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Laura E. Savu replied to the topic The Good Life and the Greater Good in a Global Context in the forum
Sociological Approaches to Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 7 months agoPlease accept my apologies, Joe Lockard. It was my first time using this forum.
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Joe Lockard replied to the topic The Good Life and the Greater Good in a Global Context in the forum
Sociological Approaches to Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 7 months agoPrivate correspondence resulting from a CFP is inconsiderate use of a shared common forum. These messages go to 155 forum participants, not simply to the corresponding parties. Thanks for understanding.
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Laura E. Savu replied to the topic The Good Life and the Greater Good in a Global Context in the forum
Sociological Approaches to Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 7 months agoDear Prof. Whitney,
Thank you for your prompt reply and especially for your interest in this project. Your proposal sounds very promising as no viable notion of the good life can be conceived without taking into account its complicated relationship with economic growth. If I’m not mistaken, The Skidelskys, whom I cite in my brief descri…[Read more]
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Laura E. Savu replied to the topic Call for Contributions: "The Good Life and the Greater Good in a Global Context" in the forum
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 7 months agoHello, Susan. Thank you for your interest in this project. You may e-mail me your proposal at laura_savu@yahoo.com. I’m looking forward to it!
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Susan Gorman replied to the topic Call for Contributions: "The Good Life and the Greater Good in a Global Context" in the forum
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 7 months agoThanks for posting this, Laura; it sounds really interesting. Where/ when should we send abstracts?
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Laura E. Savu started the topic Call for Contributions: "The Good Life and the Greater Good in a Global Context" in the forum
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 7 months agoDear colleagues,
I’m writing to invite you to submit proposals for a collection of essays that is tentatively titled The Good Life and the Greater Good in a Global Context. The essays need to focus on the discourses and practices of the good life, understood in all of its dimensions—material, psychological, ethical, spiritual, etc. –and appro…[Read more]
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Charles Whitney replied to the topic The Good Life and the Greater Good in a Global Context in the forum
Sociological Approaches to Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 7 months agoHi Laura,
Thanks for developing this topic. I would be interested in writing on “the good life” as it is addressed by economists and others offering proposals about how to deal with global warming, particularly concerning attitudes toward future economic growth. In my admittedly limited experience, mainstream economists don’t go much beyond t…[Read more]
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Laura E. Savu started the topic The Good Life and the Greater Good in a Global Context in the forum
Sociological Approaches to Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 7 months agoDear colleagues,
I’m writing to invite you to submit proposals for a collection of essays that is tentatively titled The Good Life and the Greater Good in a Global Context. The essays need to focus on the discourses and practices of the good life, understood in all of its dimensions—material, psychological, ethical, spiritual, etc. –and appro…[Read more]
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Laura E. Savu started the topic The Good Life and the Greater Good in a Global Context in the forum
Sociological Approaches to Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 7 months agoDear colleagues,
I’m writing to invite you to submit proposals for a collection of essays that is tentatively titled The Good Life and the Greater Good in a Global Context. The essays need to focus on the discourses and practices of the good life, understood in all of its dimensions—material, psychological, ethical, spiritual, etc. –and appro…[Read more]
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Suha Kudsieh started the topic Endorsing or Volunteering for the New MLA Forum on Global Arab & Arab American in the forum
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 8 months agoDear colleagues,
I wonder if those of you who are interested in Arab American literature and culture can take a couple of minutes of your time to endorse the new MLA forum on Global Arab and Arab American Literature and Culture. All you have to do is follow the four steps I listed below.
You don’t need to be working on Global Arab or Arab…[Read more]
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Janet Ruth Heller started the topic Dramatic Monologue Panel & Trends in Literature for Children Panel for AWP 2015 in the forum
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 9 months agoDear Friends,
I’m organizing two panels for the AWP ((Association of Writers & Writing Programs) Conference in Minneapolis in 2015 (April 8-11, 2015): 1) The Dramatic Monologue in Current Poetry and 2) Recent Trends in Literature for Children. The application deadline is May 1, 2014. Are you willing to be on these panels? If so, please let me…[Read more]
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Janet Ruth Heller started the topic Dramatic Monologue Panel & Trends in Literature for Children Panel for AWP 2015 in the forum
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 9 months agoDear Friends,
I’m organizing two panels for the AWP Conference in Minneapolis in 2015 (April 8-11, 2015): 1) The Dramatic Monologue in Current Poetry and 2) Recent Trends in Literature for Children. The application deadline is May 1, 2014. Are you willing to be on these panels? If so, please let me know as soon as possible. Thank you for your c…[Read more]
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Michelle B. Slater started the topic Mayapple Center is offering a summer course taught by Deak Nabors in the forum
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 11 months agoDeak Nabors, “The Aesthetic Tradition of Perpetual War”
August 11-15th at the Mayapple Center for the Arts and Humanities, Stamford, CT ($1200.00 includes tuition ($800) and room & board ($400.00) Apply now at mayapplecenter.slideroom.com
Commentators have longed noted that the United States has remained more or less persistently at war since…[Read more]
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Hester Blum posted an update in the group
GS Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 11 years, 12 months agoPlease consider the Prose Fiction Division’s panels for the 2015 MLA convention:
Attention Spans
Meditations on the span of popular or critical attention to works; or, contours of attention span possible for prose fiction in various media. 500 word proposals by 15 March 2014; Hester Blum (hester.blum@psu.edu).
Shapes of the Nonhuman
From…[Read more]
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Richard Kopley started the topic CFP for the Fourth International Edgar Allan Poe Conference in the forum
Nineteenth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 12 years agoProposals are invited for the Fourth International Edgar Allan Poe Conference, to be held in New York City at the Roosevelt Hotel on 45th Street near Madison Avenue (http://www.theroosevelthotel.com/) Thursday, February 26th, to Sunday, March 1st, 2015. Our PSA-sponsored conferences have been located at cities where Poe lived and worked; we have…[Read more]
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David Palmer started the topic CFP MLA 2015: "Arthur Miller: Reflections on the American Dream" in the forum
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 12 years ago2015 is the centennial of Arthur Miller’s birth. As part of the celebration of this event, the Arthur Miller Society is organizing a session at the 2015 MLA convention in Vancouver on a central theme in Miller’s literary work and his career as a public intellectual: the elusiveness of the American Dream, the Dream’s foundations in what often are…[Read more]
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Gayle B. Rogers started the topic CFP: Modernist Studies Association (Nov. 6-9, Pittsburgh, PA) in the forum
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 12 years agoThe Modernist Studies Association invites proposals of all types for its annual conference. We are especially interested in the work of scholars who expand the field of modernism and avant-garde studies in new directions. The conference will be held in the historic Omni William Penn hotel in downtown Pittsburgh, PA, Nov. 6-9, 2014. Hosted by D…[Read more]
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Brad Evans started the topic Possible Changes to MLA Divisions in the forum
Nineteenth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 12 years agoDear Members of the Division of Nineteenth Century American Literature:
During our annual meeting at the MLA Conference in Chicago, the Division of Late-Nineteenth and Early-Twentieth Century American Literature executive committee had a long discussion about the proposal to restructure the divisions in American literature. The committee feels…[Read more]
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April Logan started the topic Pauline Hopkins and Washington D.C. in the forum
Nineteenth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 12 years agoCall for Papers
***DEADLINE EXTENDED***
American Literature Association
25th Annual Conference
May 22-25, 2014
Hyatt Regency, Capitol HillSession Sponsored By
The Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins SocietyPanel: Pauline Hopkins and Washington D.C.
As a writer with a keen interest in national politics at a crucial moment in American history, Pauline…[Read more] -
April Logan started the topic Deadline Extended CFP: Pauline Hopkins in the forum
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 12 years agoCall for Papers
***DEADLINE EXTENDED***
American Literature Association
25th Annual Conference
May 22-25, 2014
Hyatt Regency, Capitol HillSession Sponsored By
The Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins SocietyPanel: Pauline Hopkins and Washington D.C.
As a writer with a keen interest in national politics at a crucial moment in American history, Pauline…[Read more] - Load More
