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Lynn Ramey started the topic Digital World Map Broadens Scope for Middle Ages Teaching and Research in the discussion
Comparative Studies in Medieval Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 4 months agoOnline users can now travel back in time to the medieval world by clicking through a collection of international research on the first digital platform of its kind from The University of Texas at Austin.
The Web portal known as “MappaMundi” — a Latin word meaning “world map” — presents the world of 500-1500 A.D. on a modern platform created by…[Read more]
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Elisa Martí-López started the topic Escriptor de l'Any 2016-2017 in the discussion
Catalan Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 4 months agoEscriptor de l’Any
Organitzat per Roser Caminals, Novel.lista i professora de Llengua i Literatura Espanyoles (Hood College)
Escriptor de l’Any és un projecte dissenyat per incrementar la divulgació al Canadà i als Estats Units de la literatura catalana en traducció anglesa. Actualment, els esforços editorials son esporàdics, costosos i…[Read more]
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Elisa Martí-López replied to the topic NACS Conference Barcelona 2015 in the discussion
Catalan Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 5 months agoHola a tots,
Us faig cinc cèntims del Col·loqui de la NACS que es va celebrar a Barcelona a començament d’estiu. M’alegra poder dir que va anar molt bé perquè es va constatar la fortalesa i varietat de la catalanística. A continuació us en faig un resum. Per aquells que no vau poder assistir-hi, al resum trobareu els enllaços que reprodu…[Read more]
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Heidi Kaufman started the topic CFP: ACLA Caribbean/Jewish Intersections in the discussion
Sephardic Studies on MLA Commons 10 years, 5 months agoCFP: Caribbean/Jewish Intersections in (Post)Colonial Literary and Print Cultures
We are soliciting papers for a seminar that we have proposed for the upcoming American Comparative Literature Association conference (Harvard University, March 17-20, 2016). Paper abstracts can be submitted through the ACLA portal from September 1-23: http://www.acla…[Read more]
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Stacy N. Beckwith started the topic CFP ACLA Seminar "Narrating Sepharad Today" in the discussion
Sephardic Studies on MLA Commons 10 years, 5 months ago<div>Dear Colleagues,</div>
<div>We are pleased to invite papers for a seminar we have proposed for the Annual Meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association, March 17-20, at Harvard University. The link to our seminar is http://www.acla.org/seminar/narrating-sepharad-today and you can also read the text below. We welcome abstracts thr…[Read more] -
Nhora Lucia Serrano started the topic CFP: ACLA 2016 Visual (Inter)Changes in the Mediterranean Basin in the discussion
Comparative Studies in Medieval Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 5 months agoVisual (Inter)Changes in the Mediterranean Basin: Medieval & Renaissance Western and Eastern Illuminated Manuscripts
Please consider submitting an abstract to the “ Visual (Inter)Changes in the Mediterranean Basin: Medieval & Renaissance Western and Eastern Illuminated Manuscripts ” seminar of the 2016 American Comparative Literature Association…[Read more] -
Giovanna Montenegro started the topic ACLA 2016: CFP Hemispheric Approaches to Literature and Cartography in the Americas in the discussion
Colonial Latin American Literatures on MLA Commons 10 years, 5 months agoPlease consider submitting your paper to this seminar proposed for the American Comparative Literature Association Conference from March 17-20, 2016 at Harvard University in Cambridge, MA.
Organizer: Giovanna Montenegro, Binghamton University gmontene@binghamton.edu
Co-Organizer: Adriana Méndez Rodenas, University of Iowa
The use and interest…[Read more]
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Sarah-Grace Heller replied to the topic Troubadour Publics and Public Troubadours in the discussion
Provençal Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 10 months agoHere is the plan for the 2016 session. Thanks to all who submitted proposals!
Troubadour Publics and Public Troubadours
Presider: Jesús Rodríguez-Velasco, Columbia U
International politics and troubadour rhetoric: the survival of the fittest
Bill Burgwinkle, University of Cambridge
“De paraulas es grans mercatz”: Troubadours, their…[Read more]
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Lynn Ramey started the topic CFP Austin 2016 in the discussion
Comparative Studies in Medieval Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months agoWe’re still looking for a few good abstracts! Please consider sending an abstract if you work on any aspect of space, geography, or place in medieval literature.
The Spatial Turn
How and why do medieval and modern notions of space differ? Papers on
aspects of medieval space and mapping, including use of GIS or technology.250-word abstracts by M…[Read more]
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Sarah-Grace Heller started the topic Troubadour Publics and Public Troubadours in the discussion
Provençal Language and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months agoMLA Convention in Austin, Texas, 7-10 January 2016
LLC Occitan Forum Call for Papers for MLA convention 2016 in Austin, TX:
Who had/has access to the Troubadours? What troubadour works rethink public life? What happens to Occitan works when they travel? This panel seeks to explore Occitan works in the wider world and the wider world as fashioned…[Read more]
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Jane Mushabac started the topic CFP: Major Sephardic Novelists: The Risks They Take in the discussion
Sephardic Studies on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months agoThe Sephardic Forum seeks proposals that explore the work of a Sephardic novelist, writing in any language, and the risks he or she has taken to further creative or sociopolitical goals.
Please email 1-page abstracts by 15 March 2015
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Ivonne del Valle started the topic CALL FOR PAPERS 131st MLA ANNUAL CONVENTION Austin, 7-10 January 2016 in the discussion
Colonial Latin American Literatures on MLA Commons 11 years agoSESSIONS: FORUM OF COLONIAL LATIN AMERICAN LITERATURES
Colonial Texts and Communities of Readers
Chair: Mónica Díaz, University of Kentucky
Engaging with the presidential theme for MLA 2016, “Literature and Its Publics,” this panel focuses on the material history of the production of texts – in both manuscript and printed forms – an…[Read more]
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Sara Vicuna Guengerich replied to the topic MLA Convention: Colonial Latin American Literatures Division Panels in the forum
Colonial Latin American Literatures on MLA Commons 11 years, 1 month agoDear Colleagues,
Another session of interest for colonialists is the GEMELA sponsored panel “In Search of Forgotten Women in Pre 1800 Iberia and the Americas.” Thursday, January 8, 7:00-8:15 pm, VCC East.
Presider: Emily Francomano
Sara Vicuña Guengerich, Texas Tech University, “Daughters of the Inca Conquest: Native Women in Spanish Colonial Pr…[Read more] -
Anna More started the topic MLA Convention Colonial Happy Hour in the forum
Colonial Latin American Literatures on MLA Commons 11 years, 1 month agoThe Division of Colonial Latin American Literatures would like to invite you to join us for our annual Colonial Happy Hour at the upcoming MLA Conference in Vancouver:
Colonial Happy Hour
Bellagio Wine Bar
Friday, January 9, 5 pm – 7 pmBellagio Wine Bar is located in the Convention Centre. More information may be found at the webs…[Read more]
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Anna More started the topic MLA Convention: Colonial Latin American Literatures Division Panels in the forum
Colonial Latin American Literatures on MLA Commons 11 years, 1 month agoThe Division of Colonial Latin American Literatures has sponsored the following panels at the upcoming MLA Conference in Vancouver:
228. Connecting Spanish and Portuguese Empires
Friday, 9 January, 10:15–11:30 a.m., 3, VCC East
428. The Enlightenment in the Colonies
Saturday, 10 January, 8:30–9:45 a.m., 17, VCC East
739. Indigenous Texts a…[Read more]
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Cathleen Carris uploaded the file: CFP: JHU Program in Latin American Studies Spring Conference 2015 to
Colonial Latin American Literatures on MLA Commons 11 years, 2 months agoThe graduate students of the Program in Latin American Studies at Johns Hopkins University invite the submission of abstracts for our Spring Conference, “Urban Transformations in Latin America”, to take place April 3rd, 2015.
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Cathleen Carris uploaded the file: CFP: JHU Program in Latin American Studies Spring Conference 2015 to
Colonial Latin American Literatures on MLA Commons 11 years, 2 months agoThe graduate students of the Program in Latin American Studies at Johns Hopkins University invite the submission of abstracts for our Spring Conference, “Urban Transformations in Latin America”, to take place April 3rd, 2015.
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Cathleen Carris uploaded the file: CFP: JHU Program in Latin American Studies Spring Conference 2015 to
Colonial Latin American Literatures on MLA Commons 11 years, 2 months agoThe graduate students of the Program in Latin American Studies at Johns Hopkins University invite the submission of abstracts for our Spring Conference, “Urban Transformations in Latin America”, to take place April 3rd, 2015.
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Cathleen Carris uploaded the file: CFP: JHU Program in Latin American Studies Spring Conference 2015 to
Colonial Latin American Literatures on MLA Commons 11 years, 2 months agoThe graduate students of the Program in Latin American Studies at Johns Hopkins University invite the submission of abstracts for our Spring Conference, “Urban Transformations in Latin America”, to take place April 3rd, 2015.
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