The Iberian Studies group is intended to promote scholarly research and interdisciplinary approaches to the study of the peninsula from a multicultural and multilingual perspective.
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Hania A.M. Nashef deposited ‘To have been and no longer be’: The angst towards death in Darwish’s Mural and Saramago’s Death at Intervals in the group
Iberian Studies on MLA Commons 3 months, 3 weeks ago
In Portuguese Nobel Laureate José Saramago’s As Intermitências da Morte (2005) and in Mahmoud Darwish’s epic poem Mural (2000), the authors contemplate the nothingness that accompanies death, a concern that increasingly permeates their later writings. Although ‘death’ is depicted differently, the authors fear that with death “the universe wo…[Read more]
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William Nichols deposited Telling the story of Iberian Cultural Studies: Spaces of convergence and the defense of the Humanities in the group
Iberian Studies on MLA Commons 1 year, 1 month ago
While many in academia around the U.S. may anchor themselves in cynical opposition to the proliferation of neoliberal discourse and the policies that accompany, I propose that language departments are in a uniquely privileged position within the humanities to assert the value of our programs within the neoliberal paradigm. Specifically, the…[Read more]
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Simone Pinet deposited Clerical Soundscapes in the group
Iberian Studies on MLA Commons 1 year, 3 months ago
Using the evidence of the aural as intrinsic to mester de clerecía’s mode of diffusion and reception as point of departure, this chapter examines sound as a wider and complex system of references, actualizations, and allusions that articulate and structure the mode in its composition, as part of its tools to effect meaning. Music and song play ob…[Read more]
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William Nichols deposited Viajes al futuro y sociedad del simulacro: Modernidad, Disneyficación y ruinas de la resistencia en Quinteto de Buenos Aires de Manuel Vázquez Montalban in the group
Iberian Studies on MLA Commons 2 years, 7 months ago
A lo largo de la obra de Manuel Vázquez Montalbán, tanto en las obras dentro de la serie Carvalho como fuera y en la producción de libros no-ficción, el viaje sirve para como ímpetu narrativo además de eje temático para indagar las contradicciones de la globalización y explorar la memoria como estrategia de resistencia. Por un lado, el viaje o…[Read more]
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William Nichols deposited Telling the Story of Iberian Studies: Spaces of Convergence and the Defense of the Humanities in the group
Iberian Studies on MLA Commons 4 years, 1 month ago
This is a paper that I presented at the 2019 MLA in Chicago. In this paper I situate discussions of the field of Iberian Studies within the context of the crisis of the Humanities and the future of Cultural Studies.
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Stefania Licata replied to the topic Session Proposal:Production and circulation of Afro-Hispanophone/ Lusophone arts in the discussion
Iberian Studies on MLA Commons 4 years, 1 month ago
Dear colleagues,
the session is for the 2019 ALA (African Literature Association) Conference, which will take place at Renaissance Columbus Downtown Hotel, from May 15 to May 18, 2019.
Thank you very much
Stefania
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Jesús R. Velasco deposited Boundless Troubadours in the group
Iberian Studies on MLA Commons 4 years, 4 months ago
This paper deals with the complicated sociopolitical space defined by the use and transformation of what we call Occitan language. Literary and cultural production in Occitan language during the late 12th and early 13th centuries light up the boundary conditions, the boundary values of what we call courtly culture making them visible in all their…[Read more]
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Jesús R. Velasco deposited Spatial Affinities: Poetry and Law in the group
Iberian Studies on MLA Commons 4 years, 4 months ago
The spatial affinity between poetry and the law is an interesting theoretical fiction to understand how the construction of the legal discipline is a process to turn all possible spatial affinities into spatial subalternities, into spatial submissions. One could say that legal spaces, the legal production of spaces, is a way to summon up different…[Read more]
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Francisco Fernández de Alba started the topic CFP: Fashion in the discussion
Iberian Studies on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months ago
We warmly invite you to submit abstracts on all topics related to Iberian fashion. Please see the attached CFP
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Benita Sampedro deposited Call for Proposals MLA 2019 Convention Forum on Global Hispanophone in the group
Iberian Studies on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months ago
Panel: “Teaching the Global Hispanophone”. Many of the challenges inherent in teaching the Global Hispanophone are apparent: curricula structured according to wentieth-century conceptions of Hispanism; language issues; or texts availability. How have you met these challenges? What are other less obvious challenges? We welcome proposals that will…[Read more]
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Edgar Illas replied to the topic Call for Papers, Catalan Forum: MLA 2019 in the discussion
Iberian Studies on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months ago
- Session Title: Catalan Culture and the State
Session Organizer: Edgar Illas
Correlations between Catalan cultural products and the form of the State in modernity and globalization. Abstracts by 15 March 2018; Edgar Illas (eillas@indiana.edu).
Modern Catalan culture has been extensively studied in terms of nation building. This focus ha…[Read more]
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Gabriel Rei-Doval started the topic CFP: Can Language Shift be Reversed? Insights from and for Galician in the discussion
Iberian Studies on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months ago
Call For Papers
Can Language Shift be Reversed? Insights from and for Galician
(Guaranteed Session, MLA Convention, Chicago, 3-6 January, 2019)On the 35th Anniversary of the Galician Language Bill “Lei de normalización lingüística” (1983), it is time for Galician and international scholars to re-assess the process of language planning unde…[Read more]
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Edgar Illas started the topic Call for Papers, Catalan Forum: MLA 2019 in the discussion
Iberian Studies on MLA Commons 4 years, 11 months ago
Catalan Culture and the State
Forum: LLC Catalan Studies
Correlations between Catalan cultural products and the form of the State in modernity and globalization. Abstracts by 15 March 2018; Edgar Illas (eillas@indiana.edu). -
Mario Santana started the topic CFP Iberian Studies and the Crisis in the Humanities in the discussion
Iberian Studies on MLA Commons 5 years ago
<h1>Iberian Studies and the Crisis in the Humanities</h1>
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<b>Forum:</b><i> LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian</i>
How can theoretical and methodological approaches emerging from Iberian Studies respond to the current attack on the Humanities? Abstracs and short bio by 1 March 2018; Mario Santana…[Read more] -
Aurelie Vialette started the topic CFP MLA 2019 in the discussion
Iberian Studies on MLA Commons 5 years ago
MLA 2019. “Galdós in Cataluña, Cataluña in Galdós”
Catalan Studies Forum and Asociación Internacional de Galdosistas (AIG).
Abstracts should be sent to aurelie.vialette@stonybrook.edu
Deadline: March 1st, 2018.
Short description:
The literary, social and political debates around Benito Pérez Galdós’s work in Catalonia. T…[Read more]
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Aurelie Vialette posted an update in the group
Iberian Studies on MLA Commons 5 years ago
MLA 2019. “Galdós in Cataluña, Cataluña in Galdós”
Catalan Studies Forum and Asociación Internacional de Galdosistas (AIG).
Abstracts should be sent to aurelie.vialette@stonybrook.edu
Deadline: March 15th, 2018.Short description:
The literary, social and political debates around Benito Pérez Galdós’s work in Catalonia. The role of Catalonia. T…[Read more] -
Remy Attig deposited Did the Sephardic Jews Speak Ladino? in the group
Iberian Studies on MLA Commons 5 years ago
The term ‘Ladino’ has been used by some scholars in reference to the language spoken by the Sephardic Jews. Sometimes it has been used in reference to the language spoken by the Jews in Medieval Spain while at other times scholars have used this term in reference to the language spoken by the Sephardim of the Ottoman Empire in the centuries fol…[Read more]
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Hania A.M. Nashef deposited HOMO SACER DWELLS IN SARAMAGO’S LAND OF EXCEPTION in the group
Iberian Studies on MLA Commons 5 years, 2 months ago
Giorgio Agamben defines the sacred man or Homo Sacer as one who is not worthy of sacrifice. Having lost all rights, the person is reduced to the non-human. In modern times, banishment or banning by the law occurs when a state of exception is sanctioned by a totalitarian supremacy that suspends judicial power. The state of exception does not lie…[Read more]
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Jesús R. Velasco deposited The International National: Ius Commune and the fictions of citizenship. in the group
Iberian Studies on MLA Commons 5 years, 6 months ago
The following text was presented as part of the Presidential Panel at the American Comparative Literature Association, Utrecht (The Netherlands), July 8th 2017. The panel was composed of Joseph Slaughter (ACLA President, English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University in the City of New York), Maria Aristodemou, Law, Birkbeck College,…[Read more]
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Hania A.M. Nashef deposited Ideal Cities-Marred Individuals: J. M. Coetzee’s The Childhood of Jesus and José Saramago’s A Caverna in the group
Iberian Studies on MLA Commons 5 years, 8 months ago
In the final pages of J. M. Coetzee’s The Childhood of Jesus and José Saramago’s A Caverna, the main protagonists flee to an unknown destination from their respective “utopias.” Both allegorical novels expose the ills of two guarded and structured communities. A Caverna, a parable of Plato’s cave, depicts the story of the lives of 64-year-old…[Read more]
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