MLA Commons | LLC Sephardic | Activity https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/sephardic/ Activity feed for the group, LLC Sephardic. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 18:43:54 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 a7618d7673b64bb343616bf526a8ad72 Adam Cohn uploaded the file: CFP: Jewish Writing in Modern and Contemporary Spain to LLC Sephardic https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1941340/ Fri, 16 Jan 2026 22:47:48 -0500 CFP: Jewish Writing in Modern and Contemporary Spain. Special Issue of Hispanófila.
Edited by: Stacy Beckwith (Carleton College) and Adam Cohn (University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill)
Proposals due March 6, 2026

]]> 0 26303202593ffad24a710600bb78a2d4 David A. Wacks deposited Medieval Iberian Romance in the group LLC Sephardic https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1886750/ Tue, 21 May 2024 03:11:23 -0400 The story of the medieval Romance on the Iberian Peninsula is a bit more complicated than that we read in traditional histories of Spanish or Catalan literature. Hebrew and Arabic authors also wrote texts that could be classified as romances some years before the Castilian Grail and Amadís. These authors adapted the motifs of Arthurian or…[Read more]

]]> 0 513a1f56adfab12c131b0718636d5245 Hazel Gold started the topic LLC Sephardic Studies MLA 2025: Gender in the Sephardic World in the discussion LLC Sephardic https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/sephardic/forum/topic/llc-sephardic-studies-mla-2025-gender-in-the-sephardic-world/ Tue, 02 Apr 2024 00:13:49 -0400 LLC Sephardic Studies, MLA 2025: Gender in the Sephardic World, 20th-21st Century

Panel organizer and chair: Hazel Gold, Emory University

Session Description: This roundtable focuses on gender in Sephardic culture of the Diaspora aned Israel viewed through the lens of multilinguistic production in literature, film, television, and historical…[Read more]

]]> 0 ca0595201146685f4684338abf37dc9e Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2024 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion LLC Sephardic https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/sephardic/forum/topic/membership-suggestions-for-2024-forum-delegate-election-31/ Wed, 18 Oct 2023 16:05:06 -0400 The next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2024, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets in January 2024. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nominate at least one candidate who…[Read more]

]]> 0 ebfe8b7d1a36e315b25b7b5e37125e44 Monique Rodrigues Balbuena deposited The Shoah in the Sephardic World in the group LLC Sephardic https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1852822/ Wed, 26 Jul 2023 03:53:39 -0400 Abstract of panel organized by the Sephardic Studies Discussion Group for the 2024 MLA Annual Convention.

]]> 0 77360511937d17a87f2585ea8d67fef0 David A. Wacks deposited Wine, Women and Song: Hebrew and Arabic Literature of Medieval Iberia in the group LLC Sephardic https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1752526/ Wed, 22 Sep 2021 02:29:09 -0400 From the introduction:
“This volume brings to light a series of studies inspired by the conference, ‘Wine, Women and Song,’ that took place at the University of California at Berkeley in the spring of 2001. The conference provided a forum for topics in medieval Iberian literature and its legacy in the Spanish Colonial tradition. One of our…[Read more]

]]> 0 c17f33f1655b7cf326dcbb24884014a1 David A. Wacks deposited Ferrán Martínez’s speech at the Tribunal del Alcázar in Seville, 19 February, 1388 (Spanish version) in the group LLC Sephardic https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1708091/ Fri, 11 Sep 2020 02:29:25 -0400 This unit contains a brief introduction (Spanish), edition of the original Castilian text with facing modernization and notes in Spanish, and a short bibliography.

The text is the first modernization of the medieval Castilian of Ferrán Martínez’s speech at the royal court in Seville in 1388. Martínez was a canon at the Cathedral Chapter and th…[Read more]

]]> 0 62eafc68afc797a17c0c4c2c2b16d24a David A. Wacks started the topic Blog post: A Moroccan Jewish nightclub artist sings sáetas to the Virgin in León in the discussion LLC Sephardic https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/sephardic/forum/topic/blog-post-a-moroccan-jewish-nightclub-artist-sings-saetas-to-the-virgin-in-leon/ Mon, 04 May 2020 18:16:45 -0400 https://davidwacks.uoregon.edu/2020/05/04/a-moroccan-jewish-nightclub-artist-sings-saetas-to-the-virgin-in-leon-aicha-la-hebrea/

]]> 0 f09b7339d97832a8f038f746ab2c0ee9 David A. Wacks deposited Conversos e identidad in the group LLC Sephardic https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1684285/ Thu, 16 Apr 2020 16:29:30 -0400 This is a pedagogical edition of the medieval Castilian texts with modern Spanish introduction, notes, and bibliography by Ana Gómez Bravo, of a series of excerpts of late fifteenth-century texts related to the cultural practices (perceived and actual) of judeo-conversos, or Jews who have converted to Christianity. It includes an introduction…[Read more]

]]> 0 523306a481b6a6dd6ffd2012ff1c6437 David A. Wacks deposited Conversos and Identity in the group LLC Sephardic https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1684281/ Thu, 16 Apr 2020 16:27:18 -0400 This is a pedagogical edition of the medieval Castilian texts with English introduction, translation, notes, and bibliography by Ana Gómez Bravo, of a series of excerpts of late fifteenth-century texts related to the cultural practices (perceived and actual) of judeo-conversos, or Jews who have converted to Christianity. It includes an…[Read more]

]]> 0 03d8d9868bbb3cfcaf7fe1decc28003a David A. Wacks deposited Isaac Cardoso, Las excelencias de los hebreos (1679) (English .doc) in the group LLC Sephardic https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1682620/ Wed, 01 Apr 2020 16:27:56 -0400 This is a pedagogical edition of a selection of Las excelencias de los hebreos (Amsterdam 1679), in .doc format with Spanish introduction and notes, with the original text in Spanish. Las excelencias de los hebreos (Amsterdam 1679) is a treatise describing the positive characteristics (excelencias) of the Jewish people and a containing a…[Read more]

]]> 0 432f112b9c4bfd6543f7e22fd0123e6f David A. Wacks deposited Isaac Cardoso, Las excelencias de los hebreos (Amsterdam 1679) in the group LLC Sephardic https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1675568/ Fri, 17 Jan 2020 16:31:04 -0500 This is a pedagogical edition of a selection of Las excelencias de los hebreos (Amsterdam 1679), in .doc format with a Spanish-language introduction and notes, with the original text in both the original Castilian.

Las excelencias de los hebreos (Amsterdam 1679) is a treatise describing the positive characteristics (excelencias) of the Jewish…[Read more]

]]> 0 f1bf28c818833799687cd13acdfa35a5 David A. Wacks deposited Las excelencias de los hebreos (Amsterdam 1679) in the group LLC Sephardic https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1675564/ Fri, 17 Jan 2020 16:29:22 -0500 This is a pedagogical edition of a selection of Las excelencias de los hebreos (Amsterdam 1679), in .pdf format with an English-language introduction and notes, with the original text in both the original Castilian and English translation.

Las excelencias de los hebreos (Amsterdam 1679) is a treatise describing the positive characteristics…[Read more]

]]> 0 9c374c28aee8d5641da10fd94c1de730 Nohemy Solorzano-Thompson started the topic MLA 2020 LLC Sephardic Forum Panel --- Friday, January 10, 8:30 am, at WSCC 614 in the discussion LLC Sephardic https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/sephardic/forum/topic/mla-2020-llc-sephardic-forum-panel-friday-january-10-830-am-at-wscc-614/ Sat, 04 Jan 2020 18:17:46 -0500 Dear colleagues

 

I am writing to invite you to the LLC Sephardic Forum Panel for the 2020 MLA on Friday, January 10, 8:30 am, WSCC 614.

 

This year’s panel focuses on Sephardic Cultural Expressions in the Portuguese- and Spanish-Speaking Americas and Beyond.

 

Full details below and please note the title update for Dr. Bolorinos A…[Read more]

]]> 0 7a9c7d50b5bc03c7609c38a3240b7e9c Payton Phillips-García Quintanilla replied to the topic Elections: Sephardic Forum Executive Committee Nomination in the discussion LLC Sephardic https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/sephardic/forum/topic/elections-sephardic-forum-executive-committee-nomination/#post-1022462 Fri, 01 Nov 2019 23:49:34 -0400 Dear Members of the MLA Sephardic Forum:

First of all, my thanks to Monique for beginning this thread; it is an honor to have been nominated alongside such a dynamic and accomplished professor. As an early career academic, I also welcome this opportunity to introduce myself to a community of scholars that I hope to work with in the years to…[Read more]

]]> 0 d9dc47f8be260cb4685398d64d5d9735 Monique Rodrigues Balbuena started the topic Elections: Sephardic Forum Executive Committee Nomination in the discussion LLC Sephardic https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/sephardic/forum/topic/elections-sephardic-forum-executive-committee-nomination/ Wed, 30 Oct 2019 21:00:53 -0400 Dear MLA Sephardic Forum Members,

Thank you for the opportunity to run for a position on the Sephardic Forum Executive Committee. The voting will close at midnight (EST) on 10 December.

I would like to introduce myself and share some of my interests and goals. I am Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Jewish Studies in the Clark…[Read more]

]]> 0 87465274f1accb34fafff0d88603db33 Nohemy Solorzano-Thompson started the topic LASA 2020: Interest in a Latin American Sephardic Culture Panel?? in the discussion LLC Sephardic https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/sephardic/forum/topic/lasa-2020-interest-in-a-latin-american-sephardic-culture-panel/ Thu, 25 Jul 2019 17:11:54 -0400 Hi everyone,

 

The Latin American Studies Association (LASA) just issued its call for the 2020 conference which will be held in Guadalajara, Mexico, on May 13 to 16, 2020.

 

The conference theme is entitled “Améfrica Ladina: vinculando mundos y saberes, tejiendo esperanzas” [Améfrica Ladina: link worlds, knowledge, and disciplines, weave h…[Read more]

]]> 0 219c1edab98766d5bcf5ce84ee98adbc Judith Roumani replied to the topic Serving on the Sephardic Forum Executive Committee in the discussion LLC Sephardic via email https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/sephardic/forum/topic/serving-on-the-sephardic-forum-executive-committee/#post-1021382 Tue, 09 Jul 2019 03:11:49 -0400 Hello, Bethany,
Thank you for this opportunity, I am sorry but I have dropped my MLA
membership.
Good luck with your search,
Judith Roumani

]]> 0 1bf1bd3c75c1ac1ce7cde616695b70f5 Bethany Beyer started the topic Serving on the Sephardic Forum Executive Committee in the discussion LLC Sephardic https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/sephardic/forum/topic/serving-on-the-sephardic-forum-executive-committee/ Fri, 05 Jul 2019 02:09:42 -0400 The MLA Sephardic Forum Executive Committee is looking for forum members who would be interested in serving as future committee members. This process involves running for election, and if successful, serving for 5 years. It’s not a lot of work; instead, the committee helps organize/plan the yearly (guaranteed) MLA panel, takes care of committee b…[Read more]

]]> 0 9d3687a2c07cf007678591d257d05ab6 David A. Wacks deposited Sepharadim/conversos and premodern Global Hispanism in the group LLC Sephardic https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1639509/ Fri, 03 May 2019 16:27:24 -0400 Sepharadim participated in the Hispanic vernacular culture of the Iberian Peninsula. Even in the time of al-Andalus many spoke Hispano-Romance, and even their Hebrew literature belies a deep familiarity with and love of their native Hispano-Romance languages. However, since the early sixteenth century the vast majority of Sepharadim have never…[Read more]

]]> 0 d73a1d65fecb328069d0036049f46c4e Bethany Beyer replied to the topic CFP MLA 2020 LLC Sephardic Cultural Expressions Panel in the discussion LLC Sephardic https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/sephardic/forum/topic/cfp-mla-2020-llc-sephardic-cultural-expressions-panel/#post-1020901 Fri, 12 Apr 2019 23:02:20 -0400 Here are the abstracts for the 2020 LLC Sephardic Studies Panel:

Elisabeth Bolorinos Allard

Spanish Jew or Hispanist? Abraham Z. López-Penha and the Negotiation of Columbian, Pan-Hispanic, and Sephardic Identity

Abstract: This paper explores the negotiation of Sephardic, Columbian, and Hispanic identity in the poetry and correspondence of…[Read more]

]]> 0 2a0bf00b609cf3d8e328b661adfabec8 Bethany Beyer started the topic CFP MLA 2020 LLC Sephardic Cultural Expressions Panel in the discussion LLC Sephardic https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/sephardic/forum/topic/cfp-mla-2020-llc-sephardic-cultural-expressions-panel/ Fri, 22 Mar 2019 04:21:02 -0400 Sephardic Cultural Expressions in the Portuguese- and Spanish-speaking Americas

This panel seeks to explore expressions of Sephardic culture in the Americas in Portuguese- and Spanish-speaking nations. Papers could examine cultural products from fields including literature, performance, music, visual art, or language. Submission deadline: Friday,…[Read more]

]]> 0 2f8fd4843e80f22af7a63da52c056217 Nohemy Solorzano-Thompson started the topic PANEL: 040 Echoes of Sepharad, Thurs, January 3 at 1:45 pm, Sheraton Grand Huron in the discussion LLC Sephardic https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/sephardic/forum/topic/panel-040-echoes-of-sepharad-thurs-january-3-at-145-pm-sheraton-grand-huron/ Wed, 02 Jan 2019 04:58:38 -0500 040 Echoes of Sepharad Across the Humanities:

Strategies for Teaching Sephardic Content

 

1:45 pm – 3:00 pm

Thursday, January 3, 2019

Sheraton Grand – Huron

 

Session Information:

Scholars from different disciplines with an interest in Sephardic literature and culture present strategies for including Sephardic content in undergraduate and…[Read more]

]]> 0 6a0d8e94b26e5287649ee329031377fb Remy Attig deposited Judeo-Spanish and Spanglish: Common Considerations for the English Translator of Two Peripheral Lects in the group LLC Sephardic https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1597307/ Tue, 16 Jan 2018 04:03:17 -0500 In the natural order of language development orality precedes literary production, but elements of the oral tradition do often appear in literature. In this presentation I will look at orality in some Judeo-Spanish and Spanglish texts to see how the study of these two lects together may better inform the translator. Though both are lects of…[Read more]

]]> 0 045e3ae32c5b9018276dded3ad48352e David Wacks deposited Textbook for SPAN 341: Hispanic Culture Through Literature: Polemics and Debates (1100-1600) in the group LLC Sephardic https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1594096/ Mon, 01 Jan 2018 05:43:40 -0500 Syllabus and Course Reader (Creative Commons Licensed) of survey course of premodern Hispanic literature and culture taught as a series of debates on social questions (see https://davidwacks.uoregon.edu/2017/12/14/survey4/)

Course description: This class introduces students to a variety of texts written in Spain and the New World from 1100-1600…[Read more]

]]> 0 3cef0ee4dfcac7500c9b1789a589e352 David Wacks deposited Textbook for SPAN 341: Hispanic Culture Through Literature: Polemics and Debates (1100-1600) in the group LLC Sephardic https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1594091/ Mon, 01 Jan 2018 05:41:03 -0500 Syllabus and Course Reader (Creative Commons Licensed) of survey course of premodern Hispanic literature and culture taught as a series of debates on social questions (see https://davidwacks.uoregon.edu/2017/12/14/survey4/)

Course description: This class introduces students to a variety of texts written in Spain and the New World from 1100-1600…[Read more]

]]> 0 045420812755fe506f2904c3875d68d6 Michelle M. Hamilton deposited The Sephardic Past in the Digital Future in the group LLC Sephardic https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1589003/ Sun, 19 Nov 2017 05:41:35 -0500 This study imagines a Sephardic archive not as a physical site that houses the artifacts, texts, and history of a nation-state or Empire, but one that allows us to access those objects (or exposes their absence) and to bring artifacts from different official archives into dialogue in a different, virtual space, thus creating an additional, but not…[Read more]

]]> 0 a7d06d53e76b52fb5fe5bd54f0d220f8 David Wacks deposited An Interstitial History of Medieval Iberian Poetry in the group LLC Sephardic https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1583796/ Fri, 06 Oct 2017 01:05:14 -0400 The complexity of Medieval Iberia’s linguistic, religious, and cultural diversity is a commonplace. Descriptions abound of the lands that are now modern Spain and Portugal as a “melting pot” or a “multicultural” space. However, modern literary history, with its tendency toward monolingual, national narratives, has produced a vision of medieval…[Read more]

]]> 0 29af2211a75aada21ad370a6e85e3231 David Wacks deposited Review of Wacks, David A., Review of Decter, Jonathan. Iberian Jewish Literature: Between al-Andalus and Christian Europe. Indiana UP, 2007. in the group LLC Sephardic https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1574673/ Fri, 23 Jun 2017 01:03:29 -0400 Review of Decter, Jonathan. Iberian Jewish Literature: Between al-Andalus and Christian Europe. Indiana UP, 2007. Originally published in Calíope 14.1 (2008): 139-42. https://ssl.uh.edu/class/spanish/caliope/

]]> 0 69408d9f5d71a4869d085a5448edb34a David Wacks deposited Review of Díaz-Mas, Paloma. Sephardim: The Jews from Spain. Ed. and trans. George K. Zucker. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007. in the group LLC Sephardic https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1573712/ Sat, 10 Jun 2017 01:20:06 -0400 Review of Díaz-Mas, Paloma. Sephardim: The Jews from Spain. Ed. and trans. George K. Zucker. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007. Originally published in Bulletin of the Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies 33.1 (33-34).

]]> 0 d18bbd286f868d57c4be3dd4a665b8e7 David Wacks deposited Review of Tabea Linhard, Jewish Spain: A Mediterranean Memory. Palo Alto: Stanford University Press, 2014. 230pp. in the group LLC Sephardic https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1573702/ Sat, 10 Jun 2017 01:09:01 -0400 Review of Tabea Linhard’s ‘Jewish Spain: A Mediterranean Memory’ (2016): “These essays are nothing short of a manifesto of new Spanish Jewish cultural studies, an area that has long been wanting a champion. In this sense, Jewish Spain is an exciting departure in the study of the Jewish experience and memory in modern Spain.”

]]> 0 557d72763841447b4f3f209798d423c1 Adolfo Campoy-Cubillo started the topic MLA 2018 CFP in the discussion Sephardic Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/sephardic/forum/topic/mla-2018-cfp-2/ Thu, 16 Mar 2017 15:38:27 -0400 <div>This panel explores Sephardic cultural expressions on the intimate connection between cities and literature. How does Sephardic culture inform spatial organization? How does spatial organization inform Sephardic culture?</div>
<div>Please, email 200 word proposals to campoycu@oakland.edu by March 24.</div>

]]> 0 9a8f73a696a02905a018ed4f27b3dd15 David A. Wacks posted an update in the group LLC Sephardic: Gregory Kaplan just published 'Arguments against the […] https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1559951/ Sat, 28 Jan 2017 10:03:16 -0500 Gregory Kaplan just published ‘Arguments against the Christian Religion in Amsterdam, by Saul Levi Morteira, Spinoza’s Rabbi’
http://en.aup.nl/books/9789462980105-arguments-against-the-christian-religion-in-amsterdam-by-saul-levi-morteira-spinoza-s-rabbi.html?mc_cid=d31a4051a6&mc_eid=76b4013318#.WIs-B1SnyK0.facebook

]]> 0 faf3aff71a8c7609087aaecabc9c9eff Gerardo Augusto Lorenzino started the topic MLA 2018, CFP: "Language Change: Global (Im-)gration and Linguistic Insecurity" in the discussion Sephardic Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/sephardic/forum/topic/mla-2018-cfp-language-change-global-im-gration-and-linguistic-insecurity-6/ Mon, 16 Jan 2017 18:23:18 -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 aacf492aa41aad0ab71a9ce2599b5a69 David Wacks deposited Translation in Diaspora: Sephardic Spanish-Hebrew translations in the sixteenth century in the group LLC Sephardic https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1555572/ Wed, 14 Dec 2016 01:02:45 -0500 In this essay, I discuss three Hebrew translations made by Sephardic Jews writing in from a position of a double diaspora (from ‘Zion’ and from Sepharad, or Spain): Joseph Tsarfati’s Celestina by Fernando de Rojas, Jacob Algaba’s Amadís de Gaula by Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo, and Joseph Hakohen’s Historia general de las Indias by Francisco L…[Read more]

]]> 0 bac71409df163937b648bfca615b43d1 David Wacks deposited Vernacular Anxiety and the Semitic Imaginary: Shem Tov Isaac ibn Ardutiel de Carrión and his Critics in the group LLC Sephardic https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1554654/ Tue, 06 Dec 2016 01:10:51 -0500 Shem Tov ibn Isaac Ardutiel (Santob de Carrión) lived in the fourteenth century, period of intense vernacularization of literary practice in Castile. Shem Tov has long been imagined as a model of multiculturality, and the lasting impact of his diglossic literary legacy is undeniable. He is a compelling case study of the role of Hebrew literature…[Read more]

]]> 0 86884deb728d924db2d7ae773287a895 David Wacks deposited Reading Jaume Roig's Spill and the Libro de buen amor in the Iberian maqama tradition in the group LLC Sephardic https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1554500/ Mon, 05 Dec 2016 01:11:48 -0500 In this article the author argues for the influence of the Hebrew and Arabic maqama on the Libro de buen amor (Juan Ruiz) and Spill (Jaume Roig) based on the narratological disposition of the narrator/protagonist.

]]> 0 288f54b31bd8b9f43af9503c549c4381 Ruth Malka started the topic Forum Executive Committee Nomination in the discussion Sephardic Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/sephardic/forum/topic/forum-executive-committee-nomination/ Fri, 04 Nov 2016 11:14:40 -0400 Dear Sephardic Forum Members,

I hope this message find you all well. Since the elections are coming up soon, I would like to let you know the reasons why I am a candidate to take part of our forum’s committee.
The dissertation I am currently writing as a fourth year PhD student at McGill University deals with three antisemitic texts by the m…[Read more]

]]> 0 c61d3d6d8cc724e877bc46c74fe1a708 Amanda Sharick started the topic CFP deadline for "Venice Ghetto at 500" extended-- in the discussion Sephardic Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/sephardic/forum/topic/cfp-deadline-for-venice-ghetto-at-500-extended/ Tue, 02 Feb 2016 22:27:52 -0500 Deadline for the “The Venice Ghetto and the future of memory in a digital age” conference proposals has been extended: https://liminalspacesandthejewishimagination.wordpress.com

Details: The conference will convene in Venice, Italy on June 28th, 2016. Approximately twelve early career scholars will be selected. Participants will be expected to at…[Read more]

]]> 0 f9f285025bde1f8ca5e79b09514acebf Roberta Rosenberg replied to the topic Major Sephardic Novelists: The Risks They Take in the discussion Sephardic Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/sephardic/forum/topic/major-sephardic-novelists-the-risks-they-take/#post-9694 Fri, 04 Dec 2015 20:53:00 -0500  

CFP for MLA Teaching Options in Jewish American Literature proposed volume, including but not limited to: comparative and interdisciplinary teaching approaches; new approaches to canonical and new texts; transnational, multilingual  approaches to Yiddish and other non-English languages; study of Jewish American texts and culture that create…[Read more]

]]> 0 6d13da23af5bd3037acefab35f007665 Jane Mushabac started the topic Major Sephardic Novelists: The Risks They Take in the discussion Sephardic Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/sephardic/forum/topic/major-sephardic-novelists-the-risks-they-take/ Fri, 04 Dec 2015 20:03:57 -0500 “Major Sephardic Novelists: The Risks They Take”

The Sephardic Forum program in Austin Jan. 8, 8:30-9:45 a.m.

 

Presiding:

Jane Mushabac, New York City College of Technology, CUNY

 

“Sephardic Origins and the Quest for Identity in Post-Occupation France,

Patrick Modiano’s Novels as a Case Study.”

Ruth Malka, McGill University

 

“‘And She…[Read more]

]]> 0 8b480bed919edd22a451a92c190e48b0 Amanda Sharick started the topic Sephardic Forum Executive Committee Nomination in the discussion Sephardic Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/sephardic/forum/topic/sephardic-forum-executive-committee-nomination/ Fri, 20 Nov 2015 21:47:16 -0500 Dear MLA Sephardic Forum Members,

I am grateful for the opportunity to seek a position on the Sephardic Forum Executive Committee. As you may know, voting ends on 10 December. I wanted to share a bit about myself and my interests for those of you who have yet to cast a vote. I am also adding some information about an upcoming summer workshop…[Read more]

]]> 0 71955c6fe38a4e5b110fe187cd06fc3f Heidi Kaufman started the topic CFP: ACLA Caribbean/Jewish Intersections in the discussion Sephardic Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/sephardic-studies/forum/topic/cfp-acla-caribbeanjewish-intersections/ Tue, 08 Sep 2015 03:38:11 -0400 CFP: Caribbean/Jewish Intersections in (Post)Colonial Literary and Print Cultures

We are soliciting papers for a seminar that we have proposed for the upcoming American Comparative Literature Association conference (Harvard University, March 17-20, 2016). Paper abstracts can be submitted through the ACLA portal from September 1-23: http://www.acla&hellip;[Read more]

]]> 0 21d9fdc5d28b29c981db4f28eef110c0 Stacy N. Beckwith started the topic CFP ACLA Seminar "Narrating Sepharad Today" in the discussion Sephardic Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/sephardic-studies/forum/topic/cfp-acla-seminar-narrating-sepharad-today/ Mon, 07 Sep 2015 05:11:05 -0400 <div>Dear Colleagues,</div>
<div>We are pleased to invite papers for a seminar we have proposed for the Annual Meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association, March 17-20, at Harvard University. The link to our seminar is http://www.acla.org/seminar/narrating-sepharad-today and you can also read the text below. We welcome abstracts thr…[Read more]

]]> 0 d360e4d5306aef3646cd5d1938dcfff5 Jane Mushabac started the topic CFP: Major Sephardic Novelists: The Risks They Take in the discussion Sephardic Studies http://mla.hcommons.org/groups/sephardic-studies/forum/topic/cfp-major-sephardic-novelists-the-risks-they-take/ Fri, 27 Feb 2015 21:23:01 -0500 The Sephardic Forum seeks proposals that explore the work of a Sephardic novelist, writing in any language, and the risks he or she has taken to further creative or sociopolitical goals.

Please email 1-page abstracts by 15 March 2015
to Jane Mushabac (jmushabac@citytech.cuny.edu)

]]> 0 4ba4d9c1c1d184b50839821de78607aa Bryan Kirschen edited the file: La Mueva Jenerasion: Contemporary Sephardic Production in Sephardic Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/58406/ Wed, 12 Feb 2014 08:59:32 -0500 0 dade7cb6f2fcdfe64c9d2dc5d2062e49 Bryan Kirschen posted an update in the group LLC Sephardic: La Mueva Jenerasion: Contemporary Sephardic Production […] https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/58404/ Wed, 12 Feb 2014 08:58:15 -0500 La Mueva Jenerasion: Contemporary Sephardic Production

Seeking proposals that explore the use of Judeo-Spanish in literary and/ or cinematic expression post-1992. How and why is the language used today?

200-word abstract to bmkirschen@gmail.com by March 15, 2014.

]]> 0 8112e7bd1a839af2d55298a0f18959b5 Bryan Kirschen started the topic Call for Papers: 2015 Vancouver in the forum Sephardic Studies http://mla.hcommons.org/groups/sephardic-studies/forum/topic/call-for-papers-2015-vancouver-2/ Wed, 12 Feb 2014 08:57:11 -0500 La Mueva Jenerasion:

Contemporary Sephardic Production

The Sephardic Studies Discussion Group of the MLA announces a call for papers for the 2015 MLA Convention in Vancouver, BC. This panel seeks proposals of 200 words that explore the use of Judeo-Spanish in literary and cinematic expression post-1992. How and why is the language used…[Read more]

]]> 0 2046ebbd792cd6f6c172ea949680696d Bryan Kirschen uploaded the file: La Mueva Jenerasion to Sephardic Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/58401/ Wed, 12 Feb 2014 08:54:10 -0500 Call for Papers
The Sephardic Studies Discussion Group of the MLA announces a call for papers for the 2015 MLA Convention in Vancouver, BC. This panel seeks proposals of 200 words that explore the use of Judeo-Spanish in literary and cinematic expression post-1992. How and why is the language used today?
For this panel, we are interested in…[Read more]

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