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Pamela Phillips started the topic CFP MLA 2024 CLCS-18th Century Panels — Deadline Extended in the discussion
LLC 18th- and 19th-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 2 months, 3 weeks agoMarch 20, 2023 is the deadline to apply to the CLCS-18th Century Forum’s panels at next year’s MLA in Philadelphia.
I. Comparative Media Histories
Recent work in book history, bibliography, and media studies has expanded definitions of “the book” and turned attention to materiality more broadly. Eighteenth-century studies in particular has seen…[Read more]
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Yvonne Fuentes posted an update in the group
LLC 18th- and 19th-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 3 months agoReminder of Calls for Papers: Abstracts due March 17.
Politics of Celebration in 18th- and 19th-Century Spanish and Iberian Performance
We invite papers that address forms of celebration and expressions of collective joy or sorrow through dance, song, satire, or ritual from the Spanish and Iberian 18th and 19th Centuries. Please send a 250-word…[Read more] -
Pamela Phillips started the topic CFP MLA 24—New Methods in 18th-Century Comparative and Cross-Cultural Reading in the discussion
LLC 18th- and 19th-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 3 months agoIt has been nearly 20 years since Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak called, in Death of a Discipline (2005), for a radical reorientation of comparative literature’s methods for the 21st century. Observing the institutional shift from Area Studies to Cultural and Ethnic Studies, Spivak urged comparatists to reimagine the political imperatives of the d…[Read more]
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Pamela Phillips started the topic CFP MLA 24—New Methods in 18th-Century Comparative and Cross-Cultural Reading in the discussion
LLC 18th- and 19th-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 3 months agoRecent work in book history, bibliography, and media studies has expanded definitions of “the book” and turned attention to materiality more broadly. Eighteenth-century studies in particular has seen an interest in non-print media, queer and trans book history, speculative archives, and critical making, among other approaches. This panel seeks con…[Read more]
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Stefania Irene Sini started the topic Rhythm, Speed, Path: Spatiotemporal Experiences in Narrative, Poetry, and Drama in the discussion
TC Anthropology and Literature on MLA Commons 3 months, 1 week agoDear colleagues,
we’ve extended the deadline for submitting to ENN7, the European Narratology Network conference.
The new deadline is: 10th March 2023 (timezone: anywhere in the world).
This year’s conference is co-located with IGEL 2023, the conference of the International Society for the Empirical Study of Literature, and the common theme i…[Read more]
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Catherine Barbour started the topic CfP guaranteed panel Philadelphia, Jan 2024 in the discussion
LLC Galician on MLA Commons 3 months, 4 weeks agoCfP guaranteed panel Philadelphia, Jan 2024: ‘Interdisciplinary Approaches to Galician Im/Migration’
Submissions invited for guaranteed panel on Galician im/migration at MLA Convention in Philadelphia, 4 to 7 January 2024. Please submit 250 word proposal + short bio to Catherine Barbour (barbourc@tcd.ie) and Nicola Bermingham…[Read more]
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Kathryn Anne Everly deposited Intersectional Silencing in the Archive: Salaria Kea and The Spanish Civil War in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 3 months, 4 weeks agoSalaria Kea was the only African American woman to serve with the American Medical Unit during the Spanish Civil War. Her experience has been silenced and edited within the archive by traditionally more authoritative voices. Reconsidering the impact of intersectionality on personal experience can lead to a better understanding of Black U.S.…[Read more]
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Elizabeth Scarlett started the topic CALL FOR PAPERS: MLA 2024 session of the TC Forum on Religion and Literature in the discussion
TC Religion and Literature on MLA Commons 4 months, 2 weeks ago“20th-Century ‘Saints’ and Struggle”
If “spirituality” relates to a concern for the transcendent and a “saint” is one who has made a significant contribution to a spiritual tradition, this panel focuses on 20th-century saints whose spirituality intersected significantly with social and political struggle. Abstracts demonstrating familiarity…[Read more]
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Steven Schroeder deposited in the path of totality in the group
TC Religion and Literature on MLA Commons 4 months, 3 weeks agoThe forty poems in this collection have percolated through more than forty years of meditation on “city” that began when I was an undergraduate studying with Richard Luecke at Valparaiso University. The title, In the Path of Totality, references a phrase made familiar by media coverage leading up to the total solar eclipse that was visible acr…[Read more]
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Sebastian Lecourt started the topic Self-Nominations for Forum Executive Committee in the discussion
TC Anthropology and Literature on MLA Commons 4 months, 3 weeks agoAs the outgoing chair of TC Anthropology and Literature, I would like to invite the membership to offer self-nominations for the Forum’s Executive Committee. Following recent reforms, new EC members are now nominated instead of elected, but suggestions may still be solicited from the membership. Please submit self-nominations to me at…[Read more]
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Steven Schroeder deposited the imperfection of the eye in the group
TC Religion and Literature on MLA Commons 4 months, 3 weeks agoThere is an all at once quality to lyric poetry that makes it akin to mysticism. It knows there is more to vision than meets the eye. It takes the whole world in while knowing the whole of it is always known imperfectly, always here, always now. The here and now of the seventy-one poems in Steven Schroeder’s new collection is most often Chicago,…[Read more]
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Steven Schroeder deposited turn in the group
TC Religion and Literature on MLA Commons 4 months, 3 weeks agoIn the spirit of the old Shaker hymn, the poems in Steven Schroeder’s new collection turn and turn – from a question Laozi raises to Woody Guthrie’s holy ground, from Chicago to Texas to Shenzhen to Macao, in conversation with poets and philosophers from Euclid and Thoreau to Emily Dickinson, John Donne, Gertrude Stein, Buddy Holly, Lyle Lovet…[Read more]
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Elizabeth Scarlett started the topic 2023 MLA Convention session 377 – Making Sacred, Making Holy in the discussion
TC Religion and Literature on MLA Commons 5 months agoIf you are at the Convention in San Francisco, please consider attending the Religion and Literature Forum Session 377 on Friday, 6 January 2023, 5:15 PM – 6:30 PM.
“Making Sacred, Making Holy: The Canonization of People and Texts” in the Marriott Marquis – Sierra Suite H (Level 5)
Presider
Jason Lewallen, U of Dallas
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Benita Sampedro replied to the topic Membership Suggestions for 2023 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
LLC Galician on MLA Commons 6 months agoLaura Lesta García and Catherine Barbour
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Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2023 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
LLC 18th- and 19th-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 6 months, 2 weeks agoThe next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2023, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets in January 2023. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nominate at least one candidate who…[Read more]
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Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2023 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
LLC Galician on MLA Commons 6 months, 2 weeks agoThe next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2023, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets in January 2023. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nominate at least one candidate who…[Read more]
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Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2023 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
LLC Galician on MLA Commons 6 months, 2 weeks agoThe next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2023, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets in January 2023. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nominate at least one candidate who…[Read more]
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Catherine Barbour started the topic CFP: Youth Theatre and Performance in Regional, Minority, and Minoritised Langs in the discussion
LLC Galician on MLA Commons 9 months, 3 weeks agoA conference will be held on the theme of ‘Youth Theatre and Performance in Regional, Minority, and Minoritised Languages’ on 23-25 March 2023, hosted by the School of Irish, Celtic Studies and Folklore, University College Dublin, Ireland. The deadline for submission of 250 word abstracts is Friday, 28 October 2022. Further information about the…[Read more]
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Ari Borrell deposited Ko-wu or Kung-an? Practive, Realization and Teaching in the Thought of Chang Chiu-cheng in the group
TC Religion and Literature on MLA Commons 10 months, 3 weeks agoExamines the intersection between Chan Buddhism and Neo-Confucianism during the Southern Song dynasty period (1126-1279) in China.
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Mary Kate Donovan started the topic TRECE Symposium 2022 in the discussion
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian on MLA Commons 1 year agoCFP – TRECE Symposium 2022 to be held in person at Northwestern University, September 29 – October 1. Proposals for papers are due July 15, 2022 to ColectivoTRECE@outlook.com. Please see attached document for more details.
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