American-born descendants were bought and sold as “commodities,” thereby “dehumanizing” them and treating them as things rather than as persons. Such claims have, indeed, helped historians concept…[Read more]
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Phillip Lundberg started the topic Esoteric Christianity & Josef K.!'s meeting with the "Priest" – MLA 2018 NYC. in the discussion
Literature and Religion on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month agoPlease review the file KAFKA TRANSFORMED (uploaded by yours truly into this Group) & join in the deeper discussion of Kafka’s JOSEF K.! as a Symbol of the human tragedy of the 21st century. Perhaps there will be sufficient interest in the esoteric side of Kafka (himself deeply interested in mystical matters, e.g. his meeting with R.…[Read more]
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Carl Gelderloos deposited Das Ich über der Natur (1927) in the group
TC Science and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoEntry on Alfred Döblin’s book, Das Ich über der Natur, in the 2016 Alfred Döblin Handbuch.
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Carol Zuses started the topic Suggestions Needed for 2017 Delegate Election in the discussion
Travel Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoCall for Suggestions
This forum will need to hold an election for a 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, b…[Read more]
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Joseph Szewczyk deposited ‘The Selfish Giant’: A Study of Christian Selfishness in the group
TC Religion and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months ago‘The Selfish Giant’ by Oscar Wilde has a history rooted in Christianity. There are ample journals, books, and even some occasional movies that demonstrate Wilde’s work as a Christian allegory. In a Christian analysis, the giant is seen as either St. Christopher or an unknown man whereas the child who cries is the Christ child. A Christian readi…[Read more]
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Christopher Warren deposited Gentili, the Poets, and the Laws of War in the group
TC Law and the Humanities on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoThis chapter illuminates a different sense in which Gentili’s work was influenced by humanist sensibilities. Differentiating between legal humanism (the mos Gallicus) on one hand and rhetorical humanism on the other, it argues that Gentili did not subscribe to the rigid historical approach to legal sources as practised by the French humanist…[Read more]
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Christopher Warren deposited Hobbes's Thucydides and the Colonial Law of Nations in the group
TC Law and the Humanities on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoThis essay investigates why Thomas Hobbes translated Thucydides, published as Eight Bookes of the Peloponesian Warres, and why Hobbes chose it to be published in 1628. It argues that Hobbes’s translation should be seen not just as a precursor to his later treatises but as part of broader attempt on the part of English humanists in the mid-1620s…[Read more]
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Toby Wikström started the topic MLA Ballot 2016: Forum Committee Candidate Statement (Wikström) in the discussion
Seventeenth-Century French Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoDear MLA members,
I have the honor of being on the ballot for this fall’s election to the 17th-Century French Forum’s Executive Committee. I would like to thank Hélène Bilis, the outgoing member of the committee, for her service over the past five years.
Raised in Sweden and the United States, I studied French at Carleton College (BA), the Un…[Read more]
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Lila Marz Harper deposited Self-Censorship in Mary Kingsley’s Travels in West Africa in the group
GS Travel Writing on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoThis article discusses changes that Mary Kingsley made to her 1897 Travels in West Africa when she abridged the text for a general audience.
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Ari Borrell deposited Ko-wu or Kung-an: Practice, Realization and Teaching in the thought of Chang Chiu-ch'eng in the group
TC Religion and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoAn overview of Zhang Jiucheng’s 張九成 (1092-1159) thought on mind-cultivation and Zhu Xi’s 朱熹 critique of Zhang and other Buddho-Confucians of the early Southern Song dynasty (1126-1279).
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Christopher Warren deposited When Self-Preservation Bids: Approaching Milton, Hobbes, and Dissent in the group
TC Law and the Humanities on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoCritics have long used the heuristic device of opposing John Milton and Thomas Hobbes, but this essay explores surprising affinities between the two. After observing that Milton and other Restoration dissenters often agreed with Hobbes on questions of ecclesiastic jurisdiction and toleration nearly as much as they disagreed with what seemed at…[Read more]
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Hall Bjornstad started the topic MLA Ballot 2016: Forum Committee Candidate Statement in the discussion
Seventeenth-Century French Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoThe MLA has suggested that candidates for forum executive committees submit a post about their interests and goals to that forum’s Commons group. My name is Hall Bjørnstad and I have been nominated for the 17th-Century French Forum’s Executive Committee. Originally from Oslo, Norway, I have been at Indiana University, Bloomington since 2009, a…[Read more]
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Kathryn D. Temple started the topic Exco Election: Temple in the discussion
Law as Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 3 months agoDear Law and Humanities Colleagues,
I’m quite thrilled to have been nominated to the Exco this year and wanted to update you all a bit on my activities related to Law and the Humanities.
As some of you know, I’ve been publishing in this field since the early 90s. Currently I have essays forthcoming in ECTI (Wollstonecraft and legal subjectivity)…[Read more]
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Monica Cure started the topic CFP Travel, Religion, and Interpretation ACLA 2017 Netherlands, Deadline Sep. 23 in the discussion
Literature and Religion on MLA Commons 9 years, 4 months agoDear colleagues,
Please consider submitting an abstract for our panel on Travel, Religion, and Interpretation at the 2017 American Comparative Literature Association conference in the Netherlands from July 6-9.
If you are interested, please submit your abstract here on or before Sep. 23rd: http://acla.org/node/add/paper
Religion has…[Read more]
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Monica Cure started the topic CFP Travel, Religion, and Interpretation ACLA 2017 Netherlands, Deadline Sep. 23 in the discussion
Travel Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 4 months agoDear colleagues,
Please consider submitting an abstract for our panel on Travel, Religion, and Interpretation at the 2017 American Comparative Literature Association conference in the Netherlands from July 6-9.
If you are interested, please submit your abstract here on or before Sep. 23rd: http://acla.org/node/add/paper
Religion has…[Read more]
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Julien Jacques Simon deposited Cognitive Approaches to Early Modern Spanish Literature in the group
TC Science and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoCognitive Approaches to Early Modern Spanish Literature is the first anthology exploring human cognition and literature in the context of early modern Spanish culture. It includes the leading voices in the field, along with the main themes and directions that this important area of study has been producing. The book begins with an overview of the…[Read more]
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Julien Jacques Simon started the topic CfP: Narrative, Cognition & Science Lab (Abstracts Due Aug. 31st) in the discussion
Literature and Science on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoCall for Papers
Symposium: Narrative, Cognition & Science Lab
Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany
21-23 October 2016
Organized by ELINAS: Research Center for Literature and Natural Science
http://elinas.fau.de/
Confirmed Keynote Speakers:– Marie-Laure Ryan, Independent Scholar in Residence, University of Colorado
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Petar Penda deposited THE BALKAN HIGHER-EDUCATION EXPRESS in the group
TC Law and the Humanities on MLA Commons 9 years, 5 months agoBalkan universities are in a hurry to beat Oxbridge and Ivy League universities. But, from their dire straits, can Balkan teachers afford the train ticket to compare and contrast? Therefore, in this paper we will talk about the situation in the higher education system in the Former Yugoslav countries which has lost its vigour and rigour with the…[Read more]
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Peter Leman started the topic Special Issue CFP: "Law and Literature from the Global South" in the discussion
Law as Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 6 months agoCall for Papers
The Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies
Spring 2018 Special Issue: Law and Literature from the Global South
Guest Editors: David Babcock (James Madison University) and Peter Leman (Brigham Young University)
Deadline for Submissions (approximately 4,000-5,000 words): December 20, 2016
Website: jcpcsonline.com
Cont…[Read more]
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