Knowledge Commons | MOHAMMED ALI ALHAMILI | Group Activity https://hcommons.org/members/mohammedalhamili/activity/groups/ Public group activity feed of which MOHAMMED ALI ALHAMILI is a member. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 00:29:27 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 2b3d0dcffea9e20c766f2f1a1e69dae1 MelissaBarchi Panek replied to the topic CFP: MLA 2027 (Los Angeles) — Mediated Futures: Technology and Transformation in the forum CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century/forum/topic/cfp-mla-2027-los-angeles-mediated-futures-technology-and-transformation/#post-1040868 Tue, 17 Feb 2026 02:15:00 -0500 Call for Papers

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

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

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

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

]]> cabefb85ef316f6d3e9c85b0bd4de48a Berna Gueneli started the topic CF Applicants: Assistant Professor of Film Studies, UGA, Athens, due by 1/15/26 in the forum CLCS Global Arab and Arab American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/global-arab-and-arab-american/forum/topic/cf-applicants-assistant-professor-of-film-studies-uga-athens-due-by-1-15-26-3/ Thu, 20 Nov 2025 16:59:44 -0500 <span style="font-weight: 400;">The Department of Theatre and Film at the University of Georgia welcomes applications for the position of Assistant Professor of Film Studies. </span>

 

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Area of specialization is open. Desired areas of specialization include, but are not limited to, one or more of the following:…[Read more]

]]> fe9a7eb45f9c74eb0d215a511490444d Berna Gueneli started the topic CF Applications: Assistant Professor of Film Studies, UGA, apply by Jan. 15 in the forum Islamicate Studies https://hcommons.org/groups/islamicate-studies/forum/topic/cf-applications-assistant-professor-of-film-studies-uga-apply-by-jan-15/ Tue, 18 Nov 2025 22:02:29 -0500 <span style="font-weight: 400;">The Department of Theatre and Film at the University of Georgia welcomes applications for the position of Assistant Professor of Film Studies. </span>

 

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Area of specialization is open. Desired areas of specialization include, but are not limited to, one or more of the following:…[Read more]

]]> bc3ca5918e5aecb37dc737007efb2c8c Ahmed Idrissi Alami created the doc AATA Translation Contest, Deadline 15-August, 2025 in the group CLCS Global Arab and Arab American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1922625/ Mon, 14 Jul 2025 20:27:49 -0400 de6584d7523b9ec9f4b235077aed8f4d Lisa Nalbone started the topic CFP: Amplifying Women’s Voices of Resistance in the forum CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century/forum/topic/cfp-amplifying-womens-voices-of-resistance/ Thu, 03 Apr 2025 15:53:35 -0400 CFP for “Amplifying Women’s Voices of Resistance: Challenging Power, Shaping Change”, for a special issue of the South Atlantic Review: The Journal of the South Atlantic Modern Language Association.

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

]]> 1bf02e4bf98efa14371e4d0306651bf8 Ahmed Idrissi Alami started the topic ARABIC TRANSLATION CONTEST – (AATA) submissions deadline August 15, 2025 in the forum CLCS Global Arab and Arab American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/global-arab-and-arab-american/forum/topic/arabic-translation-contest-aata-submissions-deadline-august-15-2025/ Tue, 11 Mar 2025 20:10:37 -0400 The American Association of Teachers of Arabic (AATA) is delighted to announce this year’s Arabic Translation Contest. We kindly ask you to encourage your eligible students to participate in the contest.
Details on the topics, eligibility, requirements, submission date, submission e-mail address, prizes, and coordinator/s are stated in the a…[Read more]

]]> 38629fca75fe7b32a38be1f6544a0b6a Paul Michael Johnson started the topic CFP: Mediterranean Racialization (MLA 2026, Toronto) in the forum CLCS Mediterranean https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/mediterranean/forum/topic/cfp-mediterranean-racialization-mla-2026-toronto/ Tue, 04 Mar 2025 12:56:11 -0500 How have conceptions of race shaped the Mediterranean, and how has the Mediterranean shaped the concept or lived experience of race? Potential approaches include racialization of nation, empire, and migration. 200-word abstracts to pmjohnson@jhu.edu. Deadline for submissions: Saturday, 15 March 2025

]]> c92b65091a851503aea891c2101dc610 Paul Michael Johnson started the topic CFP: Iberian and Mediterranean Exteriorities (MLA 2026, Toronto) in the forum CLCS Mediterranean https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/mediterranean/forum/topic/cfp-iberian-and-mediterranean-exteriorities-mla-2026-toronto/ Tue, 04 Mar 2025 12:51:36 -0500 Mediterranean territories “exterior” but connected to the Iberian Peninsula: Gibraltar, Maghreb, Ceuta, Melilla, Chafarinas, Baleares, Sardinia, Sicily, Naples, Sephardic communities, etc. All approaches considered. 200-word abstracts: MLA.Iberian.Lit.Cult.20th.21st.c@gmail.com and rpnewcomb@ucdavis.edu. Deadline for submissions: Thursday, 20 March 2025

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

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

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

Session 413: Navigating the Academy: A Mentoring Session

 

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

]]> c95335d4403ce9d68229f677e67b4672 Paul Michael Johnson started the topic Session on Mediterranean Sexualities this Saturday at MLA Convention in the forum CLCS Mediterranean https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/mediterranean/forum/topic/session-on-mediterranean-sexualities-this-saturday-at-mla-convention/ Wed, 08 Jan 2025 14:48:59 -0500 For those who will be at the MLA Convention in New Orleans this week, please plan to attend our panel on Mediterranean Sexualities this Saturday, January 11, 10:15 - 11:30 a.m.  It will feature exciting presentations on asexuality, the queer female gaze, and alterity in ancient drama, Roman history, and Moroccan film, among other timely issues,…[Read more]

]]> 9adb215081bae64325b5cc34043aae3e Ramzi Salti posted an update in the group LLC Arabic: It is my pleasure to finally share the video recording of my […] https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1907862/ Fri, 03 Jan 2025 18:23:45 -0500 It is my pleasure to finally share the video recording of my recent audio-visual talk at Stanford which celebrated Fairuz's 90th birthday by showcasing the legendary singer's life and music through the years.
You can watch the video at: https://youtu.be/9YnBqbPb1Wo
Titled "Fairuz and the Lebanon That Was/Is," this event aimed to show how Fairuz's…[Read more]

]]> 0 7ce408e8b6d34d52ab0f24ae3dbba1c8 Thomas Oliver Beebee started the topic CFP for "Reading Cultures," a special issue of the journal Culture as Text in the forum CLCS Global Arab and Arab American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/global-arab-and-arab-american/forum/topic/cfp-for-reading-cultures-a-special-issue-of-the-journal-culture-as-text-3/ Fri, 01 Nov 2024 10:25:00 -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]

]]> ac216fdcfc266e3190817d14e8e65dd9 Nick Posegay deposited From the Battlefield of Books: Essays Celebrating 50 Years of the Taylor-Schechter Genizah Research Unit in the group Islamicate Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1902157/ Sun, 20 Oct 2024 03:01:08 -0400 This collection of essays celebrates 50 years since the founding of the Taylor-Schechter Genizah Research Unit at Cambridge University Library. Three generations of scholars contributed their research and memories from their time at the GRU, stretching back to 1974. Their work comprises 18 articles on medieval Jewish History, Hebrew and Arabic…[Read more]

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

Priority Deadline 1 November 2024

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

]]> cc0dfa02dd8821e984998352ec22eeee Nick Posegay deposited The Illustrated Cairo Genizah in the group Islamicate Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1900714/ Fri, 04 Oct 2024 03:01:17 -0400 Almost one thousand years ago, the Jews of Old Cairo began to place their worn-out books and scrolls into a hidden storage room – a genizah – of their synagogue. Over the years, they added all sorts of writings to the pile, sacred and secular texts alike. When the chamber was emptied at the end of the 19th century, it held hundreds of tho…[Read more]

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

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

Location: Durham Convention Center in beautiful Downtown Durham!

Dates: May 29-June 1, 2025

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

]]> d6aa417c62c21dd2c30f6bbcef11e566 Hania A.M. Nashef deposited The City is Closing in: Raja Shehadeh’s Going Home Searches for a Homeland in the group CLCS Global Arab and Arab American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1893020/ Sat, 20 Jul 2024 03:00:26 -0400 Growing constrictions and suffocating borders, due to an unrelenting occupation, continue to plague the lives of Palestinians living in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. Raja Shehadeh’s 2019 book, Going Home, illustrates how this stifling existence has only worsened with time. His work provides a chronology of events and highlights changes w…[Read more]

]]> 0 27c2e897a93e235c8077ffa4f817eb8f Nick Posegay deposited Five Qur’anic Papyri from the Michaelides Collection at the Cambridge University Library in the group Islamicate Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1891767/ Mon, 15 Jul 2024 03:00:33 -0400 The Michaelides manuscript collection at the Cambridge University Library contains approximately 700 papyrus fragments collected by George Michaelides in Egypt in the middle of the twentieth century. While a preliminary handlist exists for this collection, most of the papyri have not been fully described. Among them are five Qur’anic papyri that h…[Read more]

]]> 0 f09254050466c17189e88b787bb0d44e Nick Posegay deposited Five Qur’anic Papyri from the Michaelides Collection at the Cambridge University Library in the group Islamicate Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1891765/ Mon, 15 Jul 2024 03:00:29 -0400 The Michaelides manuscript collection at the Cambridge University Library contains approximately 700 papyrus fragments collected by George Michaelides in Egypt in the middle of the twentieth century. While a preliminary handlist exists for this collection, most of the papyri have not been fully described. Among them are five Qur’anic papyri that h…[Read more]

]]> 0 b6b438d06f0b6f49bdac7b7e2219c235 Ramzi Salti deposited Women’s Voices in Arabic Music by Ramzi Salti (Stanford University) in the group LLC Arabic https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1890605/ Sat, 29 Jun 2024 04:00:34 -0400 This is the corrected and edited transcript of Dr. Ramzi Salti’s talk about “Women’s Voices in Arabic Music” which was presented for Women’s History Month at Santa Rosa Junior College on March 7, 2024. You can also watch the video on YouTube (with CC on).

]]> 0 4534cd8aaaa16c86ddd586dad5fc8f1e Ramzi Salti deposited Women’s Voices in Arabic Music by Ramzi Salti (Stanford University) in the group CLCS Global Arab and Arab American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1890604/ Sat, 29 Jun 2024 04:00:12 -0400 This is the corrected and edited transcript of Dr. Ramzi Salti’s talk about “Women’s Voices in Arabic Music” which was presented for Women’s History Month at Santa Rosa Junior College on March 7, 2024. You can also watch the video on YouTube (with CC on).

]]> 0 457b5c4448c53e0e142413fccd6432da Brian Gregory Caraher deposited Review of Joseph O'Neill, in the group CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1890598/ Sat, 29 Jun 2024 03:00:27 -0400 Early, refereed review of Joseph O'Neill's third, groundbreaking novel set in post-9/11 New York City: the review charts key plot developments, a transatlantic mapping of the characters (Netherlands, Trinidad, UK and US) and its structural similarities to F Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby". Originally published in the third issue of the…[Read more]

]]> 0 f562bbe393c3a465eda69d68fc3fd8aa Brian Gregory Caraher deposited "Gently, gently Northern Ire! Love that red hand!": Teaching James Joyce in Northern Ireland in the group CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1890207/ Wed, 26 Jun 2024 03:00:03 -0400 This paper describes the social and cultural climate of teaching the works of James Joyce -- including his journalism and major works of fiction from "Dubliners" through "Ulysses" and "Finnegans Wake" -- over the years 1993 to 2016 when the author was the Chair of English Literature at Queen's University Belfast. The author draws upon his…[Read more]

]]> 0 065b87c807f4b04bc751ae327171939a Katina Rogers deposited The Presence of Absence: Meditations on the Unsayable in Writing in the group CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1889658/ Thu, 20 Jun 2024 03:01:53 -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 c8e60a3ab34256cef747a9362eb9e986 David A. Wacks deposited Medieval Iberian Romance in the group CLCS Mediterranean https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1886748/ Tue, 21 May 2024 03:09:28 -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 148f7179d248e7c501a2d9f649e3ef81 David A. Wacks deposited Foreword: 50 years of Spanish Arabism in the group CLCS Mediterranean https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1886745/ Tue, 21 May 2024 03:05:35 -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 f97e943f615639c465e202fa64267b90 David A. Wacks deposited Preface to The Study of al-Andalus The Scholarship and Legacy of James T. Monroe in the group CLCS Mediterranean https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1886743/ Tue, 21 May 2024 03:02:18 -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 3e3552b4a3367f5f27a6a07bf5801d89 Yusuf Sansarkan deposited Zîrîlerin Fâtımî Hilafetini Terkedip Abbasî Hilafetini Tanımaları Sürecinde Şii-Sünni Mücadelesi, Shiite Sunni Struggle in the Process of the Zirid's Abandonment of the Fatimid Caliphate by Recognizing the Abbasid Caliphate in the group Islamicate Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1886671/ Mon, 20 May 2024 03:00:35 -0400 It is known that Berbers suffered from
central government after the conquests of the North Africa. Berbers who were
initially inclined to abandon Islam preferred to join political-religious
groups in time. In the 8th century, Khārijism was influential in North Africa.
In the 10th century, Ismā‘īlī Shī‘ism, which was another opposition group, w…[Read more]

]]> 0 3b4c495de76c50d08b7c8885973589e7 Nick Posegay deposited Eleven Colophons by Ten Printers from Seven Cities in the Cairo Genizah in the group Islamicate Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1886342/ Thu, 16 May 2024 03:01:09 -0400 While the Cairo Genizah is mainly known as a repository of medieval manuscripts, modern Genizah collections also contain thousands of folios from texts printed with moveable type between 1500 and 1900. Most of these imprints come from Europe, but almost all of them reached the Cairene Jewish community at some point before 1897. They are also among…[Read more]

]]> 0 a4436688b7c2939181feb91bffa21325 Jake Benson started the topic The Iranian Diaspora in Southeast Asia: Old Manuscript, New Perspectives in the discussion Islamicate Studies https://hcommons.org/groups/islamicate-studies/forum/topic/the-iranian-diaspora-in-southeast-asia-old-manuscript-new-perspectives-3/ Wed, 01 May 2024 13:39:48 -0400 https://www.leidenspecialcollectionsblog.nl/articles/persians-of-java-re-examining-the-cultural-context-of-indonesia

]]> 2a68979f4c0067725baefd7a3865399d Gregor M. Schwarb deposited The Conceptual Framework of Muʿtazilī-Bahšamī Phenomenological Epistemology in the group Islamicate Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1884673/ Wed, 01 May 2024 03:29:01 -0400 Synoptic edition of the introductions to Kitāb al-Taḏkira fī aḥkām al-jawāhir wa-l-aʿrāḍ (‘Reminder about the properties of atoms and accidents’) by Abū Muḥammad al-Ḥasan b. Aḥmad b. Mattawayh and its commentary (Šarḥ), presumably by Abū Ǧaʿfar Muḥammad b. ʿAlī Mazdak. Taken together, these introductions offer a valuable summary outline of basi…[Read more]

]]> 0 1e544267d0f4390cd797d657680c1103 Alexandre Roberts deposited Review of: Rustam Shukurov, Byzantine Ideas of Persia, 650-1461 in the group Islamicate Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1884671/ Wed, 01 May 2024 03:28:55 -0400 Review of: Shukurov, Rustam. Byzantine Ideas of Persia, 650–1461. London: Routledge, 2023.

ByzRev 06.2024.018

]]> 0 9d66078d893006a1d3a7cee135a7658c Behnam M. Fomeshi deposited برابری‌خواهی جنسیتی در شعر پروین اعتصامی؟ in the group Islamicate Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1884560/ Wed, 01 May 2024 03:19:27 -0400 در بررسی شعر فمنیستی فارسی معمولاً به نام فروغ فرخزاد، سیمین بهبهانی، طاهره قره‌العین، زندخت شیرازی و اخیراً ژاله عالم‌تاج قائم‌‌مقامی برمی‌خوریم و نام پروین اعتصامی (1285-1320ش) در چنین مباحثی مطرح نمی‌شود. آنچه پژوهشگران تا به اکنون دربارۀ شعر او در کانون توجه قرار داده‌اند جنبه‌های اجتماعی اشعار این شاعر و تلاش وی برای به تصویر کشیدن…[Read more]

]]> 0 ec54bebeafc2788f315070e0740e112a David A. Wacks deposited Relatos de los disturbios antijudíos de Valencia, julio de 1391 in the group CLCS Mediterranean https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1884546/ Wed, 01 May 2024 03:15:42 -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 9ad9f8b44f08767fa62b6382592d8ad5 David A. Wacks deposited Accounts of the Anti-Jewish Riot in Valencia, July 1391 in the group CLCS Mediterranean https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1884541/ Wed, 01 May 2024 03:10:03 -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 2ef798cb893ffd8f4ba75fcd2c76ccb8 Fatma Fulya Tepe started the topic New Article: Banal misogynism in Turkish media in the discussion CLCS Mediterranean https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/mediterranean/forum/topic/dear-colleagues-i-assoc-prof-dr-fatma-fulya-tepe-from-istanbul-aydin/ Wed, 27 Mar 2024 14:35:20 -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]

]]> 1c41fb0a5a05b79af9c8e31160d167a5 David A. Wacks started the topic Online workshop: Intro to Sephardic Culture (online July 8-11) Deadline Apr 15 in the discussion CLCS Mediterranean https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/mediterranean/forum/topic/online-workshop-intro-to-sephardic-culture-online-july-8-11-deadline-apr-15/ Fri, 22 Mar 2024 00:18:27 -0400 This summer I'll be teaching on online workshop for grad students, faculty, and professionals: “Sephardic Culture: An Introduction” 8-11 July 2024 (remote). Deadline to apply is April 15. Please share widely! https://www.mediterraneanseminar.org/overview-sephardic-culture-2024

]]> 467f3db4ada6b1770092e206341ac67c David A. Wacks deposited Accounts of the Anti-Jewish Riot in Valencia, July 1391 in the group CLCS Mediterranean https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1879891/ Tue, 19 Mar 2024 03:09:37 -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 5d434741092832fb63a81580bdf40a71 David A. Wacks deposited Relatos de los disturbios antijudíos de Valencia, julio de 1391 in the group CLCS Mediterranean https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1879886/ Tue, 19 Mar 2024 03:04:40 -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 95c452ff9785d98096af4a505a7f687b Paul Michael Johnson started the topic Last call to submit an abstract for MLA 2024 panel on Mediterranean Sexualities in the discussion CLCS Mediterranean https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/mediterranean/forum/topic/last-call-to-submit-an-abstract-for-mla-2024-panel-on-mediterranean-sexualities/ Thu, 14 Mar 2024 19:35:36 -0400 Mediterranean Sexualities
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How do Mediterranean sexual epistemologies challenge common approaches to the history of sexuality? Especially encouraged are papers considering queer sexuality and erotics with (in)visibility of/in archives, empire, slavery, race, migration, and nation. 200-word abstracts. Deadline for submissions: Friday, 15…[Read more]

]]> d1dec69d8ef566aa62c15f1497b34d1a Hania A.M. Nashef deposited Inhabiting a Comfortable Fiction of the Self: J.M. Coetzee’s Summertime in the group CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1877009/ Mon, 19 Feb 2024 04:00:11 -0500 Abstract
In his email conversations with Arabella Kurtz in The Good Story: Exchanges on Truth, Fiction and Psychotherapy, J.M. Coetzee entertains the notion of settling on fictions of ourselves, which we are able to inhabit more comfortably than what is perceived as our real life. In addition, he implies that in order to form fictions of…[Read more]

]]> 0 c818e40480db72358fb4a574e8fc75fa Jörg Matthias Determann started the topic Islamic Theology and Extraterrestrial Life in the discussion Islamicate Studies https://hcommons.org/groups/islamicate-studies/forum/topic/islamic-theology-and-extraterrestrial-life-3/ Sun, 18 Feb 2024 11:08:01 -0500 Dear colleagues,

It is with profound gratitude that I announce the publication of a volume edited by Shoaib Ahmed Malik and me. It is entitled Islamic Theology and Extraterrestrial Life: New Frontiers in Science and Religion (London: I.B. Tauris, 2024). Free review copies are available.

Islamic Theology and Extraterrestrial Life: New…[Read more]

]]> 2d7e2a4a4164274466ec08c907e7e7ee Maybel Mesa Morales replied to the topic CFP: Temporalities of the Cuban Revolution in the discussion CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century/forum/topic/cfp-temporalities-of-the-cuban-revolution-3/#post-1037305 Thu, 01 Feb 2024 22:20:27 -0500 Deadline: Friday, 15 March 2024

]]> 9c21c02f9108fb669ce869d0fa2f0066 Fatma Fulya Tepe started the topic new feminist short story on sexual harassment at a Turkish university setting in the discussion CLCS Mediterranean https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/mediterranean/forum/topic/new-feminist-short-story-on-sexual-harassment-at-a-turkish-university-setting/ Wed, 31 Jan 2024 12:21:22 -0500 Dear Colleagues,

I and Emeritus Prof. Dr. Per Bauhn from Linnaeus University in Sweden have just published a short story on sexual harassment in a Turkish university context titled as “Professor Mali Romantic-Longhair and the Girl” in the Journal of International Women's Studies (JIWS.) We present the link and the info to the short story bel…[Read more]

]]> 9f5c14480a8af553f4154f9dc3dbae85 David A. Wacks started the topic International Ladino (Judeo-Spanish) Summer School (Jersualem, July 28-Aug 12) in the discussion CLCS Mediterranean https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/mediterranean/forum/topic/international-ladino-judeo-spanish-summer-school-jersualem-july-28-aug-12/ Mon, 29 Jan 2024 15:46:27 -0500 The first International Ladino (Judeo-Spanish) Summer School will be held at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem from July 28 to August 12, 2024. The intensive courses about the Sephardi language and culture (6 credits) will be held in English and will form a meeting point between Israeli and international students in the fields of Jewish Studies,…[Read more]

]]> d66213ebe1d14467aac95b3fc1e03308 David A. Wacks started the topic Online talk on Sephardi Diaspora in Algeria (14th-15th c.) (Jan 30) in the discussion CLCS Mediterranean https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/mediterranean/forum/topic/online-talk-on-sephardi-diaspora-in-algeria-14th-15th-c-jan-30/ Thu, 11 Jan 2024 14:21:07 -0500 Prof. Amina Boukail (Univ. Jijel), “Written Sephardic Diaspora to Survive from Spain to Algeria (14th–15th Centuries)”

Respondent: Javier Castaño (U Complutense)Jan 30, 8:00am Pacific US/11:00am Eastern US/17:00 Paris

“Euro-Mediterranean Entanglements in Medieval History”, presented by the German Historical Institutes of Paris and Rome

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]]> aa47b502df3017877ee50161df8d6aa5 Anna Ziajka Stanton started the topic Executive Committee -- Nominees Needed in the discussion LLC Arabic https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/arabic/forum/topic/executive-committee-nominees-needed-2/ Thu, 11 Jan 2024 12:46:01 -0500 The MLA Global Arab & Arab American Forum seeks nominees to the Executive Committee, with a term to begin after the 2025 MLA Convention and run through Jan 2030.

  • Only current MLA members are eligible for appointment.
  • Seven convention years must elapse before an individual can serve another term on the same executive committee.
  • No member…

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]]> ae8376eb9a4973f41c5fc1332b9ee85c Anna Ziajka Stanton started the topic Executive Committee -- Nominees Needed in the discussion CLCS Global Arab and Arab American https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/global-arab-and-arab-american/forum/topic/executive-committee-nominees-needed/ Thu, 11 Jan 2024 12:45:57 -0500 The MLA Global Arab & Arab American Forum seeks nominees to the Executive Committee, with a term to begin after the 2025 MLA Convention and run through Jan 2030.

  • Only current MLA members are eligible for appointment.
  • Seven convention years must elapse before an individual can serve another term on the same executive committee.
  • No member may…

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