SAH Commons | Simon Stern | Group Activity https://sah.hcommons.org/members/simonstern/activity/groups/ Public group activity feed of which Simon Stern is a member. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 09:40:55 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 8837e72eb935955339045e16a296ce98 Peter Leman started the topic CFP: World Literature and Disappearance (Special Issue of ARIEL) in the forum TC Law and the Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/law-and-the-humanities/forum/topic/cfp-world-literature-and-disappearance-special-issue-of-ariel-2/ Tue, 02 Dec 2025 22:33:49 -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 b22102483166f405a14cd651e1eb324e Ted Laros started the topic Session on "War, Literature, and Human Rights" at MLA 2025 in the forum TC Law and the Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/law-and-the-humanities/forum/topic/session-on-war-literature-and-human-rights-at-mla-2025/ Sat, 04 Jan 2025 11:10:31 -0500 All are welcome to join our session on “War, Literature, and Human Rights” at the 2025 MLA Annual Convention in New Orleans. The session is an initiative of research group “Literature, Law and Society” and was made possible with the financial support of the Netherlands Research School for Literary Studies:

703 – War, Literature, and Human Righ…[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 4515dc920cf617adf371012c7fe044ce Simon Stern started the topic 2024 LAW AND HUMANITIES WORKSHOP FOR JUNIOR SCHOLARS in the discussion TC Law and the Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/law-and-the-humanities/forum/topic/2024-law-and-humanities-workshop-for-junior-scholars/ Thu, 19 Oct 2023 17:25:02 -0400 2024 LAW AND HUMANITIES WORKSHOP FOR JUNIOR SCHOLARS Call for Participation

Georgetown University Law Center, Stanford Law School, UCLA School of Law, the University of Pennsylvania, and the University of Southern California Center for Law, History, and Culture invite submissions for the 23d meeting of the Law and Humanities Workshop for Junior…[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 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.

]]> 0 7c6f0ae10a299cf57c19c7949b50a5df Evan Chaloupka deposited Prosthetic Narration and the Engagement of Disability in Literary Naturalism in the group 2022 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1826176/ Tue, 13 Dec 2022 03:48:45 -0500 This talk introduces the concept of “prosthetic narration,” a narrative technique that mediates the engagement of disabled cognition such that the reader is invited to reimagine how one thinks and perceives. In his essay, “The Novel,” Émile Zola establishes the “intimate union” between the author and “the reality of the scene” as a premise of fic…[Read more]

]]> 0 d0b1dd1b400f14fe0a9d84383df37b07 Ari Borrell deposited Ko-wu or Kung-an? Practive, Realization and Teaching in the Thought of Chang Chiu-cheng in the group 2022 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1788300/ Fri, 22 Jul 2022 03:48:44 -0400 Examines the intersection between Chan Buddhism and Neo-Confucianism during the Southern Song dynasty period (1126-1279) in China.

]]> 0 702154a98ed320eb36896595010446d2 Ted Laros started the topic CFP for MLA 2023: World Literature from the Global South and Human Rights in the discussion TC Law and the Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/law-and-the-humanities/forum/topic/cfp-for-mla-2023-world-literature-from-the-global-south-and-human-rights/ Thu, 20 Jan 2022 08:51:26 -0500 World Literature from the Global South and Human Rights
In light of recent studies on the topic (e.g. Parikh 2019, McClennen and Moore 2016), this panel explores the relations between world literature from the Global South and human rights. 250-500 word abstracts plus CV.

Deadline for submissions: Friday, 4 March 2022

Ted Laros, Open Univ of the…[Read more]

]]> 0 5e3c30f1ca19d938e994188a86a1734f Jodi Berry deposited Multilingual Identities and Service Learning Experiences in the group 2022 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1768475/ Thu, 20 Jan 2022 03:48:43 -0500 What started as a theoretical analysis of multilingual international high school students teaching at a local learning center for refugees in Jakarta became a closer look at how translanguaging appears within and around these community exchanges. More specifically, through first-person accounts, this paper highlights dialogue as a suitable…[Read more]

]]> 0 99079ca54cfb24eda76325cf6f72d8aa Lisa Zunshine started the topic Thank you for terrific attendance! in the discussion 2022 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/2022-mla-convention/forum/topic/thank-you-for-terrific-attendance/ Sun, 09 Jan 2022 09:14:19 -0500 Thank you to everyone who came to our “Sadness” panel yesterday, featuring papers by Haiyan Lee, Anna Shields, Lisa Zunshine, and Ya Zuo! It was extremely well attended and featured a wonderful discussion. Kudos to our chair Benjamin Ridgway for bringing together “cognitive” and historicist perspective of emotion, drawing on Chinese literature.

]]> 0 9575fe2266194edee1ea88417e9c0137 Lisa Zunshine started the topic Session # 645, "Life Writing and Cognition" (Sunday) in the discussion 2022 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/2022-mla-convention/forum/topic/session-645-life-writing-and-cognition-sunday/ Sun, 09 Jan 2022 08:39:06 -0500 Please join us for “Life-Writing and Cognition” (session # 645, Sunday), which will feature papers by Laura Otis, Ralph James Savarese, Ellen Spolsky, and Lisa Zunshine.

]]> 0 87f09402ac3739dbdf38907e3416dbb8 Shazia Rahman posted an update in the group 2022 MLA Convention: Join us at MLA 2022 tomorrow at 1:45 pm for Ecofeminist […] https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1765465/ Sat, 08 Jan 2022 16:25:31 -0500 Join us at MLA 2022 tomorrow at 1:45 pm for Ecofeminist Imaginings https://mla.confex.com/mla/2022/meetingapp.cgi/Session/12655

]]> 0 aba786f0b97a5c960baea7da15972227 Rielle Navitski started the topic MS Screen Arts and Culture Virtual Panels and Postponement in the discussion 2022 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/2022-mla-convention/forum/topic/ms-screen-arts-and-culture-virtual-panels-and-postponement/ Tue, 04 Jan 2022 19:49:05 -0500 As the 2022 convention approaches, a quick update on the Screen Arts and Culture Forum sessions.

 

The following sessions will now be held virtually:

Viral Media – Thursday, January 6, 3:30 – 4:45 pm

Presider: Rielle Navitski

A Very Smart Bug: Viral Intelligence and Contagion Theory Bishnupriya Ghosh, U of California, Santa…[Read more]

]]> 0 600f64e8c4215443fc6c77b1e6f3025c Anne Donlon started the topic Sharing convention materials on the Commons in the discussion 2022 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/2022-mla-convention/forum/topic/sharing-convention-materials-on-the-commons/ Tue, 04 Jan 2022 16:48:25 -0500 Hello, all,

If you’re looking for more information about how to share your convention materials, this post has details about how to share work in CORE or in Docs. CORE assigns your work a DOI and gives you the option to share the deposit with groups. Work in CORE is publicly accessible–no log-in necessary to read or download. If you want to…[Read more]

]]> 0 0f7a62a5d33f1e3b9d09521dc22e8f60 Ted Laros replied to the topic Session on World Literature and Human Rights at the 2022 MLA Annual Convention in the discussion TC Law and the Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/law-and-the-humanities/forum/topic/session-on-world-literature-and-human-rights-at-the-2022-mla-annual-convention/#post-1029164 Mon, 03 Jan 2022 19:49:27 -0500 Please see below for a description of the session on “World Literature and Human Rights”:

Session Description:

What is the relation between ‘world literature’ and ‘human rights’? Both notions imply a universalizing gesture, by relying on transcultural aesthetic or literary categories (world literature) or shared moral values (human rights)…[Read more]

]]> 0 3d2d1eaebd9f88331b1f469f9af90d28 Christine Holbo replied to the topic Panel at MLA 2022: Representing Race in Law and Literature in the discussion TC Law and the Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/law-and-the-humanities/forum/topic/panel-at-mla-2022-representing-race-in-law-and-literature/?view=all#post-1029150 Sun, 02 Jan 2022 19:28:22 -0500 Attached are the abstracts for the Representing Race in Law and Literature panel…

284AV Representing Race in Law and Literature

Virtual Session at MLA 2022, 12 pm on January 7

Representing Race in Law and Literature

In recent decades, scholarship across diverse fields has converged on the question of how legal and literary forms conspire to pr…[Read more]

]]> 0 9c431340eb8eb495e2dc97da2484740a Rosi Song started the topic UPDATE: LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian Studies Online Panels in the discussion 2022 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/2022-mla-convention/forum/topic/update-llc-20th-and-21st-century-spanish-and-iberian-studies-online-panels/ Sun, 02 Jan 2022 19:25:48 -0500 Due to the surge in coronavirus cases and members changing travel plans, the executive committee of the LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Spanish and Iberian Studies has moved the following panels online.

Please join us by attending the virtual panels listed below. We look forward to listening to our panelists and engaging in a lively discussion…[Read more]

]]> 0 f71284ab31304800cf5cf3cb1dd08a36 Julie Grossman started the topic MLA Adaptation Forum Sessions in the discussion 2022 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/2022-mla-convention/forum/topic/mla-adaptation-forum-sessions/ Sat, 01 Jan 2022 19:49:12 -0500 The MLA Adaptation Studies Forum is pleased to announce three online panels, the final one co-sponsored with the Translation Studies Forum.  We were sorry to have to cancel the Adaptation/Translation Studies Cash Bar but hope to see you this coming week virtually at the events below (links provided for information on…[Read more]

]]> 0 a644daa0c097824b9d50d9350ac670b0 Elena Machado Sáez started the topic Update re: US Latinx Studies @ 2022 MLA Convention in the discussion 2022 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/2022-mla-convention/forum/topic/update-re-us-latinx-studies-2022-mla-convention/ Thu, 30 Dec 2021 19:20:22 -0500 Due to the surge in coronavirus cases, the executive committee of the LLC Latina/Latino Forum has cancelled the cash bar reception and moved all of our panels online.

We’re still looking forward to vibrant conversations about US Latinx Studies at the 2022 MLA convention, so please join us by attending the virtual panels listed b…[Read more]

]]> 0 bdf9010d4795a9d0a418c44e73a47919 Christine Holbo started the topic Panel at MLA 2022: Representing Race in Law and Literature in the discussion TC Law and the Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/law-and-the-humanities/forum/topic/panel-at-mla-2022-representing-race-in-law-and-literature/ Thu, 23 Dec 2021 18:19:00 -0500 Please join us at MLA 2022 for the following session sponsored by the Law and the Humanities Forum:  

284AV Representing Race in Law and Literature

Virtual Session

Presiding:

Christine Holbo, Arizona State U, Tempe

Simon Stern, U of Toronto (Zoom Host)

Presentations

Judge Lynch Writes Political Theology: Race and the Law in The Qua…[Read more]

]]> 0 ec85671a89913be02c2c55fbcf613285 MLA Commons created the group 2022 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1756376/ Fri, 22 Oct 2021 16:59:47 -0400 0 f6fe935c7037b3eec4afac609ec19a28 Ted Laros deposited Literature and the Law in South Africa, 1910–2010: The Long Walk to Artistic Freedom in the group TC Law and the Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1752238/ Sat, 18 Sep 2021 02:23:56 -0400 In 1994, artistic freedom pertaining inter alia to literature was enshrined in the South African Constitution. Clearly, the establishment of this right was long overdue compared to other nations within the Commonwealth. Indeed, the legal framework and practices regarding the regulation of literature that were introduced following the nation’s t…[Read more]

]]> 0 e57943a2fc573687331bb3a7de473ade Ted Laros deposited Literature and the Law in South Africa, 1910–2010: The Long Walk to Artistic Freedom in the group Literature and Law https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1752236/ Sat, 18 Sep 2021 02:23:38 -0400 In 1994, artistic freedom pertaining inter alia to literature was enshrined in the South African Constitution. Clearly, the establishment of this right was long overdue compared to other nations within the Commonwealth. Indeed, the legal framework and practices regarding the regulation of literature that were introduced following the nation’s t…[Read more]

]]> 0 9176b792f95a13c1671be4634dccca20 Ted Laros started the topic Session on World Literature and Human Rights at the 2022 MLA Annual Convention in the discussion TC Law and the Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/law-and-the-humanities/forum/topic/session-on-world-literature-and-human-rights-at-the-2022-mla-annual-convention/ Fri, 17 Sep 2021 09:07:43 -0400 All are welcome to join our session on world literature and human rights at the 2022 MLA Annual Convention in Washington, DC:

Session 15 – World Literature and Human Rights

Thursday, 6 January 2022 6:00 PM – 7:15 PM, Marquis 16 (Marriott Marquis)

For related material, visit http://www.oslit.nl/literature-law-and-society/

Presider

Ted Laros, Open U…[Read more]

]]> 0 a4cf40a79fbb694afc41e40c80a50b82 Melissa J. Ganz started the topic Fwd: Announcement of the Zipporah B. Wiseman Prize for Scholarship on Law, Literature and Justice (deadline: June 15, 2021) in the discussion TC Law and the Humanities via email https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/law-and-the-humanities/forum/topic/fwd-announcement-of-the-zipporah-b-wiseman-prize-for-scholarship-on-law-literature-and-justice-deadline-june-15-2021/ Wed, 21 Apr 2021 02:56:45 -0400 Dear all,

Please see below for information about a new prize for scholarship on law and literature by graduate students, professional school students, and recent graduates.

Best wishes,
Melissa Ganz

Begin forwarded message:

From: “Heinzelman, Susan S” <sheinz@austin.utexas.edu<mailto:sheinz@austin.utexas.edu>>
Subject: Announcement of the…[Read more]

]]> 0 9a61b6bab8415654663f5136d21c1801 Christopher Warren deposited Damaged Type and Areopagitica's Clandestine Printers in the group TC Law and the Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1706766/ Sat, 29 Aug 2020 02:29:41 -0400 Milton’s Areopagitica (1644) is one of the most significant texts in the history of the freedom of the press, and yet the pamphlet’s clandestine printers have successfully eluded identification for over 375 years. By examining distinctive and dam-aged type pieces from 100 pamphlets from the 1640s, this article att…[Read more]

]]> 0 84ecdda02b5403874bfaa5f330008449 Daniel Williams deposited Accident in the group TC Law and the Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1692393/ Fri, 19 Jun 2020 16:33:45 -0400 ​This chapter explores some legal and literary ramifications of “accident” in British law and society from the late eighteenth through the early twentieth century. This period saw changes in common law and legislation relating to accidents, including the emergence of negligence as a distinct tort and statutory provisions for employer liabi…[Read more]

]]> 0 6ceb8eec5f1994b5a568bc5e971b24c7 Melissa J. Ganz started the topic Joint Legal Studies/American Studies Assistant Professor of Instruction in the discussion TC Law and the Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/law-and-the-humanities/forum/topic/joint-legal-studies-american-studies-assistant-professor-of-instruction/ Fri, 20 Mar 2020 21:24:28 -0400 Northwestern University is hiring an Assistant Professor of Instruction to be appointed jointly in the Legal Studies program and the American Studies program. This is a full-time, benefits eligible position with a path to promotion. The initial contract is for two years.

The Assistant Professor of Instruction will offer six courses per year…[Read more]

]]> 0 8dc44f866ccbb889d0e495f6855e90a6 Melissa J. Ganz started the topic CFP: Law and the Humanities Forum panels at MLA 2021 in the discussion TC Law and the Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/law-and-the-humanities/forum/topic/cfp-law-and-the-humanities-forum-panels-at-mla-2021/ Tue, 25 Feb 2020 04:10:15 -0500 Dear all,

Please see below for three panels sponsored by the Law and the Humanities Forum at MLA 2021. If you have any questions, please let us know.

Best wishes,

Melissa Ganz

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Modern Language Association (MLA) Annual Convention

Toronto, January 7-10, 2021

1.  Law at the Border  (Guaranteed Session)

Papers on how law is m…[Read more]

]]> 0 dc67fe2982f2b863630cb302dcd07a64 Melissa J. Ganz started the topic Law and the Humanities Forum panels at MLA 2020 in the discussion TC Law and the Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/law-and-the-humanities/forum/topic/law-and-the-humanities-forum-panels-at-mla-2020/ Fri, 27 Dec 2019 20:55:56 -0500 Please join us at MLA 2020 for the following sessions sponsored by the Law and the Humanities Forum:  

Session 189:  What’s Next for Law and the Humanities?

Thursday, January 9,  7:00-8:15 p.m.

WSCC – Skagit 3

Presiding:  Kathryn D. Temple, Georgetown U

1. “The Constitution as the Aesthetic Representation of the People,” David Tse-chien Pa…[Read more]

]]> 0 e5aeda1fb7b6dab511e92a5897790c09 Melissa J. Ganz started the topic CFP: 2020 Law and Humanities Junior Scholars Workshop (deadline: Dec. 2, 2019) in the discussion TC Law and the Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/law-and-the-humanities/forum/topic/cfp-2020-law-and-humanities-junior-scholars-workshop-deadline-dec-2-2019/ Sun, 29 Sep 2019 21:24:58 -0400

2020 LAW AND HUMANITIES JUNIOR SCHOLARS WORKSHOP

Call for Papers

Columbia Law School, Georgetown University Law School, Stanford Law School, UCLA School of Law, the University of Pennsylvania, and the University of Southern California Center for Law, History, and Culture invite submissions for the nineteenth meeting of the Law and Humanities J…

[Read more]

]]> 0 7ad6e334df94ce290871de27bc06ab1a Penelope Geng deposited Jurisprudence by Aphorisms: Francis Bacon and the “Uses” of Small Forms in the group TC Law and the Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1633816/ Sat, 02 Mar 2019 03:58:36 -0500 The belief that Francis Bacon was, from the start, a stalwart defender of royal absolutism has prevailed in scholarship despite occasional comments about Bacon’s pluralist or collaborative legal and political imagination. Building on recent revisionist work, this article questions the standard historiography. It argues that Bacon’s jur…[Read more]

]]> 0 9d6d97f32ec5aeaad8bb5b82d7d06fab Melissa J. Ganz started the topic CFP: "Law, Literature, and Human Rights" (MLA 2020) in the discussion TC Law and the Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/law-and-the-humanities/forum/topic/cfp-law-literature-and-human-rights-mla-2020/ Sat, 23 Feb 2019 03:21:46 -0500 Dear all,

Please see the CFP below for the Law and the Humanities Forum’s guaranteed session at MLA 2020. If you have any questions, please let us know.

Best wishes,
Melissa Ganz and Christine Holbo

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Modern Language Association (MLA) Annual Convention
Seattle, January 9-12, 2020

Law, Literature, and Human Rights

Papers examining…[Read more]

]]> 0 46ffc8f29a87caee670fd85d005b633f Jesús R. Velasco deposited The Invention of Invention in the group TC Law and the Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1631749/ Tue, 12 Feb 2019 03:52:22 -0500 Alfonso de Toledo (15th century) was, indeed, a curious guy. But he was doing something with his curiosity. He was researching and translating. He was focusing on particular themes and institutions, and giving a legal and juridical reading of them –he, as he confesses, has very little theology to forget, so even theological inventions are, for h…[Read more]

]]> 0 0281c533427a0d82c44177a3540aee78 Christopher Warren deposited Hugo Grotius and the Century of Revolution, 1613-1718: Transnational Reception in English Political Thought in the group TC Law and the Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1630033/ Wed, 23 Jan 2019 03:53:15 -0500 Review for The Seventeenth Century of Oona A. Hathaway and Scott J. Shapiro, _The Internationalists: How a Radical Plan to Outlaw War Changed the World_ and Marco Barducci, _Hugo Grotius and the Century of Revolution, 1613-1718_

]]> 0 87d9d107aca4955305622b1706303ac7 Jesús R. Velasco deposited Spatial Affinities: Poetry and Law in the group TC Law and the Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1619259/ Wed, 26 Sep 2018 03:53:33 -0400 The spatial affinity between poetry and the law is an interesting theoretical fiction to understand how the construction of the legal discipline is a process to turn all possible spatial affinities into spatial subalternities, into spatial submissions. One could say that legal spaces, the legal production of spaces, is a way to summon up different…[Read more]

]]> 0 bd9af9f1d2b5f104c7626ce3e27193ad Melissa J. Ganz started the topic CFP: 2019 Law and Humanities Junior Scholars Workshop (deadline: Dec. 1, 2018) in the discussion Law as Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/law-and-the-humanities/forum/topic/cfp-2019-law-and-humanities-junior-scholars-workshop-deadline-dec-1-2018/ Fri, 21 Sep 2018 18:18:04 -0400 2019 LAW AND HUMANITIES JUNIOR SCHOLARS WORKSHOP

Call for Papers

Columbia Law School, Georgetown University Law School, Stanford Law School, UCLA School of Law, the University of Pennsylvania, and the University of Southern California Center for Law, History, and Culture invite submissions for the thirteenth meeting of the Law and Humanities J…[Read more]

]]> 0 11de8853e3388d23c5b8a8567cdedbf8 Penelope Geng deposited Before the Right to Remain Silent: The Examinations of Anne Askew and Elizabeth Young in the group TC Law and the Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1614794/ Wed, 08 Aug 2018 03:51:42 -0400 In recent years, Anne Askew has attained something of celebrity status among scholars of Tudor women’s writing and, more generally, of Tudor Reformation history. In the course of privileging Askew’s examinations above those of other female defendants (such as Elizabeth Young), scholars sometimes equate Askew’s rhetorical expertise with legal exper…[Read more]

]]> 0 7077a027eeb689331938ec09983c786a Stephen Clingman deposited Fugitive/Narrative: Some Starting Points in the group TC Law and the Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1611287/ Wed, 20 Jun 2018 04:33:30 -0400 What are the topologies of fugitive/narrative, whether as a matter of experience, theory or fiction? This essay follows a number of trajectories in addressing the question. In part the exploration is prompted by the refugee crisis in many places around the world, yet the issue of the “fugitive” is not exactly identical with that. Moreover, the…[Read more]

]]> 0 d630ec9879a614ceb4179d7ac29b7f39 Christopher Warren deposited History, Literature, and Authority in International Law in the group TC Law and the Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1609220/ Sat, 26 May 2018 03:48:43 -0400 One consequence of international law’s recent historical turn has been to sharpen methodological contrasts between intellectual history and international law. Scholars including Antony Anghie, Anne Orford, Rose Parfitt, and Martti Koskenniemi have taken on board historians’ interest in contingency and context but pointedly relaxed his…[Read more]

]]> 0 0b60effcf6f7f7d5a66fec37408260b5 Penelope Geng deposited “He Only Talks”: Arruntius and the Formation of Interpretive Communities in Ben Jonson's Sejanus in the group TC Law and the Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1597951/ Sat, 20 Jan 2018 04:19:50 -0500 In this essay I argue that the portrait of Arruntius as a passive Stoic is injudicious, and then I develop a new reading of Jonson’s depiction of Arruntius based on the textual evidence from both the quarto and folio editions of the play. The essay proceeds in three sections. In the first section, I question the commonly held view regarding A…[Read more]

]]> 0 0b6fc98bb2db7e6d9f0e2029ec3004e1 Penelope Geng deposited On Judges and the Art of Judicature: Shakespeare’s Henry IV, Part 2 in the group TC Law and the Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1597788/ Fri, 19 Jan 2018 04:34:07 -0500 In the late sixteenth century, the common law experienced a phenomenal growth, both in the number of practitioners and jurisdictional power. A comparison of popular and professional literature on legal administration or judicature reveals the complex and ambivalent cultural response to the “rise” of the common law. Despite the usual praise for the…[Read more]

]]> 0 042a2ead823999a659dc640960ca1969 Nicholas Rinehart deposited "On Élie and Eric" in the group TC Law and the Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1593435/ Sun, 24 Dec 2017 05:47:11 -0500 A contribution to Transition’s “I Can’t Breathe” forum, an online space for responses to the murders of unarmed black Americans by police. My piece, which was chosen for publication in the print edition of the magazine, reflected upon the similarities between the death of Eric Garner in New York City and the death of an enslaved sugar refiner nam…[Read more]

]]> 0 efc6868e0b257913973662de57fa1b40 Melissa J. Ganz started the topic Law and the Humanities Forum panels at MLA 2018 in the discussion Law as Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/law-and-the-humanities/forum/topic/law-and-the-humanities-forum-panels-at-mla-2018/ Tue, 19 Dec 2017 20:41:45 -0500 Please join us at MLA 2018 for the following sessions sponsored by the Law and the Humanities Forum:

Session 221:  Law, Literature and Emotion

Friday, January 5, 2018, 8:30-9:45 a.m.

Hilton, Concourse A

Description:  Panelists consider the relation between law and emotion as seen in seventeenth-century English tragedy, antebellum American p…[Read more]

]]> 0 5124418e5fe04333c68aaeaa11bc4cb4 Jonathan Senchyne deposited Libraries and Publisher Price Control: The Net Price System (1901–1914) and Contemporary E-book Pricing in the group TC Law and the Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1591615/ Thu, 07 Dec 2017 05:54:25 -0500 This article explores how librarians have responded to publishers’ control
over book prices in two different, yet related, historical periods. It historicizes the net price
system, a book-price control system in the early twentieth century, within debates by librarians
about library book buying and price negotiation practices. Turning to s…[Read more]

]]> 0 e3d6d8968811ec93e5b9191d3a75fb7b Alex Feldman posted an update in the group TC Law and the Humanities: Executive Committee Candidacy Dear all, I am writing to […] https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1584886/ Wed, 18 Oct 2017 10:27:26 -0400 Executive Committee Candidacy

Dear all,
I am writing to introduce myself as a candidate/ nominee for the upcoming Executive Committee elections. I am a Lecturer and Fellow (Asst. Prof.) in the English Department at the University of Haifa, specialising in Modern British, American and European drama, with a particular focus on the representation…[Read more]

]]> 0 82fb8c0d2130436f77f9a1a5fd9f2b1e Melissa J. Ganz started the topic CFP: 2018 Law and Humanities Junior Scholar Workshop in the discussion Law as Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/law-and-the-humanities/forum/topic/cfp-2018-law-and-humanities-junior-scholars-workshop/ Tue, 10 Oct 2017 02:17:27 -0400 CALL FOR PAPERS – 2018 Law & Humanities Junior Scholar Workshop

Columbia Law School, the University of Southern California Center for Law, History & Culture, UCLA School of Law, Georgetown University Law School, Stanford Law School, and the University of Pennsylvania invite submissions for the annual meeting of the Law & Humanities Junior S…[Read more]

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