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Terrence Potter posted an update in the group
LSL Applied Linguistics on MLA Commons 11 years, 6 months agoPlease plan to attend the General Linguistics panel at MLA 2015! We are happy to announce that our session has been listed under the conference Presidential theme, “Negotiating Sites of Memory.”
Presentations during the session include:
1. “The Texas German Dialect Archive, Fourteen Years Later,” Hans Christian Boas, Univ. of Texas, Austin;…[Read more]
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Terrence Potter posted an update in the group
LSL Language and Society on MLA Commons 11 years, 6 months agoPlease plan to attend the General Linguistics panel at MLA 2015! We are happy to announce that our session has been listed under the conference Presidential theme, “Negotiating Sites of Memory.”
Presentations during the session include:
1. “The Texas German Dialect Archive, Fourteen Years Later,” Hans Christian Boas, Univ. of Texas, Austin;…[Read more]
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Terrence Potter posted an update in the group
LSL General Linguistics on MLA Commons 11 years, 6 months agoPlease plan to attend the General Linguistics panel at MLA 2015! We are happy to announce that our session has been listed under the conference Presidential theme, “Negotiating Sites of Memory.”
Presentations during the session include:
1. “The Texas German Dialect Archive, Fourteen Years Later,” Hans Christian Boas, Univ. of Texas, Austin;…[Read more]
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Peter Powers started the topic CFP: NEMLA Session. College in Crisis: Higher Ed in Literature and Pop culture in the forum
Teaching as a Profession on MLA Commons 11 years, 6 months agoCFP: NEMLA Session, Toronto, 4/30-5/3. College in Crisis: Higher Education in Literature and Popular Culture
Higher education in the United States is undergoing a crisis of legitimacy as constituents question its costs and benefits. Many scholars in various disciplines have analyzed this crisis, and simultaneously, narratives about higher…[Read more]
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S K posted an update in the group
LLC Arabic on MLA Commons 11 years, 7 months agoHello everyone,
I would like to ask those of you who are current MLA members to 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 American to endorse the new…[Read more]
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Selma R. S. Vital replied to the topic CFP -roundtable for Ne MLA 46th annual convention in the forum
The Teaching of Language on MLA Commons 11 years, 8 months agoHi Dennis,
I would love to participate of this workshop, but unfortunately I cannot go to Ohio at this time. Please, keep us informed about any other similar event in the east coast. Due to our big load of work in the last week of classes, Marion and I were not able to put together a panel for Toronto. I still believe we can do something to make…[Read more]
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S K posted an update in the group
LLC Arabic on MLA Commons 11 years, 8 months agoDear Colleagues,
The MLA will establish a new forum for “Global Arab and Arab American Lit” to be listed under “Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies.” According to the MLA’s FAQ regarding Prospective new forums (http://executivecouncil.mla.hcommons-staging.org/new-forum-structure-faq/):
“Members are nominating themselves for these…[Read more]
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I support the new division though would like it to be part of U.S. Literature.
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I support the new division though would like it to be part of U.S. Literature.
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I support the new division though would like it to be part of U.S. Literature.
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I support the new division though would like it to be part of U.S. Literature.
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I support the new division though would like it to be part of U.S. Literature.
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I also add my voice in support of this new division.
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Shaden M. Tageldin started the topic MLA Resolution 2014-1 regarding entry to West Bank in the forum
Arabic Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 11 years, 8 months agoDear colleagues in the MLA Division on Arabic Literature and Culture:
As your Divisional Delegate to the MLA Delegate Assembly, I write to remind you of the fast-approaching deadline of 12:00 a.m. EDT on 2 June 2014 (in other words, Sunday 1 June 2014, before midnight EDT), to cast your online ballot for the MLA member ratification vote on R…[Read more]
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Lee B. Abraham started the topic MLA 2015, Recent Work in Narrative and Discourse, Division of Language Theory in the forum
Language Theory on MLA Commons 11 years, 9 months agoDear Colleagues:
Please join us for the following Division of Language Theory session at the 2015 Convention. Abstracts will be posted in the fall.
Recent Work in Narrative and Discourse
Temporal Relations in Narrative Discourse: Narrator’s Perspective through Tense and Aspect
Amruta Chandekar, University Of Washington
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Lee B. Abraham started the topic MLA 2015, Studies in Cognitive Linguistics, Division of Language Theory in the forum
Language Theory on MLA Commons 11 years, 9 months agoDear Colleagues:
Please join us for the following Division of Language Theory session at the 2015 Convention.
Abstracts will be posted in the fall.
Studies in Cognitive Linguistics
Cognition in Interaction: Substantiating Context in Language Use and Grammaticalization
Anneliese Kuhle, Freie Universität Berlin
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Dennis Looney replied to the topic CFP -roundtable for Ne MLA 46th annual convention in the forum
The Teaching of Language on MLA Commons 11 years, 9 months agoDear Colleagues,
I receive these posts as a member of this discussion group in my capacity as a faculty member of Italian at the University of Pittsburgh. Since January 2014, I have assumed the directorship of ADFL and in that new capacity I write to announce a workshop connected with the topic Selma and Marion are discussing. At the ADFL s…[Read more]
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Marion Gehlker replied to the topic CFP -roundtable for Ne MLA 46th annual convention in the forum
The Teaching of Language on MLA Commons 11 years, 9 months agoHi Selma,
I’d be interested. What topics did you have in mind? I teach German and include literature at all levels of language instruction.
Thanks,
Marion
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S K posted an update in the group
LLC Arabic on MLA Commons 11 years, 9 months agoFYI:
Dear Colleagues,
If you’re an MLA member, here is your opportunity to vote for or against Resolution 2014-1, criticizing Israel’s policy of denying visas to American academics suspected of being of Palestinian descent:
http://jerusalem.usconsulate.gov/border-crossings.htmlThe Resolution was approved by the MLA Delegates Assembly in…[Read more]
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Dear colleagues in the MLA Division on Arabic Literature and Culture:
As your Divisional Delegate to the MLA Delegate Assembly, I write to remind you of the fast-approaching deadline of 12:00 midnight EDT on Sunday, 1 June 2014, to cast your online ballot for the MLA member ratification vote on Resolution 2014-1. This resolution, passed at the…[Read more]
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The message above failed to include the link to the online ballot, so I am reposting here. –SMT
Dear colleagues in the MLA Division on Arabic Literature and Culture:
As your Divisional Delegate to the MLA Delegate Assembly, I write to remind you of the fast-approaching deadline of 12:00 midnight EDT on Sunday, 1 June 2014, to cast your online…[Read more]
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Selma R. S. Vital started the topic CFP -roundtable for Ne MLA 46th annual convention in the forum
The Teaching of Language on MLA Commons 11 years, 9 months agoI am proposing a round table discussing new ways/approaches and successfull strategies integrating the literary text into the language class. The subject is not new, however a lot has been changing in this particular “field”. If interested, please, contact me as soon as you can, since the deadline for submissions is approaching. The convention…[Read more]
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Lee B. Abraham started the topic March 25 deadline for Narrative and Discourse Session at MLA 2015 in the forum
Language Theory on MLA Commons 11 years, 10 months agoDear Colleagues:
The Division of Language Theory solicits papers exploring recent aspects of narrative and discourse as these relate to language theory. Abstract of 300 words by 25 March 2014; Lee B. Abraham ( lba2133@columbia.edu ).
We look forward to receiving your proposals.
Best regards,
Lee (on behalf of the Executive Committee of the…[Read more]
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S K posted an update in the group
LLC Arabic on MLA Commons 11 years, 11 months agoHello everyone,
Here is also another reminder regarding the approaching deadline of two panels on Arab American and Latin American Literature and Culture. Please note that the deadline for the first panel (Narrating Arab American) is Monday March 10, i.e. in just 2 days, while the deadline for the second panel is Sat. March 15.
• Narrating “…[Read more]
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S K posted an update in the group
LLC Arabic on MLA Commons 11 years, 11 months agoDear colleagues,
I hope you are all well. I thought I’d post a reminder regarding the deadline to submit proposals for the panels proposed by the Division of Arabic Literature and Culture for the MLA’s annual convention to be held in Vancouver, 2015. The deadline is next Saturday on March 15, 2014.
The proposed panels are:
1) Untiming the…[Read more]
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Susannah Mary Chewning started the topic Committee for the Community College MLA 2015 Calls for Papers in the forum
Teaching as a Profession on MLA Commons 11 years, 11 months agoThe Committee for the Community College is sponsoring two sessions at the MLA Convention in Vancouver in January of 2015:
The End of Remediation? Papers can address issues related to the future of Developmental studies, including but not limited to accelerated learning, performance-based funding, the Common Core, and the completion agenda.…[Read more]
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S K posted an update in the group
LLC Arabic on MLA Commons 12 years agoHello everyone,
I apologize for not sharing the following update with you earlier: the Executive Committee (EC) for the division is going request setting up two new forums: “Arab American Literature and Culture,” to be listed under 15: “American,” within the broader category “Languages, Literatures, and Cultures,” and “Translingual and Diasporic…[Read more]
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Christopher Micklethwait started the topic MLA 2015 CFP: Special Session "Narrating 'Arab Americans'" in the forum
Arabic Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 12 years agoNarrating “Arab Americans”
Reflections on the term and its intersections with history, memory, geography, religion, race, gender, and sexuality in narratives by and about Arab Americans. 250-300 word abstract and CV by 10 March 2014; Pauline Homsi Vinson (phvinson@gmail.com) and Dalia Gomaa (dmgomaa@uwm.edu).
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