[Melek Ortabasi]

If you do, please contact me or another member of the current ExCo with a brief proposal. We will discuss them at our January ExCo meeting and select the best. This Forum will have two guaranteed panels in 2016, and may propose two further panels (non-guaranteed). We are eager to hear your ideas, so fire away! MLA deadlines are quite far in advance, so let us know by the end of December if you have something brewing.

 

Best,

Melek Ortabasi

mso1@sfu.ca

[Melek Ortabasi]

Hello all,

We are still looking for panel ideas for the Austin convention. To get the discussion started, here are a couple of ideas. Feel free to reply here, and/or add new ideas!

1. Translation of East Asian literatures

2. Online literature and reading in East Asia

3………..?

Looking forward to your proposals!

Best,

Melek

[Xinmin Liu]

Human/Nature Interface: Agential Landscapes and Human Conduits

[Pamela Herron]

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 after 1900 but my challenge to my students is finding whether it is relevant in today’s modern world.

[Xinmin Liu]

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 bio-centrically) and subsequently an edited volume (to be co-edited by Tom Moran and I). The neither-nor standpoint is what I tend to emphasize in germinating this volume, and forgive me if I sound presumptuous, that is also where the basic ecological impulses in Daodejin come through loud and clear to us in the contemporary times.  I’d love to hear more from you.

Xinmin

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[Shiao-ling S. Yu]

Dear all,

I suggest the following topics:

Intercultural/trans cultural theater

Politics and theater

 

 

Shiao-ling Yu

[Roberto Pinheiro Machado]

Hi There,

 

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

 

Best holidays for you all!

 

Roberto.

[Michael Tangeman]

How about a panel on Japanese authors who have bent the generic conventions of detective fiction/mystery fiction in innovative ways?

[Melek Ortabasi]

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 “Proposing a Special Session” on mla.org for guidelines).

The more, the merrier!

Best,

Melek Ortabasi

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