MLA Commons | 2021 MLA Convention | Activity https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/2021-mla-convention/ Activity feed for the group, 2021 MLA Convention. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 23:42:46 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 04cc767ad1a7acb182aa62fad2eee59b Julie Grossman started the topic MLA Adaptation Forum Sessions in the discussion 2021 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/2021-mla-convention/forum/topic/mla-adaptation-forum-sessions-2/ Sat, 01 Jan 2022 19:50:31 -0500 The MLA Adaptation Studies Forum is pleased to announce three online panels, the final one co-sponsored with the Translation Studies Forum.  We were sorry to have to cancel the Adaptation/Translation Studies Cash Bar but hope to see you this coming week virtually at the events below (links provided for information on…[Read more]

]]> 0 3546e6c82171f25fd652ebd4f27603e6 Bassam Sidiki started the topic TC Medical Humanities and Health Studies Election 2021 in the discussion 2021 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/2021-mla-convention/forum/topic/tc-medical-humanities-and-health-studies-election-2021-2/ Sun, 10 Oct 2021 03:08:52 -0400 Greetings!

My name is Bassam Sidiki and I am a PhD Candidate in English and Rackham Merit Fellow at the University of Michigan. I also hold an MA in Medical Humanities and Bioethics from Northwestern University. I work at the intersections of health humanities, postcolonial studies, and disability studies. My dissertati0n/first book, “Parasitic…[Read more]

]]> 0 5bd5cf018931d9b772fcb4077a739b66 Julie Grossman started the topic MLA Adaptation Studies Forum CFPs for MLA 2022, Washington DC in the discussion 2021 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/2021-mla-convention/forum/topic/mla-adaptation-studies-forum-cfps-for-mla-2022-washington-dc-2/ Wed, 10 Mar 2021 23:27:03 -0500 Adaptationists! Still time to submit proposals for the three CFPs for MLA 2022 (January 6-9, Washington DC) sponsored by the MLA Adaptation Studies Forum (due March 15)–see attached cfps.

]]> 0 49f64b2a4b8b537ebc35aa476ffa52b0 Elena Machado Sáez started the topic MLA 2022 CFP: "Democracy and the US Latinx Novel" in the discussion 2021 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/2021-mla-convention/forum/topic/mla-2022-cfp-democracy-and-the-us-latinx-novel-2/ Mon, 08 Feb 2021 16:21:02 -0500 “Democracy and the US Latinx Novel” 
Call for Papers
LLC Latina and Latino Forum

Recent events have demonstrated the simultaneous vulnerability and resiliency of democratic projects, and of our cultural frameworks for imagining the norms and processes of those institutions.

This collaborative panel seeks presentations that address…[Read more]

]]> 0 cba728cd346e327607f3d74b2ca566b4 Scott Challener deposited Rehearing “The Negro Speaks of Rivers” in an Era of Global Decolonization: ASK YOUR MAMA’s Jazz Poetics in the group 2021 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1725449/ Fri, 29 Jan 2021 04:16:32 -0500 A brief talk for a roundtable on the centenary of Langston Hughes’s “The Negro Speaks of Rivers.”

]]> 0 8a01cda993c7ef1ccf9841d9b1729173 Anne Donlon edited the file: Want to upload your MLA 2021 materials to the CORE repository? in 2021 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1724168/ Wed, 20 Jan 2021 20:38:59 -0500 0 012edda0a0432ddd469cd1f76ad3ddcf Briana Martino deposited And None of it Fits Inside Panels: Graphic Silence in Graphic Medicine in the group 2021 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1722508/ Sun, 10 Jan 2021 03:48:43 -0500 Lightning Talk from Session 393: Keywords and Keyimages in Graphic Medicine

]]> 0 a0153d8ef9a499d897c3c7ab016d2cef Kim Adams started the topic High Theory Happy Hour in the discussion 2021 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/2021-mla-convention/forum/topic/high-theory-happy-hour/ Sat, 09 Jan 2021 20:58:54 -0500 High Theory is a podcast that asks simple questions about difficult concepts. 
We invite you to a happy hour this evening to gossip about the conference and plan how critical theory can save (or destroy) the world.

Join us any time between 7 and 8pm at https://nyu.zoom.us/j/93233776393

Please visit our website, hightheory.net to learn more…[Read more]

]]> 0 bb2276524d00a68c8c253d8d8b69138e Elena Machado Sáez started the topic Tonight at 7:15pm: Join us for joyful conversation and community! in the discussion 2021 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/2021-mla-convention/forum/topic/tonight-at-715pm-join-us-for-joyful-conversation-and-community/ Sat, 09 Jan 2021 20:49:44 -0500 Dear Colleagues,

Join us this evening for our much-anticipated multi-forum reception, held via Zoom from 7:15-8:30 p.m!

548 Social Event Arranged by the Forums LLC Latina and Latino, Chicana and Chicano, Puerto Rican, Cuban and Cuban Diasporic, Literatures of the United States in Languages Other Than English, African American, Caribbean, and…[Read more]

]]> 0 642c2189f26f7397172d5cf67c350af6 Elena Machado Sáez started the topic Tonight: Join us for joyful conversation in the discussion 2021 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/2021-mla-convention/forum/topic/tonight-join-us-for-joyful-conversation/ Sat, 09 Jan 2021 20:43:20 -0500 Dear Colleagues,

Good afternoon. We are so excited that this evening we are holding the annual multi-forum reception. It will be held via zoom from 7:15-8:30 p.m. We hope that you might write to your forum list-serves and/or post to your H-Commons page a reminder of the event. It is listed as event 548 in the MLA Meetings Calendar. Elena M…[Read more]

]]> 0 356ea6a3c1535aefcf7da1e97b572520 Kim Adams deposited High Theory Podcast Invitation 2 in the group 2021 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1722359/ Sat, 09 Jan 2021 03:49:05 -0500 We are hosting a happy hour to celebrate our podcast “High Theory” in conjunction with the MLA conference.
We cannot buy you a drink, but we will charm you on Zoom with silly games like theory Pictionary.
Please join us on Saturday, January 9, any time between 7 and 8 pm EST.
RSVP to info@hightheory.net or visit http://www.hightheory.net to learn…[Read more]

]]> 0 a460379bb1e50f8cf7aecbff43522523 anna doyle deposited Paradjanov Tallk, POetics of the Minor, Draft in the group 2021 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1722357/ Sat, 09 Jan 2021 03:48:43 -0500 Paradjanov poetics of the minor – From Deleuze to Georges Bataille

]]> 0 aa37a0badae603d31ab95f14000d5a9f Kim Adams deposited High Theory Podcast Invitation in the group 2021 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1722136/ Fri, 08 Jan 2021 03:49:22 -0500 High Theory is a podcast that takes on difficult ideas from the academy with irreverence. We invite you to join us for a MLA happy hour on Saturday January 9, from 7-8pm. We would love to hear your podcast ideas! Email us at info@hightheory.net or RSVP for a Zoom link on our website hightheory.net

]]> 0 b99d3a30ce4e897f1a6112cb0648af90 Anne Donlon deposited Using MLA Commons and Humanities Commons to Tell the Story of Your Work (MLA 2021) in the group 2021 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1722134/ Fri, 08 Jan 2021 03:49:04 -0500 This presentation introduces ways to use MLA Commons and Humanities Commons to curate your online presence, increase the impact of your scholarship, and tell the story of your work. It introduces profiles, sites, groups, and the CORE repository, highlighting the ways members can use these networks for collaboration, discussion, and experimentation…[Read more]

]]> 0 49323e500ab880232603a0c366e4f49c Anoff Nicholas Cobblah deposited George Romanes and Recreational Interdisciplinarity: Why We “Find Recreation in Each Other’s Labours” in the group 2021 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1722133/ Fri, 08 Jan 2021 03:48:46 -0500 In 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]

]]> 0 f756f717bfde6b4cea0254ec079d3aa9 Elena Machado Sáez started the topic Today at MLA 2021: “Afro-Latinx Stories” and “Latinx Affects” Panels  in the discussion 2021 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/2021-mla-convention/forum/topic/today-at-mla-2021-afro-latinx-stories-and-latinx-affects-panels/ Thu, 07 Jan 2021 14:47:23 -0500 Dear 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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]]> 0 67cda6968c2fa221e18d3099abc3015a Elena Machado Sáez posted an update in the group 2021 MLA Convention: MLA 2021: “Afro-Latinx Stories” and “Latinx Affects” Panels […] https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1722012/ Thu, 07 Jan 2021 14:33:19 -0500 MLA 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]

]]> 0 09aec1c05d0db24e9bf8062ba1689756 Amanda Caleb deposited "Baby is as big as a guinea pig": The (non)heteronormative Experience of Pregnancy in the group 2021 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1721969/ Thu, 07 Jan 2021 03:48:43 -0500 This 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_.

]]> 0 52d0bc21630e7abed5972a28f06c9f38 Michelle Rabe deposited Getting the Yips: Health and Superability Thrown a Curve in The Art of Fielding in the group 2021 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1721812/ Wed, 06 Jan 2021 03:50:05 -0500 In 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]

]]> 0 771514d3abec13601417849ccffbd1f4 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 https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1721808/ Wed, 06 Jan 2021 03:48:43 -0500 In 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]

]]> 0 6a53fa21f18ae7146e0d13867adff996 Rebecca Colesworthy deleted the file: Thinking Forward: The Future of 20/21 Studies draft remarks from 2021 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1721803/ Wed, 06 Jan 2021 02:47:33 -0500 0 54add59c1f2a9a3ba3f2203d1fa36188 Caterina Agostini deposited 2021 MLA Poster Session: Presentation Transcript in the group 2021 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1721605/ Tue, 05 Jan 2021 03:48:43 -0500 This is the transcript for my video presentation, in which I showcase my Digital Humanities project on Galileo’s letters.

]]> 0 bd77e36e2ee04ec7eac181a256ba7ded Janine M. Utell started the topic Council of Editors of Learned Journals Mentoring Event: Chat with an Editor in the discussion 2021 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/2021-mla-convention/forum/topic/council-of-editors-of-learned-journals-mentoring-event-chat-with-an-editor/ Sun, 20 Dec 2020 19:08:54 -0500 Sharing 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]

]]> 0 ac6670a6360300214c4c05a56810b655 Elena Machado Sáez started the topic MLA 2021: “Afro-Latinx Stories” and “Latinx Affects” Panels (Jan 7) in the discussion 2021 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/2021-mla-convention/forum/topic/mla-2021-afro-latinx-stories-and-latinx-affects-panels-jan-7-2/ Sat, 19 Dec 2020 02:47:49 -0500 Dear 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…

[Read more]

]]> 0 3c90d300ad5ea4904736d33d26824e29 Stacey Courtney uploaded the file: Want to upload your MLA 2021 materials to the CORE repository? to 2021 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1720075/ Wed, 16 Dec 2020 15:58:54 -0500 Learn 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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