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Shaden M. Tageldin started the topic MLA Resolution 2014-1 regarding entry to West Bank in the forum
Arabic Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 11 years, 8 months agoDear colleagues in the MLA Division on Arabic Literature and Culture:
As your Divisional Delegate to the MLA Delegate Assembly, I write to remind you of the fast-approaching deadline of 12:00 a.m. EDT on 2 June 2014 (in other words, Sunday 1 June 2014, before midnight EDT), to cast your online ballot for the MLA member ratification vote on R…[Read more]
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S K posted an update in the group
LLC Arabic on MLA Commons 11 years, 9 months agoFYI:
Dear Colleagues,
If you’re an MLA member, here is your opportunity to vote for or against Resolution 2014-1, criticizing Israel’s policy of denying visas to American academics suspected of being of Palestinian descent:
http://jerusalem.usconsulate.gov/border-crossings.htmlThe Resolution was approved by the MLA Delegates Assembly in…[Read more]
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S K posted an update in the group
LLC Arabic on MLA Commons 11 years, 11 months agoHello everyone,
Here is also another reminder regarding the approaching deadline of two panels on Arab American and Latin American Literature and Culture. Please note that the deadline for the first panel (Narrating Arab American) is Monday March 10, i.e. in just 2 days, while the deadline for the second panel is Sat. March 15.
• Narrating “…[Read more]
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S K posted an update in the group
LLC Arabic on MLA Commons 11 years, 11 months agoDear colleagues,
I hope you are all well. I thought I’d post a reminder regarding the deadline to submit proposals for the panels proposed by the Division of Arabic Literature and Culture for the MLA’s annual convention to be held in Vancouver, 2015. The deadline is next Saturday on March 15, 2014.
The proposed panels are:
1) Untiming the…[Read more]
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Rebecca Jane Stanton replied to the topic CFPs for MLA 2015! in the forum
Slavic Literatures and Cultures on MLA Commons 11 years, 11 months agoAnd one more:
New approaches to Crime and Punishment
Panel proposed by the International Dostoevsky Society
New approaches to Dostoevsky’s novel welcome. How well do existing socio-political, religious, biographical, and psychoanalytic readings serve this text? Abstracts, maximum one page, by 15 March 2014 to Susan McReynolds (susan.mcreynolds@gmail.com). -
Rebecca Jane Stanton posted an update in the group
LLC Russian and Eurasian on MLA Commons 11 years, 11 months agoAnd one more CFP:
NEW APPROACHES TO CRIME AND PUNISHMENT
Panel proposed by the International Dostoevsky Society
New approaches to Dostoevsky’s novel welcome. How well do existing socio-political, religious, biographical, and psychoanalytic readings serve this text? Abstracts, maximum one page, by 15 March 2014 to Susan McReynolds…[Read more] -
Rebecca Jane Stanton posted an update in the group
LLC Russian and Eurasian on MLA Commons 11 years, 11 months agoDear all,
Please note the following Slavic-related CFPs for the MLA 2015 conference!
The Cold War and Experimental Fiction
Panel proposed by the Slavic and East European Literatures Division
In what ways did the Cold War generate experimental narratives? What impact did the Cold War discourse have on unofficial literature? 300-word abstracts by…[Read more] -
Rebecca Jane Stanton started the topic CFPs for MLA 2015! in the forum
Slavic Literatures and Cultures on MLA Commons 11 years, 11 months agoThe Cold War and Experimental Fiction
Panel proposed by the Slavic and East European Literatures Division
In what ways did the Cold War generate experimental narratives? What impact did the Cold War discourse have on unofficial literature? 300-word abstracts by 15 March 2014 to Julia Vaingurt (vaingurt@uic.edu).Central and Eastern Europe in…[Read more]
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S K posted an update in the group
LLC Arabic on MLA Commons 12 years agoHello everyone,
I apologize for not sharing the following update with you earlier: the Executive Committee (EC) for the division is going request setting up two new forums: “Arab American Literature and Culture,” to be listed under 15: “American,” within the broader category “Languages, Literatures, and Cultures,” and “Translingual and Diasporic…[Read more]
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Christopher Micklethwait started the topic MLA 2015 CFP: Special Session "Narrating 'Arab Americans'" in the forum
Arabic Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 12 years agoNarrating “Arab Americans”
Reflections on the term and its intersections with history, memory, geography, religion, race, gender, and sexuality in narratives by and about Arab Americans. 250-300 word abstract and CV by 10 March 2014; Pauline Homsi Vinson (phvinson@gmail.com) and Dalia Gomaa (dmgomaa@uwm.edu).
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S K posted an update in the group
LLC Arabic on MLA Commons 12 years ago[Please feel free to post these CFPs widely and to circulate them within your departments]
Dear Colleagues,
The MLA Division for Arabic Literature and Culture has announced its CFPs for four panels scheduled for the MLA (Modern Language Association)130th annual convention, January 8–11, 2015, Vancouver, B.C. (Canada).
1) [Guaranteed Panel] U…[Read more]
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S K posted an update in the group
LLC Arabic on MLA Commons 12 years agoHello everyone,
The Arabic Literature and Culture Division would like to encourage all our members to propose special panels, if they want to. These panels are vetted by the MLA, not by our division. Even if the final proposal is rejected, the whole exercise is informative, educational, and enjoyable. You’ll be connected to colleagues in your f…[Read more]-
Thank you, Suha and all. Please see and feel free to distribute the following CFP for a special session that Dalia Gomaa are hoping to propose:
Narrating “Arab Americans”: Reflections on the term and its intersections with history, memory, geography, religion, race, gender, and sexuality in narratives by and about Arab Americans. 250-300 word…[Read more]
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S K posted an update in the group
LLC Arabic on MLA Commons 12 years agoDear Friends,
A quick reminder of session 119 “Open Hearing on the Future of the MLA Divisions”, a very important meeting today. Please try to attend it and make your voice heard regarding how the new structure will affect the Arabic Division. Here are the details of the the meeting:
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S K posted an update in the group
LLC Arabic on MLA Commons 12 years agoDear Colleagues:
The Executive Committee seeks nominees to stand in the Fall 2014 election for the Division on Arabic Literature and Culture. Nominees for the Fall 2014 election must be current MLA members (i.e., their names must appear in the membership list at the MLA Web site http://www.mla.org/member_search ).
The individual elected in 2014…[Read more]
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S K posted an update in the group
LLC Arabic on MLA Commons 12 years, 1 month agoHello everyone, you are cordially invited to the following cash bar on Sat. evening:
Cash Bar Arranged by SAMLA, NEMLA, and PAMLA:
Saturday, 11 January, 8:45–10:00 p.m., Addison, Chicago Marriott
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S K posted an update in the group
LLC Arabic on MLA Commons 12 years, 1 month agoDear Colleagues,
This year’s MLA convention features 21 panels that focus on Arabic literature and culture, listed below
The executive committee of the division looks forward to seeing you in Chicago
Best,
Suha Kudsieh
Secretary of the MLA Arabic lit. & Culture Division, 2013-14
Chair of the MLA Arabic lit. & Culture Division,…[Read more] -
Matthew Thomas Miller started the topic Special Session on Persian Literature in the forum
Arabic Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 12 years, 1 month agoAlthough this is the Arabic group, I thought I would post the announcement below here as well in case some of you find it relevant for your research interests.
For those of you that are attending the MLA conference next month in Chicago, I would like to draw your attention to a special session/panel on Persian literature (see details below)…[Read more]
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Shaden M. Tageldin replied to the topic MLA Group Structure: Membership Feedback Sought in the forum
Arabic Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 12 years, 2 months agoDear Division of Arabic Literature and Culture colleagues:
I’d like to share my post to the MLA draft proposal on group structure, which appears in the comments sections to the overall proposal as well as to the paragraphs on African and Arabic literatures. I quote:I deeply appreciate the MLA’s efforts to rethink the organization of its di…[Read more]
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S K posted an update in the group
LLC Arabic on MLA Commons 12 years, 2 months agoDear Colleagues,
Please longin to the MLA Commons and make voice your opinion regarding the draft proposal to restructure the MLA groups and divisions, especially regarding Arabic. The deadline to add your
comment is Nov. 20. Here is the Commons link:Thank you for your…[Read more]
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Suha Kudsieh replied to the topic MLA Group Structure: Membership Feedback Sought in the forum
Arabic Literature and Culture on MLA Commons 12 years, 4 months agoHello everyone,
I am also glad that the MLA is reconfiguring its divisions and area studies, but I have misgivings about the new proposed groupings. First, I don’t see in what way the new structure is not euro-centric. If you look at the Western lit. groups, they have multiple subgroups and in many ways they retain their old structure and number…[Read more]
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Dear colleagues in the MLA Division on Arabic Literature and Culture:
As your Divisional Delegate to the MLA Delegate Assembly, I write to remind you of the fast-approaching deadline of 12:00 midnight EDT on Sunday, 1 June 2014, to cast your online ballot for the MLA member ratification vote on Resolution 2014-1. This resolution, passed at the…[Read more]
The message above failed to include the link to the online ballot, so I am reposting here. –SMT
Dear colleagues in the MLA Division on Arabic Literature and Culture:
As your Divisional Delegate to the MLA Delegate Assembly, I write to remind you of the fast-approaching deadline of 12:00 midnight EDT on Sunday, 1 June 2014, to cast your online…[Read more]