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Heng Du started the topic Respondent/panelist for guaranteed panel on premodern temporality (MLA26) in the forum
LLC South Asian and South Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 5 months, 3 weeks agoWe are hoping to recruit a scholar outside of Chinese studies to participate in this comparative panel. I included below a draft of its description, which can be further tailored according to your interests/suggestions:
<b>Natural Time and Human Narratives: Competing Temporal Orders in the Premodern World</b><b></b>
As a comparative study of…[Read more]
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Weihsin Gui started the topic CFP: Special Topic in Antipodes journal on “Australia And…” in the forum
LLC South Asian and South Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 11 months, 1 week agoCFP: Special Topic in Antipodes: A Global Journal of Australian and New Zealand Literature — “Australia And…”
Priority Deadline 1 November 2024
Antipodes invites articles for a special feature section in Antipodes, journal of the American Association for Australasian Studies (AAALS) that considers a literary or cultural work (including fil…[Read more]
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Chandrima Chakraborty started the topic CFP: Air India Flight 182: A 40th Anniversary Conference in the discussion
LLC South Asian and South Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 1 year, 5 months agoOn June 23rd, 1985, a bomb detonated on Air India Flight 182, enroute from Toronto to Delhi. All 329 passengers and crew aboard were killed, most of whom were Canadians of South Asian descent. Though this tragedy remains the largest mass murder in Canadian history and resulted in Canada’s longest and most expensive criminal investigation, it is l…[Read more]
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Jenny Bhatt started the topic CFP for MLA 2025 in the discussion
LLC South Asian and South Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 1 year, 6 months agoHi all.
I’m sharing a CFP for a proposed panel for MLA 2025. Here’s the brief (35-word limit) CFP as posted. Below, you can see a slightly longer abstract. Please reach out if this might be of interest to you. Thanks.
MLA CFP Link: https://mla.confex.com/mla/2025/webprogrampreliminary/Paper26442.html
Working Title: Reconstructing Narratives,…[Read more]
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Jenny Bhatt started the topic CFP for MLA 2025 in the discussion
LLC South Asian and South Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 1 year, 6 months agoHi all.
I’m sharing a CFP for a proposed panel for MLA 2025. Here’s the brief (35-word limit) CFP as posted. Below, you can see a slightly longer abstract. Please reach out if this might be of interest to you. Thanks.
MLA CFP Link: https://mla.confex.com/mla/2025/webprogrampreliminary/Paper26442.html
Working Title: Reconstructing Narratives,…[Read more]
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Jenny Bhatt started the topic CFP for MLA 2025 in the discussion
LLC South Asian and South Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 1 year, 6 months agoHi all.
I’m sharing a CFP for a proposed panel for MLA 2025. Here’s the brief (35-word limit) CFP as posted. Below, you can see a slightly longer abstract. Please reach out if this might be of interest to you. Thanks.
MLA CFP Link: https://mla.confex.com/mla/2025/webprogrampreliminary/Paper26442.html
Working Title: Reconstructing…[Read more]
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Preetha Mani deposited The Literary Management of Multilingualism in Postcolonial India in the group
LLC South Asian and South Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 1 year, 8 months agoThis chapter explores a tension in postcolonial Indian literature between the monolingual form of the nation and the multilingual tendencies of the linguistic regions through a comparison between the Sahitya Akademi’s (India’s national academy of letters) activities and Tamil putukkavitai (new poetry) writing. By promoting translation and con…[Read more]
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Golam Rabbani deposited The Creative Industries in Bangladesh: The Case of Coke Studio Bangla’s “Deora” in the group
LLC South Asian and South Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 1 year, 9 months agoThis article analyzes the case of Coke Studio Bangla’s music and performance production titled “Deora.”
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Golam Rabbani deposited In the Light of What We Know: A Novel of Its Time in the group
LLC South Asian and South Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 1 year, 9 months agoBook review of Zia Haider Rahman’s novel In the Light of What We Know
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Golam Rabbani deposited When the Subaltern Screams: Pedophilia and Patriarchy in Humayun Ahmed’s Pleasure Boy Kômola. in the group
LLC South Asian and South Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 2 years agoThis paper aims to analyze the depiction of pedophilia in Humayun Ahmed’s film ‘Pleasure Boy Kômola.’ It concentrates on the social and psychological reasons for this rarely existing sexual practice or perversion and the oppressive consequences it causes on the subalterns in Bangladesh during the colonial period.
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Brian Bernards started the topic Call for Applications: Humanities Grants for Scholars from SE & S. Asia in the discussion
LLC South Asian and South Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 2 years, 3 months agoCALL FOR APPLICATIONS
Cultivating the Humanities and Social Sciences (CHSS) Research Grants for scholars from South and Southeast Asia
Submission Deadline: September 1, 2023The Cultivating the Humanities and Social Sciences Research Grants are made possible thanks to the generous support of Sweden. This grant program is part of a new c…[Read more] -
Sana Asif deposited Tangible Heritage and Intangible Memory: (Coping) Precarity in the Select Partition Writings by Muslim Women in the group
LLC South Asian and South Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 2 years, 6 months agoThe partition of British India into two sovereign independent nations of India and Pakistan in 1947 was one of the most defining moments of the socio-political course of the sub-continent. The fight for independence from colonial rule and the rise of nationalism rooted in the religious discourse of two prominent religious communities- Hindus and…[Read more]
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Sujata Iyengar deposited Damage or Pleasure? Teaching Shakespeare as a British Indian in the US in the group
LLC South Asian and South Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 2 years, 8 months agoText of a talk delivered remotely to Seshadripuram Evening Degree College to commemorate their Golden Jubilee in July 2022. Not peer-reviewed. Discusses, in memoiristic fashion, Tripthi Pillai’s coinage “Shakespeare Damage” — the initial encounter of many minoritized or colonized subjects (including LGBTQ+ persons) with Shakespeare– and…[Read more]
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Amel Abbady deposited Afghanistan’s “Bacha Posh”: Gender-Crossing in Nadia Hashimi’s The Pearl That Broke Its Shell in the group
LLC South Asian and South Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 3 years, 1 month agoThis article explores the tradition of Bacha Posh in Afghan culture as depicted in Afghan-American Nadia Hashimiʼs debut novel The Pearl that Broke its Shell (2014). In this novel, Hashimi shows how Afghan girls are obliged to cross-dress and live dual lives as boys for several years to lay claim for their rights to education and freedom of…[Read more]
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Esha Sil started the topic CFP: The Routledge Handbook to Global Literature and Culture in the Romantic Era in the discussion
LLC South Asian and South Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 3 years, 3 months agoCall for Papers: The Routledge Handbook to Global Literature and Culture in the Romantic Era
Edited by Arif Camoglu, Bakary Diaby, Omar F. Miranda, Gaura Narayan, and Kate Singer
How might we re-envision and extend the “Romantic period” through an archive of texts and forms of expression from multiple communities across the planet during…[Read more]
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Brian Bernards started the topic ACLA 2022 Seminar CFP: Intermediality & the Transboundary in S & SE Asia in the discussion
LLC South Asian and South Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 3 years, 11 months agoIntermediality and the Transboundary in South and Southeast Asia
A Seminar Proposal for the American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA)
Annual Conference, National Taiwan University, Taipei, June 15-18, 2022
Deadline for Submission: October 31, 2021 at 11:59 p.m. PST
To submit an abstract for this seminar, please visit:…[Read more]
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Brian Bernards started the topic CFP: Inter-Asia Intermediality: A Two-Part International Workshop in the discussion
LLC South Asian and South Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 3 years, 11 months agoInter-Asia Intermediality: A Two-Part International Workshop
Conveners: Brian Bernards (USC) and Elmo Gonzaga (CUHK)
Part 1: University of Southern California (Los Angeles), May 20-21, 2022
Part 2: Chinese University of Hong Kong, June 10-11, 2022Over the past two decades, intermediality and inter-Asia (much like interdisciplinarity) have…[Read more]
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Umar Anjum replied to the topic CFP for MLA 2022 panel that could include South Asian Languages taught in the US in the discussion
LLC South Asian and South Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 4 years, 6 months agoHi,
No worries.
Have a nice week ahead
-umar
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Umar Anjum replied to the topic CFP for MLA 2022 panel that could include South Asian Languages taught in the US in the discussion
LLC South Asian and South Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 4 years, 6 months agoThank you, this looks great. I am interested. Can you please share details? Thanks
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Thomas Oliver Beebee started the topic CFP for MLA 2022 panel that could include South Asian Languages taught in the US in the discussion
LLC South Asian and South Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 4 years, 6 months agoWorld Languages, World Literature, Comparative Literature
Description: Comparative and World Literature programs depend on world language education pipeliines — and vice versa. This panel explores articulations, pipeline building, language-planning advocacy, including dialogue with high school language and literature teachers and…[Read more]
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