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Rebecca Comay uploaded the file: Response to Delegate Assembly Member’s Queries re Academic Boycott of Israel to
MLA Members for Justice in Palestine on MLA Commons 10 years, 10 months ago1–What (if any) are the recommended consequences for scholars who violate the boycott if their institution/organization supports it? […]
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Rebecca Comay started the topic Cornel West on BDS (interview with David Palumbo-Liu) in the discussion
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Rebecca Comay deleted the file: Judith Butler, “EXERCISING RIGHTS Academic Freedom and Boycott Politics” from
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Rebecca Comay uploaded the file: Judith Butler, "EXERCISING RIGHTS Academic Freedom and Boycott Politics" to
MLA Members for Justice in Palestine on MLA Commons 10 years, 10 months agoAkeel Bilgrami and Jonathan R. Cole, WHO’S AFRAID of ACADEMIC FREEDOM? (Columbia UP, 2015)
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Rebecca Comay started the topic Unesco reports on the crisis of education in Gaza — in the discussion
MLA Members for Justice in Palestine on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months agoThese documents are eye-opening, and remind us, as MLA members, that the occupation and siege of Palestine have direct consequences for education (among many other things). In the most recent war on Gaza, more than a quarter of all Palestinian civilians killed were students. Fourteen institutions of higher education were damaged. Read on…[Read more]
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Rebecca Comay replied to the topic Growing Jewish support for BDS in the discussion
MLA Members for Justice in Palestine on MLA Commons 11 years agoAnd, importantly, this includes advocates for the academic and cultural boycott from within Israel itself.
Here are a couple of useful sources.
http://www.boycottisrael.info/
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Rebecca Comay started the topic Delegate Assembly 2015 – report on boycott discussion in the forum
MLA Members for Justice in Palestine on MLA Commons 11 years agoHere’s David Palumbo-Liu’s report in the Huffington Post on the discussion of boycott in the DA on Saturday.
Preliminary votes show that the DA recognizes (by a significant margin) that this is a urgent topic that the MLA needs to be addressing; that academic boycotts promote, rather than harm, academic freedom; and that those who speak…[Read more]
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Lisa Zunshine started the topic 685: "Politics and Poetics of Cognition"-special session at the MLA in Vancouver in the forum
Cognitive Approaches to Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 1 month agoDear All,
I very much hope that those of you going to the MLA will consider attending our special session, which will take place on Sunday, January 11 (see below).
Sincerely,
Lisa Zunshine685. Politics and Poetics of Cognition
Sunday, 11 January, 8:30–9:45 a.m., 214, VCC West
A special session
Presiding: Lisa Zunshine, Univ. of Kentucky
1. “…[Read more]
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Rebecca Comay deleted the file: FAQ re MLA and BDS from
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Rebecca Comay replied to the topic Files and materials in the forum
MLA Members for Justice in Palestine on MLA Commons 11 years, 1 month agoYou will find, under “Files” (to left), an FAQ sheet which might be useful for thinking about this issue. For extensive documentation supporting these claims, please refer to the PDF “ Resolution ACBI Evidence”, also under “Files.”
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Rebecca Comay started the topic Files and materials in the forum
MLA Members for Justice in Palestine on MLA Commons 11 years, 1 month agoHere’s hoping this will start a good discussion of this important issue. I’d like to urge you all to read the PDF “ Resolution ACBI Evidence” which was prepared to accompany the proposed boycott resolution (see under “Files” on the left side of this page). It provides documentation about the situation of the Palestinian universitie…[Read more]
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Rebecca Comay's profile was updated on MLA Commons 11 years, 1 month ago
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Gloria Lee McMillan replied to the topic Film Project: Sci. and Lit. in the forum
Literature and Science on MLA Commons 11 years, 7 months agoI thought some of you who have posted might like to see the power point I have been using to speak to groups about our film project. This is the older version, centered upon Galileo and Shakespeare but i think you will find it fun to view. I am thinking of adding chapter two–the plot thickens with the Shakespearean scholars vs. astronomers who…[Read more]
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Gloria Lee McMillan replied to the topic Film Project: Sci. and Lit. in the forum
Literature and Science on MLA Commons 11 years, 7 months agoAn April issue of New Scientist had an article on Shakespeare and his understanding of astronomy. It mentioned many of the points you make. Just an FYI.
http://www.newscientist.com/special/shakespeare
Yes, Nancy, my husband brought that article to my attention and that is the article that made me think it may be more useful to pose the issue of…[Read more]
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Gloria Lee McMillan replied to the topic Film Project: Sci. and Lit. in the forum
Literature and Science on MLA Commons 11 years, 7 months agoThanks, Lila. I will keep that in mind. I am stepping back from the F2F meeting of Galileo and Will Shakespeare to focus on why Shakespeareans get apoplexy over the attempts of astronomers who attempt to read Hamlet (Peter Usher), for example as containing clues to Shakespeare’s knowledge of “the new philosophy” of Copernicus’ heliocentric solar…[Read more]
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Gloria Lee McMillan replied to the topic Film Project: Sci. and Lit. in the forum
Literature and Science on MLA Commons 11 years, 7 months agoHi, Lisa,
We chose the two contemporaries because of new information we had from Ewen Whitaker, a British astronomer who has made a working Digges Perspective Glass. After researching that Will and his men stayed at the Digges family home in Stratford, where he almost certainly saw the copy of astronomer Tycho Brahe’s Epistolae (with the name…[Read more]
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Gloria Lee McMillan started the topic Sci. and Lit. (Shakespeare) Film Project looking for comments in the forum
Shakespeare on MLA Commons 11 years, 7 months agoHello, Everybody Shakespearean,
A group of us have been thinking and rethinking a documentary film project that would show the value of crossing the line between science and the arts.
At first we were going to make it a conversation between Galileo and Shakespeare–roughly contemporaries.
But granting agencies didn’t like the fictional…[Read more] -
Gloria Lee McMillan started the topic Film Project: Sci. and Lit. in the forum
Literature and Science on MLA Commons 11 years, 7 months agoHello,
A group of us have been thinking and rethinking a documentary film project that would show the value of crossing the line between science and the arts.
At first we were going to make it a conversation between Galileo and Shakespeare–roughly contemporaries.
But granting agencies didn’t like the fictional parts.So then we opened up to…[Read more]
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