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Joseph Campana posted an update in the group
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 8 years, 4 months agoCall for postdocs
Rice University, 2018-19: “Waste Histories and Futures.”
http://hrc.rice.edu/node/709
Deadline: Friday, December 1, 2017Rice University’s Humanities Research Center will host the seminar “Waste: Histories and Futures” in 2018-19, co-organized by Joseph Campana (English), Cymene Howe (Anthropology), and Dominic Boyer…[Read more]
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Joela Jacobs posted an update in the group
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 8 years, 5 months agoCall for Papers
Living Matters: The Politics and Poetics of Neglected Life Forms
ACLA Seminar, 3/29-4/1, 2018 at UCLAThis American Comparative Literature Association seminar invites papers addressing life forms that have been largely neglected by the nonhuman turn, in its more immediate focus on animals, objects, and environmental forces or…[Read more]
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Janine M. Utell posted an update in the group
MS Visual Culture on MLA Commons 8 years, 5 months agoSpecial Issue of The Space Between: Literature and Culture 1914–1945: Call for Essays
Dada and Surrealism: Transatlantic Aliens on American Shores, 1914 – 1945 (essays considering the intersections of visual culture with other fields related to the topic would be most welcome)deadline for submissions: December 31, 2017
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Janine M. Utell posted an update in the group
MS Screen Arts and Culture on MLA Commons 8 years, 5 months agoSpecial Issue of The Space Between: Literature and Culture 1914–1945: Call for Essays (of interest to those working in film)
Dada and Surrealism: Transatlantic Aliens on American Shores, 1914 – 1945deadline for submissions: December 31, 2017
Please submit full essays of 6,000-7,500 words in Times New Roman 12 pt. font, with MLA citation sty…[Read more] -
Anastasia Salter deposited Principles of Visual Language Syllabus in the group
MS Visual Culture on Humanities Commons 8 years, 5 months agoThis course focuses on developing visual language literacy and theoretical frameworks through analyzing and creating a range of narrative media. We will examine a range of visual scholarly and creative works, starting with sequential art and moving into time-based and interactive media.
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Heike Bauer deposited The Hirschfeld Archives: Violence, Death, and Modern Queer Culture in the group
LLC 19th- and Early-20th-Century German on MLA Commons 8 years, 6 months agoThe book examines little known and forgotten writings by Magnus Hirschfeld, the influential sexologist who is best known today for his homosexual activism, transgender work and founding of the world’s first Institute of Sexual Science in 1919. Arguing that negative experiences, as much as affirmative subculture formation, shaped a collective sense…[Read more]
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Carl Gelderloos deposited Book review: Robert Leucht. Dynamiken politischer Imagination. Die deutschsprachige Utopie von Stifter bis Döblin in ihren internationalen Kontexten, 1848–1930 Ulrich E. Bach. Tropics of Vienna: Colonial Utopias of the Habsburg Empire in the group
LLC 19th- and Early-20th-Century German on MLA Commons 8 years, 6 months agoA review of Robert Leucht’s “Dynamiken politischer Imagination. Die deutschsprachige Utopie von Stifter bis Döblin in ihren internationalen Kontexten, 1848–1930” (2016) and Ulrich Bach’s “Tropics of Vienna: Colonial Utopias of the Habsburg Empire” (2016)
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Jeffrey Cohen posted an update in the group
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 8 years, 6 months agoHi everyone, just wondering what to do to make this site of greater use to membership. All suggestions and ideas welcome!
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Let us know if we can help here! It might be great to use your group (or site) to promote all the ecocriticism / environmental humanities sessions at the convention, collect presentations and slides from presenters (share them with the group from CORE), or promote other events relevant to the group through the “Events” calendar up above!
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Lee B. Abraham started the topic CfP: Approaches to Teaching and Learning with Urban Spaces – NeMLA 2018 in the discussion
Literature and Other Arts on MLA Commons 8 years, 8 months agoCall for Papers
Approaches to Teaching and Learning with Urban Spaces49th Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) Convention
Global Spaces, Local Landscapes and Imagined Worlds
April 12-15, 2018, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
NeMLA Web Site: http://www.buffalo.edu/nemla/convention.htmlThe late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries have…[Read more]
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Carl Gelderloos deposited A Review of “Andreas Huyssen, Miniature Metropolis” in the group
MS Visual Culture on MLA Commons 8 years, 8 months agoA review of Andreas Huyssen’s “Miniature Metropolis: Literature in an Age of Photography and Film” (2015)
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Carl Gelderloos deposited A Review of “Andreas Huyssen, Miniature Metropolis” in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century German on MLA Commons 8 years, 8 months agoA review of Andreas Huyssen’s “Miniature Metropolis: Literature in an Age of Photography and Film” (2015)
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Carl Gelderloos deposited A Review of “Andreas Huyssen, Miniature Metropolis” in the group
LLC 19th- and Early-20th-Century German on MLA Commons 8 years, 8 months agoA review of Andreas Huyssen’s “Miniature Metropolis: Literature in an Age of Photography and Film” (2015)
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Carl Gelderloos deposited A Review of “Andreas Huyssen, Miniature Metropolis” in the group
MS Visual Culture on MLA Commons 8 years, 8 months agoA review of Andreas Huyssen’s “Miniature Metropolis: Literature in an Age of Photography and Film” (2015)
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Carl Gelderloos deposited A Review of “Andreas Huyssen, Miniature Metropolis” in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century German on MLA Commons 8 years, 8 months agoA review of Andreas Huyssen’s “Miniature Metropolis: Literature in an Age of Photography and Film” (2015)
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Carl Gelderloos deposited A Review of “Andreas Huyssen, Miniature Metropolis” in the group
LLC 19th- and Early-20th-Century German on MLA Commons 8 years, 8 months agoA review of Andreas Huyssen’s “Miniature Metropolis: Literature in an Age of Photography and Film” (2015)
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Alexa Joubin deposited “Shakespeare on Film in Asia.” Chapter 12 of The Shakespearean World, ed. Jill L. Levenson and Robert Ormsby (London: Routledge, 2017), pp. 225-240 in the group
MS Screen Arts and Culture on MLA Commons 8 years, 10 months agoShakespearean tragedies and comedies have been adapted to the silver screen in India, Malaysia, Tibet, Hong Kong, Singapore, China, and Japan. How do Shakespeare and modern directors talk to each other across cultural and historical divides? Why are particular strategies used or themes emphasized? How are pre-linguistic structures of spectacle and…[Read more]
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Hatem Akil started the topic Environmental Insecurities and Global Arab Humanities – MLA 2018 CFP in the discussion
Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 8 years, 10 months agoDear Friends,
Time is closing on submissions to the MLA 2018 convention panels organized by the Forum on Global Arab and Arab American Literature (GAAM). Please review and circulate as may be necessary.
Environmental Insecurities and Global Arab Humanities
Areas to consider for this panel might include: contexts and environmental flashpoints:…[Read more]
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Kaitlin Mondello started the topic CFP MLA 2018: "Dark Ecology" in 19th-century British Literature in the discussion
Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months ago<span style=”font-weight: 400;”>In </span><i><span style=”font-weight: 400;”>The Ecological Thought</span></i><span style=”font-weight: 400;”>, Timothy Morton defines his eponymous title as “the thinking of interconnectedness” (1,7), with the recognition that this interconnection also “has a dark side” (EWN 184). This idea of “dark ecology”…[Read more]
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Brian Vetruba deposited Twenty-eigth Annual Bibliography 2014 (Contemporary German Literature Collection) in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century German on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoThe 28th bibliography for 560 volumes added to Washington University Libraries’ Contemporary German Literature Collection. All published in 2014, these acquisitions include novels, poetry, short story collections, essays, autobiographical works, and literary and cultural periodicals mainly from publishers in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. A…[Read more]
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Jeffrey Cohen started the topic MLA 2018, NYC–Call for Working Group Participants in the discussion
Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 8 years, 11 months agoPosted on behalf of Sophia Dawn Christman-Lavin.
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Our working group seeks participants whose scholarship reflects on the notion of ecological citizenship.
The goals of the group include (1) contemplating the diverse ways in which ecological citizenship is revealed in literary works (any period), as well as through its various modes of pu…[Read more]
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