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Carmela Mattza deposited VARIEDADES INTERMEDIATE / INTERMEDIATE ADVANCED SPANISH CONVERSATION in the group
2020 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 1 month, 2 weeks ago
VARIEDADES is a Spanish conversation book for the student at the intermediate / advanced intermediate level. Through audiovisual activities, the student is expected to put their previous knowledge into practice and continue to develop their ability to understand, write, listen, and speak in Spanish.
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Elena Machado Sáez started the topic (Oct 28) Decolonizing Diasporas/Afro-Atlantic Lit: A Panel Discussion in the discussion
2020 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 3 months, 1 week ago
Join us Wednesday, October 28 at 7:30 PM Eastern/6:30 PM Central for a virtual panel discussion about Yomaira C. Figueroa-Vásquez’s new book, Decolonizing Diasporas: Radical Mappings of Afro-Atlantic Literature.
Mapping literature from Spanish-speaking sub-Saharan African and Afro-Latinx Caribbean diasporas, Decolonizing Diasporas argues tha…[Read more]
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Zahid R. Chaudhary deposited The Politics of Exposure: Truth After Post-Facts in the group
2020 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 7 months ago
This essay analyzes contemporary politics of truth across overlapping contexts: the predicament of whistleblowers, the proliferation of digital disinformation, the extractive imperatives of data economies, and the impossibility of exposing the truth when exposé becomes itself a game. The essay reads the recent cultural and political interest in…[Read more]
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Elena Margarita Past started the topic LLC 20th and 21st Century Italian in the discussion
2020 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 10 months, 2 weeks ago
Please consider submitting proposals for one of two guaranteed sessions organized by the Forum on 20th and 21st century Italian Literature at the 2021 MLA Convention in Toronto, from January 10-14, 2021.
1. MLA 2021, LLC 20th and 21st Century Italian, Guaranteed Session. Occupied Italy. This panel welcomes papers examining literary texts and…[Read more]
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Ted Underwood deposited Machine Learning and Human Perspective in the group
2020 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 11 months, 1 week ago
Numbers appear to have limited value for literary study, since our discipline is usually more concerned to explore differences of interpretation than to describe the objective features of literary works. But it may be time to re-examine the assumption that numbers are only useful for objective description. Machine learning algorithms are actually…[Read more]
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Franziska Katharina Ninett Lallinger deposited Online Database of Middle High German Translations of Latin Hymns: ‘Berliner Repertorium’ in the group
2020 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 11 months, 3 weeks ago
The Berliner Repertorium (http://opus.ub.hu-berlin.de/repertorium/page/home), online since June 2017, provides a database of Middle High and Low German translations of Latin hymns, sequences, and antiphons until the year 1600. In this contribution on our database of hymn translations, the ‘Berliner Repertorium’, I will introduce you to its str…[Read more]
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Joanne Bernardi deposited “Re-Envisioning Japan” DH project overview – MLA2020 Collaborative Round Table (DH in Japan & Korea Studies: Approaches and Challenges) in the group
2020 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 1 year ago
Powerpoint presentation for the MLA2020 collaborative roundtable “Digital Humanities in Japan and Korea: Approaches and Challenges,” organized by the LLC Korean and LLC Japanese since 1900 Forums. This brief introduction to “Re-Envisioning Japan: Japan as Destination in 20th Century Visual and Material Culture” was one of seven presentations by…[Read more]
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Xiaowen Xu started the topic Call For Candidates: LLC Pre-14th Chinese Forum Executive Committee in the discussion
2020 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 1 year ago
Dear Colleagues,
The LLC Pre-14th Forum is calling for your volunteering to be an alternate candidate for the executive committee 2021 to 2026. Please contact Xiaowen Xu (xiaowen.xu@ubc.ca) or Benjamin Ridgway (brdgwa1@swarthmore.edu) if you are interested. Or you could reply to this thread directly.
We would need four forum members who are…
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April Salchert deposited The Mobile Phone and a Migrant Story: Digital Representation of a Marginalized Other in the group
2020 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 1 year ago
These are the slides from my presentation at the MLA Convention 2020.
Abstract:
The mobile phone often plays a critical role in the migrant journey, as it does for Nour, the protagonist in Bury Me, My Love (2017). Designed as a mobile app game, Bury Me, My Love follows the journey of a Syrian migrant. The designers of this digital fiction…[Read more]
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Vincent Bruyere deposited Chauvet II, Locaux IV, Planet B in the group
2020 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 1 year ago
This paper is about an ongoing experiment in ecocriticism that trades the reference to oikos–the inhabited world–for a choreography ushering bodies that cannot exist together anymore as a public through their resurrection to collective existence at the hand of three-dimensional replicas of prehistoric caves: Chauvet II and Lascaux IV. What the…[Read more]
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Julie Phillips Brown deposited Reading as Ritual Response: The Artist’s Books of Cecilia Vicuña [remarks] in the group
2020 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 1 year ago
Since the 1960s, Chilean poet and artist Cecilia Vicuña has developed an internationally-recognized body of hybrid works that draw on poetry, painting, sculpture, installation, dance, song, and film. “Reading as Ritual Response” considers one of Vicuña’s lesser-known categories of work, the artist’s book, through which she harnesses the visual, m…[Read more]
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Julie Phillips Brown deposited Reading as Ritual Response: The Artist’s Books of Cecilia Vicuña [slides] in the group
2020 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 1 year ago
Since the 1960s, Chilean poet and artist Cecilia Vicuña has developed an internationally-recognized body of hybrid works that draw on poetry, painting, sculpture, installation, dance, song, and film. “Reading as Ritual Response” considers one of Vicuña’s lesser-known categories of work, the artist’s book, through which she harnesses the visual, m…[Read more]
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Anne Donlon deposited MLA 2020: Build Your Online Presence, Share Your Scholarship, and Collaborate on MLA Commons and Humanities Commons in the group
2020 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 1 year ago
This workshop introduces the features of MLA Commons and Humanities Commons, highlighting cases that demonstrate how people are using the platform to get feedback on work in progress, develop a professional online presence, publish scholarship, teach classes, organize conferences, collaborate in working groups, and more. Learn how to use the…[Read more]
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Cynthia Chase started the topic Voice: Remediated Embodiments, #414, arranged by MS,Opera&Musical Performance in the discussion
2020 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 1 year ago
“‘Allo, c’est toi?’: Questioning the Telephone in La Voix Humaine” — by Jeremy Glazier
“The Diva as Hologram: opera, liveness, and audiovisual remediation” — by Joao Pedro Cachopo, U. of Lisbon
“The Pitch of the Voice: Beckett and Feldman’s Antiopera Neither” by Sydney Boyd
Followed by discussion — Come to Willow A, Sheraton, at 5:15 till…[Read more]
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Janine M. Utell started the topic S340: The Space Between Creative Nonfiction and Literary Criticism in the discussion
2020 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 1 year ago
Melody Nixon will be unable to join us for S340: “The Space Between Creative Nonfiction and Literary Criticism: Theorizing, Writing, and Publishing Critical-Creative Hybrids” (Friday 3:30–4:45). She requests that those interested review her comments (attached) and consider her questions/prompts/provocations. Please join us in Sheraton Rav…[Read more]
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Taryn Hakala started the topic CANCELED: Session 93 – Language Change Forum: New Directions in the discussion
2020 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 1 year ago
Unfortunately, two of our roundtable speakers were unable to attend the MLA convention this year, so we have canceled our Thursday afternoon session: 93 – Language Change Forum: New Directions. Apologies for any inconvenience. We hope to see you at our Saturday afternoon session: 545 – Being Human, Technology, and New Media.
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Rachel Arteaga deposited Building Intellectual and Institutional Infrastructure in the Humanities in the group
2020 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 1 year ago
Panel: Career Directions for PhDs in English, Lori Askeland (Wittenberg), Chair
Representatives from different types of institutions discuss the job search, whether for tenure-track or non-tenure-track positions or for alt-ac career paths. Topics include not only search mechanics (CVs, letters, interviews) but also identifying passions and…[Read more]
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Jordan Windholz deposited Mistaking Eunuchs in Twelfth Night and the Roaring Girl in the group
2020 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 1 year ago
This paper asks what are the repercussions for our understandings of gender when we acknowledge the significant role the figure of the eunuch has had in early modern conceptions of gender differences and likenesses.
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Anne Donlon started the topic Seattle recommendations in the discussion
2020 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 1 year ago
Do you know a restaurant other convention-goers might want to check out? Discover a good spot for lunch or coffee? You can use this thread to share your recommendations for restaurants, coffeeshops, bookshops, excursions, and more. Or if you are looking for suggestions, you can ask here.
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Nohemy Solorzano-Thompson started the topic MLA 2020 LLC Sephardic Forum Panel — Friday, January 10, 8:30 am, at WSCC 614 in the discussion
2020 MLA Convention on MLA Commons 1 year ago
Dear colleagues
I am writing to invite you to the LLC Sephardic Forum Panel for the 2020 MLA on Friday, January 10, 8:30 am, WSCC 614.
This year’s panel focuses on Sephardic Cultural Expressions in the Portuguese- and Spanish-Speaking Americas and Beyond.
Full details below and please note the title update for Dr. B…[Read more]
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