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Elizabeth B. Davis deposited Conquistas de las Indias de Dios: Early Poetic Appropriations of the Indies by the Spanish Renaissance in the group
Cultural Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 11 months agoProfessor Davis’s early article on appropriations of the Indies by Spanish poets who remained in Spain invites us to contemplate a body of poetry that plays the idea of American treasures against the value of true, spiritual riches.
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Elizabeth B. Davis deposited Time of catastrophe: temporalities in the transatlantic relación of Diego Portichuelo de Ribadeneyra in the group
Cultural Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 11 months agoUsing the transatlantic relación of Diego Portichuelo de Ribadeneyra (1657) as an example, this essay tracks some of the ways in which several religious passengers narrated their experience crossing the Atlantic Ocean in the Spanish Indies fleets during the sixteenth and the seventeenth centuries. Of particular importance here are the ways in…[Read more]
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Elizabeth B. Davis deposited Travesías peligrosas: escritos marítimos en España durante la Época Imperial, 1492-1650 in the group
Cultural Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 11 months agoThis chapter is the product of a Keynote Address that Dr. Davis offered at the VII Conference of the Asociación Internacional Siglo de Oro which took place at Robinson College, Cambridge, 18-22 July, 2005. Here the author examines a variety of kinds of early modern Spanish maritime writing (sixteenth and seventeenth centuries).
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Pramod Ranjan deposited महिषासुर: मिथक व परंपराएं in the group
Cultural Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 11 months agoइक्कसवीं सदी के दूसरे दशक में भारत में महिषासुर आंदोलन द्विज संस्कृति के लिए चुनौती बनकर उभरा। इसके माध्यम से आदिवासियों, पिछड़ों और दलितों के एक बड़े हिस्से ने अपनी सांस्कृतिक दावेदारी पेश की।
लेकिन यह आंदोलन क्या है, इसकी जड़ें समाज में कहां तक फैली हैं, बहुजनों की सांस्कृतिक परंपरा में इसका क्या स्थान है, मौजूदा लोक-जीवन में महिषासुर क…[Read more]
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Weihsin Gui started the topic Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic Forum CFPs for MLA 2024 in the discussion
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months agoFor the 2024 Modern Language Association in Philadelphia (January 4 to 7), the Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic Forum is organizing or co-organizing four sessions / panels. Please click on the links below to see the full CFPs and submission deadlines.
1) Postcolonial Southeast Asia?: Limits and…[Read more]
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Pramod Ranjan deposited महिषासुर से संबंधित परंपराओं और आंदोलन के निहितार्थ in the group
Cultural Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 11 months agoमहिषासुर आंदोलन के इस कदर अचानक फैल जाने का एक बड़ा कारण था कि बहुजन समाज में इन परंपराओं की जड़ें बहुत गहरी रही हैं और इनका प्रसार उसके अवचेतन तक रहा है। इन समुदायों से आने वाले फुले, आंबेडकर, पेरियार समेत सभी चिंतकों ने असुर-संस्कृति की न सिर्फ विस्तृत गवेषणा की है, बल्कि अगर आप ध्यान से देखें तो पाएंगे कि यही उनकी वैचारिकी का प्रस्थान…[Read more]
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Christopher Griffin deposited Every Day We Must Get Up and Relearn the World: An Interview with Robyn Maynard and Leanne Betasamosake Simpson in the group
Postcolonial Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 12 months agoThe pandemic has been the most vivid agent of change that many of us have known. But it has not changed everything: plenty of the institutions, norms, and practices that sustain racial capitalism, settler colonialism, and cisheteropatriarchy have either weathered the storm of the crisis or been nourished by its effects. And yet enough has changed…[Read more]
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Sean Mark started the topic new book on Pound and Pasolini in the discussion
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 2 years, 12 months agoDear group members,
I’m pleased to announce that my book on Ezra Pound and Pier Paolo Pasolini, Pound and Pasolini: Poetics of Crisis, has been published by Palgrave Macmillan: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-91948-1
The Introduction and a translation of the Pasolini-Pound interview of 1967 are available for free download in th…[Read more]
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Pramod Ranjan deposited बिहारी अस्मिता: शहीद बनाने का खेल in the group
Cultural Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 12 months ago27 अक्टूबर, 2008 को एक बिहारी नवयुवक राहुल राज की मुंबई पुलिस ने हत्या कर दी थी। इसके बाद बिहार में युवाओं ने व्यापक आंदोलन किया था। कई जगहों पर तोड़फोड़ और आगजनी की घटनाएं हुईं थीं। कई दिनों तक राजधानी पटना ठप रही थी। इस संबंध में आरोप-प्रत्यारोप की लंबी राजनीति चली थी और राहुल राज को बिहारी अस्मिता के प्रतीक के रूप में देखा गया था। इ…[Read more]
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Pramod Ranjan deposited किन्नौर में बौद्ध धर्म, जाति प्रथा और राजनीति in the group
Cultural Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 12 months agoखूबसूरत प्राकृतिक दृश्यों से परिपूर्ण किन्नौर का समाज व संस्कृति शेष भारत से अलग है। यह बौद्ध धर्म का इलाका है, जिसे हिंदूवादी संस्कृति लीलती जा रही है। आर्थिक संपन्नता के आगमन से जाति-आधारित उत्पीड़न और भेदभाव कम हो रहा है। प्रमोद रंजन ने इस यात्रा संस्मरण में किन्नौर की विशिष्ट संस्कृति, बहु पत्नी प्रथा, वहां के समाज और राजनीति…[Read more]
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Pramod Ranjan deposited Footsteps of post-humanism in the group
Cultural Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 12 months agoDiscourse called post-humanism believes that humanism is a phony notion and an excuse for ruling over the other animals — and that it would eventually invite the destruction of the human race. They draw attention to the scientific fact that man is also an ordinary animal and just like other animals and birds is a small part of the huge e…[Read more]
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David A. Wacks deposited Aljamiado retellings of the Hebrew Bible in the group
CLCS Global Hispanophone on MLA Commons 2 years, 12 months agoStories from the Hebrew Bible were popular among the Iberian Peninsula’s Jews, Christians, and Muslims. Beginning in the 14th century, Muslims and Moriscos retold these stories in Aljamiado texts in Spanish or Aragonese written in Arabic characters. These fictionalized retellings drew on vernacular language and literary forms common to C…[Read more]
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Pramod Ranjan deposited स्वर कोकिला लता मंगेशकर के सामाजिक और राजनैतिक सरोकार in the group
Cultural Studies on Humanities Commons 3 years agoपार्श्व गायिका लता मंगेशकर ने लगभग सात दशकों तक भारतीय संगीत की दुनिया पर राज किया। उनके गाए गीत भारत में ही नहीं, पाकिस्तान, बांग्लादेश समेत कई देशों में पसंद किए जाते थे। इस लेख में उनके सामाजिक सरोकारों और राजनीतिक रुझानों की चर्चा की गई है। उनका वैचारिक जुड़ाव राष्ट्रीय स्वयंसेवक संघ से था, जो कि अपनी नाजीवादी विचारधारा…[Read more]
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Derek Johnston deposited The Gothicisation of British TV Historical Drama in the group
Cultural Studies on Humanities Commons 3 years agoThis paper examines a strand in British television historical drama that presents what I term a “Gothicised” version of history. This actively engages with historical trauma as returning to confront its originating society, as the classic Gothic text represents the returning or ongoing effects of a traumatic past in the narrative present. In Peaky…[Read more]
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Derek Johnston deposited Gothicising Picnic at Hanging Rock in the group
Cultural Studies on Humanities Commons 3 years agoThis paper considers the 2018 television adaptation of Picnic at Hanging Rock as an example of Gothicised historical television drama, which uses the Gothic mode to present a past in a way that challenges our expectations of what prestige historical drama should be like, and to emphasise historical traumas and the way that they are still relevant…[Read more]
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Nathalie Dupont started the topic Call for Nominations LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French Forum Executive Committee in the discussion
LLC Francophone on MLA Commons 3 years agoDear colleagues,
The LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French Forum Executive Committee is seeking (self-)nominations from our membership for one colleague willing to serve a term of five convention years (from January 2024 through the close of the January 2029 convention) as member of the executive committee. Responsibilities of the committee members…[Read more]
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Anne Garland Mahler started the topic Soliciting Nominations for the Forum Executive Committee in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American on MLA Commons 3 years agoHi everyone,
I write because we are soliciting nominations and self-nominations for the 20th and 21st Century Latin America Forum Executive Committee. Please reply by Wednesday January 25th with your nominations. Thanks!
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Emily Celeste Vázquez Enríquez started the topic Call for nominations for the LLC Mexican Forum Executive Committee in the discussion
LLC Mexican on MLA Commons 3 years agoThe LLC Mexican Forum of the MLA is seeking nominations and self-nominations from colleagues interested in serving in our forum’s executive committee. Please send your nomination, or nominate a colleague! Send nominations by January 25, 2023 to sergiodm@uchicago.eduMLA forums—formerly divisions and discussion groups—encompass the scholarly and p…[Read more]
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Katharine Lemessy started the topic CFP: Open Educational Resources in Caribbean Studies in the discussion
Latin America and the Caribbean on Humanities Commons 3 years agodLOC OER Project website: https://dloc.domains.uflib.ufl.edu/oer/
Call for Proposals 2022-2023 (English) Link to PDF
Convocatoria de propuestas 2022-2023 (Español) Enlace a PDF
Appel à projets 2022-2023 (Français) Lien vers le PDF
Submit proposals by March 15, 2023 to triosmarrero@ufl.edu
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Overview & Purpose
With generous support from t…[Read more]
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Habiba Ibrahim started the topic Self-Nominations & Suggestions | TC Race & Ethnicity Studies Forum EC in the discussion
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 3 years agoEvery year, Forum executive committees appoint one new member annually to their committees. This year, the Race and Ethnicity Studies Forum executive committee seeks self-nominations and suggestions for a new committee member from our membership so as to allow for broad participation. Our hope is that broad participation will ensure diversity of…[Read more]
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