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East Asian Languages and Literatures after 1900

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  • Profile picture of Nick Admussen

    Nick Admussen started the topic CFP: Translations of Song, MLA 2022 (Washington, D. C.) in the discussion Group logo of East Asian Languages and Literatures after 1900East Asian Languages and Literatures after 1900 on MLA Commons 1 year, 11 months ago

    Hi everyone,

    The Ming-Qing forum and the Modern and Contemporary Chinese forum are collaborating to offer a panel on the translation of song. Here’s the CFP:

    We invite papers that explore how song forms from early modern and modern China have been/can be translated in ways that engage with their extant or lost musical dimensions. Contact…[Read more]

  • Profile picture of Joanne Bernardi

    Joanne Bernardi started the topic CFP Decolonial & Indigenous Interventions in Japanophone Media/Lit 1900-present in the discussion Group logo of East Asian Languages and Literatures after 1900East Asian Languages and Literatures after 1900 on MLA Commons 1 year, 11 months ago

    CFP MLA 2022 – LLC Japanese since 1900 Forum (Guaranteed panel)

    This panel invites papers that apply approaches in indigenous studies and epistemologies to the study of study Japanophone cultural, intellectual, and aesthetic productions. Given the long history and global legacy of Japanese colonialisms and settler colonialisms, this panel…[Read more]

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    Melek Ortabasi started the topic CFP: D’Annunzio as World Literature (MLA Symposium) in the discussion Group logo of East Asian Languages and Literatures after 1900East Asian Languages and Literatures after 1900 on MLA Commons 2 years, 6 months ago

    Hi everyone,

    From a colleague. If interested, please contact Elisa.Segnini@glasgow.ac.uk

    We are organizing a project titled ‘D’Annunzio as World Literature’, which includes a panel at the MLA symposium in Glasgow (June 17-19 2021, https://symposium.mla.org/glasgow/being-hospitable/?utm_campaign=symposiumsubjuly20&utm_medium=email&utm_sour…[Read more]

  • Profile picture of Christopher Hill

    Christopher Hill deposited Figures of the World: The Naturalist Novel and Transnational Form in the group Group logo of East Asian Languages and Literatures after 1900East Asian Languages and Literatures after 1900 on MLA Commons 2 years, 6 months ago

    Figures of the World: The Naturalist Novel and Transnational Form overturns Eurocentric genealogies and globalizing generalizations about “world literature” by examining the complex, contradictory history of naturalist fiction. Christopher Laing Hill traces the history of naturalist fiction from its emergence in France in the 1860s through its spr…[Read more]

  • Profile picture of Brian Bernards

    Brian Bernards started the topic CFP: Multisensory Dissent & Alliance Building – Society of Sinophone Studies in the discussion Group logo of East Asian Languages and Literatures after 1900East Asian Languages and Literatures after 1900 on MLA Commons 2 years, 6 months ago

    Call For Papers: https://www.sinophonestudies.org/cfp

    The Inaugural Biennial Conference of the Society of Sinophone Studies

    Multisensory Dissent & Alliance Building

    Friday-Saturday, April 23-24, 2021

    University of Southern California*

    Los Angeles, CA

    The COVID-19 pandemic has wrought disproportionately negative effects on…[Read more]

  • Profile picture of Brian Bernards

    Brian Bernards started the topic MLA Toronto 2021 CFP: Archipelagic Studies in Asian Am & SE Asian Lit in the discussion Group logo of East Asian Languages and Literatures after 1900East Asian Languages and Literatures after 1900 on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months ago

    2) Archipelagic Studies in Asian American and Southeast Asian Literature
    We invite papers focused on the archipelagic relations between Asian American and South East Asian literary studies, and especially attuned to migration, environment, settler colonialism, and radical friction. Please submit 300-word abstract and 1-page CV.

    Deadline for…[Read more]

  • Profile picture of Brian Bernards

    Brian Bernards started the topic MLA Toronto 2020 CFP: Authoritarianism & SE Asia in the discussion Group logo of East Asian Languages and Literatures after 1900East Asian Languages and Literatures after 1900 on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months ago

    CFP: “Authoritarianism and Southeast Asia”

    Modern Language Association Annual Convention

    January 7–10, 2021, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

    Presidential Theme: “Persistence”

    The recent prominence of a global “New Right” has upended the progressivist teleology that, at the end of the Cold War, located the political and economic regime of the…[Read more]

  • Profile picture of Tiffany Yun-Chu Tsai

    Tiffany Yun-Chu Tsai started the topic CFP: The Horror of Capitalist Modernity: the Vampire, Zombie, and Cannibal in the discussion Group logo of East Asian Languages and Literatures after 1900East Asian Languages and Literatures after 1900 on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months ago

    The Horror of Capitalist Modernity: the Vampire, Zombie, and Cannibal 

    Session Proposal (MLA 2021 – Toronto)

    Tiffany Yun-Chu Tsai

    The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina

    “Capital,” Marx tells us, “is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks;” for a ce…[Read more]

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    Joanne Bernardi started the topic Call for Candidates: Japanese since 1900 Executive Committee Election in the discussion Group logo of East Asian Languages and Literatures after 1900East Asian Languages and Literatures after 1900 on MLA Commons 3 years ago

    The Japanese since 1900 forum’s executive committee seeks nominations, including self nominations, for candidates and alternate candidates to stand for election on the committee. This year we need to fill two positions (term 2020-2025 and 2021-2026) so please consider self-nominating as a way to help promote East Asian presence in MLA. Please c…[Read more]

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    Brian Bernards started the topic SE Asian CLCS Forum-Hosted Happy Hour: Fri, Jan 10 at the MLA in the discussion Group logo of East Asian Languages and Literatures after 1900East Asian Languages and Literatures after 1900 on MLA Commons 3 years, 1 month ago

    Members and friends of the Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic CLCS MLA Forum:

    Our forum invites you to a MLA 2020 Happy Hour at 9pm on Friday, January 10 at the Frolik Kitchen + Cocktails, which is located on the 5th floor of the Motif Seattle Hotel (3 blocks from the Washington State Convention Center). Come mingle and decompress…[Read more]

  • Profile picture of Alexa Alice Joubin

    Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “Ophelia Unbound in Asian Performances.” Actes des congrès de la Société française Shakespeare 37 (2019): 1-12 in the group Group logo of East Asian Languages and Literatures after 1900East Asian Languages and Literatures after 1900 on MLA Commons 3 years, 7 months ago

    Asian directors leverage Shakespeare’s own propensity to undermine dominant ideologies of gender—notably through the Ophelia figure—in their effort to renew Asian performance traditions. How do Shakespeare and modern directors talk to each other across cultural and historical divides? How does Ophelia become “unbound” through supraling…[Read more]

  • Profile picture of Alexa Alice Joubin

    Alexa Alice Joubin deposited Race in the group Group logo of East Asian Languages and Literatures after 1900East Asian Languages and Literatures after 1900 on MLA Commons 3 years, 11 months ago

    “Race” offers a compelling study of ideas related to race throughout history. Its breadth of coverage, both geographically and temporally, provides readers with an expansive, global understanding of the term from the classical period onwards: Intersections of Race and Gender // Race and Social Theory Identity // Ethnicity, and Immigration //…[Read more]

  • Profile picture of Alexa Alice Joubin

    Alexa Alice Joubin deposited “Race and the Epistemologies of Otherness.” chapter 5 of Race by Alexa Alice Joubin and Martin Orkin. New Critical Idiom series (London: Routledge, 2019), pp. 193-227 in the group Group logo of East Asian Languages and Literatures after 1900East Asian Languages and Literatures after 1900 on MLA Commons 3 years, 11 months ago

    This chapter examines narratives that reflect the impact of epistemologies of otherness upon our understanding of race. Race intersects with other social factors such as class, cultural citizenship, and gender. This chapter draws on case studies of artists in exile or diaspora who interrogate their own identities, because exile brings racial…[Read more]

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    Brian Bernards started the topic MLA 2020 CFP: “Transmedia Engagement and the Performance of Place in SE Asia” in the discussion Group logo of East Asian Languages and Literatures after 1900East Asian Languages and Literatures after 1900 on MLA Commons 3 years, 12 months ago

    MLA 2020 (Jan 9-12, Seattle) CFP for Special Session sponsored by the CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic Forum:

    “Transmedia Engagement and the Performance of Place in Southeast Asia”

    In Transmedia Television: Audiences, New Media, and Daily Life (2011: 1-2), Elizabeth Evans defines transmediality as “the increasingly p…[Read more]

  • Profile picture of Orna Shaughnessy

    Orna Shaughnessy started the topic Social Hour for East Asianists Thurs night 1/3/19 – *free drinks* free books* in the discussion Group logo of East Asian Languages and Literatures after 1900East Asian Languages and Literatures after 1900 on MLA Commons 4 years, 1 month ago

    Hope to see everyone there! Please share this with all your colleagues!

    *First 60 people get a free drink ticket, and everyone has a chance at the door-prize raffle for new books.*

    177: Social Hour for East Asianists, Hosted by LLC East Asian, LLC Japanese since 1900, LLC Ming and Qing Chinese, LLC Modern and Contemporary Chinese, LLC…[Read more]

  • Profile picture of Brian Bernards

    Brian Bernards started the topic Job Announcement: Asst Prof. in Transpacific Asian American Studies, USC in the discussion Group logo of East Asian Languages and Literatures after 1900East Asian Languages and Literatures after 1900 on MLA Commons 4 years, 5 months ago

    Dept. of American Studies & Ethnicity

    University of Southern California

    Los Angeles, California 

    The Department of American Studies & Ethnicity, Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, University of Southern California, in Los Angeles, California, is seeking one tenure-track assistant professor in the field of…[Read more]

  • Profile picture of Melek Ortabasi

    Melek Ortabasi started the topic ADCPL CFP MLA 2019: “Transacting Comparative Studies” in the discussion Group logo of East Asian Languages and Literatures after 1900East Asian Languages and Literatures after 1900 on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months ago

    Hi all, I’m on the board of the Association of Departments and Programs of Comparative Literature and I’m posting on behalf of the chair, Thomas Beebee, to publicize our CFP for MLA 2019. Here it is, inspired by the Presidential Theme of “Textual Transactions”:
    Transacting Comparative Studies with other Disciplines and Units
    Allied Organization:…[Read more]

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    Brian Bernards posted an update in the group Group logo of East Asian Languages and Literatures after 1900East Asian Languages and Literatures after 1900 on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months ago

    CFP for MLA 2019 Special Session sponsored by the CLCS Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic Forum (please excuse the cross-forum advertising):

    Southeast Asian Textual Translations and Transactions

    Each year, the Southeast Asian Writers Award (S.E.A. Write) is awarded to an author from each of the member states of ASEAN. The awardees are…[Read more]

  • Profile picture of Jonathan Abel

    Jonathan Abel posted an update in the group Group logo of East Asian Languages and Literatures after 1900East Asian Languages and Literatures after 1900 on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months ago

    CFP:
    Social Media, Literary Transaction, and Nationalism in East Asian Literature

    An LLC EAST ASIAN Forum Session at the next MLA convention in Chicago, January 3-6, 2019

    How have Asian digital networks (e.g. Line, Weibo, and KakaoTalk) impacted the circulation of poetry and prose? And do these new literary transactions correlate with…[Read more]

  • Profile picture of Lisa Zunshine

    Lisa Zunshine deposited “’Think What You’re Doing, Or You’ll Only Make an Ugly Reputation for Yourself’: Chin P’ing Mei (金瓶梅), Lying, and Literary History” in the group Group logo of East Asian Languages and Literatures after 1900East Asian Languages and Literatures after 1900 on MLA Commons 5 years ago

    How does our daily mindreading—that is, our attribution and misattribution of mental states (such as thoughts, feelings, and intentions) to ourselves and others—differ from the mindreading we engage in when we read fiction? I have argued elsewhere (e.g., “Secret Life of Fiction,” PMLA, 2015) that drama, novels, and narrative poetry play and exp…[Read more]

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