MLA Commons | CLCS Classical and Modern | Activity https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/classical-and-modern/ Activity feed for the group, CLCS Classical and Modern. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 12:16:38 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 fb341b8fae190e2c93f935005efacd77 Heng Du started the topic Guaranteed panel on premodern temporality in search of respondent/panelist in the forum CLCS Classical and Modern https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/classical-and-modern/forum/topic/guaranteed-panel-on-premodern-temporality-in-search-of-respondent-panelist/ Tue, 25 Mar 2025 14:55:49 -0400 <b>Natural Time and Human Narratives: Competing Temporal Orders in the Premodern World</b><b></b>

As a comparative study of clashing temporal orders in past contexts, this panel aims to challenge the stereotyped conception of the premodern as ponderous and static. Existing papers explore early empires’ endeavors to harness cosmic time to cr…[Read more]

]]> 0 1f517b3eeb9facb5109be93eaedf9b1d Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2025 Forum Delegate Election  in the forum CLCS Classical and Modern https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/classical-and-modern/forum/topic/membership-suggestions-for-2025-forum-delegate-election-3/ Thu, 19 Dec 2024 16:48:24 -0500 Hello!

The next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2025, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets in January 2025. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nominate at least one can…[Read more]

]]> 0 51838340a4701fd9ff5f7490e27576ad Brian Gregory Caraher deposited Tragedy, Euripides, Melodrama: Hamartia, Medea, Liminality in the group CLCS Classical and Modern https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1729105/ Fri, 26 Feb 2021 02:23:55 -0500 This article examines socio-historical dimensions and cultural and dramaturgic implications of the Greek playwright Euripides’ treatment of the myth of Medea. Euripides gives voice to victims of adventurism, aggression and betrayal in the name of ‘reason’ and the ‘state’ or ‘polity.’ Medea constitutes one of the most powerful mythic forces to…[Read more]

]]> 0 2481350bcb2d287bd2681f2a3fb2e798 Brian Gregory Caraher deposited Turning Point '68: From Tet to Chicago, Paris to D.C., Hesiod to "Works & Days" in the group CLCS Classical and Modern https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1716173/ Wed, 11 Nov 2020 02:37:31 -0500 This commemorative and retrospective memoir examines events fifty years ago in the interests of tracking and placing the editorial ideals and dynamics of the journal “Works & Days”, founded in 1978 and published through 2019. The author was one of the original co-founders of the journal, as well as a contributor and member of the editorial board…[Read more]

]]> 0 89f2d388da28feb229d93c3778523921 Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Lie about everything under the sun in the group CLCS Classical and Modern https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1633623/ Fri, 01 Mar 2019 04:10:38 -0500 Short essay exploring how Plato, in “the Republic,” argues that the only ones who can ensure poets see Justice, “see the light,” are philosophers.

]]> 0 10faba78b5c8fbc0fd1aba7c4f2a8046 Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Socrates and his God in the group CLCS Classical and Modern https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1633497/ Thu, 28 Feb 2019 04:01:58 -0500 Exploration of why Socrates “follows” his god, Apollo, in “the Apology.” Three possibilities are considered: compelled to; trying to enable goodness; self-interest.

]]> 0 b6807575ca3f7c3f815808c848043d35 Dennis Looney deposited From Hell to Harlem: African American Responses to Dante’s Divine Comedy from 1850 to Today in the group CLCS Classical and Modern https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1623795/ Thu, 15 Nov 2018 04:08:01 -0500 A course (MA level) I taught at the University of Pittsburgh in 2001, the research for which culminated in my book Freedom Readers (Notre Dame 2011).

]]> 0 c0a0a629b75e33d507826d340877b463 Dennis Looney deposited Scientific Discourse in Italian Literature in the group CLCS Classical and Modern https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1623790/ Thu, 15 Nov 2018 03:58:37 -0500 Version (MA level) of a course I taught in several iterations at the University of Pittsburgh between 1995 and 2006.

]]> 0 8691a60be5cbf152a51e0fbbb77eadb1 Dennis Looney deposited Science and Literature, Italian Style in the group CLCS Classical and Modern https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1623785/ Thu, 15 Nov 2018 03:48:43 -0500 Version (BA level) of a course I taught at the University of Pittsburgh over several iterations between 1995 and 2006. Team taught in 2006 with Peter Machamer, professor in HPS at Pitt.

]]> 0 9dbf38125cb1c1c9a87a7999e70bf801 yasser elhariry deposited CFP // Re-Membering Hospitality in the Mediterranean: Essays in Anglophone Literature, Arts, and Culture in the group CLCS Classical and Modern https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1619127/ Tue, 25 Sep 2018 03:48:43 -0400 Call for Papers for Peer-Reviewed Edited Volume

Re-Membering Hospitality in the Mediterranean:
Essays in Anglophone Literature, Arts, and Culture

Co-edited by yasser elhariry, Isabelle Keller-Privat & Edwige Tamalet Talbayev

]]> 0 39738ac14108014f25c57926517295ef Carol Zuses started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2019 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion Classical Studies and Modern Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/classical-and-modern/forum/topic/membership-suggestions-for-2019-forum-delegate-election-3/ Fri, 21 Sep 2018 12:28:20 -0400 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]

]]> 0 5365f527716c28162a14a3e97388af98 Lisa Zunshine deposited Bibliography for Cognitive Literary Studies in the group CLCS Classical and Modern https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/551532/ Fri, 30 Sep 2016 12:35:11 -0400 a bibliography-in-progress for cognitive literary, film, theater, and media studies

]]> 0 a5b9b8943bcf94e63e41440d996c3237 Hania Nashef deposited Specters of Doom: Saramago's Dystopias in Blindness and The Cave in the group CLCS Classical and Modern https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/546571/ Sat, 02 Apr 2016 15:07:55 -0400 Although Plato’s Utopia or ideal city is the non-place that holds the promise of perfection, it remains the place in which citizens are categorized by a rigid structure. José Saramago, on the other hand, introduces us to a dystopia in his novel Blindness, in which one event leads to the ruin of a city. Yet, as with Plato’s Utopia, a similar…[Read more]

]]> 0 a5a34ccaaffeb98db9518bd29467df41 Jessica Winston started the topic Classics Book Wins Teaching Literature Book Award 2015 in the discussion Classical Studies and Modern Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/classical-studies-and-modern-literature/forum/topic/classics-book-wins-teaching-literature-book-award-2015/ Tue, 01 Sep 2015 18:36:14 -0400 The Idaho State University Department of English and Philosophy is pleased to announce the inaugural 2015 winner of its Teaching Literature Book Award.

The Teaching Literature Book Award is an externally refereed prize, presented biennially by the faculty in the graduate programs in English and the Teaching of English at Idaho State University.…[Read more]

]]> 0 b99bac1c3427a1513634ce2fc4619bf5 Laura E. Savu started the topic Call for Contributions: The Good Life and the Greater Good in a Global Context in the forum Classical Studies and Modern Literature http://mla.hcommons.org/groups/classical-studies-and-modern-literature/forum/topic/call-for-contributions-the-good-life-and-the-greater-good-in-a-global-context-5/ Mon, 30 Jun 2014 16:42:21 -0400 Dear colleagues,

I’m writing to invite you to submit proposals for a collection of essays that is tentatively titled The Good Life and the Greater Good in a Global Context. Please take a look at the brief description of the topic and the research questions below. Feel free to add any other comments and questions and let me know if you are i…[Read more]

]]> 0 d0795aad6cbdd3890e3e746ec5b74f21 Yopie Prins started the topic Respond to our 2014 MLA Panel: "Classical Translation for Vulnerable Times" in the forum Classical Studies and Modern Literature http://mla.hcommons.org/groups/classical-studies-and-modern-literature/forum/topic/respond-to-our-2014-mla-panel-classical-translation-for-vulnerable-times/ Thu, 02 Jan 2014 18:57:37 -0500 The executive committee for the MLA Discussion Group in Classical Studies and Modern Literature invites you to our annual MLA panel at noon on Saturday, January 11, 2014, featuring two eminent classical translators:

CLASSICAL TRANSLATION FOR VULNERABLE TIMES:  HOMER’S ILIAD AND VERGIL’S AENEID

Session 527: 12-1:15 pm, January 11, 2014
Sheraton…[Read more]

]]> 0 6e8b73bf0248ecb8cbdd77c2f52a8e1b Yopie Prins posted an update in the group CLCS Classical and Modern: The executive committee for the MLA Discussion Group in […] https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/53073/ Thu, 02 Jan 2014 18:52:36 -0500 The executive committee for the MLA Discussion Group in Classical Studies and Modern Literature invites you to our annual MLA panel at noon on Saturday, January 11, 2014, featuring two eminent classical translators:

CLASSICAL TRANSLATION FOR VULNERABLE TIMES:
HOMER’S ILIAD AND VERGIL’S AENEID

Session 527: 12-1:15 pm, January 11, 2014
Sheraton I…[Read more]

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