Knowledge Commons | Caroline Edwards | Group Activity https://hcommons.org/members/cai247/activity/groups/ Public group activity feed of which Caroline Edwards is a member. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 13:22:01 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 2b3d0dcffea9e20c766f2f1a1e69dae1 MelissaBarchi Panek replied to the topic CFP: MLA 2027 (Los Angeles) — Mediated Futures: Technology and Transformation in the forum CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century/forum/topic/cfp-mla-2027-los-angeles-mediated-futures-technology-and-transformation/#post-1040868 Tue, 17 Feb 2026 02:15:00 -0500 Call for Papers

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

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

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

]]> 6b9b290a5f87ad05f29a647500f27fae Matthew Kidd started the topic Participate in a survey on generative AI and archival research practices in the forum Environmental Humanities https://hcommons.org/groups/environmental-humanities/forum/topic/participate-in-a-survey-on-generative-ai-and-archival-research-practices-8/ Fri, 13 Feb 2026 11:18:45 -0500 Dear all,

We would like to invite you to take part in an anonymous online survey exploring how the growing use of generative AI tools (including ChatGPT) is reshaping user practices and expectations in relation to searching, discovering, and interpreting digitised and born-digital archival records.

The survey forms part of a research project…[Read more]

]]> 24fdbbde7050e5bfe82b75a714f2df3f Matthew Kidd started the topic Participate in a survey on generative AI and archival research practices in the forum Cultural Studies https://hcommons.org/groups/cultural-studies/forum/topic/participate-in-a-survey-on-generative-ai-and-archival-research-practices-2/ Fri, 13 Feb 2026 11:15:11 -0500 Dear all,

We would like to invite you to take part in an anonymous online survey exploring how the growing use of generative AI tools (including ChatGPT) is reshaping user practices and expectations in relation to searching, discovering, and interpreting digitised and born-digital archival records.

The survey forms part of a research project…[Read more]

]]> 8f677f5f43a64e6d9c920bbeb430e7e3 José Angel GARCÍA LANDA replied to the topic Evolutionary thought in the forum Environmental Humanities https://hcommons.org/groups/environmental-humanities/forum/topic/evolutionary-thought/#post-98478 Fri, 30 Jan 2026 23:18:01 -0500 Bibliography on COMPLEXITY: https://bibliojagl.blogspot.com/2026/01/complejidad.html

]]> 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]

]]> 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]

]]> 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.

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

]]> 395354d416b02d659e93ac5676d3fc73 Gregory F. Tague posted an update in the group Environmental Humanities: Climate stability is a matter of forests. Opinion essay in […] https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1930737/ Fri, 10 Oct 2025 13:28:34 -0400 Climate stability is a matter of forests. Opinion essay in The Ecologist (UK). https://theecologist.org/2025/oct/10/sovereign-forests

]]> 0 66003655a945bc3f81893a035fa3bed2 Barbara Franchi replied to the topic CFP; The Blue Humanities in the forum Environmental Humanities https://hcommons.org/groups/environmental-humanities/forum/topic/cfp-the-blue-humanities/#post-94102 Fri, 03 Oct 2025 16:40:14 -0400 This looks fantastic, I have saved and shared it.

]]> 1862c1362e2b97e0067eeec141f347d2 Serpil Oppermann started the topic CFP; The Blue Humanities in the forum Environmental Humanities https://hcommons.org/groups/environmental-humanities/forum/topic/cfp-the-blue-humanities/ Sun, 28 Sep 2025 15:00:34 -0400 <p class="p1"><b>Call for Papers: 4th International Environmental Humanities Conference — “The Blue Humanities”</b></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">We are pleased to announce the </span><b>4th International Environmental Humanities Conference</b><span class="s1">, to be held </span><b>20–23 May 2026</b><span class="s1">at </sp…[Read more]

]]> 5d9bc3988896844c50ad272a694c5766 José Angel GARCÍA LANDA started the topic Economy & Organization in the forum Environmental Humanities https://hcommons.org/groups/environmental-humanities/forum/topic/economy-organization/ Fri, 26 Sep 2025 08:52:09 -0400 Bibliography on AGRICULTURE: https://bibliojagl.blogspot.com/2025/09/agricultura.html

]]> 9a0828f599954a53e60ae5243aa1fa2b Linda Badley uploaded the file: REMINDER: Abstracts due 9/15: Future Library: Critical Approaches to an Unseen Archive to TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1926260/ Thu, 04 Sep 2025 16:51:26 -0400 Abstracts (300-400 words) and a short bio are due September 15th, first drafts March 30, 2026, and final drafts October 31, 2026. When needed, deadlines can be extended. Please send abstracts to Linda Badley (lbadley@comcast.net), Jenna Coughlin (coughl3@stolaf.edu), and Gitte Mose (gitte.mose@iln.uio.no). For more information, see below:

]]> 0 23a929a12fceb97d5d6d57330719bedc Gregory F. Tague posted an update in the group Environmental Humanities: I'm pleased to announce the publication of my new book, […] https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1924444/ Sat, 02 Aug 2025 14:48:25 -0400 I'm pleased to announce the publication of my new book, Forest Sovereignty: Wildlife Sustainability and Ethics (Oxford: Peter Lang). Please ask your library to order a copy. https://sites.google.com/site/gftague/forest-sovereignty/

]]> 0 b094bfbbe1c1842a331b2fdbe494942d Linda Badley started the topic CFP: Future Library: Critical Approaches to an Unseen Archive in the forum TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/ecocriticism-and-environmental-humanities/forum/topic/cfp-future-library-critical-approaches-to-an-unseen-archive/ Sun, 11 May 2025 18:35:21 -0400 Jenna Coughlin, Gitte Mose, and I are excited to be co-editing a collection of essays about Future Library. Please consider submitting a proposal and share the attached call with colleagues who may be interested in contributing.

]]> 3775ad37e61875e596f47707206149a5 Gregory F. Tague posted an update in the group Environmental Humanities: Darwin and the Art of Botany. Read my review on Leonardo, […] https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1917606/ Sat, 03 May 2025 16:26:27 -0400 Darwin and the Art of Botany. Read my review on Leonardo, here: https://leonardo.info/review/2025/05/darwin-and-the-art-of-botany-observations-on-the-curious-world-of-plants

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

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

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

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

]]> 66e44e5c2900995ffe9f23d7db788106 Shashi Bhusan Nayak started the topic Call for Chapters – Scripting Selves: New Directions in Life Writing in the forum TM Literary and Cultural Theory https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/literary-and-cultural-theory/forum/topic/call-for-chapters-scripting-selves-new-directions-in-life-writing-5/ Tue, 04 Mar 2025 19:32:13 -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]

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

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

]]> fb5121409a94c786efb5f6263fa29330 Alexis karpouzos created the doc Friedrich Hölderlin : The wisdom of Poetry - Alexis karpouzos in the group Cultural Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1911764/ Sun, 16 Feb 2025 12:41:02 -0500 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]

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

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

Session 413: Navigating the Academy: A Mentoring Session

 

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

]]> 36dfc5594fb1959173f0f39f2a6edd1a Gregory F. Tague posted an update in the group Environmental Humanities: Humanity's language and nature, an opinion essay. […] https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1908094/ Mon, 06 Jan 2025 21:28:54 -0500 Humanity's language and nature, an opinion essay. https://www.asebl.net/2025/01/humanitys-language-meditation-on-nature.html

]]> 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]

]]> 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 a7b28c1b0645090d367c2e00f08bd871 Ansgar Allen deposited Homo Catastrophicus: The Revolt Against Civilisation in the group Cultural Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1902477/ Thu, 24 Oct 2024 03:00:05 -0400 In Homo Catastrophicus Louis Armand explores the agonism of an emergent Algorithmic State Apparatus. Its genealogy traverses the constellation of aesthetic & political avant-gardes of the long 20th century & the terminal shock of posthumanism. Technology has always posed a challenge to notions of human subjectivity. Yet this challenge cannot be…[Read more]

]]> 0 17f848c8029ff3e1609c0419734a5741 Valeria Graziano deposited Training for Exploitation?: Politicising Employability and Reclaiming Education in the group Cultural Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1902278/ Tue, 22 Oct 2024 03:00:29 -0400 Foreword by Silvia Federici. 'Training for Exploitation' provides a pedagogical framework to deconstruct dominant narratives around work, employability and careers, and explores alternative ways of engaging with work and the economy. Training for Exploitation? includes tools for critically examining the relationship between education, work and…[Read more]

]]> 0 c70891c468fd2448aef87fb1aead9a83 Valeria Graziano deposited Refractions, borderlines and unbureaucratic politics in the group Cultural Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1902277/ Tue, 22 Oct 2024 03:00:13 -0400 Valeria Graziano in conversation with Tihana Pupovać

]]> 0 9269454af2ec80fd797429a1d9517390 Valeria Graziano deposited The Rabble’s Lifecraft: Institutional Tinkering and Popular Illegalisms in the group Cultural Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1902089/ 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 25b1d2f448d349ad998899fc46038c90 Valeria Graziano deposited We in the plural. Performance gestures of antifascism in the group Cultural Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1902082/ Sat, 19 Oct 2024 03:00:01 -0400 We in the plural. Performance gestures of antifascism

]]> 0 c1a72ef9b1b380d234d1b17765120f4d Thomas Oliver Beebee started the topic CFP for "Reading Cultures," a special issue of the journal Culture as Text in the forum TM Literary and Cultural Theory https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/literary-and-cultural-theory/forum/topic/cfp-for-reading-cultures-a-special-issue-of-the-journal-culture-as-text-2/ Fri, 18 Oct 2024 11:34:40 -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]

]]> 2f6b77585a057f0d9dcec58180d32a54 Derek Johnston deposited Black Sails: Historicising the Intersecting Traumas of Imperialist Capitalism through the Gothic Mode in the group Cultural Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1901426/ Sat, 12 Oct 2024 03:01:41 -0400 Black Sails (2014-2017) presented a prequel to Treasure Island mixed with real historical characters and events in a story of resistance against imperialist capitalism. The pirates were cast as rebels against a dominant system in which wealth is directed to those in charge, while those who work for it are left with little. The series dramatises…[Read more]

]]> 0 3fa198ca863a7f488eace7440ab80d36 Pragya Ranjan deposited Morality in Premchand’s Kafan: For Dalits or Anti-Dalit ? in the group Cultural Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1901227/ Thu, 10 Oct 2024 03:00:29 -0400 It is an article on Premchand's most controversial short story, Kafan. This article attempts to describe how the story gives an alternative voice to the downtrodden and how the characters define a morality of their own, which is outside the purview of the Brahmanical framework. In an extremely hierarchical religious structure as in Hinduism, this…[Read more]

]]> 0 90eafdabb5a6fe607ae0ea405c74f168 Anne Pasek deposited DIY Methods 2024 in the group Environmental Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1901183/ Wed, 09 Oct 2024 03:03:32 -0400 As the past years have proven, the methods for conducting and distributing research that we’ve inherited from our disciplinary traditions can be remarkably brittle in the face of rapidly changing social and mobility norms. The ways we work and the ways we meet are questions newly opened for practical and theoretical inquiry; we both need to s…[Read more]

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

Priority Deadline 1 November 2024

Antipodes invites articles for a special feature section in Antipodes, journal of the American Association for Australasian Studies (AAALS) that considers a literary or cultural work (including fil…[Read more]

]]> cc743f581b90abde6bda4e1aa69e132d Pramod Ranjan deposited बहुजन साहित्य की सैद्धांतिकी [Bahujan Sahitya Ki Saiddhantikī] in the group Cultural Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1900451/ Wed, 02 Oct 2024 03:00:02 -0400 प्रमोद रंजन द्वारा संपादित “बहुजन साहित्य की सैद्धांतिकी” बहुजन साहित्य की अवधारणा का सैद्धांतिकरण करती है। यह पुस्तक बहुजन साहित्य के विभिन्न पहलुओं को गहराई से समझने और उनके सैद्धांतिक आधार को प्रस्तुत करने का प्रयास करती है।

बहुजन साहित्य की अवधारणा कई स्तरों पर विचरोत्तेजक है। सही मायने में यह प्रगतिशील, जनवादी और दलित साहि…[Read more]

]]> 0 7583e36ca6b4738ea6c1e1f207c81ec5 Isabelle Hesse started the topic CFP ACLA Seminar Literature, Resource Extraction, and Settler Colonialism in the forum TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/ecocriticism-and-environmental-humanities/forum/topic/cfp-acla-seminar-literature-resource-extraction-and-settler-colonialism-2/ Mon, 16 Sep 2024 06:39:48 -0400 We are seeking papers for our ACLA seminar on Literature, Resource Extraction and Settler Colonialism for the 2025 ACLA conference (held online).

We invite papers that consider literary responses to various forms of resource extraction within settler colonial states. Extraction was and remains central to settler colonial projects around the…[Read more]

]]> 16b3f5a725f8dbf304ab6f6376741460 Manfred Engel deposited Making - or Not Making - Sense of Dreams / Trouver - ou non - un sens au rêve. Ed. by Bernard Dieterle, Manfred Engel and Laura Vordermayer. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann 2024 (Cultural Dream Studies; 9) — Contents and Preface in the group Cultural Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1898531/ Thu, 12 Sep 2024 03:00:53 -0400 Dreams frighten and attract us because of their ›otherness‹, their manifold deviations from the world we know when we are awake. One of the most consistently used techniques of coming to terms with this otherness has been the attempt to ›make sense‹ of dreams, to consider and portray them as messages which can and have to be deciphered. On the oth…[Read more]

]]> 0 665e37928cab2f649c6aaf0abf22b6bd Ana Dumitran deposited Ecclesia super omnia in the group Cultural Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1897870/ Wed, 04 Sep 2024 03:00:17 -0400 The volume includes some of the papers presented in the Museikon section of the Annual Scientific Conference organised in 2023 by the Alba Iulia National Museum of the Great Union (Romania). The studies cover topics such as: the pious behavior of women in the Transylvanian Middle Ages, the possession of slaves and gypsies by the Wallachian…[Read more]

]]> 0 8305a57a12c2740a76138252b93b63d9 Sonia D. Andras deposited Sonia D. Andras - Negotiations En Vogue: Interwar Romanian Women as Fashion Icons Represented in American Vogue (Conference Presentation, 2023, Audio Only) in the group Cultural Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1897550/ Fri, 30 Aug 2024 03:00:32 -0400 Presentation at the "Romanian American Negotiations in Education, Science, Culture, and Arts/Negocierile româno-americane în educație, știință, cultură și artă" Conference.
This paper explores Romanian women’s influence on US fashion, as representatives of European artistic, cultural and social elites and as genuine Parisiennes. This study trea…[Read more]

]]> 0 020521ac12371a6906767a68858af5b6 André Francisco Pilon deposited "The Party of the Dead": Join or Die, a Tale that Repeats Itself in the group Environmental Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1897478/ Thu, 29 Aug 2024 03:00:41 -0400 In this essay the author discusses the condition of man in today's world, overwhelmed by a huge political, economical and cultural machinery, which entangle people in surreptitious and shrewd ways, encompassing different aspects of the individual and collective project of life. Brutally affected by wars, disasters and scourges, mankind have only…[Read more]

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

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

Location: Durham Convention Center in beautiful Downtown Durham!

Dates: May 29-June 1, 2025

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

]]> fa6a0b84bcdc9f32881d08afdd7fc58c José Angel GARCÍA LANDA replied to the topic Pandemic literature in the forum Environmental Humanities https://hcommons.org/groups/environmental-humanities/forum/topic/pandemic-literature-2/#post-88819 Wed, 21 Aug 2024 12:54:50 -0400 El alarmismo pandémico de la Covid-19: Una bibliografía https://www.academia.edu/62127938/

]]> 12099403633f603c7ee656cc04085a0d Sonia D. Andras deposited Romanian-American Negotiations in Education, Science, Culture, and Arts in the group Cultural Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1896774/ Tue, 20 Aug 2024 03:00:09 -0400 As a political model for the young democracy in interwar Romania, as a protector against threats to the sovereignty and integrity of the state, as a cultural model, and as a daily life, America represented for Romania a reference point, a factor of stability and progress. America was a model and ally of the civilized world!
Unfortunately,…[Read more]

]]> 0 e2e76fe9ccd9c1b2dc020788e7849ed2 Seo-Young Chu deposited Describing DICTEE in the group Cultural Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1896115/ Tue, 13 Aug 2024 03:04:50 -0400 The visual images in Dictee are famously captionless. They resist straightforward explanation. In writing image descriptions of the images in Dictee, I have tried to preserve the "captionlessness" of the original. The point here is not to explain the pictures—an image description is not identical to a caption—but to make Dictee more accessible to…[Read more]

]]> 0 cf2fcb3b7ea1ede69b99059927cc0355 Ana Dumitran deposited The Icons of Alexander Ponekhalsky. Jertfa di la mine zugrău Alexa cel păcătos in the group Cultural Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1895890/ Sat, 10 Aug 2024 03:00:53 -0400 This editorial project capitalizes on a first sample of the religious art of Maramureș, carefully and meticulously inventoried by Alexandru Baboș alongside the study of the architecture of the wooden churches of Maramureș. Since they alone account for almost half of all preserved icons from Maramureș, Alexander Ponekhalskyi's icons have been sep…[Read more]

]]> 0 58b05dcd7b07b2e6c796be7cb435656f Timothy Cooper deposited ‘That Awful Night in October’: Sensory Experiences of Britain’s 1987 Hurricane in the group Environmental Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1894817/ Sun, 28 Jul 2024 03:01:17 -0400 This article explores sensory experiences of the 1987 ‘Hurricane’ in Britain. Through mass observers’ testimonies, we examine the impact of sensory disruption to domestic ‘sensoria’. We examine in turn disturbing noises; the anxieties circulating around windows; the loss of power to heat and light domestic environments, and, finally, the kinetic p…[Read more]

]]> 0 5a200eaaf5c0f6ba69ea587161410b7e Anna-Marie Kroupová replied to the topic CFP: Iron Curtains or Artistic Gates? in the forum Cultural Studies https://hcommons.org/groups/cultural-studies/forum/topic/cfp-iron-curtains-or-artistic-gates-4/#post-88124 Fri, 26 Jul 2024 11:00:51 -0400 Workshop: Iron Curtains or Artistic Gates? Communism and Cultural Diplomacy in the Global South (1945–1991 and Beyond)

19–20 September 2024

 

Upper Belvedere

Prinz-Eugen-Straße 27, 1030 Vienna, Austria

 

Organizers: Anna-Marie Kroupová & Noémie Étienne (University of Vienna)

 

This workshop challenges traditional East-West Cold War narra…[Read more]

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