SAH Commons | Nahir I. Otano Gracia | Group Activity https://sah.hcommons.org/members/nahir/activity/groups/ Public group activity feed of which Nahir I. Otano Gracia is a member. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 13:52:41 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 bb21278e78fea4dd03300ec625d6211f Ingrid Nelson started the topic MLA 2027 Chaucer Forum panels in the forum LLC Chaucer https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/chaucer/forum/topic/mla-2027-chaucer-forum-panels/ Thu, 19 Feb 2026 15:15:34 -0500 Dear Chaucerians,

Please consider submitting to one of the Chaucer Forum panels for MLA 2027, which will be held Jan. 7-10 in Los Angeles. (Apologies for cross-posting!)
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<div dir=”auto”>Panel 1: Speculations in the Age of Chaucer</div>
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]]> 0 f8f1288e08eb00667b45bccc913f05d2 K. J. Joyner replied to the topic Hey y'all in the forum Old Norse Studies (Broadly Understood) https://hcommons.org/groups/old-norse-studies-broadly-understood/forum/topic/hey-yall-2/#post-98156 Wed, 14 Jan 2026 15:29:34 -0500 Well, at least the group is made. I’m too knew to the whole area to even know where I’m going with what yet.

]]> 0 7b0660bb35f2fc30297271a787bcf503 Jennifer A. Lorden started the topic Inviting Nominations for the Old English Forum Executive Committee! in the forum LLC Old English https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/old-english/forum/topic/inviting-nominations-for-the-old-english-forum-executive-committee/ Mon, 12 Jan 2026 21:26:02 -0500 The Old English Forum Executive Committee invites nominations (self-nominations encouraged!) for a new member to be appointed to the Committee. The new member will serve a five-year term on the Old English Forum Executive Committee, from Jan. 2027-Jan. 2032. The Forum Committee organizes annual sponsored panels at MLA, participates in Forum and…[Read more]

]]> 0 9f53d313e76a48bf8ca3042b5c2d73eb Yoav Tirosh started the topic Hey y'all in the forum Old Norse Studies (Broadly Understood) https://hcommons.org/groups/old-norse-studies-broadly-understood/forum/topic/hey-yall-2/ Tue, 23 Dec 2025 14:59:47 -0500 Feel free to contribute conversations. I’ll try and manage as much as possible, if this group becomes somewhat popular, I will start asking people to join in as admins.

Cool.

]]> 0 67d51d9face4d40029856fc7fe1fcbe8 Heng Du started the topic Respondent/panelist for guaranteed panel on premodern temporality (MLA26) in the forum CLCS Medieval https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/medieval/forum/topic/respondent-panelist-for-guaranteed-panel-on-premodern-temporality-mla26/ Tue, 25 Mar 2025 16:10:54 -0400 We are hoping to recruit a scholar outside of Chinese studies to participate in this comparative panel. I included below a draft of its description, which can be further tailored according to your interests/suggestions:

<b>Natural Time and Human Narratives: Competing Temporal Orders in the Premodern World</b><b></b>

As a comparative study of…[Read more]

]]> 0 01a68f0c095b1312bf4581a4abf45e54 Ingrid Nelson started the topic MLA 2026: LLC Chaucer panels in the forum LLC Chaucer https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/chaucer/forum/topic/mla-2026-llc-chaucer-panels/ Mon, 03 Mar 2025 19:37:48 -0500 Here are the short and long CFPs for the 2026 MLA. (Deadlines: 10 March & 15 March). Please consider submitting a proposal!

  1. Chaucerian Attention Economies

 

Format: Roundtable

Short CFP

Attention, distraction, slow studies, post-critique, media/immediacy/immediation, idleness, perception, cognition, and/or sensology in Chaucer and…[Read more]

]]> 0 568bcbd9f2ec0d59aaa2fc1014633108 Sarah Sprouse started the topic CLCS Arthurian's CFPs for MLA 2026 in the forum CLCS Arthurian https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/arthurian/forum/topic/clcs-arthurians-cfps-for-mla-2026/ Fri, 07 Feb 2025 15:42:42 -0500 Good morning All! Please consider submitting a proposal for one of our two sessions for next year. As usual, proposals should be submitted via the MLA’s confex system. If you have questions, please feel free to e-mail me: ssprouse@wtamu.edu

 

Approaches to Teaching Arthurian Literature: Roundtable

To celebrate the forthcoming MLA volume, Approac…[Read more]

]]> 0 382174c132c03ef8cbfa117edb1e0d5e Jennifer A. Lorden started the topic CFPs for Old English Panels at MLA 2026 in Toronto in the forum LLC Old English https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/old-english/forum/topic/cfps-for-old-english-panels-at-mla-2026-in-toronto/ Wed, 29 Jan 2025 14:59:52 -0500 The Old English Forum will be sponsoring the following two panels at the MLA Convention in Toronto meeting from January 8-11, 2026. We’re accepting 250-word proposals until March 15, 2025 for 15-20 minute papers. Please share widely!! And don’t hesitate to get in touch with any questions.

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Language Play in Old English Literature

This ses…[Read more]

]]> 0 3ea6f3e936d32e3c53a0bc39e43b9f0b Megan Cook started the topic Chaucer @ MLA 2025, and call for nominations in the forum LLC Chaucer https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/chaucer/forum/topic/chaucer-mla-2025-and-call-for-nominations/ Tue, 31 Dec 2024 17:13:56 -0500 Dear Colleagues,

I hope you are all enjoying some restful time with loved ones as 2024 draws to a close. The Executive Committee of the Chaucer Forum would like to invite members of the forum to submit nominations for a new appointee to the forum EC. The term is five years, from January 2026 to January 2031.  Only current MLA members are e…[Read more]

]]> 0 163604e0fe4ec75d7b225576f0c81df8 Nahir Otano Gracia started the topic Palestine, Medieval Studies, and the Medieval Academy of America in the forum MLA Members for Justice in Palestine https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/mla-members-for-justice-in-palestine/forum/topic/palestine-medieval-studies-and-the-medieval-academy-of-america/ Wed, 30 Oct 2024 16:00:35 -0400 Medievalists of Color (MoC), a small organization in medieval studies, has cut all ties with the Medieval Academy of America (MAA), one of the most prestigious organizations in medieval studies, because of the MAA’s position against Palestine.

MoC has issued a full statement here.

]]> 0 c30d42ad493d382fd04e2e6882e42af8 Nahir Otano Gracia started the topic On Palestine and the Medieval Academy of America in the forum CLCS Arthurian https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/arthurian/forum/topic/on-palestine-and-the-medieval-academy-of-america-4/ Wed, 30 Oct 2024 15:50:49 -0400 Medievalists of Color (MoC) have issued a statement on the Medieval Academy of America (MAA). They call for a boycott of the MAA.

You can read the full statement here.

]]> 0 371019595bee6911e1877c459cfa3fb5 Nahir Otano Gracia started the topic On Palestine and Medieval Studies in the forum LLC Chaucer https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/chaucer/forum/topic/on-palestine-and-medieval-studies/ Wed, 30 Oct 2024 15:38:31 -0400 Medievalists of Color have issued a statement on Palestine and Medieval Studies and they call for a boycott of the Medieval Academy of America.

You can read the full statement here

]]> 0 f311db3e78c2cfcf8df25aa294057faa Nahir Otano Gracia started the topic On Palestine and the Medieval Academy of America in the forum CLCS Medieval https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/medieval/forum/topic/on-palestine-and-the-medieval-academy-of-america/ Wed, 30 Oct 2024 15:23:35 -0400 Medievalists of Color have issued a statement on Palestine and the Medieval Academy of America (MAA). They call for a boycott of the MAA

You can read the full statement here.

]]> 0 df53f202662622bd32d4256ed930d961 Robert J. Meyer-Lee started the topic Join the tabula gratulatoria for a festschrift for Karla Taylor! in the forum LLC Chaucer https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/chaucer/forum/topic/join-the-tabula-gratulatoria-for-a-festschrift-for-karla-taylor-2/ Thu, 24 Oct 2024 20:30:24 -0400 Passing this on from Cathy Sanok and Elizabeth Allen:

We are delighted to announce that a festschrift honoring Karla Taylor as a scholar and teacher, Language, Linguistics and Middle English Literature, is forthcoming from Boydell and Brewer in March 2025. The essays explore and exemplify language-focused methods for studying medieval literature…[Read more]

]]> 0 77154ac068a920a21bfd9d81f27a369e Donald W. Wood started the topic Iberia and Mediterranean-themed sessions: ICMS, Kalamazoo, 2025 in the forum CLCS Medieval https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/medieval/forum/topic/iberia-and-mediterranean-themed-sessions-icms-kalamazoo-2025/ Thu, 29 Aug 2024 13:34:12 -0400 A comprehensive list of Iberia and Mediterranean-themed sessions at the 60th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, 2025

See complete Call for Papers page here: https://icms.confex.com/icms/2025/cfp.cgi

1. Body and Mind in Medieval Iberia (hybrid) Sponsoring Organization: Ibero-Medieval Association of North America (IMANA)…[Read more]

]]> 0 15d049d2a03dcd6225e907cc21089a72 Martha Dana Rust started the topic CfP: Divergence and Interconnectivity: Premodernity in Five Objects in the forum LLC Chaucer https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/chaucer/forum/topic/cfp-divergence-and-interconnectivity-premodernity-in-five-objects-5/ Fri, 23 Aug 2024 19:47:53 -0400 Medieval and Renaissance Center
New York University

Call for papers: New York University’s Medieval and Renaissance Center invites proposals for ten-minute papers for its annual conference to be held May 1-2 2025.

Divergence and Interconnectivity: Global Premodernity in Five Objects

Keynote speaker
Lia Markey, Director of the Center for R…[Read more]

]]> 0 69968ff374b81e9c6b5a9c10ef10aecf Martha Dana Rust started the topic CfP: Divergence and Interconnectivity: Premodernity in Five Objects in the forum CLCS Medieval https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/medieval/forum/topic/cfp-divergence-and-interconnectivity-premodernity-in-five-objects/ Fri, 23 Aug 2024 18:30:06 -0400 Medieval and Renaissance Center
New York University

Call for papers: New York University’s Medieval and Renaissance Center invites proposals for ten-minute papers for its annual conference to be held May 1-2 2025.

Divergence and Interconnectivity: Global Premodernity in Five Objects

Keynote speaker
Lia Markey, Director of the Center for R…[Read more]

]]> 0 f96d7a41d2a5ebc303035818a351075a Leslie Zarker Morgan deposited Translation of two "Facezie" for study of the romance epic in the group CLCS Medieval https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1894824/ Sun, 28 Jul 2024 03:01:45 -0400 Poggio Fiorentino (Bracciolini), 1380 – 1459, wrote a series of “Facetiae” in Latin, “Facezie” in Italian, clever responses and short tales, first published in 1470. Placed on the Index, of the Council of Trent, these nonetheless were well known and have been translated into Italian in multiple editions… without the name(s) of the t…[Read more]

]]> 0 489a162a816d58c7ea25774145c951e8 Ji Eun Lee deposited Prowling in London: Canines in Bram Stoker’s Dracula in the group 2022 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1889180/ Fri, 14 Jun 2024 03:11:39 -0400 Dracula first appears in front of the British public in England not as a gentleman but in the form of “an immense dog.” This article reads Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1897) in the context of human-animal encounters happening on the streets of London when the fear of rabid dogs swept the city. Victorian urban projects aimed at building an urban struc…[Read more]

]]> 0 71e06ab33ff4fcaae20d2d377bac2c52 Ji Eun Lee deposited Victorian Humanity in Colonial Korea, Where Asians Did Not See Themselves as the Other in the group 2022 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1889175/ Fri, 14 Jun 2024 03:00:07 -0400 This article reconsiders the racial hierarchies rendering the nonwhite race as the Other in Anglo-American Victorian studies by examining the case of colonial Korea, where both the colonizer and the colonized were people of color. In colonial Korea, reading Victorian and Edwardian literature enabled Koreans to find an alternative humanity beyond…[Read more]

]]> 0 50c0378fabd519def6343312e1c13019 David A. Wacks deposited Medieval Iberian Romance in the group CLCS Medieval https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1886747/ Tue, 21 May 2024 03:07:30 -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 41bf393c133a5ae0c199f9e8d92cdd4b David A. Wacks deposited Foreword: 50 years of Spanish Arabism in the group CLCS Medieval https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1886744/ Tue, 21 May 2024 03:03:34 -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 5044134d2f14c8d7d87a42023a5edd7b David A. Wacks deposited Preface to The Study of al-Andalus The Scholarship and Legacy of James T. Monroe in the group CLCS Medieval https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1886742/ Tue, 21 May 2024 03:00:14 -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 84ec38fd98e2dbe69534cbf51fcbdbaf David A. Wacks deposited Relatos de los disturbios antijudíos de Valencia, julio de 1391 in the group CLCS Medieval https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1884545/ Wed, 01 May 2024 03:13:29 -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 3790e2294fc5ee2f670242553c99506d David A. Wacks deposited Accounts of the Anti-Jewish Riot in Valencia, July 1391 in the group CLCS Medieval https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1884540/ Wed, 01 May 2024 03:07:44 -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 5610dff3d48df262e4004ce68c4362e2 David A. Wacks deposited Accounts of the Anti-Jewish Riot in Valencia, July 1391 in the group CLCS Medieval https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1879890/ Tue, 19 Mar 2024 03:07:26 -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 281127f875516c4185a5941231ee60c5 David A. Wacks deposited Relatos de los disturbios antijudíos de Valencia, julio de 1391 in the group CLCS Medieval https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1879885/ Tue, 19 Mar 2024 03:02:23 -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 4fa4eef69df1ea4f9607cb058509e079 Megan Cook uploaded the file: MLA 2025 CFPs to LLC Chaucer https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1877164/ Tue, 20 Feb 2024 09:53:14 -0500 This document contains CFPs for the Chaucer LLC’s two sponsored sessions at the upcoming 2025 MLA Conference: Ugly Chaucer and Reproductive Chaucer

]]> 0 64d852d3832585648812854f2aaf2caf Megan Cook uploaded the file: MLA 2025 CFPs to LLC Chaucer https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1877163/ Tue, 20 Feb 2024 09:52:44 -0500 0 f188ea6e2cf6c25d65833e75c0e36d2f Megan Cook uploaded the file: MLA 2025 CFPs to LLC Chaucer https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1877162/ Tue, 20 Feb 2024 09:52:14 -0500 0 0b949be437478ed1dea2894030d0afbd Megan Cook started the topic CFPs for MLA 2025 in New Orleans in the discussion LLC Chaucer https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/chaucer/forum/topic/cfps-for-mla-2025-in-new-orleans/ Mon, 19 Feb 2024 23:09:55 -0500 Dear Chaucerians and affiliated premodernists: the Chaucer LLC executive committee invites your submissions for the following sponsored sessions at MLA 2025 in New Orleans.

All best, Megan

Chaucer LLC sponsored sessions for MLA 2025 (New Orleans)

Reproducing Chaucer

This panel seeks papers that explore the nexus of sexual, material, and…[Read more]

]]> 0 76441cd048dcce80595ce67e66496cb0 Kate Heslop started the topic Membership suggestion for Old Norse Forum executive committee in the discussion LLC Old Norse https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/old-norse/forum/topic/membership-suggestion-for-old-norse-forum-executive-committee/ Mon, 22 Jan 2024 19:02:25 -0500 Dear Old Norse Forum members,

I’m writing as the Chair of the Old Norse forum to invite suggestions for a new member for MLA’s Old Norse forum. If you would like to self-nominate, or nominate someone else, please send me an email (heslop@berkeley.edu) by the end of this week (Friday January 26th). Executive Committee members decide on the topic…[Read more]

]]> 0 e25853339c14d7155fd2be5a683fe444 Francisco Marcos-Marín deposited Revisar los inicios del español desde el magisterio de Alarcos y Lapesa in the group CLCS Medieval https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1870990/ Sun, 14 Jan 2024 04:04:09 -0500 During the long time of its documentation, Latin could not remain unchanged, so there had to be a cultured, writ-ten variant of the language and popular variants, which evolved into dialectal forms, Afro-Latin-Romance variants. As far as the African part is concerned, the novelty of this study, especially for Romanists and Arabists, is to convey…[Read more]

]]> 0 8fd438a9fc35c361b85c79086478a5e5 Francisco Marcos-Marín deposited Dominio y lenguas en el Mediterráneo Occidental hasta los inicios del español in the group CLCS Medieval https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1870985/ Sun, 14 Jan 2024 04:00:15 -0500 El objetivo principal de este libro es recoger y transmitir reflexiones y resultados de una investigación que ha evolucionado en paralelo a la vida profesional de su autor. Arranca de la pregunta sobre cómo era la situación lingüística de la Península Ibérica tras la llegada de los sarracenos, en qué ambientes se iniciaron las lenguas romance…[Read more]

]]> 0 db86b7648d1c961b7fdaeb5fb54f05b2 Carissa Harris started the topic Chaucer Forum @MLA 2024! in the discussion LLC Chaucer https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/chaucer/forum/topic/call-for-nominations-for-chaucer-forum-executive-committee-2025-2030/ Sat, 16 Dec 2023 02:01:08 -0500 Dear Colleagues,

The Executive Committee of the Chaucer Forum would like to invite members of the forum to submit nominations for a new appointee to the forum EC. The term is five years, from January 2025 to January 2030.  Only current MLA members are eligible for appointment. Candidates cannot already be serving on another forum executive c…[Read more]

]]> 0 7180c91e5b7ae5aad5493765dee52da9 Carissa Harris started the topic Call For Nominations for Chaucer Forum Executive Committee, 2025-2030! in the discussion LLC Chaucer https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/chaucer/forum/topic/call-for-nominations-for-chaucer-forum-executive-committee-2025-2030/ Sat, 16 Dec 2023 02:01:08 -0500 The Executive Committee of the Chaucer Forum would like to invite members of the forum to submit nominations for a new appointee to the forum EC. The term is five years, from January 2025 to January 2030.  Only current MLA members are eligible for appointment. Candidates cannot already be serving on another forum executive committee (unless t…[Read more]

]]> 0 8e6d3236ea044cf89ade8f1fe8a7f1c4 David A. Wacks deposited Alfonso X, Cantigas de Santa Maria: “Como Santa Maria ajudou a Emperadriz de Roma”/ “Cómo Santa María ayudó a la emperatriz de Roma” in the group CLCS Medieval https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1864689/ Wed, 15 Nov 2023 03:10:48 -0500 Alfonso X was king of “Castilla, León, Sevilla, Córdoba, Murcia, Jaén, and el Algarbe.” As evidenced by his title, he came to have possession of various kingdoms in Iberia. He was born in Toledo in 1221 and died in Seville in 1284, at 63 years of age. He is called the Learned King because he was an author, poet, musician, and historian, and becaus…[Read more]

]]> 0 cdec860d53aebbf4089f94f48d564498 David A. Wacks deposited Cantigas de Santa Maria: “Como Santa Maria ajudou a Emperadriz de Roma”/ “How the Virgen Mary Helped the Empress of Rome” in the group CLCS Medieval https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1864685/ Wed, 15 Nov 2023 03:07:28 -0500 Alfonso X was king of “Castilla, León, Sevilla, Córdoba, Murcia, Jaén, and el Algarbe.” As evidenced by his title, he came to have possession of various kingdoms in Iberia. He was born in Toledo in 1221 and died in Seville in 1284, at 63 years of age. He is called the Learned King because he was an author, poet, musician, and historian, and becaus…[Read more]

]]> 0 f2d7f8e30fa73fd18a937d60e2444516 David A. Wacks deposited Francisco Núñez Muley, Memorial (Granada, 1566) in the group CLCS Medieval https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1864670/ Wed, 15 Nov 2023 03:00:02 -0500 Núñez-Muley abstract

The Edict of 1567, or Anti-Morisco Edict, was promulgated by Spanish King Philip II on January 1, after being approved in Madrid on November 17, 1566. Its purpose was to eliminate specific Morisco customs, such as their language, dress, and dances. Núñez Muley’s Petition is an attempt to persuade Christian authorities to de…[Read more]

]]> 0 fc53d9e31580aca42b636d397c90ec69 David A. Wacks started the topic Open access teaching unit: Alfonso X, Cantigas de Santa Maria (Cantiga 5) in the discussion CLCS Medieval https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/medieval/forum/topic/open-access-teaching-unit-alfonso-x-cantigas-de-santa-maria-cantiga-5/ Tue, 14 Nov 2023 18:45:33 -0500 Alfonso X was king of “Castilla, León, Sevilla, Córdoba, Murcia, Jaén, and el Algarbe.” As evidenced by his title, he came to have possession of various kingdoms in Iberia. He was born in Toledo in 1221 and died in Seville in 1284, at 63 years of age. He is called the Learned King because he was an author, poet, musician, and historian, and becaus…[Read more]

]]> 0 1fdd1aacb58c647c18a373cfc793f1a6 David A. Wacks started the topic Deadline extended to Mar 15: CFPs MLA 2024 (Medieval Iberian Studies) in the discussion CLCS Medieval https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/medieval/forum/topic/deadline-extended-to-mar-15-cfps-mla-2024-medieval-iberian-studies-2/ Thu, 02 Mar 2023 22:18:53 -0500  The Medieval Iberian Forum of the MLA announces the following calls for papers for the 2024 MLA Convention (Philadelphia, Jan 4-7). Please note that presenters must be members of the MLA before registering for the conference (but not in order to submit an abstract).

New Currents in Medieval Iberian Studies (in person) The LLC Medieval I…[Read more]

]]> 0 6b0e92474a28303e05d6e8a08c069dff Hania A.M. Nashef deposited Suppressed Narrator, Silenced Victim in Adania Shibli’s Minor Detail in the group MLA Members for Justice in Palestine https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1835413/ Sat, 25 Feb 2023 04:01:16 -0500 Although the systematic eviction of Palestinians from their homeland has been recorded at length since the establishment of the state of Israel in 948, the documentation has namely concerned itself with urban centers or villages. Expulsion and removal of marginalized communities, namely the Bedouins’, from their ancestral encampments or homes h…[Read more]

]]> 0 db67182db3d449fe3e244819a468c97e Priya Wadhera started the topic CFP: Surrealism dans tous ses états in the discussion 2022 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/2022-mla-convention/forum/topic/cfp-surrealism-dans-tous-ses-etats-2/ Mon, 20 Feb 2023 15:12:52 -0500 2024 marks the centennial of the Surrealist Manifesto. Roundtable participants will examine the conceptual, verbal, and formal tools and strategies at stake in this preeminent artistic and critical stance in 20th-century French studies. They will explore the evolving ways in which surrealism still manifests in today’s cultural and literary imagina…[Read more]

]]> 0 fed01636f5095d46b4b80dddeae77656 Elena Machado Sáez started the topic "What the New York Times gets wrong about the "American Dirt" controversy" in the discussion 2022 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/2022-mla-convention/forum/topic/what-the-new-york-times-gets-wrong-about-the-american-dirt-controversy-2/ Wed, 15 Feb 2023 15:19:55 -0500 An op-ed article I co-wrote with Latinx Studies colleagues David J. Vázquez and Magdalena L. Barrera was just published in Salon. Check it out!

“What the New York Times gets wrong about the “American Dirt” controversy: Who gets to wield the power of representation might be important to columnist Pamela Paul, but it’s a…[Read more]

]]> 0 01c28d36c31d7e6b64964df0046474c2 Anne E. B. Coldiron started the topic Call for book proposals: Translatio (see flyer, attached) in the discussion CLCS Medieval https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/medieval/forum/topic/call-for-book-proposals-translatio-see-flyer-attached-10/ Tue, 07 Feb 2023 16:43:40 -0500 See attached flyer on the TRANSLATIO book series and the call for book proposals. Please forward to all interested potential authors, co-authors, translators, and editors.

“Key words, concepts, and texts all gather new force – and encounter new obstacles – as they move between languages, cultures, and societies. Translatio explores trans…[Read more]

]]> 0 ebb3bb6687dcb8692df9efead602ce8a David A. Wacks deposited Aljamiado retellings of the Hebrew Bible in the group CLCS Medieval https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1832606/ Sat, 04 Feb 2023 02:24:15 -0500 Stories from the Hebrew Bible were popular among the Iberian Peninsula’s Jews, Christians, and Muslims. Beginning in the 14th century, Muslims and Moriscos retold these stories in Aljamiado texts in Spanish or Aragonese written in Arabic characters. These fictionalized retellings drew on vernacular language and literary forms common to C…[Read more]

]]> 0 9241af12233a5d31574beb61e48d1e2b Sarah Allen started the topic UPDATED UPDATED Call for proposals for the 2024 MLA in the discussion CLCS Medieval https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/medieval/forum/topic/updated-updated-call-for-proposals-for-the-2024-mla-2/ Fri, 13 Jan 2023 16:32:32 -0500 Please note new deadline of 2/1 for proposal submissions, with apologies for the confusion!!

The executive committee of the P14 Chinese forum invites proposals for a session to be sponsored by the forum for the 2024 MLA annual convention, which will be held January 4-7 in Philadelphia. Possible formats include panels (three presentations and a…[Read more]

]]> 0 39fca9050da34d2f82b97d83199a7ac5 Sarah Allen started the topic UPDATED Call for proposals for the 2024 MLA in the discussion CLCS Medieval https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/medieval/forum/topic/updated-call-for-proposals-for-the-2024-mla-2/ Mon, 09 Jan 2023 14:22:38 -0500 The executive committee of the P14 Chinese forum invites proposals for a session to be sponsored by the forum for the 2024 MLA annual convention, which will be held January 4-7 in Philadelphia. Possible formats include panels (three presentations and a presider), roundtables (more open discussion of broader issues), workshops (focused e.g. on…[Read more]

]]> 0 d97ddd24bbcedbb7dc49d035d8349b32 Sarah Allen started the topic Call for proposals for the 2024 MLA in the discussion CLCS Medieval https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/medieval/forum/topic/call-for-proposals-for-the-2024-mla-2/ Mon, 09 Jan 2023 14:16:30 -0500 The executive committee of the P14 Chinese forum invites proposals for a session to be sponsored by the forum for the 2024 MLA annual convention, which will be held January 4-7 in Philadelphia. Possible formats include panels (three presentations and a presider), roundtables (more open discussion of broader issues), workshops (focused e.g. on…[Read more]

]]> 0 237402b24f7b44f6d61c986cb4182d32 Caitilin Walsh deposited ATA Joins Forces with the Association of Language Companies to Bridge the Educational Career Gap in the group 2022 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1828214/ Wed, 04 Jan 2023 03:51:32 -0500 The Association of Language Companies (ALC) has been working to increase connections, relationships, and shared learning between the professional and academic sides of the language services supply chain. From these efforts, the ALC
Bridge was born. The American Translators Association is a member of this initiative.

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