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Sebastian Lecourt started the topic Self-Nominations for Forum Executive Committee in the discussion
TC Anthropology and Literature on MLA Commons 2 weeks, 1 day agoAs 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
TC Anthropology and Literature on MLA Commons 3 years, 3 months agoDear 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
Anthropological Approaches to Literature on MLA Commons 4 years, 4 months agoThe 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
TC 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
Anthropological Approaches to Literature on MLA Commons 5 years, 1 month agoCFP: 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]
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Margaret Morganroth Gullette deposited THE VIOLENCE OF AGEISM (Dr. Dao and Walking While Old) in the group
TC Anthropology and Literature on MLA Commons 5 years, 6 months agoAs 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
Anthropological Approaches to Literature on MLA Commons 5 years, 12 months agoThe eye of the beholder: historical and ethnohistorical data in the study of past maritime communities
Deadline: 8th/Febr/2017
ConvenorsVeronica Walker-Vadillo (University of Oxford)
Christian Supiot (Ohio State University)Short Abstract
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Christian Supiot started the topic CFP: historical and ethnohistorical data in past maritime comm. CHAM Lisbon 2017 in the discussion
Anthropological Approaches to Literature on MLA Commons 6 years agoThe eye of the beholder: historical and ethnohistorical data in the study of past maritime communities
Deadline: 01/02/2017
ConvenorsVeronica 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] -
Christian Supiot started the topic CFP: historical and ethnohistorical data in past maritime comm. CHAM Lisbon 2017 in the discussion
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Zakir Majumder deposited Letters of 1971: The Politics and Poetics of Correspondence in the group
TC Anthropology and Literature on MLA Commons 6 years, 3 months agoThis 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]
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Stefania Irene Sini started the topic Call for Papers. Wolfgang Iser – Towards a literary anthropology in the discussion
Anthropological Approaches to Literature on MLA Commons 6 years, 5 months agoEnthymema 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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Susan Slyomovics deposited Visual Ethnography, Stereotypes, and Photographing Algeria in the group
TC Anthropology and Literature on MLA Commons 6 years, 5 months agoVisual 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
TC Anthropology and Literature on MLA Commons 6 years, 5 months agoBūqālah 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
Anthropological Approaches to Literature on MLA Commons 6 years, 6 months agoChristopher 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]
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Serguei Alex. Oushakine deposited Language and Subjectivity: Theories of Formation. in the group
TC Anthropology and Literature on MLA Commons 6 years, 6 months agoThe 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
TC Anthropology and Literature on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months agoThe humanities must work together with STEM if we are to succeed in articulating relevant, historically informed, and culturally nuanced responses to grand challenges.
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Marina Fedosik started the topic CFP: Adoption and Culture Deadline April 1 in the discussion
Anthropological Approaches to Literature on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months agoCall 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
TC Anthropology and Literature on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months agoThis 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
Anthropological Approaches to Literature on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months agoAnthropology 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
TC Anthropology and Literature on MLA Commons 7 years agoUsing 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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