MLA Commons | LLC Japanese since 1900 | Activity https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/japanese-since-1900/ Activity feed for the group, LLC Japanese since 1900. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 10:04:46 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 51e23497d24cb5c17212ed85c4f7c76a Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2023 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion LLC Japanese since 1900 https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/japanese-since-1900/forum/topic/membership-suggestions-for-2023-forum-delegate-election-39/ Mon, 21 Nov 2022 20:08:43 -0500 The next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2023, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets in January 2023. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nominate at least one candidate who…[Read more]

]]> 0 28f3e5d9cad489ba4c9c9d04f5894dd4 Jon Pitt started the topic CFP: International Symposium - Writers Who Have Seen Too Much: Earth, Kin, Care in the discussion LLC Japanese since 1900 https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/japanese-since-1900/forum/topic/cfp-international-symposium-writers-who-have-seen-too-much-earth-kin-care/ Wed, 27 Apr 2022 23:29:40 -0400 Call for Proposals 

“Writers Who Have Seen Too Much: Earth, Kin, Care”

International Japanese Literature Symposium

30 September – 1 October 2022, In Person

University of California, Irvine

 

This two-day conference gathers scholars who work on five writers: Chiri Yukie (1903-1922), Sakiyama Tami (1954- ), Tsushima Yuko (1947-2016), Ishimu…[Read more]

]]> 0 ca01740415b091e470a2605733348f4c Andrea Mendoza started the topic Deadline extension in the discussion LLC Japanese since 1900 https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/japanese-since-1900/forum/topic/deadline-extension-6/ Tue, 16 Mar 2021 16:30:08 -0400 Hi all,

We are still accepting papers for the LLC Japanese since 1900 panels, “Antiracist Pedagogy in Modern Japanese Studies” and “Decolonial and Indigenous Interventions in Japanophone Media/Literature.” Please share and consider submitting!

https://mla.confex.com/mla/2022/webprogrampreliminary/Session11305.html

Below are the longer versions…[Read more]

]]> 0 d16997ecf7671028671f4aafc2020735 Andrea Mendoza started the topic Deadline extension in the discussion LLC Japanese since 1900 https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/japanese-since-1900/forum/topic/deadline-extension/ Tue, 16 Mar 2021 16:26:27 -0400 Hi all,

We are still accepting papers for the LLC Japanese since 1900 panels, “Antiracist Pedagogy in Modern Japanese Studies” and “Decolonial and Indigenous Interventions in Japanophone Media/Literature.” Please share and consider submitting!

https://mla.confex.com/mla/2022/webprogrampreliminary/Session11305.html

]]> 0 770a1c35f294901d0628da7141e4b3a6 Joanne Bernardi started the topic CFP (MLA 2022) "Antiracist Pedagogy in Modern Japanese Studies (1900-present)" in the discussion LLC Japanese since 1900 https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/japanese-since-1900/forum/topic/cfp-mla-2022-antiracist-pedagogy-in-modern-japanese-studies-1900-present/ Mon, 22 Feb 2021 08:47:26 -0500 CFP MLA 2022 (Guaranteed panel): We invite papers exploring antiracist pedagogies in modern (1900 to the present) Japanese Studies classrooms, program curricula, and campus/disciplinary outreach. In particular, we seek presentations that are intersectional in approach, taking into consideration relations between race and class, gender, sexuality,…[Read more]

]]> 0 cd0aad0f5db8331362534ceee1b84203 Joanne Bernardi started the topic CFP Decolonial & Indigenous Interventions in Japanophone Media/Lit 1900-present in the discussion LLC Japanese since 1900 https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/japanese-since-1900/forum/topic/cfp-decolonial-indigenous-interventions-in-japanophone-media-lit-1900-present/ Mon, 22 Feb 2021 08:38:37 -0500 CFP MLA 2022 – LLC Japanese since 1900 Forum (Guaranteed panel)

This panel invites papers that apply approaches in indigenous studies and epistemologies to the study of study Japanophone cultural, intellectual, and aesthetic productions. Given the long history and global legacy of Japanese colonialisms and settler colonialisms, this panel…[Read more]

]]> 0 43d47109fd19ffad33e77b37cf259cb6 Melek Ortabasi started the topic CFP: D'Annunzio as World Literature (MLA Symposium) in the discussion LLC Japanese since 1900 https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/japanese-since-1900/forum/topic/cfp-dannunzio-as-world-literature-mla-symposium/ Wed, 22 Jul 2020 20:34:58 -0400 Hi everyone,

From a colleague. If interested, please contact Elisa.Segnini@glasgow.ac.uk

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We are organizing a project titled ‘D’Annunzio as World Literature’, which includes a panel at the MLA symposium in Glasgow (June 17-19 2021, https://symposium.mla.org/glasgow/being-hospitable/?utm_campaign=symposiumsubjuly20&utm_medium=email&utm_…[Read more]

]]> 0 d6b6dd1bfc2e31e0a5a9cc675773affb Joanne Bernardi started the topic Journal CFP Women & Language (ed. Leland G. Spencer) in the discussion LLC Japanese since 1900 https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/japanese-since-1900/forum/topic/journal-cfp-women-language-ed-leland-g-spencer/ Wed, 10 Jun 2020 14:37:17 -0400 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, rhetorical-critical, interpretive, theoretical, or artistic. All appropriate research methodologies are…[Read more]

]]> 0 9c3bd844283be3060cc9d21c7461c718 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 https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/japanese-since-1900/forum/topic/cfp-for-mla2021-the-location-of-culture-places-spaces-of-the-asian-imaginary-3/ Mon, 02 Mar 2020 22:37:14 -0500 We 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]

]]> 0 a171c35111ef029ca434134aa27ff65b Clara Iwasaki started the topic CFP Guaranteed Session Reimagining Wartime Incarceration in East Asia in the discussion LLC Japanese since 1900 https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/japanese-since-1900/forum/topic/cfp-guaranteed-session-reimagining-wartime-incarceration-in-east-asia/ Sun, 01 Mar 2020 00:20:00 -0500 Sponsored 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]

]]> 0 0fbcbb7c45a94dc7a17c90e4264772f3 David Holloway started the topic CFP MLA 2021 "Japanese Cultural Expressions After Hirohito" in the discussion LLC Japanese since 1900 https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/japanese-since-1900/forum/topic/cfp-mla-2021-japanese-cultural-expressions-after-hirohito/ Thu, 20 Feb 2020 17:36:24 -0500 The 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]

]]> 0 c5824ddfee15e7ef5fcd963ba2319334 Katsuyo Motoyoshi started the topic Tutorial Video "What is the MLA International Bibliography?" now in Japanese in the discussion LLC Japanese since 1900 https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/japanese-since-1900/forum/topic/tutorial-video-what-is-the-mla-international-bibliography-now-in-japanese/ Thu, 13 Feb 2020 19:11:35 -0500 The 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]

]]> 0 bc9af8e6c16b030731416bd7113985f1 Joanne Bernardi started the topic Call for Candidates: Japanese since 1900 Executive Committee Election in the discussion LLC Japanese since 1900 https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/japanese-since-1900/forum/topic/call-for-candidates-japanese-since-1900-executive-committee-election/ Wed, 22 Jan 2020 14:36:04 -0500 The 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]

]]> 0 49f93ee36a9b3bb16bafb14128ae4073 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 https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1675737/ Sun, 19 Jan 2020 03:49:43 -0500 Powerpoint 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]

]]> 0 593a1a828716e6be8836ad77c5e4cca6 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 https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/japanese-since-1900/forum/topic/cfp-mla2020-at-the-borders-of-the-human-in-japanese-lit-and-culture-since-1900/ Mon, 21 Jan 2019 14:36:46 -0500 CFP 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]

]]> 0 0e6b13d3863b3e704803c7c9cf116319 Molly Des Jardin deposited Constructing Our Canon(s): Reprinting & Digitizing Literary Heritage in the group LLC Japanese since 1900 https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1629845/ Sun, 20 Jan 2019 16:25:38 -0500 When 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]

]]> 0 c114a5c9a4634d89463708fa1209279e 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 https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/japanese-since-1900/forum/topic/social-hour-for-east-asianists-thurs-night-1-3-19-free-drinks-free-books/ Thu, 20 Dec 2018 17:00:51 -0500 Hope 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]

]]> 0 427aa7b300cf2cfe74b935e3a816178e Orna Shaughnessy started the topic Call for Papers | Women & Language in the discussion LLC Japanese since 1900 https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/japanese-since-1900/forum/topic/call-for-papers-women-language-2/ Wed, 28 Nov 2018 18:06:53 -0500 Call 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]

]]> 0 0ff15d2e5971ad464e7517b2c7e61491 Molly Des Jardin started the topic CFP: SHARP 2019 (Indigeneity, Nationhood, and Migrations of the Book) in the discussion Japanese since 1900 https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/japanese-since-1900/forum/topic/cfp-sharp-2019-indigeneity-nationhood-and-migrations-of-the-book/ Sat, 18 Aug 2018 16:54:34 -0400 Hi 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]

]]> 0 00d7002c6a3c8987eb265d9ecb1b7006 Melek Ortabasi started the topic ADCPL CFP MLA 2019: "Transacting Comparative Studies" in the discussion Japanese since 1900 https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/japanese-since-1900/forum/topic/adcpl-cfp-mla-2019-transacting-comparative-studies/ Wed, 07 Mar 2018 08:15:11 -0500 Hi 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>
Allied…[Read more]

]]> 0 282ca3e11cb3baae8c8c60254c37f489 Orna Shaughnessy posted an update in the group LLC Japanese since 1900: Call for Papers! "Environmental Humanities, China and […] https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1602304/ Thu, 01 Mar 2018 21:11:36 -0500 Call for Papers! “Environmental Humanities, China and Japan”
CFP: Roundtable at the Modern Language Association convention
Chicago, IL, January 3-6, 2019

This 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]

]]> 0 6330ebccffb80bdfdc91b7e1c18fe3ff Molly Des Jardin started the topic CFP: Textual Transference in Modern and Contemporary Japan (MLA 2019) in the discussion Japanese since 1900 https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/japanese-since-1900/forum/topic/cfp-textual-transference-in-modern-and-contemporary-japan-mla-2019/ Fri, 23 Feb 2018 21:46:02 -0500 Textual 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]

]]> 0 37c46eb33f00e217c546c6f15c6089b4 Orna Shaughnessy posted an update in the group LLC Japanese since 1900: -Executive Committee membership transition- Happy New MLA […] https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1596009/ Tue, 09 Jan 2018 21:53:51 -0500 -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]

]]> 0 b6becb1f48ab38aeabd811a49fa5216d Orna Shaughnessy posted an update in the group LLC Japanese since 1900: CANCELLED PANEL Due to weather and travel conditions that […] https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1594922/ Fri, 05 Jan 2018 16:59:58 -0500 CANCELLED 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]

]]> 0 934cc10c07d8457b038ef77f5550e6b9 Orna Shaughnessy posted an update in the group LLC Japanese since 1900: For those of you planning to be at the MLA- This year there […] https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1594471/ Wed, 03 Jan 2018 17:24:17 -0500 For 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]

]]> 0 0df7792c3f76f5dc60a8195d5df2ff3b Orna Shaughnessy posted an update in the group LLC Japanese since 1900: 賀 春 […] https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1594258/ Tue, 02 Jan 2018 17:38:42 -0500 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

]]> 0 4608e7198d1aec0eff6575238dd71b0f Steven Ridgely deposited Terayama's "China Doll" (in Japanese) in the group LLC Japanese since 1900 https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1584159/ Wed, 11 Oct 2017 01:09:38 -0400 This 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]

]]> 0 e549be22ed9e68e575d37ffd640a7717 Melek Ortabasi started the topic CFP for MLA 2018: Children's Lit in the discussion Japanese since 1900 https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/japanese-since-1900/forum/topic/cfp-for-mla-2018-childrens-lit/ Mon, 06 Feb 2017 18:35:20 -0500 Maybe of interest to some folks here. I’m sure it will be great.</div>
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MLA 2018 Call for Papers! Calling Dumbledore’s Army: Activist Children’s Literature

Books can encourage children to question rather than accept the world as it is. Literature for young people can invite them to imagine a world where black lives matter, wom…[Read more]

]]> 0 5697e1c2f1a70101022f01717ed7b748 Michael Emmerich started the topic Digital Humanities Approaches to Japanese-Language Texts in the discussion Japanese since 1900 https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/japanese-since-1900/forum/topic/digital-humanities-approaches-to-japanese-language-texts/ Fri, 03 Feb 2017 21:11:23 -0500 Papers on the application of DH techniques to pre-modern and modern Japanese literature. Challenges, possibilities, needs, and ideas. 250-word abstract and CV by 15 March 2017; Michael Emmerich (emmerich@humnet.ucla.edu).

]]> 0 a851a0af2588830af7140796df9bc4af Joanne Bernardi started the topic CFP Digital Humanities Approaches to Japanese Media (MLA NY 2018) in the discussion Japanese since 1900 https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/japanese-since-1900/forum/topic/cfp-digital-humanities-approaches-to-japanese-media-mla-ny-2018/ Fri, 03 Feb 2017 03:13:52 -0500 LLC Japanese since 1900 session CFP, MLA NY 2018 just posted:
Digital Humanities Approaches to Japanese Media

Papers on the application of DH techniques to nontextual materials from or concerning Japan, including film, art, sound. 250 word abstract and CV by 15 March 2017

Joanne Bernardi (joanne.bernardi@rochester.edu)

]]> 0 d6c9fa212b0983aff66a75113af18465 Orna Shaughnessy started the topic Thank you to De Gruyter Mouton for supporting Asian Studies at the MLA in the discussion Japanese since 1900 https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/japanese-since-1900/forum/topic/thank-you-to-de-gruyter-mouton-for-supporting-asian-studies-at-the-mla/ Tue, 10 Jan 2017 18:14:53 -0500 Thank you to De Gruyter Mouton for supporting Asian Studies at the MLA through a generous donation to the East Asia Reception!

De Gruyter Mouton give-away

]]> 0 c2f5b8152532dc09101996e128ad0206 Melek Ortabasi replied to the topic East Asian Reception photos in the discussion Japanese since 1900 https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/japanese-since-1900/forum/topic/east-asian-reception-photos/#post-1013050 Tue, 10 Jan 2017 18:04:08 -0500 Thanks, Orna, for the photos! Looks like folks had a great time:-)

Cheers,

Melek

]]> 0 756663577809b043b34ffb6c432a04b0 Orna Shaughnessy started the topic East Asian Reception photos in the discussion Japanese since 1900 https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/japanese-since-1900/forum/topic/east-asian-reception-photos/ Tue, 10 Jan 2017 17:52:31 -0500 Thank you, everyone, for the hugely successful East Asia Reception at the MLA in Philadelphia 2017!

]]> 0 73d1efd83fa0715a370f3f7720aff2f8 Orna Shaughnessy uploaded the file: De Gruyter Mouton give-away to LLC Japanese since 1900 https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1556983/ Tue, 10 Jan 2017 17:47:47 -0500 0 6c49d5cc92ee8a667bac2d18a18b23e3 Orna Shaughnessy uploaded the file: East Asian Reception MLA Philadelphia 2017_1 to LLC Japanese since 1900 https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1556980/ Tue, 10 Jan 2017 17:24:49 -0500 0 86fa269d538c1e31ada24cc97ebbfa22 Melek Ortabasi started the topic Thank you everyone! in the discussion Japanese since 1900 https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/japanese-since-1900/forum/topic/thank-you-everyone/ Tue, 10 Jan 2017 05:41:12 -0500 Hi all,

Asian-themed panels were well-attended, and the Saturday night reception was a hit! Thank you all for supporting each other. Let’s build on this momentum for MLA 2018.

We have a lot of ideas that will be shared soon, but in the meantime, if there is someone who’d like to take over organizing another reception for next year, contact me…[Read more]

]]> 0 2b75bedcdd7b5a0aac28f622502e327a Melek Ortabasi started the topic You're invited to a reception! in the discussion Japanese since 1900 https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/japanese-since-1900/forum/topic/youre-invited-to-a-reception/ Fri, 09 Dec 2016 01:21:02 -0500 It is my great pleasure to invite everyone to a late evening reception celebrating the creation of the new Asian literature forums at the MLA. Charlotte Eubanks is your host for the evening!

Saturday, 7 January, 8:45–10:00 p.m., 411-412, Philadelphia Marriott

Wine and appetizers generously provided by cosponsorship from Columbia UP, De Gru…[Read more]

]]> 0 66549c0b49725e2a998947d31b6fdcb1 Melek Ortabasi started the topic Japan *since* 1900 Business Meeting on Jan 6th in the discussion Japanese since 1900 https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/japanese-since-1900/forum/topic/japan-since-1900-business-meeting-on-jan-6th/ Wed, 23 Nov 2016 20:46:15 -0500 Hi everyone,

An executive committee business meeting for the forum LLC Japanese since 1900 has been scheduled for 6 January 2017, 3:30-4:45 p.m., room 309, in the Philadelphia Marriott. Please join us after this panel, sponsored by this forum!

311. Nature and Disaster in the Contemporary Japanese Cultural Imagination
1:45–3:00 p.m., room 406, P…[Read more]

]]> 0 9e01269823b52f581bf67e60e0f0f9ca Charlotte Eubanks started the topic Japan *to* 1900 Business Meeting on Jan 6th at MLA in the discussion Japanese since 1900 https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/japanese-since-1900/forum/topic/japan-to-1900-business-meeting-on-jan-6th-at-mla-2/ Tue, 08 Nov 2016 02:53:57 -0500 Hi post-1900ers,

The executive committee business meeting for the forum LLC Japanese TO 1900 has been scheduled for 6 January 2017, 12 noon-1:15 p.m., room 304, in the Philadelphia Marriott.

Come one, come all, and help plan pre-1900 Japan for MLA 2018!

All best,

Charlotte

]]> 0 00972fe4dcb3c2e1cfe022c5e26c13d2 Melek Ortabasi replied to the topic First-Ever Forum Delegate Election: Membership Suggestions Invited in the discussion Japanese since 1900 https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/japanese-since-1900/forum/topic/first-ever-forum-delegate-election-membership-suggestions-invited/#post-12377 Thu, 03 Nov 2016 19:36:18 -0400 Hello everyone,

As current chair of the exec committee, may I second Carol’s call for nominations for a delegate? This person will represent us to the MLA at large. It’s an important position.

We’ll also be seeking nominations for the executive committee.

Our forum meeting at the Convention will be open to everyone. More information on that…[Read more]

]]> 0 8acbec5b3f10972287b7b019066b15c5 Carol Zuses started the topic First-Ever Forum Delegate Election: Membership Suggestions Invited in the discussion Japanese since 1900 https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/japanese-since-1900/forum/topic/first-ever-forum-delegate-election-membership-suggestions-invited/ Thu, 03 Nov 2016 16:18:41 -0400 The first election of a Delegate Assembly representative for LLC Japanese since 1900 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 making no…[Read more]

]]> 0 66bacf0af48089f2f7cfc2f71e464f81 Alexa Huang deposited "It is the east": Shakespearean Tragedies in East Asia in the group LLC Japanese since 1900 https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/551102/ Fri, 16 Sep 2016 15:20:01 -0400 Shakespearean tragedies have played an important part in modern and contemporary East Asian engagements with Western cultures. Japanese, Korean, Chinese, and Singaporean translations, rewritings, films, and theatre productions have three important shared characteristics, namely hybridization of genres, intra-regional and trans-historical…[Read more]

]]> 0 ba4389fa7ee84ed5d2969f30e30a36f6 Alexa Huang deposited Yukio Ninagawa in the group LLC Japanese since 1900 https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/550002/ Fri, 12 Aug 2016 13:01:35 -0400 Stemming from a culture of translation, Ninagawa’s interpretations of Shakespeare were nurtured by Japan’s rebirth and consolidation of its national identity after the war. His stage works thrive in the contentious space between cultures. In fact, the notion that ‘modern Japan is a culture of translation’ has been taken for granted by many Japanes…[Read more]

]]> 0 eaccdc11b18edbe70c71b3cbbd58359f Melek Ortabasi started the topic MLA 2017 Modern Japanese Panels: Dates and Times in the discussion Japanese since 1900 https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/japanese-since-1900/forum/topic/mla-2017-modern-japanese-panels-dates-and-times/ Thu, 28 Jul 2016 14:21:57 -0400 We are excited to present the following two panels at the next Annual Meeting, and hope to see you there! Sorry for cross postings.

311. “Nature and Disaster in the Contemporary Japanese Cultural Imagination” Friday Jan 6 1:45–3:00 p.m., 406, Philadelphia Marriott

Presiding: Karen Thornber, Harvard Univ.

1. “What about Animals? In the Wake of N…[Read more]

]]> 0 a49236c7194f316a789bb3a08e032a49 Monika Dix started the topic MLA Panel Announcement in the discussion Japanese since 1900 https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/japanese-since-1900/forum/topic/mla-panel-announcement/ Sun, 24 Jul 2016 14:35:52 -0400 Please note the following panel since it will be of interest to some of you.

“Literature as Experience of Crossing Boundaries in East Asia”, Friday 1/6, 8:30am-9:45am, 204 Marriott

Thanks and hope to see many of you at this panel!

Monika Dix

]]> 0 09f38a133208111cd591c7a6b2ca12a5 Orna Shaughnessy started the topic CFP Music and Literature (MLA 2017) in the discussion Japanese since 1900 https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/japanese-since-1900/forum/topic/cfp-music-and-literature-mla-2017/ Thu, 18 Feb 2016 17:45:06 -0500 We invite proposals exploring the intersection of music and Japanese literature (broadly interpreted) from the Meiji period onwards.  Proposals may engage with a variety of critical approaches, including interrogations of the relationship of poetry and music as mutually contingent arts; music and literary form; musico-literary polyglossia or po…[Read more]

]]> 0 af38e3f339145096638308741071def8 Melek Ortabasi started the topic Join us at our 1st MLA meeting! in the discussion Japanese since 1900 https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/japanese-since-1900/forum/topic/join-us-at-our-1st-mla-meeting/ Thu, 07 Jan 2016 05:52:01 -0500 Hello everyone,

We are holding our first executive committee meeting on Skype this Friday at 2 p.m. PST. Please email me, your inaugural chair, at mso1@sfu.ca if you’d like to be patched in.

If you can’t make it, please send us your ideas for

a) the one guaranteed panel our new forum gets, and

b) potential nominees for the executive committee…[Read more]

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