MLA Commons | 2020 MLA Convention | Activity https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/2020-mla-convention/ Activity feed for the group, 2020 MLA Convention. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 07:10:57 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 d188d220a34f328cb460611dd7124856 Zahid R. Chaudhary deposited Paranoid Publics in the group 2020 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1780938/ Sat, 07 May 2022 02:24:10 -0400 This article takes up the insurrection in Washington DC, and the paranoid politics of QAnon. It analyzes the gamification of paranoia across QAnon and related paranoid publics, tracking such gamification as a political-economic demand generated by neoliberalism. Taking seriously Sigmund Freud’s insight that delusional formations are attempts at…[Read more]

]]> 0 e453685daa5f4b5b25aebbfaa5787f3f Carmela Mattza deposited VARIEDADES INTERMEDIATE / INTERMEDIATE ADVANCED SPANISH CONVERSATION in the group 2020 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1718532/ Wed, 02 Dec 2020 02:26:44 -0500 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.
VARIEDADES offers communicative activities…[Read more]

]]> 0 c6892a51d2119d44a77e6f5a02eb405f Elena Machado Sáez started the topic (Oct 28) Decolonizing Diasporas/Afro-Atlantic Lit: A Panel Discussion in the discussion 2020 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/2020-mla-convention/forum/topic/oct-28-decolonizing-diasporas-afro-atlantic-lit-a-panel-discussion-2/ Sat, 10 Oct 2020 13:40:46 -0400 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]

]]> 0 c6ee2dfb6498bbbe2bf243086c470faa Zahid R. Chaudhary deposited The Politics of Exposure: Truth After Post-Facts in the group 2020 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1692263/ Fri, 19 Jun 2020 03:50:57 -0400 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]

]]> 0 cbe8d4c9f028ad8777882f55a2bc40d5 Elena Margarita Past started the topic LLC 20th and 21st Century Italian in the discussion 2020 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/2020-mla-convention/forum/topic/llc-20th-and-21st-century-italian-2/ Tue, 10 Mar 2020 20:07:22 -0400 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]

]]> 0 4c079a57c51695b48df10cdd2b190843 Ted Underwood deposited Machine Learning and Human Perspective in the group 2020 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1678173/ Tue, 11 Feb 2020 16:26:18 -0500 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]

]]> 0 043d10079b17843692c7a52216415b40 Franziska Katharina Ninett Lallinger deposited Online Database of Middle High German Translations of Latin Hymns: ‘Berliner Repertorium’ in the group 2020 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1677100/ Sat, 01 Feb 2020 03:48:44 -0500 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]

]]> 0 d2b9b028eb93539f471ca0869d359d40 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 https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1675733/ Sun, 19 Jan 2020 03:48:44 -0500 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]

]]> 0 7d036125e28c2bf89bfe9c84278e9031 Xiaowen Xu started the topic Call For Candidates: LLC Pre-14th Chinese Forum Executive Committee in the discussion 2020 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/2020-mla-convention/forum/topic/call-for-candidates-llc-pre-14th-chinese-forum-executive-committee-3/ Tue, 14 Jan 2020 22:06:58 -0500

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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]]> 0 171136020fe4812ffefe6fb50a586b35 Vincent Bruyere deposited Chauvet II, Locaux IV, Planet B in the group 2020 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1675078/ Mon, 13 Jan 2020 03:54:34 -0500 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]

]]> 0 9a32b6fcee85cad310a57c5a635ff0ed Julie Phillips Brown deposited Reading as Ritual Response: The Artist’s Books of Cecilia Vicuña [remarks] in the group 2020 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1675017/ Sun, 12 Jan 2020 03:48:43 -0500 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]

]]> 0 a98504090a207766d95e32dd6838786f Julie Phillips Brown deposited Reading as Ritual Response: The Artist’s Books of Cecilia Vicuña [slides] in the group 2020 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1674901/ Sat, 11 Jan 2020 03:52:28 -0500 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]

]]> 0 3f78c6b2cab4bdf7e70e86b1016b8633 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 https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1674899/ Sat, 11 Jan 2020 03:51:44 -0500 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]

]]> 0 b3c3d6be0a56ac1961c1301b24ac6e5c Cynthia Chase started the topic Voice: Remediated Embodiments, #414, arranged by MS,Opera&Musical Performance in the discussion 2020 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/2020-mla-convention/forum/topic/voice-remediated-embodiments-414-arranged-by-msoperamusical-performance/ Fri, 10 Jan 2020 21:51:54 -0500 “‘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]

]]> 0 ed7695906757ece7daca29e16cc49844 Janine M. Utell started the topic S340: The Space Between Creative Nonfiction and Literary Criticism in the discussion 2020 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/2020-mla-convention/forum/topic/s340-the-space-between-creative-nonfiction-and-literary-criticism/ Thu, 09 Jan 2020 22:34:11 -0500 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]

]]> 0 adbf95bbd03a65e057e4ed81aa256400 Taryn Hakala started the topic CANCELED: Session 93 - Language Change Forum: New Directions in the discussion 2020 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/2020-mla-convention/forum/topic/canceled-session-93-language-change-forum-new-directions-2/ Thu, 09 Jan 2020 15:20:23 -0500 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.

]]> 0 957f7db522cdef3a3edafe5be2be4ac2 Jordan Windholz deposited Mistaking Eunuchs in Twelfth Night and the Roaring Girl in the group 2020 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1674512/ Wed, 08 Jan 2020 03:48:45 -0500 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.

]]> 0 95092172ac7abb3d418eb547a29ab861 Anne Donlon started the topic Seattle recommendations in the discussion 2020 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/2020-mla-convention/forum/topic/seattle-recommendations/ Tue, 07 Jan 2020 21:57:12 -0500 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.

]]> 0 00522a9c0be781b53b785aa6d1452616 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 https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/2020-mla-convention/forum/topic/mla-2020-llc-sephardic-forum-panel-friday-january-10-830-am-at-wscc-614-2/ Sat, 04 Jan 2020 18:18:04 -0500 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]

]]> 0 8c06db4e0e5ac4f05992f3e932052752 Raphael Dalleo started the topic 468 - Sylvia Wynter and/in the Undergraduate Classroom, Sat. 1/11 @ 10:15 am in the discussion 2020 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/2020-mla-convention/forum/topic/468-sylvia-wynter-and-in-the-undergraduate-classroom-sat-1-11-1015-am-2/ Fri, 03 Jan 2020 18:09:26 -0500 2020 MLA convention session sponsored by the CLCS Caribbean forum:

 

Sylvia Wynter and/in the Undergraduate Classroom

Saturday, January 11th, 2020

10:15 am to 11:30 am

Washington State Convention Center, Skagit 3

Presiding: Kaiama Glover, Barnard College-Columbia University

 

Prose Fiction, Plays, and Pantomimes: Teaching…[Read more]

]]> 0 9e43ef124ccc4650fba317579ba416f0 Raphael Dalleo started the topic 200. The Caribbean 1970s, Friday 10 January 2020 at 8:30 am in the discussion 2020 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/2020-mla-convention/forum/topic/200-the-caribbean-1970s-friday-10-january-2020-at-830-am-2/ Fri, 03 Jan 2020 18:02:29 -0500 2020 MLA convention panel, cosponsored by the CLCS Caribbean and TC Postcolonial Studies forums:

 

The Caribbean 1970s

Friday, January 10th, 2020

8:30 am to 9:45 am

Washington State Convention Center, Chelan 4

Presiding: Raphael Dalleo, Bucknell University

 

“Liberation of a Small Place: Political Narratives about the…[Read more]

]]> 0 70ce94e14d91714d1e4b2f2d8eb600c3 Anne Donlon started the topic Tips for the MLA Convention (especially for first-time attendees) in the discussion 2020 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/2020-mla-convention/forum/topic/tips-for-the-mla-convention-especially-for-first-time-attendees/ Fri, 03 Jan 2020 17:39:00 -0500 Hello all,

Let’s use this thread to gather tips for attending the MLA convention, especially for first-time attendees! For those who have attended previous conventions, what have you learned? What has helped you enjoy and make the most of your time at the convention?

Some years ago, Natalie Houston wrote a guest post for the MLA Convention b…[Read more]

]]> 0 9ff705b781979a0f19051c4a70daf974 Pamela Lothspeich replied to the topic Arranging shared accommodations in the discussion 2020 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/2020-mla-convention/forum/topic/arranging-shared-accommodations/#post-1022831 Thu, 02 Jan 2020 17:12:56 -0500 Hello: I am seeking a roommate to share my Airbnb, a 3-minute walk from the Convention Center, reserved January 9-12. (My old roommate had to cancel.)

]]> 0 fea73f15d75ddb29f7ef8c0a11ac4b20 MLA Commons started the topic Arranging shared accommodations in the discussion 2020 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/2020-mla-convention/forum/topic/arranging-shared-accommodations/ Thu, 02 Jan 2020 16:36:34 -0500 Convention registrants can use this forum thread to identify other participants who may wish to share accommodations. The MLA assumes no responsibility or liability for these arrangements, since a decision to share accommodations is one made by the participant, not the MLA.

Please note that in order to make reservations at MLA rates at the…[Read more]

]]> 0 904d3ffebd137fa86ec747e33778860e Gema Pilar Pérez-Sánchez started the topic Working Group-Affective Appr. to LGBTQI Spanish Culture in the discussion 2020 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/2020-mla-convention/forum/topic/working-group-affective-appr-to-lgbtqi-spanish-culture/ Wed, 01 Jan 2020 20:02:56 -0500 MLA 2020 Seattle Working Group on Affective Approaches to the Study of Contemporary Spanish LGBTQI Culture. This is the SCHEDULE of meetings and presentes at the conference and the ABSTRACTS of papers.Attached please find a detailed scheduled for each of the three MLA Conventions sessions of this working group and the abstracts of each of the p…[Read more]

]]> 0 5bb246cca0c9248a6a285159fc830113 Gema Pilar Pérez-Sánchez started the topic Affective Appr. to the Study of Contemp. Spanish LGBTQI Culture - Schedule MLA in the discussion 2020 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/2020-mla-convention/forum/topic/affective-appr-to-the-study-of-contemp-spanish-lgbtqi-culture-schedule-mla/ Tue, 31 Dec 2019 22:47:45 -0500 MLA 2020 Seattle Working Group on Affective Approaches to the Study of Contemporary Spanish LGBTQI Culture. This is the SCHEDULE of meetings and presentes at the conference and the ABSTRACTS of papers.

Attached please find a detailed scheduled for each of the three MLA Conventions sessions of this working group and the abstracts of each of the p…[Read more]

]]> 0 678b35b65a3fddcec5c35a6c1ee05415 Adolfo Campoy-Cubillo started the topic 2019 Global Hispanophone Panels in the discussion 2020 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/2020-mla-convention/forum/topic/2019-global-hispanophone-panels-2/ Thu, 26 Dec 2019 19:31:52 -0500 The CLCS Global Hispanophone is organizing

129 – Teaching the Humanities through the Global Hispanophone.

    • Thursday, 9 January 20205:15 PM – 6:30 PM

      • WSCC – 205

Description: The global hispanophone practices a mode of inquiry that decenters national narratives and regional ones (Latin America versus Spain). It…[Read more]

]]> 0 d49614a277a5a14799b31ddb6f162750 Magalí Armillas-Tiseyra started the topic MLA2020: Global South panel in the discussion 2020 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/2020-mla-convention/forum/topic/mla2020-global-south-panel-2/ Sat, 21 Dec 2019 16:08:10 -0500 248 – Race, Indigeneity, and Articulations of Sovereignty across the Global South

Friday, 10 January 2020 | 10:15 AM – 11:30 AM | WSCC – Skagit 4

  • “Shame and the Question of Identity in Jacobs and Manzano,” David Luis-Brown, Claremont Graduate U
  • “Becoming Indigenous in Haiti: Land and Labor in Edwidge Danticat’s The Farming of Bones

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]]> 0 31abc3183ffba91c5872f26da9dfdadd Toby Wikström started the topic Panels organized by the Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century French Forums at MLA in the discussion 2020 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/2020-mla-convention/forum/topic/panels-organized-by-the-sixteenth-and-seventeenth-century-french-forums-at-mla-2/ Tue, 03 Dec 2019 20:06:20 -0500 Panels organized by the Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century French Forums at MLA Seattle 2020

THURSDAY, JANUARY 9, 5:15–6:30pm, WSCC – Chelan 5

THE DISCOURSES OF LUXURY IN SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY FRANCE

Presiding: Sylvaine Guyot, Harvard University

Claire B. Goldstein, University of California, Davis, “Luxury Accessories and Body Net…[Read more]

]]> 0 0a10f588420daf8c2c466f2c6ce75b97 Karin Bagnall started the topic Welcome to MLA 2020! in the discussion 2020 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/2020-mla-convention/forum/topic/welcome-to-mla-2020/ Mon, 11 Nov 2019 19:34:19 -0500 A message from the director of convention and events.

]]> 0 8c290aedaa6a6f811d8ee70f727c010b MLA Commons created the group 2020 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1663682/ Tue, 17 Sep 2019 15:20:22 -0400 0