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Marie-Eve Monette replied to the topic Special Screening of Head Hunters at MLA Vancouver in the forum
Film on MLA Commons 11 years, 1 month agoThis is fantastic! I already wanted to attend the session, so I definitely want to see this film. Do we need to get tickets in advance though, or is it first come, first seated? Thanks for the information! 🙂
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Marie-Eve Monette replied to the topic Special Screening of Head Hunters at MLA Vancouver in the forum
Film on MLA Commons 11 years, 1 month agoThis is fantastic; I definitely want to see this film. Do we need to get tickets in advance though, or is it first come, first seated? Thanks for the information! 🙂
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Brad Evans started the topic Special Screening of Head Hunters at MLA Vancouver in the forum
Film on MLA Commons 11 years, 1 month agoSpecial Centenary Film Screening:Â In the Land of the Head Hunters (1914)
Vancity Theater, Saturday, January 10, Noon
http://www.viff.org/theatre/series/vancity-theatre-screening
In the Land of the Head Hunters was the first feature film made in B.C. and is the oldest extant feature made in Canada. It’s also the first feature made with an ent…[Read more]
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Kathleen Venema replied to the topic Citing Comics in the forum
Comics and Graphic Narratives on MLA Commons 11 years, 2 months agoHi Amanda — I’ve got an article on a graphic narrative about to appear in a collection, and I had to get copyright permissions from all the publishers involved (i.e. Canadian, US, and British publishers); perhaps check with the anthology’s editors — perhaps you’ll get lucky, and they will look after getting copyright permissions for you!?
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Joshua Begley replied to the topic Citing Comics in the forum
Comics and Graphic Narratives on MLA Commons 11 years, 2 months agoHi, Amanda,
I don’t know if this helps, but I recently wrote an essay about comics for publication, and I had to get permission to use them. I got lucky because one of them was creator-owned, so I could just contact her through Twitter, but the other was owned by Dynamite Comics and was unsuccessful in contacting them.
This was for the journal…[Read more]
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Amanda Roberts started the topic Citing Comics in the forum
Comics and Graphic Narratives on MLA Commons 11 years, 2 months agoHi everyone,
I wrote an essay about a specific comic book and the essay is going to be published in an anthology. My question is about reproducing images from the comic in the anthology. I am, of course, citing the comic and the images in the essay, so is there any issue with using images from the comic in the anthology? It would be much more…[Read more]
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MarĂa Gil Poisa uploaded the file: CFP: Body Memory Trauma // Exhibition: Water, Art, Women, Life to
Literature and Other Arts on MLA Commons 11 years, 2 months ago5th Hispanic Studies Graduate Conference with the title of “Body, Memory, Trauma”, an interdisciplinary academic event open to every interested scholar. The conference will take place on March 6th and 7th in College Station/Bryan (Texas), together with an Italian-Argentinean artistic exhibition with the title of “Water, Art, Women, Life”, devoted…[Read more]
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MarĂa Gil Poisa uploaded the file: CFP: Body Memory Trauma // Exhibition: Water, Art, Women, Life to
Film on MLA Commons 11 years, 2 months ago5th Hispanic Studies Graduate Conference with the title of “Body, Memory, Trauma”, an interdisciplinary academic event open to every interested scholar. The conference will take place on March 6th and 7th in College Station/Bryan (Texas), together with an Italian-Argentinean artistic exhibition with the title of “Water, Art, Women, Life”, devoted…[Read more]
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MarĂa Gil Poisa started the topic CFP: Cuerpo Memoria Trauma // ExposiciĂłn: Agua, Arte, Mujer, Vida in the forum
Twentieth-Century Spanish Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 2 months agoTĂŤTULO DE LA CONFERENCIA:
CUERPO, MEMORIA Y TRAUMA
Viernes 6 de Marzo – Sábado 7 de Marzo, 2015
CONVOCATORIA
Sponsored by:
Department of Hispanic Studies – Texas A&M University
Religious Studies Program – Texas A&M University
Indigenous studies Working Group – Texas A&M University
Women’s and Gender Studies Program – Texas A&M Unive…[Read more]
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Lisa Stein Haven started the topic Call for Papers: American Humor Studies at ALA in the forum
Film on MLA Commons 11 years, 2 months agoAmerican Literature Association
26th Annual Conference
May 21-24, 2015
The Westin Copley Place

10 Huntington Avenue
,
Boston MA 02116-5798Conference Director:
Olivia Carr Edenfield,
Georgia Southern UniversityConference Fee: For those who pre-register before April 15, 2015: $90
 ($60 for Graduate Students, Independent Scholars, and Retired…[Read more]
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Jesse Goldberg started the topic CFP: Harlem Renaissance Drama (SSAWW 2015) in the forum
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 3 months agoSociety for the Study of American Women Writers Triennial Conference
Nov. 4-8, 2015
Philadelphia, PennsylvaniaProposed Panel: “Women Playwrights of the Harlem Renaissance”
Taking a cue from the conference theme, “Liminal Spaces, Hybrid Lives,” this panel asks how African American women playwrights worked out questions of liminality and hybridi…[Read more]
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Andre Carrington started the topic CFP: Queers & Comics Conference in the forum
Literature and Other Arts on MLA Commons 11 years, 4 months agoView the complete detailed CFP at http://www.clags.org/queers-comics/call-for-proposals
Queers & Comics Conference – Presented by CLAGS: The Center for LGBTQ Studies
Location: The Graduate Center, City University of New York, 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY
Date: May 7-8, 2015
Keynote Speakers: Howard Cruse (Stuck Rubber Baby, Gay Comics) and A…[Read more] -
Andre Carrington started the topic CFP: Queers & Comics Conference in the forum
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 4 months agoView the complete detailed call for proposals: http://www.clags.org/queers-comics/call-for-proposals/
Queers & Comics – Presented by CLAGS: The Center for LGBTQ Studies
Location: The Graduate Center, City University of New York, 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY
Date: May 7-8, 2015Keynote Speakers: Howard Cruse (Stuck Rubber Baby, Gay Comics) a…[Read more]
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Monica C. Miller started the topic 2014 Women's Caucus for the Modern Languages Awards in the forum
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 4 months agoThe Women’s Caucus for the Modern Languages
welcomes submissions for its annual awards.
The 2014 Florence Howe Award
Each year, the Florence Howe Award for feminist scholarship recognizes two outstanding essays by feminist scholars, one from the field of English and one from a foreign language. Each recipient receives $250 and is honored at a…[Read more]
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Erin K. Hogan started the topic LATIN AMERICAN GENDER AND SEXUALITIES in the forum
Cinemas of Spain & Latin America on MLA Commons 11 years, 4 months agoABOUT THE SERIES
The Latin American Gender and Sexualities series is a timely addition to current scholarship on
gender and sexuality. In the last decade, a number of Latin American governments are showing
openness to new kinds of sexualities through public policy. The study of gender and sexuality also
developed during that time to examine…[Read more]
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Jeffrey Zamostny started the topic CFP, KFLC: Corporeality in Silver Age Spain in the forum
Twentieth-Century Spanish Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 5 months agoCall for Papers
Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, April 23-25, 2015
Modern Bodies: Corporeality in Spanish Silver Age Literature and Culture
The advent of modernity and the processes of modernization in early twentieth-century Spain, during the so-called Silver Age (1900-1936), radically changed existing representations of the human body. …[Read more]
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Shayani Bhattacharya started the topic CFP NeMLA: Writings about the Evolution of the Metropolis in the 20th Century in the forum
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 5 months agoPanel: The (Ir)real City: Writing About the Changing Metropolis in the 20th    Century (Session ID: 15391)
Submission Link:Â https://nemla.org/convention/2015/cfp.html#cfp15391
Deadline: September 30, 2014
Panel Chair: Shayani Bhattacharya (for questions:Â shayanib@buffalo.edu)
Conference Dates: April 30-May 03, 2015 (Toronto, Ontar…[Read more]
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Karen Gevirtz started the topic CFP: Aphra Behn Society sessions at ASECS in the forum
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 7 months agoThe Aphra Behn Society is hosting two sessions at ASECS 2015. Abstracts due to session organizer by September 1, 2014.
SESSION 1:
Collaborations: Women in the Arts
Dr. Carolyn Woodward
During most of the eighteenth century, copyright was still in flux and of benefit mainly to booksellers. Although in the middle of the…[Read more]
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Rita Bode started the topic NeMLA WGSC cfp for individual paper abstracts in the forum
Women’s Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 7 months agoNortheast Modern Language Association 46th Annual Convention
 Toronto, Ontario – April 30-May 3, 2015
 NeMLA’s Women’s and Gender Studies Caucus seeks abstracts for the approved panels below – panel descriptions, submission guidelines and the full cfp are available at: http://www.nemla.org/convention/2015.html
Abstract Deadline: September 30, 2014[Read more]
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Erin K. Hogan posted an update in the group
Cinemas of Spain & Latin America on MLA Commons 11 years, 7 months agoCine-Lit VIII February 2015 http://liberalarts.oregonstate.edu/sites/liberalarts.oregonstate.edu/files/cine_lit_viii_0.pdf
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Call for Papers
WORLDS and WORDS
29th Annual Interdisciplinary Conference in the Humanities
Sponsored by the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures
University of West Georgia, College of Arts and Humanities
Carrollton, Georgia
October 30-November 1, 2014Deadline Extended until July 22nd
We welcome submissions from across…[Read more]
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