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Cynthia Chase replied to the topic MLA 2025 – Migrations and Diasporas in the discussion
LLC 19th-Century French via email on MLA Commons 1 year, 12 months agoDear Karen Quandt,
Thank you for thinking of me, and with regard to such a good topic. But, I am going to be in Europe, not coming to the MLA.
Best wishes for a very successful session.
Yours,
Cynthia Chase
From: Karen Quandt <noreply@hcommons-staging.org>
Sent: Friday, January 26, 2024 10:10 AM
To: Cynthia Chase <cc97@cornell.edu>
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Karen Quandt started the topic MLA 2025 – Migrations and Diasporas in the discussion
LLC 19th-Century French on MLA Commons 1 year, 12 months agoPlease consider submitting an abstract for this guaranteed 19th-c French LLC Forum session at the MLA 2025 in New Orleans.
We invite submissions of 250-word abstracts for a roundtable with short papers on migrations, diasporas, and centers of cultural exchange in the 19th-century francophone world. Special focus on Louisiana and New Orleans is e…[Read more]
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Karen Quandt started the topic MLA 2025 – Masks and Masquerades in the discussion
LLC 19th-Century French on MLA Commons 1 year, 12 months agoPlease consider submitting an abstract for this 19th-c French LLC Forum guaranteed session at the MLA 2025 in New Orleans.
This panel invites submissions of 250-word abstracts for papers related to masks and masquerade broadly defined. Topics may include various forms of deceit, disguise, performance, appearance, and secrets.
Submit abstract t…[Read more]
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Hannah Freed-Thall started the topic MLA 2025 CFP: Entomological Turns in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French on MLA Commons 1 year, 12 months agoFrom Proust’s queer bumblebee to Deleuze and Guattari’s tick, insects play an outsized role in 20th/21st-century literature, art, and critical thought. Speakers will explore the French/Francophone entomological imagination, examining concepts from swarm to camouflage, pollination, and beyond.
This is a guaranteed 2025 MLA panel. Please send 250…[Read more]
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “Open and Intersectional Pedagogy: Teaching the Early Modern with Generative Artificial Intelligence,” MLA, Philadelphia, January 6, 2024 in the group
MS Screen Arts and Culture on MLA Commons 1 year, 12 months agoWhat a piece of theatre work is AI. Since AI outputs can be seen as a theatrical performance, in her 10-minute paper at the MLA, Alexa Alice Joubin argued that we can teach critical questioning skills using generative AI. She demonstrated responsible and creative ways to teach students meta-cognition, using Shakespeare and early modern studies as…[Read more]
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “Open and Intersectional Pedagogy: Teaching the Early Modern with Generative Artificial Intelligence,” MLA convention, Philadelphia, January 6, 2024 in the group
MS Screen Arts and Culture on MLA Commons 1 year, 12 months agoWhat a piece of theatre work is AI Since AI outputs can be seen as a theatrical performance, in her 10-minute paper at the MLA, Alexa Alice Joubin argued that we can teach critical questioning skills using generative AI. She demonstrated responsible and creative ways to teach students meta-cognition, using Shakespeare and early modern studies as…[Read more]
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Laura G. Gutierrez replied to the topic Nominations for Forum Executive Committee in the discussion
MS Screen Arts and Culture via email on MLA Commons 2 years agoI have gotten this email close to 20 times. I am also no longer a member of MLA so I don’t have an active account and don’t know how to unsubscribe. Make it stop please
From: Alenda Chang <noreply@hcommons-staging.org>
Date: Thursday, January 18, 2024 at 1:11 PM
To: Gutierrez, Laura G <lauragutierrez@utexas.edu>
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Bernadette Andrea started the topic Nominees to Executive Committee in the discussion
GS Travel Writing on MLA Commons 2 years agoThe MLA Travel Writing Forum seeks nominees to the Executive Committee, with a term to begin after the 2025 MLA Convention and run through Jan 2030. Please send nominations to bernadette.andrea@ucsb.edu by January 15, 2024. Self-nominations are welcome.
- Only current MLA members are eligible for appointment.
- Seven convention years must elapse…
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David A. Wacks started the topic Online talk on Sephardi Diaspora in Algeria (14th-15th c.) (Jan 30) in the discussion
CLCS Mediterranean on MLA Commons 2 years agoProf. Amina Boukail (Univ. Jijel), “Written Sephardic Diaspora to Survive from Spain to Algeria (14th–15th Centuries)”
Respondent: Javier Castaño (U Complutense)Jan 30, 8:00am Pacific US/11:00am Eastern US/17:00 Paris
“Euro-Mediterranean Entanglements in Medieval History”, presented by the German Historical Institutes of Paris and Rome
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Crystal Anne Chemris deposited Flyer for The Spanish Baroque and latin American Literary Modernity: writing in Constellation in the group
CLCS Mediterranean on MLA Commons 2 years agoThis contains a table of contents and description for the book, The Spanish Baroque and Latin American Literary Modernity: Writing in Constellation, as a follow up to my paper for the 2024 MLA. Chapter One formed the basis for “Góngora, Inca Garcilaso, and the Meeting of Humanist and Indigenous Modes of Knowledge.”
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David A. Wacks started the topic Summer Workshop: “Sephardic Culture: An Introduction” (July 8-11, 2024) in the discussion
CLCS Mediterranean on MLA Commons 2 years agoThe Mediterranean Seminar Summer Skills Seminars are intensive, interactive four-day workshops that provide students, scholars, and professionals with the foundational training in technical skills related to Mediterranean Studies.
The Seminars, run by leading scholars, emphasize hands-on reading complemented by supplementary and contextual…[Read more]
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Gerald Joseph Prince started the topic Call Nominations LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French Forum Executive Committee in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French on MLA Commons 2 years agoDear Colleagues,The LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French Forum Executive Committee is seeking (self-)nominations from our membership for one colleague willing to serve a term of five convention years (from January 2025 through the close of the January 2029 convention) as member of the executive committee. Responsibilities of the committee members…[Read more]
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Alenda Chang started the topic MS Screen Arts and Culture sessions at MLA 2024 in the discussion
MS Screen Arts and Culture on MLA Commons 2 years agoHi everyone! As this year’s forum executive committee chair for MS Screen Arts and Culture, I just wanted to alert everyone to the sessions that our forum has organized/sponsored. Thanks to our committee members for their hard work.
Organized by yours truly, tomorrow (THU) at 3:30PM we kick off with #92 “The Micropolitics of Environmental Media”…[Read more]
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Arif Camoglu deposited Provincializing Romanticism: Ottoman Hayaliyyun and Literary Globality in the Nineteenth Century in the group
CLCS Romantic and 19th-Century on MLA Commons 2 years, 1 month agoThis essay considers the shortfalls of globalizing tendencies in nineteenth-century
literary studies with a focus on the Ottoman Turkish articulation of romanticism, i.e.,
hayaliyyun. Retrieving a historically and geographically hybrid genealogy of romanticism
through the Ottoman Turkish context, my discussion situates romantic imaginary…[Read more] -
Michael Subialka started the topic Call for Submissions, PSA Vol 36 (2024) in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Italian on MLA Commons 2 years, 1 month agoDear Colleagues, We are happy to announce that we are now accepting submissions for the next volume (36) of PSA, the peer-reviewed scholarly journal of the Pirandello Society of America (https://www.pirandellosociety.org/). This is an open topic issue – any work on or relating to Luigi Pirandello is invited. The volume will be published in 2024…[Read more]
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Fatma Fulya Tepe started the topic new article: Osman Hamdi Bey – an Ottoman Orientalist or a Humanist Ottoman? in the discussion
CLCS Mediterranean on MLA Commons 2 years, 1 month agoDear Colleagues,
Emeritus Prof. Dr. Per Bauhn from Linnaeus University, Sweden published an article titled “Osman Hamdi Bey – an Ottoman Orientalist or a Humanist Ottoman?” in Nordic Review of Iconography.
I present the abstract of this article below and the article can be downloaded for free from the link b…[Read more] -
Arif Camoglu deposited “Supreme in Ruin”: Empire’s Afterlife in Romantic Encounters with Imperial Ruins in the group
CLCS Romantic and 19th-Century on MLA Commons 2 years, 1 month agoRegistered in Romantic depictions of imperial ruins is the endurance of empire in its immateriality: the imageries of empire’s ruination announce a future where imperial sovereignty maintains its presence spectrally. Using Jacques Derrida’s notion of hauntology, and recruiting further insight from political theory, this essay argues that emp…[Read more]
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “Radical Listening and the Global Politics of Inclusiveness,” Inclusive Shakespeares: Identity, Pedagogy, Performance, ed. Sonya Freeman Loftis, Mardy Philippian, Justin P. Shaw (Palgrave, 2023), pp. 221-234 in the group
MS Screen Arts and Culture on MLA Commons 2 years, 1 month agoInclusiveness in higher education is distinct from advocacy journalism, which means we have to work actively against any ineffectual default to rituals of inclusion. When implemented unilaterally as a one-size-fits-all social imposition, some gestures of inclusion risk becoming empty rituals. As multifocal, multilingual, and multicultural…[Read more]
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Arif Camoglu deposited Inter-imperial Dimensions of Turkish Literary Modernity in the group
CLCS Romantic and 19th-Century on MLA Commons 2 years, 1 month agoCalling for a historiographical shift in literary criticism, this essay stresses the expansionist vision of the nineteenth-century Ottoman Empire, approaches its literature as a corpus of representation for imperial subjectivities, and thereby supplements the critique of the narrative of literary modernity identified with the orientalist E. J. W.…[Read more]
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Hania A.M. Nashef deposited Canines: Unlikely Protagonists in the Novels of Coetzee, Saramago and Shibli in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 2 years, 2 months agoAnthropomorphism, which combines two Greek words, anthropos and morphe, meaning “human” and “form’ respectively, is a term that reflects our attribution of human characteristics to non-human animals and objects, bestowing upon them agency (Taylor 2011: 266). In this respect, we elevate the status of the non-human animal, moving it from being a…[Read more]
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