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Hania A.M. Nashef deposited ‘To have been and no longer be’: The angst towards death in Darwish’s Mural and Saramago’s Death at Intervals in the group
TC Philosophy and Literature on MLA Commons 3 years, 3 months agoIn Portuguese Nobel Laureate José Saramago’s As Intermitências da Morte (2005) and in Mahmoud Darwish’s epic poem Mural (2000), the authors contemplate the nothingness that accompanies death, a concern that increasingly permeates their later writings. Although ‘death’ is depicted differently, the authors fear that with death “the universe wo…[Read more]
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Tekla Babyak started the topic CFP: Musical responses to Goethe’s Works (ASECS, St. Louis, March 9-11, 2023) in the discussion
TC Philosophy and Literature on MLA Commons 3 years, 5 months agoSponsored by the Goethe Society of North America, I’m chairing a session on Goethe and music at the 2023 Annual Meeting of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. I’m a disabled independent scholar with multiple sclerosis (PhD, Musicology, Cornell, 2014). Thus, my Goethe session helps promote diversity in German Studies, insofar as…[Read more]
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Catherine Barbour started the topic CFP: Youth Theatre and Performance in Regional, Minority, and Minoritised Langs in the discussion
LLC Catalan Studies on MLA Commons 3 years, 5 months agoA conference will be held on the theme of ‘Youth Theatre and Performance in Regional, Minority, and Minoritised Languages’ on 23-25 March 2023, hosted by the School of Irish, Celtic Studies and Folklore, University College Dublin, Ireland. The deadline for submission of 250 word abstracts is Friday, 28 October 2022. Further information about the…[Read more]
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Ari Borrell deposited Ko-wu or Kung-an? Practive, Realization and Teaching in the Thought of Chang Chiu-cheng in the group
TC Philosophy and Literature on MLA Commons 3 years, 6 months agoExamines the intersection between Chan Buddhism and Neo-Confucianism during the Southern Song dynasty period (1126-1279) in China.
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Ari Borrell deposited Ko-wu or Kung-an? Practive, Realization and Teaching in the Thought of Chang Chiu-cheng in the group
2022 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 3 years, 6 months agoExamines the intersection between Chan Buddhism and Neo-Confucianism during the Southern Song dynasty period (1126-1279) in China.
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Minni Sawhney deposited La figura del renegado en el teatro de Cervantes in the group
GS Travel Writing on MLA Commons 3 years, 7 months agoOn the renegades in Cervantes’s Captivity plays
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Louise Bethlehem deposited Hydrocolonial Johannesburg in the group
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 3 years, 7 months agoJohannesburg is a landlocked city, famously the largest human concentration in the southern hemisphere not located on a river. What opportunities does it afford for hydrocolonial analysis, given Isabel Hofmeyr’s anchoring of that term in oceanic studies? How might a hydrocolonial orientation defamiliarize the relations between surface and depths…[Read more]
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Mary Kate Donovan started the topic TRECE Symposium 2022 in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 3 years, 8 months agoCFP – TRECE Symposium 2022 to be held in person at Northwestern University, September 29 – October 1. Proposals for papers are due July 15, 2022 to ColectivoTRECE@outlook.com. Please see attached document for more details.
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Laura Vilardell Domenech posted an update in the group
LLC Catalan Studies on MLA Commons 3 years, 8 months ago“Books against Tyranny”: New book looks at Catalan publishers under Franco, by Laura Vilardell https://t.e2ma.net/click/jv8gej/nm0bnf7b/3etl1fb
Catalan-language publishers were under constant threat during the dictatorship of Francisco Franco (1939–75). Both the Catalan language and the introduction of foreign ideas were banned by the regim…[Read more] -
Marisa Verna deposited “Sacrificio, forza e debolezza ne La peste di Camus” in the group
TC Philosophy and Literature on MLA Commons 3 years, 8 months agoIn this essay we reinterpret Camus’s novel The Plague in light of the urgency of history, that with Covid 19 pandemia made us face a real pestilence, thus allowing us to read reality and fiction as even. Our rereading relativizes the traditional allegoric interpretation of critics, while at the same time it widens its perspectives. It is in fact i…[Read more]
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Francesco Ardolino deposited Jordi Sarsanedas i la cultura francesa: influències, traduccions i autotraduccions in the group
LLC Catalan Studies on MLA Commons 3 years, 10 months agoDuring the second half of the 20th century, Jordi Sarsanedas was a relevant actor in the bilateral relationship between Catalonia and France. His engagement as a cultural activist led him to occupy strategic positions to disseminate the Catalan language and literature. Suffice to say that he was Serra d’Or editor-in-chief, dean of the I…[Read more]
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Ana I Simón-Alegre started the topic Call for Papers-Feministas Unidas-MLA in the discussion
LLC 18th- and 19th-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 3 years, 10 months agoCall for Papers MLA 2023-Feministas Unidas -Sesión Garantizada-, March 25, 2022. Transatlantic Dissidences from Tierra del Fuego to the Pyrenees. Interdisciplinary panel exploring dissidences and/or disruptions in the global Transatlantic (gender, sexualities, race, ethnicity, cultural, literary, economic, visual, etc.). Submit 150-word abstract…[Read more]
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Yvonne Fuentes started the topic Friendly reminder MLA 2023 abstracts due March 15 in the discussion
LLC 18th- and 19th-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 3 years, 10 months agoThe Power of Ridicule in Spanish and Iberian Political Satire of the 18th and 19th CenturiesWe invite 250-word abstracts that explore satire’s function as preserver of the established order; or that question whether it conserves important structures while allowing the collective a therapeutic release of tension. Is satire inherently…[Read more]
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Yvonne Fuentes started the topic Friendly reminder 2023 MLA abstracts due March 15th. in the discussion
LLC 18th- and 19th-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 3 years, 10 months agoDissent and Dissension in Spanish and Iberian Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Literary and Visual TextsWe invite abstracts that explore dissent & dissension at the micro/macro levels. Examples include actors, artists, artisans, craftsmen, writers who pushed back against decrees & social norms while expressing dissent or dissension. 250-word…[Read more]
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Luis Alvarez-Castro started the topic Latest Issue of “Decimonónica” in the discussion
LLC 18th- and 19th-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 3 years, 10 months agoDear colleagues,
I am pleased to announce that the latest issue of the online journal Decimonónica (Revista de producción cultural hispánica) has just been released. The five essays comprising this issue (19.1 – Winter 2022) as well as all previous issues are available for free at the journal’s website: http://www.decimononica.org/
Saludos,
Luis
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Stephen E. Lewis deposited “Philosopher d’une manière ‘mariale’: Alentour du verset: Petite phénoménologie des Mystères de Marie-Aimée Manchon” in the group
TC Philosophy and Literature on MLA Commons 3 years, 10 months agoA review article focused on phenomenological method and Christian thought in Marie-Aimée Manchon’s book _Alentour du verses: Petite phénoménologie des Mystère_ (Ad Solem, 2019).
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Thomas Oliver Beebee started the topic CFP: Special Issue of Comparative Literature Studies on Redesigning Modernities in the discussion
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 3 years, 11 months agoThe journal Comparative Literature Studies invites proposals for a special issue titled “Redesigning Modernities Part II,” edited by Waïl Hassan (U of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) and Maria Truglio (Penn State U). The issue solicits inquiries into the divergences, inequalities, and commonalities that define “modernity” in different parts of the w…[Read more]
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Nicholas Wolters started the topic International Association of Galdós Scholars: Book Fair, 8 April 2022 in the discussion
LLC 18th- and 19th-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 3 years, 11 months agoYou are cordially invited to attend the Second Book Fair hosted by the International Association of Galdós Scholars (Asociación Internacional de Galdosistas). This is a virtual event that will take place on Friday, April 8, 2022. See attached flier for details about time, registration link (registration is required), and program including the n…[Read more]
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William Viestenz started the topic CfP MLA 2023 LLC Catalan Studies in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 3 years, 11 months agoTheories and Practices of Emotional Labor in Catalan Culture
Submissions related to emotional labor in Catalan culture from a variety of theoretical and historical perspectives, including histories of the emotions, affect theory, memory and trauma, practices of care, and the gendered division of labor. Deadline for submissions: Monday, 21 March…[Read more] - Load More