-
John MacKay deposited Province of Universality: Vertov before the War (1896-1914) in the group
CLCS Global Jewish on MLA Commons 9 years, 7 months agoOn Dziga Vertov’s early life and the city (Bialystok) and situations in which he grew up.
-
Laura C. Mandell started the topic Curious about Digital Humanities? in the discussion
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 9 years, 7 months agoOur Digital Humanities Center at Texas A&M, the IDHMC, is offering an introductory course — four one-hour sessions; participation online. Here follows the flyer we sent out–please pass it on to anyone who might be interested. Thank you!
P4H: What is Digital Humanities?
An official course in the Programming 4 Humanists SeriesBeginning Friday, Au…[Read more]
-
Janine M. Utell started the topic CFP: The Comics of Alison Bechdel (edited collection; 12/1/16) in the discussion
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 9 years, 7 months agoOf interest to the group for interdisciplinary approaches to culture and society:
The Comics of Alison Bechdel: From the Outside In
“The Comics of Alison Bechdel: From the Outside In” is a proposed volume in the series Critical Approaches to Comics Artists at the University Press of Mississippi. This volume will contain an array of criti…[Read more]
-
Gema Pérez-Sánchez started the topic Convocatoria para enviar propuestas IV Jornadas de ALCESXXI Julio 4-8 de 2017 in the discussion
Twentieth-Century Spanish Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 7 months agoSEMINARIO DE TRABAJO Y ESTUDIO: “Acercamientos transnacionales y afectivos al estudio del género y la sexualidad en la literatura y la cultura visual contemporáneas en el Estado Español”
Fecha de envío de propuestas: 10 de agosto de 2016
<u>Organizadores:</u>
Alfredo Martínez-Expósito (m@unimelb.edu.au), Head of School of Languages and Lingu…[Read more]
-
Edgar Illas uploaded the file: Cfps. NACS Colloquium to
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 9 years, 7 months agoAttached please find the call for papers for the 16th International Colloquium of the North American Catalan Society (Indiana University, Bloomington, May 18-20, 2017). The deadline for proposals is October 1, 2016.
-
Edgar Illas started the topic Cfps. NACS Colloquium in the discussion
Twentieth-Century Spanish Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 7 months agoPlease find under files the Cfps. for the 16th International Colloquium of the North American Catalan Society (Indiana University, Bloomington, May 18-20, 2017).
The deadline for proposals is October 1, 2016. Send abstracts/panels to Edgar Illas eillas@indiana.edu -
Aurora Peraza-Rugeley deposited Zoé Jiménez Corretjer. Las Camelias de Amelia. Scott Depot, WV: Obsidiana Press. 2009. 207 pp. ISBN: 9781935400158 in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American on MLA Commons 9 years, 7 months agoLa Camelias de Amelia (written in Spanish) is a 2009 collection of short stories about Puerto Rico and its people. Its author, Zoé Jiménez Corretjer, forms part of the Puerto Rican writers called ‘La Generación de los 80’ (authors writing in Spanish from the island and not in English from US territory.)
This review only analyzes the work as a u…[Read more] -
Thomas Oliver Beebee started the topic CFP for ACL(x) '16: Extra-Disciplinarity Due date 30 June in the discussion
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 9 years, 8 months agoWhat if disciplines were organized differently — or didn’t exist at all? Or existed, but none of us “belonged” to one? What if literary scholars were to go about interdisciplinary work the way scientists do, building large teams from distinct disciplines to produce work with many co-authors? How do other disciplines reach their audiences? What…[Read more]
-
Cristina León Alfar started the topic Call for proposals, for a new series from Medieval Institute Publications in the discussion
Comparative Studies in Renaissance and Baroque Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 8 months agoLate Tudor and Stuart Drama:
Gender, Performance, and Material CultureSeries Editors: Cristina León Alfar, Hunter College, CUNY,
and Helen Ostovich, McMaster UniversityThis series provides a forum for monographs and essay collections that investigate the material culture, broadly conceived, of theatre and performance in England from the late…[Read more]
-
Cristina León Alfar uploaded the file: Call for proposals, for a new series from Medieval Institute Publications to
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 9 years, 8 months agoLate Tudor and Stuart Drama:
Gender, Performance, and Material Culture -
Diane Jakacki deposited REED and the Prospect of Networked Data in the group
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 9 years, 8 months agoIn today’s DH environment, where big data and linked data are increasingly the focus of scholars looking for ways to extend their research questions through more expansive and complementary datasets, what is the role of the individual research project? Is its value now truly in integration and association and aggregation with other d…[Read more]
-
Hugh M. Richmond deposited The U.C. Berkeley Shakespeare Program in the group
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 9 years, 8 months agoThis essay describes and illustrates the activities associated with the University of California at Berkeley’s Shakespeare Program, over the last forty years, covering teaching innovations, numerous research publications, multiple productions and videos of Shakespeare’s plays, and creation of websites, Shakespeare’s Staging and Milton Revealed.
-
Benjamin Fraser started the topic Call for Assistant Editors: Journal of Urban Cultural Studies in the discussion
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 9 years, 9 months agoCALL FOR
ASSISTANT EDITORS (2017 & 2018)APPLICATION DEADLINE IS 20 NOVEMBER 2016
The Journal of Urban Cultural Studies is a peer-reviewed interdisciplinary journal exploring the cultures of cities and blending humanities and social science approaches to the urban phenomenon. The journal publishes research articles (subject to peer review) of…[Read more]
-
Chandrima Chakraborty started the topic History, Memory, Grief: A 30th Air India Anniversary Conference, McMaster U in the discussion
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 9 years, 9 months agoHistory, Memory, Grief: A 30th Air India Anniversary Conference
Department of English & Cultural StudiesMay 6-7, 2016
McMaster Innovation Park
<div class=”entry-content”>On June 23, 1985 a bomb detonated on Air India Flight 182 en route from Toronto to New Delhi via Montreal. The mid-air explosion killed all 329 passengers and crew, the…[Read more]
-
Hugh M. Richmond deposited John Milton: the First Modern in the group
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 9 years, 9 months agoJohn Milton is a hero to Millennials: C. S. Lewis based Perelandra on Paradise Lost; Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials Trilogy mirrors the epic; Mark Morris’s best ballet is “L’Allegro and Il Penseroso”; digital artist Terrance Lindall created virtual images of Paradise Lost for the Oxford U. Press; Comus is the originator and lead Krewe for…[Read more]
-
Gregory F. Tague posted an update in the group
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 9 years, 10 months agoYou might be interested in my recent book, *Art and Adaptation*, which presents a comprehensive survey and discussion of the dominant ideas by leading thinkers on why we make art. Approaches that examine the evolution of art behavior embrace natural selection, sexual selection, social selection, and cognition. Plenty of more information at my…[Read more]
-
Daniela Goldfine started the topic Gender and Sexuality in Jewish Latin American Cultural Production in the discussion
Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 10 months agoThe editors of a volume titled Gender and Sexuality in Jewish Latin American Cultural Production invite proposals from potential contributors. The volume is planned for publication with Lexington Books as part of their Latin American Gender and Sexualities series edited by Carolina Rocha.
Essay proposals should explicitly address issues and/or…[Read more]
-
Daniela Goldfine started the topic Gender and Sexuality in Jewish Latin American Cultural Production in the discussion
Jewish Cultural Studies on MLA Commons 9 years, 10 months agoThe editors of a volume titled “Gender and Sexuality in Jewish Latin American Cultural Production” invite proposals from potential contributors. The volume is planned for publication with Lexington Books as part of their Latin American Gender and Sexualities series edited by Carolina Rocha.
Essay proposals should explicitly address issues and…[Read more]
-
Hania Nashef deposited Specters of Doom: Saramago's Dystopias in Blindness and The Cave in the group
LLC Global Portuguese on MLA Commons 9 years, 10 months agoAlthough Plato’s Utopia or ideal city is the non-place that holds the promise of perfection, it remains the place in which citizens are categorized by a rigid structure. José Saramago, on the other hand, introduces us to a dystopia in his novel Blindness, in which one event leads to the ruin of a city. Yet, as with Plato’s Utopia, a similar…[Read more]
-
Hania Nashef deposited Specters of Doom: Saramago's Dystopias in Blindness and The Cave in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 9 years, 10 months agoAlthough Plato’s Utopia or ideal city is the non-place that holds the promise of perfection, it remains the place in which citizens are categorized by a rigid structure. José Saramago, on the other hand, introduces us to a dystopia in his novel Blindness, in which one event leads to the ruin of a city. Yet, as with Plato’s Utopia, a similar…[Read more]
- Load More
Open access, open source, open to all
