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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited Prologue, Chinese Shakespeares: Two Centuries of Cultural Exchange (Columbia University Press, 2009, 2011, 2015). Modern Language Association Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary Studies in the group
LLC Modern and Contemporary Chinese on MLA Commons 5 years, 6 months agoNamed the Writer of the Millennium, Shakespeare has come full circle and become a cliché, embraced by marketers and contested by intellectuals. Similar narratives about China’s rise in global stature have been told with equal gusto, championed and denounced in turn by optimists and critics. If Shakespeare now has worldwide currency, how is the se…[Read more]
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited Prologue, Chinese Shakespeares: Two Centuries of Cultural Exchange (Columbia University Press, 2009, 2011, 2015). Modern Language Association Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary Studies in the group
LLC East Asian on MLA Commons 5 years, 6 months agoNamed the Writer of the Millennium, Shakespeare has come full circle and become a cliché, embraced by marketers and contested by intellectuals. Similar narratives about China’s rise in global stature have been told with equal gusto, championed and denounced in turn by optimists and critics. If Shakespeare now has worldwide currency, how is the se…[Read more]
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Dr Rahul K Gairola deposited Lightening Talk: Brown Skin, White Masks: Predictive Technology, Colonial Histories, and Queer Sexuality Today in the group
LLC Asian American on MLA Commons 5 years, 6 months agoLightening Talk: Brown Skin, White Masks: Predictive Technology, Colonial Histories, and Queer Sexuality Today
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Brian Bernards started the topic CFP: Multisensory Dissent & Alliance Building – Society of Sinophone Studies in the discussion
LLC East Asian on MLA Commons 5 years, 6 months agoCall For Papers: https://www.sinophonestudies.org/cfp
The Inaugural Biennial Conference of the Society of Sinophone Studies
Multisensory Dissent & Alliance Building
Friday-Saturday, April 23-24, 2021
University of Southern California*
Los Angeles, CA
The COVID-19 pandemic has wrought disproportionately negative effects on…[Read more]
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Katsuyo Motoyoshi replied to the topic Tutorial: "What is the MLA International Bibliography?" in East Asian Languages in the discussion
LLC East Asian on MLA Commons 5 years, 6 months agoIf the link above does not work, please go to:
https://www.mla.org/Publications/MLA-International-Bibliography/Tutorial-Videos
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Katsuyo Motoyoshi started the topic Tutorial: "What is the MLA International Bibliography?" in East Asian Languages in the discussion
LLC East Asian on MLA Commons 5 years, 6 months agoThe MLA International Bibliography is an online database that covers literature, language and linguistics, folklore, film, literary theory and criticism, dramatic arts, as well as the historical aspects of printing and publishing. Listings on rhetoric and composition and the history, theory, and practice of teaching language and literature are…[Read more]
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John Hansen deposited “Defying Stereotypes: To Assimilate or Not Assimilate?” in the group
LLC Asian American on MLA Commons 5 years, 7 months agoDoes the shift away from following or portraying the typical Asian male in my own life help Asians as a whole? Yes. Doing so can help Asian-Americans because it might allow others who view or interact with me to then change their perceptions about other Asian males and help them be more open-minded and accepting. This personal essay explores such notions.
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Lisa Zunshine deposited Mindreading and Social Status in the group
LLC East Asian on MLA Commons 5 years, 8 months agoWould you like to get better at mindreading (i.e., at inferring people’s beliefs, desires, and intentions, based on their behavior)? As it turns out, all you would have to do is lower your relative social status. Studies have shown that people in weaker social positions engage in more active and perceptive mindreading than do people in stronger s…[Read more]
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited Anti-Asian Racism during COVID-19 Pandemic, GW Today, April 20, 2020 in the group
LLC Modern and Contemporary Chinese on MLA Commons 5 years, 9 months agoAsian Americans have been spat on, verbally assaulted and physically attacked in more than a thousand race-related incidents in the United States as a result of fear evoked by the COVID-19 pandemic. Alexa Alice Joubin, professor of English and international affairs, women’s studies and East Asian languages and cultures, provided a historical c…[Read more]
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited Anti-Asian Racism during COVID-19 Pandemic, GW Today, April 20, 2020 in the group
LLC East Asian on MLA Commons 5 years, 9 months agoAsian Americans have been spat on, verbally assaulted and physically attacked in more than a thousand race-related incidents in the United States as a result of fear evoked by the COVID-19 pandemic. Alexa Alice Joubin, professor of English and international affairs, women’s studies and East Asian languages and cultures, provided a historical c…[Read more]
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Brian Bernards started the topic MLA Toronto 2021 CFP: Archipelagic Studies in Asian Am & SE Asian Lit in the discussion
LLC East Asian on MLA Commons 5 years, 11 months ago2) Archipelagic Studies in Asian American and Southeast Asian Literature
We invite papers focused on the archipelagic relations between Asian American and South East Asian literary studies, and especially attuned to migration, environment, settler colonialism, and radical friction. Please submit 300-word abstract and 1-page CV.Deadline for…[Read more]
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Brian Bernards started the topic MLA Toronto 2020 CFP: Authoritarianism & SE Asia in the discussion
LLC East Asian on MLA Commons 5 years, 11 months agoCFP: “Authoritarianism and Southeast Asia”
Modern Language Association Annual Convention
January 7–10, 2021, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Presidential Theme: “Persistence”
The recent prominence of a global “New Right” has upended the progressivist teleology that, at the end of the Cold War, located the political and economic regime of the…[Read more]
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Tiffany Yun-Chu Tsai started the topic CFP: The Horror of Capitalist Modernity: the Vampire, Zombie, and Cannibal in the discussion
LLC East Asian on MLA Commons 5 years, 11 months agoThe Horror of Capitalist Modernity: the Vampire, Zombie, and Cannibal
Session Proposal (MLA 2021 – Toronto)
Tiffany Yun-Chu Tsai
The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina
“Capital,” Marx tells us, “is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks;” for a ce…[Read more]
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Christopher M. Lupke started the topic CFP East Asian Literature and Dialectical Thinking in the discussion
LLC East Asian on MLA Commons 5 years, 11 months agoEast Asian Literature and Dialectical Thinking
Session Proposal (MLA 2021 – Toronto)
Christopher Lupke
University of Alberta
The study of literature and dialectical thinking has been around for a long time and is still going strong. What is less studied is the impact of dialectical thinking on East Asian literary texts. To be sure, Marxism has…[Read more]
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Gian Piero Persiani started the topic CFP "The Location of Culture: Places and Spaces of the East Asian Imaginary" in the discussion
LLC East Asian on MLA Commons 5 years, 11 months agoWe invite proposals for the following, non-guaranteed session of the LLC Japanese to 1900 Forum @ MLA 2021:
Session title: The Location of Culture: Places and Spaces of the East Asian Imaginary
As either unmovable physical locations or portable culturally-mediated psychological spaces, places are an essential feature of our world. Throughout…[Read more]
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Jeehyun Lim started the topic Asian American Forum CFPs for MLA 2021 Convention in the discussion
LLC Asian American via email on MLA Commons 5 years, 11 months agoDear all,
Please see the CFPs below for panels sponsored by the Asian American Forum. If you have any questions, please let us know.
Jeehyun Lim
Modern Language Association (MLA) Annual Convention
Toronto, January 7-10, 2021
1. (Guaranteed Session with Southeast Asian Forum)
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Clara Iwasaki started the topic CFP Reimagining Wartime Incarceration in East Asia in the discussion
LLC East Asian on MLA Commons 5 years, 11 months agoGuaranteed Session Sponsored by LLC East Asia Forum
Reimagining Wartime Incarceration in East Asia
World War II remains the focus of intense contemporary interest across the transpacific and particularly in East Asia, where contested borders and competing narratives collide. Although these nationalist discourses are historically articulated in…[Read more]
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Chia-rong Wu posted an update in the group
LLC Modern and Contemporary Chinese on Humanities Commons 5 years, 11 months agoCall for Papers
Sun Yat-sen Journal of Humanities
ISSN: 1024-3631Special Issue: Sinophone Literature in the Global South
Guest Editors:
Min-xu Zhan, Assistant Professor of the Graduate Institute of Taiwan Literature and Transnational Cultural Studies, National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan
Chia-rong Wu, Senior Lecturer of the Global,…[Read more] -
David Holloway started the topic CFP MLA 2021 “Japanese Cultural Expressions After Hirohito” in the discussion
LLC East Asian on MLA Commons 5 years, 11 months agoThe passing of Emperor Hirohito in 1989 brought the long postwar to an end, at least symbolically. While older Japanese may have felt a sense of closure in his death, those growing up in the years that followed knew a cultural landscape determined not by imperialism, war, or economic growth (as a panacea for the Emperor himself), but rather…[Read more]
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Benjamin Ridgway started the topic 2021 MLA Conference, LLC Pre-14th Century Chinese: Open Call for Panel Topic in the discussion
LLC East Asian on MLA Commons 6 years agoThe Pre-14th Century Chinese Literature Forum is making an open call for panel proposals on a topic of broad appeal to scholars of literary history, comparative literature, or language and literary pedagogy. MLA sessions can be either roundtables or panels with 3-4 short papers and a discussant. Panel organizers would have the opportunity to c…[Read more]
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