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Alexa Joubin deposited “‘To unpath’d waters, undream’d shores’: Shakespeare in the World.” The Score : An Insider’s Guide to the Performing Arts (New York: Lincoln Center, June 28, 2018) in the group
LLC East Asian on MLA Commons 7 years, 7 months agoIn the centuries since William Shakespeare’s death, numerous stage and, more recently, film and television adaptations of his work have emerged to inspire, comfort, and provoke audiences in far-flung corners of the globe. As early as 1619, for example, Hamlet was performed in colonial Indonesia to entertain European expatriates. In 1845, U.S. Army…[Read more]
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Robert Jackson started the topic CFP: THE GLOBAL SOUTH: "Global Migration and International Film History" in the discussion
Global South on MLA Commons 7 years, 8 months agoSpecial Issue of The Global South: “Global Migration and International Film History”
Deadline for proposals: August 1, 2018
Name: Robert Jackson
Contact email: bob-jackson@utulsa.edu
This special issue of The Global South aims to identify new approaches to a pair of modern phenomena: the global migration of peoples, and the mov…[Read more]
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Weihsin Gui started the topic Petition to form an Indian Ocean Studies CLCS Forum in the discussion
Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 7 years, 10 months agoHi everyone: just FYI – there’s a petition to create a CLCS Forum focused on Indian Ocean Studies.
I support the creation of this forum as I think it can be a venue to discuss the historical and contemporary connections between Africa, South Asia, and Southeast Asia, and this forum could be a potential collaborator in future. Please consider…[Read more]
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Nienke Boer started the topic Petition to create new MLA forum: CLCS Indian Ocean in the discussion
Global South on MLA Commons 7 years, 10 months agoDear members,
I’m getting the ball rolling on trying to activate the prospective MLA forum CLCS Indian Ocean. The first step involved getting 35 signatures on the petition at MLA Commons as well as five volunteers for leadership positions. After that, a full proposal will be solicited by the MLA, probably in mid-June.Here is a link to the…[Read more]
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Weihsin Gui started the topic Southeast Asia session proposals for 2019 MLA (deadline March 15) in the discussion
Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 7 years, 10 months agoDear academic colleagues: there’s still time (deadline March 15) to submit a paper to one of these three proposed sessions about Southeast Asia for the 2019 MLA conference in Chicago. Details below.
* “Diasporas, Aesthetics, and Southeast Asia”: What aesthetics (or anesthetics) do diasporic movements into/out of/within Southeast Asia generate? C…[Read more]
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Geraldine Fiss started the topic CFP: Mapping East Asian Feminisms in the discussion
East Asian Languages and Literatures to 1900 on MLA Commons 7 years, 10 months agoCFP: Mapping East Asian Feminisms
MLA 2019 LLC East Asian Forum Session Call for Papers
MLA 2019 Convention in Chicago, January 3-6, 2019
Modern and contemporary East Asian women writers, poets and filmmakers contribute in unique and significant ways to cultural change, while both embodying and transcending feminist concerns. Many women…[Read more]
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Geraldine Fiss posted an update in the group
LLC East Asian on MLA Commons 7 years, 10 months agoCFP: Mapping East Asian Feminisms
MLA 2019 LLC East Asian Forum Session Call for Papers
MLA 2019 Convention in Chicago, January 3-6, 2019Modern and contemporary East Asian women writers, poets and filmmakers contribute in unique and significant ways to cultural change, while both embodying and transcending feminist concerns. Many women…[Read more]
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Melek Ortabasi started the topic ADCPL CFP MLA 2019: “Transacting Comparative Studies” in the discussion
Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoHi all, I’m on the board of the Association of Departments and Programs of Comparative Literature and I’m posting on behalf of the chair, Thomas Beebee, to publicize our CFP for MLA 2019. Here it is, inspired by the Presidential Theme of “Textual Transactions”:
Transacting Comparative Studies with other Disciplines and Units
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Magalí Armillas-Tiseyra posted an update in the group
CLCS Global South on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoCFPs for Global South panels at MLA 2019 (Chicago):
**Waste, Garbage, and Effluence in the Global South**
Encounters with waste in narratives both historical and contemporary welcomed. Possible entanglements include animality, comparative modernities, labor and the environment.
Abstracts of 300 words by 15 March 2018; Rosemary J. Jolly…[Read more] -
Sheela Jane Menon posted an update in the group
CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoCFP for MLA 2019: “Race, Nation, and Empire in Southeast Asian Life Writing.” How does Southeast Asian life writing reframe questions of race, nation, empire, and history? Comparative approaches welcomed. 300-word abstract and short bio to John David Zuern (zuern@hawaii.edu) and Sheela Jane Menon (menons@dickinson.edu) due 15 March 2018. Please…[Read more]
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Annette Damayanti Lienau started the topic CFP: Afro-Asian Cultural Solidarity and Unfinished Projects of Independence in the discussion
Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoGuaranteed panel sponsored by the Modern Language Association’s Committee of Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies, 20th and 21st century.
This panel takes its cue from Leopold Senghor’s writing on the ambiguities and paradoxes of the Bandung moment: as a call to shared independence that bears the risk of (ethno)-nationalist exploitations i…[Read more]
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Cheryl Narumi Naruse posted an update in the group
LLC Modern and Contemporary Chinese on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoCFP for the CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic Forum’s first guaranteed session for MLA 2019:
Diasporas, Aesthetics, and Southeast Asia
What aesthetics (or anesthetics) do diasporic movements into/out of/within Southeast Asia generate? Comparative and multimedia approaches welcomed. 300 word abstracts and bios by 15 March 2018;…[Read more]
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Brian Bernards posted an update in the group
LLC Modern and Contemporary Chinese on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoCFP for MLA 2019 (Chicago) Special Session sponsored by the CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic Forum (please excuse the cross-forum advertising):
Southeast Asian Textual Translations and Transactions
Each year, the Southeast Asian Writers Award (S.E.A. Write) is awarded to an author from each of the member states of ASEAN. The…[Read more]
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Brian Bernards posted an update in the group
CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoCFP for MLA 2019 Special Session sponsored by the CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic Forum:
Southeast Asian Textual Translations and Transactions
Each year, the Southeast Asian Writers Award (S.E.A. Write) is awarded to an author from each of the member states of ASEAN. The awardees are typically authors whose works are written…[Read more]
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Cheryl Narumi Naruse posted an update in the group
CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoCFP for the CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic Forum’s first guaranteed session for MLA 2019:
Diasporas, Aesthetics, and Southeast Asia
What aesthetics (or anesthetics) do diasporic movements into/out of/within Southeast Asia generate? Comparative and multimedia approaches welcomed. 300 word abstracts and bios by 15 March 2018;…[Read more]
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Jonathan Abel posted an update in the group
LLC East Asian on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoCFP:
Social Media, Literary Transaction, and Nationalism in East Asian LiteratureA Forum Session at the next MLA convention in Chicago, January 3-6, 2019
How have Asian digital networks (e.g. Line, Weibo, and KakaoTalk) impacted the circulation of poetry and prose? And do these new literary transactions correlate with heightened…[Read more]
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Kelly Y. Jeong started the topic CFP: Literature and Film in Neoliberal East Asia in the discussion
East Asian Languages and Literatures to 1900 on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoCFP: Literature and Film in Neoliberal East Asia
A Forum Session at the next MLA convention in Chicago, January 3-6, 2019
In recent decades East Asian societies have felt the reach of neoliberalism as a culture, a set of economic policies, and political agenda, which has informed people’s lives in various ways. This guaranteed panel for Mod…[Read more]
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “Global Shakespeare Criticism beyond the Nation State.” Chapter 25 of The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Performance, ed. James C. Bulman (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017), pp. 423-440 in the group
LLC East Asian on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoTo move global Shakespeare studies beyond the more limiting scope of nation-state and cultural profiling, I would like to propose we consider a number of critical concepts as methodology. These concepts critique the limitations of cartographic imagination, and connect the performance site to spaces of knowledge production: (1) the site of…[Read more]
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Brian Bernards posted an update in the group
CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 7 years, 12 months agoMLA 2019 Update — CFP for Special Session:
Southeast Asian Textual Translations and Transactions
How does one teach/research/compare Southeast Asian texts (literature, cinema, etc.) from different linguistic/national/cultural contexts in translation? 300-word abstracts and short bios due to Brian Bernards (bernards@usc.edu) March 15.
CFP now…[Read more]
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Sheela Jane Menon posted an update in the group
CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 7 years, 12 months agoIncluded in the Griffith Review 59 issue linked below, is this important piece on the Batang Kali Massacre by Bernice Chauly. https://griffithreview.com/articles/truth-still-denied-batang-kali-massacre/
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