SAH Commons | sebastien doubinsky | Group Activity https://sah.hcommons.org/members/sebastiendoubinsky/activity/groups/ Public group activity feed of which sebastien doubinsky is a member. Fri, 03 Apr 2026 18:22:23 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 3ab98575169b38c50f12b905c2a160a8 Julia Frengs started the topic CFP for MLA 2027: Queer Emancipatory Narratives of the Francosphere in the forum LLC Francophone https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/francophone/forum/topic/cfp-for-mla-2027-queer-emancipatory-narratives-of-the-francosphere/ Thu, 19 Feb 2026 14:39:00 -0500 This panel seeks proposals engaging with the articulation of queer emancipatory narratives from throughout the “francosphere.” We aim to consider how queer discourses of emancipation are constructed throughout the French-speaking world, taking into account a variety of cultural norms that might restrict queer voices. We would be delighted to see…[Read more]

]]> 0 8e06941fab37302863906624655c4fa1 William J. Spurlin started the topic CfP for MLA 2027 in Los Angeles: Queer Nations: Remembering Jarrod Hayes in the forum LLC Francophone https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/francophone/forum/topic/cfp-for-mla-2027-in-los-angeles-queer-nations-remembering-jarrod-hayes-2/ Tue, 17 Feb 2026 03:36:22 -0500 This guaranteed session, sponsored by LLC Francophone, celebrates the work of the late Jarrod Hayes, Professor of French Studies in the School of Languages, Literatures, Cultures, and Linguistics at the University of Monash in Melbourne, Australia, at the time of his untimely passing in 2025, and previously Professor of French and Francophone…[Read more]

]]> 0 228057754aaf161a955f437c7151621e Karen Quandt started the topic Forum Executive Committee and Prize Selection Committee Nominations in the forum LLC 19th-Century French https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/19th-century-french/forum/topic/forum-executive-committee-and-prize-selection-committee-nominations/ Thu, 05 Feb 2026 02:19:34 -0500 <div><b>We are currently soliciting nominations (including self-nominations) for a new executive committee member.</b> The new member would rotate onto the committee in January 2027, right after the MLA convention in Los Angeles (new members are not expected to attend the convention, but are more than welcome to). The duration of the appointment…[Read more]

]]> 0 a8ad4ac0690f479f608f8ec8080425d9 Hannah Freed-Thall started the topic call for nominations: MLA Delegate Assembly Representative in the forum LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-french/forum/topic/call-for-nominations-mla-delegate-assembly-representative/ Fri, 30 Jan 2026 20:37:03 -0500 Please send nominations (including self-nominations) for 20th/21st-c French forum representative to the MLA Delegate Assembly to freedthall@nyu.edu, by March 9, 2026. The elected representative serves a 3-year term and must attend the annual Delegate Assembly meeting, held during the MLA convention. Learn more about the Delegate Assembly here:…[Read more]

]]> 0 faee167f1f88339eeb2ef291f12233f0 Hannah Freed-Thall started the topic MLA 2027 CFP: Aesthetics and Politics of Resistance in the forum LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-french/forum/topic/mla-2027-cfp-aesthetics-and-politics-of-resistance/ Fri, 30 Jan 2026 01:15:04 -0500 This panel explores the aesthetics and politics of resistance in modern and contemporary French-language contexts. Possible topics include: conditions of control, surveillance, capture, and repression; fascism/antifascism; refusal, fugitivity, emancipation, or revolution. This is a non-guaranteed session. Send a 250-word abstract and bio by March…[Read more]

]]> 0 c13fadbe76c07b7622fd029e1e63ef02 Karen Quandt started the topic CFPs for 2027 MLA Convention in Los Angeles in the forum LLC 19th-Century French https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/19th-century-french/forum/topic/cfps-for-2027-mla-convention-in-los-angeles/ Thu, 29 Jan 2026 02:43:38 -0500 <div>The executive committee for the MLA 19th-century French forum is pleased to announce the following calls for papers, which are for two guaranteed sessions that will take place at next year’s MLA convention in Los Angeles, CA (7–10 January 2027).</div>
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<div><b>Fame and Infamy</b></div>
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We invite 250-word abstracts for pap…[Read more]

]]> 0 360ae55cbfad2134312c716031801caa Hannah Freed-Thall started the topic MLA 2027 CFP: Literature and the News in the forum LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-french/forum/topic/mla-2027-cfp-literature-and-the-news/ Tue, 27 Jan 2026 17:55:07 -0500 This panel explores intersections between literature and journalism in modern and contemporary French-language contexts. Topics include, but are not limited to, the fait divers, truth and disinformation, politics and aesthetics, fact and fiction. This is a guaranteed session. Send a 250-word abstract and bio by March 15, 2026 to sk130@wellesley.edu

]]> 0 c5422136117d01a9bf1d4678024a3a64 Hannah Freed-Thall started the topic MLA 2027 CFP: Reproductive Justice in the forum LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-french/forum/topic/mla-2027-cfp-reproductive-justice/ Tue, 27 Jan 2026 02:30:10 -0500 On the centenary of the birth of Simone Veil (namesake of the landmark 1975 French law legalizing abortion), this panel explores sexual autonomy, gender freedom, decolonial feminism, and reproductive dignity in modern and contemporary French-language contexts. This is a guaranteed session. Send a 250-word abstract and bio by March 15 to freedthall@nyu.edu.

]]> 0 91883107bb3d582cdb8572c4bc16a7f0 Hua Li started the topic CFP for the 2027 MLA Conference in the forum GS Speculative Fiction https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/speculative-fiction/forum/topic/cfp-for-the-2027-mla-conference/ Thu, 15 Jan 2026 21:52:18 -0500 This is a CFP for a guaranteed panel sponsored by the forum of GS Speculative Fiction for the 2027 MLA conference.
Title: Ecocriticism and Speculative Fiction

Submit to Hua Li: huali@montana.edu
Description & Requirements: We invite papers engaging ecocritical approaches to Western and non-Western science fiction and fantasy exploring…[Read more]

]]> 0 b6010ba603cf4913c2e985663f1bcee6 Cristina Bacchilega replied to the topic GS Speculative Fiction--- New Committee Member Needed in the forum GS Speculative Fiction via email https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/speculative-fiction/forum/topic/gs-speculative-fiction-new-committee-member-needed/#post-1040713 Tue, 13 Jan 2026 19:52:21 -0500 Sorry. I am no longer an MLA member. I do not appreciate their lack of
support for Palestine.

Cristina Bacchilega
Professor Emerita of English
University of Hawai‘i-Mānoa

Cristina Bacchilega


Recent books
https://www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph?docid=b-9781350348295&st=
(open ac…[Read more]

]]> 0 72598d4118062ad915c9dcf0b367e509 Hua Li started the topic GS Speculative Fiction--- New Committee Member Needed in the forum GS Speculative Fiction https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/speculative-fiction/forum/topic/gs-speculative-fiction-new-committee-member-needed/ Tue, 13 Jan 2026 19:47:28 -0500 The GS Speculative Fiction Forum needs one new committee member to serve a five-year term starting from 2027. This is an excellent opportunity for junior or senior faculty to serve at a national level. Please email me if you are interested or have any questions at huali@montana.edu by Feb. 27, 2026.

]]> 0 22eaebfef1511160dba471458faedfb6 Johanna Montlouis-Gabriel started the topic Call for Nominations: LLC 20th-and 21st Century French Forum Executive Committee in the forum LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-french/forum/topic/call-for-nominations-llc-20th-and-21st-century-french-forum-executive-committee-5/ Mon, 12 Jan 2026 15:54:18 -0500 Dear Colleagues, The LLC 20th 21st Century Forum Executive Committee is seeking (self)nominations from our membership for one colleague (must be an MLA member) willing to serve a term of five convention years (from January 2027 through the close of the January 2031 convention). Responsibilities of the committee members also include serving as…[Read more]

]]> 0 af41bf8d32aead3e34f1d795025a8884 Johanna Montlouis-Gabriel started the topic MLA 2026 CFP: "Queer Creoles in French and Francophone Contexts" in the forum LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-french/forum/topic/mla-2026-cfp-queer-creoles-in-french-and-francophone-contexts/ Wed, 22 Jan 2025 12:56:50 -0500 Title: “Queer Creoles in French and Francophone Contexts.”

This panel explores queer language use across borders and cultural contexts, which includes, but is not limited to creolization, language accumulation, and translanguaging.  This is a guaranteed session. Send 250-word abstract and bio by March 13, 2025 to Denis Provencher: dmproven@ncsu.edu

]]> 0 6f1a71a6eabbc93965ef581da4b4b1c6 Johanna Montlouis-Gabriel started the topic MLA 2026 CFP: "Metropolitan Relations" A Guaranteed Session in the forum LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-french/forum/topic/mla-2026-cfp-metropolitan-relations-a-guaranteed-session/ Wed, 22 Jan 2025 12:52:32 -0500 Title: “Metropolitan Relations: Diasporic & Indigenous Perspectives in Contemporary Cities.”

This panel explores French and Francophone representations of place-making, cultural memory, and spatial justice in urban environments. This is a guaranteed session. Send 250-word abstract and bio by March 13, 2025 to jmontlo@emory.edu

]]> 0 639a867bf8db30aa009a75233916b3e3 Rachel Haywood started the topic CfP for MLA 2026: Speculative Fiction forum (guaranteed session) in the forum GS Speculative Fiction https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/speculative-fiction/forum/topic/cfp-for-mla-2026-speculative-fiction-forum-guaranteed-session-2/ Tue, 21 Jan 2025 21:19:48 -0500 MLA Call for Papers #29768

Session Title:  Genealogies and Futurities of AI in Speculative Fiction

Submit proposals to:  Rachel Haywood, Iowa State University (rhaywood@iastate.edu)

 

Description & Requirements:

Inviting proposals examining AI’s historical and futuristic representations in speculative fiction. How have speculative nar…[Read more]

]]> 0 3b529c661bb68a1acbc1f068cf288bb4 Johanna Montlouis-Gabriel started the topic Call for Nominations: LLC 20th-and 21st Century French Forum Executive Committee in the forum LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-french/forum/topic/call-for-nominations-llc-20th-and-21st-century-french-forum-executive-committee-4/ Sat, 11 Jan 2025 16:00:26 -0500 Dear Colleagues,

The LLC 20th 21st Century Forum Executive Committee is seeking (self)nominations from our membership for one colleague (must be an MLA member) willing to serve a term of five convention years (from January 2026 through the close of the January 2030 convention). Responsibilities of the committee members also include serving as…[Read more]

]]> 0 01fa46361ee29cc820b32791fd95f438 andré carrington started the topic [CFP: Eaton Conference on Speculative Fiction, April 4-5 2025] in the forum GS Speculative Fiction https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/speculative-fiction/forum/topic/cfp-eaton-conference-on-speculative-fiction-april-4-5-2025/ Fri, 01 Nov 2024 17:34:09 -0400 [CFP: Eaton Conference on Speculative Fiction, April 4-5 2025]

deadline for submissions: November 30, 2024
Speculative Fiction & Cultures of Science at UC Riverside
contact email: eatonconference@gmail.com
Conference Date: April 4-5, 2025

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1AVXufNHQQFN00hrpVBOOsl2jMpv5-_ss/view

We warmly invite established and…[Read more]

]]> 0 5d6917be9337ee9eae3e8a1a8458e002 andré carrington posted an update in the group GS Speculative Fiction: [CFP: Eaton Conference on Speculative Fiction, April 4-5 […] https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1903570/ Fri, 01 Nov 2024 17:30:22 -0400 [CFP: Eaton Conference on Speculative Fiction, April 4-5 2025]
deadline for submissions: November 30, 2024
Speculative Fiction & Cultures of Science at UC Riverside
contact email: eatonconference@gmail.com
Conference Date: April 4-5, 2025

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1AVXufNHQQFN00hrpVBOOsl2jMpv5-_ss/view

We warmly invite established and…[Read more]

]]> 0 584cceced163122960d4b9f4e40d2d13 Juliane Braun deposited Modes of Recovery, Performative Commons, and Identity Formation in Early American Theater in the group LLC Francophone https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1902704/ Sat, 26 Oct 2024 03:04:14 -0400 Review of

Bloody Tyrants and Little Pickles: Stage Roles of Anglo-American Girls in the Nineteenth Century. By Marlis Schweitzer.
University of Iowa Press, 2020. 276 pp.

The Politics of Gender in Early American Theater: Revolutionary Dramatists and Theatrical Practices. Edited by Leopold Lippert and Ralph J. Poole. Transcript, 2021. 214…[Read more]

]]> 0 dbef4b774e1811db014244f2516c24f0 Juliane Braun deposited Recovering Virginie Gireaudeau: Race, Language, and Representation on the American Stage in the group LLC Francophone https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1902285/ Tue, 22 Oct 2024 04:05:13 -0400 This article recovers the life and career of Virginie Gireaudeau, one of the first African American actresses to appear in a major North American theater. Performing in New Orleans in 1826, she played the female lead in two tragedies, supported by a group of white professional actors and actresses from France. But despite Gireaudeau’s obvious s…[Read more]

]]> 0 9269454af2ec80fd797429a1d9517390 Valeria Graziano deposited The Rabble’s Lifecraft: Institutional Tinkering and Popular Illegalisms in the group Anarchism https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1902088/ Sat, 19 Oct 2024 03:00:50 -0400 Article published in Croatian translation as ‘Životna Vještina Raje: Institucionalno Krparenje I Pučki Ilegalizmi’, Kritika, 5(1), 125-146.

Figure it Out (FIO) is an artistic and research project engaging practices and phenomena of coping, tinkering, making-do and circumventing exclusions that are developed by marginalized, underserved, discri…[Read more]

]]> 0 c1b184d20f23aa1e08281f1026ea5b7f Ali Shehzad Zaidi deposited Dreamer of Tomorrow in the group Literary Translation https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1901085/ Tue, 08 Oct 2024 03:00:42 -0400 This essay examines the stellar, wind, eagle, and light imagery in Muneer Niazi’s “Futility,” “Now is Not the Time,” “Signaling to a Friendly Star to Keep Shining,” and “Horizons.

]]> 0 3074a7b3c87a12c56239d4529302b9ba Doris Hambuch deposited Ways of Seeing Nujoom Alghanem’s Nearby Sky (سماء قريبة) and Sharp Tools (آلات حادة) as Docupoetry,Comment voir le ciel proche de Nujoom Alghanem (سماء قريبة) et les outils tranchants (آلات حادة) comme docupoésie in the group GS Poetry and Poetics https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1900961/ Mon, 07 Oct 2024 03:00:08 -0400 This article proposes to establish a
sub-category called “docupoetry” to
classify the documentary films by
Emirati poet and filmmaker Nujoom
Alghanem. Detailed analysis of two
selected films, Sharp Tools (2017) and
Nearby Sky (2014), illustrates the
unique composition, cinematography,
and use of poetic devices, such
as rhythm, sym…[Read more]

]]> 0 ab007175d2b4c6d359122c66b968ddcd Ali Shehzad Zaidi deposited Voice of the Forgotten in the group Literary Translation https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1898196/ Mon, 09 Sep 2024 03:00:05 -0400 This article discusses the sea imagery in Ahmed Faraz’s poem “Spray on the Eagle’s Pinion,” which appears here in a previously unpublished translation by Daud Kamal. Two other poems, “Siege” and “Remorse” exemplify the defiance and revolt that characterizes Faraz’s dissident poetry during the eleven years of General Zia-ul-Haq’s military regime.

]]> 0 58a5227b43cbdc8b6a5e8c99113848c7 Antonio Taglialatela deposited Ozymandias in the group Literary Translation https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1895960/ Sun, 11 Aug 2024 03:00:40 -0400 A commented translation from EN into ITA of the poem ‘Ozymandias’ by Percy Bysshe Shelley.

]]> 0 24e11c4eeacf630b2c81679e8833065f Ali Shehzad Zaidi deposited Towards a Socialist Pakistan: The Modern Urdu Poetry Translations of Daud Kamal in the group Literary Translation https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1895900/ Sat, 10 Aug 2024 03:02:02 -0400 With his spare, evocative style, Daud Kamal remains unsurpassed as a translator of Urdu poetry, referring to his translations as transcreations Those concise translations, with their masterfully wrought imagery, portray the effects of dictatorship on Pakistan, draw on the rich traditions of Sufi and folk poetry, and ultimately create a portrait of…[Read more]

]]> 0 d772fbcec30fd77f392b799e77cf04f8 Ali Shehzad Zaidi deposited The Restless Traveler in the group Literary Translation https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1895898/ Sat, 10 Aug 2024 03:01:45 -0400 Contains a selection of Faiz poems and an overview of his life.

]]> 0 aeca886e970f1b390aba778c188c0119 Fatma Fulya Tepe started the topic New article on Turkish Girls' Studies in the discussion GS Poetry and Poetics https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/poetry-and-poetics/forum/topic/new-article-on-turkish-girls-studies-2/ Sun, 30 Jun 2024 08:32:30 -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 Perspec…[Read more]

]]> 0 df01d75410acc421c32b84d26c0f3263 Frank Pfost deposited Fénice et la critique de la moralité courtoise par Chrétien de Troyes dans Cligès in the group LLC Francophone https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1889765/ Fri, 21 Jun 2024 04:00:12 -0400 Cligès, le second roman de Chrétien de Troyes, et celui qu’il a écrit en 1176, est toujours considéré
comme le plus divertissant de ses romans. Dans Cligès Chrétien a certainement utilisé beaucoup
d’artifices et beaucoup d’effets comiques pour créer son oeuvre, qui est plein d’images éclatantes. Elle
nous amuse plus que ses autres romans. Ma…[Read more]

]]> 0 c5129c6c75345ec33bc2a61254bc2bcc Frank Pfost deposited Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy and Emile Zola on the Meaning of Life in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1889375/ Mon, 17 Jun 2024 04:01:08 -0400 Two great contemporary writers of the latter nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Lev
Tolstoy of Russia and Émile Zola of France, were haunted by the same problem, the individual’s
relation to God and the universe and the purpose of his relatively short life in it. Although Tolstoy
and Zola took different approaches to this problem in th…[Read more]

]]> 0 8728066b749e27eebed4094057691074 Frank Pfost deposited Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy and Emile Zola on the Meaning of Life in the group LLC 19th-Century French https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1889374/ Mon, 17 Jun 2024 04:00:12 -0400 Two great contemporary writers of the latter nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Lev
Tolstoy of Russia and Émile Zola of France, were haunted by the same problem, the individual’s
relation to God and the universe and the purpose of his relatively short life in it. Although Tolstoy
and Zola took different approaches to this problem in th…[Read more]

]]> 0 8613fa458009699a8261d30dfbca5011 Ali Shehzad Zaidi deposited The Revolutionary Spirit in the group Literary Translation https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1888627/ Fri, 07 Jun 2024 03:00:41 -0400 This article has four uncollected Faiz translations by Daud Kamal.

]]> 0 c8e4dd2e2db6f12e2f6893a164a46e21 Valeria Graziano deposited ŽIVOTNA VJEŠTINA RAJE: INSTITUCIONALNO KRPARENJE I PUČKI ILEGALIZMI (THE RABBLE’S LIFECRAFT: INSTITUTIONAL TINKERING AND POPULAR ILLEGALISMS) in the group Anarchism https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1888617/ Fri, 07 Jun 2024 03:00:05 -0400 The essay explores “institutional tinkering,” which refers to practices of disobedience and resource reappropriation that highlight the contradictions within systems or institutions. It argues that practices of institutional tinkering and popular illegalisms are critical lenses to understand power dynamics and resistance in the ongoing crisis of…[Read more]

]]> 0 7b38497d82f1d41e24e8a09b62bbd376 Frank Pfost deposited Les Femmes coupables dans les LAIS de Marie de France in the group LLC Francophone https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1887841/ Sun, 02 Jun 2024 04:00:11 -0400 Les douze Lais de Marie de France, écrits au XIIe siècle par un auteur dont on connaît peu de choses,
retiennent leur renom pour maintes raisons. Ce sont des contes, des aventures, souvent merveilleuses
et fantastiques, des chevaliers errants et leurs dames au temps médiévaux lorsque la bataille épique et
continuelle entre le bien at le ma…[Read more]

]]> 0 8fc29aecc0f40c08c0e2d31bf7d95df1 Eliseo Ferrer deposited Eliseo Ferrer / El «Discurso a Diogneto», a través de una nueva lectura y reinterpretación. in the group Anarchism https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1887281/ Mon, 27 May 2024 03:00:26 -0400 In this text, Eliseo Ferrer carries out a revision of the positions maintained in a previous work on the “Discourse to Diognetus”. A supposedly Christian text in which the figures of Christ or Jesus do not appear (nor anything related to the Gospel story) and that, with all certainty, was manipulated at an undetermined time by the Roman Chu…[Read more]

]]> 0 044f20111b0751c85aed46f10b528901 Louise Bethlehem deposited The Anthropocene and the Environmental Humanities in the group GS Speculative Fiction https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1887205/ Sun, 26 May 2024 04:10:32 -0400 Interim bibliography on the Anthropocene and the Environmental Humanities generated in conjunction with the Rift Futurism Project supported by a grant from the ISRAEL SCIENCE FOUNDATION (grant No. 3011006089), May 2024

]]> 0 bbb36dfa631ec1f34935ae82dc60ee48 Louise Bethlehem deposited Speculative Fiction from the Global South--Anthropocene Intersections, Interim Bibliography in the group GS Speculative Fiction https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1887200/ Sun, 26 May 2024 04:02:08 -0400 Interim bibliography on science fiction and speculative fiction with an emphasis on the global South and on Anthropocene-related perspectives generated in conjunction with the Rift Futurism Project supported by a grant from the ISRAEL SCIENCE FOUNDATION (grant No. 3011006089)
Louise Bethlehem, PI, English and Cultural Studies, The Hebrew…[Read more]

]]> 0 bfbcfe0405bdb0fb578f124df5c3caf7 Louise Bethlehem deposited Lauren Beukes and African Futurism Interim Bibliography in the group GS Speculative Fiction https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1887044/ Fri, 24 May 2024 04:05:00 -0400 Research at the intersection between the African Futurism and the work of post-apartheid writer, Lauren Beukes.

]]> 0 6a6a0bf97842de957d94923de1abecea Louise Bethlehem deposited African Futurism Interim Bibliography in the group GS Speculative Fiction https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1887042/ Fri, 24 May 2024 04:02:13 -0400 A compilation of articles on African Futurism generated in conjunction with the Rift Futurism research project supported by THE ISRAEL SCIENCE FOUNDATION (grant No. 3011006089), updated May 2024.

]]> 0 db4ce2f5c62a1502c49f41f5179e0d29 Maurizio Brancaleoni deposited Three Poems from Amelia Rosselli’s “Appunti sparsi e persi” (English Translation by Maurizio Brancaleoni) in the group Literary Translation https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1886468/ Sat, 18 May 2024 03:00:32 -0400 Amelia Rosselli (1930-1996) is considered one of the most important Italian poets of the past century. Born in Paris, she had to flee to Switzerland and then to the U.S. after the murder of her father and her uncle at the hands of Fascist militias. Back in Italy in the late 40s, in 1950 she settled in Rome, where she would spend the rest of her…[Read more]

]]> 0 7a6fd4de2be266fa228eb7a464228d79 Eliseo Ferrer deposited Reseña el libro SACRIFICIOS HUMANOS, de Eliseo Ferrer. (Por Jorge Liberati). in the group Anarchism https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1881063/ Thu, 28 Mar 2024 03:01:51 -0400 Esta amplia reseña ha aparecido en:
Revista RELACIONES. Montevideo (Uruguay). Nº 478 – Marzo de 2024. Páginas 24 y 25.
Según Jorge Liberati (autor de la reseña), la obra se consagra como construcción del todo original, materialista en el sentido de un materialismo no visiblemente histórico ni estrictamente dialéctico. Una visión independ…[Read more]

]]> 0 dd49efb595d90502b082567e4ca80f36 Robert Nguyen started the topic Silicon Valley Beyond the Valley (CFP due 3/15, MLA2025 Sp. Session Proposal) in the discussion GS Speculative Fiction https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/speculative-fiction/forum/topic/silicon-valley-beyond-the-valley-cfp-due-3-15-mla2025-sp-session-proposal/ Wed, 06 Mar 2024 16:26:56 -0500 Dear colleagues,

This post is a solicitation for papers for a special session proposal for MLA 2025 in New Orleans. The call is pasted further below and can also be found on the MLA website; as those calls are quite brief, I’ve included further below additional details.

I’m happy to respond to questions here, and I can also be reached at…[Read more]

]]> 0 7d43425765464c6fd64feda94450c1fd Eliseo Ferrer deposited Preámbulo del libro «Sacrificios Humanos, Canibalismo y Sexualidad Ritual en el Mundo Antiguo» (Eliseo Ferrer). in the group Anarchism https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1878565/ Tue, 05 Mar 2024 03:00:12 -0500 El libro aborda de las bases materiales de la creación del mundo y de lo sagrado. Un Mundo que el autor define como algo «en permanente construcción, a cargo de Sujetos Operatorios que encontraron el primer «sentido» en su relación con los animales y en la regularidad de los movimientos cósmicos».

Como afirma Eliseo Ferrer, lejos de todo se…[Read more]

]]> 0 2c345a2e44b9032766c73c58a408ed89 Eliseo Ferrer deposited Eliseo Ferrer / El salvador persa Saoshyant, el fin del mundo y la resurrección de los muertos. in the group Anarchism https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1876040/ Mon, 12 Feb 2024 03:01:09 -0500 Según Eliseo Ferrer, la sabiduría, la espiritualidad y la santidad fueron simbolizadas en el mazdeísmo, al igual que en la India antigua, por la más intensa luminosidad, asociada esta luz al fuego y opuesta a las tinieblas del mal y de la ignorancia. Y de la misma forma que la doctrina de las Upanishads asimilaba el ātman a la luz interior del…[Read more]

]]> 0 ca82ad2b419dd8ebb9f06b151f61715a Eliseo Ferrer deposited Eliseo Ferrer / Una Perspectiva Radical y crítica de los Orígenes del Cristianismo. in the group Anarchism https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1876032/ Mon, 12 Feb 2024 03:00:58 -0500 Preámbulo al libro SACRIFRICIO Y DRAMA DEL REY SAGRADO, de Eliseo Ferrer.
Decía el mitólogo Joseph Campbell que la humanidad se divide entre quienes creen literalmente los textos sagrados (creyentes) y quienes no creen en ellos (ateos). Pero, como en su caso, aquí nos separamos de esta disyuntiva para adoptar una postura diferente, pues de lo que…[Read more]

]]> 0 a24f4a36fc0b8a0ac5d083157ddd6187 Eliseo Ferrer deposited Eliseo Ferrer / El Rey Sagrado del Ritual Neolítico, el Siervo Sufriente de Isaías y el Dios Tammuz. in the group Anarchism https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1876028/ Mon, 12 Feb 2024 03:00:51 -0500 El siervo de Isaías (Ebed Yahvé) ha representado, en la cultura del judaísmo y el cristianismo, una singularizada concreción con forma humana de la figura del chivo. Por lo demás, el Siervo o Justo Sufriente fue una figura arquetípica en todas las culturas del mundo antiguo, bastante poco precisa para nosotros y cuyo significado resulta oscur…[Read more]

]]> 0 730ec4c821dbcce561da7ea99d39ead6 Eliseo Ferrer deposited Elogios de la prensa libertaria española a Eliseo Ferrer por su libro «Sacrificio y Drama del Rey Sagrado». (Crítica de Jacinto Ceacero). in the group Anarchism https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1876026/ Mon, 12 Feb 2024 03:00:50 -0500 En 2021 y 2022, el mundo académico pronunció favorablemente, de forma muy mayoritaria, sobre el libro de Eliseo Ferrer SACRIFICIO Y DRAMA DEL REY SAGRADO. Pues solo de forma residual aparecieron algunas críticas de escaso fundamento y nulo valor intelectual provenientes de sectores recalcitrantes y extremos: evangélicos fundamentalistas y cat…[Read more]

]]> 0 809185353ccf90d4a985dd0cf8a2e743 Eliseo Ferrer deposited Eliseo Ferrer (Entrevista): Una teoría crítica y radical sobre los orígenes del cristianismo. in the group Anarchism https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1876023/ Mon, 12 Feb 2024 03:00:46 -0500 ENTREVISTA a Eliseo Ferrer, autor de «Sacrificio y drama del Rey Sagrado».
En esta entrevista, que la periodista Sofía G. Orlowsky realiza a Eliseo Ferrer, el autor de «Sacrificio y drama del Rey Sagrado (Genealogía, antropología e historia del mito de Cristo)» resume a fondo y de manera clara el espíritu de la obra: el surgimiento del mito de…[Read more]

]]> 0 43a46ff8b8d703e54a427bd02f3349a3 Eliseo Ferrer deposited Eliseo Ferrer (Interview): A radical and critical theory of the origins of Christianity. in the group Anarchism https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1876020/ Mon, 12 Feb 2024 03:00:42 -0500 According Eliseo Ferrer, «The Messiah-Christ is an ancient and archaic myth reformulated by the sects of apocalyptic messianism and transformed by Gnosticism and the Church of the second century». Ferrer talks about the myths of primitive Christianity in an interview conducted on the occasion of the presentation of his book SACRIFICE AND DRAMA O…[Read more]

]]> 0 59d2150231eba54f41e24d43bcdc72cc Nathan H. Dize started the topic CPF: Ecologies of Enslavement, Ecologies of Abolition, MLA 2025 in the discussion LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-french/forum/topic/cpf-ecologies-of-enslavement-ecologies-of-abolition-mla-2025-2/ Sun, 11 Feb 2024 03:36:57 -0500 How have enslavement, incarceration, and other colonial confinements shaped more-than-human circum-Caribbean ecologies? How have Black culture-makers confronted these ecologies with abolitionist aesthetics? Send 150-word abstracts to this co-sponsored panel (Caribbean & Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities).Deadline for submissions: Friday,…[Read more]

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