MLA Commons | LLC Occitan | Activity https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/occitan/ Activity feed for the group, LLC Occitan. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 03:58:33 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 fb42ae24c58a0a618f65f38d69f445ef Eliza Zingesser started the topic Membership suggestions for Executive Committee in the discussion LLC Occitan https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/occitan/forum/topic/membership-suggestions-for-executive-committee/ Thu, 04 Jan 2024 15:20:20 -0500 Dear all, happy new year! The MLA has asked all of the executive committees to solicit nominations from all members for their next executive committee member. If you would like to nominate someone to serve on the Occitan EC, or if you would like to nominate yourself, please reply here or write to me at eliza.zingesser@columbia.edu. Thanks!

]]> 0 521619249df6467dfeb27d8fb93d393a Eliza Zingesser started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2022 Executive Committee in the discussion LLC Occitan https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/occitan/forum/topic/membership-suggestions-for-2022-executive-committee/ Sat, 15 Jan 2022 14:44:48 -0500 Dear all,

Happy new year! As you probably know, the MLA has asked all of the executive committees to solicit nominations from all members for their next executive committee member. If you would like to nominate someone to serve on the Occitan EC, or if you would like to nominate yourself, please reply here or write to me at…[Read more]

]]> 0 0d357244a4fa621b0fe01731a3b1daaf Vicente Lledó-Guillem deposited The Making of Catalan Linguistic Identity in Medieval and Early Modern Times in the group LLC Occitan https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1660164/ Tue, 13 Aug 2019 03:56:55 -0400 The historical relationship between the Catalan and Occitan languages had a definitive impact on the linguistic identity of the powerful Crown of Aragon and the emergent Spanish Empire. Drawing upon a wealth of historical documents, linguistic treatises and literary texts, this book offers fresh insights into the political and cultural forces that…[Read more]

]]> 0 7d153252bd5d97833d625ecce5361606 Vicente Lledó-Guillem deposited La formación de la identidad lingüística catalana (siglos xiii-xvii) in the group LLC Occitan https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1660159/ Tue, 13 Aug 2019 03:52:53 -0400 La relación histórica entre las lenguas catalana y occitana tuvo un impacto decisivo en la formación de la identidad lingüística de la Corona de Aragón y, más tarde, en la del Imperio Español. Basándose en una gran variedad de documentos históricos, tratados lingüísticos y textos literarios, y mediante un análisis textual innovador, el presente…[Read more]

]]> 0 98dc8b2d214f74c592617df3df04bd63 Jesús R. Velasco deposited Boundless Troubadours in the group LLC Occitan https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1619375/ Fri, 28 Sep 2018 03:53:18 -0400 This paper deals with the complicated sociopolitical space defined by the use and transformation of what we call Occitan language. Literary and cultural production in Occitan language during the late 12th and early 13th centuries light up the boundary conditions, the boundary values of what we call courtly culture making them visible in all their…[Read more]

]]> 0 3ea90769efb2a40ca751989987c3bb1f Jesús R. Velasco deposited Spatial Affinities: Poetry and Law in the group LLC Occitan https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1619258/ Wed, 26 Sep 2018 03:53:05 -0400 The spatial affinity between poetry and the law is an interesting theoretical fiction to understand how the construction of the legal discipline is a process to turn all possible spatial affinities into spatial subalternities, into spatial submissions. One could say that legal spaces, the legal production of spaces, is a way to summon up different…[Read more]

]]> 0 5f278b9655120975d4903ce5da4af1bc Carol Zuses started the topic Solicitation of Membership Suggestions for First Forum Delegate Election in the discussion Provençal Language and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/occitan/forum/topic/solicitation-of-membership-suggestions-for-first-forum-delegate-election/ Thu, 03 Nov 2016 16:23:29 -0400 The first-ever election for LLC Occitan’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 nominations, it is req…[Read more]

]]> 0 7b3b4907005bcc36c7484f036930c2f6 Sarah-Grace Heller created the doc Troubadour Publics and Public Troubadours: Abstracts for MLA Convention 2016 in the group Provençal Language and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/312003/ Tue, 04 Aug 2015 14:45:52 -0400 0 622eee8ee3bc062c77c907a9abce1957 Sarah-Grace Heller replied to the topic Troubadour Publics and Public Troubadours in the discussion Provençal Language and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/provencal-language-and-literature/forum/topic/troubadour-publics-and-public-troubadours/#post-7372 Wed, 01 Apr 2015 20:30:27 -0400 Here is the plan for the 2016 session. Thanks to all who submitted proposals!

Troubadour Publics and Public Troubadours

Presider: Jesús Rodríguez-Velasco, Columbia U

 

International politics and troubadour rhetoric: the survival of the fittest

Bill Burgwinkle, University of Cambridge

 

“De paraulas es grans mercatz”: Troubadours, their…[Read more]

]]> 0 1836d46ec1afaf1ef0caf07267b3fe6a Sarah-Grace Heller started the topic Troubadour Publics and Public Troubadours in the discussion Provençal Language and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/provencal-language-and-literature/forum/topic/troubadour-publics-and-public-troubadours/ Wed, 04 Mar 2015 19:32:25 -0500 MLA Convention in Austin, Texas, 7-10 January 2016

LLC Occitan Forum Call for Papers for MLA convention 2016 in Austin, TX:

Who had/has access to the Troubadours? What troubadour works rethink public life? What happens to Occitan works when they travel? This panel seeks to explore Occitan works in the wider world and the wider world as fashioned…[Read more]

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