MLA Commons | East Asian Languages and Literatures after 1900 | Activity https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/east-asian-languages-and-literatures-after-1900/ Activity feed for the group, East Asian Languages and Literatures after 1900. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 22:14:27 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 2baa57b6e00d3eb86153d58e633ba620 Brian Bernards started the topic AAS 2024 Seattle CFP: Verge-sponsored panel on Inter-Asia Intermediality in the discussion East Asian Languages and Literatures after 1900 https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/east-asian-languages-and-literatures-after-1900/forum/topic/aas-2024-seattle-cfp-verge-sponsored-panel-on-inter-asia-intermediality-2/ Wed, 19 Jul 2023 20:03:04 -0400

AAS 2024: Call for Papers for Verge-sponsored Panels


Inter-Asia Intermediality: The Transboundary Production of Global Asian Mediascapes
Organizers: Brian Bernards (bernards@usc.edu) and Elmo Gonzaga…[Read more]

]]> 0 a0e6d6b223638900d352f658faadae7f Nick Admussen started the topic CFP: Translations of Song, MLA 2022 (Washington, D. C.) in the discussion East Asian Languages and Literatures after 1900 https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/east-asian-languages-and-literatures-after-1900/forum/topic/cfp-translations-of-song-mla-2022-washington-d-c-2/ Thu, 04 Mar 2021 15:11:56 -0500 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]

]]> 0 f050771b7d424cc5b96470117dcdf3b6 Joanne Bernardi started the topic CFP Decolonial & Indigenous Interventions in Japanophone Media/Lit 1900-present in the discussion East Asian Languages and Literatures after 1900 https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/east-asian-languages-and-literatures-after-1900/forum/topic/cfp-decolonial-indigenous-interventions-in-japanophone-media-lit-1900-present-2/ Mon, 22 Feb 2021 08:38:58 -0500 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]

]]> 0 c1c58c2f697d643dc8e22a053bd129cb Melek Ortabasi started the topic CFP: D'Annunzio as World Literature (MLA Symposium) in the discussion East Asian Languages and Literatures after 1900 https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/east-asian-languages-and-literatures-after-1900/forum/topic/cfp-dannunzio-as-world-literature-mla-symposium-2/ Wed, 22 Jul 2020 20:35:15 -0400 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]

]]> 0 2f739d3ecf5f2f5b33660c5fd89200c5 Christopher Hill deposited Figures of the World: The Naturalist Novel and Transnational Form in the group East Asian Languages and Literatures after 1900 https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1701599/ Wed, 22 Jul 2020 03:55:31 -0400 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]

]]> 0 18a22dee100bd026adc58d0febe70cda Brian Bernards started the topic CFP: Multisensory Dissent & Alliance Building - Society of Sinophone Studies in the discussion East Asian Languages and Literatures after 1900 https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/east-asian-languages-and-literatures-after-1900/forum/topic/cfp-multisensory-dissent-alliance-building-society-of-sinophone-studies-2/ Tue, 14 Jul 2020 19:19:52 -0400 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]

]]> 0 1dc29abd04b5f1bc98854cc30b8da411 Brian Bernards started the topic MLA Toronto 2021 CFP: Archipelagic Studies in Asian Am & SE Asian Lit in the discussion East Asian Languages and Literatures after 1900 https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/east-asian-languages-and-literatures-after-1900/forum/topic/mla-toronto-2021-cfp-archipelagic-studies-in-asian-am-se-asian-lit-2/ Wed, 04 Mar 2020 21:02:51 -0500 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]

]]> 0 8ef4dcba2db3fbe7b1010f5a465a41a0 Brian Bernards started the topic MLA Toronto 2020 CFP: Authoritarianism & SE Asia in the discussion East Asian Languages and Literatures after 1900 https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/east-asian-languages-and-literatures-after-1900/forum/topic/mla-toronto-2020-cfp-authoritarianism-se-asia-2/ Wed, 04 Mar 2020 20:57:39 -0500 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]

]]> 0 fc89b1d6a879d8c082e7a26af4c62959 Tiffany Yun-Chu Tsai started the topic CFP: The Horror of Capitalist Modernity: the Vampire, Zombie, and Cannibal in the discussion East Asian Languages and Literatures after 1900 https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/east-asian-languages-and-literatures-after-1900/forum/topic/cfp-the-horror-of-capitalist-modernity-the-vampire-zombie-and-cannibal-2/ Wed, 04 Mar 2020 04:06:28 -0500 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]

]]> 0 200e091d2ce7f9c5a7443baad1c7e448 Joanne Bernardi started the topic Call for Candidates: Japanese since 1900 Executive Committee Election in the discussion East Asian Languages and Literatures after 1900 https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/east-asian-languages-and-literatures-after-1900/forum/topic/call-for-candidates-japanese-since-1900-executive-committee-election-2/ Wed, 22 Jan 2020 14:36:23 -0500 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]

]]> 0 6b25960dd38d5dd036a8018e8f0e9262 Brian Bernards started the topic SE Asian CLCS Forum-Hosted Happy Hour: Fri, Jan 10 at the MLA in the discussion East Asian Languages and Literatures after 1900 https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/east-asian-languages-and-literatures-after-1900/forum/topic/se-asian-clcs-forum-hosted-happy-hour-fri-jan-10-at-the-mla-2/ Sun, 15 Dec 2019 22:58:56 -0500 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]

]]> 0 dee409187ab86abf3c26ba6ac7713a8d Alexa Alice Joubin deposited "Ophelia Unbound in Asian Performances." Actes des congrès de la Société française Shakespeare 37 (2019): 1-12 in the group East Asian Languages and Literatures after 1900 https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1642789/ Wed, 19 Jun 2019 03:48:45 -0400 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]

]]> 0 03c9ae213ae5e790d685307fae009ad8 Alexa Alice Joubin deposited Race in the group East Asian Languages and Literatures after 1900 https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1631619/ Mon, 11 Feb 2019 04:09:28 -0500 “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]

]]> 0 733774d6886d013026521afde86b39fe 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 East Asian Languages and Literatures after 1900 https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1631614/ Mon, 11 Feb 2019 04:03:12 -0500 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]

]]> 0 bd556cde5cb56344ee40e4c8a6c983d8 Brian Bernards started the topic MLA 2020 CFP: "Transmedia Engagement and the Performance of Place in SE Asia" in the discussion East Asian Languages and Literatures after 1900 https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/east-asian-languages-and-literatures-after-1900/forum/topic/mla-2020-cfp-transmedia-engagement-and-the-performance-of-place-in-se-asia-2/ Thu, 07 Feb 2019 21:21:02 -0500 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]

]]> 0 fa097efee7cca685e9fcfad7da983eb3 Orna Shaughnessy started the topic Social Hour for East Asianists Thurs night 1/3/19 - *free drinks* free books* in the discussion East Asian Languages and Literatures after 1900 https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/east-asian-languages-and-literatures-after-1900/forum/topic/social-hour-for-east-asianists-thurs-night-1-3-19-free-drinks-free-books-2/ Thu, 20 Dec 2018 17:01:06 -0500 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]

]]> 0 e800d4d37158a0af6b68712f458e611e Brian Bernards started the topic Job Announcement: Asst Prof. in Transpacific Asian American Studies, USC in the discussion East Asian Languages and Literatures after 1900 https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/east-asian-languages-and-literatures-after-1900/forum/topic/job-announcement-asst-prof-in-transpacific-asian-american-studies-usc-2/ Fri, 31 Aug 2018 22:16:46 -0400 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]

]]> 0 33ea8e93ed0e205d2f391f7ef31738de Melek Ortabasi started the topic ADCPL CFP MLA 2019: "Transacting Comparative Studies" in the discussion East Asian Languages and Literatures after 1900 https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/east-asian-languages-and-literatures-after-1900/forum/topic/adcpl-cfp-mla-2019-transacting-comparative-studies-3/ Wed, 07 Mar 2018 08:15:41 -0500 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]

]]> 0 f12877e44c9b559ce213170a7c06449b Brian Bernards posted an update in the group East Asian Languages and Literatures after 1900: CFP for MLA 2019 Special Session sponsored by the CLCS […] https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1601120/ Sun, 18 Feb 2018 01:07:41 -0500 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]

]]> 0 f160e54e24b670fb6cde44f738d31740 Jonathan Abel posted an update in the group East Asian Languages and Literatures after 1900: CFP: Social Media, Literary Transaction, and Nationalism in […] https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1600618/ Tue, 13 Feb 2018 12:46:26 -0500 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]

]]> 0 da5c68d2436bf52dd5322f04938248c9 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 East Asian Languages and Literatures after 1900 https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1597198/ Mon, 15 Jan 2018 04:06:41 -0500 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]

]]> 0 d2180a6c6be7bcca06f389146f4f9881 Lisa Zunshine deposited “From the "From the Social to the Literary: Approaching Cao Xueqin’s The Story of the Stone (Honglou meng 紅樓夢) from a Cognitive Perspective" in the group East Asian Languages and Literatures after 1900 https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1597192/ Mon, 15 Jan 2018 03:53:58 -0500 This essay draws on cognitive literary theory to offer new ways of reading Cao Xueqin’s classic novel Dream of the Red Chamber (紅樓夢) aka The Story of the Stone.

]]> 0 2b7f7022fbb8823a516ad7edfe6675b8 Alexa Alice Joubin deposited "Romeo and Juliet, Allegory, and the Ethnic Vocabularies of History." Shakespeare Studies 46 (2008): 6-19 in the group East Asian Languages and Literatures after 1900 https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1583146/ Wed, 27 Sep 2017 20:09:58 -0400 Readings of literary texts are always shaped by a reader’s particular location and knowledge, but those locations are themselves defined by their histories. Romeo and Juliet has inspired new sets of allegorical vocabularies of history in locations without confrontations with the English heritage in colonial contexts. Why is the reading of a c…[Read more]

]]> 0 b449f810fa1ed4969fa361199619a7d7 Alexa Joubin deposited “Shakespeare on Film in Asia.” Chapter 12 of The Shakespearean World, ed. Jill L. Levenson and Robert Ormsby (London: Routledge, 2017), pp. 225-240 in the group East Asian Languages and Literatures after 1900 https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1565989/ Tue, 04 Apr 2017 20:10:01 -0400 Shakespearean tragedies and comedies have been adapted to the silver screen in India, Malaysia, Tibet, Hong Kong, Singapore, China, and Japan. How do Shakespeare and modern directors talk to each other across cultural and historical divides? Why are particular strategies used or themes emphasized? How are pre-linguistic structures of spectacle and…[Read more]

]]> 0 6bf88d0162d98943a9aa6c1661ac1c7e Alexa Huang deposited The Paradox of Female Agency: Ophelia and East Asian Sensibilities in the group East Asian Languages and Literatures after 1900 https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1564140/ Wed, 08 Mar 2017 20:30:16 -0500 There are three main East Asian approaches to interpreting Ophelia. The first is informed by the fascination with and reaction against the Victorian pictorialization of Ophelia, especially John Everett Millais’s famous Ophelia (1851), that emphasized, as Kimberly Rhodes describes, her “pathos, innocence, and beauty rather than the unseemly det…[Read more]

]]> 0 3b1b491ce1a2c01e9490255563353395 Joanne Bernardi started the topic CFP Digital Humanities Approaches to Japanese Media 2018 in the discussion East Asian Languages and Literatures after 1900 https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/east-asian-languages-and-literatures-after-1900/forum/topic/cfp-digital-humanities-approaches-to-japanese-media-2018/ Fri, 03 Feb 2017 06:35:35 -0500 Announcing CFP “East Asian Languages and Literature after 1900”

LLC Japanese since 1900 session CFP, MLA NY 2018 just posted:
Digital Humanities Approaches to Japanese Media

Papers on the application of DH techniques to nontextual materials from or concerning Japan, including film, art, sound. 250 word abstract and CV by 15 March 2017

Joanne…[Read more]

]]> 0 5ae966b2e55d35fb8b1f3cb50068de1a Orna Shaughnessy started the topic Thank you to De Gruyter Mouton for supporting Asian Studies at the MLA in the discussion East Asian Languages and Literatures after 1900 https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/east-asian-languages-and-literatures-after-1900/forum/topic/thank-you-to-de-gruyter-mouton-for-supporting-asian-studies-at-the-mla-2/ Tue, 10 Jan 2017 18:15:20 -0500 Thank you to De Gruyter Mouton for supporting Asian Studies at the MLA through a generous donation to the East Asia Reception!

De Gruyter Mouton give-away

]]> 0 9db054cd9bb0fe54bfdaa72f9549321d Orna Shaughnessy started the topic East Asian Reception photos in the discussion East Asian Languages and Literatures after 1900 https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/east-asian-languages-and-literatures-after-1900/forum/topic/east-asian-reception-photos-2/ Tue, 10 Jan 2017 17:53:09 -0500 Thank you, everyone, for the hugely successful East Asia Reception at the MLA in Philadelphia 2017!

]]> 0 13e50ca44d74a6d61ee00591f8651449 Melek Ortabasi started the topic Thank you everyone! in the discussion East Asian Languages and Literatures after 1900 https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/east-asian-languages-and-literatures-after-1900/forum/topic/thank-you-everyone-2/ Tue, 10 Jan 2017 05:41:31 -0500 Hi all,

Asian-themed panels were well-attended, and the Saturday night reception was a hit! Thank you all for supporting each other. Let’s build on this momentum for MLA 2018.

We have a lot of ideas that will be shared soon, but in the meantime, if there is someone who’d like to take over organizing another reception for next year, contact…[Read more]

]]> 0 7eb42ffe861424077a175a0fd85d0d5e Nathan Faries started the topic Ming/Qing China Forum Meeting Tonight: ALL WELCOME! in the discussion East Asian Languages and Literatures after 1900 https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/east-asian-languages-and-literatures-after-1900/forum/topic/mingqing-china-forum-meeting-tonight-all-welcome-2/ Fri, 06 Jan 2017 19:51:58 -0500 The Ming/Qing China Forum is meeting tonight, Friday, 7:30 p.m. in Marriott 303.

ALL ARE WELCOME, whether you are officially in the Forum or not!

If you are interested in seeing more China sessions at the MLA please come contribute to the conversation. Thanks!

Here are some topics we’ll discuss:

What is the ideal schedule for…[Read more]

]]> 0 ff0900c6481c954a26b2f19b172bf565 Michael Emmerich started the topic Grad and Junior Faculty Subsidies for "Empire of Others" @ UCLA in the discussion East Asian Languages and Literatures after 1900 https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/east-asian-languages-and-literatures-after-1900/forum/topic/grad-and-junior-faculty-subsidies-for-empire-of-others-ucla/ Wed, 04 Jan 2017 02:57:33 -0500 Dear Forum Members,

UCLA and Waseda University are pleased to announce a limited number of SUBSIDIES to cover most or all of the cost of attending a major international symposium titled “EMPIRE OF OTHERS” to be held at UCLA on March 20–22, 2017. The second in a series of annual symposia sponsored by the Tadashi Yanai Initiative for Globa…[Read more]

]]> 0 deaf2d23408a67e555e68083ae0f9815 Charlotte Eubanks started the topic MLA 2017/ Free food and drink to celebrate East Asia at the MLA! in the discussion East Asian Languages and Literatures after 1900 https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/east-asian-languages-and-literatures-after-1900/forum/topic/mla-2017-free-food-and-drink-to-celebrate-east-asia-at-the-mla-2/ Wed, 04 Jan 2017 02:20:15 -0500 You are invited!

Social Gathering and Networking Event Arranged by the Forums LLC Asian American, LLC East Asian, LLC Korean, LLC Ming and Qing Chinese, LLC Modern and Contemporary Chinese, and LLC Japanese to 1900
Saturday, 7 January, 8:45–10:00 p.m., 411-412, Philadelphia Marriott

]]> 0 02a459209449dfa70f9d14fed8d9c4d7 Jina Kim started the topic CFP: The Sonic Imagination of Modern Korean Literature (MLA 2017) in the discussion East Asian Languages and Literatures after 1900 https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/east-asian-languages-and-literatures-after-1900/forum/topic/cfp-the-sonic-imagination-of-modern-korean-literature-mla-2017/ Wed, 17 Feb 2016 19:35:45 -0500 The Sonic Imagination of Modern Korean Literature

 

Viewing implied reader as situated listener, the panel examines the significance of voice, rhythm, and music in the literary production of modern Korea. 250-word abstract and 1-p CV by March 15, 2016; Jina Kim (<u>kimji@dickinson.edu</u>).

 

Literary modernization in Korea is seldom discussed…[Read more]

]]> 0 20960c4bc4331e1f9befb96aeb6f66ce Jina Kim started the topic CFP: Translation and in-between Spaces in Korea and East Asia (MLA 2017) in the discussion East Asian Languages and Literatures after 1900 https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/east-asian-languages-and-literatures-after-1900/forum/topic/cfp-translation-and-in-between-spaces-in-korea-and-east-asia-mla-2017/ Wed, 17 Feb 2016 19:34:22 -0500 Translation and in-between Spaces in Korea and East Asia

Papers engaging postcolonial approaches to translation in Korea and East Asia. 250-word abstract and 1-p CV by March 15, 2016; Heekyoung Cho (hchohcho@uw.edu).

 

This panel seeks papers that consider in-between spaces where translation and cultural transference take place in Korea and…[Read more]

]]> 0 3c2f07b9d28bbf5386ea563fad26c881 Jina Kim started the topic CFP: Foreign Bodies in Korean Literature (MLA 2017) in the discussion East Asian Languages and Literatures after 1900 https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/east-asian-languages-and-literatures-after-1900/forum/topic/cfp-foreign-bodies-in-korean-literature-mla-2017/ Wed, 17 Feb 2016 19:32:58 -0500 Foreign Bodies in Korean Literature

The panel addresses representation of bodies that do not respect borders, including those of foreign, non-human, migrant, spectral, infected, illegal or criminal nature. 250-word abstract and 1-p CV by March 15, 2016; Kelly Jeong (kelly.jeong@ucr.edu).

 

This panel seeks papers that address the representation…[Read more]

]]> 0 d1f5a35590d0b552bbce2006292ebd27 Melek Ortabasi started the topic CFP: Japanese Children's Literature at ChLA in the discussion East Asian Languages and Literatures after 1900 https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/east-asian-languages-and-literatures-after-1900/forum/topic/cfp-japanese-childrens-literature-at-chla-2/ Thu, 06 Aug 2015 20:11:15 -0400 I’m just reposting this — please do consider applying! Looks like a great opportunity.

Children’s Literature Association

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Call for Papers: 
International Committee Focus Panel Session
Deadline: September 15, 2015

43rd Annual Children’s Literature Association Conference
Hosted by Th…[Read more]

]]> 0 fa3000ff73d25e622c135473a32bbe24 Jina Kim started the topic CFP Korean Literature Association Conference in the discussion East Asian Languages and Literatures after 1900 https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/east-asian-languages-and-literatures-after-1900/forum/topic/cfp-korean-literature-association-conference/ Fri, 03 Jul 2015 00:30:38 -0400  

CFP – Korean Literature Association (KLA) Conference

Global Korean Literature at the Crossroads:
Celebration of Continuity and Transformation

Duke University – November 13-14, 2015, Korean literary studies in North America, once a discipline held together by the dedication of a few scholars, is a burgeoning field today. The last few years…[Read more]

]]> 0 4582dd8a6c451958082526272d05f3b9 Nicky Agate started the topic CFP and Survey: Korean Texts and Translations in the discussion East Asian Languages and Literatures after 1900 https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/east-asian-languages-and-literatures-after-1900/forum/topic/cfp-and-survey-korean-texts-and-translations-2/ Wed, 03 Jun 2015 19:01:43 -0400 Teach Korean literature? Please answer the few questions on this MLA survey (and find out how to submit a proposal for our new Korean Texts & Translations initiative): https://scholcomm.mla.hcommons.org/in-development/survey-call-for-proposals-korean-texts-and-translations

]]> 0 d92d7f3ba6ffeed423ade2b766a8a175 Melek Ortabasi started the topic CFPs for our sponsored panels at MLA 2016 in the discussion East Asian Languages and Literatures after 1900 http://mla.hcommons.org/groups/east-asian-languages-and-literatures-after-1900/forum/topic/cfps-for-our-sponsored-panels-at-mla-2016/ Thu, 05 Feb 2015 13:06:36 -0500 Call for papers: MLA 2016
We invite you to submit paper proposals for any of the following panels, which we are planning for the January 2016 Modern Language Association annual conference, to convene in Austin, TX.

A Public Face for East Asian Poetry?
Investigating contemporary poetry’s impact on readerships large and small. Papers could address…[Read more]

]]> 0 79fac71abd2b1b9fbed6b9a527883408 Melek Ortabasi replied to the topic MLA Austin 2016: Have an idea for a panel? in the discussion East Asian Languages and Literatures after 1900 http://mla.hcommons.org/groups/east-asian-languages-and-literatures-after-1900/forum/topic/mla-austin-2016-have-an-idea-for-a-panel/#post-6587 Wed, 28 Jan 2015 02:49:35 -0500 Hello everyone,

We have selected our guaranteed panel ideas for Austin 2016, but we would like to encourage everyone to apply for Special Sessions (otherwise known as panels). First, one should submit a CFP (see guidelines for “Calls for Papers” on the mla.org website) before Feb. 28. Completed proposals must be submitted by April 1 (see…[Read more]

]]> 0 4b1475316377e118d71a0c172cb9e944 Michael Tangeman replied to the topic MLA Austin 2016: Have an idea for a panel? in the discussion East Asian Languages and Literatures after 1900 http://mla.hcommons.org/groups/east-asian-languages-and-literatures-after-1900/forum/topic/mla-austin-2016-have-an-idea-for-a-panel/#post-6586 Tue, 27 Jan 2015 23:10:14 -0500 How about a panel on Japanese authors who have bent the generic conventions of detective fiction/mystery fiction in innovative ways?

]]> 0 c550588cb104f6ae4183e265400eb810 Paul Rouzer started the topic MLA 2016 Panel call for papers in the discussion East Asian Languages and Literatures after 1900 http://mla.hcommons.org/groups/east-asian-languages-and-literatures-after-1900/forum/topic/mla-2016-panel-call-for-papers-2/ Tue, 27 Jan 2015 18:52:48 -0500 <div class=”bbp-reply-content”>

Scripture as Literature: Reading East Asian Religion

Close readings of East Asian religious texts (Buddhist, Daoist, etc.), premodern or modern (poetry, fiction, film, etc.). Interested especially in interpretations that cross disciplinary boundaries in literary and religious studies or cross national boundaries.…[Read more]

]]> 0 82d5d971624baa9eb5c5d780252744f6 Melek Ortabasi started the topic CFP Austin 2016 in the discussion East Asian Languages and Literatures after 1900 http://mla.hcommons.org/groups/east-asian-languages-and-literatures-after-1900/forum/topic/cfp-austin-2016/ Fri, 23 Jan 2015 06:40:10 -0500 Dear Colleagues:

Please see the CFP below. Feel free to distribute it wherever you feel it would be effective. I say that especially for the Japan and Korea specialists, because you know better than I the best avenues for distributing information. Thanks for your support on this.

Best wishes,
Christopher Lupke

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A Public Face for East Asian…[Read more]

]]> 0 77d5f37550a53e866ed19a8c56bf8378 Xinmin Liu replied to the topic Agential Landscape and Human Conduits in the forum East Asian Languages and Literatures after 1900 http://mla.hcommons.org/groups/east-asian-languages-and-literatures-after-1900/forum/topic/agential-landscape-and-human-convertors/#post-6243 Wed, 31 Dec 2014 16:59:02 -0500 In answer to a few inquiries about the panel, I have posted the official abstracts of our four panelists. To access it, please open the file located on left-hand column of this site. We are also happy to state that this panel is included in the President’s Convention Theme for the current convention in Vancouver in January, 2015

Xinmin Liu

]]> 0 cc674680c8f136c9b832644ec23e2932 Xinmin Liu uploaded the file: 4 abstracts of this panel to East Asian Languages and Literatures after 1900 https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/87105/ Wed, 31 Dec 2014 16:51:43 -0500 In answer to the email inquiries, we have posted the 4 panel abstracts and invite our colleagues to attend our panel. Xinmin LIu, Panel Organizer

]]> 0 7f3ec483c428124709b8f64dfc7a8588 Xinmin Liu deleted the file: Program Notes for this panel from East Asian Languages and Literatures after 1900 https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/87104/ Wed, 31 Dec 2014 16:41:07 -0500 0 65f9058678465de46a921c6452b26247 Roberto Pinheiro Machado replied to the topic MLA Austin 2016: Have an idea for a panel? in the forum East Asian Languages and Literatures after 1900 http://mla.hcommons.org/groups/east-asian-languages-and-literatures-after-1900/forum/topic/mla-austin-2016-have-an-idea-for-a-panel/#post-6163 Fri, 19 Dec 2014 11:37:33 -0500 Hi There,

 

I would like to suggest the topic “literature and human rights in the East Asian context.”

 

Best holidays for you all!

 

Roberto.

]]> 0 165f57c957f81ff2af99133143b75909 Shiao-ling S. Yu replied to the topic MLA Austin 2016: Have an idea for a panel? in the forum East Asian Languages and Literatures after 1900 http://mla.hcommons.org/groups/east-asian-languages-and-literatures-after-1900/forum/topic/mla-austin-2016-have-an-idea-for-a-panel/#post-6162 Fri, 19 Dec 2014 02:25:24 -0500 Dear all,

I suggest the following topics:

Intercultural/trans cultural theater

Politics and theater

 

 

Shiao-ling Yu

]]> 0 9c7fec39fe00c134bbcc5ccf27924f72 Xinmin Liu replied to the topic MLA Austin 2016: Have an idea for a panel? in the forum East Asian Languages and Literatures after 1900 http://mla.hcommons.org/groups/east-asian-languages-and-literatures-after-1900/forum/topic/mla-austin-2016-have-an-idea-for-a-panel/#post-6161 Thu, 18 Dec 2014 23:46:54 -0500 Hi, Pamela,
We (Geraldine and I) missed you for the 2015 RMMLA at Boise ID back in October. We had you in one of the triple panels, if I remember correctly. I would love to hear your ideas for the paper since I’m in the process of collecting critical essays for an special issue on “Interfacing Humans and Nature” (neither anthropo-centrically nor…[Read more]

]]> 0 27ded3dd5bdc6f3f07e27558a29e666c Pamela Herron replied to the topic MLA Austin 2016: Have an idea for a panel? in the forum East Asian Languages and Literatures after 1900 http://mla.hcommons.org/groups/east-asian-languages-and-literatures-after-1900/forum/topic/mla-austin-2016-have-an-idea-for-a-panel/#post-6149 Thu, 18 Dec 2014 02:50:38 -0500 I would certainly be interested in a panel that dealt with Human/Nature Interface. I am developing a new course in Daoism and the Environment so I am exploring the idea of environmental aspects of the Daodejing and using it as an environmental text. I would consider a paper on that if it is appropriate. I know of course that the Daodejing is not…[Read more]

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