MLA Commons | LSL Language and Society | Activity https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/language-and-society/ Activity feed for the group, LSL Language and Society. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 00:29:27 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 91441a91bdeed2f844dfbb5fd6e185de Inés Vañó García started the topic CFP - MLA Convention 2027 in the forum LSL Language and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/language-and-society/forum/topic/cfp-mla-convention-2027-2/ Thu, 19 Mar 2026 16:04:03 -0400 Language Ideologies and the Discursive Construction of Emancipatory Narratives
We invite 250-word abstracts of interdisciplinary contributions that examine how language ideologies and practices, historically and in digital contexts, mediate power, shape public perception, and negotiate responsibility within social, political, and pedagogical…[Read more]

]]> 0 449434bee3550586b44084517f90aa5e Lee B. Abraham started the topic MLA 2026 Sessions: LSL Second-Language Teaching and Learning Forum in the forum LSL Language and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/language-and-society/forum/topic/mla-2026-sessions-lsl-second-language-teaching-and-learning-forum-3/ Thu, 08 Jan 2026 02:11:49 -0500 The Modern Language Association’s (MLA) Executive Committee of the LSL Forum on Second-Language Teaching and Learning cordially invites you to our three (3) sessions at the MLA’s 2026 Annual Convention in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

We look forward to seeing you and to your participation!

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314 – Reimagining Learning and Teaching with Stu…[Read more]

]]> 0 d69bfcf2d744701bfacd2e6cf104e2dc Shakil Rabbi started the topic Abstract for Translingual Rhetorics and the Language Movement in Bangladesh in the forum LSL Language and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/language-and-society/forum/topic/abstract-for-translingual-rhetorics-and-the-language-movement-in-bangladesh/ Fri, 02 Jan 2026 21:54:13 -0500 This presentation explores the role of Language Movement in the formation of the Bangladeshi national identity. Analyzing the translingual negotiations between diverse language ideologies I argue that these interactions laid the groundwork for a distinct national consciousness. Rather than viewing language and nationalism as fixed categories, this…[Read more]

]]> 0 80c221f457103f995092339003cc52ed Daniel Alan Fried started the topic Family Resemblances between World Languages and Nationalisms abstract in the forum LSL Language and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/language-and-society/forum/topic/family-resemblances-between-world-languages-and-nationalisms-abstract-2/ Mon, 29 Dec 2025 22:15:41 -0500 Posting at Shakil’s request–here is my abstract for the panel:

<u>Language and Identity in the Sinitic Empire of Letters</u>

For centuries prior to the advent of modern nationalism, Chinese literature had already been constructed by scholars into a common heritage and united civilizational tradition; with modern Chinese nationalism, this…[Read more]

]]> 0 eb8d10444be5cd39fe31df04f28e584e Daniel Alan Fried started the topic Family Resemblances between World Languages and Nationalisms abstract in the forum LSL Language and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/language-and-society/forum/topic/family-resemblances-between-world-languages-and-nationalisms-abstract/ Mon, 29 Dec 2025 22:13:18 -0500 At Shakil’s request to mention our panel here, I thought I would post a copy of my abstract for our MLA panel on Family Resemblances between World Languages and Nationalisms.  The panel is scheduled for Saturday January 10 8:30-9:45 in MTCC-707.

 

<u>Language and Identity in the Sinitic Empire of Letters</u>

For centuries prior to the advent…[Read more]

]]> 0 6f70c112050a2dd780080a49d81e5deb Laura Francis started the topic LSL Language Change - Call for Papers - MLA 2026 in the forum LSL Language and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/language-and-society/forum/topic/lsl-language-change-call-for-papers-mla-2026-5/ Wed, 12 Mar 2025 23:15:00 -0400 Dear Colleagues,

The LSL Language Change Forum is seeking papers for the following panels at the 2026 MLA Annual Conference in Toronto from January 8-11. Please see the panel information below and consider submitting an abstract. We would love to hear from you:

Pedagogy and Intergenerational Language Change

How do linguistic features passed…[Read more]

]]> 0 0b99c09da9a6a7494fe191ed7fc2a0af Inés Vañó García started the topic LSL Language and Society: Calls for Papers in the forum LSL Language and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/language-and-society/forum/topic/lsl-language-and-society-calls-for-papers-14/ Sat, 01 Mar 2025 13:33:36 -0500 (Re)thinking AI on Language Pedagogy: Discourses of Resemblances & Disparities
Papers should critically address AI’s impact on language pedagogy, focusing on resemblances and disparities between AI-driven and “more traditional” approaches; i.e. AI’s role in language learning, assessment, cultural biases, and ethical implications. Send 300…[Read more]

]]> 0 8892a2796bed477b91b7bd8844e60f06 Shakil Rabbi started the topic CFP for 2026 MLA: Family Resemblances between World Languages and Nationalisms in the forum LSL Language and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/language-and-society/forum/topic/cfp-for-2026-mla-family-resemblances-between-world-languages-and-natiionalisms/ Thu, 06 Feb 2025 20:05:21 -0500 The Language and Society Forum is calling for papers for our sponsored session at the 2026 MLA Conference. We are seeking examinations of world languages and nationalisms in terms of their family resemblances across social, community, and individual domains, with special attention to their discursive and material developments. 300-word abstracts…[Read more]

]]> 0 e9d55be06d96aa58afe95a036838e629 Inés Vañó García uploaded the file: The Invisible Politics of Affect in STEM Learning Contexts to LSL Language and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1909237/ Fri, 17 Jan 2025 11:36:18 -0500 PPT Presentation by Suresh Canagarajah, “The Invisible Politics of Affect in STEM Learning Contexts,” (LSL Session: (In)Visibility: Language, Ideology, and Power)
ABSTRACT
Affect has been defined as experienced at the prelinguistic and nonconscious level by theorists such as Brian Massumi (2015). For that reason, Massumi also theorizes that…[Read more]

]]> 0 b3398652dfc009e9e2a1bf289d5e5527 Inés Vañó García uploaded the file: Deconstructing Masculine (Will)power through French Medical Models of Trauma (1914-1919) to LSL Language and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1909236/ Fri, 17 Jan 2025 11:33:16 -0500 PPT Presentation by Katherine Ellis, “Deconstructing Masculine (Will)power through French Medical Models of Trauma (1914-1919)”, ((LSL Session: (In)Visibility: Language, Ideology, and Power)
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Since the Enlightenment, willpower in dominant Western societies has emblematized consciousness, civilization, and masculinity, opposite which…[Read more]

]]> 0 52e36da6b2a80c4d2e1e0dfac040a68f Inés Vañó García uploaded the file: (Un)natural Languages, (Un)natural Identities: Decentering Spanish in a Curriculum for Puerto Rican Studies to LSL Language and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1909234/ Fri, 17 Jan 2025 11:29:39 -0500 PPT Presentation by Carmín Quijano Seda, ” (Un)natural Languages, (Un)natural Identities: Decentering Spanish in a Curriculum for Puerto Rican Studies ” (LSL Session: (In)Visibility: Language, Ideology, and Power)
ABSTRACT
When examining how practices of dominance and control work in modern societies, it is vital to move away from analyses that…[Read more]

]]> 0 4483a39eee92b48f998f2df540a233a4 Shakil Rabbi uploaded the file: Slide Deck by Shannon Mooney "Ungrading in the Age of Generative AI" (Panel "Issues of Agency with AI") to LSL Language and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1908641/ Sun, 12 Jan 2025 19:11:22 -0500 This is the presentation “Ungrading in the Age of Generative AI” by Prof. Shannon Mooney.

]]> 0 5ef0bb388a674253cc42586fbb22da09 Shakil Rabbi uploaded the file: PDF of Presentation by Collier Nogues "Co-Creating with Generative AI" (Panel "Issues of Agency with AI") to LSL Language and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1908273/ Wed, 08 Jan 2025 17:10:42 -0500 This is a PDF of the presentation “Co-creating with Generative AI” by Prof. Collier Nogues.

]]> 0 e4ca85ebb9f3d0726a14d54718e0fbda Maria Helena Lima replied to the topic 288. (In)Visibility: Language, Ideology, and Power - Friday 10 Jan. at 12pm in the forum LSL Language and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/language-and-society/forum/topic/288-invisibility-language-ideology-and-power-friday-10-jan-at-12pm/#post-1039181 Tue, 07 Jan 2025 18:02:55 -0500 <div class=”nH”>
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]]> 0 0b23d43ed1dbdefb2fa88afda58dad62 Maria Helena Lima replied to the topic 288. (In)Visibility: Language, Ideology, and Power - Friday 10 Jan. at 12pm in the forum LSL Language and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/language-and-society/forum/topic/288-invisibility-language-ideology-and-power-friday-10-jan-at-12pm/#post-1039180 Tue, 07 Jan 2025 17:58:29 -0500 <div class=”nH”>
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]]> 0 b9c06a485b93a470199e1ec017c2a785 Inés Vañó García started the topic 288. (In)Visibility: Language, Ideology, and Power - Friday 10 Jan. at 12pm in the forum LSL Language and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/language-and-society/forum/topic/288-invisibility-language-ideology-and-power-friday-10-jan-at-12pm/ Tue, 07 Jan 2025 10:26:43 -0500 Do not miss our session on Friday – Churchill A1 (Hilton New Orleans Riverside).

Learn more about our panelists’ presentations:

The Invisible Politics of Affect in STEM Learning Contexts, A. Suresh Canagarajah (Penn State U, University Park)

Affect has been defined as experienced at the prelinguistic and nonconscious level by theorists such as…[Read more]

]]> 0 864c8081b85042c6189a1df448054a6c Shakil Rabbi started the topic Virtual Sponsored MLA Presentation on "Issues of Agency with AI" in the forum LSL Language and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/language-and-society/forum/topic/virtual-sponsored-mla-presentation-on-issues-of-agency-with-ai/ Tue, 31 Dec 2024 18:12:06 -0500 Dear Colleagues,

If you’re registered for the 2025 MLA conference and are interested in the topic of AI, please consider attending the LSL sponsored session “Issues of Agency with AI.”

The session will be held virtually on January 9th, at 7pm. This is the link to the session: Issues of Agency with AI (you will need your username and registration…[Read more]

]]> 0 fd632c5c514268485490f4267b798066 Inés Vañó García started the topic LSL Language and Society: Calls for Papers in the discussion LSL Language and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/language-and-society/forum/topic/lsl-language-and-society-calls-for-papers/ Tue, 20 Feb 2024 09:58:14 -0500 (In)Visibility: Language, Ideology, and Power
Papers should address the (in)visible intersection(s) between language and power (research and teaching) within educational contexts along its historical, economical, and socio-political implications/dimensions. 300-word abstracts to jessica.ouellette@maine.edu by March 11.

Deadline for…[Read more]

]]> 0 8207f16a7bb7f55951b6f7a5e8e2d253 Shakil Rabbi started the topic Nominations for the LSL Language and Society Committee in the discussion LSL Language and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/language-and-society/forum/topic/nominations-for-the-lsl-language-and-society-committee/ Mon, 22 Jan 2024 12:24:46 -0500 Colleagues! Please consider nominating yourself or a colleague to serve on the LSL Language and Society Forum Committee. Forum Committee members help to organize a guaranteed session at the annual MLA conference, bolster and promote activity centered around language and society in the MLA, and get to meet and interact with other MLA members…[Read more]

]]> 0 7f9c2aa7f2c1a63785203e3f46410637 Catherine Fountain started the topic Nominations for the LSL General Linguistics Forum Committee in the discussion LSL Language and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/language-and-society/forum/topic/nominations-for-the-lsl-general-linguistics-forum-committee-3/ Fri, 12 Jan 2024 14:19:44 -0500 Colleagues in the MLA’s Language Studies and Linguistics (LSL) forums, please consider nominating yourself or a colleague to serve on the LSL General Linguistics Forum Committee. Forum Committee members help to organize a guaranteed session at the annual MLA conference, bolster and promote activity in linguistics in the MLA, and get to meet and i…[Read more]

]]> 0 48cdc982d993c2e25c91fe6387921554 Inés Vañó García started the topic 622A - Talking Feelings: Emotion and Affection on Heritage Language Pedagogy in the discussion LSL Language and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/language-and-society/forum/topic/622a-talking-feelings-emotion-and-affection-on-heritage-language-pedagogy/ Fri, 05 Jan 2024 14:58:01 -0500 Join our online session tomorrow, January 6 at 5:15pm!

Gabriela De Robles (University of Colorado Denver): The socio-affective dimensions of written corrective feedback for heritage language learners

Juyoung Song (Murray State University): Emotion in Mother’s Heritage Language Maintenance

Aída Martínez-Gómez (John Jay College of Criminal Ju…[Read more]

]]> 0 8e5e08b5f6f4d165e5bb2ae39e1ccf0e Inés Vañó García started the topic Kahn Chair in Humanities at SMU in the discussion LSL Language and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/language-and-society/forum/topic/kahn-chair-in-humanities-at-smu/ Mon, 20 Nov 2023 16:18:23 -0500 Position No. 00052460. The Department of English at Southern Methodist University invites outstanding applicants for a tenured appointment at the rank of advanced Associate or early Full Professor to the Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Chair in Humanities beginning August 1, 2024. The field is open. We welcome candidates in any and all fields of…[Read more]

]]> 0 806e7566131e483ae890d218196859dd Marisa Verna deposited « Proust et l’odeur de son temps » in the group LSL Language and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1856312/ Thu, 24 Aug 2023 01:32:17 -0400 Until now, critics have shown little interest in the bouquet of aromas and scents that permeate the linguistic fabric of À la recherche du temps perdu , to the point of forming an olfactory (and cognitive) underlay. The aesthetic impact of these odors warrants further investigation, starting with a reconstruction of the “problem of smell” in Prou…[Read more]

]]> 0 a39efea22f22b17fd4278e211e9634e7 johnpendergast started the topic Request for Titles in the discussion LSL Language and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/language-and-society/forum/topic/request-for-titles-3/ Tue, 14 Feb 2023 20:19:49 -0500 Dear Colleagues,

I’m doing a study of how the words “Russian” and “Russia” are used in English-language history textbooks. I would be extremely grateful if you could send me (at this address john.pendergast@westpoint.edu ) the titles, publisher, and year (if possible) of history textbooks used in your Russian courses and in Russian History c…[Read more]

]]> 0 3ec00bb9e8969e85cb1227b607c0d979 Shakil Rabbi started the topic CFP for LSL Sponsored Session for MLA 2024: Feelings for Our Languages in the discussion LSL Language and Society via email https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/language-and-society/forum/topic/cfp-for-lsl-sponsored-session-for-mla-2024-feelings-for-our-languages-6/ Wed, 25 Jan 2023 22:06:26 -0500 Languages are primary sites of emotional and ideological development. This
guaranteed sponsored roundtable invites topics on how our feelings for
languages play out in aesthetics, cultures, rhetorics, writings, etc.
Perspectives of graduate students and early career scholars especially
encouraged. Please submit a 250-word abstract and brief bio to…[Read more]

]]> 0 2fec0f3d26a9bf763a84b5715b3626f0 Shakil Rabbi deposited The global translinguistics of Bengali Muslims in the group LSL Language and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1831284/ Wed, 25 Jan 2023 03:48:43 -0500 This chapter presents a discussion of a literary genre called puthis, a premodern tradition of religious stories and plays in what is now Bangladesh, as an example of vernacular cosmopolitanism in an Asian context. The language of this genre, called Dubasha, is a “mixed language mode” (Seely 2008) characterized by the replacement of Sanskrit voc…[Read more]

]]> 0 61af40c60c8d47c81224c3839b96fdc4 Shakil Rabbi started the topic CFP for LSL Sponsored Session for MLA 2024: Feelings for Our Languages in the discussion LSL Language and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/language-and-society/forum/topic/cfp-for-lsl-sponsored-session-for-mla-2024-feelings-for-our-languages/ Tue, 24 Jan 2023 15:48:09 -0500 Languages are primary sites of emotional and ideological development. This guaranteed sponsored roundtable invites topics on how our feelings for languages play out in aesthetics, cultures, rhetorics, writings, etc. Perspectives of graduate students and early career scholars especially encouraged. Please submit a 250-word abstract and brief bio to…[Read more]

]]> 0 f9e7fa52164bb8b67415d36414199a9c Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2023 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion LSL Language and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/language-and-society/forum/topic/membership-suggestions-for-2023-forum-delegate-election-45/ Mon, 21 Nov 2022 20:12:31 -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 e1a624f5f7d30e3fb09d22030002f400 Holly A. Yanacek started the topic Seeking Nominations for the Language & Society Forum Executive Committee in the discussion LSL Language and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/language-and-society/forum/topic/seeking-nominations-for-the-language-society-forum-executive-committee/ Wed, 28 Sep 2022 19:53:56 -0400 Dear Colleagues,

The MLA LSL Language & Society Forum Executive Committee is seeking candidates interested in serving on this committee for a five-year term from January 2023- January 2028. Forum executive committee members typically meet once per year at or around the time of the MLA Convention to decide the forum’s priorities and plan f…[Read more]

]]> 0 e262cb2a5fdaeef251d324dff2f98fd3 Marisa Verna deposited Des “parasites précieux’: impureté et antinationalisme dans le roman proustien”, in Labours of Attention: Work, Class and Society in French and Francophone Literature and Culture, Adam Watt ed. in the group LSL Language and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1795018/ Wed, 21 Sep 2022 03:48:59 -0400 Contrary to the “populist linguistic purism” of Remy de Gourmont, who believed in a “native” and primal language, as well as in a literature that “does not receive neither borrow anything” (Roussin), Proust moulds his novel in a “gloriously impure, lumberfilled” linguistic matter (Malcolm Bowie). Proust’s idea of language is radically opposed…[Read more]

]]> 0 b433dd9403cb83c662915077c17225ce Marisa Verna deposited Proust une langue étrangère in the group LSL Language and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1690443/ Wed, 10 Jun 2020 03:51:29 -0400 Proust was strongly opposed to the idea of ​​a naturally “clear” national language whose directives would be inherent in thought itself. This book questions Proust’s style from the point of view of its theorization and the implementation of diffuse sensory rhetoric in À la recherche du temps perdu.

]]> 0 67ae441f8c57e9d10cebd850abf7aa46 Gerardo Augusto Lorenzino started the topic NeMLA 2020, CFP: "Communities of Practice and Shifting Borders in US Spanish" in the discussion LSL Language and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/language-and-society/forum/topic/nemla-2020-cfp-communities-of-practice-and-shifting-borders-in-us-spanish/ Thu, 23 May 2019 17:18:33 -0400 51st Convention, NeMLA, Boston, March 5-8 2020

“The Old and the New: Communities of Practice and Shifting Borders in US Spanish”

The session seeks papers that examine Spanish in the United States (Mexican, Caribbean, Latin American) as it relates to old and new Hispanic community practices and border crossing (geographical, political, eth…[Read more]

]]> 0 a4c1563f42eb87fe2c075aea0e0c1a5d Brian Lennon deposited Questions and answers on “JavaScript Affogato: Programming a Culture of Improvised Expertise” in the group LSL Language and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1608297/ Sun, 13 May 2018 03:58:12 -0400 Published by Johns Hopkins University Press Blog, 28 March 2018. A Q&A about the essay “JavaScript Affogato: Programming a Culture of Improvised Expertise,” published in Configurations 26.1 (2018): 47–72, DOI: 10.1353/con.2018.0002.

]]> 0 9dcfd650d206d8c44c2441c157b26115 Brian Lennon deposited JavaScript Affogato: Programming a Culture of Improvised Expertise in the group LSL Language and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1601258/ Tue, 20 Feb 2018 03:57:14 -0500 This essay attempts a philological, meaning a both technically and socially attentive historical study of an individual computer programming language, JavaScript. From its introduction, JavaScript’s reception by software developers, and its importance in web development as we now understand it, was structured by a continuous negotiation of e…[Read more]

]]> 0 f8c6310062766464c248d0bb7fdaa316 Robert Troyer posted an update in the group LSL Language and Society: Dear Members of the MLA Language and Society Forum, If you […] https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1588257/ Mon, 13 Nov 2017 17:29:30 -0500 Dear Members of the MLA Language and Society Forum,
If you will be at the 2018 Convention, please join us at the Hilton Saturday evening 7:15-8:30 for a cash bar organized by the Linguistics Forums of the MLA. The event is listed on page 953 of the convention program.
710. Cash Bar Arranged by the Language Studies and Linguistics…[Read more]

]]> 0 07f90d0c66e99c419fd71a6bbd90e32f selisker deposited The Bechdel Test and the Social Form of Character Networks in the group LSL Language and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1570683/ Wed, 17 May 2017 01:08:22 -0400 This essay describes the popular Bechdel Test—a measure of women’s dialogue in films—in terms of social network analysis within fictional narrative. It argues that this form of vernacular criticism arrives at a productive convergence with contemporary academic critical methodologies in surface and postcritical reading practices, on the one hand,…[Read more]

]]> 0 7b6c93203031a37f2bda40c3ac167fea Anne Geller deposited Millions of Dollars Might Get You Into the MLA: When NEH Funding Shaped the State of Writing Studies in English Studies in the group LSL Language and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1557541/ Wed, 18 Jan 2017 20:10:05 -0500 Panel Title Writing Studies at the MLA: The Past and Future of English Studies

]]> 0 29beb78988271ddc6f553f4f21deccb6 Gerardo Augusto Lorenzino started the topic MLA 2018, CFP: "Language Change: Global (Im-)gration and Linguistic Insecurity" in the discussion Language and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/language-and-society/forum/topic/mla-2018-cfp-language-change-global-im-gration-and-linguistic-insecurity-8/ Mon, 16 Jan 2017 18:23:59 -0500 Dear colleagues,

The Executive Committee of the Forum on Language Change is seeking proposals for the session “Language Change: Global (Im-)migration and Linguistic Insecurity”.  See short and long CFP below.

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Papers exploring how global and local migrations affect language practices and patterns (e.g. linguistic in…[Read more]

]]> 0 8a48e313473804c0cd12f1c260665cb1 Carol Zuses started the topic Make a Suggestion for the 2017 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion Language and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/language-and-society/forum/topic/make-a-suggestion-for-the-2017-forum-delegate-election/ Thu, 03 Nov 2016 16:53:32 -0400 LSL Language and Society will elect a new Delegate Assembly representative 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 nominations, it is required to n…[Read more]

]]> 0 b05b691fe0289ac3a4d5b47efc3c1628 Barbara J. Eckstein deposited Carbon and Conferences (Again): The Austin MLA in the Flood of 2016 in the group LSL Language and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/552748/ Wed, 26 Oct 2016 19:16:52 -0400 “Carbon and Conferences (Again)” offers one person’s experience of trying to get to the Austin MLA conference by a means other than airplanes. It asks fellow MLA members for more collective, mindful attention to the carbon footprint of the conference generally. While acknowledging the intellectual and personal joy in face to face encounters, it…[Read more]

]]> 0 dcb02430c2f53115c55df14e7da52065 Serguei Alex Oushakine deposited Language and Subjectivity: Theories of Formation. in the group LSL Language and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/549381/ Sat, 23 Jul 2016 15:52:43 -0400 The purpose of this graduate course is to examine key texts of the twentieth century that established the fundamental connection between language structures and practices on the one hand, and the formation of selfhood and subjectivity, on the other. In particular, the course will focus on theories that emphasize the role of formal elements in…[Read more]

]]> 0 c04829d8136bc8813f1695b902f18876 Laila Amine deposited Crossroads of Memory in the group LSL Language and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/548672/ Sat, 11 Jun 2016 19:49:27 -0400 In the last six years, scholars have engaged with the effects of globalization on the study of collective memory, emphasizing the de-territorialization, de-nationalization of memory cultures. While being attentive to the global circulation and transformation of collective memories, authors in this issue seek to revisit and critique some…[Read more]

]]> 0 bf1159099ec5f805572bb9f3d849d1e5 Heidi Bostic deposited The Humanities Must Engage Global Grand Challenges in the group LSL Language and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/546740/ Mon, 04 Apr 2016 19:29:11 -0400 The humanities must work together with STEM if we are to succeed in articulating relevant, historically informed, and culturally nuanced responses to grand challenges.

]]> 0 a998ba2e500d7b9362821ce06440e04e Ivy Schweitzer deposited “Bursting the Bubble: Making the Study of American Poetry Experiential” in the group LSL Language and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/539299/ Fri, 22 Jan 2016 16:03:18 -0500 My talk at the round table on Service Learning in Literary Studies about the necessity of failure in experiential learning.

]]> 0 97f0a5a5d69901c2e8ecd25d345fa608 Hugh M. Richmond deposited The Dead Albatross: "New Criticism" as a Humanist Fallacy in the group LSL Language and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/533099/ Wed, 28 Oct 2015 19:49:10 -0400 This essay was one of the first to challenge the over-stress on close reading as the key to literary appreciation, by advocating a greater stress on literature’s broader context and its achievement in social, political, and religious terms.

]]> 0 b8dbc3d6a3697bb2fd6b4fcbf4a41271 Cornelius Collins replied to the topic CFP: 20th/21st-Century Women Writers as Public Intellectuals in the discussion Language and Society http://mla.hcommons.org/groups/language-and-society/forum/topic/cfp-20th21st-century-women-writers-as-public-intellectuals-3/#post-6937 Tue, 24 Feb 2015 18:34:04 -0500 This call is for the 2016 MLA Convention in Austin, TX.

]]> 0 8a310d4bd973dd49f100ff055c813794 Cornelius Collins started the topic CFP: 20th/21st-Century Women Writers as Public Intellectuals in the discussion Language and Society http://mla.hcommons.org/groups/language-and-society/forum/topic/cfp-20th21st-century-women-writers-as-public-intellectuals-3/ Tue, 24 Feb 2015 18:20:47 -0500 Seeking papers that explore the distinct approaches, perspectives, and discourses of women writers as intellectuals writing for modern reading publics. Possible subjects include Woolf, Lessing, Beauvoir, Arendt, McCarthy, Hansberry, Sontag, Morrison, Atwood, Francine Prose, Zadie Smith, Melissa Harris-Perry, and others. 300-word abstracts and…[Read more]

]]> 0 cba98c6f68eb9575a3fc7b80bb741541 Terrence Potter posted an update in the group LSL Language and Society: Please plan to attend the General Linguistics panel at MLA […] https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/80423/ Wed, 06 Aug 2014 14:51:18 -0400 Please plan to attend the General Linguistics panel at MLA 2015! We are happy to announce that our session has been listed under the conference Presidential theme, “Negotiating Sites of Memory.”

Presentations during the session include:

1. “The Texas German Dialect Archive, Fourteen Years Later,” Hans Christian Boas, Univ. of Texas, Austin;…[Read more]

]]> 0 37c071a86beaa44f8d8bdc0242a4755a Dennis Baron uploaded the file: Speak the Language of your flag: American policy responses to nonanglophone immigrants to Language and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/54179/ Mon, 06 Jan 2014 17:32:43 -0500 I’ll be presenting this illustrated talk at Present-Day English, Thursday, 3:30 pm, Illinois Room, Chicago Marriott. Language and Society members may be interested in this and other PDE talks.

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