SAH Commons | Andres Perez-Simon | Group Activity https://sah.hcommons.org/members/andrew00/activity/groups/ Public group activity feed of which Andres Perez-Simon is a member. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 16:18:54 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 6c40929115590ed39ff22f250c94092e Lennie Amores uploaded the file: CFP: MLA Convention 2027 Los Angeles ( to LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1945300/ Wed, 04 Mar 2026 23:47:11 -0500 MLA Annual Convention
Los Angeles, January 7-10, 2027
CALL FOR PROPOSALS
LLC 20th- and 21st- Century Spanish and Iberian Forum
Emancipatory Narratives of Aging
This guaranteed session will examine cultural and literary representations of aging, old age, and memory in Spain, its emancipatory potential, challenges to aging, ageism, discrimination,…[Read more]

]]> 0 2b3d0dcffea9e20c766f2f1a1e69dae1 MelissaBarchi Panek replied to the topic CFP: MLA 2027 (Los Angeles) — Mediated Futures: Technology and Transformation in the forum CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century/forum/topic/cfp-mla-2027-los-angeles-mediated-futures-technology-and-transformation/#post-1040868 Tue, 17 Feb 2026 02:15:00 -0500 Call for Papers

Comparative Literature and Culture Studies (20th–21st Century)
Modern Language Association Conference, January 7-10 Los Angeles
Electronic Roundtable (8 participants)

Mediated Futures: Technology, Transformation, and the Literary-Cultural Field

This electronic roundtable invites short, exploratory interventions on the t…[Read more]

]]> 0 a2992fd552a27f254525cb28b3ebad34 Julia Elsky started the topic Seeking nominations for Delegate Assembly for European Regions Forum in the forum CLCS European Regions https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/european-regions/forum/topic/seeking-nominations-for-delegate-assembly-for-european-regions-forum/ Tue, 20 Jan 2026 14:53:26 -0500 European Regions Forum members are encouraged to send nominations for delegates to the MLA Delegate Assembly (2028-2030 annual conventions). More information can be found here:

https://www.mla.org/About-Us/Governance/Delegate-Assembly/Information-about-Delegate-Assembly-Service

Please email Julia Elsky by Jan. 31, 2026, at jelsky@luc.edu.

]]> 0 4d2331b86208f730b5a350865fdd59db Adam Cohn uploaded the file: CFP: Jewish Writing in Modern and Contemporary Spain to LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1941342/ Fri, 16 Jan 2026 22:52:17 -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 c6043be137ab7099f1b9410b93f1647f Julia Elsky started the topic MLA Toronto 2026: European Region's 2 annual panels in the forum CLCS European Regions https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/european-regions/forum/topic/mla-toronto-2026-european-regions-2-annual-panels/ Sat, 03 Jan 2026 18:52:37 -0500 I’m happy to share our forum’s two panels at the MLA convention in Toronto year: “Literature and the Archive” on Thursday & “The Creative Self: Living and Writing the Extreme” on Saturday. We hope to see you there!

]]> 0 0e8778175fa4e3943197d13818255d7c Ryan Calabretta-Sajder started the topic Teaching Assistant Professor of World Languages & Humanities Technologies in the forum CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century/forum/topic/teaching-assistant-professor-of-world-languages-humanities-technologies-3/ Wed, 10 Dec 2025 23:50:52 -0500 Please consider applying and share widely!

]]> 0 d9570a8bbaeff1f643caa8fa114ed74a Linda Badley started the topic REMINDER: Future Library: Critical Approaches to an Unseen Archive CFP in the forum CLCS European Regions https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/european-regions/forum/topic/reminder-future-library-critical-approaches-to-an-unseen-archive-cfp/ Sat, 06 Sep 2025 16:44:18 -0400 The deadline for abstracts is September 15!  Please contact Linda Badley (lbadley@comcast.net), Jenna Coughlin (coughl3@stolaf.edu), and/or Gitte Mose (gitte.mose@iln.uio.no) with questions or comments.

]]> 0 de6584d7523b9ec9f4b235077aed8f4d Lisa Nalbone started the topic CFP: Amplifying Women’s Voices of Resistance in the forum CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century/forum/topic/cfp-amplifying-womens-voices-of-resistance/ Thu, 03 Apr 2025 15:53:35 -0400 CFP for “Amplifying Women’s Voices of Resistance: Challenging Power, Shaping Change”, for a special issue of the South Atlantic Review: The Journal of the South Atlantic Modern Language Association.

This special issue seeks to honor and amplify the voices of women who have resisted, challenged, and redefined societal norms—both histori…[Read more]

]]> 0 e0f5b92dc79b61535ec1f51a1ecfec05 Shashi Bhusan Nayak started the topic Call for Chapters – Scripting Selves: New Directions in Life Writing in the forum TM Literary Criticism https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/literary-criticism/forum/topic/call-for-chapters-scripting-selves-new-directions-in-life-writing-6/ Tue, 04 Mar 2025 19:40:01 -0500 Scripting Selves: New Directions in Life Writing
Editors: P. Muralidhar Sharma & Shashibhusan Nayak

Until recently, Life Writing has emerged as a loose critical label encompassing a variety of genres, including biographies, autobiographies, memoirs, letters, and dairies. The later decades of the 20th century, in particular, have witnessed a surge…[Read more]

]]> 0 38629fca75fe7b32a38be1f6544a0b6a Paul Michael Johnson started the topic CFP: Mediterranean Racialization (MLA 2026, Toronto) in the forum CLCS Mediterranean https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/mediterranean/forum/topic/cfp-mediterranean-racialization-mla-2026-toronto/ Tue, 04 Mar 2025 12:56:11 -0500 How have conceptions of race shaped the Mediterranean, and how has the Mediterranean shaped the concept or lived experience of race? Potential approaches include racialization of nation, empire, and migration. 200-word abstracts to pmjohnson@jhu.edu. Deadline for submissions: Saturday, 15 March 2025

]]> 0 c92b65091a851503aea891c2101dc610 Paul Michael Johnson started the topic CFP: Iberian and Mediterranean Exteriorities (MLA 2026, Toronto) in the forum CLCS Mediterranean https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/mediterranean/forum/topic/cfp-iberian-and-mediterranean-exteriorities-mla-2026-toronto/ Tue, 04 Mar 2025 12:51:36 -0500 Mediterranean territories “exterior” but connected to the Iberian Peninsula: Gibraltar, Maghreb, Ceuta, Melilla, Chafarinas, Baleares, Sardinia, Sicily, Naples, Sephardic communities, etc. All approaches considered. 200-word abstracts: MLA.Iberian.Lit.Cult.20th.21st.c@gmail.com and rpnewcomb@ucdavis.edu. Deadline for submissions: Thursday, 20 March 2025

]]> 0 8e31108f736f4fd5332721c27565549b Stefania Irene Sini uploaded the file: CFP: Limits of Narrative. 8th International Conference of the European Narratology Network (ENN), Wuppertal, Germany, September 29 - October 2, 2025 to TM Literary Criticism https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1912534/ Tue, 25 Feb 2025 15:18:06 -0500 In view of the rampant use of the term ‘narrative’, which often enough lacks a precise meaning, it is time to take a critical look at its limits. The 8th ENN conference in Wuppertal (Germany) is dedicated to this reflection on the concept of narrative in order to sharpen it by defining its boundaries: Which phenomena cannot be appropriately lab…[Read more]

]]> 0 c21107a92990bb519167da689a9f06c7 Michael Subialka started the topic CFP "Who Do We Resemble? Selfhood, Perception, and Modernist Multiplicity" MLA in the forum CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century/forum/topic/cfp-who-do-we-resemble-selfhood-perception-and-modernist-multiplicity-mla/ Tue, 25 Feb 2025 00:17:20 -0500 Luigi Pirandello’s One, No One, and One Hundred Thousand (1926) presents a radical meditation on the fragmentation of identity, the impossibility of “true” self-perception, and the crisis of being seen differently by others. Published exactly a century ago, the novel interrogates the ways in which individuals exist not as unified selves but as…[Read more]

]]> 0 bcac4e5ff61652568261e18c73afc8af Julia Elsky started the topic CFP MLA 2026: Literature and the Archive (CLCS European Regions) in the forum CLCS European Regions https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/european-regions/forum/topic/cfp-mla-2026-literature-and-the-archive-clcs-european-regions/ Wed, 05 Feb 2025 13:44:28 -0500 I wanted to announce one of the two guaranteed sessions of the CLCS European Regions at the MLA Convention in 2026:

Literature and the Archive
<div class=”abstract”>This panel explores literature and the archive in European contexts in any period, including literature about archives, literature that incorporates archives, the impact of archival…[Read more]

]]> 0 a8da52a82eba4d12541d7a4ee2f831fd Ryan Calabretta-Sajder started the topic Session 413: Navigating the Academy: A Mentoring Session in the forum CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century/forum/topic/session-413-navigating-the-academy-a-mentoring-session-4/ Thu, 09 Jan 2025 16:10:30 -0500 MLA 2025 Convention

MLA Committee on Women, Gender, and Sexuality in the Profession

Session 413: Navigating the Academy: A Mentoring Session

 

NB: Session Information Follows. The mentoring session will continue informally following the roundtable via happy hour. Location: Ernst Café (600 S. Peters St.; across the street from the Hilton R…[Read more]

]]> 0 c95335d4403ce9d68229f677e67b4672 Paul Michael Johnson started the topic Session on Mediterranean Sexualities this Saturday at MLA Convention in the forum CLCS Mediterranean https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/mediterranean/forum/topic/session-on-mediterranean-sexualities-this-saturday-at-mla-convention/ Wed, 08 Jan 2025 14:48:59 -0500 For those who will be at the MLA Convention in New Orleans this week, please plan to attend our panel on Mediterranean Sexualities this Saturday, January 11, 10:15 – 11:30 a.m.  It will feature exciting presentations on asexuality, the queer female gaze, and alterity in ancient drama, Roman history, and Moroccan film, among other timely issues,…[Read more]

]]> 0 34d16a28df8835ef00c26a4bda7f8aa2 Weihsin Gui started the topic CFP: Special Topic in Antipodes journal on "Australia And..." in the forum CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century/forum/topic/cfp-special-topic-in-antipodes-journal-on-australia-and-7/ Tue, 08 Oct 2024 01:26:40 -0400 CFP: 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]

]]> 0 04177f7098d2441c828fe972bfbd4fac Aarthi Vadde started the topic CFP: Novel Languages (Society of Novel Studies Biennial Conference) in the forum CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century/forum/topic/cfp-novel-languages-society-of-novel-studies-biennial-conference-3/ Wed, 28 Aug 2024 18:03:14 -0400 Biennial Conference of the Society for Novel Studies 2025: NOVEL LANGUAGES

Hosted by Duke University (Organizers: Aarthi Vadde and Sarah Quesada)

Location: Durham Convention Center in beautiful Downtown Durham!

Dates: May 29-June 1, 2025

SUBMISSION DEADLINE: Abstracts due November 15, 2024 to the conference website: h…[Read more]

]]> 0 2642b5e9fe6968d035fea6bbaf54444e Brian Vetruba deposited Handbook for European Studies Librarians in the group CLCS European Regions https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1894590/ Thu, 25 Jul 2024 03:00:31 -0400 Open-access monograph of 30 chapters by 36 authors in three parts: “Resources and Tools for Regions of Europe,” “Resources on Underrepresented Groups in Europe,” and “Current Issues in European Studies Librarianship.” This handbook helps librarians new to collection development for regions of Europe get up to speed on key resources and offers…[Read more]

]]> 0 10b992f8c32833c89f3b95d0e4614f6a Brian Gregory Caraher deposited Review of Joseph O'Neill, in the group CLCS European Regions https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1890599/ Sat, 29 Jun 2024 03:04:55 -0400 Early, refereed review of Joseph O’Neill’s third, groundbreaking novel set in post-9/11 New York City: the review charts key plot developments, a transatlantic mapping of the characters (Netherlands, Trinidad, UK and US) and its structural similarities to F Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby”. Originally published in the third issue of the…[Read more]

]]> 0 457b5c4448c53e0e142413fccd6432da Brian Gregory Caraher deposited Review of Joseph O'Neill, in the group CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1890598/ Sat, 29 Jun 2024 03:00:27 -0400 Early, refereed review of Joseph O’Neill’s third, groundbreaking novel set in post-9/11 New York City: the review charts key plot developments, a transatlantic mapping of the characters (Netherlands, Trinidad, UK and US) and its structural similarities to F Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby”. Originally published in the third issue of the…[Read more]

]]> 0 0b548460633c2324e68208139933c5fc Susan Larson deposited Comfort and Domestic Space in Modern Spain in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1890325/ Thu, 27 Jun 2024 03:03:58 -0400 Comfort and domestic space are complex narratives that can help draw our attention to everything from urban planning, everyday objects, and new technologies to class conflict, racial and ethnic segregation, and the gendering of domestic labour. Comfort and Domestic Space in Modern Spain delves into the history of ideas surrounding the modern home.…[Read more]

]]> 0 3b8c4f2ae39d3fef3f830f6a2866cc7b Brian Gregory Caraher deposited "Gently, gently Northern Ire! Love that red hand!": Teaching James Joyce in Northern Ireland in the group CLCS European Regions https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1890208/ Wed, 26 Jun 2024 03:04:30 -0400 This paper describes the social and cultural climate of teaching the works of James Joyce — including his journalism and major works of fiction from “Dubliners” through “Ulysses” and “Finnegans Wake” — over the years 1993 to 2016 when the author was the Chair of English Literature at Queen’s University Belfast. The author draws upon his…[Read more]

]]> 0 f562bbe393c3a465eda69d68fc3fd8aa Brian Gregory Caraher deposited "Gently, gently Northern Ire! Love that red hand!": Teaching James Joyce in Northern Ireland in the group CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1890207/ Wed, 26 Jun 2024 03:00:03 -0400 This paper describes the social and cultural climate of teaching the works of James Joyce — including his journalism and major works of fiction from “Dubliners” through “Ulysses” and “Finnegans Wake” — over the years 1993 to 2016 when the author was the Chair of English Literature at Queen’s University Belfast. The author draws upon his…[Read more]

]]> 0 065b87c807f4b04bc751ae327171939a Katina Rogers deposited The Presence of Absence: Meditations on the Unsayable in Writing in the group CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1889658/ Thu, 20 Jun 2024 03:01:53 -0400 The Presence of Absence: Meditations on the Unsayable in Writing is about writers navigating the unspeakable through image, sound, and structure. Each chapter focuses on a specific text, exploring the ways that four writers look to visual and auditory materials and metaphors as passageways to understanding and expressing the ineffable qualities of…[Read more]

]]> 0 c8e60a3ab34256cef747a9362eb9e986 David A. Wacks deposited Medieval Iberian Romance in the group CLCS Mediterranean https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1886748/ Tue, 21 May 2024 03:09:28 -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 148f7179d248e7c501a2d9f649e3ef81 David A. Wacks deposited Foreword: 50 years of Spanish Arabism in the group CLCS Mediterranean https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1886745/ Tue, 21 May 2024 03:05:35 -0400 Spanish Arabism was a touchstone of the major intellectual and political issues facing Spain as it emerged from its imperial past into its current form as a modern nation-state. James T. Monroe’s survey of four centuries of Spanish scholarship on the cultural history of al-Andalus (Muslim Spain) establishes Spanish scholars on the forefront of E…[Read more]

]]> 0 f97e943f615639c465e202fa64267b90 David A. Wacks deposited Preface to The Study of al-Andalus The Scholarship and Legacy of James T. Monroe in the group CLCS Mediterranean https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1886743/ Tue, 21 May 2024 03:02:18 -0400 The Study of al-Andalus is a collection of essays by students and colleagues of James T. Monroe, Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature and Arabic at the University of California, Berkeley, and the premier scholar of Andalusi (Hispano-Arabic) literature in the United States. The introduction by the editors explains the impact Monroe’s s…[Read more]

]]> 0 ec54bebeafc2788f315070e0740e112a David A. Wacks deposited Relatos de los disturbios antijudíos de Valencia, julio de 1391 in the group CLCS Mediterranean https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1884546/ Wed, 01 May 2024 03:15:42 -0400 This unit contains a brief introduction and four accounts of the anti-Jewish riot that took place in Valencia on July 9, 1391. During this riot, one of many across Spain in the summer of 1391, a mob attacked the Jewish community of Valencia, killing at least a hundred people and forcibly converting most of the rest. These attacks destroyed the…[Read more]

]]> 0 9ad9f8b44f08767fa62b6382592d8ad5 David A. Wacks deposited Accounts of the Anti-Jewish Riot in Valencia, July 1391 in the group CLCS Mediterranean https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1884541/ Wed, 01 May 2024 03:10:03 -0400 This unit contains a brief introduction and four accounts of the anti-Jewish riot that took place in Valencia on July 9, 1391. During this riot, one of many across Spain in the summer of 1391, a mob attacked the Jewish community of Valencia, killing at least a hundred people and forcibly converting most of the rest. These attacks destroyed the…[Read more]

]]> 0 2ef798cb893ffd8f4ba75fcd2c76ccb8 Fatma Fulya Tepe started the topic New Article: Banal misogynism in Turkish media in the discussion CLCS Mediterranean https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/mediterranean/forum/topic/dear-colleagues-i-assoc-prof-dr-fatma-fulya-tepe-from-istanbul-aydin/ Wed, 27 Mar 2024 14:35:20 -0400 Dear Colleagues,

I , Assoc. Prof. Dr. Fatma Fulya Tepe, from Istanbul Aydin University, Faculty of Education, published a new article titled “Banal misogynism in Turkish media at the beginning of the multi-party era: the case of Boşboğaz” in the Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics which is a Q1 journal. You can find the abstract and the link…[Read more]

]]> 0 1c41fb0a5a05b79af9c8e31160d167a5 David A. Wacks started the topic Online workshop: Intro to Sephardic Culture (online July 8-11) Deadline Apr 15 in the discussion CLCS Mediterranean https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/mediterranean/forum/topic/online-workshop-intro-to-sephardic-culture-online-july-8-11-deadline-apr-15/ Fri, 22 Mar 2024 00:18:27 -0400 This summer I’ll be teaching on online workshop for grad students, faculty, and professionals: “Sephardic Culture: An Introduction” 8-11 July 2024 (remote). Deadline to apply is April 15. Please share widely! https://www.mediterraneanseminar.org/overview-sephardic-culture-2024

]]> 0 467f3db4ada6b1770092e206341ac67c David A. Wacks deposited Accounts of the Anti-Jewish Riot in Valencia, July 1391 in the group CLCS Mediterranean https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1879891/ Tue, 19 Mar 2024 03:09:37 -0400 This unit contains a brief introduction and four accounts of the anti-Jewish riot that took place in Valencia on July 9, 1391. During this riot, one of many across Spain in the summer of 1391, a mob attacked the Jewish community of Valencia, killing at least a hundred people and forcibly converting most of the rest. These attacks destroyed the…[Read more]

]]> 0 5d434741092832fb63a81580bdf40a71 David A. Wacks deposited Relatos de los disturbios antijudíos de Valencia, julio de 1391 in the group CLCS Mediterranean https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1879886/ Tue, 19 Mar 2024 03:04:40 -0400 This unit contains a brief introduction and four accounts of the anti-Jewish riot that took place in Valencia on July 9, 1391. During this riot, one of many across Spain in the summer of 1391, a mob attacked the Jewish community of Valencia, killing at least a hundred people and forcibly converting most of the rest. These attacks destroyed the…[Read more]

]]> 0 95c452ff9785d98096af4a505a7f687b Paul Michael Johnson started the topic Last call to submit an abstract for MLA 2024 panel on Mediterranean Sexualities in the discussion CLCS Mediterranean https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/mediterranean/forum/topic/last-call-to-submit-an-abstract-for-mla-2024-panel-on-mediterranean-sexualities/ Thu, 14 Mar 2024 19:35:36 -0400 Mediterranean Sexualities
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How do Mediterranean sexual epistemologies challenge common approaches to the history of sexuality? Especially encouraged are papers considering queer sexuality and erotics with (in)visibility of/in archives, empire, slavery, race, migration, and nation. 200-word abstracts. Deadline for submissions: Friday, 15…[Read more]

]]> 0 2cb4d0a697afc921ee33c648a9d21c34 Sarah Thomas replied to the topic CFP LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian, MLA 2025 in the discussion LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-spanish-and-iberian/forum/topic/cfp-llc-20th-and-21st-century-spanish-and-iberian-mla-2025/#post-1037800 Thu, 29 Feb 2024 20:05:17 -0500 Adding a proposed (non-guaranteed) special session co-sponsored with ALCES XXI! Spread the word and send abstracts!

Repositioning Iberian Studies in Language and Culture TeachingThis panel explores repositioning Iberian Studies by connecting students with communities, decolonizing the syllabus, and diversifying curricular perspectives and…[Read more]

]]> 0 ace3f098733860d7a0095c40978f961f Sarah Thomas replied to the topic CFP LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian, MLA 2025 in the discussion LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-spanish-and-iberian/forum/topic/cfp-llc-20th-and-21st-century-spanish-and-iberian-mla-2025/#post-1037799 Thu, 29 Feb 2024 20:04:36 -0500 A revised CFP, including a proposed (non-guaranteed) special session co-sponsored with ALCES XXI! Spread the word and send abstracts!

 

Repositioning Iberian Studies in Language and Culture TeachingThis panel explores repositioning Iberian Studies by connecting students with communities, decolonizing the syllabus, and diversifying curricular…[Read more]

]]> 0 cdf3168b9cf15bc2923b7d2ee01830ff Sarah Thomas replied to the topic CFP LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian, MLA 2025 in the discussion LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-spanish-and-iberian/forum/topic/cfp-llc-20th-and-21st-century-spanish-and-iberian-mla-2025/#post-1037797 Thu, 29 Feb 2024 20:01:43 -0500 Revised CFP, including a proposed (non-guaranteed) special session co-sponsored with ALCES XXI! Spread the word and send abstracts!

 

 

]]> 0 b87fb2dddc72f3e37248c1d83a4ff995 Dustin Friedman deposited Toward a Decolonial Queer Humanism: Thomas Hardy's The Well-Beloved and André Aciman's Call Me by Your Name in the group TM Literary Criticism https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1878059/ Thu, 29 Feb 2024 04:09:12 -0500 This essay situates queer negativity within the modernist tradition. In The Well-Beloved (1897), Thomas Hardy satirizes the then-popular notion of racial memory for its racist, colonialist implications, inaugurating the modernist critique of romantic love as complicit with the self-delusions of the liberal-humanist subject. Despite the view shared…[Read more]

]]> 0 d1dec69d8ef566aa62c15f1497b34d1a Hania A.M. Nashef deposited Inhabiting a Comfortable Fiction of the Self: J.M. Coetzee’s Summertime in the group CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1877009/ Mon, 19 Feb 2024 04:00:11 -0500 Abstract
In his email conversations with Arabella Kurtz in The Good Story: Exchanges on Truth, Fiction and Psychotherapy, J.M. Coetzee entertains the notion of settling on fictions of ourselves, which we are able to inhabit more comfortably than what is perceived as our real life. In addition, he implies that in order to form fictions of…[Read more]

]]> 0 2d7e2a4a4164274466ec08c907e7e7ee Maybel Mesa Morales replied to the topic CFP: Temporalities of the Cuban Revolution in the discussion CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century/forum/topic/cfp-temporalities-of-the-cuban-revolution-3/#post-1037305 Thu, 01 Feb 2024 22:20:27 -0500 Deadline: Friday, 15 March 2024

]]> 0 9c21c02f9108fb669ce869d0fa2f0066 Fatma Fulya Tepe started the topic new feminist short story on sexual harassment at a Turkish university setting in the discussion CLCS Mediterranean https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/mediterranean/forum/topic/new-feminist-short-story-on-sexual-harassment-at-a-turkish-university-setting/ Wed, 31 Jan 2024 12:21:22 -0500 Dear Colleagues,

I and Emeritus Prof. Dr. Per Bauhn from Linnaeus University in Sweden have just published a short story on sexual harassment in a Turkish university context titled as “Professor Mali Romantic-Longhair and the Girl” in the Journal of International Women’s Studies (JIWS.) We present the link and the info to the short story bel…[Read more]

]]> 0 9f5c14480a8af553f4154f9dc3dbae85 David A. Wacks started the topic International Ladino (Judeo-Spanish) Summer School (Jersualem, July 28-Aug 12) in the discussion CLCS Mediterranean https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/mediterranean/forum/topic/international-ladino-judeo-spanish-summer-school-jersualem-july-28-aug-12/ Mon, 29 Jan 2024 15:46:27 -0500 The first International Ladino (Judeo-Spanish) Summer School will be held at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem from July 28 to August 12, 2024. The intensive courses about the Sephardi language and culture (6 credits) will be held in English and will form a meeting point between Israeli and international students in the fields of Jewish Studies,…[Read more]

]]> 0 252823137734ad2cbec39196fbae7167 Lennie Amores started the topic CFP LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian, MLA 2025 in the discussion LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-spanish-and-iberian/forum/topic/cfp-llc-20th-and-21st-century-spanish-and-iberian-mla-2025/ Fri, 26 Jan 2024 14:15:37 -0500 MLA New Orleans, January 9-12, 2025 

CALL FOR PAPERS 

LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian Section 

The members of the Executive Committee invite colleagues to submit their proposals for the following panels:  
Iberian Exteriorities
What are the dynamics at play in the historical, political, and theoretical configurations of Spai…[Read more]

]]> 0 d66213ebe1d14467aac95b3fc1e03308 David A. Wacks started the topic Online talk on Sephardi Diaspora in Algeria (14th-15th c.) (Jan 30) in the discussion CLCS Mediterranean https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/mediterranean/forum/topic/online-talk-on-sephardi-diaspora-in-algeria-14th-15th-c-jan-30/ Thu, 11 Jan 2024 14:21:07 -0500 Prof. Amina Boukail (Univ. Jijel), “Written Sephardic Diaspora to Survive from Spain to Algeria (14th–15th Centuries)”

Respondent: Javier Castaño (U Complutense)Jan 30, 8:00am Pacific US/11:00am Eastern US/17:00 Paris

“Euro-Mediterranean Entanglements in Medieval History”, presented by the German Historical Institutes of Paris and Rome

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]]> 0 37d7ae7333626ef8d3d06785345f7ceb Crystal Anne Chemris deposited Flyer for The Spanish Baroque and latin American Literary Modernity: writing in Constellation in the group CLCS Mediterranean https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1870638/ Thu, 11 Jan 2024 04:00:14 -0500 This contains a table of contents and description for the book, The Spanish Baroque and Latin American Literary Modernity: Writing in Constellation, as a follow up to my paper for the 2024 MLA. Chapter One formed the basis for “Góngora, Inca Garcilaso, and the Meeting of Humanist and Indigenous Modes of Knowledge.”

]]> 0 e18cb3165b54fee9d5d1d1f2c69e1334 David A. Wacks started the topic Summer Workshop: “Sephardic Culture: An Introduction” (July 8-11, 2024) in the discussion CLCS Mediterranean https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/mediterranean/forum/topic/summer-workshop-sephardic-culture-an-introduction-july-8-11-2024/ Wed, 10 Jan 2024 15:27:01 -0500 The Mediterranean Seminar Summer Skills Seminars are intensive, interactive four-day workshops that provide students, scholars, and professionals with the foundational training in technical skills related to Mediterranean Studies.

The Seminars, run by leading scholars, emphasize hands-on reading complemented by supplementary and contextual…[Read more]

]]> 0 640b48b3300cf32aca673427d4093274 Elizabeth Scarlett started the topic MLA 2024 Convention session on modern Spanish memoir and autofiction in the discussion LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-spanish-and-iberian/forum/topic/mla-2024-convention-session-on-modern-spanish-memoir-and-autofiction/ Wed, 20 Dec 2023 18:54:14 -0500 You are cordially invited to a session sponsored by the Religion and Literature forum at the MLA 2024 Convention in Philadelphia:

#154 – Religion in Modern Spanish Memoir and Autofiction. Thursday, 4 January 2024 7:00 PM – 8:15 PM Marriott – Grand K (Level 5)

Presider:  Elizabeth Scarlett , U at Buffalo, State U of New York…[Read more]

]]> 0 cfc0e2a58da65ac935e9c0f0193e6c0b Fatma Fulya Tepe started the topic new article: Osman Hamdi Bey – an Ottoman Orientalist or a Humanist Ottoman? in the discussion CLCS Mediterranean https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/mediterranean/forum/topic/new-article-osman-hamdi-bey-an-ottoman-orientalist-or-a-humanist-ottoman-6/ Tue, 05 Dec 2023 15:08:15 -0500 Dear Colleagues,

Emeritus Prof. Dr. Per Bauhn from Linnaeus University, Sweden published an article titled “Osman Hamdi Bey – an Ottoman Orientalist or a Humanist Ottoman?” in Nordic Review of Iconography.
I present the abstract of this article below and the article can be downloaded for free from the link b…[Read more]

]]> 0 d733ace9e5d41108123edc42d07f0e7e Hania A.M. Nashef deposited Canines: Unlikely Protagonists in the Novels of Coetzee, Saramago and Shibli in the group TM Literary Criticism https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1865793/ Fri, 24 Nov 2023 04:06:46 -0500 Anthropomorphism, which combines two Greek words, anthropos and morphe, meaning “human” and “form’ respectively, is a term that reflects our attribution of human characteristics to non-human animals and objects, bestowing upon them agency (Taylor 2011: 266). In this respect, we elevate the status of the non-human animal, moving it from being a…[Read more]

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