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Madhurima Chakraborty posted an update in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoCFP: South Asian Literatures in the World
South Asian Literary Association Annual Conference
January 6-7, 2019
The Wits Hotel, Chicago, ILThe South Asian Literary Association invites papers, panels, and roundtable proposals for the 2019 annual conference to be held in Chicago January 6-7 on the topic “South Asian Literatures in the World.” We…[Read more]
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Magalí Armillas-Tiseyra posted an update in the group
CLCS Global South on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoCFPs for Global South panels at MLA 2019 (Chicago):
**Waste, Garbage, and Effluence in the Global South**
Encounters with waste in narratives both historical and contemporary welcomed. Possible entanglements include animality, comparative modernities, labor and the environment.
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Chandrima Chakraborty deposited Canada’s Troubling Indifference to the Air India Bombing in the group
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoWhy has the 1985 Air India Kanishka bombing not claimed a more prominent place in Canadian history and public memory?
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Brian Lennon deposited JavaScript Affogato: Programming a Culture of Improvised Expertise in the group
TC Translation Studies on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoThis essay attempts a philological, meaning a both technically and socially attentive historical study of an individual computer programming language, JavaScript. From its introduction, JavaScript’s reception by software developers, and its importance in web development as we now understand it, was structured by a continuous negotiation of e…[Read more]
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Brian Bernards posted an update in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 7 years, 11 months agoCFP for MLA 2019 Special Session sponsored by the CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic Forum:
Southeast Asian Textual Translations and Transactions
Each year, the Southeast Asian Writers Award (S.E.A. Write) is awarded to an author from each of the member states of ASEAN. The awardees are typically authors whose works are written…[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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Cheryl Narumi Naruse posted an update in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies 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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A. Lewis deposited A Talk about Religion in the group
TC Religion and Literature on MLA Commons 8 years agoAnd interview between Julian Darius and A. David Lewis in LAZARUS, THE FOREVER MAN #0 (Martian Lit).
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A. Lewis deposited A Talk about Religion in the group
TC Popular Culture on MLA Commons 8 years agoAnd interview between Julian Darius and A. David Lewis in LAZARUS, THE FOREVER MAN #0 (Martian Lit).
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A. Lewis deposited A Talk about Religion in the group
GS Comics and Graphic Narratives on MLA Commons 8 years agoAnd interview between Julian Darius and A. David Lewis in LAZARUS, THE FOREVER MAN #0 (Martian Lit).
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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
TC Translation Studies on MLA Commons 8 years 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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Thomas Oliver Beebee started the topic CFP: Comparative Cultural Studies Conference, Budapest Hungary,29-31 August 2018 in the discussion
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 8 years agoThe comparative studies journals Comparative Literature Studies (Penn State University), Neohelicon (Akadémiai Kiadó, Hungary), and Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art (East China Normal University, Shanghai), with support of the Pázmány Péter Catholic University, will sponsor an international conference in Budapest, Hungary, from 29-31 Augu…[Read more]
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Susanna Margaret Ashton deposited A Corrupt Medium: Stephen Burroughs and the Bridgehampton, New York, Library in the group
GS Life Writing on MLA Commons 8 years agoIn his eighteenth-century Memoirs, criminal Stephen Burroughs tells of his campaign to establish a library in Bridgehampton, New York. When the town elders discover the plan, they insist upon reviewing Burroughs’s choices. Undercurrents of other debates spill over into what would otherwise merely be some quibbling over book selections. In a series…[Read more]
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Phillip Lundberg posted an update in the group
TC Religion and Literature on MLA Commons 8 years agoWould anyone be interested in a session on Franz Kafka, a Romantic? — If a deeper reading of F.K. is of interest, please contact me and I will attempt to arrange such a session–indeed, not just a Romantic but esoterically a Christian….
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Steven Schroeder deposited Introduction to Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass in the group
TC Religion and Literature on MLA Commons 8 years agoAn introduction to a newly published edition of Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass.
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Marina Fedosik posted an update in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 8 years agoCFP MLA 2019
Textual Trans Actions: Queering Kinship
We seek paper proposals for a special session at the MLA Annual Convention in Chicago, IL January 3-6, 2019.
We invite submissions that explore trans actions/transactions in kinning narratives and/or other representations in any mode (including the visual) or genre. These include…[Read more]
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Marina Fedosik posted an update in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on MLA Commons 8 years agoCFP MLA 2019
Precarious Kinship: Representations of Family in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
We seek paper proposals for a special session “Precarious Kinship: Representations of Family in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict” at the MLA Annual Convention in Chicago, IL January 3-6, 2019.
We invite submissions that explore nar…[Read more]
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Remy Attig deposited Judeo-Spanish and Spanglish: Common Considerations for the English Translator of Two Peripheral Lects in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 8 years agoIn the natural order of language development orality precedes literary production, but elements of the oral tradition do often appear in literature. In this presentation I will look at orality in some Judeo-Spanish and Spanglish texts to see how the study of these two lects together may better inform the translator. Though both are lects of…[Read more]
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Lisa Marie Rhody deposited Beyond Darwinian Distance: Situating Distant Reading in a Feminist Ut Pictura Poesis Tradition in the group
TC Women’s and Gender Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years agoLooking from a distance, as a condition of knowledge, participates within a long-standing Western tradition of power relations. This article considers the use of “distant reading” as theorized by Franco Moretti in his book by the same title and suggests that the method of literary analysis that uses such a metaphor should be aware and critical of…[Read more]
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