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Joanne Bernardi started the topic Journal CFP Women & Language (ed. Leland G. Spencer) in the discussion
LLC Japanese since 1900 on MLA Commons 3 weeks, 4 days agoWomen & Language, an international, interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal publishes original scholarly articles and creative work covering all aspects of communication, language, and gender. Contributions to Women & Language may be empirical, rhetorical-critical, interpretive, theoretical, or artistic. All appropriate research methodologies are…[Read more]
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Gian Piero Persiani started the topic CFP for MLA2021 “The Location of Culture: Places/Spaces of the Asian Imaginary” in the discussion
LLC Japanese since 1900 on MLA Commons 4 months agoWe invite proposals for the following, non-guaranteed session of the LLC Japanese to 1900 Forum @ MLA 2021:
Session title: The Location of Culture: Places and Spaces of the East Asian Imaginary
As either unmovable physical locations or portable culturally-mediated psychological spaces, places are an essential feature of our world.…[Read more]
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Clara Iwasaki started the topic CFP Guaranteed Session Reimagining Wartime Incarceration in East Asia in the discussion
LLC Japanese since 1900 on MLA Commons 4 months agoSponsored by LLC East Asia Forum World War II remains the focus of intense contemporary interest across the transpacific and particularly in East Asia, where contested borders and competing narratives collide. Although these nationalist discourses are historically articulated in terms of aggressor and victim (China/Japan, Korea/Japan, etc.),…[Read more]
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David Holloway started the topic CFP MLA 2021 "Japanese Cultural Expressions After Hirohito" in the discussion
LLC Japanese since 1900 on MLA Commons 4 months, 2 weeks agoThe passing of Emperor Hirohito in 1989 brought the long postwar to an end, at least symbolically. While older Japanese may have felt a sense of closure in his death, those growing up in the years that followed knew a cultural landscape determined not by imperialism, war, or economic growth (as a panacea for the Emperor himself), but rather…[Read more]
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Katsuyo Motoyoshi started the topic Tutorial Video "What is the MLA International Bibliography?" now in Japanese in the discussion
LLC Japanese since 1900 on MLA Commons 4 months, 3 weeks agoThe MLA International Bibliography is an online database that covers literature, language and linguistics, folklore, film, literary theory and criticism, dramatic arts, as well as the historical aspects of printing and publishing. Listings on rhetoric and composition and the history, theory and practice of teaching language and literature are also…[Read more]
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Joanne Bernardi started the topic Call for Candidates: Japanese since 1900 Executive Committee Election in the discussion
LLC Japanese since 1900 on MLA Commons 5 months, 2 weeks agoThe Japanese since 1900 forum’s executive committee seeks nominations, including self nominations, for candidates and alternate candidates to stand for election on the committee. This year we need to fill two positions (term 2020-2025 and 2021-2026) so please consider self-nominating as a way to help promote East Asian presence in MLA. Please c…[Read more]
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Joanne Bernardi deposited “Re-Envisioning Japan” DH project overview – MLA2020 Collaborative Round Table (DH in Japan & Korea Studies: Approaches and Challenges) in the group
LLC Japanese since 1900 on MLA Commons 5 months, 2 weeks agoPowerpoint presentation for the MLA2020 collaborative roundtable “Digital Humanities in Japan and Korea: Approaches and Challenges,” organized by the LLC Korean and LLC Japanese since 1900 Forums. This brief introduction to “Re-Envisioning Japan: Japan as Destination in 20th Century Visual and Material Culture” was one of seven presentations by…[Read more]
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Joanne Bernardi started the topic CFP MLA2020 "At the Borders of the Human in Japanese Lit and Culture since 1900" in the discussion
LLC Japanese since 1900 on MLA Commons 1 year, 5 months agoCFP MLA 2020 Panel Theme LLC Japanese Literature Since 1900
Guaranteed Panel: “At the Borders of the Human in Japanese Literature and Culture since 1900”
Following the MLA Presidential Theme of “Being Human,” the LLC Forum Japanese since 1900 executive committee invites submissions for proposals for our guaranteed panel on the theme of “Boundar…[Read more]
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Molly Des Jardin deposited Constructing Our Canon(s): Reprinting & Digitizing Literary Heritage in the group
LLC Japanese since 1900 on MLA Commons 1 year, 5 months agoWhen it comes to Japanese literary heritage, why and how are we able to access it? The shape of what is preserved and available is driven by and in turn dictates the shape of our canon(s). Yet we often do not think of the labor and social networks behind the reprinting and digitizing that allows us to access literature in the first place, whether…[Read more]
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Orna Shaughnessy started the topic Social Hour for East Asianists Thurs night 1/3/19 – *free drinks* free books* in the discussion
LLC Japanese since 1900 on MLA Commons 1 year, 6 months agoHope to see everyone there! Please share this with all your colleagues!
*First 60 people get a free drink ticket, and everyone has a chance at the door-prize raffle for new books.*
177: Social Hour for East Asianists, Hosted by LLC East Asian, LLC Japanese since 1900, LLC Ming and Qing Chinese, LLC Modern and Contemporary Chinese, LLC…[Read more]
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Orna Shaughnessy started the topic Call for Papers | Women & Language in the discussion
LLC Japanese since 1900 on MLA Commons 1 year, 7 months agoCall for Papers | Women & Language
Editor: Leland G. Spencer, PhD | Miami University
Women & Language, an international, interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal publishes original scholarly articles and creative work covering all aspects of communication, language, and gender. Contributions to Women & Language may be empirical,…[Read more]
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Molly Des Jardin started the topic CFP: SHARP 2019 (Indigeneity, Nationhood, and Migrations of the Book) in the discussion
Japanese since 1900 on MLA Commons 1 year, 10 months agoHi all,
Forgive this non-MLA post (cross-posting on top of it!) but I was thinking of proposing something for SHARP 2019 in Amherst, MA. If anyone has interest in doing a panel on Japanese book history, I’d love to hear from you. Here is the very broad CFP, entitled Indigeneity, Nationhood, and Migrations of the…[Read more]
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Melek Ortabasi started the topic ADCPL CFP MLA 2019: "Transacting Comparative Studies" in the discussion
Japanese since 1900 on MLA Commons 2 years, 4 months agoHi all, I’m on the board of the Association of Departments and Programs of Comparative Literature and I’m posting on behalf of the chair, Thomas Beebee, to publicize our CFP for MLA 2019. Here it is, inspired by the Presidential Theme of “Textual Transactions”:
<h1>Transacting Comparative Studies with other Disciplines and Units</h1>
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Orna Shaughnessy posted an update in the group
LLC Japanese since 1900 on MLA Commons 2 years, 4 months agoCall for Papers! “Environmental Humanities, China and Japan”
CFP: Roundtable at the Modern Language Association convention
Chicago, IL, January 3-6, 2019This roundtable considers recent developments in the intersection of modern Chinese and Japanese studies and the environmental humanities, broadly defined. The roundtable is organized by the…[Read more]
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Molly Des Jardin started the topic CFP: Textual Transference in Modern and Contemporary Japan (MLA 2019) in the discussion
Japanese since 1900 on MLA Commons 2 years, 4 months agoTextual Transference in Modern and Contemporary Japan
How does creative work get reused, translated, or adapted in modern and contemporary Japan? This panel seeks to explore questions of “transference” writ large: cultural memes, tropes, characters, fictional works, and their reinterpretation in media of all kinds. Potential topics might…[Read more]
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Orna Shaughnessy posted an update in the group
LLC Japanese since 1900 on MLA Commons 2 years, 5 months ago-Executive Committee membership transition-
Happy New MLA Year, everyone!
With the conclusion of the conference and the start of the next cycle in the MLA calendar, we’d like to thank outgoing members of the Executive Committee Melek Ortabasi (Simon Fraser University) and Michael Emmerich (UCLA) for their important and pioneering work on the…[Read more]
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Orna Shaughnessy posted an update in the group
LLC Japanese since 1900 on MLA Commons 2 years, 6 months agoCANCELLED PANEL
Due to weather and travel conditions that have prevented all panel participants from getting to New York, the collaborative session on “Digital Humanities Approaches to Japanese-Language Texts,” co-sponsored by the LLC Japan since 1900 and LLC Japan to 1900 forums will not be convened.CANCELLED: 514 “Digital Humanities Appro…[Read more]
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Orna Shaughnessy posted an update in the group
LLC Japanese since 1900 on MLA Commons 2 years, 6 months agoFor those of you planning to be at the MLA-
This year there is a collaborative session on “Digital Humanities Approaches to Japanese-Language Texts,” co-sponsored by the LLC Japan since 1900 and LLC Japan to 1900 forums. Paired with this is the companion session “Digital Humanities Approaches to Japanese Media,” which the LLC Japanese since 1900…[Read more]
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Orna Shaughnessy posted an update in the group
LLC Japanese since 1900 on MLA Commons 2 years, 6 months ago賀 春
謹んで新年のお慶びを申し上げます
本年が昨年にも増した良き年となりますよう、
皆様のご健康とご多幸をお祈り申し上げます。LLC Japanese since 1900の執行委員一同
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Steven Ridgely deposited Terayama’s “China Doll” (in Japanese) in the group
LLC Japanese since 1900 on MLA Commons 2 years, 8 months agoThis is an analysis of Terayama Shūji’s 1981 film “Shanhai ijin shōkan,” a French co-production which was marketed in the Anglosphere as “China Doll” and in France as “Les Fruits de la passion,” invoking both Ōshima Nagisa’s 1978 “L’Empire de la passion” (the sequel to his notorious “Empire of the Senses” / “L’Empire des sens,” 1976) as well as Ro…[Read more]
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