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Orna Shaughnessy posted an update in the group
LLC Japanese since 1900 on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoCall for Papers! “Environmental Humanities, China and Japan”
CFP: Roundtable at the Modern Language Association convention
Chicago, IL, January 3-6, 2019This roundtable considers recent developments in the intersection of modern Chinese and Japanese studies and the environmental humanities, broadly defined. The roundtable is organized by the…[Read more]
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Molly Des Jardin started the topic CFP: Textual Transference in Modern and Contemporary Japan (MLA 2019) in the discussion
Japanese since 1900 on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoTextual Transference in Modern and Contemporary Japan
How does creative work get reused, translated, or adapted in modern and contemporary Japan? This panel seeks to explore questions of “transference” writ large: cultural memes, tropes, characters, fictional works, and their reinterpretation in media of all kinds. Potential topics might…[Read more]
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Matthew Fraleigh posted an update in the group
LLC Japanese to 1900 on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoJapanese Editorial Practice and Commentary in East Asian Canons
This panel examines the apparatus of literary circulation and dissemination through the lenses of commentary, introduction,
annotation, and translation to isolate how foreign texts were domesticated and localized.From the rise of commercial book publishing in early modern Japan,…[Read more]
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Cheryl Narumi Naruse posted an update in the group
LLC South Asian and South Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoCFP for the CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic Forum’s first guaranteed session for MLA 2019:
Diasporas, Aesthetics, and Southeast Asia
What aesthetics (or anesthetics) do diasporic movements into/out of/within Southeast Asia generate? Comparative and multimedia approaches welcomed. 300 word abstracts and bios by 15 March 2018;…[Read more]
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Jonathan Abel posted an update in the group
LLC East Asian on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoCFP:
Social Media, Literary Transaction, and Nationalism in East Asian LiteratureA Forum Session at the next MLA convention in Chicago, January 3-6, 2019
How have Asian digital networks (e.g. Line, Weibo, and KakaoTalk) impacted the circulation of poetry and prose? And do these new literary transactions correlate with heightened…[Read more]
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Sharon O'Dair started the topic And this CFP, too! in the discussion
Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoForum: TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities
“Energy Humanities and African Cultural Production”
How are the entanglements of modernity, energy production and consumption, and ecological impacts represented in African cultural production? What alternative futures are imagined? a 200-word abstract by 15 March 2018; Byron…[Read more]
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Sharon O'Dair started the topic CFP–TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities Roundtable! in the discussion
Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoForum: TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities
“Environment/Scale/Justice”
This roundtable interrogates these three terms and their relationships. What is the environment, temporal and geographic scale, and (in)justice of environmental justice? Where? When? For/by whom? Abstract and brief CV by 15 March 2018; Sharon O’Dair (sodair@ua.edu).
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Kelly Y. Jeong started the topic CFP: Literature and Film in Neoliberal East Asia in the discussion
East Asian Languages and Literatures to 1900 on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoCFP: Literature and Film in Neoliberal East Asia
A Forum Session at the next MLA convention in Chicago, January 3-6, 2019
In recent decades East Asian societies have felt the reach of neoliberalism as a culture, a set of economic policies, and political agenda, which has informed people’s lives in various ways. This guaranteed panel for Mod…[Read more]
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Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “Global Shakespeare Criticism beyond the Nation State.” Chapter 25 of The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Performance, ed. James C. Bulman (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017), pp. 423-440 in the group
LLC East Asian on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoTo move global Shakespeare studies beyond the more limiting scope of nation-state and cultural profiling, I would like to propose we consider a number of critical concepts as methodology. These concepts critique the limitations of cartographic imagination, and connect the performance site to spaces of knowledge production: (1) the site of…[Read more]
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Joela Jacobs posted an update in the group
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoJoin the Literary and Cultural Plant Studies Network for scholarly exchange and collaboration about the study of plants in the Humanities and Social Sciences. You can join our listserv and visit our website at http://plants.sites.arizona.edu/. We invite you to add your publications and/or artwork to our bibliography of primary and secondary…[Read more]
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Caren Irr started the topic CfP: Writing After Plastic, panel for MLA 2019 in the discussion
Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 7 years, 12 months agoProposals welcomed.
<b>Writing After Plastic</b>
How does a political economy of plastic confront its contradictions? Which aesthetic faces does a plastics-based materialism present? How do eco-socialisms envision the excesses, alternatives, and after-lives of plastic? In what forms (aesthetic and/or political) does plastic break…[Read more]
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Lisa Zunshine deposited “’Think What You’re Doing, Or You’ll Only Make an Ugly Reputation for Yourself’: Chin P’ing Mei (金瓶梅), Lying, and Literary History” in the group
LLC East Asian on MLA Commons 8 years agoHow does our daily mindreading—that is, our attribution and misattribution of mental states (such as thoughts, feelings, and intentions) to ourselves and others—differ from the mindreading we engage in when we read fiction? I have argued elsewhere (e.g., “Secret Life of Fiction,” PMLA, 2015) that drama, novels, and narrative poetry play and exp…[Read more]
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Lisa Zunshine deposited “From the “From the Social to the Literary: Approaching Cao Xueqin’s The Story of the Stone (Honglou meng 紅樓夢) from a Cognitive Perspective” in the group
LLC East Asian on MLA Commons 8 years agoThis essay draws on cognitive literary theory to offer new ways of reading Cao Xueqin’s classic novel Dream of the Red Chamber (紅樓夢) aka The Story of the Stone.
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Orna Shaughnessy posted an update in the group
LLC Japanese since 1900 on MLA Commons 8 years ago-Executive Committee membership transition-
Happy New MLA Year, everyone!
With the conclusion of the conference and the start of the next cycle in the MLA calendar, we’d like to thank outgoing members of the Executive Committee Melek Ortabasi (Simon Fraser University) and Michael Emmerich (UCLA) for their important and pioneering work on the…[Read more]
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Susan Oliver deposited Trees, Rivers, and Stories: Walter Scott Writing the Land in the group
TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities on MLA Commons 8 years agoThis essay investigates Walter Scott’s writing, across several genres, as a contribution to an environmental historiography of Scotland. One of the main research questions is whether that writing provides any evidence for an early land ethic that anticipates Aldo Leopold’s twentieth-century use of that term. Scott’s response to aesthetic…[Read more]
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Orna Shaughnessy posted an update in the group
LLC Japanese to 1900 on MLA Commons 8 years agoCANCELLED PANEL
Due to weather and travel conditions that have prevented all panel participants from getting to New York, the collaborative session on “Digital Humanities Approaches to Japanese-Language Texts,” co-sponsored by the LLC Japan since 1900 and LLC Japan to 1900 forums will not be convened.CANCELLED: 514 “Digital Humanities Appro…[Read more]
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Orna Shaughnessy posted an update in the group
LLC Japanese since 1900 on MLA Commons 8 years agoCANCELLED PANEL
Due to weather and travel conditions that have prevented all panel participants from getting to New York, the collaborative session on “Digital Humanities Approaches to Japanese-Language Texts,” co-sponsored by the LLC Japan since 1900 and LLC Japan to 1900 forums will not be convened.CANCELLED: 514 “Digital Humanities Appro…[Read more]
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Orna Shaughnessy posted an update in the group
LLC Japanese since 1900 on MLA Commons 8 years agoFor those of you planning to be at the MLA-
This year there is a collaborative session on “Digital Humanities Approaches to Japanese-Language Texts,” co-sponsored by the LLC Japan since 1900 and LLC Japan to 1900 forums. Paired with this is the companion session “Digital Humanities Approaches to Japanese Media,” which the LLC Japanese since 1900…[Read more]
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Orna Shaughnessy posted an update in the group
LLC Japanese since 1900 on MLA Commons 8 years ago賀 春
謹んで新年のお慶びを申し上げます
本年が昨年にも増した良き年となりますよう、
皆様のご健康とご多幸をお祈り申し上げます。LLC Japanese since 1900の執行委員一同
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