MLA Commons | Urban Cultural Studies | Activity https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/urban-cultural-studies/ Activity feed for the group, Urban Cultural Studies. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 13:38:14 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 e98e05d8e6b764314256e92bf1e8baec Susan Larson deposited La vanguardia en la arquitectura española (1920-1936): ¿proyecto inacabado o proyecto indefinido? in the group Urban Cultural Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1763963/ Wed, 29 Dec 2021 03:50:20 -0500 Este ensayo entra en el debate en España sobre el alcance que tuvo, entre 1920 y 1239, una posible “vanguardia arquitectónica”. Identificando “van­guardia” con “modernidad” y confundiendo lo que pudo ser un debate teórico con “signos” de los nuevos tiempos, la mayoría de lo que ya se ha escrito sobre el tema queda patente como fueron muchos temp…[Read more]

]]> 0 3359f2552a2b22a241d7e548add3ceb2 Susan Larson deposited Architecture and the Urban in Spanish Film in the group Urban Cultural Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1755735/ Mon, 18 Oct 2021 03:58:15 -0400 Building on existing film and urban histories, this innovative volume examines Spanish cinema through contemporary interdisciplinary theories of urban space, the built environment, visuality and mass culture from the industrial through to the digital age. Architecture and the Urban in Spanish Film brings together the scholarship of an…[Read more]

]]> 0 a4322da8c52e0bf4a8b94b870dd78889 Susan Larson deposited Who and What Was José Antonio Nieves Conde Criticizing in the Film El inquilino (1957)? in the group Urban Cultural Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1755717/ Mon, 18 Oct 2021 02:34:00 -0400 How does one understand a filmmaker like José Antonio Nieves Conde, a Falangist whose films with strong neorealist tendencies were radically altered by the Francoist censors for being too critical of the economic injustices inherent to daily urban life after the Spanish Civil War? Many film critics have asked this question and this essay looks…[Read more]

]]> 0 228bbc7e6cb12fad38727af756febed0 Susan Larson deposited Language, Image and Power in Luso-Hispanic Cultural Studies Theory and Practice in the group Urban Cultural Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1753543/ Sun, 03 Oct 2021 03:56:32 -0400 This volume explores the history, evolution, and future of Luso-Hispanic Cultural Studies as a discipline, a pedagogical tool, and a set of working practices by bringing together a diverse group of renowned specialists to examine how the field has grown out of and radically reconsidered some of the basic premises of British Cultural Studies since…[Read more]

]]> 0 325c2adbc19a6e2cef4c67497652f0a3 Susan Larson deposited Nature, the Monumental and Urban Technological Networks in Víctor Moreno's Edificio España (2012) and La ciudad oculta (2018) / Naturaleza, lo monumental y las redes tecnológicas urbanas en Edificio España (2012) y La ciudad oculta (2018) de Víctor Moreno in the group Urban Cultural Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1751968/ Wed, 15 Sep 2021 03:55:48 -0400 If we affirmatively answer Maria Kaika and Erik Swyngedouw’s invitation to think beyond the ‘fetishization of the modern city’ as the pinnacle of human-centered progress and achievement in order to consider the urban as both a process of transformed nature and the metabolic and social transformation of nature through human labor, the city becom…[Read more]

]]> 0 a271cab99a08ec78adac4310acf77331 Susan Larson deposited Trash as Aesthetic and Theme in Elvira Navarro's La trabajadora in the group Urban Cultural Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1735608/ Wed, 21 Apr 2021 02:26:09 -0400 This essay focuses on one example of a collective desire to articulate new ways of thinking about and inhabiting urban space: Elvira Navarro’s 2014 _La trabajadora_, a novel that directly confronts the human cost of austerity measures in Spain by addressing the indignation experienced by those whose life plans have been altered by economic i…[Read more]

]]> 0 af96538cee8a2ed4885e40f635480c7a Susan Larson deposited La gramática de la 'Hispanidad': Retórica de imperio y arquitectura historicista en los discursos públicos de J.C. Nichols in the group Urban Cultural Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1731812/ Thu, 18 Mar 2021 02:28:07 -0400 The purpose of this essay is to better understand the motives of the real estate mogul and construction magnate -J.C.Nichols- responsible for the construction of the first non-centrally located shopping mall in the United States in Kansas City in the 1920s. Specifically, this study focuses on why and how Nichols resorted to a pastiche of…[Read more]

]]> 0 943f230f96af16233298193ee4d80273 Susan Larson deposited Madrid Río, El Matadero and the Nature of Urbanization in the group Urban Cultural Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1727979/ Fri, 19 Feb 2021 02:43:15 -0500 This essay considers two closely related high-profile urban renewal projects that have altered the landscape of the southern region of Madrid since 2007: Madrid Río and El Matadero Madrid Centro de Creación Contemporánea. While the former is often cast as renovating the ‘natural’ ecology of the city and the latter a renovation of its cultural la…[Read more]

]]> 0 0b0ebfe3a1945ce6948c0bcf69e08501 Gloria Lee McMillan deposited Lupe's Story: Lupe Gallardo Marshall @ the Memorial Day Massacre (Republic Steel) 1937 in the group Urban Cultural Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1640800/ Thu, 23 May 2019 16:28:16 -0400 Pages from a local East Chicago, IN, publication commemorating the 1937 Memorial Day Massacre at South Chicago’s Republic Steel. Lupe Gallardo Marshall (Mexican immigrant social worker at Hull House) gave this testimony to the La Follette Committee of Congress investigating the events of that day, May 30, 1937.

I am thinking about writing a…[Read more]

]]> 0 c8405dd6becf43ee86f36f847bdc4ba3 Gloria Lee McMillan deposited A Clockwork Student in the group Urban Cultural Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1637590/ Tue, 09 Apr 2019 03:48:52 -0400 This is another tale of life in the famed Rust Belt and how denizens of the “Belt” fare when they attempt to enter the world beyond its boundaries to the university. this is more autobiographical than most so should probably be called “creative non-fiction?”
How can a student escape from the confines of an industrial home town or neighboring town…[Read more]

]]> 0 db2b56c0ec6354c58b4fa74b0d7ad8af Gloria Lee McMillan deposited Two-Act In-Progress Play: Nobody goes to Gary in the group Urban Cultural Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1627133/ Sat, 22 Dec 2018 04:04:54 -0500 Two-Act Play

Nobody goes to Gary is a Swiftian satire. Gil Tolliver, an investigative reporter I New York City, makes a fateful journey into the real heart of Gary, Indiana, after hearing the musical tune “Gary, Indiana, Gary, Indiana” during _The Music Man_. Don’t measure the distance of Gary from New York in miles, but in emotional light…[Read more]

]]> 0 0fb89ab660cc7bd322e8b81a8fe9233d Gloria Lee McMillan deposited BOOK REVIEW: Media coverage of Organized Labor in the group Urban Cultural Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1594648/ Thu, 04 Jan 2018 05:50:31 -0500 The idea that the US media is biased against organized labor may seem too obvious to require comment and research, but the details are quite important to understanding to to communicate more effectively between voices of the labor community and voices of management. The common assumption that labor media coverage became more skewed with the…[Read more]

]]> 0 4852e1df2e6921d690fa13adb5029e5c Lee B. Abraham started the topic Call for Papers: Approaches to Teaching and Learning with Urban Spaces in the discussion Urban Cultural Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/urban-cultural-studies/forum/topic/call-for-papers-approaches-to-teaching-and-learning-with-urban-spaces/ Thu, 01 Jun 2017 18:27:13 -0400 Call for Papers
Approaches to Teaching and Learning with Urban Spaces

49th Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) Convention
Global Spaces, Local Landscapes and Imagined Worlds
April 12-15, 2018, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
NeMLA Web Site: http://www.buffalo.edu/nemla/convention.html

The late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries have…[Read more]

]]> 0 45c481849070bb40170b7b4b9bfacf31 Gloria Lee McMillan deposited Jane Addams and Hull-House (historical novel Waking the Dead) in the group Urban Cultural Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1571423/ Tue, 23 May 2017 20:15:03 -0400 The historical novel Waking the Dead is now available at ResearchGate. This data file (there are 20) introduces Jane Addams

]]> 0 8d8490c19f1ab6340f295ec37444174a Gloria Lee McMillan deposited Resource on William T,. Stead human rights / Labor advocate (UK- Chicago 1893) in the group Urban Cultural Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1570061/ Wed, 10 May 2017 20:15:09 -0400 A figure who should be back in our minds these days, British journalist/reformer William T. Stead came to cover the 1893 Chicago world’s fair and wrote If Christ came to Chicago about the “philistines” running the corrupt exploitation of the poor in the town. Some pillars of Chicago society pages and front pews in posh churches paid the tax on…[Read more]

]]> 0 01c841aa1866851307e969235702dcc3 Gloria Lee McMillan started the topic New Rust Belt Literature Group at the Commons in the discussion Urban Cultural Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/urban-cultural-studies/forum/topic/new-rust-belt-literature-group-at-the-commons-3/ Fri, 09 Sep 2016 20:58:03 -0400 <div class=”bbp-reply-content”>
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We welcome your participation in the Rust Belt Literature group.

This group will host discussions of all types of literary responses to living in the Rust Belt, defined here as industrial communities in the United States, Bor…[Read more]

]]> 0 c54f070687eabdec090cdd8bc3b52b65 Benjamin Fraser started the topic Call for Assistant Editors: Journal of Urban Cultural Studies in the discussion Urban Cultural Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/urban-cultural-studies/forum/topic/call-for-assistant-editors-journal-of-urban-cultural-studies/ Thu, 12 May 2016 18:54:59 -0400 CALL FOR
ASSISTANT EDITORS (2017 & 2018)

APPLICATION DEADLINE IS 20 NOVEMBER 2016

The Journal of Urban Cultural Studies is a peer-reviewed interdisciplinary journal exploring the cultures of cities and blending humanities and social science approaches to the urban phenomenon. The journal publishes research articles (subject to peer review) of…[Read more]

]]> 0 977be6f8a345afe92e827313a9dbce8f Debra J. Ochoa started the topic Gender and Spanish Urban Spaces (Palgrave Macmillan-Hispanic Urban Studies) in the discussion Urban Cultural Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/urban-cultural-studies/forum/topic/gender-and-spanish-urban-spaces-palgrave-macmillan-hispanic-urban-studies/ Thu, 10 Mar 2016 21:09:58 -0500 <div></div>
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Landscape architecture and urban planning join aesthetics of design with the hard science of engineering. These areas foreground the complex influence of history and culture in the…[Read more]

]]> 0 901aeaf8d95c8aecc8218a3cdc8801d3 Juliana Luna Freire replied to the topic Calendar for Hispanic Urban Cultural Studies - Feb. and March in the discussion Urban Cultural Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/urban-cultural-studies/forum/topic/calendar-for-hispanic-urban-cultural-studies-feb-and-march/#post-10521 Wed, 17 Feb 2016 16:17:39 -0500 Update: we had to cancel the meeting on 2/11, so we will be discussing “The Invisible Political Economy of Architectural Production” by David Harvey and “Architecture is now a tool of capital, complicit in a purpose antithetical to its social mission” by Reinier de Graaf (led by Malcolm Compitello and Megan Saltzman) tomorrow (2/18).

]]> 0 d2fb49665dabd0648367b6db19f7773d Roberta Rosenberg created the doc CFP: Deadline for Abstracts, MLA Teaching Options in Jewish-American Literature is February 15th in the group Urban Cultural Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/543673/ Mon, 01 Feb 2016 15:25:26 -0500 0 d88d9fe99e90577dd51c9663baa2bebb Juliana Luna Freire started the topic Calendar for Hispanic Urban Cultural Studies - Feb. and March in the discussion Urban Cultural Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/urban-cultural-studies/forum/topic/calendar-for-hispanic-urban-cultural-studies-feb-and-march/ Mon, 01 Feb 2016 13:58:34 -0500 We would like to invite you to a continuation of a series of events that the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Arizona has launched in Virtual Reality for the academic year of 2015-2016. They will take place at Cibola, the Department’s home in Second Life. Next conversation will be between Malcolm Compitello (The Univ…[Read more]

]]> 0 bf080361d77553b33b937606af1dd3ea Juliana Luna Freire replied to the topic Online Roundtable on Hispanic Urban Studies - Discussion of Coming Insurrection in the discussion Urban Cultural Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/urban-cultural-studies/forum/topic/online-roundtable-on-hispanic-urban-studies-discussion-of-coming-insurrection/#post-10010 Mon, 11 Jan 2016 01:57:23 -0500 For Thursday, 1/21, we will be discussing Lefebvre’s Rhythmanalysis. If you need the text, please let us know.

Please leave us a message if you are interested in joining the discussions, and we are looking forward to some new participants.

]]> 0 9808fd769c9c9e45930abb2dcf920532 Juliana Luna Freire started the topic Online Roundtable on Hispanic Urban Studies - Discussion of Coming Insurrection in the discussion Urban Cultural Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/urban-cultural-studies/forum/topic/online-roundtable-on-hispanic-urban-studies-discussion-of-coming-insurrection/ Wed, 16 Dec 2015 17:36:31 -0500 Good afternoon,

We would like to invite you to a continuation of a series of events that the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Arizona has launched in Virtual Reality for the academic year of 2015-2016. They will take place at Cibola, the Department’s home in Second Life. Next conversation will be between Malcolm Comp…[Read more]

]]> 0 f862213514747274c53032369d44f2fe Laura Vazquez Blazquez started the topic Hispanic Urban Cultural Studies Roundtable- Online-TODAY! in the discussion Urban Cultural Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/urban-cultural-studies/forum/topic/hispanic-urban-cultural-studies-roundtable-online-today/ Thu, 03 Dec 2015 16:31:44 -0500 Hello everyone!

The Cibola Urban Studies Roundtable will meet today, December 3rd at 4:00 SL time (5:00 p.m. Tucson time; 7:00 p.m. EST). We will be discussing the article, “The Social Production of Urban Cultural Heritage: Identity and Ecosystem on an Amsterdam Shopping Street.”  by Sharon Zukin from the journal City, Culture and Society. 3.4…[Read more]

]]> 0 7582c65c1f76e66112a8c3d13852a9f7 Juliana Luna Freire replied to the topic Roundtable on Hispanic Urban Studies - Online on Nov. 5 in the discussion Urban Cultural Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/urban-cultural-studies/forum/topic/roundtable-on-hispanic-urban-studies-online-on-nov-5/#post-9487 Tue, 10 Nov 2015 20:14:37 -0500 Our next meeting will be Nov. 19 at 7 pm EST. If you want to find out more about the readings to be discussed, please contact any of us. We hope to see you there!

]]> 0 d39deea3c2eeedd8d91b98eaa1aeec6b Juliana Luna Freire started the topic Roundtable on Hispanic Urban Studies - Online on Nov. 5 in the discussion Urban Cultural Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/urban-cultural-studies/forum/topic/roundtable-on-hispanic-urban-studies-online-on-nov-5/ Sat, 31 Oct 2015 13:13:25 -0400 We would like to invite you to a continuation of a series of events that the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Arizona has launched in Virtual Reality for the academic year of 2015-2016. They will take place at Cibola, the Department’s home in Second Life. The third conversation will be between Prof. Malcolm Compitello (Th…[Read more]

]]> 0 721c3e8be87fec8bd437e4ea847c36d6 Cathleen Carris uploaded the file: Urban Transformations in Latin America CFP to Urban Cultural Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/87033/ Tue, 30 Dec 2014 23:03:45 -0500 The Program in Latin American Studies of the Johns Hopkins University invites proposals for its Spring Conference, Urban Transformations in Latin America (April 3rd, 2015, Baltimore MD).

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