Abstracts available for <s>#</s><b>MLA18</b> session, “New Currents in Medieval Iberian Studies”, now available at LcCommons

<div>This panel explores Sephardic cultural expressions on the intimate connection between cities and literature. How does Sephardic culture inform spatial organization? How does spatial organization inform Sephardic culture?</div>
<div>Please, email 200 word proposals to campoycu@oakland.edu by March 24.</div>

CFP for MLA 2018 in New York: Medieval and Renaissance Terms of Endearment.

Seeking proposals to a non-guaranteed session about kinship terminology or terms of endearment used for friends and foes. For example, in The Song of Roland, characters use sarcasm to describe enemies as friends, and interestingly, demeaning monikers are used to chastise…[Read more]

Seeking proposals to a non-guaranteed session about kinship terminology or terms of endearment used for friends and foes. For example, in The Song of Roland, characters use sarcasm to describe enemies as friends, and interestingly, demeaning monikers are used to chastise friends. What do these epithets say about the cultural boundaries between…[Read more]

What would you assign in English to give 100-level gen ed students a broad yet critical (think Howard Zinn’s People’s History)  overview of medieval Iberian cultural history? I have good material for Latin America and Modern Spain, but nothing for premodernity (or whatever you want to call it). Thanks! David

Representing the Nonhuman: A panel on Jewish and/or Hebrew animal narratives, zoopoetics, nature writing, ecocriticism, and posthumanist literature and cinema.
Contact: Naama Harel, nh2508@columbia.edu
Deadline: March 15, 2017

Literary depictions of walls, borders, fences and other barriers.  Modern Hebrew literature as a discursive space of bridging or division

Contact: Phillip Hollander, phollander@wisc.edu

Deadline: March 20, 2017

Literature and the economy — circulation, economic networks, poetic currency, real estate, commodities, fetishes and Marxist critique in modern Hebrew writing.

Contact — Barbara Mann, bamann@jtsa.edu

Deadline — March 20, 2017

CFP

2018 MLA Convention

Collaborative Session: GEMELA and Colonial Latin American Forum

As is known, misogynist scholarly and ecclesiastical practices challenged women’s cultural

production in seventeenth-century New Spain. Nevertheless, inconsistencies and insecurities

weakened gendered discourses, and women found ways to make their voices h…[Read more]

This special session seeks contributions that rethink the picaresque tradition from a colonial and post-colonial perspective.  Following the 2018 presidential theme, #States of Insecurity, papers may explore the journey of the precarious and vulnerable figure of the pícaro from Spain to Spanish America, and study how the picaresque is received, a…[Read more]

“Catalan Forms of Survival in the State of Insecurity”

Cultural, economic, social, political Catalan forms of subsistence, or insistence, in the midst of states of permanent insecurity. Abstracts by 15 March 2017; Edgar Illas (eillas@indiana.edu).

Session Title: Engendering Different Catalan Enunciations
Session Organizer:  Anton Pujol

In a recent article (1/13/17), Paul B. Preciado argues that screens are the new skin of the world. They constitute the membrane of a new collective entity radically decentered and in the process of subjectivization. Like Gutenberg’s contemporaries, we ar…[Read more]

Sessions organized by Medieval Iberian Languages, Literatures and Cultures (LLC) at the 2018 MLA Convention.

Location:  New York City, NY
Date:  4-7 January 2018

New Currents in Medieval Iberian Studies

Papers on new works, new methodologies or new critical approaches to Medieval Iberian literature or culture.
Submit title and a…[Read more]

Sessions organized by Medieval Iberian Languages, Literatures and Cultures (LLC) at the 2018 MLA Convention.

Location:  New York City, NY
Date:  4-7 January 2018

<h4>New Currents in Medieval Iberian Studies</h4>

Papers on new works, new methodologies or new critical approaches to Medieval Iberian literature or culture.
Submit title a…[Read more]

Dear Colleagues,

As you may have heard, Duquesne University abruptly announced a week ago that it would close its press: press staff, including the director, Susan Wadsworth-Booth, had no advance notice. There is an Inside HigherEd piece about it h…[Read more]