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Lila Marz Harper replied to the topic Film Project: Sci. and Lit. in the forum
Literature and Science on MLA Commons 11 years, 7 months agoYes, as I understand it, tension needs to build up to the climax, which may be a confrontation. This will provide the framework for a discussion of evidence. It sounds as if you need a good opener to set the theme–maybe a staged modern argument between scholars?
You might want to study the script of a BBC documentary, maybe on Darwin, for…[Read more]
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Gloria Lee McMillan replied to the topic Film Project: Sci. and Lit. in the forum
Literature and Science on MLA Commons 11 years, 7 months agoThanks, Lila. I will keep that in mind. I am stepping back from the F2F meeting of Galileo and Will Shakespeare to focus on why Shakespeareans get apoplexy over the attempts of astronomers who attempt to read Hamlet (Peter Usher), for example as containing clues to Shakespeare’s knowledge of “the new philosophy” of Copernicus’ heliocentric solar…[Read more]
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Lila Marz Harper replied to the topic Film Project: Sci. and Lit. in the forum
Literature and Science on MLA Commons 11 years, 7 months agoFor a film, you need a narrative arc. This can be a challenge when dramatizing science history and that is something to keep in mind.
I work in 18th and 19th century women’s natural history travel narratives. Some of these accounts may be potentially filmable and I was recently approached by one producer recently for a Biopic. But I would have to…[Read more]
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Lisa-Ann Robertson replied to the topic Film Project: Sci. and Lit. in the forum
Literature and Science on MLA Commons 11 years, 7 months agoHi Gloria,
Yes, that does make more sense. The period is earlier than mine–I work in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, with a focus on Romantic poets and “scientists.” Certainly, the moment has come for consilience. I think a film that shows how the past couple hundred years are relatively unique in our aggressive separation of the…[Read more]
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Nancy Schrock replied to the topic Film Project: Sci. and Lit. in the forum
Literature and Science on MLA Commons 11 years, 7 months agoA project that crosses the arts and the sciences sounds like an interesting one if there is a focus relevant to current issues. I have to bridge the two daily. I have a Ph.D. in chemistry and an M.A. in creative writing and teach both chemistry and writing classes. I find the cultural differences between workers in the sciences and humanities…[Read more]
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Jenna Mead replied to the topic Film Project: Sci. and Lit. in the forum
Literature and Science on MLA Commons 11 years, 8 months agoHello Gloria and Lisa,
This sounds fascinating. I’m an out-of-towner on this one but the connections are intriguing, especially given their speculative nature. I work on Chaucer’s Treatise on the Astrolabe and so have a (deeply) vested interest in crossing the borders between Arts and Sciences. I’ll be watching this space with a lot of…[Read more]
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Gloria Lee McMillan replied to the topic Film Project: Sci. and Lit. in the forum
Literature and Science on MLA Commons 11 years, 8 months agoHi, Lisa,
We chose the two contemporaries because of new information we had from Ewen Whitaker, a British astronomer who has made a working Digges Perspective Glass. After researching that Will and his men stayed at the Digges family home in Stratford, where he almost certainly saw the copy of astronomer Tycho Brahe’s Epistolae (with the name…[Read more]
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Lisa-Ann Robertson replied to the topic Film Project: Sci. and Lit. in the forum
Literature and Science on MLA Commons 11 years, 8 months agoHi Gloria,
Just out of curiosity, why Galileo and Shakespeare? There are so many examples of poets and men of science who really did cross the line between arts and sciences. Why not some of them?
Cheers,
Lisa Ann
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Gloria Lee McMillan started the topic Film Project: Sci. and Lit. in the forum
Literature and Science on MLA Commons 11 years, 8 months agoHello,
A group of us have been thinking and rethinking a documentary film project that would show the value of crossing the line between science and the arts.
At first we were going to make it a conversation between Galileo and Shakespeare–roughly contemporaries.
But granting agencies didn’t like the fictional parts.So then we opened up to…[Read more]
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Gloria Lee McMillan started the topic Film Project: Sci. and Lit. in the forum
Literature and Science on MLA Commons 11 years, 8 months agoHello,
A group of us have been thinking and rethinking a documentary film project that would show the value of crossing the line between science and the arts.
At first we were going to make it a conversation between Galileo and Shakespeare–roughly contemporaries.
But granting agencies didn’t like the fictional parts.So then we opened up to…[Read more]
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Anna Faktorovich started the topic Electronic Review Copies of George Sand Novel in the forum
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 8 months ago“The Romances of George Sand” (9/12/2014): email me for a free review copy at director@anaphoraliterary.com. Also, I hope you’ll add me as a friend/ fan/ or follow me on LibraryThing, Goodreads, Twitter, Facebook, or LinkedIn (search for my full name). Cheers, Anna Faktorovich, PhD, Director, Anaphora Literary Press
More information on the book a…[Read more]
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Christopher Looby started the topic Research Study on LGBTQ Faculty in the forum
Gay Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 10 months agoMESSAGE FROM PROF. SEAN ROBINSON RE: STUDY ON THE EXPERIENCES OF LGBTQ FACULTY
Inside the Lavender Tower: Stories of LGBTQ Faculty
Call for LGBTQ Faculty ParticipantsDear Faculty Colleagues,
I am conducting an international, qualitative study on the experiences of LGBTQ faculty. The purpose of my research is to capture the stories and…[Read more]
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Jason A. Baumann started the topic NYPL Martin Duberman Visiting Scholars in the forum
Gay Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 10 months agoThe New York Public Library
LGBT Visiting Scholars Program
Martin Duberman Visiting Scholars
http://www.nypl.org/node/113221
Each year, The New York Public Library provides stipends for up to two Martin Duberman Visiting Scholars. The stipends support travel to New York City and related expenses to do research in the Library’s premier LGBT (…[Read more]
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Cynthia R. Port started the topic CFP MLA 2015: Aging and the Posthuman in the forum
Literature and Science on MLA Commons 11 years, 11 months agoIn a scholarly context that is increasingly turning to the posthuman, the transhuman, and the virtual, explorations of the embodied experience of age and its cultural resonances offer crucial insights into the uniquely human awareness of the experience of living through time. For a guaranteed panel, sponsored by the MLA’s Age Studies Discussion G…[Read more]
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Christopher Looby started the topic CFP: Sexualities, Legislation, and Memory in the forum
Gay Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 11 months agoSponsored by both the Division on Postcolonial Studies and the Discussion Group on Law as Literature.
Sexualities, Legislation, and Memory
How are global victories and legal challenges to LGBT rights shaping autobiography, film, relationships with nations of origin, political engagement? 300 word abstracts by 14 March 2014 (deadline may be…[Read more] -
Beth Ellen Jörgensen started the topic MLA 2015 CFP, Elena Poniatowska Criticism in the forum
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 11 months agoOf interest to women’s studies scholars:
MLA 2015: ROUNDTABLE
Of interest to women’s studies scholars:
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, j…[Read more]
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Rita Bode started the topic NeMLA WGSC cf session proposals for 2015 Convention in the forum
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 11 months agoThe Women’s and Gender Studies Caucus (WGSC) of the Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) welcomes session proposals (panel, roundtable, seminar) for the 2015 Convention in Toronto ON Canada, April 30 – May 3. The deadline for submission is April 22, 2014, and the online proposal form will be available mid-March.<b> </b>Please see [Read more]
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Christopher Looby started the topic 2015 Divisional CFPs in the forum
Gay Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 11 months ago<p class=”MsoNormal”>QUEER ARCHIVES.
Remembering, forgetting; loss, abandonment, preservation, invention; foundations, authorities; remainders, survivals, salvages; epistemic arrangements, derangements, reorderings; material and immaterial archives; future archives; archive fever; presence, place, trace. 250-word abstracts, 1-page CV by 15 March…[Read more] -
Eric Aronoff replied to the topic CFP: Discussion Group for Science Fiction, Utopian and Fantastic Literature in the forum
Anthropological Approaches to Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 11 months agoTo clarify, this CFP is for MLA 2015…
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Eric Aronoff started the topic CFP MLA 2015: Disc. Group for Science Fiction, Utopian and Fantastic Literature in the forum
Literature and Science on MLA Commons 11 years, 11 months agoThis CFP might be of interest for members of this division:
<b>Science Fiction, Fantasy and the Concept of Culture</b>
How has sci-fi/fantasy explored (humanist and anthropological) concepts of “culture” and form? How does sci-fi/fantasy “world-making” engage/challenge anthropological ideas of culture/representation? Abstracts, brief cv by 15…[Read more] - Load More