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Anoff Nicholas Cobblah deposited George Romanes and Recreational Interdisciplinarity: Why We “Find Recreation in Each Other’s Labours” in the group
2021 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 5 years agoIn 1879, Scots-Canadian biologist George Romanes suggested a physiological defense for working outside one’s discipline. In his essay on “Recreation,” Romanes theorized that different activities use up nutrients and energy in different muscles and parts of the brain. According to Romanes, a historian practicing science and a scientist study…[Read more]
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Elena Machado Sáez started the topic Today at MLA 2021: “Afro-Latinx Stories” and “Latinx Affects” Panels in the discussion
CLCS Caribbean on MLA Commons 5 years agoDear MLA members,
Join us today at the panels sponsored by the Latina and Latino Literature Forum at the Modern Language Association’s 2021 convention!
“Latinx Affects and the Literary Sensorium” (Panel #15)
- Panel Date/Time: Thursday, January 7, 2020, 10:15 AM – 10:35 AM
- Presider: Joshua Guzmán, U of California, Los Angeles
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Elena Machado Sáez started the topic Today at MLA 2021: “Afro-Latinx Stories” and “Latinx Affects” Panels in the discussion
2021 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 5 years agoDear MLA members,
Join us today at the panels sponsored by the Latina and Latino Literature Forum at the Modern Language Association’s 2021 convention!
“Latinx Affects and the Literary Sensorium” (Panel #15)
- Panel Date/Time: Thursday, January 7, 2020, 10:15 AM – 10:35 AM
- Presider: Joshua Guzmán, U of California, Los Angeles
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Elena Machado Sáez posted an update in the group
2021 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 5 years agoMLA 2021: “Afro-Latinx Stories” and “Latinx Affects” Panels
Dear MLA members,
Join us today at one of the panels sponsored by the Latina and Latino Literature Forum at the Modern Language Association’s 2021 convention!
“Latinx Affects and the Literary Sensorium” (Panel #15)
• Panel Date/Time: Thursday, January 7, 2020, 10:15 AM – 10:35 AM EST.…[Read more] -
Amanda Caleb deposited “Baby is as big as a guinea pig”: The (non)heteronormative Experience of Pregnancy in the group
2021 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 5 years agoThis is a copy of my presentation for Session #140: Bodily Persistence: Curating Better Medicine through Posthumanism. The presentation considers the posthumanism of pregnancy representation in the Ovia pregnancy app and the short story collection _With Animal_.
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Michelle Rabe deposited Getting the Yips: Health and Superability Thrown a Curve in The Art of Fielding in the group
2021 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 5 years agoIn Disability Theory (2008), Tobin Siebers theorizes the “ideology of ability,” or the default sociocultural desire for able-bodiedness, that governs our conceptions of bodily norms, health, and wellness. The ideology of ability “defines the baseline by which humanness is determined, setting the measure of body and mind that gives or denies human…[Read more]
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Tariq Sheikh deposited This Side of the Long Tunnel: The Emergence of the Idea of Japan’s ‘Snow Country’ in the Nineteenth Century in the group
2021 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 5 years agoIn Nobel laureate Kawabata Yasunari’s novel Snow Country, the protagonist Shimamura refers to an “old book” which gave him in-depth knowledge about the region known in Japan as the “Snow Country”. The name of the book is not disclosed by Kawabata, but it is now known that the “old book” is Hokuetsu Seppu (first published in 1837), written by Su…[Read more]
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Jervette Ward started the topic 2021 MLA LLC African American Forum-Linked Virtual Panels in the discussion
LLC African American on MLA Commons 5 years agoThe attached documents provide a list with links to the 2021 MLA LLC African American Forum-Linked Virtual Panels.
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Caterina Agostini deposited 2021 MLA Poster Session: Presentation Transcript in the group
2021 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 5 years agoThis is the transcript for my video presentation, in which I showcase my Digital Humanities project on Galileo’s letters.
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Li Guo started the topic Invitation to LLC Ming Qing Chinese Social Event, Session 11077 in the discussion
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 5 years agoInvitation to MLA 2021 LLC Ming and Qing Chinese Social EventSession 11077: January 7th, TR, 8:45pm-10:00pm EST
Event in the program: https://mla.confex.com/mla/2021/meetingapp.cgi/Session/11077
Dear colleagues attending the upcoming MLA,
Please join us for lively conversations and networking with colleagues at MLA.
Forum members:…[Read more]
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Adolfo Campoy-Cubillo started the topic MLA 2021 Global Hispanophone Sessions in the discussion
CLCS Global Hispanophone on MLA Commons 5 years, 1 month ago441 – Scholarship and Activism in the Global Hispanophone
Saturday, 9 January 2021
12:00 PM – 1:15 PMSession organizer (and moderating): Elisa Rizo, Iowa State U.
Presentations
Toward the Black Mediterranean
N. Michelle Murray, Vanderbilt UTranslation as Activism in the Global Hispanophone
Anna Tybinko, Duke U‘This Book Is Only about S…[Read more]
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Janine M. Utell started the topic Council of Editors of Learned Journals Mentoring Event: Chat with an Editor in the discussion
2021 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 5 years, 1 month agoSharing in my role of Secretary of CELJ…please disseminate widely to graduate students and ECRs… ~ Janine Utell
The Council of Editors of Learned Journals is hosting its annual Chat with an Editor program, in an expanded edition and in conjunction with the virtual Modern Language Association Convention. The Chat provides 20-minute time…[Read more]
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Elena Machado Sáez started the topic MLA 2021: “Afro-Latinx Stories” and “Latinx Affects” Panels (Jan 7) in the discussion
2021 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 5 years, 1 month agoDear MLA members,
Please consider attending one of the panels sponsored by the Latina and Latino Literature Forum at the Modern Language Association’s 2021 convention!
“Latinx Affects and the Literary Sensorium” (Panel #15)
- Panel Date/Time: Thursday, January 7, 2020, 10:15 AM – 10:35 AM
- Presider: Joshua Guzmán, U of Califo…
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Elena Machado Sáez started the topic MLA 2021: “Afro-Latinx Stories” and “Latinx Affects” Panels (Jan 7) in the discussion
LLC Latina and Latino on MLA Commons 5 years, 1 month agoDear MLA members,
Please consider attending one of the panels sponsored by the Latina and Latino Literature Forum at the Modern Language Association’s 2021 convention!
“Latinx Affects and the Literary Sensorium” (Panel #15)
- Panel Date/Time: Thursday, January 7, 2020, 10:15 AM – 10:35 AM
- Presider: Joshua Guzmán, U of California, Los An…
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Stacey Courtney uploaded the file: Want to upload your MLA 2021 materials to the CORE repository? to
2021 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 5 years, 1 month agoLearn how to upload your MLA 2021 convention presentation and materials fo the CORE repository. Use this to safely and securely share your materials with session attendees and fellow participants.
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Kate Pond deposited “Sapience” The (Attempted) Making of a Modern Myth: Storybuilding as a Component of Social Justice in the group
LLC African American Forum on MLA Commons 5 years, 1 month agoThis autoethnographic exploration, describes and reflects upon my attempt to crowdsource a modern myth on the origins of racism in America. It draws on my work in narrative studies with a special focus on stories and their role in human development. Part one is analysis of the ‘functions’ of story as both plot variables and sociological act…[Read more]
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Kate Pond deposited “Sapience” The (Attempted) Making of a Modern Myth: Storybuilding as a Component of Social Justice in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American on MLA Commons 5 years, 1 month agoThis autoethnographic exploration, describes and reflects upon my attempt to crowdsource a modern myth on the origins of racism in America. It draws on my work in narrative studies with a special focus on stories and their role in human development. Part one is analysis of the ‘functions’ of story as both plot variables and sociological act…[Read more]
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Jervette Ward started the topic MLA Elections Close TODAY!!! in the discussion
TC Race and Ethnicity Studies on MLA Commons 5 years, 1 month agoDon’t forget that MLA elections close today!
Don’t forget to vote for the new member of the LLC African American Forum Executive Committee and for the MLA Executive Council among other elections.
https://www.mla.org/About-Us/Governance/Elections/Nominations-for-2020-MLA-Elections
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Jervette Ward started the topic MLA Elections Close TODAY!!! in the discussion
LLC African American on MLA Commons 5 years, 1 month agoDon’t forget that MLA elections close today!
Don’t forget to vote for the new member of the LLC African American Forum Executive Committee and for the MLA Executive Council among other elections.
https://www.mla.org/About-Us/Governance/Elections/Nominations-for-2020-MLA-Elections
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