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CLCS Global Jewish

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  • Profile picture of Tahneer Oksman

    Tahneer Oksman started the topic Seeking nominations in the discussion Group logo of CLCS Global JewishCLCS Global Jewish on MLA Commons 1 month, 1 week ago

    We are seeking nominations, including self-nominations, for appointment to the Global Jewish Forum Executive Committee. The term will be for five years, from January 2024 through January 2029.

      <li dir=”ltr”>Only current MLA members are eligible for appointment.
      <li dir=”ltr”>Seven convention years must elapse before an individual can serve…

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    Zoe Roth started the topic MLA 2022: CLCS Global Jewish forum panel, Writing in a Jewish language in the discussion Group logo of CLCS Global JewishCLCS Global Jewish on MLA Commons 2 years ago

    How do writers make languages Jewish or inject Jewishness into language? English, French, Arabic, Spanish, German, etc. as Jewish languages; Anglish/Yinglish and other Jewish lexicons; Hebrew-Arabic crossovers; language as hybridity. 250-word abstracts and short bios to zoe.roth@durham.ac.uk. Deadline: March 8, 2021

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    Zoe Roth started the topic MLA 2022: CLCS Global Jewish forum panel–Contagion in/around Jewish literature in the discussion Group logo of CLCS Global JewishCLCS Global Jewish on MLA Commons 2 years ago

    Submissions exploring diverse approaches to contagion in Jewish literature and culture; interpreting contagion, infectious affects and ideas, transnational/linguistic transmission, thematic proliferations, infodemics and political contaminations, illness/disease narratives. 250-word abstracts and short bio to zoe.roth@durham.ac.uk. Deadline: March 8, 2021

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    Zoe Roth started the topic MLA 2022: CLCS Global Jewish forum panel–Contagion in/around Jewish literature in the discussion Group logo of CLCS Global JewishCLCS Global Jewish on MLA Commons 2 years ago

    Submissions exploring diverse approaches to contagion in Jewish literature and culture; interpreting contagion, infectious affects and ideas, transnational/linguistic transmission, thematic proliferations, infodemics and political contaminations, illness/disease narratives. 250-word abstracts and short bio to zoe.roth@durham.ac.uk

    Deadline: March 8, 2021

  • Profile picture of Sharon B. Oster

    Sharon B. Oster started the topic MLA 2022: LLC Jewish American Forum panel: Jewish Myths / Mythic Jews   in the discussion Group logo of CLCS Global JewishCLCS Global Jewish on MLA Commons 2 years ago

    MLA 2022: LLC Jewish American Forum panel: Jewish Myths / Mythic Jews

    We seek submissions exploring diverse approaches to myth in Jewish literature/culture; literary/cultural myths about Jews; language; feminist readings; gender critiques; contemporary myths; temporality; race; Memory Studies; Holocaust Studies; all genres, including…[Read more]

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    Sharon B. Oster started the topic CFP: MLA 2022: LLC Jewish American panel: Soviet Jewish Writers in the Americas in the discussion Group logo of CLCS Global JewishCLCS Global Jewish on MLA Commons 2 years ago

    MLA 2022: LLC Jewish American Forum panel: Soviet Jewish Writers in the Americas

    We seek submissions for a forum panel exploring hybrid languages, identities, genres, cultures, genders, in prose/poetry by most recent Jewish immigrant writers; diverse approaches welcome: comparative with 1881-1924 Jewish literature; hemispheric, multilingual,…[Read more]

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    Sharon B. Oster started the topic CFP: MLA 2022: Maus at 30 Years (CLCS Global Jewish and LLC Jewish American) in the discussion Group logo of CLCS Global JewishCLCS Global Jewish on MLA Commons 2 years ago

    MLA 2022: Maus at 30 Years (a collaboration between the CLCS Global Jewish forum and LLC Jewish American forum)

    We seek submissions for a roundtable, 30 years later, on Maus’s enduring influence; teaching and/or scholarship on/around Maus; diverse approaches wanted, eg., Memory Studies, Comics Studies, Autobiography Studies, Holocaust Studies, in…[Read more]

  • Profile picture of Leigh A. Neithardt

    Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2021 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion Group logo of CLCS Global JewishCLCS Global Jewish on MLA Commons 2 years, 3 months ago

    The next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2021, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets in January 2021. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nominate at least one candidate who…[Read more]

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    Sharon B. Oster started the topic CFP MLA 2021: Crossing Borders in N. Amer. Jewish Writing – proposals due 3/15 in the discussion Group logo of CLCS Global JewishCLCS Global Jewish on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months ago

    The Forum in LLC: Jewish American is sponsoring a panel that asks: How have US borders figured in Jewish writing?  How have Jewish authors, texts, and discourses circulated across them?  Papers will theorize and remap Jewish borderlands in the diaspora.  250 abstracts and brief CV requested. Deadline for submissions: Sunday, 15 March 2020 Dean Jo…[Read more]

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    Sharon B. Oster started the topic CFP MLA 2021: Antisemitism Beyond Zionism – proposals due 3/15 in the discussion Group logo of CLCS Global JewishCLCS Global Jewish on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months ago

    The Forum on LLC: Jewish American is sponsoring a panel on Jewish American literary engagements with antisemitism apart from or prior to Zionism including antisemitism in 19th c. literature, diaspora and national identity, and counter-histories.  Papers may theorize the topic.  250 words, CV. Deadline for submissions: Sunday, 15 March 2020 Dean J…[Read more]

  • Profile picture of George Prokhorov

    George Prokhorov deposited WHAT SORT OF JEW DOSTOEVSKY LIKED AND DISLIKED: A NARRATIVE OF A LOVE-HATE RELATIONSHIP in the group Group logo of CLCS Global JewishCLCS Global Jewish on MLA Commons 4 years, 3 months ago

    In his fiction, journalism and letters, Dostoevsky recurrently mentions ethnicity of his protagonists. Russians, Poles, Englishmen, Germans, Turks, Greeks etc. never act as individuals with their personal life but rather as ‘carriers’ of some national idea. Amidst the nations represented in Dostoevsky’s oeuvre, there are some Jews. The fashi…[Read more]

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    Stephen Clingman deposited Fugitive/Narrative: Some Starting Points in the group Group logo of CLCS Global JewishCLCS Global Jewish on MLA Commons 4 years, 7 months ago

    What are the topologies of fugitive/narrative, whether as a matter of experience, theory or fiction? This essay follows a number of trajectories in addressing the question. In part the exploration is prompted by the refugee crisis in many places around the world, yet the issue of the “fugitive” is not exactly identical with that. Moreover, the…[Read more]

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    Michelle M. Hamilton deposited The Sephardic Past in the Digital Future in the group Group logo of CLCS Global JewishCLCS Global Jewish on MLA Commons 5 years, 2 months ago

    This study imagines a Sephardic archive not as a physical site that houses the artifacts, texts, and history of a nation-state or Empire, but one that allows us to access those objects (or exposes their absence) and to bring artifacts from different official archives into dialogue in a different, virtual space, thus creating an additional, but not…[Read more]

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    Helene Meyers deposited Got Jewish Milk? Screening Epstein and Van Sant for Intersectional Film History in the group Group logo of CLCS Global JewishCLCS Global Jewish on MLA Commons 5 years, 3 months ago

    A B ST R A C T
    Rob Epstein’s The Times of Harvey Milk (USA, 1984) and Gus Van Sant’s Milk (USA,
    2008), the two major films that narrate the life and tragically dramatic death of gay
    politician and activist Harvey Milk (1930–1978), are widely recognized as part of
    the queer cinematic canon but are less often categorized as Jewish films. While…[Read more]

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    Carol Zuses started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2018 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion Group logo of CLCS Global JewishJewish Cultural Studies on MLA Commons 5 years, 5 months ago

    The next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2018, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets during the January 2018 convention in New York. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nom…[Read more]

  • Profile picture of Sarah P. Casteel

    Sarah P. Casteel started the topic CFP: Jewishness and Postcoloniality in Literature, Culture and Theory in the discussion Group logo of CLCS Global JewishJewish Cultural Studies on MLA Commons 5 years, 8 months ago

    <p style=”text-align: center;”>Jewishness and Postcoloniality in Literature, Culture and Theory</p>
    <p style=”text-align: center;”>CFP – Special Issue of The Journal of Jewish Identities</p>
    <p style=”text-align: center;”>Guest Edited by Sarah Phillips Casteel, Anna Guttman and Isabelle Hesse</p>
    Similarities between Jewish and colonial su…[Read more]

  • Profile picture of Louise Bethlehem

    Louise Bethlehem deposited Genres of Identification: Holocaust Testimony and Postcolonial Witness in the group Group logo of CLCS Global JewishCLCS Global Jewish on MLA Commons 6 years, 3 months ago

    This chapter explores the strange intimacies of dis/avowal that obtain between Holocaust studies and postcolonial theory, with particular reference to writing by Aimé Césaire and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. For all that the Jewish body remains, by and large, unmourned in the canonical texts of postcolonial theory, the Holocaust has, I seek to a…[Read more]

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    Carol Zuses started the topic 2017 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion Group logo of CLCS Global JewishJewish Cultural Studies on MLA Commons 6 years, 3 months ago

    Seeking Membership Suggestions

    The next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2017, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets during the January 2017 convention in Philadelphia. Though the executive committee is responsible for mak…[Read more]

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    Phillip Lundberg deposited Essential Kafka, Josephine the Songstress in the group Group logo of CLCS Global JewishCLCS Global Jewish on MLA Commons 6 years, 3 months ago

    Kafka’s last short story: Josephine die Saengerin – as translated by Phillip Lundberg. Copyright Free translation as stated on the copyright page of Essential Kafka.

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    Philip Smith started the topic CFP: The Novels of Elie Wiesel in the discussion Group logo of CLCS Global JewishJewish Cultural Studies on MLA Commons 6 years, 5 months ago

    CFP: The Novels of Elie Wiesel

    Elie Wiesel has long been a pivotal figure in Holocaust discourse. His book Night was one of the earliest works by a survivor and continues to be a significant point of reference in Holocaust literature. He went on to become an incredibly prolific writer, working in a range of genres. His death in July 2016 invites…[Read more]

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