MLA Commons | CLCS Hemispheric American | Activity https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/hemispheric-american/ Activity feed for the group, CLCS Hemispheric American. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 11:10:43 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 7d2751c87c50d0d9301bf849c67dbe59 Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2025 Forum Delegate Election  in the forum CLCS Hemispheric American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/hemispheric-american/forum/topic/membership-suggestions-for-2025-forum-delegate-election-6/ Thu, 19 Dec 2024 16:53:41 -0500 Hello!

The next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2025, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets in January 2025. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nominate at least one can…[Read more]

]]> 0 b9831f0d05b5bf7d308a5a51d379e31a Lupe Escobar started the topic CFP: Cold War Afterlives in the discussion CLCS Hemispheric American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/hemispheric-american/forum/topic/cfp-cold-war-afterlives/ Wed, 07 Feb 2024 13:29:08 -0500 Frames of war generally magnify precarity, heightening bodily vulnerability, albeit differentially. How do transamerican narrative practices rupture temporal logic to respond to the lasting impact of the Cold War? Send 250-word abstract with C.V.

Deadline for submissions: Friday, 15 March 2024

Guadalupe Escobar, U of Nevada, R…[Read more]

]]> 0 c083acc1081e817e87a8b8e9c4a70f8e Elena Machado Sáez started the topic "What the New York Times gets wrong about the "American Dirt" controversy" in the discussion CLCS Hemispheric American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/hemispheric-american/forum/topic/what-the-new-york-times-gets-wrong-about-the-american-dirt-controversy-3/ Wed, 15 Feb 2023 15:19:56 -0500 An op-ed article I co-wrote with Latinx Studies colleagues David J. Vázquez and Magdalena L. Barrera was just published in Salon. Check it out!

“What the New York Times gets wrong about the “American Dirt” controversy: Who gets to wield the power of representation might be important to columnist Pamela Paul, but it’s a…[Read more]

]]> 0 6449914853d1322028ed177735466407 Lupe Escobar started the topic MLA 2023 Call For Papers in the discussion CLCS Hemispheric American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/hemispheric-american/forum/topic/mla-2023-call-for-papers-2/ Mon, 14 Mar 2022 18:04:45 -0400 DESCALING CAPTIVITY

Drawing on Mary Pat Brady’s latest conception of “scales of captivity,” we welcome papers that consider children’s human rights in literary and media representations within a hemispheric framework. Send 250-word abstract & bio.

Deadline for submissions: Friday, 25 March 2022

Guadalupe Escobar, U of Nevada, Reno ([Read more]

]]> 0 5e2fe9c573b46f7af01363997a7b8940 Allison Margaret Bigelow deposited Gained, Lost, Missed, Ignored: Vernacular Scientific Translations from Agricola’s Germany to Herbert Hoover’s California in the group CLCS Hemispheric American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1758042/ Tue, 09 Nov 2021 03:58:25 -0500 For the past twenty years, scholars of world and global history and literature have shown that the early modern world was a complex, entangled place. And yet, by emphasizing connection, such work at times overlooks the many separations that drove the engines of global early modernity: transoceanic slave trades, tribute labor, and the economic…[Read more]

]]> 0 84f8ee9e9031d5b009e751d5572a0ab4 Allison Margaret Bigelow deposited Popol Wujs: Culture, Complexity, and the Encoding of Maya Cosmovision in the group CLCS Hemispheric American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1758038/ Tue, 09 Nov 2021 03:49:57 -0500 The Popol Wuj is one of the most important, commonly studied, and widely circulated Indigenous literary works from colonial Mesoamerica. By some accounts, there are 1,200 editions of the work published in thirty world languages, all of which trace back to a single manuscript—itself a copy of an earlier Mayan work. To protect their work from b…[Read more]

]]> 0 f14257580b3f347595216d560542e49d Nicholas T Rinehart deposited Lateral Reading Lyric Testimony; or, The Difficult Miracle of Black Poetry in the Americas in the group CLCS Hemispheric American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1753045/ Tue, 28 Sep 2021 02:23:39 -0400 Canon, tradition, and origin anchor developmental accounts of Black literary history, describing the forward movement from a singular beginning in terms of birth, maturation, and inheritance. This model delimits a specialized field of study, but also obscures texts, practices, and archives that do not cohere with it. In the study of slave…[Read more]

]]> 0 de236faa25178329c7ee688f0ad8e55c Vanessa Valdés started the topic Call for Abstracts:  Multilingualism in Hemispheric Americas (MLA 2022) in the discussion CLCS Hemispheric American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/hemispheric-american/forum/topic/call-for-abstracts-multilingualism-in-hemispheric-americas-mla-2022/ Thu, 11 Mar 2021 17:39:15 -0500 Description & Requirements: Abstracts (250 words) on the following topics: multilingualism in literature, visual and performing arts; multilingualism and history; multilingualism’s challenges to national literatures; revitalization of African/Indigenous languages; multilingual DH. Comparative/interdisciplinary approaches preferred. Submission D…[Read more]

]]> 0 dda2027b22a6801222d5bdc0c7ffdbc6 Lisa Nalbone started the topic 1st Biannual Conference of the Center for José Martí Studies in the discussion CLCS Hemispheric American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/hemispheric-american/forum/topic/1st-biannual-conference-of-the-center-for-jose-marti-studies/ Mon, 18 Jan 2021 17:17:15 -0500 You are cordially invited to attend the “1st Biannual Conference of the Center for José Martí Studies“, January 28 (7:00pm) to January 30 (5:00pm), hosted by the University of Tampa, themed “Envisaging José Martí in 2021: History, Culture and Education“. Program and registration appear: 1st Biannual Conference Registration | University of Tampa (ut.edu)

]]> 0 def4ac1c6d4c425f10dddfdf69fc6a32 Jennifer M. Wilks replied to the topic CFP: Extra-Anthropcentric Subjects in and from the Global South (MLA 2021) in the discussion CLCS Hemispheric American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/hemispheric-american/forum/topic/cfp-extra-anthropcentric-subjects-in-and-from-the-global-south-mla-2021-2/#post-1023776 Thu, 26 Mar 2020 16:38:50 -0400 Deadline extended to 3/31!

]]> 0 8650e54c86c649ada6eb7d330e022fc1 Vanessa Valdés started the topic CFP: Deportation and Affect: Mapping the Hemispheric Americas (MLA 2021 Toronto in the discussion CLCS Hemispheric American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/hemispheric-american/forum/topic/cfp-deportation-and-affect-mapping-the-hemispheric-americas-mla-2021-toronto/ Wed, 25 Mar 2020 17:12:21 -0400 This panel explores a variety of methodological and disciplinary approaches to the topic of mass deportations and immigrant justice from the perspective of the humanities. Please submit 300-word abstracts and short presenter’s biographies to Laura Torres-Rodriguez, New York U (ljt233@nyu.edu ) Deadline for submissions: Thursday, 2 April 2020. (C…[Read more]

]]> 0 ccbebc6fb5295966580fc415cd1f2ca9 Vanessa Valdés started the topic CFP: Survival Strategies in the Americas (MLA 2021 Toronto) in the discussion CLCS Hemispheric American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/hemispheric-american/forum/topic/cfp-survival-strategies-in-the-americas-mla-2021-toronto/ Wed, 25 Mar 2020 00:44:44 -0400 What can we learn from indigenous and Black strategies for survival in the Americas, as we face the enduring legacies of capitalist settler colonialism?  Please send a 200-word abstract and a brief biographical statement to Vanessa K. Valdés (vvaldes@ccny.cuny.edu) Please share broadly. Deadline for submissions: Friday, 3 April 2020

]]> 0 a1a890008523fce6ff200eeee5ee8914 Vanessa Valdés started the topic Standing for Election of Executive Committee of CLCS Hemispheric American in the discussion CLCS Hemispheric American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/hemispheric-american/forum/topic/standing-for-election-of-executive-committee-of-clcs-hemispheric-american/ Mon, 23 Mar 2020 21:26:22 -0400 We invite you to stand for election to our Executive Committee — come guide our group in upcoming years! Note that you are only allowed to serve on one executive committee at a time. If you are interested, please email Vanessa K. Valdés (vvaldes@ccny.cuny.edu) as soon as possible. Thank you!

]]> 0 60640743bcdb97151ecddb1af0cceb8e Jennifer M. Wilks started the topic CFP: Extra-Anthropcentric Subjects in and from the Global South (MLA 2021) in the discussion CLCS Hemispheric American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/hemispheric-american/forum/topic/cfp-extra-anthropcentric-subjects-in-and-from-the-global-south-mla-2021-2/ Thu, 06 Feb 2020 16:59:42 -0500 Extra- and non-anthropocentric subjects of the Global South, notably the Caribbean. Who/ what is the human-animal-other subject? Narratives/poetics extrinsic to the colonial mind/body split?  Old materialisms ‘with soul’. 300 word abstract and 1 page CV by 3/15 to Jennifer M. Wilks (jmwilks@austin.utexas.edu) and Rosemary J. Jolly (rjj14@psu.edu).

]]> 0 4d4a998c74c4ed7c67b9ca308d11f850 cynthia tompkins deposited call for papers in the group CLCS Hemispheric American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1675036/ Sun, 12 Jan 2020 16:25:21 -0500 Call for Proposals

Media, Lingualisms, Translations: Technologies of Language and Power

Conference to be held November 13-14, 2020; hosted by the School of International Letters and Cultures, Arizona State University, Tempe.

Keynote speakers: Jean-Noël Robert (Collège de France, Paris)
Lourdes Ortega (Georgetown University, W…[Read more]

]]> 0 1924c9ce4ef45c3c31a1c642e396b8c9 Scott Challener deposited American Literature's Hemispheric Address: 1823-1923 (Fall 2019) in the group CLCS Hemispheric American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1674896/ Sat, 11 Jan 2020 03:48:44 -0500 This course is a study of American literature’s address to and engagement with the hemisphere in the long nineteenth century. As such, it is first and foremost an inquiry into the concepts—“America,” “literature,” “address,” “hemisphere,” race and period—that animate our study. Our first task, then, is to turn these concepts into problems. What c…[Read more]

]]> 0 17bb188b7087ced96373a65d042380f5 Scott Challener deposited Latinx Literatures and Cultures in the U.S. and Beyond in the group CLCS Hemispheric American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1674799/ Fri, 10 Jan 2020 03:48:44 -0500 This course is a study of Latinx literatures and cultures produced in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. We will concentrate our attention on works by Chicanos, Mexican Americans, Puerto Ricans, Cuban Americans, and Dominican Americans. We will consider how these works represent and participate in the upheavals that characterize the…[Read more]

]]> 0 7706036292c1ced6a843c1e7b297e9f0 Jennifer M. Wilks started the topic CFP: The 1970s and the Caribbean (MLA 2020) in the discussion CLCS Hemispheric American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/hemispheric-american/forum/topic/cfp-the-1970s-and-the-caribbean-mla-2020-2/ Wed, 06 Mar 2019 21:14:07 -0500 Seeking presentations on the significance of the 1970s to cultural engagements with the Caribbean’s postcolonial history. 300-word abstract and 1-page CV to Rafe Dalleo (prdalleo@gmail.com) and Sheri Harrison (harrisonsl@missouri.edu ) by March 15, 2019

Deadline for submissions: Friday, 15 March 2019

]]> 0 2342a2b2a2efe80fb432789fd8fdfc34 Jennifer M. Wilks started the topic CFP: Sylvia Wynter in the Undergraduate Classroom (MLA 2020) in the discussion CLCS Hemispheric American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/hemispheric-american/forum/topic/cfp-sylvia-wynter-in-the-undergraduate-classroom-mla-2020-2/ Wed, 06 Mar 2019 21:11:22 -0500 Seeking presentations that discuss how to engage the significant theoretical principles of Sylvia Wynter’s work from a rigorous and non-jargonistic perspective in the undergraduate classroom. 300-word abstract and 1-page CV to Kaiama L. Glover (kglover@barnard.edu)

Deadline for submissions: Friday, 15 March 2019

]]> 0 f8e22938a11a0be4aa546efc86b0390f Carol Zuses started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2019 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion Hemispheric American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/hemispheric-american/forum/topic/membership-suggestions-for-2019-forum-delegate-election-5/ Fri, 21 Sep 2018 12:28:50 -0400 The next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2019, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets during the January 2019 convention in Chicago. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nom…[Read more]

]]> 0 9f878bdc2c22f5024bac7f566991f339 Zane Koss deposited Coastal Flows: Situating Vancouver Poetry in the Americas in the group CLCS Hemispheric American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1607165/ Thu, 26 Apr 2018 04:12:33 -0400 In a 1972 poem about Vancouver Island, Mexican writer José Emilio Pacheco wonders, “Acaso fue el Aztlán de las mexicas / De allí partieron siete tribus.” Though Pacheco spent several years living in Vancouver during the late 1960s and early 1970s—and was published in a 1971 anthology of poetry “From Canada’s Unofficial Languages”—h…[Read more]

]]> 0 85031c1a8eb03923a3bc7302625cdd8e Rebecca Jane Stanton started the topic CFP for MLA 2019: The Global Far North: Arctic Literatures in the discussion Hemispheric American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/hemispheric-american/forum/topic/cfp-for-mla-2019-the-global-far-north-arctic-literatures/ Thu, 15 Mar 2018 01:57:15 -0400 <b>The Global Far North: Arctic Literatures</b>
The Global South has challenged Eurocentric narratives; what of the Global (Extreme) North? Colonial encounters; environmental extremes; imperial and indigenous literatures in the Arctic.
200-word abstract and CV or brief bio to Rebecca Stanton (rjs19@columbia.edu) by <b>March 18.</b>

(Sponsored by…[Read more]

]]> 0 536a28cb9c5a59aa0946c1efe5b48025 Allison Margaret Bigelow posted an update in the group CLCS Hemispheric American: CFP (MLA 2019), sponsored by CLCS 18th-Century: "Afterlives […] https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1598696/ Fri, 26 Jan 2018 22:11:59 -0500 CFP (MLA 2019), sponsored by CLCS 18th-Century: “Afterlives of the Enlightenment: Sovereignty.”

The eighteenth century world placed sovereignty in the heart of global political, economic, and cultural debates. In the past ten years, scholars have examined sovereignty in matters of aesthetics (Anderson, “Zombie Sovereignty”), literary cri…[Read more]

]]> 0 fd3521c01f0da0b72ae6154a2fa2ab0a Vanessa Valdés posted an update in the group CLCS Hemispheric American: ***CANCELLED***Due to the inclement weather, the CLCS […] https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1594877/ Fri, 05 Jan 2018 14:12:03 -0500 ***CANCELLED***Due to the inclement weather, the CLCS Hemispheric American forum meeting that has been scheduled for 5 January 2018, 1:45-3:30 p.m, room Park 2, in the Sheraton New York Times Square has been cancelled.

]]> 0 967700c2825b98de2e99be4c7689537d Macarena Gómez-Barris posted an update in the group CLCS Hemispheric American: Please join the CLCS Hemispheric American forum for a […] https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1593237/ Thu, 21 Dec 2017 21:57:52 -0500 Please join the CLCS Hemispheric American forum for a meeting that has been scheduled for 5 January 2018, 1:45-3:30 p.m, room Park 2, in the Sheraton New York Times Square. We look forward to seeing you! Maca

]]> 0 0718fd6092ebfb8677623d06e35fd18b Ana Paulina Lee started the topic CFP: Charge and Challenge of Hemispheric Studies in the discussion Hemispheric American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/hemispheric-american/forum/topic/cfp-charge-and-challenge-of-hemispheric-studies/ Fri, 04 Mar 2016 23:16:45 -0500 Forum: CLCS Hemispheric American and African American Studies (collaborative session)

What are the challenges of doing a transnational critique based on concepts from US academy ex: transnational racialization, queer studies? 250-word abstract; 2-page CV; short bio by 15 March 2016; Ana Paulina Lee (ana.lee@columbia.edu) and Dana Williams (…[Read more]

]]> 0 33b44ca673f697ec4cd87e7ab5b8f33c Josef Raab started the topic CFP: Inter-American Studies Conference on "Human Rights in the Americas" in the discussion Hemispheric American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/hemispheric-american/forum/topic/cfp-inter-american-studies-conference-on-human-rights-in-the-americas/ Fri, 12 Feb 2016 16:19:46 -0500 The Fourth Biennial Conference of the International Association of Inter-American Studies (IAS) will be held at the University of California at Santa Barbara (UCSB) October 4 through 6, 2016. The conference topic is on “Human Rights in the Americas.”

The conference organizers have decided to extend the deadline for submitting proposals for papers…[Read more]

]]> 0 d505a1015a2ef53bebcf8feb40bbf9a0 Annette Kolodny deposited New World Encounters: Where Do We Go from Here? in the group CLCS Hemispheric American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/538948/ Tue, 19 Jan 2016 05:37:23 -0500 Early American studies scholar and feminist literary critic, Annette Kolodny, offers three projects that she would take on if she were not now retiring from the profession. These three projects include a feminist analysis of women’s interactions on the earliest contact and frontier landscapes; the development of a cross- and inter-disciplinary…[Read more]

]]> 0 bf150e901a705304463e69fd103893b3 Marissa K. Lopez deposited Chicano Vibrations in the group CLCS Hemispheric American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/531489/ Mon, 19 Oct 2015 20:09:30 -0400 This article reads the smuggling of Aztec artifacts described in Lucha Corpi’s novel Black Widow’s Wardrobe in the context of new materialist philosophies of becoming.

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