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andré carrington started the topic Open General Business Meeting for the Forum:MS Sound at #MLA2024 in the discussion
MS Sound on MLA Commons 2 years agoGood day everyone! If you’re attending the annual convention and you’d like to join the Forum MS Sound (or you’re already a member) please join us at 3:30p.m. on Saturday, January 6, in the Marriott – Grand D (Level 5). We’ll catch up and solicit interest in potential topics for sponsored sessions, and we have seats opening up, so you can become a…[Read more]
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Setsuko Yokoyama started the topic The Executive Committee endorses the Radical Caucus’s motion in the discussion
MS Sound on MLA Commons 2 years agoDear Forum Participants,
The executive committee of the Sound Forum is writing to let you know of our intention to endorse the Radical Caucus’s emergency motion in defense of academic freedom. The draft text of the motion is included below and our endorsement will be listed as “The Sound Forum Executive Committee.” There will be an open hearing…[Read more]
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Setsuko Yokoyama started the topic The Executive Committee endorses the Radical Caucus’s motion in the discussion
MS Sound on MLA Commons 2 years agoDear Forum Participants,
The executive committee of the Sound Forum is writing to let you know of our intention to endorse the Radical Caucus’s emergency motion in defense of academic freedom. The draft text of the motion is included below and our endorsement will be listed as “The Sound Forum Executive Committee.” There will be an open hearing…[Read more]
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Karin Bagnall replied to the topic Restaurant Recommendations and More in the discussion
2024 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 2 years agoHappy New Year! If you’re in need of coffee at the convention, check out the nearby options mapped out here.
And do feel free to add your own suggested for food and beverages of all sorts!
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SBussey started the topic Philadelphia plans in the discussion
2024 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 2 years agoLooking forward to seeing some of you in Phily! TC Aging Studies has two panels: Thursday, 3:30 (Marriott 308) and Saturday 10:15 (Marriott Franklin-8). We are also planning an informal gathering on Saturday at 9:30, at the Exhibit Hall coffee area. I hope you will come by and introduce yourself to me and next year’s Forum president, Shawn Maurer.…[Read more]
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Stacey Amo started the topic Discussion Group on What Contingency Means to You in the discussion
2024 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 2 years, 1 month agoJoin members of the Committee on Contingent Labor in the Profession for an informal discussion about the forms of contingency, the needs of contingent faculty members, and resource sharing. January 6, 10:15-11:30am, PCC – 202A (Grand Hall Level 2) https://mla.confex.com/mla/2024/meetingapp.cgi/Session/19063
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Karin Bagnall started the topic Welcome to the 2024 MLA Convention in the discussion
2024 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 2 years, 1 month agoWelcome! Philadelphia has hosted the MLA convention several times in this millennium and will do so again this January. For those of you who’ve attended those conventions—and certainly for many of us on staff—Philadelphia has become a home away from home. This year all sessions will take place at the Philadelphia Marriott, the Pennsylvania Conve…[Read more]
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Hania A.M. Nashef deposited Songs of Nostalgia: Creative Activism and Exile in Elia Suleiman’s “It Must be Heaven” and Panah Panahi’s “Hit the Road” in the group
MS Sound on MLA Commons 2 years, 2 months agoAbstract | The final scene of Elia Suleiman’s film, It Must be Heaven (2019), ends with the actor/director sitting in an Arab bar in the city of Haifa, while the young crowd is dancing to “Arabyon Ana” (2000) by Lebanese singer Yuri Mrakadi. The Arabic music is a testimony to a Palestinian-Arab culture that resists erasure.
The songs in Sulei…[Read more]
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Yohanna Joseph Waliya deposited Call for Participation: AELAIWC2023 in the group
Humanities Commons Summer Camp on Humanities Commons 2 years, 3 months agoCall for Participation.
The Faculty of Arts, University of Calabar, Calabar Nigeria in conjunction with African Electronic Literature Alliance & African Diasporic Electronic Alliance (AELA&ADELI) organises The 3rd African Electronic Literature Alliance International Workshop Conference (AELAIWC2023)Theme: Digital Humanities &…[Read more]
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andré carrington started the topic CFP for 2024: Putting the Bowtie on Funk : The Sound of Philadelphia in the discussion
MS Sound on MLA Commons 2 years, 10 months agoPutting the Bowtie on Funk : The Sound of Philadelphia
Guaranteed session for MLA 2024 sponsored by Forum MS Sound, in collaboration with Forum African American Literature, Language, and Culture
Philly Soul, with its roots in the Black performance traditions of gospel, funk, and rhythm & blues, transformed popular music in the 1970s. How have…[Read more]
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Scott Newman started the topic CFP African Sound Studies in the discussion
MS Sound on MLA Commons 4 years, 10 months agoCall for Papers
A Panel on “African Sound Studies” at the Virtual Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association
November 16 – 20, 2021
Sound studies has exploded over the past decade, drawing heightened attention to how sound and sonic media shape both the everyday and the exceptional. But even as sound studies has attended closely to qu…[Read more]
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Kristin Moriah deposited On the Record: Sissieretta Jones and Black Feminist Recording Praxes in the group
MS Sound on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months agoIn this article, I examine how Sissieretta Jones (frequently described as America’s first Black superstar, among other superlatives) strategically leveraged her European performance reviews in order to increase her listenership and wages in the United States. Jones toured Europe for the first (and only) time from February until November in 1895. A…[Read more]
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Gerard Holmes deposited “‘The Bird / Who Sings the Same, Unheard, / As Unto Crowd —’: Dickinson, Birdsong, and the Business of Improvisation” in the group
MS Sound on MLA Commons 4 years, 12 months agoBirds are everywhere in nineteenth-century American literature, including the work of Emily Dickinson. Women poets often referred to their poems in terms of making songs. This essay rethinks the birds in Dickinson’s letters and poems. It suggests that Dickinson’s birds, and their songs, show her awareness of business. They exist within com…[Read more]
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Jennifer Stoever started the topic MS SOUND Sponsored and Co-Sponsored Panels at MLA 2020 in Seattle!!! in the discussion
MS Sound on MLA Commons 6 years agoMS Sound will be in full force at the MLA convention this week in Seattle! Check out these three great panels that the MS Sound Executive Forum is sponsoring and co-sponsoring this year. Sound studies is making interventions this year on so many levels– these aren’t the kind of panels we usually see and hear at MLA and it’s exciting!
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Anne Donlon started the topic #HCSummerRefresh 2: Reflection & Making it Official in the discussion
Humanities Commons Summer Camp on Humanities Commons 6 years, 5 months agoWelcome to the last day of our second Humanities Commons Summer Refresh Workshop session! If you missed out on joining us for either session, or if you want to do it all over again, you absolutely can! These posts, as well as the ones on our group site, will remain there indefinitely. Feel free to complete the activities in your own time and even…[Read more]
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Caitlin Duffy deposited EGL 194: Intro to Film (Fall 2019) in the group
Humanities Commons Summer Camp on Humanities Commons 6 years, 5 months agoThis is the syllabus I’ve designed for my Fall 2019 undergraduate-level Introduction to Film course. I focused the course as a genre study of American horror films. I want my students to be able to consider the socio-political contexts of popular films and to detect and explain the arguments and worldviews produced by film.
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Caitlin Duffy started the topic #HCSummerRefresh 2: Sites in the discussion
Humanities Commons Summer Camp on Humanities Commons 6 years, 5 months agoIt’s day four of the second Humanities Commons Summer Refresh Workshop session, and we’re focusing on updating and creating HC sites!
Why should you build and maintain a site through HC?
Humanities Commons allows users like you to build wordpress sites that are linked directly to their HC profile page. Once you create a site, a link to your…[Read more]
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Caitlin Duffy started the topic #HCSummerRefresh 2: CORE in the discussion
Humanities Commons Summer Camp on Humanities Commons 6 years, 5 months agoWelcome to the third day of the second Humanities Commons Summer Refresh Workshop! Today we’re focusing on the CORE Repository.
The importance of taking time to refresh your digital presence through CORE is twofold. First, we hope that a greater awareness of the open access materials available in the CORE Repository will help you to locate helpf…[Read more]
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