Knowledge Commons | Jay Paul Gates | Group Activity https://hcommons.org/members/jaypaulgates/activity/groups/ Public group activity feed of which Jay Paul Gates is a member. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 08:33:49 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 834164ebffdea594bbe6c18bd750b9dd Ruen-chuan Ma started the topic Middle English Forum MLA 2027 Call-for-Papers in the forum LLC Middle English https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/middle-english/forum/topic/middle-english-forum-mla-2027-call-for-papers/ Sat, 28 Feb 2026 20:30:27 -0500 The Middle English LLC executive committee invites submissions (due Monday, March 23, 2026) for the following sessions at MLA 2027 (Jan 7-10) in Los Angeles:

Centering New Discoveries
This roundtable invites short presentations (~8 minutes) centering under-discussed or unusual Middle English texts and texts relevant to research in Middle English.…[Read more]

]]> 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>
<div dir="auto">Format:…[Read more]

]]> c220504c8692d6573fd0571e7c8052e1 Ruen-chuan Ma started the topic Call for Candidates: Delegate to the MLA Assembly (2028-30) in the forum LLC Middle English https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/middle-english/forum/topic/call-for-candidates-delegate-to-the-mla-assembly-2028-30/ Tue, 03 Feb 2026 00:16:05 -0500 The Executive Committee of the Middle English Forum welcomes nominations (including self-nominations) to serve as the forum delegate and represent the Forum at the MLA Delegate Assembly. Our forum will hold an election for its next delegate in Fall 2026, and an outline of delegate responsibilities can be found here. The delegate would serve a term…[Read more]

]]> 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]

]]> 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]

]]> 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]

]]> 824aacc4a6b3121c5e73b6177ac5ecc7 Ruen-chuan Ma started the topic CFPs for MLA 2026 Middle English Forum sessions in the forum LLC Middle English https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/middle-english/forum/topic/cfps-for-mla-2026-middle-english-forum-sessions/ Sun, 09 Mar 2025 14:19:31 -0400 The Middle English LLC executive committee invites your submissions (due Friday, March 21, 2025) for the following sessions at MLA 2026 (Jan 8-11) in Toronto:

The Premodern Anthropocene (sponsored session)
The Middle English Forum proposes a panel considering human impacts upon the natural world in Medieval English literature. Potential topics…[Read more]

]]> 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]

]]> 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]

]]> de05d119a37d89269d89604496fdefe1 Catherine Fountain started the topic Nominations for the General Linguistics Forum Committee in the forum History of Linguistics and Language Study https://hcommons.org/groups/history-of-linguistics-and-language-study/forum/topic/nominations-for-the-general-linguistics-forum-committee/ Tue, 14 Jan 2025 02:19:43 -0500 Colleagues in the MLA’s Language Study and Linguistics forums, please help support the presence of linguistics and language study in the MLA by nominating yourself or a colleague to serve on the LSL General Linguistics Forum Committee. We currently have two open positions on the committee; one member would begin serving immediately and continue t…[Read more]

]]> c65953aed23ae08144852197c4a289c6 Robert J. Meyer-Lee started the topic Middle English Sessions at MLA 2025 in the forum LLC Middle English https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/middle-english/forum/topic/middle-english-sessions-at-mla-2025/ Thu, 09 Jan 2025 17:00:41 -0500 Here are the two Middle English Forum sessions at this year's MLA Convention:

167 – Unauthoring Middle English (LLC Middle English)

Thursday, 9 January 2025

7:00 PM – 8:15 PM

Hilton New Orleans Riverside – Port (Riverside Complex)

https://mla.confex.com/mla/2025/meetingapp.cgi/Session/20689

 

571 – Recovery and Cultures of Care in Middle…[Read more]

]]> 32adba8324f016087fa23fc548007dba Robert J. Meyer-Lee started the topic Nominations for Middle English Forum Executive Committee -- send them today! in the forum LLC Middle English https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/middle-english/forum/topic/nominations-for-middle-english-forum-executive-committee-send-them-today/ Thu, 09 Jan 2025 16:49:14 -0500 <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">The Executive Committee of the Middle English Forum would like to invite members of this 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 eligible for appointment. Candidates cannot already be…[Read more]

]]> 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]

]]> 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]

]]> 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

]]> 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.

]]> 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]

]]> 37536d2920b85a686807eaecedf4dd2c Robert J. Meyer-Lee started the topic Join the tabula gratulatoria for a festschrift for Karla Taylor! in the forum LLC Middle English https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/middle-english/forum/topic/join-the-tabula-gratulatoria-for-a-festschrift-for-karla-taylor/ Thu, 24 Oct 2024 20:26:39 -0400 Passing this along 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…[Read more]

]]> 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]

]]> 445fb1957161a9fab15e523edfbe1c75 Johann-Mattis List deposited Sprachgeschichte und Sprachgeschichtsschreibung in the group History of Linguistics and Language Study https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1897190/ Sun, 25 Aug 2024 03:00:03 -0400 Alle Sprachen ändern sich, solange sie existieren, das weiß die historisch-vergleichende Sprachforschung seit mindestens 150 Jahren. Dennoch gibt es nach wie vor viele Kontroversen darum, wie Sprachen sich ändern, warum sie sich ändern, und ob diese Änderung nicht am Ende doch einen stetigen Verfall darstellt. In der Vorlesung werden wir deta…[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]

]]> ca3cc0293bf92c3c97099d336b3b6bb9 Martha Dana Rust started the topic CfP: Divergence and Interconnectivity: Premodernity in Five Objects in the forum LLC Middle English https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/middle-english/forum/topic/cfp-divergence-and-interconnectivity-premodernity-in-five-objects-4/ Fri, 23 Aug 2024 19:35:57 -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]

]]> 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]

]]> 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 00d4dd0241f2e8ca804bdddca82e4ba2 Matthew Scarborough deposited Balto-Slavic Historical Linguistics (MA) (Lecture Notes) in the group History of Linguistics and Language Study https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1894588/ Thu, 25 Jul 2024 03:00:06 -0400 This document is an English translation of Thomas Olander's Danish lecture notes used in the MA Elective Indo-European Language course (with specialisation in Balto-Slavic historical linguistics) taught in the Fall Semester 2023 in the Department of Nordic Studies and Linguistics at the University of Copenhagen (HIEK0006EU LIN;…[Read more]

]]> 0 5d543e2fb9d8fece20061fe121d214d3 Robert J. Meyer-Lee started the topic Info for MLA 2025 Middle English Forum Session "Unauthoring Middle English" in the discussion LLC Middle English https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/middle-english/forum/topic/info-for-mla-2025-middle-english-forum-session-unauthoring-middle-english/ Sat, 29 Jun 2024 17:22:11 -0400 This session addresses the following questions: What new perspectives and interpretive possibilities emerge if we embrace the anonymity of most Middle English manuscripts? What might be the critical utility of deferring recourse to an author? Panelists consider drama, lyric, narrative poetry, manuscript compilations, and their critical receptions.…[Read more]

]]> 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 65bb001ef913e15a3e8e7567305d37ff Robert J. Meyer-Lee started the topic CFPs for MLA 2025 Middle English Forum sessions in the discussion LLC Middle English https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/middle-english/forum/topic/cfps-for-mla-2025-middle-english-forum-sessions/ Fri, 23 Feb 2024 04:53:49 -0500 The Middle English LLC executive committee invites your submissions for the following two sponsored sessions at MLA 2025 in New Orleans:

Session 1: Recovery and Cultures of Care in Middle English Literature

This paper panel proposes to examine connections between ideas of recovery in Middle English literature, broadly speaking, and our current…[Read more]

]]> 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]

]]> d8dea06a01f4dc4b254cae788ee7c9c5 Liina-Ly Roos started the topic CFP for MLA 2025: The Future Library, Invisible Archive? in the discussion CLCS Nordic https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/nordic/forum/topic/cfp-for-mla-2025-the-future-library-invisible-archive/ Thu, 01 Feb 2024 20:02:18 -0500 2024 marks ten years since the creation of Future Library (2014-2114, Katie Paterson), a multisite artwork that comprises a forest in Norway, an anthology of literature by world renowned authors to be kept secret until its publication in 2114, and a reading room inside Deichman public library where the manuscripts are housed. In conjunction with…[Read more]

]]> 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]

]]> 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 df89fb2bcbddb3aa298e40c449ec93f5 Robert J. Meyer-Lee started the topic Call For Nominations for Middle English Forum Executive Committee, 2025-2030 in the discussion LLC Middle English https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/middle-english/forum/topic/call-for-nominations-for-middle-english-forum-executive-committee-2025-2030/ Mon, 18 Dec 2023 23:55:14 -0500 Dear MLA Middle English Forum members,

The Executive Committee of the Middle English 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 a…[Read more]

]]> 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]

]]> 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]

]]> 8771cba4aca5223da953e49779f4abe3 Karin Bagnall started the topic Restaurant Recommendations and More in the discussion 2018 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/2018-mla-convention/forum/topic/restaurant-recommendations-and-more-5/ Mon, 11 Dec 2023 18:04:29 -0500 If you’re a Philadelphia local (or power user!), please share your expertise by suggesting nearby restaurants, bars, or things to see or do. Provide as much information as you can: Distance from the convention venue, price range, URL, and what you like about a place are particularly useful.

]]> 169096f52c34add490a9290394ead3e8 Fatma Fulya Tepe started the topic new article: Osman Hamdi Bey – an Ottoman Orientalist or a Humanist Ottoman? in the discussion CLCS Nordic https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/nordic/forum/topic/new-article-osman-hamdi-bey-an-ottoman-orientalist-or-a-humanist-ottoman-8/ Tue, 05 Dec 2023 17:19:58 -0500 Dear Colleagues,

Emeritus Prof. Dr. Per Bauhn from Linnaeus University, Sweden published an article titled "Osman Hamdi Bey – an Ottoman Orientalist or a Humanist Ottoman?"  in  Nordic Review of Iconography. I present the abstract of this article below and the article can be downloaded for free from the link below.…[Read more]

]]> 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]

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