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Raphael Dalleo started the topic 200. The Caribbean 1970s, Friday 10 January 2020 at 8:30 am in the discussion
2020 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 6 years ago2020 MLA convention panel, cosponsored by the CLCS Caribbean and TC Postcolonial Studies forums:
The Caribbean 1970s
Friday, January 10th, 2020
8:30 am to 9:45 am
Washington State Convention Center, Chelan 4
Presiding: Raphael Dalleo, Bucknell University
“Liberation of a Small Place: Political Narratives about the…[Read more]
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Anne Donlon started the topic Tips for the MLA Convention (especially for first-time attendees) in the discussion
2020 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 6 years agoHello all,
Let’s use this thread to gather tips for attending the MLA convention, especially for first-time attendees! For those who have attended previous conventions, what have you learned? What has helped you enjoy and make the most of your time at the convention?
Some years ago, Natalie Houston wrote a guest post for the MLA Convention b…[Read more]
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Pamela Lothspeich replied to the topic Arranging shared accommodations in the discussion
2020 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 6 years agoHello: I am seeking a roommate to share my Airbnb, a 3-minute walk from the Convention Center, reserved January 9-12. (My old roommate had to cancel.)
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MLA Commons started the topic Arranging shared accommodations in the discussion
2020 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 6 years agoConvention registrants can use this forum thread to identify other participants who may wish to share accommodations. The MLA assumes no responsibility or liability for these arrangements, since a decision to share accommodations is one made by the participant, not the MLA.
Please note that in order to make reservations at MLA rates at the…[Read more]
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Gema Pilar Pérez-Sánchez started the topic Working Group-Affective Appr. to LGBTQI Spanish Culture in the discussion
2020 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 6 years agoMLA 2020 Seattle Working Group on Affective Approaches to the Study of Contemporary Spanish LGBTQI Culture. This is the SCHEDULE of meetings and presentes at the conference and the ABSTRACTS of papers.Attached please find a detailed scheduled for each of the three MLA Conventions sessions of this working group and the abstracts of each of the p…[Read more]
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Gema Pilar Pérez-Sánchez started the topic Affective Appr. to the Study of Contemp. Spanish LGBTQI Culture – Schedule MLA in the discussion
2020 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 6 years agoMLA 2020 Seattle Working Group on Affective Approaches to the Study of Contemporary Spanish LGBTQI Culture. This is the SCHEDULE of meetings and presentes at the conference and the ABSTRACTS of papers.
Attached please find a detailed scheduled for each of the three MLA Conventions sessions of this working group and the abstracts of each of the p…[Read more]
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Laura Forsberg started the topic MLA 2020: Bibliopedagogy in the discussion
TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography on MLA Commons 6 years, 1 month agoPlease consider attending our forum’s session on “Bibliopedagogy” at MLA in Seattle on Thursday, 9 January in WSCC – 401. Our panel features three presentations:
“Student-Scribe: A Hands-On Approach to Codicology and Book History” — Sarah J. Sprouse and Sarah Banschbach Valles
“Rewriting the Canon: Cultivating Student Creativity in the…[Read more]
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Anastasia Salter deposited Theory and Practice of Interactive Storytelling Syllabus in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 6 years, 1 month agoPart of the Digital Media MA / Texts & Technology PhD Digital Media track at the University of Central Florida. In this graduate course, we’ll engage with the making and critique of interactive works ranging from “Choose Your Own Adventure” comics to electronic literature and interactive fiction. Drawing on readings including Janet Murray’s Hamlet…[Read more]
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Adolfo Campoy-Cubillo started the topic 2019 Global Hispanophone Panels in the discussion
2020 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 6 years, 1 month agoThe CLCS Global Hispanophone is organizing
129 – Teaching the Humanities through the Global Hispanophone.
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- Thursday, 9 January 20205:15 PM – 6:30 PM
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- WSCC – 205
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Description: The global hispanophone practices a mode of inquiry that decenters national narratives and regional ones (Latin America versus Spain). It…[Read more]
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Magalí Armillas-Tiseyra started the topic MLA2020: Global South panel in the discussion
2020 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 6 years, 1 month ago248 – Race, Indigeneity, and Articulations of Sovereignty across the Global South
Friday, 10 January 2020 | 10:15 AM – 11:30 AM | WSCC – Skagit 4
- “Shame and the Question of Identity in Jacobs and Manzano,” David Luis-Brown, Claremont Graduate U
- “Becoming Indigenous in Haiti: Land and Labor in Edwidge Danticat’s The Farming of Bones
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Allison Margaret Bigelow started the topic Panels organized by CLCS 18th-C. (MLA 2020, Seattle) in the discussion
CLCS 18th-Century on MLA Commons 6 years, 1 month agoPlease join us at MLA 2020 for two panels on race, science, and the limits of the human in the global 18th c.:
Panel #1
074. Beyond the Border: Plant, Animal, Human. Jan 9, 2020, 1:45 PM–3:00 PM, Sheraton – Ravenna C“Diagramming Race in Eighteenth-Century Science and History,” Rachael King, U of California, Santa Barbara
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Pamela Phillips started the topic UPCOMING DEADLINE • The Enlightened Nightscape 1700-1830 in the discussion
CLCS 18th-Century on MLA Commons 6 years, 1 month agoDear colleagues: Please consider contributing to the proposed volume The Enlightened Nightscape 1700-1830 and feel free to pass this information to interested contacts.
Call for Proposals
The Enlightened Nightscape 1700-1830
Edited by: Pamela Phillips, Ph.D.
Department of Hispanic Studies
University of Puerto Rico, Río P…[Read more]
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Victoria E. Szabo started the topic MLA 2020 Sessions sponsored by TC Digital Humanities in the discussion
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 6 years, 1 month agoNote: please check the official MLA program for the latest info on the TC DH sessions!
019. Critical Engagements between Modern Languages and Digital Humanities
Thursday, Jan 9, 2020, 12:00 PM–1:15 PM, WSCC – 204
Session Information
Description: Panelists examine what aspects of digital humanities offer a critical lens for modern languages w…[Read more]
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Toby Wikström started the topic Panels organized by the Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century French Forums at MLA in the discussion
2020 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 6 years, 1 month agoPanels organized by the Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century French Forums at MLA Seattle 2020
THURSDAY, JANUARY 9, 5:15–6:30pm, WSCC – Chelan 5
THE DISCOURSES OF LUXURY IN SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY FRANCE
Presiding: Sylvaine Guyot, Harvard University
Claire B. Goldstein, University of California, Davis, “Luxury Accessories and Body Net…[Read more]
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Karin Bagnall started the topic Welcome to MLA 2020! in the discussion
2020 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 6 years, 2 months agoA message from the director of convention and events.
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Michael Hancher deposited Dictionary vs. Encyclopedia, Then and Now in the group
TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography on MLA Commons 6 years, 2 months agoThe New English Dictionary was originally distinguished from an encyclopedia in reach and function by its proponent Richard Chenevix Trench and its principal editor James A. H. Murray as differing in responsibilities: a dictionary described the meanings of words, an encyclopedia described the nature of things. The distinction had philosophical and…[Read more]
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Michael Hancher deposited Table of contents, in the group
TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography on MLA Commons 6 years, 2 months agoTable of contents.
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Sarah Tindal Kareem started the topic Fall 2019 MLA Forum Executive Committee Elections in the discussion
LLC Late-18th-Century English on MLA Commons 6 years, 2 months agoDear forum members,
The executive committee of the forum LLC Late-18th-Century English has nominated me to stand for election to the executive committee this year. It was suggested that I submit a post describing my interests and goals to the Late-18th-Century forum’s Commons group, which is how I find myself here. I am an Associate Professor in…[Read more]
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Carrie Johnston deposited Building Digital Archives as We Fight: ASA 2019 panel abstract in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 6 years, 2 months agoBuilding Digital Archives as We Fight, a panel sponsored by the Digital Humanities Caucus of the American Studies Association, will consider the affordances and challenges of building digital archives, as well as the ethical dimensions of using emerging technologies that affect the process and pace of digital archiving. Drawing on firsthand…[Read more]
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Alex Mueller deposited Constructing the Innocence of the First Textual Encounter in the group
TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography on MLA Commons 6 years, 3 months agoThree faculty members from UMass Boston’s English Department—a team responsible for the department’s M.A. course on the Teaching of Literature and for the training of novice teachers of literature—examine the complex process of reading texts that they teach as if they are encountering them as their students do, for the first time. Accepting the p…[Read more]
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