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Tania Martuscelli posted an update on MLA Commons 2 years ago
MLA 2025 CFP: Disability and Visibility in the Lusophone World (Mar. 20 deadline): Papers reflecting on the dynamics of disability and (in)visibility in literature and the arts are welcome. Possible topics include cultural, political, and/or sensory facets of (in)visibility with emphasis on challenging the epistemological construct of visibility.…[Read more]
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Ligia Bezerra started the topic Seeking nominations for Forum Excecutive Committee Appointment in the discussion
LLC Global Portuguese on MLA Commons 2 years agoDear members of the LLC Global Portuguese Forum,
Happy 2024! I am writing on behalf of the current Executive Committee to ask the membership for nominations for a new Executive Committee member. The MLA is testing a new model based on appointment. The appointed person will begin their term in January 2025 and will serve for five convention years.…[Read more]
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Tania Martuscelli posted an update on MLA Commons 2 years, 2 months ago
We are excited to extend an invitation to you and your colleagues to participate in the upcoming conference: Hybrid Identities: Transmediality, Technology and Cultural Changes in Contemporary Times, scheduled to be held on April 5-6, 2024 at the University of Colorado, Boulder. This conference promises to be an engaging platform for graduate…[Read more]
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Ignacio Infante started the topic Asst Prof in Global Hispanophone Studies (Washington University in St. Louis) in the discussion
CLCS Global Hispanophone on MLA Commons 2 years, 3 months agoWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST. LOUIS, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures – Assistant Professor. The Department of Romance Languages & Literatures (RLL) at Washington University in St. Louis invites applicants for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in Global Hispanophone Studies to begin in the fall semester of 2024. We seek an…[Read more]
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Tania Martuscelli posted an update on MLA Commons 2 years, 4 months ago
The Department of Spanish and Portuguese at CU Boulder is pleased to announce that we seek to hire a tenure track Assistant Professor of Chicano/a/x, Latino/a/x, U.S.-Mexican, U.S.-Central American Literatures and Cultures with a 2-2 teaching load. The position can include subspecializations in indigeneity, Afro-Latinx, globalization, migration,…[Read more]
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Krista Brune's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 2 years, 5 months ago
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Tania Martuscelli posted an update on MLA Commons 2 years, 9 months ago
[Call for Papers]
Cadernos de Literatura Comparada #49 Surrealism and Intermediality
Deadline: June 30, 2023
Publication: December, 2023
As we approach the centenary of André Breton’s Manifest of Surrealism (1924), a re-evaluation of this movement – which crossed all the arts, reached a global scale, and irreversibly changed th…[Read more]
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Tania Martuscelli posted an update on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months ago
CFP (MLA 2024)
Indigenous Thought and the Environmental Crisis
Description & Requirements: Papers focusing on contemporary Brazilian Indigenous art, literature and other productions in dialogue with the environmental crisis and/or cultural shock (en lieu of cultural “encounters”) are particularly welcome. 200-word abstract + short bio.
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Tania Martuscelli posted an update on MLA Commons 3 years, 7 months ago
New book: Mario-Henrique Leiria’s Obra Gráfica (vol. IV): https://e-primatur.com/projectos/detalhe/196
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Krista Brune started the topic Call for Papers for MLA 2023 in the discussion
LLC Luso-Brazilian on MLA Commons 4 years agoPlease consider submitting your paper to the following panels organized for the Luso-Brazilian forum for the MLA 2023. Presentations in English or Portuguese will be accepted. Proposals are due by March 15, 2022.
Black and Indigenous Literatures in Portuguese. Papers examining literature written in Portuguese by people of African and Indigenous…[Read more]
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Tania Martuscelli posted an update on MLA Commons 4 years ago
CFP (2023 MLA Convention): SURREALISM IN PORTUGUESE – Papers exploring the relevance and ramifications of Surrealism today. Analyses engaging multi-art and comparative approaches in celebration of the centenary of Mário-Henrique Leiria (1923-1980) and Mário Cesariny (1923-2006) are welcome. [200-word abstract + short bio to t…[Read more]
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Matthew Thomas Miller deposited Advances and Limitations in Open Source Arabic-Script OCR: A Case Study in the group
TC Digital Humanities on MLA Commons 4 years agoThis work presents an accuracy study of the open source OCR engine, Kraken, on the leading Arabic scholarly journal, al-Abhath. In contrast with other commercially available OCR engines, Kraken is shown to be capable of producing highly accurate Arabic-script OCR. The study also assesses the relative accuracy of typeface-specific and generalized…[Read more]
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Matthew Thomas Miller deposited Advances and Limitations in Open Source Arabic-Script OCR: A Case Study on Humanities Commons 4 years ago
This work presents an accuracy study of the open source OCR engine, Kraken, on the leading Arabic scholarly journal, al-Abhath. In contrast with other commercially available OCR engines, Kraken is shown to be capable of producing highly accurate Arabic-script OCR. The study also assesses the relative accuracy of typeface-specific and generalized…[Read more]
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Matthew Thomas Miller's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 4 years ago
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Rodrigo Lopes de Barros's profile was updated on MLA Commons 4 years, 2 months ago
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Victoria Saramago started the topic Reminder Journal of Lusophone Studies CFP: Apocalyptic Imaginaries in Portuguese in the discussion
LLC Luso-Brazilian on MLA Commons 4 years, 9 months agoPlease consider submitting an article!
https://jls.apsa.us/index.php/jls/announcement/view/5
The apocalypse is perhaps the most intractable of phenomena, open to religious, ideological, environmental, technological, and epidemiological interpretations of the end of civilization. The apocalypse has traditionally operated as a fringe hermeneutic,…[Read more]
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Tania Martuscelli posted an update on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months ago
Call for Papers (APSA 2022)
New Approaches to Black Lusophone Studies
We invite papers that interrogate established interpretations of concepts viewed as central to the analysis of cultural productions of Black Lusophone communities; works dealing with ancestralidade, resistance, afrofuturism, quilombo, and reparations are welcome.
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LLC Luso-Brazilian on MLA Commons 4 years, 12 months agoTeaching the Cultures of Portuguese Speaking Countries
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This session is interested in discussing the methodological and epistemological challenges/opportunities of teaching the cultures of the Portuguese speaking countries around the world. 200-word abstract + short bio.Deadline for submissions: Monday, 15 March 2021
Marcus V. C. B…[Read more]
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Tania Martuscelli started the topic Call for Papers (MLA 2022) in the discussion
LLC Luso-Brazilian on MLA Commons 4 years, 12 months ago1822-2022: Rethinking Brazilian Independence Today
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Session examines legacies and contradictions of 200 years of Brazilian independence. Literary, artistic, or historical approaches with a focus on questions of race, democracy, or citizenship are especially welcome. 200-word abstract + short bio.Deadline for submissions: Monday, 15…[Read more]
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Tania Martuscelli started the topic Call for Papers (MLA 2022) in the discussion
LLC Luso-Brazilian on MLA Commons 4 years, 12 months agoThe Ends of the Lusotropical Consensus
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Papers addressing challenges to Lusotropicalism by the rise of new political and cultural subjects across the Portuguese-speaking world. New literary voices, poetics and politics of the archive, racism, memory, iconoclasm. 200-word abstract + short bio.Deadline for submissions: Monday, 15 March…[Read more]
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