The LLC Japanese to 1900 Forum Executive Committee asks members and other interested individuals to share ideas for panels and round tables to be proposed for sponsorship by the Forum for the program of the 2025 MLA Convention, which will be held in New Orleans, January 9-12. We are especially interested in suggestions of innovative panel or round…[Read more]

Greetings.

Last year, the generosity of Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione enabled the Modern Language Association to create the Scaglione Prize for East Asian Studies, to be awarded annually to an outstanding scholarly work in East Asian literary studies. Works of literary history, literary criticism, philology, and literary theory are eligible, as are…[Read more]

P14 Chinese Forum members, the forum executive committee is soliciting nominations for a new member to join the executive committee for a five-year term starting January 13, 2025. We are particularly interested in mid-level senior scholars with a track record of mentoring younger scholars and an interest in working in comparative and world…[Read more]

Please note new deadline of 2/1 for proposal submissions, with apologies for the confusion!!

The executive committee of the P14 Chinese forum invites proposals for a session to be sponsored by the forum for the 2024 MLA annual convention, which will be held January 4-7 in Philadelphia. Possible formats include panels (three presentations and a…[Read more]

The executive committee of the P14 Chinese forum invites proposals for a session to be sponsored by the forum for the 2024 MLA annual convention, which will be held January 4-7 in Philadelphia. Possible formats include panels (three presentations and a presider), roundtables (more open discussion of broader issues), workshops (focused e.g. on…[Read more]

The executive committee of the P14 Chinese forum invites proposals for a session to be sponsored by the forum for the 2024 MLA annual convention, which will be held January 4-7 in Philadelphia. Possible formats include panels (three presentations and a presider), roundtables (more open discussion of broader issues), workshops (focused e.g. on…[Read more]

P14 Chinese Forum members, we are in the process of soliciting nominations for the forum executive committee. We are particularly interested in midlevel senior scholars with a track record of mentoring younger scholars and an interest in working in comparative and world literary methodologies. Please send all nominations, including…[Read more]

Hi all, A reminder that the deadline for proposing sessions for the 2023 MLA convention (1/5-8 in San Francisco) is April 1.  Any MLA member may propose a special session. Possible formats include panels (three presentations and a presider), roundtables (more open discussion of broader issuse), workshops (focused e.g. on professional development…[Read more]

The exco is currently in the process of planning panels for next year’s MLA.  We have some ideas but are eager to hear suggestions and proposals from you.  If you would like to organize a panel, or to suggest a topic for one, please contact me.

Next year’s MLA will be in San Francisco, Jan. 5-8, 2023.  The Presidential Theme is described here, bu…[Read more]

As most of you know, forum executive committee members serve five-year terms; each year one new member joins the exco as one leaves.  Historically, new members have been elected by the forum membership.  However, beginning this cycle MLA is experimenting with a new policy.

Here’s MLA’s explanation:

The Program Committee has implemented a change t…

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Pre-14th Century Chinese Forum Executive Committee/Delegate Assembly Nominations!

MLA has instituted a change to the staffing of forum executive committees, moving from an election-based process to an appointment-based one. As a result, it is all the more important that members who wish to serve on the executive committee for our forum put…[Read more]

Diversity, equity and inclusion are and for the foreseeable future should be high priority concerns for all manner of organizations, institutions and associations, including and perhaps especially those in the academic sphere, a space from which we believe, as humanists, meaningful changes in understanding and purposeful can emanate. Recognition…[Read more]

I am pleased to stand for election as a forum representative. My work centers on Japan, but for me, this means Japan embedded in larger regional, intellectual, and cultural networks. In particular, preoccupations with classical China and Chinese haunt many of the texts that draw me. My recent monograph, Reflecting the Past: Place, Language, and…[Read more]

We’ve just posted the following call for papers for a panel for MLA 2022:

Title:  The Translation’s Semivisibility: Interlingual, Intralingual, and Other Kinds of Translation in Premodern Japan

Description:  We invite papers exploring translation in premodern Japan, with particular emphasis on types of linguistic rendering that challenge or bro…[Read more]

Perhaps someone is interested (hopefully many are) in continuing the conversation on the directions of our field? There is so much to say. I share Paul’s concern about the shrinking of premodern, which is why I was stressing the importance of history and studying the past as past. But that’s just one angle. Anyway, just creating a space to…[Read more]

Saturday, 9 January 10:15AM-11:30AM EST (Session #382)

Scholars at various career stages from the United States, Europe, and Japan think together with the audience about strategies for ensuring the vitality of pre-1900 Japanese literary studies given the field’s distinctive history and configuration and the challenges of teaching and conducting r…[Read more]

The next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2021, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets in January 2021. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nominate at least one candidate who…[Read more]