Knowledge Commons | Justo Planas | Group Activity https://hcommons.org/members/justoplanas/activity/groups/ Public group activity feed of which Justo Planas is a member. Sun, 05 Apr 2026 02:41:17 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 6fb44110c847f56105435123316c33c3 Luis Fernando Restrepo started the topic CFP MLA 2027 Roundtable in the forum LLC Colonial Latin American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/colonial-latin-american/forum/topic/cfp-mla-2027-roundtable/ Mon, 23 Feb 2026 15:58:27 -0500 MLA 2027 CFP Sponsored by the LLC Colonial Latin America Forum (guaranteed session)
 Unbounding the Colonial Latin American Archive
Round table examining historical and critical approaches to the colonial archive and their political implications. Dissident narratives, emerging subjectivities, new geographies, displacements, regimes of visibility,…[Read more]

]]> 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]

]]> ed3bf905fb590373ab996b08082a1777 Luis Fernando Restrepo started the topic Nominations and Self-Nominations to serve in the Forum Executive Committee in the forum LLC Colonial Latin American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/colonial-latin-american/forum/topic/nominations-and-self-nominations-to-serve-in-the-forum-executive-committee/ Mon, 19 Jan 2026 15:02:29 -0500 The Executive Committee of the LLC Colonial Latin American Literature invites Forum Members to send nominations or self-nominations to the Forum's executive committee.  Send nominations by March 1, 2026 to Karen Stolley (kstolle@emory.edu) or Luis Fernando Restrepo (lrestr@uark.edu) or the MLA directly, as indicated below.  The five year term is a…[Read more]

]]> 28075c8c04be07f6b04dfa6431914967 Lanie Millar started the topic Nominations: Forum executive committee in the forum LLC Cuban and Cuban Diasporic https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/cuban-and-cuban-diasporic/forum/topic/nominations-forum-executive-committee/ Fri, 09 Jan 2026 21:17:29 -0500 The Cuban and Cuban Diasporic Forum Executive Committee is soliciting nominations and self-nominations for a new member for the Executive Committee, for a five-year term. Please email Forum Chair Mirta Suquet, suquet@susqu.edu and Secretary Lanie Millar, lmillar@uoregon.edu by January 23, 2026.

]]> 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!

]]> 9a69482e422108e49b614808749176b3 Giovanna Montenegro started the topic Join us for Happy Hour/ Cash Bar in Toronto- Friday January 9 5pm in the forum LLC Colonial Latin American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/colonial-latin-american/forum/topic/join-us-for-happy-hour-cash-bar-in-toronto-friday-january-9-5pm/ Sun, 04 Jan 2026 18:36:51 -0500 Coming to MLA#26 in person? Please join LLC Colonial Latin American Literature along with CLCS Renaissance and Early Modern and LLC Medieval Iberian for a Happy Hour in Toronto.</div>

Please join us at 3 Brasseurs at  5pm on Friday January 9 275 Yongue St.
This is a cash bar, and the bar can do individual checks.
https://maps.app.goo.gl/<wbr /&…[Read more]

]]> ae0f6db7ddb684ad47e0728031f6a372 Luis Restrepo started the topic MLA 2026 Toronto Colonial Latin American Literature Sessions-- join us! in the forum LLC Colonial Latin American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/colonial-latin-american/forum/topic/mla-2026-toronto-colonial-latin-american-literature-sessions-join-us/ Sun, 28 Dec 2025 23:32:57 -0500 2026 MLA LLC Colonial Latin American Forum Sessions

 

Thursday, 8 January 2026

 3:30 PM - 4:45 PM

#93 - Rethinking Connections between Latin American Colonial and Dutch Atlantic Worlds

Presider, Giovanna Montenegro, Binghamton U, State U of New York

 

Living with Water: Aquatic Engagements in Colonized Neerlandophone Deltas

Julée Al-…[Read more]

]]> 331fdbb76ec0d66fd7caa3e7ff63e943 Berna Gueneli started the topic CF Applications for the position of Assistant Professor of Film Studies, UGA in the forum MS Visual Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/visual-culture/forum/topic/cf-applications-for-the-position-of-assistant-professor-of-film-studies-uga/ Tue, 18 Nov 2025 21:10:00 -0500 The Department of Theatre and Film at the University of Georgia welcomes applications for the position of Assistant Professor of Film Studies.

 

Area of specialization is open. Desired areas of specialization include, but are not limited to, one or more of the following: global animation; cinemas of East, Southeast, South, or Western Asia and…[Read more]

]]> bc23953ca41a5b0470b18ce556a91ae7 Guylian Nemegeer started the topic CFP - Incontri. Rivista Europea di Studi Italiani in the forum MS Visual Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/visual-culture/forum/topic/cfp-incontri-rivista-europea-di-studi-italiani-3/ Wed, 22 Oct 2025 14:03:43 -0400 <span style="font-weight: 400;">Dear colleagues,</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">For its upcoming issues, </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Incontri. Rivista europea di studi italiani</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> is currently accepting essay submissions and proposals for special issues.</span>

<i><span…[Read more]

]]> 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 2fefff99434499ac9c1c4efad33eb939 Doris Hambuch deposited Humorous Takes on Marriage in the UAE: Digital Comics, Social Media Comedy and Short Films in the group MS Visual Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1900965/ Mon, 07 Oct 2024 03:11:04 -0400 This article investigates humorous representations of marriage in digital comics, standup comedy and short films created by Emirati artists and content creators who primarily rely on social media as their most effective form of distribution. Studied against theories of humor in the Western and the Arabic traditions, selected examples demonstrate…[Read more]

]]> 0 98412a2e171d72d17c3d1a23ff1aa1ce 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 MS Visual Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1900963/ Mon, 07 Oct 2024 03:05:42 -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 4f9442367a2527580c0220213c974ab3 Susan Larson deposited Comfort and Domestic Space in Modern Spain in the group MS Visual Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1890327/ Thu, 27 Jun 2024 03:08:57 -0400 Comfort and domestic space are complex narratives that can help draw our attention to everything from urban planning, everyday objects, and new technologies to class conflict, racial and ethnic segregation, and the gendering of domestic labour. Comfort and Domestic Space in Modern Spain delves into the history of ideas surrounding the modern home.…[Read more]

]]> 0 94cd4edd2fc699e0ce59ff16b9868e8d Fatma Fulya Tepe started the topic New Article: Banal misogynism in Turkish media in the discussion MS Visual Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/visual-culture/forum/topic/new-article-banal-misogynism-in-turkish-media/ Wed, 27 Mar 2024 14:24:30 -0400 Dear Colleagues,

I , Assoc. Prof. Dr. Fatma Fulya Tepe, from Istanbul Aydin University, Faculty of Education, published a new article titled “Banal misogynism in Turkish media at the beginning of the multi-party era: the case of Boşboğaz” in the Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics which is a Q1 journal. You can find the abstract and the link…[Read more]

]]> 6427ab1636918f02ddc8f981b594725e Rocío Quispe Agnoli deposited "Winking at his Readers from the Gaps: Guamán Poma de Ayala's Silent Texts" in the group LLC Colonial Latin American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1880716/ Tue, 26 Mar 2024 03:00:09 -0400 In this essay, I address the perception of confusion, entanglement, incomprehension, opacity, and enigmatic nature of Guamán Poma’s book that made scholars like Peruvian Historian Porras Barrenechea uncomfortable enough to push it to the margins of historical studies due to its perceived lack of value and merit. To this end, I briefly discuss ex…[Read more]

]]> 0 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]

]]> d872021a4d6fc5e2360b0a35be3144ad Nathan H. Dize started the topic CPF: Ecologies of Enslavement, Ecologies of Abolition, MLA 2025 in the discussion CLCS Caribbean https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/clcs-caribbean/forum/topic/cpf-ecologies-of-enslavement-ecologies-of-abolition-mla-2025/ Sun, 11 Feb 2024 03:36:53 -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]

]]> f5211a96488ef1a359b32caf08a69486 Nathan H. Dize started the topic CFP: Édouard Glissant: Still A Caribbean Theorist? (MLA 2025, in-person panel) in the discussion CLCS Caribbean https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/clcs-caribbean/forum/topic/cfp-edouard-glissant-still-a-caribbean-theorist-mla-2025-in-person-panel/ Sun, 11 Feb 2024 03:34:03 -0500 Michael Dash’s translation and abridgment of Le discours antillais into Caribbean Discourse raises the question of how we situate Glissant within Caribbean Studies. Send 150-word abstracts that consider how we deploy Glissant’s literary-creative-artistic thought today.Deadline for submissions: Friday, 8 March 2024 Nathan H. Dize, Washington Univ…[Read more]

]]> 821c9aa3fe209dd6fd8931b6a372f9c4 Nathan H. Dize started the topic CFP: LABOR CONDITIONS in Caribbean Studies in the discussion CLCS Caribbean https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/clcs-caribbean/forum/topic/cfp-labor-conditions-in-caribbean-studies/ Sun, 11 Feb 2024 03:31:37 -0500 This roundtable discussion continues a conversation begun at MLA 2023 about Caribbeanist scholars' labor conditions. Send 150-word abstracts that explore the expectations and vulnerabilities Caribbeanists face when working across borders of nation, language, and discipline.Deadline for submissions: Friday, 8 March 2024Raj Chetty, St. John’s U, NY …[Read more]

]]> eaad96e8b0c12fe22034e7d61fc7889b Rocío Quispe Agnoli deposited "From Science Fiction to Futurism in Peruvian Literature" in the group LLC Colonial Latin American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1875800/ Sun, 11 Feb 2024 03:03:08 -0500 Introduction to the bilingual anthology "Qhipa Pacha. Peruvian Futurism" and preliminary study about the origins and development of the science fiction genre in Peruvian letters since the 19th century. The anthology includes 14 short stories written by contemporary Peruvian and Peruvian-based authors, members of the Qhipa Pacha Collective. These…[Read more]

]]> 0 551b75c79e5fc3e04d2401bd0f6e659d Rocío Quispe Agnoli deposited Qhipa Pacha. Futurismo peruano. Peruvian Futurism. A Bilingual Anthology. in the group LLC Colonial Latin American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1875014/ Thu, 08 Feb 2024 03:00:03 -0500 This volume brings science fiction from the innermost point of Peruvian roots and ancestral knowledge. This bilingual anthology opens with a preliminary study of the Peruvian literature of science fiction from the 19th century to the present. It pays attention to the role of realismo mágico, lo real maravilloso, and literatura fantástica in the e…[Read more]

]]> 0 3dcc324c48266851e7a86a8086b7625c Maybel Mesa Morales started the topic CFP: Temporalities of the Cuban Revolution in the discussion LLC Cuban and Cuban Diasporic https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/cuban-and-cuban-diasporic/forum/topic/cfp-temporalities-of-the-cuban-revolution-2/ Thu, 01 Feb 2024 20:45:04 -0500 CFP LLC Cuban and Cuban Diasporic: Temporalities of the Cuban Revolution

Cuba is often treated as before or ahead of its time, and scholars disagree about when the Cuban Revolution started or ended. How does Cuban cultural production engage these competing temporalities? Send 250-word abstracts.Submission Deadline: Friday, 15 March 2024

Contact:…[Read more]

]]> a5286120296cf1d661c5245e7ab2b258 Maybel Mesa Morales started the topic CFP: Temporalities of the Cuban Revolution in the discussion LLC Cuban and Cuban Diasporic https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/cuban-and-cuban-diasporic/forum/topic/cfp-temporalities-of-the-cuban-revolution/ Thu, 01 Feb 2024 20:41:47 -0500 Cuba is often treated as before or ahead of its time, and scholars disagree about when the Cuban Revolution started or ended. How does Cuban cultural production engage these competing temporalities? Send 250-word abstracts.Submission Deadline: Wednesday, 28 February 2024

Contact: Maybel Mesa Morales, Ph.D. (mesamorales@lycoming.edu)

]]> d7eadde6b87787f526f9f3a7a33301c9 Crystal Anne Chemris deposited Flyer for The Spanish Baroque and latin American Literary Modernity: writing in Constellation in the group LLC Colonial Latin American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1870642/ Thu, 11 Jan 2024 04:06:12 -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 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!

]]> b42e8544a63a68b55bc4e7f045f2c1ac Fatma Fulya Tepe started the topic New creative feminist work: A Misogynist Triptych from 1945 in the discussion MS Visual Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/visual-culture/forum/topic/new-creative-feminist-work-a-misogynist-triptych-from-1945-17/ Tue, 05 Dec 2023 16:09:30 -0500 Dear Colleagues,

I , Assoc. Prof. Dr. Fatma Fulya Tepe, from Istanbul Aydin University, Faculty of Education and Emeritus Prof. Dr. Per Bauhn from Sweden’s Linnaeus University prepared “A Misogynist Triptych from 1945” based on cartoon material coming from the Turkish Boşboğaz (Bigmouth) Humor Gazette from 1945. This project was supported by…[Read more]

]]> ca6579937e0f1cad7da5eb44a701f377 Fatma Fulya Tepe started the topic new article: Osman Hamdi Bey – an Ottoman Orientalist or a Humanist Ottoman? in the discussion MS Visual Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/visual-culture/forum/topic/new-article-osman-hamdi-bey-an-ottoman-orientalist-or-a-humanist-ottoman/ Tue, 05 Dec 2023 14:52:38 -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 b…[Read more]

]]> 0577931add8d3ff57ee9a6726efaff2f Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2024 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion CLCS Caribbean https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/clcs-caribbean/forum/topic/membership-suggestions-for-2024-forum-delegate-election/ Wed, 18 Oct 2023 00:37:12 -0400 The next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2024, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets in January 2024. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nominate at least one candidate who…[Read more]

]]> 098193ec95d4a758716c946e549c44c2 Sophie Christman deposited Alt-Burger: Transforming Populist Food Systems in the group MS Visual Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1861779/ Sun, 15 Oct 2023 04:19:23 -0400 This article argues that there exists a problematic nexus between the industrial livestock industry, US food system policies, and American propagandist literature. The essay’s specific aim is to transform carnivorous appetites by subverting the integrity of America’s national gastronomic emblem – the hamburger. The article examines how hambu…[Read more]

]]> 0 ef7b41cccf02bd2f98f7d6e58e6f9304 Sophie Christman deposited * The Rise of Proto-Environmentalism in George Eliot in the group MS Visual Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1861770/ Sun, 15 Oct 2023 04:05:28 -0400 The “Ilfracombe” journals, “Ex Oriente Lux,” and “A Minor Prophet” register the ways
in which George Eliot’s nineteenth-century nonfiction prose and poetry evidence
ecotheological concerns that are proto-environmental, concerns that are also
reflected in some of her novels. Employing an ecocritical methodology, this article
traces the…[Read more]

]]> 0 c78b7af6fcde8f0ae9d929f600528734 Hania A.M. Nashef deposited Against Stereotypical Representations: On young Saudi directors in the group MS Visual Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1857505/ Wed, 06 Sep 2023 01:16:31 -0400 In his writing, Cultural theorist Stuart Hall has often argued that an image or a set of images has the capability of condensing a number of attributes into a single picture, producing a misleading representation of what other people and cultures are like. As a result, multiple stories evolve into the one story that is told repeatedly and usually…[Read more]

]]> 0 0966e777d6c4fbd83157f5cd4d04ce9d Carl Gelderloos posted an update in the group MS Visual Culture: Very happy to share that my article on Kracauer's […] https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1857371/ Mon, 04 Sep 2023 16:22:41 -0400 Very happy to share that my article on Kracauer's "Photography" essay (1927) and its weird use of Bachofen's theory of the archaic matriarchy has just been published in The Germanic Review. E-prints here: https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/CNSXEEHMUQYSFFXG3TZ9/full?target=10.1080/00168890.2023.2232511

]]> 0 c2f90519df2bcf48dc0873bd29aaeca1 Carl Gelderloos posted an update in the group MS Visual Culture: Very excited that my essay on Paul Scheerbart's Lesabéndio […] https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1843360/ Wed, 03 May 2023 00:32:43 -0400 Very excited that my essay on Paul Scheerbart's Lesabéndio is now live on Modernism/modernity Print Plus! https://modernismmodernity.org/articles/gelderloos-nowhere-obstacle

]]> 0 021b8f695131737dbf4afd68db5e5c6e Nathan H. Dize started the topic Conversation w/ Jean Abel Pierre about corruption in Haiti (in French) in the discussion CLCS Caribbean https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/clcs-caribbean/forum/topic/conversation-w-jean-abel-pierre-about-corruption-in-haiti-in-french/ Thu, 06 Apr 2023 12:47:31 -0400 Kwazman Vwa is delighted to welcome author Jean Abel Pierre. Pierre will be with us to discuss his recent book, Sociologie critique de la corruption: Comment Haïti est pris au piège de la pauvreté. Corruption is a subject that concerns us all, and somehow, our preoccupation with limiting its effects and abuses never seem to fully eliminate it ent…[Read more]

]]> 3b6e0c0bfcef2cb88d6ec058bc794e4a Raquel Patricia Chiquillo started the topic CFP: for Journal Humanities - on Twenty-First Century Central American Novel in the discussion LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-latin-american/forum/topic/cfp-for-journal-humanities-on-twenty-first-century-central-american-novel/ Wed, 08 Mar 2023 20:43:57 -0500 Buenas tardes, colegas: quisiera invitarlos a subir sus artículos sobre la novela centroamericana del siglo XXI para consideración de ser publicadas en la revista académica "Humanities." La fecha de entrega es el 31 de marzo pero se puede extender. Me han dicho que el APC no se va a cobrar. Se aceptan manuscritos en español y en inglés. Por favo…[Read more]

]]> 41e35f228a654036588331d036bf18e2 Doris Hambuch deposited Bridges within the Arts: Bob Dylan and Martin Scorsese in the group MS Visual Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1835536/ Mon, 27 Feb 2023 02:23:41 -0500 Tracing the collaboration between Dylan and Scorsese from the 1960s on to the Netflix original 'The Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese' (2019), this article argues that the mutual respect of the two artists rests on a shared contestation of borders between fact and fiction. In the spirit of romanticism, both Dylan and…[Read more]

]]> 0 f7ce4534bf8c669fcfabc4c87cded081 Hania A.M. Nashef deposited What Does a Nascent Film Movement of Popular Genres Reveal About Emirati Culture? in the group MS Visual Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1835478/ Sun, 26 Feb 2023 03:52:16 -0500 Despite a lack of a traditional cinema culture, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), has recently witnessed an increase in film production. This rise can be attributed to a number of factors, not least of which, is the opening of movie theaters, the establishment of international film festivals and the arrival of film companies. These ventures have…[Read more]

]]> 0 79fdd0613f7fd80fefda695e59149f16 Margaret Frohlich deposited Sexual Diversity in Young Cuban Cinema in the group LLC Cuban and Cuban Diasporic https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1835407/ Sat, 25 Feb 2023 03:51:01 -0500 This book explores how young Cuban filmmakers have expanded the range of sexual subjectivities on screen. It analyzes cine joven (films made by young directors) from the late 1980s to the early 2020s, film reviews, articles, and materials from the Cinematheque of Cuba's archive to illustrate the confluence of sexuality, cinema, and discourses of…[Read more]

]]> 0 7bb8f7f660b48b97e2a2d04305c7388c Margaret Frohlich deposited Sexual Diversity in Young Cuban Cinema in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1835406/ Sat, 25 Feb 2023 03:48:43 -0500 This book explores how young Cuban filmmakers have expanded the range of sexual subjectivities on screen. It analyzes cine joven (films made by young directors) from the late 1980s to the early 2020s, film reviews, articles, and materials from the Cinematheque of Cuba's archive to illustrate the confluence of sexuality, cinema, and discourses of…[Read more]

]]> 0 373d1ad4edd25cc270a263f0e9625aa7 David Tenorio started the topic Forum Sessions Call for papers for MLA 2024 (abstracts due 3/17) in the discussion LLC Cuban and Cuban Diasporic https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/cuban-and-cuban-diasporic/forum/topic/forum-sessions-call-for-papers-for-mla-2024-abstracts-due-3-17/ Thu, 23 Feb 2023 17:46:17 -0500

Black Aesthetics and Politics: Fugitivity and Postsocialism in Contemporary Cuba

How do Black aesthetics and politics participate in the context of postsocialism? How does Black fugitivity, or resistance to state capture and incorporation, operate in contemporary Cuba?

Cuba Disassembled: Infrastructures, Consumption, and Material Cultures in…

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]]> 57354b817c017804f7bb6972829ab240 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/ Sun, 22 Jan 2023 20:17:56 -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 25th with your nominations. Thanks!

]]> a76f60c9a3f230ae72769bad4a4df11a Elisa Kriza deposited Helena. La soledad en el laberinto. Epistolario de Helena Laura Paz Garro y Ernst Jünger, por: Elsa Margarita Schwarz Gasque y María del Carmen Vázquez Martínez, ISBN: 9786078706433, Ediciones del Lirio, 2020. in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1821159/ Thu, 10 Nov 2022 03:49:44 -0500 This is a book review that evaluates the Spanish-language edition of the letters written by the Mexican poet Helena Paz Garro to the German writer Ernst Jünger, which were originally written in French. The reviewer had access to the original letters in the German Literature Archive in Germany and she compares the original texts with the…[Read more]

]]> 0 6ea0b45b8834f7c7efbd5d034320410c Debra Ann Castillo created the doc Invitation to apply: New editor(s) for Latin American Literary Review in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1785757/ Wed, 06 Jul 2022 18:17:16 -0400 e56fd8c36d78233bfac73693ed241cff Adrienne Brown started the topic Visual Culture MLA Convention CFPs in the discussion MS Visual Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/visual-culture/forum/topic/visual-culture-mla-convention-cfps/ Thu, 17 Feb 2022 13:32:59 -0500 Below you'll find four CFP's for proposed panels sponsored by the Visual Culture Forum for this year's MLA.  Please do circulate widely and consider contributing.

1- Visual Culture Forum seeks proposals for guaranteed MLA session, Women and Frames of Violence. How do women engage, practice and perform violence in visual culture? Considerations b…[Read more]

]]> 1b44e803c205ec3c94954f31b459c440 Paloma Duong started the topic Forum Sessions Call for papers for MLA 2023 (abstracts due 3/11) in the discussion LLC Cuban and Cuban Diasporic https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/cuban-and-cuban-diasporic/forum/topic/forum-sessions-call-for-papers-for-mla-2023-abstracts-due-3-11/ Thu, 20 Jan 2022 19:45:33 -0500 Archipelagic Feminisms: Cuban and Cuban-Diasporic Feminist Practices 

Intersectional feminism in discourses, practices, and modes of representation in, and feminist approaches to, Cuban and Cuban diasporic culture from any period, including transnational/transregional perspectives. Send 250-word abstracts by 3/11.

Cuba Disassembled: New…[Read more]

]]> 583b4f8c50645864ee30b00c36c8130b Paloma Duong started the topic Seeking self-nominations for Forum Executive Committee and Assembly Delegate in the discussion LLC Cuban and Cuban Diasporic https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/cuban-and-cuban-diasporic/forum/topic/seeking-self-nominations-for-forum-executive-committee-and-assembly-delegate/ Sun, 16 Jan 2022 00:21:17 -0500 Dear colleagues, the Cuban and Cuban Diasporic Forum is seeking self-nominations from our members. If you are interested in getting more involved, please write to any of the members of the executive committee (group admins) or directly to Paloma Duong (pduong@mit.edu) before January 21, 2022. There are two ways to participate:

  • Would you like to…

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]]> 5cc07b5eba7f8ae92614ec57bd82f261 Francisco Marcos-Marín deposited El mito del pluricentrismo desde le realidad de la traducción in the group LLC Colonial Latin American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1766340/ Fri, 14 Jan 2022 04:05:16 -0500 The present work analyzes the application of the pluricentric interpretation
to the Spanish language from the repercussion that this current may have
to correctly interpret the complex reality of Spanish in the United States. The
concept of pluricentrism is not innocent, it tries to favor certain political and
economic interests and it can…[Read more]

]]> 0 c8fa1c08afc06c7f3463566a90dbe1da Elena Machado Sáez started the topic Update re: US Latinx Studies @ 2022 MLA Convention in the discussion LLC Cuban and Cuban Diasporic https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/cuban-and-cuban-diasporic/forum/topic/update-re-us-latinx-studies-2022-mla-convention-5/ Thu, 30 Dec 2021 19:37:36 -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]

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