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Joela Jacobs started the topic CfP: Future Past (GSA 2019, Environmental Studies Network) in the discussion
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoGerman Studies Association
Oct. 3-6, 2019 – Portland, Oregon
“Future Past”
Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies Network
Abstracts due Jan. 15, 2019
The Environmental Studies Network invites submissions for a series of panels for the GSA 2019, taking place October 3-6, 2019 in Portland, Oregon.
We invite submissions for a series of pan…[Read more]
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Joela Jacobs started the topic CfP: Future Past (GSA 2019, Environmental Studies Network) in the discussion
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoGerman Studies Association
Oct. 3-6, 2019 – Portland, Oregon“Future Past”
Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies Network
Abstracts due Jan. 15, 2019
The Environmental Studies Network invites submissions for a series of panels for the GSA 2019, taking place October 3-6, 2019 in Portland, Oregon.
We invite submissions for a series of pan…[Read more]
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Joela Jacobs started the topic MLA 2020 CfP: Vegetal Imaginations: Plants in German Literature and Culture in the discussion
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoVegetal Imaginations: Plants in German Literature and Culture
This panel will explore the role of plants in the German literary and cultural imagination, with a special focus on questions of gender, sexuality, and ecofeminism.
Please send 300-word abstracts and a short bio or CV by 1 March 2019 to Joela Jacobs (joelajacobs@email.arizona.edu) and…[Read more]
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Daniel Alan Fried started the topic Association of Chinese and Comparative Literature abstract deadline extended in the discussion
LLC East Asian on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoDear Colleagues,
I would like to invite you to submit an abstract to the 2019 conference of the Association of Chinese and Comparative Literature, to be held from July 17-19, 2019, on the campus of Hunan Normal University in Changsha, China. The deadline for receipt of abstracts has been extended to January 7. The ACCL welcomes papers on a…[Read more]
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Katherine Hummel started the topic "Resisting Otherwise" CFP: Guaranteed Panel for ASLE, June 26-30, 2019, Davis CA in the discussion
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoResisting Otherwise: Mobilizing Submerged Perspectives in Global Social Ecologies (Guaranteed Panel for ASLE, June 26-30, 2019, Davis CA)
Ends on December 15, 2018
Organizers: Katherine Hummel (hummel@umich.edu) and Constanza Contreras (cbcontre@umich.edu), University of Michigan
Planned Format: Roundtable (5-6 Presenters)
For decades, i…[Read more]
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Luis I. Pradanos started the topic Postgrowth Imaginaries (Liverpool University Press, 2018) Available Open Access in the discussion
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months agoThis book demonstrates that a postgrowth imaginary is emerging on the Iberian Peninsula today and offers several ways of reading its cultural implications from a degrowth-inspired environmental humanities perspective. The complex interrelations among cultural practices, economic paradigms, and ecological processes are vastly under-theorized. I…[Read more]
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Luis I. Pradanos started the topic Postgrowth Imaginaries (Liverpool University Press, 2018) Available Open Access in the discussion
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months agoPostgrowth Imaginaries (Liverpool University Press, 2018). This book demonstrates that a postgrowth imaginary is emerging on the Iberian Peninsula today and offers several ways of reading its cultural implications from a degrowth-inspired environmental humanities perspective. The complex interrelations among cultural practices, economic paradigms,…[Read more]
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Luis I. Pradanos started the topic Postgrowth Imaginaries (Liverpool University Press, 2018) Available Open Access in the discussion
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months agoPostgrowth Imaginaries (Liverpool University Press, 2018). This book demonstrates that a postgrowth imaginary is emerging on the Iberian Peninsula today and offers several ways of reading its cultural implications from a degrowth-inspired environmental humanities perspective. The complex interrelations among cultural practices, economic paradigms,…[Read more]
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Tana Jean Welch started the topic CFP: Medical Humanism / American Literature in the discussion
Poetry on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoMedical Humanism / American Literature
CFP for American Literature Association (ALA) 30th Annual Conference
May 23-26, 2019, Boston, MA
Given the ongoing healthcare crisis in America—soaring costs, physician shortages, and lack of insurance coverage—and the rising interest in the field of health humanities, I seek projects that illuminate Ame…[Read more]
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Phillip Usher started the topic French Natures featuring Bruno Latour's "Inside" at NYU, October 26-27 in the discussion
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FRENCH NATURES featuring BRUNO LATOUR’s conference-spectacle “INSIDE”
October 26-27, 2018, New York UniversityA two-day conference-festival about how literature, film, visual art, theater, and philosophy mediate our relationship to the planet in our times of environmental catas…[Read more]
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Phillip Usher started the topic French Natures featuring Bruno Latour's "Inside" at NYU, October 26-27 in the discussion
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Carol Zuses started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2019 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
East Asian Languages and Literatures to 1900 on MLA Commons 7 years, 4 months agoThe next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2019, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets during the January 2019 convention in Chicago. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nom…[Read more]
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Caroline Wilkinson deposited The Handmade Landscape: Manual Labor and the Construction of Eden in Dickens’s Martin Chuzzlewit in the group
GS Poetry and Poetics on MLA Commons 7 years, 4 months agoIn his 1843 novel, Martin Chuzzlewit, Dickens used the pastoral mode to deliver a strong message about labor. To communicate this message, he employed the mode’s many traits, including its retreat into and return from the rural landscape and its focus on the country worker, traditionally the shepherd. This essay follows the novel’s pastoral ret…[Read more]
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Caroline Wilkinson deposited The “Former Sun” in the Sidereal Clock: The Kabbalistic Heavens and Time in The Spanish Gypsy and Daniel Deronda in the group
GS Poetry and Poetics on MLA Commons 7 years, 4 months agoIn both her epic poem The Spanish Gypsy and her final novel Daniel Deronda, Eliot drew upon kabbalistic concepts of the heavens through the characters of Jewish mystics. In the later novel, Eliot moved the mystic, Mordecai, from the narrative’s periphery to its center. This change, symbolically equated within the novel to a shift from…[Read more]
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Tom Mazanec deposited Lyricism, the Veneration of Feeling, and Narrative Techniques in the Poetry Talks of the Southern Society in the group
LLC East Asian on MLA Commons 7 years, 4 months agoThis paper examines the voluminous “poetry talks” (shihua) written by Southern Society (Nanshe) members and focuses on two tendencies in these discourses: The general cult of sentimentality and the narrative strategy on women’s poetry. These poetic discourses succeeded the language of traditional literary criticism, but also exhibited ideals of th…[Read more]
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Tom Mazanec deposited Lyricism, the Veneration of Feeling, and Narrative Techniques in the Poetry Talks of the Southern Society in the group
GS Poetry and Poetics on MLA Commons 7 years, 4 months agoThis paper examines the voluminous “poetry talks” (shihua) written by Southern Society (Nanshe) members and focuses on two tendencies in these discourses: The general cult of sentimentality and the narrative strategy on women’s poetry. These poetic discourses succeeded the language of traditional literary criticism, but also exhibited ideals of th…[Read more]
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Tom Mazanec deposited From Poetic Revolution to the Southern Society: The Birth of Classicist Poetry in Modern China in the group
LLC East Asian on MLA Commons 7 years, 4 months agoThis paper examines the birth of classicist poetry by paying attention to the Southern Society’s (Nanshe) diachronic succession of the late Qing Poetic Revolution. It provides a careful analysis on the novelty of Huang Zunxian’s poetry and shows how the Southern Society transformed Huang’s Europeanized innovation into something that was roote…[Read more]
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Tom Mazanec deposited From Poetic Revolution to the Southern Society: The Birth of Classicist Poetry in Modern China in the group
GS Poetry and Poetics on MLA Commons 7 years, 4 months agoThis paper examines the birth of classicist poetry by paying attention to the Southern Society’s (Nanshe) diachronic succession of the late Qing Poetic Revolution. It provides a careful analysis on the novelty of Huang Zunxian’s poetry and shows how the Southern Society transformed Huang’s Europeanized innovation into something that was roote…[Read more]
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Tom White deposited Written in Trees in the group
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 7 years, 4 months agoSeminar paper for ‘Translating the Nonhuman’, organised by Liam Lewis (University of Warwick) and Haylie Swenson (The George Washington University)
Seminar Abstract — This seminar invites participants to consider the connections created by translations of the nonhuman into human languages. To what extent is language the domain of the human,…[Read more]
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Amy Kahrmann Huseby deposited “Half Poets” and “Whole Democrats”: The Politics of Poetic Aggregation in Aurora Leigh in the group
GS Poetry and Poetics on MLA Commons 7 years, 5 months agoElizabeth Barrett Browning’s Aurora Leigh seeks to redress the divisive work of women’s democratic political representation by way of poetic form to ask whether women must always be regarded as partial citizens. Women are not counted as integral units—ones—politically or culturally. Barrett Browning connects women’s ability to produce writing a…[Read more]
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