Dear colleagues,

We welcome proposals that examine translations of books and exchange of knowlege between the Middle East and Russia in the pre-modern period:

131st MLA Annual Convention, Austin, 7–10 January 2016

Title of panel: “Russia and the Middle East (Pre-modern)”

Description: this  special panel examines broad cultural interaction be…[Read more]

Landscape architecture and urban planning join aesthetics of design with the hard science of engineering. These areas foreground the complex influence of history and culture in the mapping and planning of social space. Since men have traditionally served as both prime architects and builders of metropolitan areas–designing plans and constructing…[Read more]

2015 marks seventy years since the publication of Laforet’s Nada. This panel proposes to offer new readings of the author’s ground-breaking work and/or to revisit her lesser-known works (i.e., Insolación, La mujer nueva, Un matrimonio, etc.). Please send abstracts (250 words) and a brief biography to dochoa@trinity.edu by 3/10/15. You can find…[Read more]

I hope members of his discussion group can utilize the MLA site for registering one’s support for contingent faculty both within the MLA and in one’s department, union, and institution.  Here’s the…[Read more]

This special session at the 2016 MLA Convention in Austin will examine the role of translation in developing new audiences for literary texts, especially texts with multiple translations in different languages and for different time periods. How have translations created new audiences in the past and created contemporary audiences for classical t…[Read more]

This special session at the 2016 MLA Convention in Austin will examine the role of translation in developing new audiences for literary texts, especially texts with multiple translations in different languages and for different time periods. How have translations created new audiences in the past and created contemporary audiences for classical t…[Read more]

This announcement from Anne Neveu should be of interest:

ANNOUNCEMENT

2015 NEH Summer Institute for College and University Instructors

What Is Gained in Translation? Learning How to Read Translated Literature

Applications are now being accepted for a three-week summer institute for college and university instructors on the topic “What Is G…[Read more]

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Dear All,

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<div>I am pleased to send you the Call for Papers for the next issue of TranscUlturAl: A Journal of Translation and Cultural Studies (http://ejournals.library.<wbr />ualberta.ca/index.php/TC/<wbr />announcement)
The deadline is March 15, 2015.</div>
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I look forward to receiving your…[Read more]

CFP – MLA 2016

“Miguel de Unamuno’s Literary Legacy”

This panel seeks innovative approaches to the contemporary reception and/or influence of
Unamuno’s works, particularly his fiction.

250-word abstract and CV by 10 March 2015 – lacastro@ufl.edu

Hi all,

I posted a storify of tweets posted around Rosemary Feal’s #precariat conversation with Andrew Ross, Barbara Ehrenreich, and Jennie Shanker at the Shanker Institute on January 15. (Margaret Hanzimanolis features!) You can view the storify on this group’s blog.

Cheers,

Nicky

We were successful in moving that a PTF be a required member of the Executive Council!  The motion, put forward by the radical caucus, also asked for more governance opportunities for PTF throughout the organization.  The dominance of tenured faculty in the MLA is beginning to topple. Please get in touch with me at hanzimanolis@gmail.com if you w…[Read more]

Please write to Maria Maisto, the incoming chair, if you would like to serve on this committee. It is a potentially important committee in an environment of rapidly increasing hospitality toward contingent and adjunct participation in the business of the MLA!

maria.maisto@newfacultymajority.info