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Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Reader’s Guide to Fellowship of the Ring in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months agoDelineates how much of J.R.R. Tolkien’s “Fellowship of the Ring” is about preparing Frodo especially so that if caught out alone, he’d never dare venture a decent listen to anyone who might attempt to sway him to consider the due fate for the Ring, other than according to Gandalf’s specifications. Positions the text as one that bates the reader…[Read more]
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ASEEES Admin started the topic University of Illinois: Associate Director European Union Center in the discussion
Job Announcements on ASEEES Commons 6 years, 10 months agoAssociate Director
European Union Center
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
The Associate Director will execute the programmatic activities, manage staff, oversee the graduate program, manage budgets, and provide strategic guidance for developing core areas of the European Union Center (EUC) in a professionally efficient and effective…[Read more]
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ASEEES Admin started the topic Aleksanteri Institute: Postdoc Researcher in the discussion
Fellowship/Grant Announcement on ASEEES Commons 6 years, 10 months agoThe Aleksanteri Institute at the University of Helsinki invites applications for a
POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCHER TO STUDY IDENTITY CONSTRUCTION IN THE RUSSIAN PRISON SYSTEM
for a fixed term of THREE YEARS.The position is associated with the European Research Council Project, “Gulag Echoes in the multicultural prison: historical and geographical inf…[Read more]
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ASEEES Admin started the topic GEOP Fellowships 2020 at POLIN Museum and JHI in the discussion
Fellowship/Grant Announcement on ASEEES Commons 6 years, 10 months agoDear Colleagues,
We are delighted to announce the fourth round of the GEOP international fellowship program for doctoral candidates and those who have recently completed their doctorates organized by the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews and the Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw within the Global Educati…[Read more]
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ASEEES Admin started the topic Two-Year Postdoctoral Fellowship Program in Poland, 2019-2021 in the discussion
Fellowship/Grant Announcement on ASEEES Commons 6 years, 10 months agoThe Foundation for Civic Space and Public Policy based in Warsaw, Poland is pleased to announce a two-year (24 month) Postdoctoral Fellowship Program. Two fellowships are available for scholars specializing in Polish history. Scholars must have earned (successfully defended) their Ph.D. degrees in the United States. Fellows will be affiliated with…[Read more]
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ASEEES Admin started the topic Fulbright U.S. Scholar Opportunities in Russia in the discussion
Fellowship/Grant Announcement on ASEEES Commons 6 years, 10 months agoThe Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program is accepting applications for the 2020-21 academic year. Opportunities are available for artists, college and university faculty, professionals, and independent scholars to teach and conduct research at educational institutions and research institutions in Russia. Fulbright Scholars represent the diversity of the…[Read more]
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ASEEES Admin started the topic CESS: Administrative and Communications Assistant in the discussion
Job Announcements on ASEEES Commons 6 years, 10 months agoJob vacancy at CESS: Administrative and Communications Assistant
The Central Eurasian Studies Society (CESS) invites applications for an Administrative and Communications Assistant.The Administrative and Communications Assistant contributes to the Society’s overall administration, with a specific focus on social media communications, financial a…[Read more]
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ASEEES Admin started the topic Pomona College: Visiting Assistant Professor of Russian in the discussion
Job Announcements on ASEEES Commons 6 years, 10 months agoPOMONA COLLEGE
CLAREMONT, CALIFORNIA 91711
VISITING ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF RUSSIAN
Pomona College invites applications for a one-year Visiting Assistant Professor position to teach five courses beginning August 2019. Ph.D. is required at the time of the appointment. Applicants should have relevant teaching experience. Native or…[Read more]
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Amy L. Friedman started the topic 2020 Conference – Cut-Ups@60 in the discussion
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months ago2020 Special Conference CUT-UPS@60
London / Paris, September 2020EBSN Special Conference2020 will be the 60th anniversary of the first publications using the cut-up methods initiated by William Burroughs and Brion Gysin at the Beat Hotel in Paris and developed in London throughout the 1960s. To mark this landmark in cultural history, CUT-UPS@60…[Read more] -
Amy L. Friedman started the topic Nordic Beats – Call for Chapters in the discussion
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months agoNordic Beats — Call for chapters
Editors:
Dr. Michael Amundsen, Arizona State University, Michael.Amundsen@asu.edu
Robert E. Bjork, Arizona State University, Robert.Bjork@asu.edu
Baltic Publishing, a peer reviewed academic publisher with an outstanding international editorial board based in Tallinn, Estonia, is developing a needed text on the…[Read more] -
Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Soothing Satire in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months agoExplores Douglas Coupland’s “Generation X” as almost a Gen Xer’s “version of John Updike’s Couples”; that is, as, a place where, like Updike’s book, friends create a community isolated only to themselves. Though unlike Updike’s work, where — considering the time it was written in, the ’70s, where a generation succeeded in overtly contesting and…[Read more]
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Alice Rachel Ridout started the topic CFP: Contemporary Women's Writing Association International Conference in the discussion
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months agoDEADLINE FOR PROPOSALS CLOSES MONDAY, MARCH 18; EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST WITH LATE SUBMISSION OF PROPOSAL TO FOLLOW WILL BE CONSIDERED
Locations and Dislocations: Places and Spaces in Contemporary Women’s Writing
International Contemporary Women’s Writing Association Conference
3-5 July 2019, Algoma University, Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Can…[Read more]
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Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited The Good Fight! in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months agoGeorge Walker’s “The Good Fight” as arguing for means towards self-growth which aren’t merely acting out; which aren’t simply signs of perversity, of mental illness. Argues that rather than delineating the key differences between the downtrodden — those stepped on — and the rich — those (gleefully) doing the stomping down — it is truly more…[Read more]
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Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited How Insensitive! in the group
TC Postcolonial Studies on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months agoExploring several key scholarly explorations on the culture of sensibility in the British 18th-century, this article draws attention to what the current manner of accessing the people who invoked and participated in it are deemed to have been like, and to how this has exposed them to being invested in protecting people of, ostensibly actually,…[Read more]
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Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Moderns and their Mothers’ Reach in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months agoDiscusses Tennessee WIlliams’ “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” and Arthur Miller’s “Death of a Salesman” in regards to Ann Douglas’s thesis of Americans appropriating the concept of terrible, truth-telling, phallicly-empowered “monsters” in order to lay low the influence of mothers whose influence over their children has stretched way outside the bounds of…[Read more]
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Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Grabbing Hold for Departure’s Sake in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months agoExplores how Max Vigne, from Andrea Barrett’s “Servants of the Map,” makes use of the dangerous Himalayan mountain environment as almost as Winnicottian “play space,” in which to recover from being requited to a life of obligation, rather than real-self discovery, after his mother’s death.
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Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Matricide in the City in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months agoExplores the invisible man, in Ralph Ellison’s “The Invisible Man,” as borrowing upon associations of patriarchal maleness, in the sense Ann Douglas in her “Terrible Honesty” argues 20s modern’s did, to secure freedom from feelings of entrapment by maternal figures, whose near-proximity to him is expressed in the text as often incestuous, gross;…[Read more]
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Weihsin Gui started the topic Deadline extended March 20: SEAsia-Australia session in the discussion
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months ago***Deadline extended to March 20, 2019***
CFP: Southeast Asia and Australia: Literary and Cultural Connections
This call is for a proposed collaborative session between the Southeast Asia/Southeast Asia Diasporic Forum of the Modern Language Association (MLA) and the American Association for Australasian Literary Studies (AAALS) at the…[Read more]
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Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Quitting Home in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months agoSinclair Ross’s “As For Me and My House” as a (nefarious) safe-space whereby readers can subsume themselves within a locale that promises the sense of being taken care of, that they experienced within the maternal home but on one condition: ready willingness to defer; acquiesce to “mother’s” leadership. Written just before a culture pivoted from…[Read more]
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Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Consolidating Gains in the group
CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months agoA review of Stanley Kunitz’s poetry, emphasizing how he used his poetry to both explore and manage his relationship with his dominating mother. Argues that none of Kunitz’s elegies work as conventional elegies, or as we traditionally understand or expect them to work, but more as working their way to the direction Peter Sacks advocates, as…[Read more]
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