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Shirin A. Khanmohamadi deposited Durendal, translated: Islamic object genealogies in the chansons de geste in the group
CLCS Mediterranean on MLA Commons 4 months, 1 week agoThe transfer of Saracen arms into Frankish ownership is a leitmotif of
many chansons de geste, but one whose significance for translatio imperii has yet to be
elucidated. In this essay, I focus on the Chanson d’Aspremont, a twelfth-century epic
set in Calabria that narrates the pre-history of Durendal, Roland’s sword of Song of
Roland fam…[Read more] -
yasser elhariry deposited CFP // Re-Membering Hospitality in the Mediterranean: Essays in Anglophone Literature, Arts, and Culture in the group
CLCS Mediterranean on MLA Commons 4 months, 4 weeks agoCall for Papers for Peer-Reviewed Edited Volume
Re-Membering Hospitality in the Mediterranean:
Essays in Anglophone Literature, Arts, and CultureCo-edited by yasser elhariry, Isabelle Keller-Privat & Edwige Tamalet Talbayev
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yasser elhariry uploaded the file: CFP: “Water Logics” International Conference April 11-12, 2019, Tulane University to
CLCS Mediterranean on MLA Commons 7 months, 1 week agoConvened by
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Geraldine Heng deposited INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER OF THE INVENTION OF RACE IN THE EUROPEAN MIDDLE AGES (Cambridge UP, March 8,, 2018) in the group
CLCS Mediterranean on MLA Commons 10 months, 1 week agoThis is the typescript of the Introductory chapter of the book, THE INVENTION OF RACE IN THE EUROPEAN MIDDLE AGES, published on March 8, 2018 by Cambridge UP (503 pp., 8 chapters, 10″ x 7″ format). The book discusses Jews, Muslims, Africans and blackness, Native Americans, Mongols, and the Romani (“Gypsies”) in 7 chapters, including a critical…[Read more]
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Ryan Calabretta-Sajder started the topic AATI@Palermo 2017: Call for Papers in the discussion
Romance Literary Relations on MLA Commons 2 years, 1 month agoCALL For Papers
AATI International Conference Abroad
Università degli Studi di Palermo
28 giugno – 2 luglio 2017
L’AATI (American Association of Teachers of Italian) comunica che il prossimo convegno internazionale si terrà nella città di Palermo, 28 giugno-2 luglio 2017, presso l’Università degli Studi di Palermo, co…[Read more]
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Latifa Zoulagh posted an update in the group
CLCS Mediterranean on MLA Commons 2 years, 2 months agoLooking for a female roommate!
Is anyone (female) willing to share her room, I will be staying the 5th and the 6th?
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Isabelle Hesse started the topic CFP – Palestine in the International Imaginary, 1987-2017 in the discussion
Romance Literary Relations on MLA Commons 2 years, 2 months agoPalestine in the International Imaginary, 1987-2017
24 February 2017
John Woolley Common Room, Level 4, John Woolley Building
The University of Sydney, Australia
Organised by
Dr Isabelle Hesse, The Department of English, The University of Sydney
Dr Ben Etherington, The Writing and Society Research Centre, Western Sydney University
Dr…[Read more]
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Carol Zuses started the topic Suggestions for 2017 Forum Delegate Election? in the discussion
Romance Literary Relations on MLA Commons 2 years, 3 months agoDo you have suggestions?
The next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative 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 nom…[Read more]
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Susan Slyomovics deposited Who and what is native to Israel? On Marcel Janco’s settler art and Jacqueline Shohet Kahanoff’s “Levantinism” in the group
CLCS Mediterranean on MLA Commons 2 years, 6 months agoThe poetics and esthetics of “natural occupancy” are relevant to the ways in which settlers’ colonists artistically and discursively produce their subsequent cultural formations. I focus on the decade of the 1950s to chart specific settler ideologies of ownership that emerged in
Israel after the establishment of the state in 1948. What are the v…[Read more] -
Suha Kudsieh started the topic CFP for MLA 2017 in Philadelphia: Arabic in Europe (deadline: March 20, 2016) in the discussion
Romance Literary Relations on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months agoFrom: Samer Ali <samerali@umich.edu>
Date: Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 3:34 PM
Subject: CFP for MLA 2017 in Philadelphia: Arabic in Europe
To: Arabic Lit Scholars <ArabicLitScholars@utlists.utexas.edu>Call for Papers — Please Distribute Widely
MLA Annual Convention 2017, Philadelphia, PA
https://www.mla.org/Convention/MLA-2017
Arabic in Europe:…[Read more]
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Ryan Calabretta-Sajder started the topic AATI @ MLA: Call for Papers in the discussion
Romance Literary Relations on MLA Commons 3 years agoIl poeta civile: ieri, oggi e domani
Call for Papers: AATI @ MLA (Philadelphia, PA)
January 5-8, 2017
For Alberto Moravia, Pier Paolo Pasolini’s death marked the loss of a great poeta civile whose work uniquely bore a Leftist political stamp.
“La poesia civile era sempre stata a destra in Italia, dall’inizio dell’Ottocento, da Foscolo…[Read more]
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Ewa Lukaszyk deposited Is there Tunisian literature? Emergent writing and fractal proliferation of minor voices in the group
CLCS Mediterranean on MLA Commons 3 years agoIs There Tunisian Literature? Emergent Writing and Fractal Proliferation of Minor Voices.
The article presents the Tunisian literature from the non-local perspective of the global literary market and the circulation of translated literature. The minor status of the studied phenomenon becomes obvious even when the Tunisian literature is compared…[Read more] -
Zoe Roth started the topic CFP: Transnational French Modernisms in the discussion
Romance Literary Relations on MLA Commons 3 years, 1 month ago<div class=”bbp-reply-content”>
Call for Papers:
Transnational French Modernisms
7th-8th July 2016, Durham University, UK
Keynote speakers:
Dr. Jonathan Eburne (Penn State)
Professor Susan Harrow (Bristol)
Professor Debarati Sanyal (Berkeley)
The rise of France’s colonial empire in the 19th century shaped French culture as a global arena and fra…[Read more] -
James Gifford deposited Introduction to Panic Spring in the group
CLCS Mediterranean on MLA Commons 3 years, 2 months agoEditor’s Introduction to Panic Spring. First published in 1937, two years after Durrell took up residence on the Greek island Kerkyra, Panic Spring broke with the realist tradition in 1930s novels and shows the young author’s first attempts to extend High Modernist innovations in rural and personal landscapes. Cubist, surrealist, and imagist…[Read more]
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Luis Alvarez-Castro started the topic Call for essays – MLA volume on Miguel de Unamuno in the discussion
Romance Literary Relations on MLA Commons 3 years, 9 months agoDear colleagues,
The volume Approaches to Teaching the Works of Miguel de Unamuno is now in development in the MLA Approaches to Teaching World Literature series. Instructors who have taught Unamuno’s works (from any academic or theoretical perspective) are encouraged to contribute to the volume by completing a survey about their experiences.…[Read more]
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