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Janet Ruth Heller posted an update in the group
TC Religion and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months agoDear Colleagues,
Joyce Meier of Michigan State University and I are editing a collection of scholarly essays on the theme of Voice and Empowerment in English studies. Cambridge Scholars Publishing is interested in publishing this book.
As faculty members, we try to empower our students and to encourage them to develop their own voices. We also…[Read more]
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Yvonne Fuentes replied to the topic CFP on Travel – deadline June 12, 2015Regards, in the discussion
Travel Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 8 months agoCFP on Travel – Deadline extended to July 12, 2015.
30th ANNUAL INTERDISCIPLINARY CONFERENCE IN THE HUMANITIES
The Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, the College of Arts and Humanities, and the University of West Georgia (UWG) invite you to celebrate the 30th Annual Interdisciplinary Conference in the Humanities, October 8-10, 20…[Read more]
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Yvonne Fuentes started the topic CFP on Travel – deadline June 12, 2015Regards, in the discussion
Travel Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 8 months agoThe 30th Annual Interdisciplinary Conference in the Humanities at UWG is on TRAVEL. We welcome abstracts and panels on TRAVEL and its many crossroads and intersections.
Send questions and abstracts to Yvonne Fuentes, uwgconference2015@gmail.com.
More information at http://www.westga.edu/forlang/2710_2846.php.
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Lynn Ramey started the topic CFP Austin 2016 in the discussion
Comparative Studies in Medieval Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months agoWe’re still looking for a few good abstracts! Please consider sending an abstract if you work on any aspect of space, geography, or place in medieval literature.
The Spatial Turn
How and why do medieval and modern notions of space differ? Papers on
aspects of medieval space and mapping, including use of GIS or technology.250-word abstracts by M…[Read more]
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Sharon Achinstein started the topic CFP MLA 2016: 17-Century Britain and/or/in Europe in the discussion
Comparative Studies in Renaissance and Baroque Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months agoCall for Proposals: MLA 2016:
17th-Century Britain/and/or/in Europe
Special Session
A panel reframing geographical and literary contours: literary, political, or philosophical concerns; networks; thinking beyond ‘Crisis’; questioning current institutional barriers. 300 word abstract by 21 March 2015; Sharon Achinstein (sachins1@jhu.edu) and…[Read more] -
Liam Corley started the topic CFP: Conjuring Multi-Ethnic Futures (MLA 16 Special Session) in the discussion
Literature and Religion on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months agoSession type: Special Session
Title of session: Conjuring Multi-Ethnic Futures
Submission requirements: Abstract of about 250 words.
Deadline for submissions: 20 March 2015
Description: Utopia? How should nations want their human societies to look in 150 years? Color, gender, heritage differences, sure. Religious too? Visual ar…[Read more] -
Suha Kudsieh started the topic MLA, Austin: Russia & the Middle East in the Pre-Modern Period in the discussion
Comparative Studies in Renaissance and Baroque Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months agoDear colleagues,
Please feel free to post the CFP in your department, circulate it as among colleagues and on other e-lists, and forward it to your grad students:
131st MLA Annual Convention
Austin, 7–10 January 2016Title of panel: “Russia and the Middle East (Pre-modern)”
Description: this special panel examines broad cultural in…[Read more]
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Suha Kudsieh started the topic "Russia and the Middle East" (Pre-modern) – MLA, Austin, 7–10 Jan. 2016 in the discussion
Travel Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 11 months agoDear colleagues,
Please feel free to post the CFP in your department, circulate it as among colleagues and on other e-lists, and forward it to your grad students:
131st MLA Annual Convention, Austin, 7–10 January 2016
Title of panel: “Russia and the Middle East (Pre-modern)”
Description: this special panel examines broad cultural in…[Read more]
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Jonathan Reeve replied to the topic Religion and Literature Syllabus Archive in the discussion
Literature and Religion on MLA Commons 11 years agoThis looks great! It might be of interest to the Open Syllabus Project.
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Liam Corley started the topic Religion and Literature Syllabus Archive in the discussion
Literature and Religion on MLA Commons 11 years agoDear colleagues and friends,
The journal Religion and Literature and the University of Notre Dame are happy to announce a new resource for the teaching of religion and literature. The religion and literature syllabus archive, housed through the University of Notre Dame, offers access to syllabi from instructors across the many fields that the s…[Read more]
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Liam Corley started the topic CFP: Religion and Early Literature (MLA in Austin, TX, 7-10 Jan, 2016) in the discussion
Literature and Religion on MLA Commons 11 years agoReligion and Early Literature (MLA 2016 in Austin, TX, 7-10 January)
Given the difficulty of distinguishing between literary and religious texts in early periods, how do literary scholars differ in their approaches to early texts from scholars of religious studies? We invite papers on religious literature from the sixth to the seventeenth…[Read more]
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Liam Corley started the topic CFP: Pedagogical Approaches to Sacred Texts and Literature (MLA 2016 in Austin, in the discussion
Literature and Religion on MLA Commons 11 years agoPedagogical Approaches to Sacred Texts and Literature (MLA 2016 in Austin, TX, 7-10 January)
Strategies and issues related to teaching sacred texts/selections as literature or literature as religious practice. All religions and periods. Panel sponsored by MLA Forum on Religion and Literature. Abstract/CV by 15 March 2015; Lisa Gordis, lgordis@barnard.edu
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Liam Corley started the topic CFP: Heavens Above: Envisioning Religion in Science Fiction, MLA 2016 in the discussion
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Alien religions, post-secular numinous experience, evolutionary religious developments, neo-religious epiphanies–science fiction rarely leaves religion behind as it leaps to the stars. Papers addressing… -
Keith Dorwick started the topic CFP: Chronicles of Narnia at 60, Austin in the discussion
Literature and Religion on MLA Commons 11 years agoI am seeking speakers for a panel at the next meeting of the Modern Language Association in Austin TX, 7-10 January 2015. Successful panelists will present short critical papers (20 mins; 6 double spaced pages single sided; this is a firm limit) that discuss C. S. Lewis’ Chronicles of Narnia as a whole on the 60th anniversary of the completion o…[Read more]
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David Alworth replied to the topic Volunteer in the forum
Prospective Forum: TC History and Literature on MLA Commons 11 years agoI would be delighted to volunteer.
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Leila Tarakji started the topic CFP: Global Halal Conference in the forum
Literature and Religion on MLA Commons 11 years, 4 months agoGlobal Halal
An International Conference on Muslims and the Cultural Politics of the PermissibleFebruary 19-21, 2015
Michigan State University
East Lansing, Michigan
Global Halal is an international conference organized by the Muslim Studies Program at Michigan State University in partnership with the UK-based Muslim, Trust and Cultural…[Read more] -
Laura E. Savu started the topic The Good Life and the Greater Good in a Global Context in the forum
Literature and Religion on MLA Commons 11 years, 7 months agoDear colleagues,
I’m writing to invite you to submit proposals for a collection of essays that is tentatively titled The Good Life and the Greater Good in a Global Context. The essays need to focus on the discourses and practices of the good life, understood in all of its dimensions—material, psychological, ethical, spiritual, etc. –and appro…[Read more]
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Katina Rogers posted an update in the group
TC History and Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 8 months agoThe Program Committee will evaluate those prospective forums that obtained at least thirty-five signatures and five leadership volunteers by 15 June. Though that deadline has passed, we still encourage you to join groups that interest you and voice your support by signing the petition and volunteering. Support for prospective forums will be…[Read more]
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