Knowledge Commons | Olivia Mignone | Group Activity https://hcommons.org/members/omignone/activity/groups/ Public group activity feed of which Olivia Mignone is a member. Sun, 05 Apr 2026 14:50:38 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 91441a91bdeed2f844dfbb5fd6e185de Inés Vañó García started the topic CFP - MLA Convention 2027 in the forum LSL Language and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/language-and-society/forum/topic/cfp-mla-convention-2027-2/ Thu, 19 Mar 2026 16:04:03 -0400 Language Ideologies and the Discursive Construction of Emancipatory Narratives
We invite 250-word abstracts of interdisciplinary contributions that examine how language ideologies and practices, historically and in digital contexts, mediate power, shape public perception, and negotiate responsibility within social, political, and pedagogical…[Read more]

]]> 60e58ef91341856422c21d3b0fff0f51 Randall Gess started the topic MLA 2026 Session: Romance Linguistics in the forum General Linguistics https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/general-linguistics/forum/topic/mla-2026-session-romance-linguistics-4/ Thu, 08 Jan 2026 20:04:00 -0500 The Modern Language Association’s (MLA) Executive Committee of the LSL Forum on Romance Linguistics welcomes you to our session at the MLA’s 2026 Annual Convention in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

We hope to see you on Friday, January 9th at 5:15 @ MTCC – 205A
Presentations
 The Curious Case of Interconsonantal S in Old French , Francisco Antonio…[Read more]

]]> 449434bee3550586b44084517f90aa5e Lee B. Abraham started the topic MLA 2026 Sessions: LSL Second-Language Teaching and Learning Forum in the forum LSL Language and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/language-and-society/forum/topic/mla-2026-sessions-lsl-second-language-teaching-and-learning-forum-3/ Thu, 08 Jan 2026 02:11:49 -0500 The Modern Language Association’s (MLA) Executive Committee of the LSL Forum on Second-Language Teaching and Learning cordially invites you to our three (3) sessions at the MLA’s 2026 Annual Convention in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

We look forward to seeing you and to your participation!

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314 – Reimagining Learning and Teaching with Stu…[Read more]

]]> d69bfcf2d744701bfacd2e6cf104e2dc Shakil Rabbi started the topic Abstract for Translingual Rhetorics and the Language Movement in Bangladesh in the forum LSL Language and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/language-and-society/forum/topic/abstract-for-translingual-rhetorics-and-the-language-movement-in-bangladesh/ Fri, 02 Jan 2026 21:54:13 -0500 This presentation explores the role of Language Movement in the formation of the Bangladeshi national identity. Analyzing the translingual negotiations between diverse language ideologies I argue that these interactions laid the groundwork for a distinct national consciousness. Rather than viewing language and nationalism as fixed categories, this…[Read more]

]]> 80c221f457103f995092339003cc52ed Daniel Alan Fried started the topic Family Resemblances between World Languages and Nationalisms abstract in the forum LSL Language and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/language-and-society/forum/topic/family-resemblances-between-world-languages-and-nationalisms-abstract-2/ Mon, 29 Dec 2025 22:15:41 -0500 Posting at Shakil's request--here is my abstract for the panel:

<u>Language and Identity in the Sinitic Empire of Letters</u>

For centuries prior to the advent of modern nationalism, Chinese literature had already been constructed by scholars into a common heritage and united civilizational tradition; with modern Chinese nationalism, this…[Read more]

]]> eb8d10444be5cd39fe31df04f28e584e Daniel Alan Fried started the topic Family Resemblances between World Languages and Nationalisms abstract in the forum LSL Language and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/language-and-society/forum/topic/family-resemblances-between-world-languages-and-nationalisms-abstract/ Mon, 29 Dec 2025 22:13:18 -0500 At Shakil's request to mention our panel here, I thought I would post a copy of my abstract for our MLA panel on Family Resemblances between World Languages and Nationalisms.  The panel is scheduled for Saturday January 10 8:30-9:45 in MTCC-707.

 

<u>Language and Identity in the Sinitic Empire of Letters</u>

For centuries prior to the advent…[Read more]

]]> 6f70c112050a2dd780080a49d81e5deb Laura Francis started the topic LSL Language Change - Call for Papers - MLA 2026 in the forum LSL Language and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/language-and-society/forum/topic/lsl-language-change-call-for-papers-mla-2026-5/ Wed, 12 Mar 2025 23:15:00 -0400 Dear Colleagues,

The LSL Language Change Forum is seeking papers for the following panels at the 2026 MLA Annual Conference in Toronto from January 8-11. Please see the panel information below and consider submitting an abstract. We would love to hear from you:

Pedagogy and Intergenerational Language Change

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]]> 827fab9a82e1ed0fedaeaba2c2f395bd Laura Francis started the topic LSL Language Change - Call for Papers - MLA 2026 in the forum General Linguistics https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/general-linguistics/forum/topic/lsl-language-change-call-for-papers-mla-2026-4/ Wed, 12 Mar 2025 23:11:45 -0400 Dear Colleagues,

The LSL Language Change Forum is seeking papers for the following panels at the 2026 MLA Annual Conference in Toronto from January 8-11. Please see the panel information below and consider submitting an abstract. We would love to hear from you:

Pedagogy and Intergenerational Language Change

How do linguistic features passed…[Read more]

]]> 0b99c09da9a6a7494fe191ed7fc2a0af Inés Vañó García started the topic LSL Language and Society: Calls for Papers in the forum LSL Language and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/language-and-society/forum/topic/lsl-language-and-society-calls-for-papers-14/ Sat, 01 Mar 2025 13:33:36 -0500 (Re)thinking AI on Language Pedagogy: Discourses of Resemblances & Disparities
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, and ethical implications. Send 300…[Read more]

]]> 8892a2796bed477b91b7bd8844e60f06 Shakil Rabbi started the topic CFP for 2026 MLA: Family Resemblances between World Languages and Nationalisms in the forum LSL Language and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/language-and-society/forum/topic/cfp-for-2026-mla-family-resemblances-between-world-languages-and-natiionalisms/ Thu, 06 Feb 2025 20:05:21 -0500 The Language and Society Forum is calling for papers for our sponsored session at the 2026 MLA Conference. We are seeking examinations of world languages and nationalisms in terms of their family resemblances across social, community, and individual domains, with special attention to their discursive and material developments. 300-word abstracts…[Read more]

]]> e9d55be06d96aa58afe95a036838e629 Inés Vañó García uploaded the file: The Invisible Politics of Affect in STEM Learning Contexts to LSL Language and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1909237/ Fri, 17 Jan 2025 11:36:18 -0500 PPT Presentation by Suresh Canagarajah, "The Invisible Politics of Affect in STEM Learning Contexts," (LSL Session: (In)Visibility: Language, Ideology, and Power)
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Affect has been defined as experienced at the prelinguistic and nonconscious level by theorists such as Brian Massumi (2015). For that reason, Massumi also theorizes that…[Read more]

]]> 0 b3398652dfc009e9e2a1bf289d5e5527 Inés Vañó García uploaded the file: Deconstructing Masculine (Will)power through French Medical Models of Trauma (1914-1919) to LSL Language and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1909236/ Fri, 17 Jan 2025 11:33:16 -0500 PPT Presentation by Katherine Ellis, "Deconstructing Masculine (Will)power through French Medical Models of Trauma (1914-1919)", ((LSL Session: (In)Visibility: Language, Ideology, and Power)
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Since the Enlightenment, willpower in dominant Western societies has emblematized consciousness, civilization, and masculinity, opposite which…[Read more]

]]> 0 52e36da6b2a80c4d2e1e0dfac040a68f Inés Vañó García uploaded the file: (Un)natural Languages, (Un)natural Identities: Decentering Spanish in a Curriculum for Puerto Rican Studies to LSL Language and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1909234/ Fri, 17 Jan 2025 11:29:39 -0500 PPT Presentation by Carmín Quijano Seda, " (Un)natural Languages, (Un)natural Identities: Decentering Spanish in a Curriculum for Puerto Rican Studies " (LSL Session: (In)Visibility: Language, Ideology, and Power)
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When examining how practices of dominance and control work in modern societies, it is vital to move away from analyses that…[Read more]

]]> 0 55cd17f3e4e46389816d15d1c5e4e918 Catherine Fountain started the topic Join the General Linguistics Forum Committee! in the forum General Linguistics https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/general-linguistics/forum/topic/join-the-general-linguistics-forum-committee/ Tue, 14 Jan 2025 02:13:46 -0500 Colleagues in the MLA’s Language Study and Linguistics (LSL) forums, please consider nominating yourself or a colleague to serve on the LSL General Linguistics Forum Committee. We currently have two open positions on the committee; one member would begin serving immediately and continue through January 2028, and the other would begin serving on t…[Read more]

]]> 4483a39eee92b48f998f2df540a233a4 Shakil Rabbi uploaded the file: Slide Deck by Shannon Mooney "Ungrading in the Age of Generative AI" (Panel "Issues of Agency with AI") to LSL Language and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1908641/ Sun, 12 Jan 2025 19:11:22 -0500 This is the presentation "Ungrading in the Age of Generative AI" by Prof. Shannon Mooney.

]]> 0 5ef0bb388a674253cc42586fbb22da09 Shakil Rabbi uploaded the file: PDF of Presentation by Collier Nogues "Co-Creating with Generative AI" (Panel "Issues of Agency with AI") to LSL Language and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1908273/ Wed, 08 Jan 2025 17:10:42 -0500 This is a PDF of the presentation "Co-creating with Generative AI" by Prof. Collier Nogues.

]]> 0 e4ca85ebb9f3d0726a14d54718e0fbda Maria Helena Lima replied to the topic 288. (In)Visibility: Language, Ideology, and Power - Friday 10 Jan. at 12pm in the forum LSL Language and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/language-and-society/forum/topic/288-invisibility-language-ideology-and-power-friday-10-jan-at-12pm/#post-1039181 Tue, 07 Jan 2025 18:02:55 -0500 <div class="nH">
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]]> 0b23d43ed1dbdefb2fa88afda58dad62 Maria Helena Lima replied to the topic 288. (In)Visibility: Language, Ideology, and Power - Friday 10 Jan. at 12pm in the forum LSL Language and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/language-and-society/forum/topic/288-invisibility-language-ideology-and-power-friday-10-jan-at-12pm/#post-1039180 Tue, 07 Jan 2025 17:58:29 -0500 <div class="nH">
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]]> b9c06a485b93a470199e1ec017c2a785 Inés Vañó García started the topic 288. (In)Visibility: Language, Ideology, and Power - Friday 10 Jan. at 12pm in the forum LSL Language and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/language-and-society/forum/topic/288-invisibility-language-ideology-and-power-friday-10-jan-at-12pm/ Tue, 07 Jan 2025 10:26:43 -0500 Do not miss our session on Friday - Churchill A1 (Hilton New Orleans Riverside).

Learn more about our panelists' presentations:

The Invisible Politics of Affect in STEM Learning Contexts, A. Suresh Canagarajah (Penn State U, University Park)

Affect has been defined as experienced at the prelinguistic and nonconscious level by theorists such as…[Read more]

]]> 864c8081b85042c6189a1df448054a6c Shakil Rabbi started the topic Virtual Sponsored MLA Presentation on "Issues of Agency with AI" in the forum LSL Language and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/language-and-society/forum/topic/virtual-sponsored-mla-presentation-on-issues-of-agency-with-ai/ Tue, 31 Dec 2024 18:12:06 -0500 Dear Colleagues,

If you're registered for the 2025 MLA conference and are interested in the topic of AI, please consider attending the LSL sponsored session "Issues of Agency with AI."

The session will be held virtually on January 9th, at 7pm. This is the link to the session: Issues of Agency with AI (you will need your username and registration…[Read more]

]]> fd632c5c514268485490f4267b798066 Inés Vañó García started the topic LSL Language and Society: Calls for Papers in the discussion LSL Language and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/language-and-society/forum/topic/lsl-language-and-society-calls-for-papers/ Tue, 20 Feb 2024 09:58:14 -0500 (In)Visibility: Language, Ideology, and Power
Papers should address the (in)visible intersection(s) between language and power (research and teaching) within educational contexts along its historical, economical, and socio-political implications/dimensions. 300-word abstracts to jessica.ouellette@maine.edu by March 11.

Deadline for…[Read more]

]]> 8207f16a7bb7f55951b6f7a5e8e2d253 Shakil Rabbi started the topic Nominations for the LSL Language and Society Committee in the discussion LSL Language and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/language-and-society/forum/topic/nominations-for-the-lsl-language-and-society-committee/ Mon, 22 Jan 2024 12:24:46 -0500 Colleagues! Please consider nominating yourself or a colleague to serve on the LSL Language and Society Forum Committee. Forum Committee members help to organize a guaranteed session at the annual MLA conference, bolster and promote activity centered around language and society in the MLA, and get to meet and interact with other MLA members…[Read more]

]]> 7f9c2aa7f2c1a63785203e3f46410637 Catherine Fountain started the topic Nominations for the LSL General Linguistics Forum Committee in the discussion LSL Language and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/language-and-society/forum/topic/nominations-for-the-lsl-general-linguistics-forum-committee-3/ Fri, 12 Jan 2024 14:19:44 -0500 Colleagues in the MLA’s Language Studies and Linguistics (LSL) forums, please consider nominating yourself or a colleague to serve on the LSL General Linguistics Forum Committee. Forum Committee members help to organize a guaranteed session at the annual MLA conference, bolster and promote activity in linguistics in the MLA, and get to meet and i…[Read more]

]]> 4848b9435d8081711fe305db75ae7aac Catherine Fountain started the topic Nominations for the LSL General Linguistics Forum Committee in the discussion General Linguistics https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/general-linguistics/forum/topic/nominations-for-the-lsl-general-linguistics-forum-committee/ Fri, 12 Jan 2024 14:17:00 -0500 Colleagues in the MLA's Language Study and Linguistics (LSL) forums, please consider nominating yourself or a colleague to serve on the LSL General Linguistics Forum Committee. Forum Committee members help to organize a guaranteed session at the annual MLA conference, bolster and promote activity in linguistics in the MLA, and get to meet and…[Read more]

]]> 48cdc982d993c2e25c91fe6387921554 Inés Vañó García started the topic 622A - Talking Feelings: Emotion and Affection on Heritage Language Pedagogy in the discussion LSL Language and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/language-and-society/forum/topic/622a-talking-feelings-emotion-and-affection-on-heritage-language-pedagogy/ Fri, 05 Jan 2024 14:58:01 -0500 Join our online session tomorrow, January 6 at 5:15pm!

Gabriela De Robles (University of Colorado Denver): The socio-affective dimensions of written corrective feedback for heritage language learners

Juyoung Song (Murray State University): Emotion in Mother's Heritage Language Maintenance

Aída Martínez-Gómez (John Jay College of Criminal Ju…[Read more]

]]> 8e5e08b5f6f4d165e5bb2ae39e1ccf0e Inés Vañó García started the topic Kahn Chair in Humanities at SMU in the discussion LSL Language and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/language-and-society/forum/topic/kahn-chair-in-humanities-at-smu/ Mon, 20 Nov 2023 16:18:23 -0500 Position No. 00052460. The Department of English at Southern Methodist University invites outstanding applicants for a tenured appointment at the rank of advanced Associate or early Full Professor to the Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Chair in Humanities beginning August 1, 2024. The field is open. We welcome candidates in any and all fields of…[Read more]

]]> 806e7566131e483ae890d218196859dd Marisa Verna deposited « Proust et l’odeur de son temps » in the group LSL Language and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1856312/ Thu, 24 Aug 2023 01:32:17 -0400 Until now, critics have shown little interest in the bouquet of aromas and scents that permeate the linguistic fabric of À la recherche du temps perdu , to the point of forming an olfactory (and cognitive) underlay. The aesthetic impact of these odors warrants further investigation, starting with a reconstruction of the “problem of smell” in Prou…[Read more]

]]> 0 a39efea22f22b17fd4278e211e9634e7 johnpendergast started the topic Request for Titles in the discussion LSL Language and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/language-and-society/forum/topic/request-for-titles-3/ Tue, 14 Feb 2023 20:19:49 -0500 Dear Colleagues,

I’m doing a study of how the words “Russian” and “Russia” are used in English-language history textbooks. I would be extremely grateful if you could send me (at this address john.pendergast@westpoint.edu ) the titles, publisher, and year (if possible) of history textbooks used in your Russian courses and in Russian History c…[Read more]

]]> 3ec00bb9e8969e85cb1227b607c0d979 Shakil Rabbi started the topic CFP for LSL Sponsored Session for MLA 2024: Feelings for Our Languages in the discussion LSL Language and Society via email https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/language-and-society/forum/topic/cfp-for-lsl-sponsored-session-for-mla-2024-feelings-for-our-languages-6/ Wed, 25 Jan 2023 22:06:26 -0500 Languages are primary sites of emotional and ideological development. This
guaranteed sponsored roundtable invites topics on how our feelings for
languages play out in aesthetics, cultures, rhetorics, writings, etc.
Perspectives of graduate students and early career scholars especially
encouraged. Please submit a 250-word abstract and brief bio to…[Read more]

]]> 2fec0f3d26a9bf763a84b5715b3626f0 Shakil Rabbi deposited The global translinguistics of Bengali Muslims in the group LSL Language and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1831284/ Wed, 25 Jan 2023 03:48:43 -0500 This chapter presents a discussion of a literary genre called puthis, a premodern tradition of religious stories and plays in what is now Bangladesh, as an example of vernacular cosmopolitanism in an Asian context. The language of this genre, called Dubasha, is a “mixed language mode” (Seely 2008) characterized by the replacement of Sanskrit voc…[Read more]

]]> 0 61af40c60c8d47c81224c3839b96fdc4 Shakil Rabbi started the topic CFP for LSL Sponsored Session for MLA 2024: Feelings for Our Languages in the discussion LSL Language and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/language-and-society/forum/topic/cfp-for-lsl-sponsored-session-for-mla-2024-feelings-for-our-languages/ Tue, 24 Jan 2023 15:48:09 -0500 Languages are primary sites of emotional and ideological development. This guaranteed sponsored roundtable invites topics on how our feelings for languages play out in aesthetics, cultures, rhetorics, writings, etc. Perspectives of graduate students and early career scholars especially encouraged. Please submit a 250-word abstract and brief bio to…[Read more]

]]> f7e0ac9dc7ef5a5523ca5e7c87fb22b5 Carla Suhr started the topic Calls for Papers: LSL Romance Linguistics Forum in the discussion General Linguistics https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/general-linguistics/forum/topic/calls-for-papers-lsl-romance-linguistics-forum-2/ Sat, 14 Jan 2023 23:20:08 -0500 The Romance Linguistics Forum of the Modern Language Association welcomes a wide range of participants and approaches to Romance Linguistics to its 2024 panel. We invite abstracts exploring any area of Romance Linguistics, especially those involving real-world interfaces such as fieldwork, digital data, interdisciplinary projects or courses, and…[Read more]

]]> 55f36f3c02316ad6de93a50c113d8c7b Amanda Boomershine started the topic 2023 General Linguistics Forum: in the discussion General Linguistics https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/general-linguistics/forum/topic/2023-general-linguistics-forum/ Wed, 21 Dec 2022 17:57:58 -0500 We'd like to invite you to Session 269 on January 6 at 12pm via Zoom to hear presentations on Language in Society: Issues of Equity & Access.

]]> f9e7fa52164bb8b67415d36414199a9c Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2023 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion LSL Language and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/language-and-society/forum/topic/membership-suggestions-for-2023-forum-delegate-election-45/ Mon, 21 Nov 2022 20:12:31 -0500 The next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2023, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets in January 2023. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nominate at least one candidate who…[Read more]

]]> 51e23497d24cb5c17212ed85c4f7c76a Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2023 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion LLC Japanese since 1900 https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/japanese-since-1900/forum/topic/membership-suggestions-for-2023-forum-delegate-election-39/ Mon, 21 Nov 2022 20:08:43 -0500 The next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2023, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets in January 2023. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nominate at least one candidate who…[Read more]

]]> e1a624f5f7d30e3fb09d22030002f400 Holly A. Yanacek started the topic Seeking Nominations for the Language & Society Forum Executive Committee in the discussion LSL Language and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/language-and-society/forum/topic/seeking-nominations-for-the-language-society-forum-executive-committee/ Wed, 28 Sep 2022 19:53:56 -0400 Dear Colleagues,

The MLA LSL Language & Society Forum Executive Committee is seeking candidates interested in serving on this committee for a five-year term from January 2023- January 2028. Forum executive committee members typically meet once per year at or around the time of the MLA Convention to decide the forum’s priorities and plan f…[Read more]

]]> e262cb2a5fdaeef251d324dff2f98fd3 Marisa Verna deposited Des “parasites précieux’: impureté et antinationalisme dans le roman proustien”, in Labours of Attention: Work, Class and Society in French and Francophone Literature and Culture, Adam Watt ed. in the group LSL Language and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1795018/ Wed, 21 Sep 2022 03:48:59 -0400 Contrary to the “populist linguistic purism” of Remy de Gourmont, who believed in a “native” and primal language, as well as in a literature that “does not receive neither borrow anything” (Roussin), Proust moulds his novel in a “gloriously impure, lumberfilled” linguistic matter (Malcolm Bowie). Proust’s idea of language is radically opposed…[Read more]

]]> 0 28f3e5d9cad489ba4c9c9d04f5894dd4 Jon Pitt started the topic CFP: International Symposium - Writers Who Have Seen Too Much: Earth, Kin, Care in the discussion LLC Japanese since 1900 https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/japanese-since-1900/forum/topic/cfp-international-symposium-writers-who-have-seen-too-much-earth-kin-care/ Wed, 27 Apr 2022 23:29:40 -0400 Call for Proposals 

“Writers Who Have Seen Too Much: Earth, Kin, Care”

International Japanese Literature Symposium

30 September – 1 October 2022, In Person

University of California, Irvine

 

This two-day conference gathers scholars who work on five writers: Chiri Yukie (1903-1922), Sakiyama Tami (1954- ), Tsushima Yuko (1947-2016), Ishimu…[Read more]

]]> d585f49fc120e5dcbaf3cf9197215284 Amanda Boomershine edited the post 2023 - 2028 General Linguistics Forum EC Member Needed in the group LSL General Linguistics https://generallinguistics.mla.hcommons.org/2022/01/13/2023-2028-forum-ec-member-needed/ Thu, 13 Jan 2022 18:16:43 -0500 Hi! I am the 2022-2023 chair of the General Linguistics Forum and we are taking nominations for a new member for the forum's executive committee. The term is for 5 years (2023 - 2028). We are especially […]

]]> ca01740415b091e470a2605733348f4c Andrea Mendoza started the topic Deadline extension in the discussion LLC Japanese since 1900 https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/japanese-since-1900/forum/topic/deadline-extension-6/ Tue, 16 Mar 2021 16:30:08 -0400 Hi all,

We are still accepting papers for the LLC Japanese since 1900 panels, "Antiracist Pedagogy in Modern Japanese Studies" and "Decolonial and Indigenous Interventions in Japanophone Media/Literature." Please share and consider submitting!

https://mla.confex.com/mla/2022/webprogrampreliminary/Session11305.html

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]]> d16997ecf7671028671f4aafc2020735 Andrea Mendoza started the topic Deadline extension in the discussion LLC Japanese since 1900 https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/japanese-since-1900/forum/topic/deadline-extension/ Tue, 16 Mar 2021 16:26:27 -0400 Hi all,

We are still accepting papers for the LLC Japanese since 1900 panels, "Antiracist Pedagogy in Modern Japanese Studies" and "Decolonial and Indigenous Interventions in Japanophone Media/Literature." Please share and consider submitting!

https://mla.confex.com/mla/2022/webprogrampreliminary/Session11305.html

]]> 770a1c35f294901d0628da7141e4b3a6 Joanne Bernardi started the topic CFP (MLA 2022) "Antiracist Pedagogy in Modern Japanese Studies (1900-present)" in the discussion LLC Japanese since 1900 https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/japanese-since-1900/forum/topic/cfp-mla-2022-antiracist-pedagogy-in-modern-japanese-studies-1900-present/ Mon, 22 Feb 2021 08:47:26 -0500 CFP MLA 2022 (Guaranteed panel): We invite papers exploring antiracist pedagogies in modern (1900 to the present) Japanese Studies classrooms, program curricula, and campus/disciplinary outreach. In particular, we seek presentations that are intersectional in approach, taking into consideration relations between race and class, gender, sexuality,…[Read more]

]]> cd0aad0f5db8331362534ceee1b84203 Joanne Bernardi started the topic CFP Decolonial & Indigenous Interventions in Japanophone Media/Lit 1900-present in the discussion LLC Japanese since 1900 https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/japanese-since-1900/forum/topic/cfp-decolonial-indigenous-interventions-in-japanophone-media-lit-1900-present/ Mon, 22 Feb 2021 08:38:37 -0500 CFP MLA 2022 - LLC Japanese since 1900 Forum (Guaranteed panel)

This panel invites papers that apply approaches in indigenous studies and epistemologies to the study of study Japanophone cultural, intellectual, and aesthetic productions. Given the long history and global legacy of Japanese colonialisms and settler colonialisms, this panel…[Read more]

]]> 43d47109fd19ffad33e77b37cf259cb6 Melek Ortabasi started the topic CFP: D'Annunzio as World Literature (MLA Symposium) in the discussion LLC Japanese since 1900 https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/japanese-since-1900/forum/topic/cfp-dannunzio-as-world-literature-mla-symposium/ Wed, 22 Jul 2020 20:34:58 -0400 Hi everyone,

From a colleague. If interested, please contact Elisa.Segnini@glasgow.ac.uk

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We are organizing a project titled 'D'Annunzio as World Literature', which includes a panel at the MLA symposium in Glasgow (June 17-19 2021, https://symposium.mla.org/glasgow/being-hospitable/?utm_campaign=symposiumsubjuly20&utm_medium=email&utm_&hellip;[Read more]

]]> d6b6dd1bfc2e31e0a5a9cc675773affb Joanne Bernardi started the topic Journal CFP Women & Language (ed. Leland G. Spencer) in the discussion LLC Japanese since 1900 https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/japanese-since-1900/forum/topic/journal-cfp-women-language-ed-leland-g-spencer/ Wed, 10 Jun 2020 14:37:17 -0400 Women & Language, an international, interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal publishes original scholarly articles and creative work covering all aspects of communication, language, and gender. Contributions to Women & Language may be empirical, rhetorical-critical, interpretive, theoretical, or artistic. All appropriate research methodologies are…[Read more]

]]> b433dd9403cb83c662915077c17225ce Marisa Verna deposited Proust une langue étrangère in the group LSL Language and Society https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1690443/ Wed, 10 Jun 2020 03:51:29 -0400 Proust was strongly opposed to the idea of ​​a naturally “clear” national language whose directives would be inherent in thought itself. This book questions Proust’s style from the point of view of its theorization and the implementation of diffuse sensory rhetoric in À la recherche du temps perdu.

]]> 0 9c3bd844283be3060cc9d21c7461c718 Gian Piero Persiani started the topic CFP for MLA2021 "The Location of Culture: Places/Spaces of the Asian Imaginary" in the discussion LLC Japanese since 1900 https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/japanese-since-1900/forum/topic/cfp-for-mla2021-the-location-of-culture-places-spaces-of-the-asian-imaginary-3/ Mon, 02 Mar 2020 22:37:14 -0500 We invite proposals for the following, non-guaranteed session of the LLC Japanese to 1900 Forum @ MLA 2021:

Session title: The Location of Culture: Places and Spaces of the East Asian Imaginary

As either unmovable physical locations or portable culturally-mediated psychological spaces, places are an essential feature of our world.…[Read more]

]]> a171c35111ef029ca434134aa27ff65b Clara Iwasaki started the topic CFP Guaranteed Session Reimagining Wartime Incarceration in East Asia in the discussion LLC Japanese since 1900 https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/japanese-since-1900/forum/topic/cfp-guaranteed-session-reimagining-wartime-incarceration-in-east-asia/ Sun, 01 Mar 2020 00:20:00 -0500 Sponsored by LLC East Asia Forum World War II remains the focus of intense contemporary interest across the transpacific and particularly in East Asia, where contested borders and competing narratives collide. Although these nationalist discourses are historically articulated in terms of aggressor and victim (China/Japan, Korea/Japan, etc.),…[Read more]

]]> 0fbcbb7c45a94dc7a17c90e4264772f3 David Holloway started the topic CFP MLA 2021 "Japanese Cultural Expressions After Hirohito" in the discussion LLC Japanese since 1900 https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/japanese-since-1900/forum/topic/cfp-mla-2021-japanese-cultural-expressions-after-hirohito/ Thu, 20 Feb 2020 17:36:24 -0500 The passing of Emperor Hirohito in 1989 brought the long postwar to an end, at least symbolically. While older Japanese may have felt a sense of closure in his death, those growing up in the years that followed knew a cultural landscape determined not by imperialism, war, or economic growth (as a panacea for the Emperor himself), but rather…[Read more]

]]> c5824ddfee15e7ef5fcd963ba2319334 Katsuyo Motoyoshi started the topic Tutorial Video "What is the MLA International Bibliography?" now in Japanese in the discussion LLC Japanese since 1900 https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/japanese-since-1900/forum/topic/tutorial-video-what-is-the-mla-international-bibliography-now-in-japanese/ Thu, 13 Feb 2020 19:11:35 -0500 The MLA International Bibliography is an online database that covers literature, language and linguistics, folklore, film, literary theory and criticism, dramatic arts, as well as the historical aspects of printing and publishing. Listings on rhetoric and composition and the history, theory and practice of teaching language and literature are also…[Read more]

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