Activity – Masood Raja

Masood Raja started the topic Pictures from our MLA Panel in the forum South Asian Languages and Literatures on MLA Commons 8 years, 10 months ago
Masood Raja started the topic MLA Panel Tomorrow in the forum South Asian Languages and Literatures on MLA Commons 8 years, 10 months ago

Please join us for our MLA Panel tomorrow:
678. Politics of Difference and Poetics of Reconciliation
Sunday, 11 January, 8:30–9:45 a.m., 14, VCC East

Program arranged by the Discussion Group on South Asian Languages and Literatures

Presiding: Masood Raja, Univ. of North Texas

1. “Cosmopolitan Aesthetics in Shakeel Adilzada’s Baazigar,” Masood R…[Read more]
Masood Raja started the topic Executive Committee Meeting in the forum South Asian Languages and Literatures on MLA Commons 8 years, 10 months ago

We held our annual Executive committee meeting yesterday and will soon share the news about new members for the next five year term.

Meanwhile, please do post your comments and suggestions to this forum so that we can make this into a viable place to generate ideas and to increase the visibility of our group.
Masood Raja wrote a new post, Some Thoughts on Solidarity and Community , on the site Open Access Publishing on MLA Commons 10 years ago

We live in a world constructed to force us to internalize our own insignificance. Every single day we go on with our daily activities, painfully aware that we are caught in an ever-expanding web of impersonal, […]
Masood Raja wrote a new post, Devastating News for the UNT Library , on the site Open Access Publishing on MLA Commons 10 years ago

I just came back from an open meeting of the faculty and staff with Dr. Martin Halbert, Dean of libraries, University of North Texas. During our discussion some salient aspects of the new budget cuts to the […]
Masood Raja wrote a new post, Now Published: “Critical Pedagogy and Global Literature: Worldly Teaching” , on the site Open Access Publishing on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months ago

Critical Pedagogy and Global Literature: Worldly Teaching (New Frontiers in Education, Culture, and Politics)
Edited by Masood Ashraf Rja, Zach VandeZande, Hillary Stringer
Series Editor: Kenneth Saltman
I just […]
Masood Raja wrote a new post, CFP: “Language Speaks US” , on the site Open Access Publishing on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months ago

The College English Association—Caribbean Chapter welcomes proposals for presentations in English (20-minute papers) for our 2014 conference, which will be held at the University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez, on March […]
Masood Raja wrote a new post, Pakistaniaat: Faiz Ahmed Faiz Issue Published!, on the site Open Access Publishing on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months ago

This is to let you all know that the Faiz Ahmed Faiz Special issue of Pakistaniaat has now been published and is available on our website. Two years in the making, this wonderfully comprehensive issue on one of […]
Masood Raja posted an update on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months ago

Congratulations on winning the ipad! @anouk
Masood Raja wrote a new post, Open Access Journal Hosting, on the site Open Access Publishing on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months ago

A few months ago, just before it was time to pay the annual hosting fees for our journal{{1}} [[1]]Pakistaniaat: A Journal of Pakistan Studies[[1]], I decided to launch our own hosting platform. I had tried it […]
Masood Raja commented on the post, Call for Papers on Contingency!, on the site Part-time Faculty: Activism in the Discipline on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months ago

We would also welcome some of your work for our journal–Cognitariat: Journal of Contingent Labor (http://cognitariat.org).
Thanks.
Masood Raja wrote a new post, What Makes Our OA Journals Successful, on the site Open Access Publishing on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months ago

As an editor of two open access journals{{1}} [[Pakistaniaat: A Journal of Pakistan Studies and Cognitariat: Journal of Contingent Labor]], I often find myself taking a deep look at our editorial practices as well […]
Masood Raja posted an update in the group LLC South Asian and South Asian Diasporic on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months ago

Please pass on our CFP for a special issue of Pakistaniaat: http://openaccess.mla.hcommons.org/2013/05/02/cfp-pakistaniaat-a-journal-of-pakistan-studies/
- Betsy Dahms replied 9 years, 5 months ago
  
  Call for Papers
  WORLDS and WORDS
  29th Annual Interdisciplinary Conference in the Humanities
  Sponsored by the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures
  University of West Georgia, College of Arts and Humanities
  Carrollton, Georgia
  October 30-November 1, 2014
  
  Deadline Extended until July 22nd
  
  We welcome submissions from across the…[Read more]
Masood Raja posted an update on MLA Commons 10 years, 6 months ago

A wonderful blog by @georgejustice
Masood Raja wrote a new post, Journey Toward Open Access, on the site Open Access Publishing on MLA Commons 10 years, 7 months ago

I seriously encountered the question of open access knowledge in 2006 while teaching a graduate course. As my course was focused on the postcolonial novel, all students were required to give a country presentation […]
Masood Raja wrote a new post, Futures of Academic Publishing: UNT’s 4th Symposium on Open Access, on the site Open Access Publishing on MLA Commons 10 years, 7 months ago

May 30th and 31st of 2013 in Dallas, TX. Check out our Venue page for more details.
Click Here to Register. Get our early-bird special of $75.00 by signing up before May 1, 2013.
The year’s conference is […]
Masood Raja changed their profile picture on MLA Commons 10 years, 7 months ago
Masood Raja wrote a new post, CFP: Pakistaniaat: A Journal of Pakistan Studies, on the site Open Access Publishing on MLA Commons 10 years, 7 months ago

Special Issue on The Aesthetics and Limits of Historical Memory: Contemporary Perspectives on Bangladesh

Pakistaniaat: A Journal of Pakistan Studies

Guest Editor: Neilesh Bose, University of North […]
Masood Raja wrote a new post, The Cognitariat and the Precarity of Speaking, on the site Open Access Publishing on MLA Commons 10 years, 7 months ago

Having just launched the journal, few of us sat together and talked till late night about this new and fascinating project. What came across through our conversation was the very essence of our project: the […]
Masood Raja wrote a new post, Why Open Access Matters for Developing Nations, on the site Open Access Publishing on MLA Commons 10 years, 7 months ago

I know there is a lot of information available on this issue and most of it is based in pretty sound research about the inequalities created by the controlled access model in this knowledge economy or cognitive […]

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