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Elvira L. Vilches started the topic CFP MLA 2020JOINT SESSION– COLONIAL LATIN AMERICA FORUM AND GLOBAL HISPANOPHON in the discussion
LLC Colonial Latin American on MLA Commons 6 years, 12 months agoThe Global Hispanophone Forum and the Colonial Latin American Forum seek proposals for a multidisciplinary panel with the title “Overlapping Colonialisms”in which panelists will have the opportunity to make brief presentations of their research projects on the conflicts and gaps created in territories, past and present, where one colonial pow…[Read more]
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Narasimhananda Swami deposited Vedanta Brain and Islam Body Dr A P J Abdul Kalam Prabuddha Bharata October 2015 in the group
Postcolonial Studies on Humanities Commons 6 years, 12 months agoLife of former President of India Dr A P J Abdul Kalam, who was also the author of the Indian missile program.
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Luis Alvarez-Castro started the topic New Issue of Decimononica in the discussion
LLC 18th- and 19th-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 6 years, 12 months agoDear colleagues,
I am pleased to announce the publication of issue 16.1 (Winter 2019) of Decimonónica, Revista de Producción Cultural Hispánica. Essays can be accessed and downloaded for free at http://www.decimononica.org.
Sincerely,
Luis Alvarez-Castro
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Eric Calderwood started the topic CFP: Reel Iberia (March 27-28, 2020) in the discussion
CLCS Global Hispanophone on MLA Commons 6 years, 12 months agoDear members of the Global Hispanophone Forum:
I’m writing to let you know about an exciting conference that I’m organizing with my colleague Javier Irigoyen-García. The conference, scheduled for March 2020, will explore film and television representations of Iberian history. We are hoping for a diverse group of papers, covering many geogra…[Read more]
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Narasimhananda Swami deposited The Changing Classroom Student Vedanta Kesari December 2016 in the group
Postcolonial Studies on Humanities Commons 6 years, 12 months agoThis paper discusses the various tools and platforms available to disseminate and receive educate in an increasingly virtual world. It analyses the impact of MOOCs in the changing face of ICT based education. With many examples of life-transformations due to online learning platforms, this paper gives a glimpse of the sea transformations that…[Read more]
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Galen Brokaw started the topic Call for proposals 2020 MLA panel on Colonial Translation in the discussion
LLC Colonial Latin American on MLA Commons 6 years, 12 months agoThe Latin American Colonial Forum invites proposals for a panel on colonial translation for the 2020 MLA convention. This panel seeks to explore the effects of translation in the relationship between Europeans and indigenous Americans. Beyond the issue of mere accuracy in translation, what kind of effects does translation produce? For example, to…[Read more]
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Galen Brokaw started the topic Call for proposals 2020 MLA panel on Colonial Translation in the discussion
LLC Colonial Latin American on MLA Commons 6 years, 12 months agoThe Latin American Colonial Forum invites proposals for a panel on colonial translation. This panel seeks to explore the ways in which translation shaped the relationship between Europeans and indigenous Americans. Beyond the issue of mere accuracy in translation, what kind of effects does translation produce? For example, to what extent does…[Read more]
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Baltasar Fra-Molinero started the topic CFP Teaching the Humanities through the Global Hispanophone in the discussion
CLCS Global Hispanophone on MLA Commons 6 years, 12 months agoThis session seeks proposals that address the study of the Global Hispanophone as a mode of inquiry thatde-centers national narratives as well as regional ones (Latin America vs Spain) and reviews and critique past and present literary canons. We want to pay close attention to geographic/historical peripheries and cultural practices that challenge…[Read more]
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Amelie Daigle started the topic CFP: Transnational Families, Transnational Novels in the discussion
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 7 years agoJuly 12-13, 2019: Institute of Modern Languages Research at the University of London (London, England)
From Ian Watt to Joseph Slaughter, scholars of literature have understood the novel as a genre that emphasizes the formation of the individual in relation to a nation-state. However, in recent decades, the interconnectedness of the global market…[Read more]
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Adolfo Campoy-Cubillo started the topic 2019 MLA Panels in the discussion
CLCS Global Hispanophone on MLA Commons 7 years agoThe Global Hispanophone Forum and the Colonial Latin American Forum seek proposals for a multidisciplinary panel with the title “Overlapping Colonialisms”in which panelists will have the opportunity to make brief presentations of their research projects on the conflicts and gaps created in territories, past and present, where one colonial pow…[Read more]
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Lisa Zunshine deposited Bastards and Foundlings: Illegitimacy in Eighteenth-Century England in the group
TM Literary Criticism on Humanities Commons 7 years agoThis study focuses on the cultural history of illegitimacy and its representation in literature, with an emphasis on the gender of fictional bastards and foundlings.
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Lisa Zunshine deposited Bastards and Foundlings: Illegitimacy in Eighteenth-Century England in the group
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 7 years agoThis study focuses on the cultural history of illegitimacy and its representation in literature, with an emphasis on the gender of fictional bastards and foundlings.
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited Race in the group
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 7 years ago“Race” offers a compelling study of ideas related to race throughout history. Its breadth of coverage, both geographically and temporally, provides readers with an expansive, global understanding of the term from the classical period onwards: Intersections of Race and Gender // Race and Social Theory Identity // Ethnicity, and Immigration //…[Read more]
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Rita Felski deposited Latour and LIterary Studies in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 7 years agoWhat is the relevance of Bruno Latour’s work for literary studies?
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Rita Felski deposited Comparison and Translation: A Perspective from Actor-Network-Theory in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 7 years agoHow might ANT help us rethink questions of comparison and translation?
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Rita Felski deposited Introduction to Critical and Postcritical Reading (undergraduate course) in the group
TM Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 7 years agoHow and why do we read? And what is the relationship between academic reading and the reading we do for pleasure? This course is divided into two parts. The first part, on critical reading, surveys some of the most influential critical approaches in recent decades, including structuralism, Marxism, psychoanalysis, deconstruction, feminism,…[Read more]
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Thomas Robert Ward deposited Decolonizing Indigeneity: New Approaches to Latin American Literature in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 7 years agoWhile there are differences between cultures in different places and times, colonial representations of indigenous peoples generally suggest they are not capable of literature nor are they worthy of being represented as nations. Colonial representations of indigenous people continue on into the independence era and can still be detected in our…[Read more]
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Thomas Robert Ward deposited Decolonizing Indigeneity: New Approaches to Latin American Literature in the group
LLC Colonial Latin American on MLA Commons 7 years agoWhile there are differences between cultures in different places and times, colonial representations of indigenous peoples generally suggest they are not capable of literature nor are they worthy of being represented as nations. Colonial representations of indigenous people continue on into the independence era and can still be detected in our…[Read more]
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Thomas Robert Ward deposited Decolonizing Indigeneity: New Approaches to Latin American Literature in the group
LLC 19th-Century Latin American on MLA Commons 7 years agoWhile there are differences between cultures in different places and times, colonial representations of indigenous peoples generally suggest they are not capable of literature nor are they worthy of being represented as nations. Colonial representations of indigenous people continue on into the independence era and can still be detected in our…[Read more]
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Allison Margaret Bigelow started the topic Call for panelists, "Beyond the Border: Land, Ocean, Air" (MLA 2020) in the discussion
CLCS 18th-Century on MLA Commons 7 years agoDear colleagues,
Please consider proposing a paper to the MLA 2020 Panel, “Beyond the Border: Land, Ocean, Air.”
A range of classification schemes proliferated in the long eighteenth century, from casta classifications in the Americas (Carrera, Imagining Identity) to racial, national, and moral classifications of human beings in Europe (Kant, Obs…[Read more]
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