Knowledge Commons | James Staig Limidoro | Group Activity https://hcommons.org/members/jcs4377/activity/groups/ Public group activity feed of which James Staig Limidoro is a member. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 20:43:41 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 eed160b9adf7eb4744a28cbd016c0b6c Cole Rizki started the topic Nominations for Candidates to Delegate Election in the forum LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-latin-american/forum/topic/nominations-for-candidates-to-delegate-election/ Tue, 03 Feb 2026 16:19:15 -0500 Hi everyone, I write to solicit nominations for candidates to the MLA delegate election. For eligibility: any candidates for election must have been included in the membership list of the association for the preceding year. No one can occupy more than one delegate seat at a time and delegates may only serve two consecutive terms on the Delegate…[Read more]

]]> 86e4e75ec10857b0692754404a40a12d Brian Croxall replied to the topic CFP: Pedagogy Poster session for Digital Humanities 2026 conference, South Korea in the forum TC Digital Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/digital-humanities/forum/topic/cfp-pedagogy-poster-session-for-digital-humanities-2026-conference-south-korea-2/#post-1040727 Wed, 14 Jan 2026 22:11:21 -0500 As an update, we are extending the deadline for submissions to the poster slam at DH 2026 for the DH Pedagogy and Training SIG. Please submit proposals by Monday, February 9. Accepted participants will now be notified no later than 28 February.</span>

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]]> ebbb4a01a4573f5eba5fd63eee70d12f Brian Croxall replied to the topic CFP: Pedagogy Poster session for Digital Humanities 2026 conference, South Korea in the forum TC Digital Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/digital-humanities/forum/topic/cfp-pedagogy-poster-session-for-digital-humanities-2026-conference-south-korea-2/#post-1040727 Wed, 14 Jan 2026 22:11:21 -0500 As an update, w<span style="font-weight: 400;">e are extending the deadline for submissions to the poster slam at DH 2026 for the DH Pedagogy and Training SIG. Please submit proposals by Monday, February 9. Accepted participants will now be notified no later than 28 February.</span>

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]]> 21613f4d7281e7e57f243100ab1f58c4 Cole Rizki started the topic Soliciting Nominations for the Forum Executive Committee in the forum LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-latin-american/forum/topic/soliciting-nominations-for-the-forum-executive-committee-3/ Fri, 09 Jan 2026 17:07:48 -0500 Hi everyone, I write because we are soliciting nominations and self-nominations for the 20th and 21st Century Latin America Forum Executive Committee. Please reply by Friday January 23rd with your nominations. Thanks!

]]> a479c956d938c1e569ff3897ea2cc58d Ryan Calabretta-Sajder started the topic Teaching Assistant Professor of World Languages & Humanities Technologies in the forum TC Digital Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/digital-humanities/forum/topic/teaching-assistant-professor-of-world-languages-humanities-technologies-5/ Wed, 10 Dec 2025 23:55:30 -0500 Please consider applying and share widely.

]]> 2026f89c16ec13126857a2eb4b9009d5 Brian Croxall started the topic CFP: Pedagogy Poster session for Digital Humanities 2026 conference, South Korea in the forum TC Digital Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/digital-humanities/forum/topic/cfp-pedagogy-poster-session-for-digital-humanities-2026-conference-south-korea-2/ Mon, 01 Dec 2025 22:13:02 -0500 Overview
The DH Pedagogy and Training SIG will hold a Pedagogy Poster Slam at the 2026 DH Conference in Daejeon, South Korea. The Pedagogy Poster Slam will take place during the SIG’s reserved slot during one of the conference’s two workshop days, either Monday, 27 July 2026, or Tuesday, 28 July 2026.

Posters will either focus on a) a spe…[Read more]

]]> 227876ecd355d0675cbe7ebd2574d1d5 Inés Vañó García started the topic CFP - Openness in Language Education in the forum TC Digital Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/digital-humanities/forum/topic/cfp-openness-in-language-education/ Sun, 30 Nov 2025 15:34:04 -0500 📣 Call for Papers – The EUROCALL Review

I’m happy to share that The EUROCALL Review is launching a new thematic issue on:
👉 “Openness in Language Education: Global practices and research, pedagogical innovation and critical resistance”.

This issue focuses on the role and impact of Open Educational Resources (OERs) in language education worldwi…[Read more]

]]> 58da3414739d0ec665d9eb3a651681a1 Shawna Ross started the topic CFP - A Field Guide to Lost Modernisms in the forum TC Digital Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/digital-humanities/forum/topic/cfp-a-field-guide-to-lost-modernisms/ Mon, 20 Oct 2025 15:03:35 -0400 A Field Guide to Lost Modernisms
Call for papers

The Internet is a significant yet leaky infrastructure by which modernism circulates. Members of the public often encounter modernist literature and culture online, while students and scholars depend on the World Wide Web for conducting and disseminating their research. Worryingly, Internet assets…[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]

]]> 405dcc5c6cf6c0a64a3bddb0f6b74af3 Inés Vañó García started the topic LSL Language and Society: Calls for Papers MLA 2026 in the forum TC Digital Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/digital-humanities/forum/topic/lsl-language-and-society-calls-for-papers-mla-2026/ Tue, 04 Mar 2025 14:49:57 -0500 <div class="bbp-reply-content">
(Re)thinking AI on Language Pedagogy: Discourses of Resemblances & Disparities (Online)
Papers should critically address AI’s impact on language pedagogy, focusing on resemblances and disparities between AI-driven and “more traditional” approaches; i.e. AI’s role in language learning, assessment, cultural biases,…[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 80fb5ce0a0c19bae826157dc8a99fabd Vivien Jiaqian Zhu started the topic CFP 2026 MLA Convention in the forum Music https://hcommons.org/groups/music/forum/topic/cfp-2026-mla-convention-16/ Tue, 04 Feb 2025 22:48:37 -0500 Dear All,

 

I’m pleased to share with you the Call for Paper for the Working Group/Seminar session for the upcoming MLA Convention in Toronto. See https://mla.confex.com/mla/2026/webprogrampreliminary/Paper29934.html.

 

Best wishes,

Vivien Jiaqian Zhu

]]> 9d5e2d3e60d71708ad9ac3c103810696 Anna Castillo posted an update in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American: Dear Colleagues, We are excited to announce the call for […] https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1907864/ Fri, 03 Jan 2025 18:37:56 -0500 Dear Colleagues,

We are excited to announce the call for Guaranteed Session Proposals for the LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American Forum for the 2026 MLA Convention in Toronto. If accepted by our Forum, your panel is guaranteed a place at next year’s convention. We invite proposals that engage with a wide range of topics related to 20th- a…[Read more]

]]> 0 6d62191f783a3cb76c17bd6d381ac13b Anna Castillo posted an update in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American: Hello fellow Latin Americanists! I write because we are […] https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1907863/ Fri, 03 Jan 2025 18:34:06 -0500 Hello fellow Latin Americanists! I write because we are soliciting nominations and self-nominations for the 20th and 21st Century Latin America Forum Executive Committee. Please reply by Wednesday January 15th with your nominations. Thanks!

]]> 0 73215c5974629be9153feaf055551809 Mark Dahlquist started the topic Call for Chapters: Libraries and the Futures of the Humanities in the forum TC Digital Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/digital-humanities/forum/topic/call-for-chapters-libraries-and-the-futures-of-the-humanities-3/ Thu, 05 Dec 2024 17:55:17 -0500 The editors of a book project, Libraries and the Futures of the Humanities, call for chapter proposals for a volume that Rowman & Littlefield has invited us to submit, focused on how libraries can play a role in reimagining the humanities during a time of crisis and opportunity.

We invite proposals for chapters in five sections, focusing…[Read more]

]]> 51dfa962c8509dc311cdee9b05cdc507 Aarthi Vadde started the topic CFP Deadline Reminder: SNS 2025: Novel Languages in the forum TC Digital Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/digital-humanities/forum/topic/cfp-deadline-reminder-sns-2025-novel-languages/ Sun, 10 Nov 2024 20:54:04 -0500 NOVEL LANGUAGES: The Biennial Meeting of the Society for Novel Studies

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 we…[Read more]

]]> f5ec3a5c25c83fd9ea0bc470829eafb1 Thomas Oliver Beebee started the topic CFP for "Reading Cultures," a special issue of the journal Culture as Text in the forum TC Digital Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/digital-humanities/forum/topic/cfp-for-reading-cultures-a-special-issue-of-the-journal-culture-as-text/ Wed, 16 Oct 2024 10:16:00 -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]

]]> d96b0196cf95344577f6bbedf241c451 Louise Geddes deposited ‘And we will ship him hence’: The case for Shakespeare Fan Studies in the group TC Digital Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1901836/ Wed, 16 Oct 2024 04:03:50 -0400 This chapter argues that
by including fan studies as part of appropriation theory scholarship can account for
this conversation, manifest in likes, re-posts and experimental fan work. Because of
the interplay between creator and audience, the focus of appropriative study shifts
from the end product, the new Shakespeare iteration, to the fan…[Read more]

]]> 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 4e6d52f756a39eed94abd4345aeb13eb Ryan Cordell deposited Surveying the Humanities MakerLab Movement in the group TC Digital Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1899998/ Sat, 28 Sep 2024 03:01:21 -0400 SHMLM analyzes the humanities’ maker turn by surveying the research, pedagogical, and public service missions of existing humanities makerspaces; identifying commonalities among such efforts across disciplines, technologies, and organizational structures; comparing their activities and institutional identities with comparable contemporary STEM- o…[Read more]

]]> 0 e66c645b49b99ca26a968b8b3eea4b5d Joel Edelman deposited On the Origin of Music; A Convergence of Theories in the group Music and Sound https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1899092/ Wed, 18 Sep 2024 03:00:53 -0400 Much of today's research into the nature of musical pleasure can be divided into two distinct areas - the study of the overtone spectra of musical consonance and the study of human physiological responses to musical sounds. The former is largely focused on adult participatory responses and the latter on the detection of biochemical activity.…[Read more]

]]> 0 cf04cc70728539641e8e0dc0676f74c8 Aarthi Vadde started the topic CFP: Novel Languages (Society of Novel Studies Biennial Conference) in the forum TC Digital Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/digital-humanities/forum/topic/cfp-novel-languages-society-of-novel-studies-biennial-conference-4/ Wed, 28 Aug 2024 18:12:38 -0400 “NOVEL LANGUAGES” The Biennial Conference of the Society for Novel Studies
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: https…[Read more]

]]> dd661837a32fb4a7f5fc1b51acddc57d Brian Croxall deposited Duffy Encoding Editorial Decisions in the group TC Digital Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1897134/ Sat, 24 Aug 2024 03:01:42 -0400 This document provides guidelines for encoding the first five books of poetry by Carol Ann Duffy into TEI-XML. It was collaboratively authored by my students and I during the Winter 2018 and Winter 2019 semesters at Brigham Young University.

]]> 0 cccb65ee978b8dc40aa6313c76b0ec3a Joel Edelman deposited On the Origin of Music; A Mathematician's Perspective in the group Music and Sound https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1896377/ Fri, 16 Aug 2024 03:01:03 -0400 Recent studies of consonance combined with related neurological studies of musical pleasure both point to the prenatal exposure to the human voice as the origin of our affinity for harmonics sounds. The response of a neonate to the maternal voice is compared to the adult response to music, and the physical components of tonal sounds provide an…[Read more]

]]> 0 967829021ce7dd77659781171ad8e457 Inés Vañó García started the topic Newly extended CFP (through 07/21) – JITP Special Issue in the forum TC Digital Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/digital-humanities/forum/topic/newly-extended-cfp-through-07-21-jitp-special-issue/ Sun, 14 Jul 2024 10:15:05 -0400 <div class="entry-content wp-block-post-content is-layout-constrained">
The Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy
Themed Issue 24:
Digital Humanities: Labor, Political Economy, and Activism in the Age of Digital Mediation

Issue Editors:

Matthew N. Hannah, Purdue University

Gabriel Hankins, Clemson University

Anna Alexis Larsson,…[Read more]

]]> 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]

]]> 731791a81a5acbab3f54713b2f8c9b2a Niamh Thornton deposited María Félix A Mexican Film Star and her Legacy in the group TC Digital Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1890471/ Fri, 28 Jun 2024 03:04:41 -0400 María Félix (1914-2002) left her mark on Mexican and European film as well as fashion, art and jewellery design. Cartier created one-of-a-kind pieces; Leonora Carrington and Diego Rivera painted portraits; Carlos Fuentes wrote a play; Agustín Lara, a bestselling song. But she was nobody's muse.

Did Félix really bring baby crocodiles to the Car…[Read more]

]]> 0 43cf5ac51bf84b581d47e8713f012a54 Katina Rogers deposited The Presence of Absence: Meditations on the Unsayable in Writing in the group TC Digital Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1889660/ Thu, 20 Jun 2024 03:06:26 -0400 The Presence of Absence: Meditations on the Unsayable in Writing is about writers navigating the unspeakable through image, sound, and structure. Each chapter focuses on a specific text, exploring the ways that four writers look to visual and auditory materials and metaphors as passageways to understanding and expressing the ineffable qualities of…[Read more]

]]> 0 90a5f9293d35e8d4d1f7ad732df87940 Ji Eun Lee deposited Wooshing London: Unsettling Acceleration in H. G. Wells’s Tono-Bungay in the group TC Digital Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1889188/ Fri, 14 Jun 2024 03:27:19 -0400 This essay reads H. G. Wells’s Tono-Bungay (1909) in the context of “wooshing” London—I take the word from the story—to see how the unsettling effect of this rapid urban mobility translates into the generic form of the novel. At the turn of the twentieth century, London was wooshing—that is to say, people and things in the city were moving by b…[Read more]

]]> 0 38bc258457e2b4465bf945c9309c98ef Ji Eun Lee deposited Prowling in London: Canines in Bram Stoker’s Dracula in the group TC Digital Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1889184/ Fri, 14 Jun 2024 03:17:18 -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 e80df45677a8e632becee89307897f18 Regenia Gagnier deposited Language and literature in the information economy: the state of English, English and the state in the group TC Digital Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1887292/ Mon, 27 May 2024 04:04:38 -0400 The impact of colonialism and empire and then of transport, logistics, advertising, media, cinema, radio, tourism, and the internet extended the global reach of English. With 1.13 billion speakers, one in seven in the world now has some English competence. Within this global circulation of English, we have the global teaching of English language…[Read more]

]]> 0 c3b66849dde3b35c4b74490db101001b Patrick Eisenlohr deposited Sonic atmospheres in Mauritian devotional Islam: Sensing transoceanic connections in a Creole society in the group Music and Sound https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1884700/ Wed, 01 May 2024 03:31:54 -0400 Movement constitutes transoceanic spaces such as the Indian Ocean world. Sonic practices as atmospheres make such multilayered movements and connections palpable. The recitation of naʻt among Mauritian Muslims is an example of how sound and sonic practices can provide somatic evidence for transoceanic links in the Indian Ocean world. It is argued…[Read more]

]]> 0 fd7198dab9e3df44922471ef354e76a9 Patrick Eisenlohr deposited Atmospheres: The multisensoriality of spatially extended emotions in the group Music and Sound https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1884697/ Wed, 01 May 2024 03:31:39 -0400 In this essay, I introduce an analytic of atmosphere as a way to bridge the gap between the phenomenology of the felt-body and the anthropology of the senses. This analytic of atmospheres as multisensoriality partially aligns with, but also differs from other anthropological approaches to multisensoriality or the anthropology of the senses.…[Read more]

]]> 0 fd86ffaca9f3dd047290d7b65ff6f028 Patrick Eisenlohr deposited Sound, Voice, and the Felt Body in the group Music and Sound https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1884661/ Wed, 01 May 2024 03:28:14 -0400 As the meeting ground of language, the body, and subjectivity, voice has become a key con- cept in the humanities and social sciences. Nevertheless, analyses of the voice that do justice to all these three dimensions are rare. This also applies to linguistic anthropological work on the voice, whose main strength is investigating the interplay of…[Read more]

]]> 0 116ff10cd548994627fd53817cbe8df2 Patrick Eisenlohr deposited Sonic religion: The analysis of atmospheric half-things in the group Music and Sound https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1884658/ Wed, 01 May 2024 03:27:54 -0400 The chapter discusses work on sonic religion and the challenges it has encountered in coming to terms with sonic materiality. The study of material religion has so far been predominantly focused on objects, things, and images. The sonic, however, cannot be grasped by approaches suited to the latter phenomena. It is argued that its special kind of…[Read more]

]]> 0 116ff10cd548994627fd53817cbe8df2 Patrick Eisenlohr deposited Sonic religion: The analysis of atmospheric half-things in the group Historical Soundscape Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1884657/ Wed, 01 May 2024 03:27:54 -0400 The chapter discusses work on sonic religion and the challenges it has encountered in coming to terms with sonic materiality. The study of material religion has so far been predominantly focused on objects, things, and images. The sonic, however, cannot be grasped by approaches suited to the latter phenomena. It is argued that its special kind of…[Read more]

]]> 0 3084f9bfc7d56922dbc6d739624ad043 Inés Vañó García started the topic Join the Collective! -The Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy (JITP) in the discussion TC Digital Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/digital-humanities/forum/topic/join-the-collective-the-journal-of-interactive-technology-and-pedagogy-jitp/ Tue, 16 Apr 2024 15:06:26 -0400 Call for ParticipationThe Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy seeks new members to join our Editorial Collective. We invite applications from graduate students, scholars, and practitioners in all fields who critically and creatively engage with digital technology in their teaching, learning, and research. We will be appointing both gr…[Read more]

]]> 3bfb2f941f3b6dffd31463153e1b783a Claus Tieber deposited Screenwriting sound and music: Towards a new field of study in the group Music and Sound https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1882924/ Fri, 12 Apr 2024 03:01:58 -0400 Extensive research in film and media studies on film music and sound has delved into various aspects of their role in cinema, recognizing their significance. However, a crucial element in film production – the screenplay – has often been overlooked in the exploration of sound and music integration. Concurrently, studies on screenwriting have dis…[Read more]

]]> 0 23ff7efcb66b216876c715c503196250 Inés Vañó García started the topic CFP: Submissions for JITP Special Issue -Labor, Political Economy, and Activism in the discussion TC Digital Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/digital-humanities/forum/topic/cfp-submissions-for-jitp-special-issue-labor-political-economy-and-activism/ Wed, 20 Mar 2024 18:23:52 -0400 The Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy
Themed Issue 24:

Digital Humanities: Labor, Political Economy, and Activism in the Age of Digital Mediation

Issue Editors:

Matthew N. Hannah, Purdue University

Gabriel Hankins, Clemson University

Anna Alexis Larsson, Indiana University

The Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy…[Read more]

]]> f3439958032d5265c64c286834629813 Joao Silva deposited Early Portuguese recordings for The Gramophone Company (1900—1908) and the establishment of a phonographic market in Portugal in the group Historical Soundscape Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1879676/ Sat, 16 Mar 2024 03:00:42 -0400 My article strives to study phonography in Portugal between the 1900 recording sessions for The Gramophone Company and the company’s first significant Portuguese catalogue, printed in December 1908. I aim to trace the transformations undertaken in the discs and repertoires along with their segmentation during the first decade of Portuguese p…[Read more]

]]> 0 b87fb2dddc72f3e37248c1d83a4ff995 Dustin Friedman deposited Toward a Decolonial Queer Humanism: Thomas Hardy's The Well-Beloved and André Aciman's Call Me by Your Name in the group TM Literary Criticism https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1878059/ Thu, 29 Feb 2024 04:09:12 -0500 This essay situates queer negativity within the modernist tradition. In The Well-Beloved (1897), Thomas Hardy satirizes the then-popular notion of racial memory for its racist, colonialist implications, inaugurating the modernist critique of romantic love as complicit with the self-delusions of the liberal-humanist subject. Despite the view shared…[Read more]

]]> 0 16399810ccaeacf9fba7485591e224c1 Alan Liu started the topic CFPs: MLA Committee on Information Technology's two panels at MLA 2025 in the discussion TC Digital Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/digital-humanities/forum/topic/cfps-mla-committee-on-information-technologys-two-panels-at-mla-2025/ Wed, 21 Feb 2024 20:46:40 -0500 For the MLA convention in New Orleans in 2025 (Jan. 9-12), the  MLA’s Committee on Information Technology (CIT) is organizing two guaranteed sessions to help generate ideas related to the convention's Presidential Theme of "visibility." Abstracts: 300 words or less, by the end of the day (all time zones): 15 March 2024. Please submit your ab…[Read more]

]]> b8f9abbecda9389b01512660de0f0f16 Amanda Licastro started the topic MLA 2025 emerging technologies in the discussion TC Digital Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/digital-humanities/forum/topic/mla-2025-emerging-technologies-2/ Tue, 20 Feb 2024 16:38:28 -0500 Please share and apply to our CFP on emerging technologies for #MLA25. This guaranteed panel sponsored by the Libraries and Research Executive Forum will feature initiatives, collaborations, and partnerships that support emerging technologies in academic libraries. We hope to make visible the labor and infrastructure necessary to adapt to and e…[Read more]

]]> 74755405707853a0d82fe9bfe7a82e5c Nathan H. Dize started the topic CPF: Ecologies of Enslavement, Ecologies of Abolition, MLA 2025 in the discussion LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-latin-american/forum/topic/cpf-ecologies-of-enslavement-ecologies-of-abolition-mla-2025-3/ Sun, 11 Feb 2024 03:36:58 -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]

]]> dc314049bc8d0b62b1b2a731882e91bf Paulino Capdepon deposited CONMEMORACIONES DEL PRIMER CENTENARIO DE LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN EN MADRID (1927): LA ACTIVIDAD ORQUESTAL in the group Music and Sound https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1875795/ Sun, 11 Feb 2024 03:02:41 -0500 In 1927, Madrid experienced a great musical activity to celebrate the first anniversary of Beethoven's death. This chapter focuses on the activities organized by orchestras, societies, associations, etc., and their reflection in the press of that time. Critics from the main Madrid newspapers such as Adolfo Salazar, Juan José Mantecón, Víctor Es…[Read more]

]]> 0 4c8203a222ffd963d0abeb97edb6ef81 Paulino Capdepon deposited EL ESTRENO DE LA NOVENA SINFONÍA EN RE MENOR OPUS 125 DE BEETHOVEN EN ESPAÑA (1882): HISTORIA Y RECEPCIÓN in the group Music and Sound https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1875791/ Sun, 11 Feb 2024 03:01:37 -0500 The premiere in 1882 of the Ninth Symphony by the German composer Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) at the Teatro Principal in Madrid marked a significant historical and musical milestone for the history of Spanish symphonic music. Until then, the reception of the great German composer in Spain had been limited since the 1840s to individual…[Read more]

]]> 0 1651080c71469d401f52fed810de2a1d Thomas Mazanec deposited Poet-Monks: The Invention of Buddhist Poetry in Late Medieval China in the group GS Poetry and Poetics https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1874112/ Wed, 31 Jan 2024 04:00:15 -0500 Poet-Monks focuses on the literary and religious practices of Buddhist poet-monks in Tang-dynasty China to propose an alternative historical arc of medieval Chinese poetry. Combining large-scale quantitative analysis with close readings of important literary texts, Thomas J. Mazanec describes how Buddhist poet-monks, who first appeared in the…[Read more]

]]> 0 5b79052027fb0745f43a42bf3b8b1cf5 Regenia Gagnier deposited The Futures of English: Introduction from the UK in the group TC Digital Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1870890/ Sat, 13 Jan 2024 03:06:20 -0500 Will students raised on social media still read English literature?
• What is the role of English/American literature in the PRC, India,
Australasia, the USA?
• What is the role of English language in relation to other global
and local languages?
• What is the role of decolonising efforts?
• How do our respective state apparatuses affect…[Read more]

]]> 0 292811c4e08d23bff02f77cb2bd58766 Crystal Anne Chemris deposited Flyer for The Spanish Baroque and latin American Literary Modernity: writing in Constellation in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1870641/ Thu, 11 Jan 2024 04:04:05 -0500 This contains a table of contents and description for the book, The Spanish Baroque and Latin American Literary Modernity: Writing in Constellation, as a follow up to my paper for the 2024 MLA. Chapter One formed the basis for "Góngora, Inca Garcilaso, and the Meeting of Humanist and Indigenous Modes of Knowledge."

]]> 0 f51e48204bd4c01f1697cb6850f2e37b Anne Garland Mahler started the topic Soliciting Nominations for the Forum Executive Committee in the discussion LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-latin-american/forum/topic/soliciting-nominations-for-the-forum-executive-committee-2/ Tue, 09 Jan 2024 19:45:22 -0500 Hi everyone,I write because we are soliciting nominations and self-nominations for the 20th and 21st Century Latin America Forum Executive Committee. Please reply by Wednesday January 16th with your nominations. Thanks!

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