MLA Commons | LLC Japanese to 1900 | Activity https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/japanese-to-1900/ Activity feed for the group, LLC Japanese to 1900. Sun, 05 Apr 2026 02:41:17 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 b22ea75eb6865e0a9e38fd78827f79d8 Edward B. Kamens started the topic MLA Session 72: Family Resemblances in East Asian Anthologies in the forum LLC Japanese to 1900 https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/japanese-to-1900/forum/topic/mla-session-72-family-resemblances-in-east-asian-anthologies/ Mon, 08 Dec 2025 16:56:55 -0500 There are several panels on the program of the 2026 conference that will be of interest to members of this Forum (and others).  Please consider attending panel 72, “Family Resemblances in East Asian Anthologies,” a roundtable designated as a Presidential Theme Panel.  Mary Gilstad (UCLA), Mengling Wang (Colgate), Niels van der Salm (Leiden) and I…[Read more]

]]> 0 9ea82408ce02e602316c3ab755f83e3f Erin Brightwell started the topic MLA Roundtable Session 515 in the forum LLC Japanese to 1900 https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/japanese-to-1900/forum/topic/mla-roundtable-session-515/ Mon, 08 Dec 2025 16:07:37 -0500 Dear Colleagues, if you’re looking for a roundtable with a heavy premodern Japan presence at the upcoming MLA, please consider joining us at MLA 2026 Session 515 (Remote): “Fact, Fiction, and the In-Between: How Japanese Studies Can Foster Student Literacy in an Age of Dis- and Misinformation.”

Although it’s a roundtable, we will have five short…[Read more]

]]> 0 28c07cccec2cf371b0df678a6435f022 Charo D'Etcheverry started the topic Membership suggestions for Japan to 1900 Executive Forum in the forum LLC Japanese to 1900 https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/japanese-to-1900/forum/topic/membership-suggestions-for-japan-to-1900-executive-forum/ Mon, 17 Nov 2025 18:34:28 -0500 The Japan to 1900 Executive Forum needs to appoint one new member for a 5-year term starting in January 2026. Please email the current chair, Charo D’Etcheverry (cdetcheverry@wisc.edu), to nominate yourself or someone else! All candidates must be members of MLA. Deadline for nominations: November 30, 2025.

]]> 0 a4bf7214ea655b6f8f20b445a0575a6b Edward B. Kamens started the topic Planning for the 2025 MLA Conference in the discussion LLC Japanese to 1900 https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/japanese-to-1900/forum/topic/planning-for-the-2025-mla-conference/ Wed, 17 Jan 2024 18:02:11 -0500 The LLC Japanese to 1900 Forum Executive Committee asks members and other interested individuals to share ideas for panels and round tables to be proposed for sponsorship by the Forum for the program of the 2025 MLA Convention, which will be held in New Orleans, January 9-12. We are especially interested in suggestions of innovative panel or round…[Read more]

]]> 0 6040bfd2e01b91ac26fb71bd922a90a0 Matthew Fraleigh started the topic Scaglione Prize for East Asian Studies in the discussion LLC Japanese to 1900 https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/japanese-to-1900/forum/topic/scaglione-prize-for-east-asian-studies/ Tue, 09 Jan 2024 01:40:53 -0500 Greetings.

Last year, the generosity of Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione enabled the Modern Language Association to create the Scaglione Prize for East Asian Studies, to be awarded annually to an outstanding scholarly work in East Asian literary studies. Works of literary history, literary criticism, philology, and literary theory are eligible, as are…[Read more]

]]> 0 06e5610222cd5ff907b164f26b23060e Glynne Walley started the topic Suggestions for Japanese to 1900 panels for MLA 2023 in the discussion LLC Japanese to 1900 https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/japanese-to-1900/forum/topic/suggestions-for-japanese-to-1900-panels-for-mla-2023/ Mon, 17 Jan 2022 23:35:36 -0500 The exco is currently in the process of planning panels for next year’s MLA.  We have some ideas but are eager to hear suggestions and proposals from you.  If you would like to organize a panel, or to suggest a topic for one, please contact me.

Next year’s MLA will be in San Francisco, Jan. 5-8, 2023.  The Presidential Theme is described here, bu…[Read more]

]]> 0 8c9251a2bbb6d77101e02d874b110ebb Glynne Walley started the topic Japanese to 1900 Forum Executive Committee membership in the discussion LLC Japanese to 1900 https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/japanese-to-1900/forum/topic/japanese-to-1900-forum-executive-committee-membership/ Mon, 17 Jan 2022 23:30:05 -0500 As most of you know, forum executive committee members serve five-year terms; each year one new member joins the exco as one leaves.  Historically, new members have been elected by the forum membership.  However, beginning this cycle MLA is experimenting with a new policy.

Here’s MLA’s explanation:

The Program Committee has implemented a change t…

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]]> 0 7f404b10f1e6872e9405975c7d7a04cd Edward B. Kamens started the topic Nominee statement for forum election (LLC Japaanese to 1900) in the discussion LLC Japanese to 1900 https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/japanese-to-1900/forum/topic/nominee-statement-for-forum-election-llc-japaanese-to-1900/ Tue, 02 Nov 2021 17:20:47 -0400 Diversity, equity and inclusion are and for the foreseeable future should be high priority concerns for all manner of organizations, institutions and associations, including and perhaps especially those in the academic sphere, a space from which we believe, as humanists, meaningful changes in understanding and purposeful can emanate. Recognition…[Read more]

]]> 0 9d44d35d90dfebb857052ce55a035746 Erin Brightwell started the topic Membership nominee forum representative statement in the discussion LLC Japanese to 1900 https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/japanese-to-1900/forum/topic/membership-nominee-forum-representative-statement/ Tue, 02 Nov 2021 14:55:25 -0400 I am pleased to stand for election as a forum representative. My work centers on Japan, but for me, this means Japan embedded in larger regional, intellectual, and cultural networks. In particular, preoccupations with classical China and Chinese haunt many of the texts that draw me. My recent monograph, Reflecting the Past: Place, Language, and…[Read more]

]]> 0 49b75765350b15476935d0ecf15bd8d4 Glynne Walley replied to the topic CFP: Japan to 1900 in the discussion LLC Japanese to 1900 https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/japanese-to-1900/forum/topic/cfp-japan-to-1900/#post-1026813 Sun, 21 Mar 2021 21:50:16 -0400 We’re extending the deadline on this CFP.  If you’re interested in participating in this panel please send an abstract by March 26, 2021.

]]> 0 5cf3940b2f616e188e1d078171e72d00 Glynne Walley started the topic CFP: Japan to 1900 in the discussion LLC Japanese to 1900 https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/japanese-to-1900/forum/topic/cfp-japan-to-1900/ Fri, 26 Feb 2021 19:14:04 -0500 We’ve just posted the following call for papers for a panel for MLA 2022:

Title:  The Translation’s Semivisibility: Interlingual, Intralingual, and Other Kinds of Translation in Premodern Japan

Description:  We invite papers exploring translation in premodern Japan, with particular emphasis on types of linguistic rendering that challenge or bro…[Read more]

]]> 0 07e686560fd02a311f0d399f3c9a0e07 Gian Piero Persiani started the topic "Pre-1900 Japanese Literature: What Next?" Post-panel Discussion in the discussion LLC Japanese to 1900 https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/japanese-to-1900/forum/topic/pre-1900-japanese-literature-what-next-post-panel-discussion/ Sat, 09 Jan 2021 17:03:27 -0500 Perhaps someone is interested (hopefully many are) in continuing the conversation on the directions of our field? There is so much to say. I share Paul’s concern about the shrinking of premodern, which is why I was stressing the importance of history and studying the past as past. But that’s just one angle. Anyway, just creating a space to…[Read more]

]]> 0 df877790bf339af9d2f46f6ba47d4d02 Tariq Sheikh deposited This Side of the Long Tunnel: The Emergence of the Idea of Japan’s ‘Snow Country’ in the Nineteenth Century in the group LLC Japanese to 1900 https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1721809/ Wed, 06 Jan 2021 03:48:57 -0500 In Nobel laureate Kawabata Yasunari’s novel Snow Country, the protagonist Shimamura refers to an “old book” which gave him in-depth knowledge about the region known in Japan as the “Snow Country”. The name of the book is not disclosed by Kawabata, but it is now known that the “old book” is Hokuetsu Seppu (first published in 1837), written by Su…[Read more]

]]> 0 019b05faa90f0c4cd14e570432dc2087 Ryan Hintzman started the topic MLA 2021: Pre-1900 Japanese Literature: What Next? (9 Jan, 10:15am; Session 382) in the discussion LLC Japanese to 1900 https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/japanese-to-1900/forum/topic/mla-2021-pre-1900-japanese-literature-what-next-9-jan-1015am-session-382/ Sat, 26 Dec 2020 17:22:05 -0500 Saturday, 9 January 10:15AM-11:30AM EST (Session #382)

Scholars at various career stages from the United States, Europe, and Japan think together with the audience about strategies for ensuring the vitality of pre-1900 Japanese literary studies given the field’s distinctive history and configuration and the challenges of teaching and conducting r…[Read more]

]]> 0 21449e14c7b492fde94b74771e63e64a Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2021 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion LLC Japanese to 1900 https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/japanese-to-1900/forum/topic/membership-suggestions-for-2021-forum-delegate-election-25/ Fri, 23 Oct 2020 15:32:37 -0400 The next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2021, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets in January 2021. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nominate at least one candidate who…[Read more]

]]> 0 d7f07f9df60bcebc8b9476370bb0bf9a Brian Steininger started the topic MLA 2021: Paratext and Literary Apparatus in Medieval and Early Modern Japan in the discussion LLC Japanese to 1900 https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/japanese-to-1900/forum/topic/mla-2021-paratext-and-literary-apparatus-in-medieval-and-early-modern-japan/ Thu, 24 Sep 2020 18:59:18 -0400 Thursday, 7 January 1:45 PM-3:00 PM EST
Abstract: The paratext, a supplement to the supposed original body of a literary work, has proven a useful rubric for examining processes of mediation that comprise both discursive (e.g. interpretive traditions) and material (e.g. formatting and binding) aspects. This panel considers how paratextual…[Read more]

]]> 0 d5fd065bb33d25887bee2c7378a96b57 Naomi Fukumori started the topic CFP: Journal _Women & Language_ (editor: Leland G. Spencer) in the discussion LLC Japanese to 1900 https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/japanese-to-1900/forum/topic/cfp-journal-_women-language_-editor-leland-g-spencer/ Thu, 25 Jun 2020 16:40:55 -0400 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 6e75d1993fd7d6be158c768afa9ae4bd Gian Piero Persiani started the topic CFP for MLA2021 "The Location of Culture: Places/Spaces of the Asian Imaginary" in the discussion LLC Japanese to 1900 https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/japanese-to-1900/forum/topic/cfp-for-mla2021-the-location-of-culture-places-spaces-of-the-asian-imaginary/ Mon, 02 Mar 2020 22:36:36 -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. Throughout…[Read more]

]]> 0 7b046be5386ea42d5133e058a70dbd2e Edward B. Kamens replied to the topic CFP for MLA2021: Text and/in/as Image and Vice-Versa in the discussion LLC Japanese to 1900 via email https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/japanese-to-1900/forum/topic/cfp-for-mla2021-text-and-in-as-image-and-vice-versa/#post-1023445 Thu, 27 Feb 2020 01:09:43 -0500 Hello, Glynne. I would like to submit the attached abstract—on tekagami—for your consideration. I know that Akiko is working on the Oregon album and I look forward to exchanging findings and ideas with her at any and all future opportunities.
As you may have heard from Naoki Fukumori, I also plan to submit a proposal for a roundtable on a ver…[Read more]

]]> 0 f96f775242d013b701334bb7476973ec Katsuyo Motoyoshi started the topic Tutorial Video "What is the MLA International Bibliography?" now in Japanese in the discussion LLC Japanese to 1900 https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/japanese-to-1900/forum/topic/tutorial-video-what-is-the-mla-international-bibliography-now-in-japanese-2/ Thu, 13 Feb 2020 19:11:56 -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 41988ff86c262c35c08012dc6c5e7f40 Edward B. Kamens replied to the topic CFP for MLA2021: Text and/in/as Image and Vice-Versa in the discussion LLC Japanese to 1900 https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/japanese-to-1900/forum/topic/cfp-for-mla2021-text-and-in-as-image-and-vice-versa/#post-1023256 Sat, 01 Feb 2020 04:36:07 -0500 Dear Glynne (if I may): Thank you for proposing such a capacious topic. I am sure you will receive many fine paper proposals. Having served on the MLA program committee for three years recently, I am aware of how few strong panel proposals that originate in or can accommodate papers from the pre-1900 part of the Japanese literary studies field…[Read more]

]]> 0 bbed7dc28fe3c14e5292aa6e2da8668b Glynne Walley started the topic CFP for MLA2021: Text and/in/as Image and Vice-Versa in the discussion LLC Japanese to 1900 https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/japanese-to-1900/forum/topic/cfp-for-mla2021-text-and-in-as-image-and-vice-versa/ Sat, 01 Feb 2020 00:55:06 -0500 We invite papers exploring relationships between text and image (broadly defined) in premodern Japan.  Scholars from a variety of disciplines welcome.  250-word abstracts to Glynne Walley (glynne@uoregon.edu) by February 29, 2020.

]]> 0 c50c0abbd86846c3b94614fb371c6f68 Naomi Fukumori started the topic Call for Candidates: Japan to 1900 Executive Committee Election in the discussion LLC Japanese to 1900 https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/japanese-to-1900/forum/topic/call-for-candidates-japan-to-1900-executive-committee-election/ Thu, 16 Jan 2020 19:27:42 -0500 The Japan to 1900 forum’s executive committee seeks nominations (self-nominations are welcome!) for alternate candidates to stand for election for the 2021-2026 term on the committee. Please contact Naomi Fukumori (fukumori.1@osu.edu) by January 24. The election will be held at the end of 2020, with results announced in December.

]]> 0 a33f669dc8b88b056363ca98a6a8561b Naomi Fukumori started the topic MLA 2020: Open Business Meeting, Saturday, Jan. 11, 10:15-11 in the discussion LLC Japanese to 1900 https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/japanese-to-1900/forum/topic/mla-2020-open-business-meeting-saturday-jan-11-1045-11-2/ Sat, 11 Jan 2020 14:14:54 -0500 The Japanese to 1900 forum will hold an open business meeting on Saturday, Jan. 11, 10:15-11, at the Greenwood, in the Sheraton. All members of the forum are cordially invited.

]]> 0 e9130ea2a194b35ebdff17987eb34346 Molly Des Jardin started the topic CFP: SHARP 2019 (Indigeneity, Nationhood, and Migrations of the Book) in the discussion LLC Japanese to 1900 https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/japanese-to-1900/forum/topic/cfp-sharp-2019-indigeneity-nationhood-and-migrations-of-the-book-2/ Sat, 18 Aug 2018 16:54:51 -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 b8a186e3924a7d9427b85b12a3dc391d Matthew Fraleigh started the topic Job announcement of potential interest in the discussion LLC Japanese to 1900 https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/japanese-to-1900/forum/topic/job-announcement-of-potential-interest/ Wed, 15 Aug 2018 20:11:26 -0400 Dear All,

Johns Hopkins reached out to ask that the following job announcement be circulated to the members of this forum.

Best,

Matthew

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The Department of Comparative Thought and Literature at Johns Hopkins University searches for a tenure-track assistant professor, with an anticipated…[Read more]

]]> 0 79fdaaed6512355e4f13d8a6811a5eae Matthew Fraleigh posted an update in the group LLC Japanese to 1900: Japanese Editorial Practice and Commentary in East Asian […] https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1601189/ Mon, 19 Feb 2018 05:46:29 -0500 Japanese Editorial Practice and Commentary in East Asian Canons

This panel examines the apparatus of literary circulation and dissemination through the lenses of commentary, introduction,
annotation, and translation to isolate how foreign texts were domesticated and localized.

From the rise of commercial book publishing in early modern Japan,…[Read more]

]]> 0 3426c06bb28318f26ae938e2619ead3c Orna Shaughnessy posted an update in the group LLC Japanese to 1900: CANCELLED PANEL Due to weather and travel conditions that […] https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1594923/ Fri, 05 Jan 2018 17:05:05 -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 34c5f42327e2c002343000a421c4db59 Matthew Fraleigh posted an update in the group LLC Japanese to 1900: Dear All, An executive committee business meeting for the […] https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1593299/ Fri, 22 Dec 2017 08:25:13 -0500 Dear All,

An executive committee business meeting for the forum LLC Japanese to 1900 has been scheduled for 6 January 2018, 1:45-3:00 p.m., room Madison 4, in the Sheraton New York Times Square.

We look forward to seeing everyone there!

Best,
Matthew

]]> 0 54cf253a732275243ca00e60e47d0720 Monika Dix posted an update in the group LLC Japanese to 1900: I just received notification that I was elected to the […] https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1592966/ Wed, 20 Dec 2017 02:06:59 -0500 I just received notification that I was elected to the executive committee of the forum LLC Japanese to 1900. Thanks to everyone who supported my nomination. Since this is last minute, I am not sure if I will be able to make it to NY, but I will try my best. Do we have a LLC Japanese to 1900 business meeting scheduled?

]]> 0 d06f9243bd27eabeb43b74b73a089924 Melek Ortabasi started the topic Working in pre-20th c. Children's Literature? in the discussion LLC Japanese to 1900 https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/japanese-to-1900/forum/topic/working-in-pre-20th-c-childrens-literature/ Thu, 10 Aug 2017 20:48:31 -0400 Add your name to a growing list of international scholars on the subject!

We are in the process of compiling a list of scholars, curators, and collectors who work in pre-twentieth century children’s literature and related fields. We are defining “children’s literature” broadly to include manuscript materials (including children’s writing),…[Read more]

]]> 0 fce127b4f2108915475f17380e86e7b3 Michael Emmerich started the topic CFP Digital Humanities Approaches to Japanese-Language Texts in the discussion LLC Japanese to 1900 https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/japanese-to-1900/forum/topic/cfp-digital-humanities-approaches-to-japanese-language-texts/ Fri, 03 Feb 2017 21:14:03 -0500 Papers on the application of digital humanities 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 ef1b83ca08cb05e4b78dca92e4bdeaef Matthew Fraleigh started the topic CFP for MLA 2018: Translation in pre-Meiji Japan in the discussion LLC Japanese to 1900 https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/japanese-to-1900/forum/topic/cfp-for-mla-2018-translation-in-pre-meiji-japan/ Mon, 30 Jan 2017 20:25:27 -0500 We invite papers that examine translation and other aspects of
interlingual and/or intralingual textual practice in Japan prior to
the Meiji period. 250-300 word abstracts to Matthew Fraleigh
(fraleigh@brandeis.edu) by 28 February 2017.

]]> 0 306434f93301dfcda69d31966168f1fd Vyjayanthi Selinger started the topic CFP for MLA 2018: States of Precarity in premodern Japan in the discussion LLC Japanese to 1900 https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/japanese-to-1900/forum/topic/cfp-for-mla-2018-states-of-precarity-in-premodern-japan/ Mon, 30 Jan 2017 01:00:34 -0500 States of precarity in premodern Japan

Papers on any state of precarious existence in premodern Japan.  Reasons for insecurity might be economic, social, political, religious, gendered, or symbolic.  300 word abstract by 28 February 2017; Terry Kawashima (terry.kawashima@umb.edu).

]]> 0 960d7c7373d01abb649ce504d299be4b Charlotte Eubanks started the topic MLA 2017/ Free food and drink to celebrate East Asia at the MLA! in the discussion LLC Japanese to 1900 https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/japanese-to-1900/forum/topic/mla-2017-free-food-and-drink-to-celebrate-east-asia-at-the-mla/ Wed, 04 Jan 2017 02:19:54 -0500 You are invited!

Social Gathering and Networking Event Arranged by the Forums LLC Asian American, LLC East Asian, LLC Korean, LLC Ming and Qing Chinese, LLC Modern and Contemporary Chinese, and LLC Japanese to 1900
<span id=”OBJ_PREFIX_DWT467_com_zimbra_date” class=”Object”>Saturday</span>, 7 January, 8:45–10:00 p.m., 411-412, Philadelphia M…

]]> 0 d0fd983af34428495e5ff3bb259c2f27 Melek Ortabasi started the topic Japan *since* 1900 Business Meeting on Jan 6th in the discussion LLC Japanese to 1900 https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/japanese-to-1900/forum/topic/japan-since-1900-business-meeting-on-jan-6th-2/ Wed, 23 Nov 2016 20:50:01 -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 the below panel, sponsored by Japanese since 1900!

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

]]> 0 b17b638bcb6796ce63d919c81ca78034 Charlotte Eubanks started the topic Japan to 1900 Business Meeting on Jan 6th at MLA in the discussion LLC Japanese to 1900 https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/japanese-to-1900/forum/topic/japan-to-1900-business-meeting-on-jan-6th-at-mla/ Tue, 08 Nov 2016 02:51:59 -0500 Hi all,

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 MLA 2018!

All best,

Charlotte

]]> 0 e41461244abf3f06e8287ed01835ef41 Monika Dix replied to the topic MLA 2017 Premodern Japan Panels: Times & Dates in the discussion LLC Japanese to 1900 https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/japanese-to-1900/forum/topic/mla-2017-premodern-japan-panels-times-dates/#post-11525 Sun, 24 Jul 2016 14:34:18 -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 5b999dd2cb8a4bb3291eb70cfaf2aaab Charlotte Eubanks started the topic MLA 2017 Premodern Japan Panels: Times & Dates in the discussion LLC Japanese to 1900 https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/japanese-to-1900/forum/topic/mla-2017-premodern-japan-panels-times-dates/ Wed, 20 Jul 2016 18:24:11 -0400 Hello all!

Information about the schedule for MLA 2017 has begun to circulate. I’ll post the titles, dates, and times for the Premodern Japan panels here. Hope you’ll join us!

#164 “Sounding the Premodern Sinosphere” Thursday 1/5, 7:00-8:15pm, 406 Marriott

#238 “Soundscapes of Premodern Japan” Friday 1/6, 10:15-, 406 Marriott

Also, if you have…[Read more]

]]> 0 76bc6083818603782df4866750d24186 Charlotte Eubanks replied to the topic Sonding the Premodern Sinoshpere (a second CFP for MLA 2017) in the discussion LLC Japanese to 1900 https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/japanese-to-1900/forum/topic/sonding-the-premodern-sinoshpere-a-second-cfp-for-mla-2017/#post-10296 Mon, 01 Feb 2016 20:15:42 -0500 <u>Sounding the Premodern Sinosphere</u>

How should we understand the aural dimensions of composing, performing, and appreciating Literary Sinitic texts in pre-modern East Asia? 250-300 word abstracts to Matthew Fraleigh (fraleigh@brandeis.edu) by 1 March 2016.

 

Longer abstract:

Several new forums of particular interest to scholars working in…[Read more]

]]> 0 d4fedc3e5838ead9dfd6786617347eaf Charlotte Eubanks started the topic Sonding the Premodern Sinoshpere (a second CFP for MLA 2017) in the discussion LLC Japanese to 1900 https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/japanese-to-1900/forum/topic/sonding-the-premodern-sinoshpere-a-second-cfp-for-mla-2017/ Wed, 27 Jan 2016 16:32:02 -0500 The Japan to 1900 Division of the MLA invites you to submit paper proposals for either of the following panel, which we are planning for the January 2017 Modern Language Association annual conference, to convene in Philadelphia.

Collaborative Session (with the East Asia forum):

Sounding the Premodern Sinosphere

How should we understand the…[Read more]

]]> 0 cae54a01911e1a9fe1a9c46719b51bb6 Charlotte Eubanks started the topic Soundscapes in Premodern Japan (CFP for MLA 2017) in the discussion LLC Japanese to 1900 https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/japanese-to-1900/forum/topic/soundscapes-in-premodern-japan-cfp-for-mla-2017/ Wed, 20 Jan 2016 20:46:53 -0500 Soundscapes in Premodern Japan (guaranteed panel) CFP

How do sound imaginaries in literature (the racket of the street and the warbling of birds) represent space? Who hears, listens in, or overhears, and what power do they enjoy in this sonic culture? What constitutes a sacred sound or its profane or transgressive counterpart? What role is…[Read more]

]]> 0 cc12b4936a0137843ac4a88763c85dea Charlotte Eubanks started the topic Panel Topics for MLA 2017 in the discussion LLC Japanese to 1900 https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/japanese-to-1900/forum/topic/panel-topics-for-mla-2017/ Fri, 15 Jan 2016 20:41:04 -0500 The second item of business is organizing panel(s) for MLA 2017.

We get 1 guaranteed panel. Jayanthi (your current Secretary) and I (your current Chair) will organize a panel on

“Soundscapes in Pre-modern Japanese Literature.”

CFP to be circulated shortly. (NB: the Japan *from* 1900 forum is also doing their guaranteed panel on sound, and the…[Read more]

]]> 0 0b83e765abcc458e5d32b56b2799221d Charlotte Eubanks started the topic Want to be on the executive committee? in the discussion LLC Japanese to 1900 https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/japanese-to-1900/forum/topic/want-to-be-on-the-executive-committee/ Fri, 15 Jan 2016 20:34:10 -0500 For the first time in MLA history, pre-modern Japan has a designated ‘place at the table.’ Thanks, all, for your efforts to help make this vision a reality!

With MLA 2016 just over, it’s time to start preparing for MLA 2017, to be held in Philadelphia. We have a couple of items of business, one of which is to collect nominations (including sel…[Read more]

]]> 0 4b0b7bccfdb3dcc0cdcd74747215074d Melek Ortabasi started the topic FYI: Japan after 1900 info in the discussion LLC Japanese to 1900 https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/japanese-to-1900/forum/topic/fyi-japan-after-1900-info/ Thu, 07 Jan 2016 05:54:45 -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 com…[Read more]

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