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TC Anthropology and Literature

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  • Profile picture of Sebastian Lecourt

    Sebastian Lecourt started the topic Self-Nominations for Forum Executive Committee in the discussion Group logo of TC Anthropology and LiteratureTC Anthropology and Literature on MLA Commons 2 weeks, 1 day ago

    As the outgoing chair of TC Anthropology and Literature, I would like to invite the membership to offer self-nominations for the Forum’s Executive Committee. Following recent reforms, new EC members are now nominated instead of elected, but suggestions may still be solicited from the membership. Please submit self-nominations to me at…[Read more]

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    Christopher M. Lupke started the topic Forum Exec Ctte Election — Christopher Lupke Statement in the discussion Group logo of TC Anthropology and LiteratureTC Anthropology and Literature on MLA Commons 3 years, 3 months ago

    Dear Colleagues:

    I am running for the TC Anthropology and Literature Forum Exec Ctte and am asking for your vote! Here is a little information about me. As a Chinese specialist, I may be unfamiliar to most of you but I’ve actually been a member of the MLA for 30 years and now am a Life Member. I am Professor of Chinese Cultural Studies and Chair…[Read more]

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    Carol Zuses started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2019 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion Group logo of TC Anthropology and LiteratureAnthropological Approaches to Literature on MLA Commons 4 years, 4 months ago

    The next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2019, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets during the January 2019 convention in Chicago. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nom…[Read more]

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    Gloria Lee McMillan deposited Dirt and Trash in Romeo and Juliet (Social Stratification) in the group Group logo of TC Anthropology and LiteratureTC Anthropology and Literature on MLA Commons 4 years, 5 months ago

    ‘Dirt’ and ‘Trash’ in Shakespeare’s _Romeo and Juliet_:
    Update on the rhetoric of social stratification in R&J…

    Gloria McMillan June 21, 2018

    Shakespeare in early modern period of English culture demonstrates how modern exogamy (voluntarily marrying outside your group) rattles the social stratification structure in modern western societi…[Read more]

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    Gloria Lee McMillan started the topic CFP Panel for Chicago MLA Con in 2019 in the discussion Group logo of TC Anthropology and LiteratureAnthropological Approaches to Literature on MLA Commons 5 years, 1 month ago

    CFP: Chicago MLA Convention Panel

    There has never before been a Rust Belt Discussion Group at the MLA, Not all of the Midwest is de-industrialized. Arcelor-Mittal Steel is producing as much steel in East Chicago as in peak years, but now is owned by an Indian firm.

    This call for participation reaches a number of groups and why your group. Using…[Read more]

  • Profile picture of Margaret Morganroth Gullette

    Margaret Morganroth Gullette deposited THE VIOLENCE OF AGEISM (Dr. Dao and Walking While Old) in the group Group logo of TC Anthropology and LiteratureTC Anthropology and Literature on MLA Commons 5 years, 6 months ago

    As the entire world now knows, Dr. David Dao is the passenger who was dragged off a United Airlines Flight on April 9th, 2017 by Chicago security police who broke his nose, gave him a concussion and smashed two of his teeth. Some media have treated this as a horror perpetrated by a single airline that bullies passengers, or by a business model…[Read more]

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    Christian Supiot started the topic CFP: historical and ethnohistorical data in past maritime comm. EXTENDED in the discussion Group logo of TC Anthropology and LiteratureAnthropological Approaches to Literature on MLA Commons 5 years, 12 months ago

    The eye of the beholder: historical and ethnohistorical data in the study of past maritime communities

    Deadline: 8th/Febr/2017
    Convenors

    Veronica Walker-Vadillo (University of Oxford)
    Christian Supiot (Ohio State University)

    Short Abstract
    In this panel we hope to further explore the role of historical and ethno-historical data in MCL…[Read more]

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    Christian Supiot started the topic CFP: historical and ethnohistorical data in past maritime comm. CHAM Lisbon 2017 in the discussion Group logo of TC Anthropology and LiteratureAnthropological Approaches to Literature on MLA Commons 6 years ago

    The eye of the beholder: historical and ethnohistorical data in the study of past maritime communities

    Deadline: 01/02/2017
    Convenors

    Veronica Walker-Vadillo (University of Oxford)
    Christian Supiot (Ohio State University)

    Short Abstract
    In this panel we hope to further explore the role of historical and ethno-historical data in MCL…[Read more]

  • Profile picture of Christian Supiot

    Christian Supiot started the topic CFP: historical and ethnohistorical data in past maritime comm. CHAM Lisbon 2017 in the discussion Group logo of TC Anthropology and LiteratureAnthropological Approaches to Literature on MLA Commons 6 years ago

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    <h4>Deadline: 01/02/2017</h4>
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    Veronica Walker-Vadillo (University of Oxford)
    Christian Supiot (Ohio State…[Read more]

  • Profile picture of Zakir Majumder

    Zakir Majumder deposited Letters of 1971: The Politics and Poetics of Correspondence in the group Group logo of TC Anthropology and LiteratureTC Anthropology and Literature on MLA Commons 6 years, 3 months ago

    This study is premised upon my experience of translating _Ekattorer Chithi_ (Bengali title) or _Letters of 1971_ (English version of the title), an anthology of letters written by the freedom fighters of the Liberation War of Bangladesh in 1971, into English. Letters of 1971, a collection of letters, diverse as they are in meaning and…[Read more]

  • Profile picture of Stefania Irene Sini

    Stefania Irene Sini started the topic Call for Papers. Wolfgang Iser – Towards a literary anthropology in the discussion Group logo of TC Anthropology and LiteratureAnthropological Approaches to Literature on MLA Commons 6 years, 5 months ago

    Enthymema International journal of literary criticism, literary theory, and philosophy of literature (http://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/enthymema)

    Call for Papers. Wolfgang Iser – Towards a literary anthropology
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    <td>On the intersection of the tenth anniversary of his death (2007) an…[Read more]

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    Susan Slyomovics deposited Visual Ethnography, Stereotypes, and Photographing Algeria in the group Group logo of TC Anthropology and LiteratureTC Anthropology and Literature on MLA Commons 6 years, 5 months ago

    Visual Ethnography, Stereotypes, and Photographing Algeria

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    Susan Slyomovics deposited Algerian Women’s Būqālah Poetry: Oral Literature, Cultural Politics, and Anti-Colonial Resistance in the group Group logo of TC Anthropology and LiteratureTC Anthropology and Literature on MLA Commons 6 years, 5 months ago

    Būqālah refers both to a ceramic pitcher as well as to poems ritually embedded in the traditional, favorite, divinatory pastime associated with women city dwellers of specific Algerian towns such as Blida,Cherchell, Tlemcen, Constantine, and Algiers. This essay considers the shift from orality to a written archive of French and Algerian c…[Read more]

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    Roberta Rosenberg started the topic CFP: Global Women's Conference: Understanding and Preventing Violence in the discussion Group logo of TC Anthropology and LiteratureAnthropological Approaches to Literature on MLA Commons 6 years, 6 months ago

    Christopher Newport University

    College of Arts and Humanities

    Call for Papers

    Global Status of Women and Girls:

    “Understanding, Defining, and Preventing Violence”

    March 24-26, 2017

    to be held at Christopher Newport University, Newport News, Virginia

    This interdisciplinary conference seeks to foster inquiries into the complex and mul…[Read more]

  • Profile picture of Serguei Alex. Oushakine

    Serguei Alex. Oushakine deposited Language and Subjectivity: Theories of Formation. in the group Group logo of TC Anthropology and LiteratureTC Anthropology and Literature on MLA Commons 6 years, 6 months ago

    The purpose of this graduate course is to examine key texts of the twentieth century that established the fundamental connection between language structures and practices on the one hand, and the formation of selfhood and subjectivity, on the other. In particular, the course will focus on theories that emphasize the role of formal elements in…[Read more]

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    Heidi Bostic deposited The Humanities Must Engage Global Grand Challenges in the group Group logo of TC Anthropology and LiteratureTC Anthropology and Literature on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months ago

    The humanities must work together with STEM if we are to succeed in articulating relevant, historically informed, and culturally nuanced responses to grand challenges.

  • Profile picture of Marina Fedosik

    Marina Fedosik started the topic CFP: Adoption and Culture Deadline April 1 in the discussion Group logo of TC Anthropology and LiteratureAnthropological Approaches to Literature on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months ago

    Call for Proposals: Sixth Biennial Conference for the Alliance for the Study of Adoption and Culture ASAC 2016: Building Communities, Changing Discourses

    Crowne Plaza Minneapolis Northstar Downtown Hotel, 27-29 October 2016

    Proposal deadline April 1 2016

    Keynote speakers: Lorraine Dusky, Margaret Jacobs, and Deann Borshay Liem, introducing her…[Read more]

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    Sonia Nora Feder-Lewis deposited Leadership in Literature Course Syllabus in the group Group logo of TC Anthropology and LiteratureTC Anthropology and Literature on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months ago

    This course, designed for a graduate program in education which focuses on leadership, explores works of literature that have had a significant cultural impact and shaped ways in which societies view social issues from the perspective of how leadership is enacted within the texts. For students from disciplines outside of literature studies, this…[Read more]

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    Mark Bracher started the topic CFP: Morality, Moral Philosophy, and the Humanities in the Age of Neurosciencee in the discussion Group logo of TC Anthropology and LiteratureAnthropological Approaches to Literature on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months ago

    Anthropology and Literature Colleagues,

    An international conference, Morality, Moral Philosophy, and the Humanities in the Age of Neuroscience, will be held at Kent State University, Kent, OH, November 17-20, 2016.  Sponsored by KSU’s Neurocognitive Research Program for the Advancement of the Humanities (NRPAH), this conference will explore th…[Read more]

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    Marielle R. Risse deposited Verstehen/ Einfühlen in Arabian Sands (1959): Wilfred Thesiger as Traveler and Anthropologist in the group Group logo of TC Anthropology and LiteratureTC Anthropology and Literature on MLA Commons 7 years ago

    Using Geertz’s Verstehen/ Einfühlen distinction, this essay begins with an overview of the travel writing and anthropological work about Oman, concentrating on the southern region of Dhofar. The author then situates Wilfred Thesiger’s classic Arabian Sands (1959) within these two genres as an example of a writer who is able to show unde…[Read more]

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