Please note new deadline of 2/1 for proposal submissions, with apologies for the confusion!!

The executive committee of the P14 Chinese forum invites proposals for a session to be sponsored by the forum for the 2024 MLA annual convention, which will be held January 4-7 in Philadelphia. Possible formats include panels (three presentations and a…[Read more]

The executive committee of the P14 Chinese forum invites proposals for a session to be sponsored by the forum for the 2024 MLA annual convention, which will be held January 4-7 in Philadelphia. Possible formats include panels (three presentations and a presider), roundtables (more open discussion of broader issues), workshops (focused e.g. on…[Read more]

The executive committee of the P14 Chinese forum invites proposals for a session to be sponsored by the forum for the 2024 MLA annual convention, which will be held January 4-7 in Philadelphia. Possible formats include panels (three presentations and a presider), roundtables (more open discussion of broader issues), workshops (focused e.g. on…[Read more]

P14 Chinese Forum members, we are in the process of soliciting nominations for the forum executive committee. We are particularly interested in midlevel senior scholars with a track record of mentoring younger scholars and an interest in working in comparative and world literary methodologies. Please send all nominations, including…[Read more]

Hi all, A reminder that the deadline for proposing sessions for the 2023 MLA convention (1/5-8 in San Francisco) is April 1.  Any MLA member may propose a special session. Possible formats include panels (three presentations and a presider), roundtables (more open discussion of broader issuse), workshops (focused e.g. on professional development…[Read more]

Pre-14th Century Chinese Forum Executive Committee/Delegate Assembly Nominations!

MLA has instituted a change to the staffing of forum executive committees, moving from an election-based process to an appointment-based one. As a result, it is all the more important that members who wish to serve on the executive committee for our forum put…[Read more]

Dear forum members,

We would like to share this CFP sent to the executive committee by Professor Leland Spencer, editor of the journal, Women and Language. If this is an opportunity that matches well with your research, please follow-up accordingly. The information is also available here:

Call for Papers | Women & LanguageEditor: Leland G.…[Read more]

Dear Colleagues,

The LLC Pre-14th Chinese Forum is calling for your volunteering to be an alternate candidate for the executive committee 2021 to 2026. Please contact Xiaowen Xu (xiaowen.xu@ubc.ca) or Benjamin Ridgway (brdgwa1@swarthmore.edu) if you are interested. Or you could reply to this thread directly.

We would need four forum members who…

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We need to start planning our 2020 Forum Collaborative Session Proposal now. If you have any ideas about session topics and/or interested participants, please post to the brainstorm Google-doc below. Thank you!

https://docs.google.com/document/d/14cJFY-3yhgnR_iOba0GUjYNXjnW1VBpRilt_y7ZGJO4/edit?usp=sharing

Dear Colleagues,

I would like to invite you to submit an abstract to the 2019 conference of the Association of Chinese and Comparative Literature, to be held from July 17-19, 2019, on the campus of Hunan Normal University in Changsha, China.  The deadline for receipt of abstracts has been extended to January 7. The ACCL welcomes papers on a wide…[Read more]

The next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2019, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets during the January 2019 convention in Chicago. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nom…[Read more]

Dear Colleagues,

Please find the details for an upcoming session at the 2019 MLA conference sponsored by the “Pre-14^th century Chinese literature” forum. We look forward to seeing you there!

Panel Title: Transitions in Early and Medieval Chinese Literary History

Keywords: Early China, Medieval China, textual tra…[Read more]

Dear Friends,

Please find the following details for your information. We look forward to your participation!

Panel Title: Teaching Classical Chinese as Cultural, Philosophical, and Literary Texts

Keywords: classical Chinese poetry, pedagogy, translation, reception, text selection
Sponsoring Entity: LLC Pre-14th-Century…[Read more]