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Pamela Phillips started the topic CFP MLA 2024 CLCS-18th Century Panels — Deadline Extended in the discussion
LLC 18th- and 19th-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 2 years, 10 months agoMarch 20, 2023 is the deadline to apply to the CLCS-18th Century Forum’s panels at next year’s MLA in Philadelphia.
I. Comparative Media Histories
Recent work in book history, bibliography, and media studies has expanded definitions of “the book” and turned attention to materiality more broadly. Eighteenth-century studies in particular has seen…[Read more]
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Luis de Orueta deposited CAPRICHO DE LO TRIVIAL in the group
Spanish Civil War Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 10 months agoEl autor comienza diciendo que antes de nacer vivía con sus padres (claro) y termina su relato 86 años después con una despedida evanescente. En el intervalo: una vida sin huella. ¿Entonces por qué contarla? A falta de mejor respuesta, aduce voces misteriosas en la segunda parte del Fausto de Goethe:
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andré carrington started the topic CFP for 2024: Putting the Bowtie on Funk : The Sound of Philadelphia in the discussion
MS Sound on MLA Commons 2 years, 10 months agoPutting the Bowtie on Funk : The Sound of Philadelphia
Guaranteed session for MLA 2024 sponsored by Forum MS Sound, in collaboration with Forum African American Literature, Language, and Culture
Philly Soul, with its roots in the Black performance traditions of gospel, funk, and rhythm & blues, transformed popular music in the 1970s. How have…[Read more]
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Raquel Patricia Chiquillo started the topic CFP: for Journal Humanities – on Twenty-First Century Central American Novel in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American on MLA Commons 2 years, 10 months agoBuenas tardes, colegas: quisiera invitarlos a subir sus artículos sobre la novela centroamericana del siglo XXI para consideración de ser publicadas en la revista académica “Humanities.” La fecha de entrega es el 31 de marzo pero se puede extender. Me han dicho que el APC no se va a cobrar. Se aceptan manuscritos en español y en inglés. Por favo…[Read more]
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Robin E. Visel started the topic MLA 2024: Doris Lessing and Contemporary African Critics of Neocolonialism in the discussion
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 2 years, 10 months agoCFP: We invite papers examining Lessing’s critique of neocolonialism in works such as <i>African Laughter</i>, especially in conversation with postcolonial African writers from Aidoo, Gordimer, Dangarembga, and Vera to Gappah, Bulawayo,and Mbue. Bio and 250-word abstract. Deadline: 20 March, 2023. Josna Rege jrege@worcester.edu, jo…[Read more]
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Robin E. Visel started the topic MLA 2024: The Griot in Doris Lessing, African, & Postcolonial Writers in the discussion
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 2 years, 10 months agoCFP: We invite papers exploring figures of the griot—as chroniclers, poets, song makers, and Memories—in Doris Lessing’s later works, and in the works of writers from Africa and throughout the postcolonial diaspora. Bio and 250-word abstract. Deadline: 20 March, 2023. Josna Rege jrege@worcester.edu, josnarege@comcast.net
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Yvonne Fuentes posted an update in the group
LLC 18th- and 19th-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 2 years, 10 months agoReminder of Calls for Papers: Abstracts due March 17.
Politics of Celebration in 18th- and 19th-Century Spanish and Iberian Performance
We invite papers that address forms of celebration and expressions of collective joy or sorrow through dance, song, satire, or ritual from the Spanish and Iberian 18th and 19th Centuries. Please send a 250-word…[Read more] -
Pamela Phillips started the topic CFP MLA 24—New Methods in 18th-Century Comparative and Cross-Cultural Reading in the discussion
LLC 18th- and 19th-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 2 years, 10 months agoIt has been nearly 20 years since Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak called, in Death of a Discipline (2005), for a radical reorientation of comparative literature’s methods for the 21st century. Observing the institutional shift from Area Studies to Cultural and Ethnic Studies, Spivak urged comparatists to reimagine the political imperatives of the d…[Read more]
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Pamela Phillips started the topic CFP MLA 24—New Methods in 18th-Century Comparative and Cross-Cultural Reading in the discussion
LLC 18th- and 19th-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 2 years, 10 months agoRecent work in book history, bibliography, and media studies has expanded definitions of “the book” and turned attention to materiality more broadly. Eighteenth-century studies in particular has seen an interest in non-print media, queer and trans book history, speculative archives, and critical making, among other approaches. This panel seeks con…[Read more]
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Gautam Basu Thakur started the topic MLA 2024–Psychoanalysis and Decolonization (Non-guaranteed Panel) in the discussion
TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature on MLA Commons 2 years, 10 months agoThe MLA’s Forum on Psychology, Psychoanalysis and Literature solicits abstracts for a non-guaranteed panel at the 2024 MLA Convention in Philadelphia on psychoanalysis and decolonization. Psychoanalysis is often critiqued for its silence on the phenomena of colonialism and its legacies in the present and decoloniality as discourse and praxis. In…[Read more]
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Gautam Basu Thakur started the topic MLA 2024–Psychoanalysis and Decolonization (Non-guaranteed Panel) in the discussion
TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature on MLA Commons 2 years, 10 months agoThe MLA’s Forum on Psychology, Psychoanalysis and Literature solicits abstracts for a non-guaranteed panel at the 2024 MLA Convention in Philadelphia on psychoanalysis and decolonization. Psychoanalysis is often critiqued for its silence on the phenomena of colonialism and its legacies in the present and decoloniality as discourse and praxis. In…[Read more]
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Gautam Basu Thakur started the topic MLA 2024–Psychoanalysis and Decolonization (Non-guaranteed Panel) in the discussion
TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature on MLA Commons 2 years, 10 months agoThe MLA’s Forum on Psychology, Psychoanalysis and Literature solicits abstracts for a non-guaranteed panel at the 2024 MLA Convention in Philadelphia on psychoanalysis and decolonization. Psychoanalysis is often critiqued for its silence on the phenomena of colonialism and its legacies in the present and decoloniality as discourse and praxis. In…[Read more]
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Gautam Basu Thakur started the topic MLA 2024–Psychoanalysis and Decolonization (Non-guaranteed Panel) in the discussion
TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature on MLA Commons 2 years, 10 months agoThe MLA’s Forum on Psychology, Psychoanalysis and Literature solicits abstracts for a non-guaranteed panel at the 2024 MLA Convention in Philadelphia on psychoanalysis and decolonization. Psychoanalysis is often critiqued for its silence on the phenomena of colonialism and its legacies in the present and decoloniality as discourse and praxis. In…[Read more]
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David A. Wacks started the topic Deadline extended to Mar 15: CFPs MLA 2024 (Medieval Iberian Studies) in the discussion
LLC Medieval Iberian on MLA Commons 2 years, 10 months agoThe Medieval Iberian Forum of the MLA announces the following calls for papers for the 2024 MLA Convention (Philadelphia, Jan 4-7). Please note that presenters must be members of the MLA before registering for the conference (but not in order to submit an abstract).
New Currents in Medieval Iberian Studies (in person) The LLC Medieval Iberian F…[Read more]
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Dorothy Stringer started the topic CFP: MLA 2024–Queer Theory and Psychoanalysis (Guaranteed Panel) in the discussion
TC Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months agoThe MLA’s Forum on Psychology, Psychoanalysis and Literature solicits abstracts for a guaranteed panel at the 2024 MLA Convention in Philadelphia on queer theory and psychoanalysis. We particularly welcome theoretical and archival scholarship that centers LGBTQI+ theorists, artists, intellectuals, and writers. Queer theory embraces p…[Read more]
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Sana Asif deposited Tangible Heritage and Intangible Memory: (Coping) Precarity in the Select Partition Writings by Muslim Women in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months agoThe partition of British India into two sovereign independent nations of India and Pakistan in 1947 was one of the most defining moments of the socio-political course of the sub-continent. The fight for independence from colonial rule and the rise of nationalism rooted in the religious discourse of two prominent religious communities- Hindus and…[Read more]
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Hania A.M. Nashef deposited What Does a Nascent Film Movement of Popular Genres Reveal About Emirati Culture? in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months agoDespite a lack of a traditional cinema culture, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), has recently witnessed an increase in film production. This rise can be attributed to a number of factors, not least of which, is the opening of movie theaters, the establishment of international film festivals and the arrival of film companies. These ventures have…[Read more]
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Hania A.M. Nashef deposited What Does a Nascent Film Movement of Popular Genres Reveal About Emirati Culture? in the group
TC Popular Culture on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months agoDespite a lack of a traditional cinema culture, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), has recently witnessed an increase in film production. This rise can be attributed to a number of factors, not least of which, is the opening of movie theaters, the establishment of international film festivals and the arrival of film companies. These ventures have…[Read more]
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Hania A.M. Nashef deposited What Does a Nascent Film Movement of Popular Genres Reveal About Emirati Culture? in the group
MS Screen Arts and Culture on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months agoDespite a lack of a traditional cinema culture, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), has recently witnessed an increase in film production. This rise can be attributed to a number of factors, not least of which, is the opening of movie theaters, the establishment of international film festivals and the arrival of film companies. These ventures have…[Read more]
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Margaret Frohlich deposited Sexual Diversity in Young Cuban Cinema in the group
MS Screen Arts and Culture on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months agoThis book explores how young Cuban filmmakers have expanded the range of sexual subjectivities on screen. It analyzes cine joven (films made by young directors) from the late 1980s to the early 2020s, film reviews, articles, and materials from the Cinematheque of Cuba’s archive to illustrate the confluence of sexuality, cinema, and discourses of…[Read more]
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