MLA Commons | LLC Global Portuguese | Activity https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/global-portuguese/ Activity feed for the group, LLC Global Portuguese. Sun, 05 Apr 2026 13:38:15 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 17fd2c14f0e6fff5b9dd3c0122dc9e25 Daniel Da Silva replied to the topic Call for Papers MLA Global Portuguese 2026 in the forum LLC Global Portuguese https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/global-portuguese/forum/topic/call-for-papers-mla-global-portuguese-2026/?view=all#post-1039649 Thu, 13 Mar 2025 15:16:10 -0400 Deadline Extended to March 22, 2025 – submit an abstract and join us! – Global Portuguese panel for the upcoming MLA Conference in 2026 on Family Resemblances: Acts of Kinship, Comparison, and Relational Thinking in Lusophone Cultural Production . You can explore a wide range of topics including, but not limited to, comparative, relational, and in…[Read more]

]]> 0 abeaf91f0cec80ad29f1dc71961aa055 Daniel Da Silva started the topic Call for Papers MLA Global Portuguese 2026 in the forum LLC Global Portuguese https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/global-portuguese/forum/topic/call-for-papers-mla-global-portuguese-2026/ Mon, 10 Mar 2025 20:49:27 -0400 Join our Global Portuguese panel for the upcoming MLA Conference in 2026 on Family Resemblances: Acts of Kinship, Comparison, and Relational Thinking in Lusophone Cultural Production . You can explore a wide range of topics including, but not limited to, comparative, relational, and interdisciplinary perspectives on Lusophone cultural production…[Read more]

]]> 0 452f4231fdb69a174f989b1f23a05394 Ligia Bezerra started the topic Seeking nominations for Forum Excecutive Committee Appointment in the discussion LLC Global Portuguese https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/global-portuguese/forum/topic/seeking-nominations-for-forum-excecutive-committee-appointment/ Thu, 04 Jan 2024 17:54:00 -0500 Dear members of the LLC Global Portuguese Forum,

Happy 2024! I am writing on behalf of the current Executive Committee to ask the membership for nominations for a new Executive Committee member. The MLA is testing a new model based on appointment. The appointed person will begin their term in January 2025 and will serve for five convention years.…[Read more]

]]> 0 96bfdff26d0e5caadbeed3d209bb8894 Rielle Navitski started the topic CPF - Global South Cinephilias - Modernism/Modernity Print Plus Cluster in the discussion LLC Global Portuguese https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/global-portuguese/forum/topic/cpf-global-south-cinephilias-modernism-modernity-print-plus-cluster/ Fri, 12 Mar 2021 15:34:29 -0500 Modernism/Modernity Print Plus Cluster on Global South Cinephilias

(With apologies for any cross-posting – wanted to cast a broad net!)

While the term cinephilia simply refers to a love of cinema, conventionally it has been understood as a rarified appreciation of film, rooted in the imperative to legitimate the medium as a quintessentially…[Read more]

]]> 0 e7d771553fbba749f88d1b0e8f5a7ae8 Lanie Millar started the topic Greetings- Candidate intro, Executive Committee in the discussion LLC Global Portuguese https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/global-portuguese/forum/topic/greetings-candidate-intro-executive-committee/ Thu, 15 Oct 2020 19:19:49 -0400 Caros colegas,

I’m writing to introduce myself as a candidate for the Global Portuguese Executive Committee. I am an Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Oregon, where I teach and research in modern and contemporary Caribbean, Lusophone African, and Latin American literature and culture. My book Forms of…[Read more]

]]> 0 2410123ecaa1809ec32ce2572393cf3a Luiza Franco Moreira deposited Remembering Antonio Candido in the group LLC Global Portuguese https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1598163/ Tue, 23 Jan 2018 04:13:57 -0500 In the 2018 MLA Convention, the Luso-Brazilian Forum organized a meeting to remember Professor Antonio Candido (1918-2017), on January 6, 7:15-8:30 PM. This posting collects most papers read at the meeting. Should you be interested in contributing your own remembrance, or reflections on Candido’s career, please send them to me on the Commons. I…[Read more]

]]> 0 e130aa0134da46c8abc09ba7b0e28f6d Gerardo Augusto Lorenzino started the topic MLA 2018, CFP: "Language Change: Global (Im-)gration and Linguistic Insecurity" in the discussion Lusophone Literatures and Cultures outside Portugal and Brazil https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/global-portuguese/forum/topic/mla-2018-cfp-language-change-global-im-gration-and-linguistic-insecurity-4/ Mon, 16 Jan 2017 18:22:35 -0500 Dear colleagues,

The Executive Committee of the Forum on Language Change is seeking proposals for the session “Language Change: Global (Im-)migration and Linguistic Insecurity”.  See short and long CFP below.

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Papers exploring how global and local migrations affect language practices and patterns (e.g. linguistic in…[Read more]

]]> 0 ad292e4eef45575019d3eae60a1ff59d Hania Nashef deposited Specters of Doom: Saramago's Dystopias in Blindness and The Cave in the group LLC Global Portuguese https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/546574/ Sat, 02 Apr 2016 15:08:13 -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]

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