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Martin Paul Eve deposited Book review: A new republic of letters: Memory and scholarship in the age of digital reproduction in the group
TC Philosophy and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 10 months agoA book review of Jerome McGann’s A New Republic of Letters: Memory and Scholarship in the Age of Digital Reproduction (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2013).
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Heidi Bostic deposited The Humanities Must Engage Global Grand Challenges in the group
TC Science and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 10 months agoThe humanities must work together with STEM if we are to succeed in articulating relevant, historically informed, and culturally nuanced responses to grand challenges.
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Victor Ochoa replied to the topic CFP: Morality, Moral Philosophy, and the Humanities in the Age of Neuroscience in the discussion
Psychological Approaches to Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 10 months agoI shall be delighted to submit a proposal for your conference, Professor Bracher. It is an honor to meet you, as it were, as I am quite taken by your book Lacan, Discourse, and Social Change: A Psychoanalytic Cultural Critique. Victor
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Hania Nashef deposited "Let the Demon in: Death and Guilt in The Master of Petersburg." in the group
TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 10 months agoUnlike his earlier novels, J.M. Coetzee’s The Master of Petersburg, has not received the attention that it deserves from the critics. The novel, which is set in Russia not only draws on real aspects of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s life but also on certain events in the Russian author’s novels, specifically The Devils. Coetzee’s Dostoevsky is an aging a…[Read more]
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Marina Fedosik started the topic CFP: Adoption and Culture Deadline April 1 in the discussion
Psychological Approaches to Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoCall for Proposals: Sixth Biennial Conference for the Alliance for the Study of Adoption and Culture ASAC 2016: Building Communities, Changing Discourses
Crowne Plaza Minneapolis Northstar Downtown Hotel, 27-29 October 2016
Proposal deadline April 1 2016
Keynote speakers: Lorraine Dusky, Margaret Jacobs, and Deann Borshay Liem, introducing her…[Read more]
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Lorelei Caraman deposited Literature and Psychoanalysis: Whose Madness is it anyway? in the group
TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoExaminer/examined, analyst/analysand, subject/object, sane/mad, science/art: the relationship between psychoanalysis and literature appears to conform to this binary logic, with the first term in each set clearly privileged over the second. The realm of the literary is populated with an impressive assortment of mad characters and mad authors:…[Read more]
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Sonia Nora Feder-Lewis deposited Leadership in Literature Course Syllabus in the group
TC Philosophy and Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoThis course, designed for a graduate program in education which focuses on leadership, explores works of literature that have had a significant cultural impact and shaped ways in which societies view social issues from the perspective of how leadership is enacted within the texts. For students from disciplines outside of literature studies, this…[Read more]
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Mark Bracher started the topic CFP: Morality, Moral Philosophy, and the Humanities in the Age of Neuroscience in the discussion
Psychological Approaches to Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoPsychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature Colleagues,
Anthropology and Literature Colleagues,
An international conference, Morality, Moral Philosophy, and the Humanities in the Age of Neuroscience, will be held at Kent State University, Kent, OH, November 17-20, 2016. Sponsored by KSU’s Neurocognitive Research Program for the Advancement of…[Read more]
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Mark Bracher started the topic CFP: Morality, Moral Philosophy, and the Humanities in the Age of Neuroscience in the discussion
Philosophical Approaches to Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoPhilosophy and Literature Colleagues,
An international conference, Morality, Moral Philosophy, and the Humanities in the Age of Neuroscience, will be held at Kent State University, Kent, OH, November 17-20, 2016. Sponsored by KSU’s Neurocognitive Research Program for the Advancement of the Humanities (NRPAH), this conference will explore the i…[Read more]
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Olivia Jones Choplin started the topic CFP: American Council of Quebec Studies Biennial Conference 4/15/16 deadline in the discussion
Francophone Literatures and Cultures on MLA Commons 9 years, 11 months agoCONVERSATIONS-COMMERCE-COMMUNAUTÉS–CONVERSATIONS-COMMERCE-COMMUNITIES
Le 20e colloque bisannuel de l’ACQS / The 20th biennial conference of the ACQS:
du 3 au 6 novembre, 2016, au Westin Harborview Hotel, Portland, ME
L’American Council for Québec Studies sollicite des propositions de communication pour notre prochain congrès en 2016. Si le thèm…[Read more] -
Kenneth Pinion started the topic [MLA 2017 CFP] Looking for a Light in the Dark: On Mental Health in Pedagogy in the discussion
Psychological Approaches to Literature on MLA Commons 9 years, 12 months ago“Looking for a Light in the Dark: On Mental Health in Humanistic Pedagogy”
This session seeks papers that offer effective strategies for confronting mental health issues amongst educators. Potential topics may include (but not necessarily exclude): the rise in depression amongst graduate students and faculty; autobiographical insight on personal…[Read more]
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Thomas Lawrence Long started the topic MLA 2017 CFP: Environment, Illness, Literature, Health/care in the discussion
Medical Humanities and Health Studies on MLA Commons 10 years agoThe Modern Language Association’s Transdisciplinary Conversations Medical Humanities and Health Studies Forum announces this call for proposals for its guaranteed session at MLA 2017 in Philadelphia:
Environment, Illness, Literature, Health/careLiterature of environmental illness, critical perspectives on health, policy, practice. Topics and t…[Read more]
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Zoe Roth started the topic CFP: Transnational French Modernisms – Modernismes et francophonie in the discussion
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Call for Papers:
Transnational French Modernisms
7th-8th July 2016, Durham University, UK
Keynote speakers:
Dr. Jonathan Eburne (Penn State)
Professor Susan Harrow (Bristol)
Professor Debarati Sanyal (Berkeley)
The rise of France’s colonial empire in the 19th century shaped French culture as a global are…[Read more]
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Zoe Roth started the topic CFP: Transnational French Modernisms – Modernismes et francophonie in the discussion
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Call for Papers:
Transnational French Modernisms
7th-8th July 2016, Durham University, UK
Keynote speakers:
Dr. Jonathan Eburne (Penn State)
Professor Susan Harrow (Bristol)
Professor Debarati Sanyal (Berkeley)
The rise of France’s colonial empire in the 19th century shaped French culture as a global arena and fra…[Read more] -
Thomas Lawrence Long started the topic 2016 MLA Medical Humanities Executive Committee in the discussion
Medical Humanities and Health Studies on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month agoDuring the 2016 annual convention of the MLA, the new TC Medical Humanities and Health Studies Forum’s executive committee met to plan session proposals for the 2017 convention and other initiatives.
The forum’s executive committee leadership for 2016:
Rebecca Garden, president
Thomas Lawrence Long, secretary
Andrea Charise, member
Erin L…[Read more]
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Tsitsi Jaji started the topic CFP: The Performance of Pan-Africanism: From Colonial Exhibitions to FESMAN in the discussion
Francophone Literatures and Cultures on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month agoThe Performance of Pan-Africanism:
from Colonial Exhibitions to Black and African Cultural Festivals
International Conference
20-22 October, 2016
Winthrop-King Institute for Contemporary French and Francophone Studies, Florida State University
Keynote speakers: Andrew Apter (UCLA), Cheryl Finley (Cornell University), Souleymane B…[Read more]
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Caroline Edwards deposited Unearthing the ‘gold-bearing rubble’: Ernst Bloch’s Literary Criticism in the group
TC Philosophy and Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month agoIn lieu of an abstract, here is the beginning of the chapter:
Ungleichzeitigkeit and global modernisms
Over the last twenty-five years, the modernist canon has been significantly revised as theoretical and empirical interventions have emphasised its transnational and globalised patterns of connection through a range of disciplinary…[Read more]
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Nitzan Lebovic replied to the topic The Future of (Walter) Benjamin: A new series of articles on MLA Commons in the discussion
Philosophical Approaches to Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month agoHoward Eiland (MIT) and Michael Jennings (Princeton)’s response to the Future of Benjamin Project. What a beautiful closure to a list of brilliant articles. Let us know what you think:
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