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Julie Grossman started the topic Adaptation Studies CFPs, MLA Toronto, 2021 in the discussion
TC Adaptation Studies on MLA Commons 5 years, 11 months agoCheck out the CFPs for adaptation studies, MLA Toronto 2021: https://mla.confex.com/mla/2021/webprogrampreliminary/Session8629.html
Abstracts due March 15.
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Elizabeth Black started the topic March 10 deadline reminder: CFP, Medieval and 16th-c French in the discussion
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 5 years, 11 months agoMLA Toronto, 2021
CFP deadline reminder: Tuesday 10 March, 2020
Executive Committees for the Forum on Medieval French Literature and the Forum on Sixteenth-Century French Literature, Joint Call for Proposals:
French Medieval and Sixteenth-Century Urban Space and Urbanism Round Table
How were towns and cities built, inhabited, imagined,…[Read more] -
Elizabeth Black started the topic Friday deadline – Reminder: 16th-c French CFPs, MLA 2021 in the discussion
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 5 years, 11 months agoMLA Toronto, 2021
Calls for Papers
Deadline reminder: Friday 6 March, 2020See attached calls for papers for 16th-century French panels, and please get in touch if you have any questions!
Liz Black (eblack@odu.edu)
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Ryan Calabretta-Sajder started the topic CfP: LLC Italian American – MLA 2021 in the discussion
2018 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 5 years, 11 months agoTitle: Trauma & Its Consequences in Italian-Americana E-mail Address: rcalabretta@gmail.comDescription & Requirements: This session explores trauma and Italian Americans, individually, collectively as a community, and on a larger scale as a culture. Open to representations in literature, cinema, and the arts.Submission Deadline: Friday, 20 March…[Read more]
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John Garrison started the topic CFP: Forum Guaranteed Sessions for MLA 2021 in the discussion
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 5 years, 11 months agoIf you’re thinking of attending the MLA convention next year in Toronto, please consider submitting an abstract for one of these sessions sponsored by the Renaissance and Early Modern Forum:
1. Gendered Vengeance
Exploring depictions of revenge that reinforce or question assumptions about gender, this guaranteed panel welcomes reconsiderations of…[Read more] -
Franziska Katharina Ninett Lallinger deposited Online Database of Middle High German Translations of Latin Hymns: ‘Berliner Repertorium’ in the group
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 6 years agoThe Berliner Repertorium (http://opus.ub.hu-berlin.de/repertorium/page/home), online since June 2017, provides a database of Middle High and Low German translations of Latin hymns, sequences, and antiphons until the year 1600. In this contribution on our database of hymn translations, the ‘Berliner Repertorium’, I will introduce you to its str…[Read more]
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Douglas Lanier started the topic Follow-up to the Adaptation Studies forum proposal in the discussion
Prospective Forum: Adaptation Studies on MLA Commons 6 years, 1 month agoHi, all. As you know from my last e-mail, the proposal to found an MLA Adaptation Studies forum has been approved, and we’re now up and running. I have a small favor to ask of you in support of this fledgling forum.
There is now an official site for Adaptation Studies on the MLA Commons. (This e-mail comes to you from the old site I created for…[Read more]
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Jennifer Buckley started the topic CFP — 2020 Shaw Symposium @ Shaw Festival (Ontario, CA) in the discussion
GS Drama and Performance on MLA Commons 6 years, 1 month agoCall for Papers
2020 Shaw Symposium
The Shaw Festival, Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, CA
23-25 July 2020
The International Shaw Society and the Shaw Festival invite proposals to present new critical or creative research at the Seventeenth Annual Summer Shaw Symposium. We especially welcome proposals that offer a focused analysis of The…[Read more]
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “Can the Biopic Subjects Speak? Disembodied Voices in The King’s Speech and The Theory of Everything.” A Companion to the Biopic, ed. Deborah Cartmell and Ashley D. Polasek (Chichester, UK: Wiley-Blackwell, 2020), 269-282 in the group
GS Drama and Performance on MLA Commons 6 years, 1 month agoThe adaptations of King George VI’s and Stephen Hawking’s life stories show their uneasy relationship to the “troubled-white-male-genius” genre and to the vocal embodiment of their subjects who lose and gain a voice through therapy, technology, and their will to live a full life. The films carefully skirt the edges of public disgust and pity of…[Read more]
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Toby Wikström started the topic Panels organized by the Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century French Forums at MLA in the discussion
CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern on MLA Commons 6 years, 2 months agoPanels organized by the Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century French Forums at MLA Seattle 2020
THURSDAY, JANUARY 9, 5:15–6:30pm, WSCC – Chelan 5
THE DISCOURSES OF LUXURY IN SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY FRANCE
Presiding: Sylvaine Guyot, Harvard University
Claire B. Goldstein, University of California, Davis, “Luxury Accessories and Body Net…[Read more]
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Lidiana de Moraes started the topic CFP – Symposium Documenting Diversity & Democracy in Brazil in the discussion
MLAgrads on MLA Commons 6 years, 2 months agoHello everyone,
I am happy to share the Call for Papers for this symposium that will take place at the University of Miami, in March 2020.
https://mailchi.mp/miami.edu/documenting-diversity-and-democracy-in-brazil-call-for-papers-2019
Please share with those who may be interested.
Thank you so much!
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “Others within: Ethics in the age of global Shakespeare.” Routledge Handbook of Shakespeare and Global Appropriation, ed. Christy Desmet, Sujata Iyengar, and Miriam Jacobson (London: Routledge, 2020), pp. 25-36 in the group
GS Drama and Performance on MLA Commons 6 years, 2 months agoThis chapter theorizes global Shakespeare through two interrelated concepts: performance as an act of citation and the ethics of citation. Bringing the concept of performance as citation and the ethics of citation together, this chapter argues that acts of appropriation carry with them strong ethical implications. A crucial, ethical component of…[Read more]
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Douglas Lanier started the topic Success! in the discussion
Prospective Forum: Adaptation Studies on MLA Commons 6 years, 2 months agoDear all,I’m very pleased to announce that the MLA Executive Committee has approved the petition to make Adaptation Studies an official MLA Discussion Forum. Many thanks to all who have contributed to making this application a success. Please invite your colleagues in adaptation studies to join the forum. I’m looking forward to interesting…[Read more]
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Hania A.M. Nashef deposited “‘Nothing is Left to Tell’ Beckettian Despair and Hope in the Arab World” in the group
GS Drama and Performance on MLA Commons 6 years, 2 months agoIn the Arab world, Beckett’s plays or their adaptations have not only been popular with audiences and directors but have also inspired other literary and media genres. The Beckettian wait itself has become synonymous with the condition of the Arab person. It is a wait that offers an unrealized potential of hope that reverberates with the d…[Read more]
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