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Carlos Gardeazabal Bravo started the topic CFP: ACLA 2018. Topographies of narrative empathy: the social and the cognitive in the discussion
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 8 years, 5 months agoIn recent times, empathy has occupied a privileged status in cross-disciplinary research on human behavior and social interaction. Cognitivists have identified empathy as a key emotion that explains why humans behave pro-socially. There is now evidence to suggest empathy as not only a key ingredient of altruism and cooperation, but also a…[Read more]
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Carlos Gardeazabal Bravo started the topic CFP: ACLA 2018. Topographies of narrative empathy: the social and the cognitive in the discussion
Philosophical Approaches to Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 5 months agoIn recent times, empathy has occupied a privileged status in cross-disciplinary research on human behavior and social interaction. Cognitivists have identified empathy as a key emotion that explains why humans behave pro-socially. There is now evidence to suggest empathy as not only a key ingredient of altruism and cooperation, but also a…[Read more]
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Joydeep Chakraborty deposited Spectral Consciousness in Post-9/11 American Poetry (Revised Form) in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 8 years, 5 months agoAfter presenting an overview of scholarship on post-9/11 American poetry, my article focuses on a group of largely neglected post-9/11 poems, which deal with spectral consciousness and hallucinatory experiences. In exploring this issue, I have tried to establish a relationship between trauma-related intrusive memories and hallucination on the…[Read more]
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Jap-Nanak Makkar started the topic CFP: "Automation," Seminar for ACLA 2018 in the discussion
Methods of Literary Research on MLA Commons 8 years, 5 months ago2018 Annual meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association
University of California, Los Angeles
March 29 – April 1
Seminar: “Automation”
Abstracts due September 21, 9am EST; submit through the ACLA online portal.
Organizer: Jap-Nanak Makkar, University of Virginia (jkm5ar@virginia.edu)
According to psychiatrist Ernst…[Read more]
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Amanda Licastro deposited The Cyborg Apocalypse in the group
TM Literary Criticism on Humanities Commons 8 years, 5 months agoIs the divide between human and machine becoming harder to maintain? From the Golem of folk tales to Frankenstein and even Siri, the concept of the semi-artificial person, or cyborg, is long-lived, appearing across popular, religious, and scientific imaginations. As technology becomes more personal, the cyborg becomes less alien, and the prospect…[Read more]
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Pauline Homsi Vinson started the topic Amerasian Special Issue: Arab/Americas deadline extended until September 30th in the discussion
Asian American Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 6 months agoHello everyone,
The deadline for submissions to the Amerasia Special Issue: Arab/Americas has been extended until September 30th. Please consider submitting your work and spread the word. Below is the text of the CFP:
Call for Papers for a special issue of Amerasia – Deadline Extended till September 30, 2017
Guest Editors: Dr. Sarah Gua…[Read more]
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Tamar Steinitz deposited Back Home: Translation, Conversion and Domestication in Leila Aboulela’s The Translator in the group
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 8 years, 6 months agoAbstract
The Sudanese-born author Leila Aboulela describes the position of the non-western Anglophone writer as a translator by default, moving ‘back and forth’ between languages and cultures. This essay argues that Aboulela’s novel The Translator (1999) calls into question conceptualizations of translation that grow out of western relig…[Read more] -
André Carrington deposited Mike Brown’s Body: New Materialism and Black Form in the group
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 8 years, 6 months agoA contribution to the Editors’ Forum on Queer Form, edited by Kadji Amin, Roy Pérez, and Amber Musser, for ASAP/Journal.
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Nicky Agate started the topic Think the academy has its values & incentives all wrong? in the discussion
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 8 years, 6 months agoDear colleagues,
Are you concerned about the growing reliance on quantitative metrics to evaluate research—and people—in the humanities and social sciences? Do you think that current evaluation practices emphasize quantity over quality, discourage collegiality, ignore inclusivity, and overlook the importance of non-traditional forms of rese…[Read more] -
Jay Clayton deposited The Ridicule of Time: Science Fiction, Bioethics, and the Posthuman in the group
TC Science and Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 6 months agoThe article traces two phases of SF about human species change, the first in the 1940s and early 1950s, the so called “golden age” of SF. In this first phase the advent of the posthuman is brought on by eugenics or sudden mutations caused by fallout from nuclear war. It consists of well-known books by most of the leading authors of the period: C…[Read more]
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Jay Clayton deposited The Ridicule of Time: Science Fiction, Bioethics, and the Posthuman in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 8 years, 6 months agoThe article traces two phases of SF about human species change, the first in the 1940s and early 1950s, the so called “golden age” of SF. In this first phase the advent of the posthuman is brought on by eugenics or sudden mutations caused by fallout from nuclear war. It consists of well-known books by most of the leading authors of the period: C…[Read more]
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Margaret Morganroth Gullette deposited THE VIOLENCE OF AGEISM (Dr. Dao and Walking While Old) in the group
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society on MLA Commons 8 years, 6 months agoAs the entire world now knows, Dr. David Dao is the passenger who was dragged off a United Airlines Flight on April 9th, 2017 by Chicago security police who broke his nose, gave him a concussion and smashed two of his teeth. Some media have treated this as a horror perpetrated by a single airline that bullies passengers, or by a business model…[Read more]
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Carl Gelderloos deposited Book review: Robert Leucht. Dynamiken politischer Imagination. Die deutschsprachige Utopie von Stifter bis Döblin in ihren internationalen Kontexten, 1848–1930 Ulrich E. Bach. Tropics of Vienna: Colonial Utopias of the Habsburg Empire in the group
TC Science and Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 6 months agoA review of Robert Leucht’s “Dynamiken politischer Imagination. Die deutschsprachige Utopie von Stifter bis Döblin in ihren internationalen Kontexten, 1848–1930” (2016) and Ulrich Bach’s “Tropics of Vienna: Colonial Utopias of the Habsburg Empire” (2016)
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Jonathan Senchyne deposited Rags Make Paper, Paper Makes Money: Material Texts and Metaphors of Capital in the group
LLC 19th-Century American on MLA Commons 8 years, 6 months agoBecause nineteenth-century paper was made from rags, the materiality of paper money became a likely ground from which to debate the nature of value in modern capitalism. On one hand, if paper money was backed by nothing but itself, then it was worth little more than itself: a gathering of lowly rags. On the other hand, the process of turning…[Read more]
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Xiaofan Amy Li started the topic CFP – interdisciplinary conference: Play, Recreation, Experimentation in the discussion
Literary Criticism on MLA Commons 8 years, 7 months ago<div class=”entry-content”>
Call For Papers: ‘Play, Recreation, and Experimentation: Literature and the Arts since the Early Modern Times’, 8-9 Dec 2017, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK. (details of dates and venue tbc)
Invited speakers: Professor Peter Dayan (Edinburgh), Professor Ulrike Zitzlsperger (Exeter), Dr Thomas Karshan (UEA…[Read more]
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Ivonne Garcia started the topic Susan Tane Travel Grants for joint PS/NHS Conference in Kyoto in the discussion
Nineteenth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 7 months agoSusan Tane Travel Grants, Flight, and Hotel Information for Poe Scholars Traveling to Kyoto:
The Poe Studies Association and the Nathaniel Hawthorne Society will host a joint international conference with the Japanese Poe Society and the Japanese Hawthorne Society in Kyoto, Japan from June 21-24, 2018. Plenary speakers will be Michael J.…[Read more]
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Ivonne Garcia started the topic CALL FOR PAPERS: Poe & Hawthorne Kyoto Conference – Deadline: August 1, 2017 in the discussion
Nineteenth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 7 months agoCALL FOR PAPERS: Poe & Hawthorne Conference
Kyoto Garden Palace Hotel—Kyoto, Japan
The Poe Studies Association, The Poe Society of Japan, The Nathaniel Hawthorne Society, and The Nathaniel Hawthorne Society of Japan invite paper and session proposals for a joint conference to be held in Kyoto, Japan on June 21-24, 2018. Our banquet speaker w…[Read more] -
Ivonne Garcia started the topic Nathaniel Hawthorne Society Kyoto Conference Sam Coale Travel Grants, etc. in the discussion
Nineteenth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 7 months agoKyoto Conference Sam Coale Travel Grants, Flight, Hotel, and Contact Information:
The Poe Studies Association and the Nathaniel Hawthorne Society will host a joint international conference with the Japanese Poe Society and the Japanese Hawthorne Society in Kyoto, Japan from June 21-24, 2018. Plenary speakers will be Michael J. Colacurcio and…[Read more] -
Joydeep Chakraborty replied to the topic post 9/11 american poetry in the discussion
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 7 months agoSir,
It’s been long since you talked to me. I wish you all the best on your book-proposal. Now I am working on a topic which you may find hihgly interesting. It is whether the poems on Afganistan in An Eye For An Eye can be read as a creative response to Orientalism by Edward Said. It would be great if you talk to me as soon as possible. -
Joydeep Chakraborty replied to the topic post 9/11 american poetry in the discussion
Twentieth-Century American Literature on MLA Commons 8 years, 7 months agoNow I am working on a new topic. It is on the exploration into the question as to whether some post-9/11 poems on Afganistan in An Eye For An Eye Makes the Whole World Blind, like “The Weavers”, “Burqa Women” and “Kabul 2002”, can be read as an implicit response to Orientalism by Edward Said. Please, comment on it.
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