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Lisa-Ann Robertson replied to the topic Film Project: Sci. and Lit. in the forum
Literature and Science on MLA Commons 11 years, 7 months agoHi Gloria,
Just out of curiosity, why Galileo and Shakespeare? There are so many examples of poets and men of science who really did cross the line between arts and sciences. Why not some of them?
Cheers,
Lisa Ann
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Gloria Lee McMillan started the topic Film Project: Sci. and Lit. in the forum
Literature and Science on MLA Commons 11 years, 7 months agoHello,
A group of us have been thinking and rethinking a documentary film project that would show the value of crossing the line between science and the arts.
At first we were going to make it a conversation between Galileo and Shakespeare–roughly contemporaries.
But granting agencies didn’t like the fictional parts.So then we opened up to…[Read more]
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Gloria Lee McMillan started the topic Film Project: Sci. and Lit. in the forum
Literature and Science on MLA Commons 11 years, 7 months agoHello,
A group of us have been thinking and rethinking a documentary film project that would show the value of crossing the line between science and the arts.
At first we were going to make it a conversation between Galileo and Shakespeare–roughly contemporaries.
But granting agencies didn’t like the fictional parts.So then we opened up to…[Read more]
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Selma R. S. Vital started the topic CFP -roundtable for Ne MLA 46th annual convention in the forum
Ethnic Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 9 months agoI am proposing a roundtable about new approaches and strategies to integrate the literary text into the language class. The subject is not new and it is time for an update. The NeMLA convention will meet in Toronto, Ontario April 30 – May 3rd. Each participant will have about 10 minutes to present a project or class experience and the re…[Read more]
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Cynthia R. Port started the topic CFP MLA 2015: Aging and the Posthuman in the forum
Literature and Science on MLA Commons 11 years, 11 months agoIn a scholarly context that is increasingly turning to the posthuman, the transhuman, and the virtual, explorations of the embodied experience of age and its cultural resonances offer crucial insights into the uniquely human awareness of the experience of living through time. For a guaranteed panel, sponsored by the MLA’s Age Studies Discussion G…[Read more]
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Chandrima Chakraborty started the topic Unfinished South Asian Pasts in the forum
Ethnic Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 11 months agoSpecial Session for MLA 2015 (in association with South Asian Literatures and Languages (SALL) Discussion Group)
This special session seeks papers that examine literary or cinematic representations of unfinished South Asian and South Asian diasporic pasts. Papers could examine events such as the Partition of British India, the civil war in Sri…[Read more]
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Cheryl A. Higashida posted an update in the group
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 11 years, 11 months agoEthnic Studies Division CFPs for MLA 2015:
Violence on the Borders
Intersections of memory, gender, race, ethnicity, and geography— Indigenous Indignities, The (New) Jim Crow, Cuidad Juárez, Highway of Tears, Japanese Internment, etc. 300-word abstract and one-page CV by 15 March 2014; Penelope Kelsey (penelope.kelsey@colorado.edu) and Am…[Read more] -
Matt Cohen posted an update in the group
LLC Early American on MLA Commons 11 years, 11 months agoCFP for MLA 2015: Here and After: Periodization and American Literary Studies.
A collaborative session proposal by the Divisions of American Literature to 1800 and Nineteenth-Century American Literature.
As one of the most resilient classificatory principles in American literary studies, periodization often silently frames modes of analysis. But…[Read more]-
Call for Papers
WORLDS and WORDS
29th Annual Interdisciplinary Conference in the Humanities
Sponsored by the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures
University of West Georgia, College of Arts and Humanities
Carrollton, Georgia
October 30-November 1, 2014Deadline Extended until July 22nd
We welcome submissions from across…[Read more]
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Eric Aronoff started the topic CFP MLA 2015: Disc. Group for Science Fiction, Utopian and Fantastic Literature in the forum
Literature and Science on MLA Commons 11 years, 11 months agoThis CFP might be of interest for members of this division:
<b>Science Fiction, Fantasy and the Concept of Culture</b>
How has sci-fi/fantasy explored (humanist and anthropological) concepts of “culture” and form? How does sci-fi/fantasy “world-making” engage/challenge anthropological ideas of culture/representation? Abstracts, brief cv by 15…[Read more] -
Abby Goode started the topic CFP "Sustainability and Population," MLA 2015 in the forum
Late-Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 11 years, 11 months ago<div>”Sustainability and Population”
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<div>This panel invites papers that examine the intersections of “sustainability” and “population” in literature. Papers may consider how race, demography, biopolitics, fertility, economics, agriculture, and spatial distribution help clarify, illuminate, and evaluate “sustainability”—what literary…[Read more] -
Richard Kopley started the topic CFP for the Fourth International Edgar Allan Poe Conference in the forum
Nineteenth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 12 years agoProposals are invited for the Fourth International Edgar Allan Poe Conference, to be held in New York City at the Roosevelt Hotel on 45th Street near Madison Avenue (http://www.theroosevelthotel.com/) Thursday, February 26th, to Sunday, March 1st, 2015. Our PSA-sponsored conferences have been located at cities where Poe lived and worked; we have…[Read more]
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Cheryl A. Higashida started the topic CFP "Sexing the Left"/ English Language Notes in the forum
Ethnic Studies in Language and Literature on MLA Commons 12 years agoCFP: “Sexing the Left” <i>English Language Notes</i> 53.2 (Spring/Summer 2015)
Sex is everywhere – even on the left. Then why have many of us been so heedless of its presence there, or so reluctant to acknowledge it? Even in scholarship where the left is at its most sexual, and sex is at its most left, there are unexplored avenues, missed…[Read more]
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Brad Evans started the topic Possible Changes to MLA Divisions in the forum
Nineteenth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 12 years agoDear Members of the Division of Nineteenth Century American Literature:
During our annual meeting at the MLA Conference in Chicago, the Division of Late-Nineteenth and Early-Twentieth Century American Literature executive committee had a long discussion about the proposal to restructure the divisions in American literature. The committee feels…[Read more]
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Brad Evans started the topic Possible MLA Division Changes in the forum
Late-Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 12 years agoDear Members of the Division of Late-Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century American Literature:
During our annual meeting at the MLA Conference in Chicago, the division’s executive committee had a long discussion about the proposal to restructure the divisions in American literature. The committee feels that the general shift from “…[Read more]
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Brad Evans started the topic Possible MLA Division Changes in the forum
Late-Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 12 years agoDear Members of the Division of Late-Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century American Literature:
<span style=”line-height: 1.5em;”>During our annual meeting at the MLA Conference in Chicago, the division’s executive committee had a long discussion about the proposal to restructure the </span>divisions<span style=”line-height: 1.5em;”> in Ame…[Read more]
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April Logan started the topic Pauline Hopkins and Washington D.C. in the forum
Nineteenth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 12 years agoCall for Papers
***DEADLINE EXTENDED***
American Literature Association
25th Annual Conference
May 22-25, 2014
Hyatt Regency, Capitol HillSession Sponsored By
The Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins SocietyPanel: Pauline Hopkins and Washington D.C.
As a writer with a keen interest in national politics at a crucial moment in American history, Pauline…[Read more] -
April Logan started the topic Deadline Extended CFP: Pauline Hopkins in the forum
Late-Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 12 years agoCall for Papers
***DEADLINE EXTENDED***
American Literature Association
25th Annual Conference
May 22-25, 2014
Hyatt Regency, Capitol HillSession Sponsored By
The Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins SocietyPanel: Pauline Hopkins and Washington D.C.
As a writer with a keen interest in national politics at a crucial moment in American history, Pauline…[Read more] -
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Nineteenth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 12 years agoImages for “Geography and Tactile Maps for the Blind,” delivered at MLA 2104 for the panel, The Graphic Nineteenth Century
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David Weimer uploaded the file: Images for Weimer Talk to
Nineteenth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 12 years agoImages for “Geography and Tactile Maps for the Blind,” delivered at MLA 2104 for the panel, The Graphic Nineteenth Century
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