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Christofer Rodelo started the topic CFP, "Performance and Form" grad symposium @ Harvard, 4/26/19 in the discussion
GS Drama and Performance on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months agoPer(form)ance: A Graduate Symposium on Performance and Form
Harvard University Theatre and Performance Colloquium
April 26, 2019CALL FOR PAPERS (submissions due by 2/15)
The Harvard University Theater and Performance Colloquium seeks fifteen-minute papers from graduate students for a symposium on the topic of “performance and form.” We will gat…[Read more]
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Nathan Faries started the topic CALL FOR CALLS FOR PAPERS in the discussion
LLC Ming and Qing Chinese on MLA Commons 7 years agoThe executive committee for the forum strongly encourages all of our forum members to post their Calls for Papers session proposals on Ming/Qing topics by February 28!
Feel free to contact me (nfaries@bates.edu) or any other committee member if you want your proposal to be considered for official forum sponsorship…[Read more]
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Paul Fyfe deposited Access, Computational Analysis, and Fair Use in the Digitized Nineteenth- Century Press in the group
TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography on MLA Commons 7 years agoThis essay looks to the near history of copyright, commercially licensed resources, and fair use that shapes digital scholarship on nineteenth-century periodicals today. Using the digitization of British Library newspapers as a case study, I demonstrate how arguments about access to public domain materials do not fully account for the complex…[Read more]
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Jennifer Buckley started the topic CFP: Shaw Symposium, Niagara-on-the-Lake, ONT, 15-17 August 2019 in the discussion
GS Drama and Performance on MLA Commons 7 years agoShaw Symposium, Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, CAN, 15-17 August 2019
The International Shaw Society and the Shaw Festival invite proposals to present new critical or creative research at the Sixteenth Annual Summer Shaw Symposium. Successful proposals will offer a focused analysis of any aspect of Shaw’s work, or that of his contemporaries f…[Read more]
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Jesse A. Goldberg deposited Theorizing and Resisting the Violence of Stop-and-Frisk-style Profiling in the group
GS Drama and Performance on MLA Commons 7 years agoThis article analyzes Stop-and-Frisk policing within the long history of lynching through the analytical framework of performance studies. Contemporary audio recordings of stop-and-frisk procedures are thought in relation to the historical examples of the Zoot Suit Riots and late 19th-century and early 20th-century lynchings of African Americans.
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Tom Mazanec deposited Chinese 211: Bibliography and Research Methods in the group
LLC Ming and Qing Chinese on MLA Commons 7 years agoThe purpose of this course is to introduce graduate students to the tools, methods, and history of sinology. Sinology refers to the study of China as performed in a philological manner. Philology refers to the historical study of language and literature in its fullest context. It is inherently interdisciplinary. It draws on the fields of…[Read more]
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Valerie Barnes Lipscomb started the topic Be sure to add this Drama and Performance session to your 2019 MLA schedule in the discussion
GS Drama and Performance on MLA Commons 7 years agoSession 555. New Voices at the Intersection of Drama, Performance, and Age Studies
*Saturday, 5 January3:30-4:45 p.m., Columbian Meeting Room, Hyatt Regency HotelProgram arranged by the forums TC Age Studies and GS Drama and Performance
Presiding: Valerie Barnes Lipscomb, U of South Florida, Sarasota-Manatee
1. “‘Growth Untried’: Dramatic Infan…[Read more]
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Gloria Lee McMillan deposited Two-Act In-Progress Play: Nobody goes to Gary in the group
GS Drama and Performance on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoTwo-Act Play
Nobody goes to Gary is a Swiftian satire. Gil Tolliver, an investigative reporter I New York City, makes a fateful journey into the real heart of Gary, Indiana, after hearing the musical tune “Gary, Indiana, Gary, Indiana” during _The Music Man_. Don’t measure the distance of Gary from New York in miles, but in emotional light…[Read more]
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Nathan Faries replied to the topic 2020 COLLABORATIVE SESSION BRAINSTORM: PRE-14TH C. CHINA and MING/QING CHINA in the discussion
LLC Ming and Qing Chinese on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoSorry about that. Try again now. I hope the settings are fixed
https://docs.google.com/document/d/14cJFY-3yhgnR_iOba0GUjYNXjnW1VBpRilt_y7ZGJO4/edit?usp=sharing
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Nathan Faries started the topic MING/QING FORUM PLANNING MEETING: THURSDAY, JAN. 3–8:00 p.m., Sheraton Old Town in the discussion
LLC Ming and Qing Chinese on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoAll Ming/Qing Forum members and prospective members are welcome to bring their ideas and join the conversation on Thursday evening just before the East Asia Social Event. (8:00-8:30 p.m., and we can walk over to the social event together.)
We will meet for 30 minutes in the Old Town Room at the Sheraton Grand. Agenda items: session topics for…[Read more]
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Guojun Wang replied to the topic 2020 COLLABORATIVE SESSION BRAINSTORM: PRE-14TH C. CHINA and MING/QING CHINA in the discussion
LLC Ming and Qing Chinese on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoHi Nathan, you google doc seems to be view-only. needs permission to edit. Maybe you want to change the setting.
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Nathan Faries started the topic 2020 COLLABORATIVE SESSION BRAINSTORM: PRE-14TH C. CHINA and MING/QING CHINA in the discussion
LLC Ming and Qing Chinese on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoWe need to start planning our 2020 Forum Collaborative Session Proposal now. If you have any ideas about session topics and/or interested participants, please post to the brainstorm Google-doc below. Thank you!
https://docs.google.com/document/d/14cJFY-3yhgnR_iOba0GUjYNXjnW1VBpRilt_y7ZGJO4/edit?usp=sharing
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Radovan Škultéty replied to the topic WELCOME! EAST ASIA SOCIAL EVENT: THURSDAY, JANUARY 3–8:45 p.m.-10:00 p.m. in the discussion
LLC Ming and Qing Chinese on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoThank you, Nathan! I was just thinking whether I needed an invite for this event. Now you have dispelled all my worries 🙂 See you in two weeks in Sheraton!
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Nathan Faries replied to the topic WELCOME! EAST ASIA SOCIAL EVENT: THURSDAY, JANUARY 3–8:45 p.m.-10:00 p.m. in the discussion
LLC Ming and Qing Chinese on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoHope to see you all there! Please share this with all your colleagues.
First 60 people receive a free drink ticket. Everyone has a chance at door-prize raffle for new books.
Thanks!
Nathan
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Nathan Faries started the topic WELCOME! EAST ASIA SOCIAL EVENT: THURSDAY, JANUARY 3–8:45 p.m.-10:00 p.m. in the discussion
LLC Ming and Qing Chinese on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month ago177: Social Hour for East Asianists, Hosted by LLC East Asian, LLC Japanese since 1900, LLC Ming and Qing Chinese, LLC Modern and Contemporary Chinese, LLC Pre-14th-Century Chinese, LLC Japanese to 1900, and LLC Korean<i></i> 8:45 PM–10:00 PM Thursday, Jan 3, 2019<i></i> Sheraton Grand – Chicago Ballroom VIII
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Corine Tachtiris deposited Syllabus for grad seminar on Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Translation in the group
TC Translation Studies on MLA Commons 7 years, 1 month agoThis course was first taught at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in fall 2018.
It addresses feminism, gender and sexuality studies, queer theory, and critical race and ethnic studies in conjunction with translation studies. -
Gloria Lee McMillan started the topic Is The Music Man’s “Gary, Indiana” song shockingly misplaced satire? in the discussion
GS Drama and Performance on MLA Commons 7 years, 2 months agoAnyone who has passed through Gary, Indiana, in the last thirty years and watched its tragically slow motion decline can only wonder when a Southwestern US theatre company mounts a new production of Meredith Wilson’s 1957 Broadway Musical The Music Man which includes the song “Gary, Indiana”–the purported home of Harold Hill, a con man. This…[Read more]
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Guojun Wang started the topic Candidate Statement in the discussion
LLC Ming and Qing Chinese on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoDear Members of the Ming-Qing Forum,
My name is Guojun Wang. I am an assistant professor of Asian Studies at Vanderbilt University; and I am running for the LLC Ming and Qing Chinese group Executive Committee. Below is a brief introduction about myself and my participation in the Ming/Qing group.
- My Research
I specialize in late imperial…[Read more]
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Yuanfei Wang started the topic Candidate Statement: 2018 MLA Forum Executive Committee in the discussion
LLC Ming and Qing Chinese on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoDear Members of the LLC Ming and Qing Chinese Forum,
I am honored to be nominated as a candidate of the executive committee of the LLC Ming and Qing Chinese Forum in 2018. My name is Yuanfei Wang, an assistant professor of Chinese and comparative literature at the University of Georgia. I obtained my Ph.D degree from the department of East Asian…[Read more]
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Paul Fyfe deposited HON 313, Reading Machines syllabus and assignments (Fall 2017) in the group
TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography on MLA Commons 7 years, 3 months agoSyllabus, project assignments, and milestones for HON 313, “Reading Machines” (Fall 2017), a first-year interdisciplinary experience course at NC State University. Reading Machines invites students into a historically ranging, critically intensive, and hands-on learning environment about the technologies by which humans transmit ideas. The course…[Read more]
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