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David C. Lloyd started the topic Brandeis Center: another nuisance suit threatened in the discussion
MLA Members for Justice in Palestine on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month agoThe Brandeis Center, notorious these days for launching efforts to censor other people’s freedom of speech, has just threatened the MLA with a lawsuit if it passes the boycott resolution. For responses to this clumsy effort at intimidation, see David Lloyd at:
Threat of Legal Action Against MLA
and…[Read more]
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Yael Halevi-Wise posted an update in the group
Scholarship, Censorship, Exclusion on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month agoThe long planned MLA Pogrom 2017 is proceeding apace. No amount of reasoning seems to curtail its obsession with Israel–as if there weren’t more relevant topics for our organization to deal with, or more pressing issues to think about around the world.
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Margaret W. Ferguson started the topic MLA Session with Presidents of Sister Organization on BDS in the discussion
MLA Members for Justice in Palestine on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month ago<p>MLA Sessions in 2017 Related to BDS–please add to this list and check the first entry out out if you are coming to the Philadelphia MLA Convention! Early and important is Session 53, “Association Presidents’ Perspectives on Boycott,” with speakers from our sister organizations that have strenuously debated and voted in favor of supporting the…[Read more]
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David C. Lloyd started the topic Another IDF Invasion of a Palestinian Campus in the discussion
MLA Members for Justice in Palestine on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month agoThis report comes from our Palestinian colleagues at Birzeit University.
http://www.birzeit.edu/en/news/israeli-occupation-continues-strangle-palestines-education
In continuation of its barbaric aggression on our people and national institutions, the Israeli occupation forces stormed Birzeit University’s campus in the early morning hours of W…[Read more]
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David C. Lloyd started the topic New Items at MLA Boycott site: David Palumbo-Liu and Candice Fujikane in the discussion
MLA Members for Justice in Palestine on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month agoA new report by MLA members who traveled to Palestine this summer to explore conditions for Palestinian professors and students in universities and colleges is now available at: https://mlaboycott.wordpress.com/2016/12/06/report-on-mla-members-trip-to-the-west-bank-and-israel/
Additionally, there are a number of new items, including these…[Read more]
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David C. Lloyd started the topic Responding to the Call (to Endorse the Boycott of Israeli Academic Institutions) in the discussion
MLA Members for Justice in Palestine on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month agoRebecca Comay and David Lloyd explain the importance of the academic boycott resolution that they have submitted to the MLA for a vote at the Delegate Assembly when it meets on January 7 in Philadelphia. The op ed encourages MLA members to “respond to the call” of Palestinian civil society and endorse the boycott of Israeli academic inst…[Read more]
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David C. Lloyd started the topic Higher Education in Palestine: A Report by MLA Members in the discussion
MLA Members for Justice in Palestine on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month ago
In June, 2016 a group of six MLA members traveled together to the West Bank and Israel to find out what it was like for Palestinian academics and students trying to study, teach, and research at universities in the occupied territories and within Israel itself. In addition to learning about academic conditions under occupation, the group al…[Read more]
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David C. Lloyd uploaded the file: 2017:2 Resolution to Boycott Israeli Academic Institutions: Evidence to
MLA Members for Justice in Palestine on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month agoThis is an updated document containing evidence for each clause of the resolution, a slightly updated version of which is included in the document.
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David C. Lloyd deleted the file: MLA Resolution ACBI Evidence from
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Mark Sample deposited Interactive Digital Narratives Syllabus (Davidson College 2016) in the group
Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month agoSyllabus for FMS 321 (Interactive Digital Narratives) at Davidson College, Fall 2016.
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Jonathan Grossman started the topic Prose Fiction panel topic suggestions for 2018 in the discussion
Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 9 years, 1 month agoIf you have suggestions for the GS prose fiction panel for MLA 2018, email me (jhg@ucla.edu) or one of the other committee members before MLA. I will collate all suggestions and bring them forward to the committee at our meeting.
All best,
Jonathan
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Stephen A. Ross deposited Speculative Modernism in the group
GS Prose Fiction on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoAn article relating modernism to financial speculation.
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James Gifford deposited A Variant of Lawrence Durrell’s Livia; or, Buried Alive and the Composition of Monsieur; or, the Prince of Darkness in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoWe propose an alternative reading of the sequential construction of Lawrence Durrell’s The Avignon Quintet. The form only became clear as he prepared the first volume, Monsieur; or, the Prince of Darkness, for publication. By contrasting the published variant of Livia; or, Buried Alive, we draw attention to Durrell’s structural preoccupations. By…[Read more]
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James Gifford deposited Summoned by Bells in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoUVic Libraries’ Special Collections and Archives hold prized materials in modern literature, ranging from nearly 400 letters by T.S. Eliot to Ezra Pound’s elucidation of his poetry for a German translation. A featured series in the leading journal Modernism/modernity recently discussed the former, with British scholars demonstrating their flu…[Read more]
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Aarthi Vadde deposited Chimeras of Form: Modernist Internationalism Beyond Europe, 1914-2016 in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoIntroduction – excerpt from book published by Columbia University Press.
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James Gifford deposited Hellenism/Modernism: Negotiating Modernisms and the Philhellene in Greece in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoPhilhellenism in modernist literature is familiar. I examine Lawrence Durrell’s works, locating him between Eliot’s Classicism (perhaps the hegemonic Modernism) and the Greek authors who responded to Eliot. Through his ties to Greek Modernists and Parisian Surrealists, Durrell contributed to the Anglo-American tradition in a mode that reflects the…[Read more]
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James Gifford deposited Durrell's Delta and Dylan Thomas' "Prologue to an Adventure" in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoThis article retraces the publication history of Dylan Thomas’ “Prologue to an Adventure” and concludes its publication in Delta reflects Thomas’ final intentions and revisions, despite the continued republication of its earlier witness in Wales in Thomas’ collected works.
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Phillip Lundberg replied to the topic Kafka as "the Modern Man" = = "K." in the discussion
Jewish American Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months agoFrom Walter Sokel’s famous Kafka Study – Fr. K. Tragik & Ironie:
“If Kafka’s writings have a prophetic ring to them, so it is because he made the split {Spaltung} of contemporary human consciousness into two conflicting aspects, namely the decent, respectable façade that we all are quite comfortable displaying and, on the other hand, the ho…[Read more]
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Phillip Lundberg deleted the file: Spiritual Underpinnings of Josef K.’s eXistence. from
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Joela Jacobs started the topic CfP: Oceans and Deserts 2017 in the discussion
Eighteenth- and Early-Nineteenth-Century German Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 2 months ago<p style=”text-align: center;”>CALL FOR PAPERS</p>
<p style=”text-align: center;”>Oceans and Deserts 2017:
Charting Transdisciplinary Currents in Environment and Culture</p>The graduate students in the Department of German Studies at the University of Arizona invite proposals for their fourth annual interdisciplinary conference for emerging…[Read more]
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