SAH Commons | Cynthia Franklin | Group Activity https://sah.hcommons.org/members/cfranklin/activity/groups/ Public group activity feed of which Cynthia Franklin is a member. Sun, 05 Apr 2026 14:50:38 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 5db699579b9a1163567e55cf51c326f9 Philip Trotter started the topic MLA 2026 Convention Session in the forum TC Women’s and Gender Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/womens-and-gender-studies/forum/topic/mla-2026-convention-session-2/ Sat, 03 Jan 2026 17:45:32 -0500 Please find attached a link to the abstract and details for the MLA 2026 Convention Session: “Illness, Healing, and Relationality in Eighteenth-Century Women’s Health Writing.”

]]> 0 94769bd097a589d0e3a2d734482ab6c6 William J. Spurlin created the doc Call for Papers: African Literature Association 2026 Conference in the group TC Postcolonial Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1936463/ Thu, 11 Dec 2025 21:27:18 -0500 0 6860801d45c0871e5b6be0bfa544f739 Peter Leman started the topic CFP: World Literature and Disappearance (Special Issue of ARIEL) in the forum TC Postcolonial Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/postcolonial-studies/forum/topic/cfp-world-literature-and-disappearance-special-issue-of-ariel-3/ Tue, 02 Dec 2025 22:34:57 -0500 Call For Papers: “World Literature and Disappearance” 
Special Issue of <b>ARIEL: A Review of International English Literature</b>

Enforced disappearance is widely recognized as a crime in international law, with legislation that reflects the experiences of Latin America dictatorships and focuses on arbitrary detention and torture or extr…[Read more]

]]> 0 cabefb85ef316f6d3e9c85b0bd4de48a Berna Gueneli started the topic CF Applicants: Assistant Professor of Film Studies, UGA, Athens, due by 1/15/26 in the forum CLCS Global Arab and Arab American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/global-arab-and-arab-american/forum/topic/cf-applicants-assistant-professor-of-film-studies-uga-athens-due-by-1-15-26-3/ Thu, 20 Nov 2025 16:59:44 -0500 <span style=”font-weight: 400;”>The Department of Theatre and Film at the University of Georgia welcomes applications for the position of Assistant Professor of Film Studies. </span>

 

<span style=”font-weight: 400;”>Area of specialization is open. Desired areas of specialization include, but are not limited to, one or more of the following:…[Read more]

]]> 0 705489ea008668cfaa17a8195b2fb19b Guylian Nemegeer started the topic CFP - Incontri. Rivista Europea di Studi Italiani in the forum TC Women’s and Gender Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/womens-and-gender-studies/forum/topic/cfp-incontri-rivista-europea-di-studi-italiani-2/ Wed, 22 Oct 2025 14:01:55 -0400 <span style=”font-weight: 400;”>Dear colleagues,</span>

<span style=”font-weight: 400;”>For its upcoming issues, </span><i><span style=”font-weight: 400;”>Incontri. Rivista europea di studi italiani</span></i><span style=”font-weight: 400;”> is currently accepting essay submissions and proposals for special issues.</span>

<i><span…[Read more]

]]> 0 bc3ca5918e5aecb37dc737007efb2c8c Ahmed Idrissi Alami created the doc AATA Translation Contest, Deadline 15-August, 2025 in the group CLCS Global Arab and Arab American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1922625/ Mon, 14 Jul 2025 20:27:49 -0400 0 f2abc3a6ad564a418ef1822a9abe18df Lisa Nalbone started the topic CFP: Amplifying Women’s Voices of Resistance in the forum TC Women’s and Gender Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/womens-and-gender-studies/forum/topic/cfp-amplifying-womens-voices-of-resistance-2/ Thu, 03 Apr 2025 16:06:21 -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 dbcc7fc10cc931586e43d33246d7b1db Francisco E. Robles started the topic TC Race and Ethnicity - MLA 2026 panel on contemporary poetry of statelessness in the forum TC Race and Ethnicity Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/race-and-ethnicity-studies/forum/topic/tc-race-and-ethnicity-mla-2026-panel-on-contemporary-poetry-of-statelessness/ Thu, 13 Mar 2025 20:10:57 -0400 Contemporary Poetry of Statelessness

In her poem “Nights,” Mona Kareem cycles between images of natural processes (cloud formation, rain, phases of the moon) and human ritual actions (dancing, lamenting, singing), suggesting a delicate balance in the liminal zone between the porous self and the ever-changing world. Celestial bodies and human…[Read more]

]]> 0 1bf02e4bf98efa14371e4d0306651bf8 Ahmed Idrissi Alami started the topic ARABIC TRANSLATION CONTEST – (AATA) submissions deadline August 15, 2025 in the forum CLCS Global Arab and Arab American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/global-arab-and-arab-american/forum/topic/arabic-translation-contest-aata-submissions-deadline-august-15-2025/ Tue, 11 Mar 2025 20:10:37 -0400 The American Association of Teachers of Arabic (AATA) is delighted to announce this year’s Arabic Translation Contest. We kindly ask you to encourage your eligible students to participate in the contest.
Details on the topics, eligibility, requirements, submission date, submission e-mail address, prizes, and coordinator/s are stated in the a…[Read more]

]]> 0 e9842911203212376a9c4714702b8a5c Lauren Rocha replied to the topic CFPs for 2026 from the MLA Committee on Disability Issues in the Profession in the forum TC Disability Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/disability-studies/forum/topic/cfps-for-2026-from-the-mla-committee-on-disability-issues-in-the-profession/#post-1039578 Fri, 07 Mar 2025 00:11:03 -0500 Disability, Belonging, and Family

This session seeks abstracts that address how disability and the concept of family encompass different experiences across relationships, communities, and texts. These proposals can either draw from lived experiences or address portrayals of disability in families in literature, TV shows, film, and other content.…[Read more]

]]> 0 209b5ed37e685333516a2bf3e34c36a0 Junting Huang replied to the topic CFPs for 2026 from the MLA Committee on Disability Issues in the Profession in the forum TC Disability Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/disability-studies/forum/topic/cfps-for-2026-from-the-mla-committee-on-disability-issues-in-the-profession/#post-1039555 Tue, 04 Mar 2025 23:39:24 -0500 Impairment Theory

This session invites proposals that explore personal and phenomenological accounts of impairment—not merely as a physical condition of illness or disability but as an embodied experience that generates cultural, social, and political insights.

While disability studies have long critiqued the social structures that create d…[Read more]

]]> 0 db5e1f2431cafc9c6703e9142f0fe46e Shashi Bhusan Nayak started the topic Call for Chapters – Scripting Selves: New Directions in Life Writing in the forum TC Postcolonial Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/postcolonial-studies/forum/topic/call-for-chapters-scripting-selves-new-directions-in-life-writing-4/ Tue, 04 Mar 2025 19:26:51 -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 6676123f4cef90a92bbfdd8a8c425306 Terry Callaghan started the topic CFPs for 2026 from the MLA Committee on Disability Issues in the Profession in the forum TC Disability Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/disability-studies/forum/topic/cfps-for-2026-from-the-mla-committee-on-disability-issues-in-the-profession/ Mon, 03 Mar 2025 19:08:13 -0500 MLA Committee on Disability Issues in the Profession: Calls for Papers
Impairment Theory
Papers exploring personal and/or phenomenological accounts of impairment—not as physical conditions of illness or disability but as embodied experiences that generate cultural, social, and political insights for scholarship. Submit a 250-word abstract by the d…[Read more]

]]> 0 e2ccb37276370a28fa466b27be89e5a7 Sharon Tran replied to the topic Disability in Older Age: Literary Models of Care and Control in the forum TC Disability Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/disability-studies/forum/topic/disability-in-older-age-literary-models-of-care-and-control/#post-1039293 Fri, 10 Jan 2025 19:46:01 -0500 See attached for the digital access copy to Sophia’s paper.

]]> 0 c537103403f467b912ed1323d4567fef Sharon Tran replied to the topic Disability in Older Age: Literary Models of Care and Control in the forum TC Disability Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/disability-studies/forum/topic/disability-in-older-age-literary-models-of-care-and-control/#post-1039272 Fri, 10 Jan 2025 12:36:11 -0500 Here is a link to my presider remarks, including our panelists’ bios.

]]> 0 97605f8a38d93efe945eedce18e16389 Cynthia R. Port started the topic Disability in Older Age: Literary Models of Care and Control in the forum TC Disability Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/disability-studies/forum/topic/disability-in-older-age-literary-models-of-care-and-control/ Fri, 10 Jan 2025 03:38:38 -0500 This session (#332), sponsored by the Disability Studies Forum, will take place on Friday, January 10th, 1:45-3:00 pm, Salon 18, Hilton Riverside, New Orleans. We are pleased to share related materials via attachments below:

Presiding: Sharon Tran

  1. Chris Gabbard, “Truth or Trickery in the Name of Care: An Ethics-of-Care Reading of…

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]]> 0 3c1678c94e6acc1cc250c496534ec37a Cynthia R. Port started the topic Disability in Older Age: Literary Models of Care and Control (Session 332) in the forum TC Disability Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/disability-studies/forum/topic/disability-in-older-age-literary-models-of-care-and-control-session-332-2/ Fri, 10 Jan 2025 03:36:59 -0500 This session, sponsored by the Disability Studies Forum, will take place on Friday, January 10th, 1:45-3:00 pm, Salon 18, Hilton Riverside, New Orleans. We are pleased to share related materials via attachments below:

Presiding: Sharon Tran

  1. Chris Gabbard, “Truth or Trickery in the Name of Care: An Ethics-of-Care Reading of Shakespeare’s King L…

[Read more]

]]> 0 269b542fe8abff4ad2ca665a961b177c Sharon Tran replied to the topic Age and/as Disability in the forum TC Disability Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/disability-studies/forum/topic/age-and-as-disability-2/#post-1039249 Thu, 09 Jan 2025 16:07:23 -0500 Here is a link to my presider remarks, including our panelists’ bios.

]]> 0 cc5d668748cbf1104d8ae121f4add921 Sharon Tran started the topic Age and/as Disability in the forum TC Disability Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/disability-studies/forum/topic/age-and-as-disability-2/ Thu, 09 Jan 2025 15:01:57 -0500 Please join us for this joint session organized by the Age Studies and Disability Studies forums that aims to bring our fields more fully into critical dialogue. The session will convene in person on Friday, January 10th from 10:15-11:30am in Salon 3 (1st floor) of the Hilton Riverside New Orleans.

Our panelists have also kindly shared digital co…[Read more]

]]> 0 7ce408e8b6d34d52ab0f24ae3dbba1c8 Thomas Oliver Beebee started the topic CFP for "Reading Cultures," a special issue of the journal Culture as Text in the forum CLCS Global Arab and Arab American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/global-arab-and-arab-american/forum/topic/cfp-for-reading-cultures-a-special-issue-of-the-journal-culture-as-text-3/ Fri, 01 Nov 2024 10:25:00 -0400 Reading Cultures

A special issue of the journal Culture as Text (degruyter.com).

Guest Editor: Thomas O. Beebee, Penn State University (Emeritus)

It is common practice among literary scholars to divide their field into a variety of authorial strategies and attachments, e.g. by form, genre, style or literary movement. Romanticism generally makes…[Read more]

]]> 0 ff2c9ec8a0cce582a8832730e4ef2292 Weihsin Gui started the topic CFP: Special Topic in Antipodes journal on "Australia And..." in the forum TC Postcolonial Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/postcolonial-studies/forum/topic/cfp-special-topic-in-antipodes-journal-on-australia-and-4/ Tue, 08 Oct 2024 01:09:45 -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 a9c660823fa9d38c62f504520db2f90d Peter Leman started the topic ACLA 2025 Session CFP: "World Literature and Disappearance" in the forum TC Postcolonial Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/postcolonial-studies/forum/topic/acla-2025-session-cfp-world-literature-and-disappearance-2/ Mon, 07 Oct 2024 16:07:20 -0400 Hi All,

I am co-organizing a session with Joseph Wager for the 2025 ACLA. Our topic is “World Literature and Disappearance.” Please consider submitting, and feel free to share with anyone who might be interested. Full CFP below. Thank you!

Best,

Peter Leman

 
World Literature and Disappearance
Enforced disappearance has become a lingua fran…[Read more]

]]> 0 5524f885b1ca8f70043d5b36e70bec1e Francisco E. Robles started the topic TC Race and Ethnicity Studies - Jobs in the forum TC Race and Ethnicity Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/race-and-ethnicity-studies/forum/topic/tc-race-and-ethnicity-studies-jobs/ Wed, 02 Oct 2024 01:59:24 -0400 Hi all,

I’m sending along a job posting from Texas A&M, which is in long nineteenth-century <span id=”_mainContent__descriptionText”>multi-ethnic, transnational, and comparative approaches to US literature</span>. This search is being chaired by Jessica Howell: https://faculty.tamu.edu/JobDetail?JobId=151010.

I also invite folks to add to this…[Read more]

]]> 0 27d9774623e34f616ab47334370fe09d Guylian Nemegeer started the topic Conference: Pan-Movements, Regeneration, and Modernity (29 October) in the forum TC Race and Ethnicity Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/race-and-ethnicity-studies/forum/topic/conference-pan-movements-regeneration-and-modernity-29-october/ Sat, 28 Sep 2024 12:45:26 -0400 Dear colleagues,

Members in this group may be interested in the following conference. It is possible to attend the event online. Registration is needed: https://event.ugent.be/registration/event/89430443-ec0a-4dd1-8d2c-d3dfb82ad014

Pan-Movements, Regeneration, and Modernity (29 October)

This conference investigates the global development of…[Read more]

]]> 0 04de2a2d7cd69c251cd639cefb2f06a5 Geordie Miller replied to the topic Scholasticide in Palestine in the forum Commenting on Proposed Resolution 2025-1 https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/commenting-on-proposed-resolution-2025-1/forum/topic/scholasticide-in-palestine/#post-1038843 Tue, 24 Sep 2024 23:24:52 -0400 I am writing in support of the proposed resolution.

Anthony’s post articulates both the urgency and necessity of undoing institutional complicity with genocide.

There is a shameful history of silence on campuses during the birth of fascism a century ago, and given the evident re-birth of fascism (at home and abroad) these days, it is quite clear…[Read more]

]]> 0 70973593d9ab90c848235ad03310c82f Joan L. Brown replied to the topic 2017 decision was the right one: individuals are not institutions in the forum Commenting on Proposed Resolution 2025-1 https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/commenting-on-proposed-resolution-2025-1/forum/topic/2017-decision-was-the-right-one-individuals-are-not-institutions/#post-1038836 Sun, 22 Sep 2024 18:20:37 -0400 Thank you, Dr. Shankar, but you are twisting my words. Boycotts of British educational institutions were not in the same league as the salt boycott, that is all. Gandhi is remembered for the latter, not the former. Perhaps my education in British schools did not supply all information in this area as in others (such as the American Revolution).…[Read more]

]]> 0 6ee1c65a4e5d903ff20282b750558b43 Subramanian Shankar replied to the topic 2017 decision was the right one: individuals are not institutions in the forum Commenting on Proposed Resolution 2025-1 https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/commenting-on-proposed-resolution-2025-1/forum/topic/2017-decision-was-the-right-one-individuals-are-not-institutions/#post-1038833 Sun, 22 Sep 2024 01:49:57 -0400 Dear Prof. Brown: Nothing disingenuous at all, just facts. And Gandhi’s boycotts did not help end colonialism? I guess that’s news to me. As for tearing an organization apart, and indeed rendering it meaningless and irrelevant, nothing will do that more quickly than standing by idly when you can do something through a legitimate non-violent tactic…[Read more]

]]> 0 8ad9db6600e4a732036f1bfdd16f7b8e Joan L. Brown replied to the topic 2017 decision was the right one: individuals are not institutions in the forum Commenting on Proposed Resolution 2025-1 https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/commenting-on-proposed-resolution-2025-1/forum/topic/2017-decision-was-the-right-one-individuals-are-not-institutions/#post-1038832 Sat, 21 Sep 2024 22:41:04 -0400 Dear Drs. Alessandrini and Shankar,

Thank you for your replies. Yes, the resolution tries to distinguish scholars from the institutions that employ them but this is–and has for years been called out as–disingenuous. If your university went under, where would that leave you–or the student body, or the service workers, or the community? And yes,…[Read more]

]]> 0 7e587b3e63944292746a1bcb2713ba21 BaşŸak Çandar started the topic Support Resolution 2025-1 in the forum Commenting on Proposed Resolution 2025-1 https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/commenting-on-proposed-resolution-2025-1/forum/topic/support-resolution-2025-1/ Sat, 21 Sep 2024 01:34:31 -0400 I am writing in support of Resolution 2025-1 and urge every MLA member to support it. As we watch horrors unfold in Palestine, now nearing the 1-year mark, it is the least we can do to join Palestinian Civil Society organizations in their call for an academic, institutional boycott. As others have already explained, this is not a call to boycott…[Read more]

]]> 0 448f9464745ddfe8650e240d1cbf4e8b Subramanian Shankar replied to the topic 2017 decision was the right one: individuals are not institutions in the forum Commenting on Proposed Resolution 2025-1 https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/commenting-on-proposed-resolution-2025-1/forum/topic/2017-decision-was-the-right-one-individuals-are-not-institutions/#post-1038830 Fri, 20 Sep 2024 20:47:07 -0400 Dear Prof. Brown: As Tony Alessandrini points out, the BDS call–and the resolution–is NOT a call for boycott of individuals but of institutions. Creating a false narrative in this regard, willfully or through sincere misunderstanding, is not helpful. I hope you will inform yourself and come around to a position of support to the resolution.…[Read more]

]]> 0 f783a03d6ebc265036eacfdf98192d1d Chris Stone replied to the topic Proposed Resolution 2025-1 in the forum Commenting on Proposed Resolution 2025-1 https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/commenting-on-proposed-resolution-2025-1/forum/topic/proposed-resolution-2025-1/#post-1038828 Fri, 20 Sep 2024 18:01:52 -0400 I am writing in support of this resolution. I have understood the need for the academic boycott of Israel for a while now, but I hope that those who have been on the fence will be swayed 1. by the change in policy of the AAUP to remove its blanket stance against boycotts and 2. more importantly, the scholasticide we have seen unfold in Gaza over…[Read more]

]]> 0 e0bdbe3dd937ce3881ce6062a0794478 Anthony Alessandrini replied to the topic 2017 decision was the right one: individuals are not institutions in the forum Commenting on Proposed Resolution 2025-1 https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/commenting-on-proposed-resolution-2025-1/forum/topic/2017-decision-was-the-right-one-individuals-are-not-institutions/#post-1038822 Fri, 20 Sep 2024 14:03:32 -0400 Dear Professor Brown:

Thank you for this comment. It’s important to be very clear about this: this resolution does NOT propose to punish individual scholars for the policies of their institutions. The 2005 BDS call issued by 170 Palestinian civil society organizations explicitly calls for a boycott of Israeli academic INSTITUTIONS, NOT individual…[Read more]

]]> 0 b34405e6a84c0cb0d653b9e496d559fa Hanah Manshel started the topic Support the Boycott Resolution in the forum Commenting on Proposed Resolution 2025-1 https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/commenting-on-proposed-resolution-2025-1/forum/topic/support-the-boycott-resolution/ Fri, 20 Sep 2024 02:32:23 -0400 I urge my fellow MLA members to join me in supporting resolution 2025-1 and heed the call of 170 Palestinian Civil Society organizations to boycott Israeli academic and cultural institutions. In the last year, Israel has destroyed over 80% of schools and every university in Gaza. As Israeli-Americans scholar Maya Wind documents in her recent…[Read more]

]]> 0 5cba36ec94d211a99403b43af5749e47 Joan L. Brown started the topic 2017 decision was the right one: individuals are not institutions in the forum Commenting on Proposed Resolution 2025-1 https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/commenting-on-proposed-resolution-2025-1/forum/topic/2017-decision-was-the-right-one-individuals-are-not-institutions/ Thu, 19 Sep 2024 18:51:32 -0400 As someone who was highly aware of the 2017 BDS proposal, I’d like to urge everyone to remember why it was rejected. Individuals cannot be held responsible for the policies of their institutions. Who among us agrees with their administration’s actions, even half the time? Punishing scholars is not right. You may also have forgotten that  and the…[Read more]

]]> 0 1a38b41153434ca96a6ad5d9dd8ddf9f Anthony Alessandrini started the topic Scholasticide in Palestine in the forum Commenting on Proposed Resolution 2025-1 https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/commenting-on-proposed-resolution-2025-1/forum/topic/scholasticide-in-palestine/ Wed, 18 Sep 2024 21:25:28 -0400 Thanks to all those who have commented and all those who have read and supported the resolution. I wanted to provide an update for those who have been following the campaign of scholasticide being carried out by the State of Israel, with the unstinting support of the U.S. government, in Palestine. When we wrote this resolution, we used the most…[Read more]

]]> 0 285dc540ecee336a6067f0e8c0d9de9c Subramanian Shankar replied to the topic Proposed Resolution 2025-1 in the forum Commenting on Proposed Resolution 2025-1 https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/commenting-on-proposed-resolution-2025-1/forum/topic/proposed-resolution-2025-1/#post-1038780 Sun, 15 Sep 2024 05:15:48 -0400 Supporting this resolution is urgent. If not now, then when? If not in the MLA, then where? We are one of the largest organizations of humanities scholars in the world. We engage with difficult and important issues of the day all the time. Fellow organizations have heeded the Palestinian civil society call for BDS. It is shameful that MLA hasn’t.…[Read more]

]]> 0 cd9c7b2234f90439c17ab554624a5112 Karim Mattar started the topic The right to education in the forum Commenting on Proposed Resolution 2025-1 https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/commenting-on-proposed-resolution-2025-1/forum/topic/the-right-to-education/ Sat, 14 Sep 2024 17:03:42 -0400 In the classroom, I often say to my students “read everything and make up your own minds.”  What we read today regarding Israel’s actions in Gaza and the West Bank indicates a pattern, a system of escalating daily gross violations of human rights, international law, and basic decency.  Particularly urgent for this organization to be cogniza…[Read more]

]]> 0 de7512ddbc67ed7fd786deeb67cd6cc5 David Palumbo-Liu started the topic The MLA voted against a Boycott in 2017--it's time to right that wrong in the forum Commenting on Proposed Resolution 2025-1 https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/commenting-on-proposed-resolution-2025-1/forum/topic/the-mla-voted-against-a-boycott-in-2017-its-time-to-right-that-wrong/ Fri, 13 Sep 2024 20:06:54 -0400 In 2017, I was proud to be part of a group that presented a resolution before the MLA to boycott Israeli academic institutions. One of the main arguments against that resolution was that it was essential not to curtail dialogue with Israeli scholars–that important possibilities to end the conflict would be missed if a boycott were passed. We…[Read more]

]]> 0 e76cb11a28744813ac1194ffd7089a15 Anthony Alessandrini replied to the topic Proposed Resolution 2025-1 in the forum Commenting on Proposed Resolution 2025-1 https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/commenting-on-proposed-resolution-2025-1/forum/topic/proposed-resolution-2025-1/#post-1038768 Fri, 13 Sep 2024 14:46:12 -0400 I’m grateful to the MLA for providing this forum to discuss this important resolution. I would urge those who are interested in it, however they might feel about the resolution, to read the background information document that was submitted with the resolution; the documentation there provides a great deal of support for each of the “whereas”…[Read more]

]]> 0 e67c16452647cd9c24eb0585a6ebbeb0 Anatole Shukla started the topic Proposed Resolution 2025-1 in the forum Commenting on Proposed Resolution 2025-1 https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/commenting-on-proposed-resolution-2025-1/forum/topic/proposed-resolution-2025-1/ Wed, 11 Sep 2024 18:41:50 -0400 Proposed Resolution 2025-1

Submitted by Anthony Alessandrini (Kingsborough Community Coll., NY)

Whereas, international law experts, including UN officials, describe the Israeli war on Gaza as a genocide;

Whereas, human rights organizations and the International Court of Justice have determined that Israel is maintaining a system of…[Read more]

]]> 0 917af1cbb73892e0e84da104056392bd Anatole Shukla created the group Commenting on Proposed Resolution 2025-1 https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1898479/ Wed, 11 Sep 2024 18:40:42 -0400 0 917af1cbb73892e0e84da104056392bd Anatole Shukla created the group Commenting on Proposed Resolution 2025-1 https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1898478/ Wed, 11 Sep 2024 18:40:42 -0400 0 0a8fff3c43591602929230285fa12e2d Anatole Shukla created the group Commenting on Proposed Resolution 2025-1 https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1898477/ Wed, 11 Sep 2024 18:40:38 -0400 0 d6aa417c62c21dd2c30f6bbcef11e566 Hania A.M. Nashef deposited The City is Closing in: Raja Shehadeh’s Going Home Searches for a Homeland in the group CLCS Global Arab and Arab American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1893020/ Sat, 20 Jul 2024 03:00:26 -0400 Growing constrictions and suffocating borders, due to an unrelenting occupation, continue to plague the lives of Palestinians living in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. Raja Shehadeh’s 2019 book, Going Home, illustrates how this stifling existence has only worsened with time. His work provides a chronology of events and highlights changes w…[Read more]

]]> 0 15b34bb549682037fd6cf2ff025a9519 Fatma Fulya Tepe started the topic New article on Turkish Girls' Studies in the discussion TC Women’s and Gender Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/womens-and-gender-studies/forum/topic/new-article-on-turkish-girls-studies/ Sun, 30 Jun 2024 08:28:57 -0400 Dear All,

I am a Turkish researcher who is an associate professor in sociology with a focus on Turkish girlhood studies from İstanbul Aydın University, Turkey. I recently published an article with the title “A Study on the Poem “Zamane Kızları” (Girls of Today) Regarding the Representations of Young Turkish Girls from a Male-centered Perspect…[Read more]

]]> 0 c9ef07ab1371c668a27de173077b30f0 Fatma Fulya Tepe started the topic Research based news piece on hybridity and Turkish immigrants in the Netherlands in the discussion TC Postcolonial Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/postcolonial-studies/forum/topic/research-based-news-piece-on-hybridity-and-turkish-immigrants-in-the-netherlands-4/ Sat, 29 Jun 2024 07:55:25 -0400 Dear All,

I would like to present our research on hybridity and immigrants in the Netherlands in the form of a news piece below. I will be happy if you could distribute in your networks.

https://x.com/bianet_eng/status/1656667905487151105

Best regards,
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Fatma Fulya Tepe
İstanbul Aydın University

]]> 0 5b6bb23195964ddd1cee8d0977a88df6 Fatma Fulya Tepe started the topic Research based news piece on hybridity and Turkish immigrants in the Netherlands in the discussion TC Race and Ethnicity Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/race-and-ethnicity-studies/forum/topic/research-based-news-piece-on-hybridity-and-turkish-immigrants-in-the-netherlands-3/ Sat, 29 Jun 2024 07:49:31 -0400 Dear All,

I would like to present our research on hybridity and immigrants in the Netherlands in the form of a news piece below. I will be happy if you could distribute in your networks.

https://x.com/bianet_eng/status/1656667905487151105

Best regards,
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Fatma Fulya Tepe
İstanbul Aydın University

]]> 0 7713e2e4cab1acc57a5b2dccec2ec358 Ramzi Salti deposited Women’s Voices in Arabic Music by Ramzi Salti (Stanford University) in the group TC Women’s and Gender Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1890606/ Sat, 29 Jun 2024 04:01:15 -0400 This is the corrected and edited transcript of Dr. Ramzi Salti’s talk about “Women’s Voices in Arabic Music” which was presented for Women’s History Month at Santa Rosa Junior College on March 7, 2024. You can also watch the video on YouTube (with CC on).

]]> 0 4534cd8aaaa16c86ddd586dad5fc8f1e Ramzi Salti deposited Women’s Voices in Arabic Music by Ramzi Salti (Stanford University) in the group CLCS Global Arab and Arab American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1890604/ Sat, 29 Jun 2024 04:00:12 -0400 This is the corrected and edited transcript of Dr. Ramzi Salti’s talk about “Women’s Voices in Arabic Music” which was presented for Women’s History Month at Santa Rosa Junior College on March 7, 2024. You can also watch the video on YouTube (with CC on).

]]> 0 e8bca9b0d17ea827485eb9f34050f6bb Niamh Thornton deposited María Félix A Mexican Film Star and her Legacy in the group TC Women’s and Gender Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1890472/ Fri, 28 Jun 2024 03:08:37 -0400 María Félix (1914-2002) left her mark on Mexican and European film as well as fashion, art and jewellery design. Cartier created one-of-a-kind pieces; Leonora Carrington and Diego Rivera painted portraits; Carlos Fuentes wrote a play; Agustín Lara, a bestselling song. But she was nobody’s muse.

Did Félix really bring baby crocodiles to the Car…[Read more]

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