Friday, Jan. 6, 2017 , Noon – 1:15 p.m.
Franklin 3, Philadelphia Marriott

Presiding: Leah Middlebrook, Univ. of Oregon

Matters pertinent to culture, translational and translated, in early modern Iberia. Our participants will present prepared remarks, after which we invite vigorous discussion :

Lucia Binotti, UNC Chapel Hill – “Translation,…[Read more]

Dear colleagues,

My name is Felipe Valencia, and I would like to introduce myself as the new delegate of this forum at the MLA Delegate Assembly starting next convention, in 2017, until the 2019 convention. I urge you to please contact me at felipe.valencia@usu.edu or through MLA Commons if you would like to share your thoughts on any of the…[Read more]

We are proposing three sessions for the 2017 session in Philadelphia. In order to allow plenty of time for interaction, we will limit each session to three presentations. While you do have to be a member of MLA to present, you do not have to be a member of the Forum (although we’d love to have you!)

Guaranteed session

“Questioning the Glo…[Read more]

Just received my copy of the wonderful anthology edited by Akiko Tsuchiya and Billy Acree, Empire’s End: Transnational Connections in the Hispanic World (Vanderbilt, 2016). I think every single essay is relevant to Global Hispanophone issues. Take a look…[Read more]

This panel invites papers that rethink the affective turn in the humanities from the vantage of colonial and postcolonial histories.  The proposed focus in an exploration of colonial and postcolonial affects, both in general terms as well as in relation to specific cultural practices, visual objects, or written texts. How do we theorize and his…[Read more]

This panel seeks papers that address the environment in literature and film of the Early Americas through a Hemispheric  perspective (South, Central, North, Caribbean). Papers may address the representation of natural catastrophes and theories on climatology, the representation of endemic vs. invasive species in fiction and travel narratives,…[Read more]

Illegal Diasporas in African Literature and Cinema

The Afropolitan is an increasingly salient but contested figure in African literary studies. This panel focuses on alternative figures of diaspora for whom an Afropolitan identity appears beyond reach or ill-advised. The panel provides an opportunity to build on the work of Khalid Koser in the…[Read more]

Please help with the formation of a new MLA Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic Forum by signing the petition here.

Please tell us about your experience (use this link) teaching the work of Karen Tei Yamashita and help shape a new MLA volume in the series, Approaches to World Literature. Information about proposing an essay for this volume is included at the end of the survey. Deadline: June 1, 2016.

Note: Survey and CFP in addition to CFP for an MLA 2017…[Read more]

Colleagues, for 2017 the theme for our guaranteed session is

“Questioning the Global Hispanophone”:
The Global Hispanophone offers both the potential for an expanded, destabilized Hispanism, and the limitations of being a pseudo-imperial category. Can a postnational, postimperial approach avoid this imperialist framework without undermining the…[Read more]

Sixth Biennial Conference of the Alliance for the Study of Adoption and Culture
ASAC 2016: Building Communities, Changing Discourses
Crowne Plaza Minneapolis Northstar Downtown Hotel, 27-29 October 2016
Proposal deadline 1 March 2016.
This conference, sponsored by The Alliance for the Study of Adoption and Culture, looks at stories, histories,…[Read more]

CFP: “Global Asynchronies: National Time and Transnational Dissent”

MLA Special Session (Philadelphia, 5-8 January 2017)

This non-guaranteed, MLA special seeks papers that examine how literary and audiovisual works articulate dissent by operating at different national tempos, challenging the global synchronicity that dominates the…[Read more]

Colonial Latin America Forum/ Proposed panels for MLA 2017—Philadelphia, Jan 5-8.
Colonial ethnographies

This panel seeks papers on colonial ethnographic discourse in the context of Spanish imperialism. Numerous colonial texts engage in the description and interpretation of indigenous cultures, dealing with the complexities of transferring i…[Read more]

We welcome contributions that examine the notion of catastrophe in comparative studies and literary theory. Thinking catastrophe today raises multiple questions. What constitutes a catastrophe? How do we bear witness to a catastrophe? What historical catastrophes serve an exemplary or paradigmatic function? Whose catastrophe is heard and whose…[Read more]

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Call for Papers:
Transnational French Modernisms
7th-8th July 2016, Durham University, UK
Keynote speakers:
Dr. Jonathan Eburne (Penn State)
Professor Susan Harrow (Bristol)
Professor Debarati Sanyal (Berkeley)
The rise of France’s colonial empire in the 19th century shaped French culture as a global arena and fra…[Read more]