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Beth Ellen Jörgensen started the topic Mexican Material Culture Session, MLA2016 in the discussion
Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature on MLA Commons 11 years agoMaterial goods and built environments reflect and produce social meaning. This panel organized by the Mexican Forum, will explore the relationship between material culture and notions of authenticity, tradition and progress in Mexico. Papers on artifacts from pre-Hispanic times to the present, or literary and filmic representations of material…[Read more]
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Beth Ellen Jörgensen started the topic CFP MLA 2016, Mexican Forum Panel in the discussion
Mexican Cultural and Literary Studies on MLA Commons 11 years agoMateriality and Mexican Culture
Material culture—the production, possession, display, gifting and consumption of material goods and the built environment—plays an active role in the construction and reception of socially determined meanings. We measure core cultural values such as authenticity, tradition and progress in part through our rel…[Read more]
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Elena Machado Sáez started the topic DEADLINE EXTENDED (FEB 15): Call for Nominations — Latina/o Studies Association in the discussion
Latina and Latino on MLA Commons 11 years agoDear Colleagues,
On behalf of the Latina/o Studies Association organizing committee, the members of the election committee invite nominations for the Founding Executive Council of LSA.
The Founding Executive Council will establish the structures necessary for the incorporation of the Latina/o Studies Association as a national org…[Read more]
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María Gil Poisa uploaded the file: CFP: Body Memory Trauma // Exhibition: Water, Art, Women, Life to
Chicana and Chicano Literature on MLA Commons 11 years agoCFP: Body Memory Trauma // Exhibition: Water, Art, Women, Life
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María Gil Poisa replied to the topic CFP: Cuerpo Memoria Trauma // Exposición: Agua, Arte, Mujer, Vida in the discussion
Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature on MLA Commons 11 years agoThe deadline for submissions for this CFP has been extended until January 31st. Please, see below.
TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY
5TH ANNUAL HISPANIC STUDIES GRADUATE CONFERENCE
CONFERENCE TITLE:
BODY, MEMORY, TRAUMA
Friday March 6 – Saturday March 7, 2015
CALL FOR PAPERS: DEADLINE EXTENSION
Sponsored by:
Department of Hispanic Studies – Tex…[Read more]
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María Gil Poisa started the topic CFP: Cuerpo Memoria Trauma // Exposición: Agua, Arte, Mujer, Vida in the forum
Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 2 months agoTÍTULO DE LA CONFERENCIA:
CUERPO, MEMORIA Y TRAUMA
Viernes 6 de Marzo – Sábado 7 de Marzo, 2015
CONVOCATORIA
Sponsored by:
Department of Hispanic Studies – Texas A&M University
Religious Studies Program – Texas A&M University
Indigenous studies Working Group – Texas A&M University
Women’s and Gender Studies Program – Texas A&M Unive…[Read more]
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Gerardo Pignatiello started the topic CFP Dossier "Crime/Detective Fiction in Latin America and the Caribbean" in the forum
Mexican Cultural and Literary Studies on MLA Commons 11 years, 4 months agoCFP Revista Badebec, University of Rosario, Argentina. Dossier “Crime/Detective Fiction in Latin America and the Caribbean (1980-2014)” (literature, film, and TV). First deadline: November 30th, 2014. Contact: badebec@gmail.com
BADEBEC INVITA A PARTICIPAR DE SU PRÓXIMO DOSSIER
“Ficciones policiales en Latinoamérica y el Caribe”
Para el númer…[Read more]
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Sandra K. Soto started the topic MLA Chicana/o Literature Division’s Panels (2015) in the forum
Chicana and Chicano Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 5 months agoPlease Circulate Widely!
Friday, 9 January
351. Chicano Narrative at Twenty-Five
3:30–4:45 p.m., West 202, VCC West
Program arranged by the Division on Chicana and Chicano Literature
Presiding: Yolanda Padilla, Univ. of Washington, Bothell
1. “The Diachronics of Difference: Chicano Narrative Then, Now, and before Chicanidad,” Jesse Alemán, Un…[Read more] -
Elizabeth Hochberg started the topic CFP, NeMLA 2015 (Spanish/Portuguese) in the forum
Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 5 months agoAdvertising and Counterculture in Spanish and Latin American Film
This panel invites 20-minute contributions on filmic portrayals of TV and radio commercials, magazine ads, billboards, and other aspects of marketing in connection to emerging forms of oppositional culture during the 1960s and 70s. Topics s may include material and consumer c…[Read more]
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Leigh Anne Duck started the topic CfP spec. issue “Global García Márquez” in the forum
Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 5 months agoSalmon Rushdie recently wrote, “Gabo lives. The extraordinary worldwide attention paid to the death of Gabriel García Márquez, and the genuine sorrow felt by readers everywhere at his passing, tell us that his books are still very much alive” (New York Times Book Review, May 18, 2014, p.1). This issue of The Global South seeks to further under…[Read more]
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Elena Valdez started the topic CFP LASA 2015 in the forum
Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 5 months agoCALL FOR PAPERS
Looking for participants for this LASA panel (MUST BE a current LASA member).
Session Title: From Beauty Pageants to Audiovisual Art: The portrayal of Precarious Bodies in Literature and Performance in the Dominican Republic
This panel examines how artistic and audiovisual representations of gendered and sexed bodies are…[Read more]
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Beth Ellen Jörgensen started the topic CFP NeMLA Roundtable, Disability Studies in LA in the forum
Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 6 months agoRoundtable fostering a dialogue about and with Latin American perspectives on disability studies in the humanities. Participants will give brief presentations on disability studies theory and criticism produced in Latin America in response to local and regional lived realities and cultural productions. Speakers may also highlight literature, film…[Read more]
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Sandra K. Soto posted an update in the group
LLC Chicana and Chicano on MLA Commons 11 years, 11 months agoChicana and Chicano Literature Division of the Modern Language Association. Call for abstracts.
Extended Deadline: 03/23/14
Queering Chican@ Utopias: Remembering José Esteban Muñoz. Innovative presentations in Chican@ Studies that exemplify or call for Muñoz’s queer, world-building work. 250-word abstract and abbreviated CV by 12 March 2014…[Read more]
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Call for Papers
WORLDS and WORDS
29th Annual Interdisciplinary Conference in the Humanities
Sponsored by the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures
University of West Georgia, College of Arts and Humanities
Carrollton, Georgia
October 30-November 1, 2014Deadline Extended until July 22nd
We welcome submissions from across…[Read more]
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Lori Angela Lammert replied to the topic Memory in the Latin American Novel of the Dictatorship in the forum
Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 11 months agoSend me an abstract. I met her in 2007. She is really nice. Saludos, Lori
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Erica M. Frouman-Smith replied to the topic Memory in the Latin American Novel of the Dictatorship in the forum
Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 11 months agoHi Lori:
I recently have done work on Liliana Heker’s El fin de la historia, which is about her recollection of the dictatorship. I just had a paper on it accepted by Hispanofila. I might be interested in presenting a paper on this. What do you think?
Saludos,
Erica
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Juan Carlos Ramírez-Pimienta started the topic MLA 2015.NAFTA, Neoliberalism, and 21st-Century Mexican Narratives. A Roundtable in the forum
Mexican Cultural and Literary Studies on MLA Commons 11 years, 11 months agoMLA 2015
NAFTA, Neoliberalism, and 21st-Century Mexican Narratives. A Roundtable
Position papers on how Mexico is imagined and narrated after two decades of NAFTA’s implementation. Send abstract and bio by 15 March 2014; Juan Carlos Ramírez-Pimienta (jcramire@rohan.sdsu.edu).
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Lori Angela Lammert started the topic Memory in the Latin American Novel of the Dictatorship in the forum
Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 11 months agoCall for papers for Special Session. What is the importance of memory in the Latin American Novel of the Dictatorship? 250 word abstract and CV. by 14 March 2014; Lori Angela Lammert (llammert@yahoo.com).
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Beth Ellen Jörgensen started the topic CFP, MLA Roundtable on E. Poniatowska Criticism in the forum
Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 11 months agoMLA 2015: ROUNDTABLE
Of interest to members of the 20th-C Lat Am Lit Division
Elena Poniatowska: Five Decades of Critical Inquiry
Elena Poniatowska’s corpus has inspired three generations of scholars to engage in highly diverse approaches to literary theory and criticism, including approaches to testimonio, journalism, the specificity of w…[Read more]
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Jeronimo Arellano started the topic Call for papers, MLA 2015: Comparative Media Studies in Latin America in the forum
Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 11 months agoWe’re looking for papers for a panel on comparative media studies in Latin America to be held at the 2015 MLA convention. While most often comparative media studies is practiced in relation to new narrative forms and emergent literacies in the twentieth- and twenty-first centuries, this panel welcomes proposals focusing on other historical periods…[Read more]
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