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Waliya Yohanna Joseph deposited Letter to the African Union in the group
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 6 years, 9 months agoLetter to the African Union is a digital poem which expresses supranegritude philosophy that denounces the game of pushing blame on colonial masters instead of working for the compatriots.
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Waliya Yohanna Joseph deposited Jesus is above Croesus and Zeus in the group
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 6 years, 9 months agoThis is Christian digital poem which is written in French and English to present Jesus Christ above Croesus and Zeus.
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Waliya Yohanna Joseph deposited Cyberpoetry for activism in the group
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 6 years, 9 months agoCyberpoetry for activism is a collection of two digital poems: Arise Africa! and Letter to the United Nations. The later was published in this Core repository before the official publication date . The poems communicate justice and encouragement.
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Waliya Yohanna Joseph deposited Homosalus in the group
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 6 years, 9 months agoHomosalus is a digital poem that suscitate the culture of saving humanity. It is written in French and English to foster a philosophy of people first before me.
Homosalus est un poème numérique qui suscite la culture de sauver notre humanité. Il est écrit en anglais et français afin de projecter une philosophie de considérer d’autrui d’abord.
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Waliya Yohanna Joseph deposited Momenta in the group
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 6 years, 9 months agoMomenta is a digital poem for Africans. It is written in two languages-French and English. The poem aims at bringing hope in the continent.
Momenta est un poème numérique pour les Africains. Il est rédigé en deux langues-anglais et français. Le poème excite l’esproir.
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James L. Smith deposited Medieval Water Studies: Past, Present and Promise in the group
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 6 years, 9 months agoThe articles in this Special Collection engage directly with the realities of water as they simultaneously explore its intellectual potential in various genres of medieval writing, from crusade chronicles to medieval romance. In this way they shed new light not only on the literature and history they explore but also on medieval conceptions of…[Read more]
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Kay Sohini deposited To the Stars and Beyond: Perceptions on The Starry Night in the group
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 6 years, 9 months agoCreative non-fiction/semi-academic reflective piece on seeing Vincent van Gogh’s The Starry Night for the first time in person at the Museum of Modern Arts.
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Tom White deposited Climate, Power, and Possible Futures, from the Banks of the Humber Estuary in the group
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 6 years, 9 months agoNayan Kulkarni’s Blade, Lucy and Jorge Orta’s Raft of the Medusa, and Nikolaj Bendix Skyum Larsen’s Quicksand were exhibited in Hull during its year as the 2017 UK City of Culture. These artworks provide the impetus for an article that moves between the local, national, and global, in order to connect visual culture, climate politics, and quest…[Read more]
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Valeria Graziano deposited Handling Replacement: Tending to a Local Library and Repair Centre in the group
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 6 years, 10 months agoThis short article offers a perspective on the social organization of repair and re-use of public infrastructures in the UK today by focusing on an former public library now transferred to a social enterprise which also hosts a repair centre for the processing of used household goods.
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John Welsh deposited The Political Aesthetic of the British City‐State: Class Formation through the Global City in the group
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 6 years, 10 months agoThe British State has been terraformed over recent decades through the changing spatio-temporal dynamics of capital accumulation in the world-system entailed in financialisation, neoliberalsiation, and the emergence of global cities. A new post-industrial constellation of political domination has thus emerged in that state that requires urgent…[Read more]
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Lauren Rule Maxwell deposited Graphic Atwood in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months agoAbstracts for the panel “Graphic Atwood” proposed by the Margaret Atwood Society for the 2020 MLA Convention.
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Omer Aijazi deposited Religion in Spaces of Social Disruption: Re-Reading the Public Transcript of Disaster Relief in Pakistan in the group
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 6 years, 10 months agoThis paper explores how everyday religious narratives in post-disaster contexts can be interpreted as key sites of agency articulated in resistance to dominant discourses of disaster relief. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork among affected communities after the 2010 floods in Pakistan, we argue that religious discourses code everyday actions with…[Read more]
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Alice Rachel Ridout started the topic Proposal Deadline Extended to April 1: Contemporary Women's Writing Conference in the discussion
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months agoLocations and Dislocations: Places and Spaces in Contemporary Women’s Writing
International Contemporary Women’s Writing Association Conference
3-5 July 2019, Algoma University, Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada
Call for Papers
The Contemporary Women’s Writing Association invites submissions for 20-minute presentations that examine how conte…[Read more]
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Key MacFarlane deposited Time, Waste, and the City: The Rise of the Environmental Industry in the group
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 6 years, 10 months agoIn many US cities, especially those in the Rust Belt, the environmental goods and services (EGS) industry has played a significant role in restructuring local economies to promote new, flexible, and “creative” forms of service-based labour. And yet much of the environmental work conducted in these cities has been directed at an industrial pas…[Read more]
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Alice Rachel Ridout replied to the topic Contemporary Women’s Writing Association International Conference CFP in the discussion
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months agoThank you for posting! My MLA membership renewal had not processed in time for me to post. Expressions of interest with late proposal to follow will be considered.
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Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited How Insensitive! in the group
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months agoExploring several key scholarly explorations on the culture of sensibility in the British 18th-century, this article draws attention to what the current manner of accessing the people who invoked and participated in it are deemed to have been like, and to how this has exposed them to being invested in protecting people of, ostensibly actually,…[Read more]
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Krilka Stavreva started the topic CFP International Contemporary Women’s Writing Association Conference in the discussion
TC Women’s and Gender Studies via email on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months agoLocations and Dislocations: Places and Spaces in Contemporary Women’s Writing
International Contemporary Women’s Writing Association Conference
3-5 July 2019, Algoma University, Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada
Call for PapersThe 2019 Contemporary Women’s Writing Association International Conference theme is inspired by its location at Algom…[Read more]
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Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Matricide in the City in the group
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months agoExplores the invisible man, in Ralph Ellison’s “The Invisible Man,” as borrowing upon associations of patriarchal maleness, in the sense Ann Douglas in her “Terrible Honesty” argues 20s modern’s did, to secure freedom from feelings of entrapment by maternal figures, whose near-proximity to him is expressed in the text as often incestuous, gross;…[Read more]
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Krilka Stavreva started the topic CFP Women & Language in the discussion
TC Women’s and Gender Studies via email on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months agoWomen & Language, an international, interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal publishes original scholarly articles and creative work covering all aspects of communication, language, and gender. Contributions to Women & Language may be empirical, rhetorical-critical, interpretive, theoretical, or artistic. All appropriate research methodologies are…[Read more]
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Gloria Lee McMillan deposited CFP: Routledge Companion to Literature and Class in the group
TC Marxism, Literature, and Society on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months agoRoutledge is doing a series of literature companions. I have been requested to build a proposal for a Literature and Social Class companion text. You are most welcome to pass on this CFP to colleagues. Please see details in attached file. Questions?
Many thanks,
Gloria McMillan, Editor
Email for ideas, communications, and drafts
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