Knowledge Commons | Parfait Kouassi Kouacou | Group Activity https://hcommons.org/members/parfait/activity/groups/ Public group activity feed of which Parfait Kouassi Kouacou is a member. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 11:31:12 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 3ab98575169b38c50f12b905c2a160a8 Julia Frengs started the topic CFP for MLA 2027: Queer Emancipatory Narratives of the Francosphere in the forum LLC Francophone https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/francophone/forum/topic/cfp-for-mla-2027-queer-emancipatory-narratives-of-the-francosphere/ Thu, 19 Feb 2026 14:39:00 -0500 This panel seeks proposals engaging with the articulation of queer emancipatory narratives from throughout the "francosphere." We aim to consider how queer discourses of emancipation are constructed throughout the French-speaking world, taking into account a variety of cultural norms that might restrict queer voices. We would be delighted to see…[Read more]

]]> 8e06941fab37302863906624655c4fa1 William J. Spurlin started the topic CfP for MLA 2027 in Los Angeles: Queer Nations: Remembering Jarrod Hayes in the forum LLC Francophone https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/francophone/forum/topic/cfp-for-mla-2027-in-los-angeles-queer-nations-remembering-jarrod-hayes-2/ Tue, 17 Feb 2026 03:36:22 -0500 This guaranteed session, sponsored by LLC Francophone, celebrates the work of the late Jarrod Hayes, Professor of French Studies in the School of Languages, Literatures, Cultures, and Linguistics at the University of Monash in Melbourne, Australia, at the time of his untimely passing in 2025, and previously Professor of French and Francophone…[Read more]

]]> 94769bd097a589d0e3a2d734482ab6c6 William J. Spurlin created the doc Call for Papers: African Literature Association 2026 Conference in the group TC Postcolonial Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1936463/ Thu, 11 Dec 2025 21:27:18 -0500 6860801d45c0871e5b6be0bfa544f739 Peter Leman started the topic CFP: World Literature and Disappearance (Special Issue of ARIEL) in the forum TC Postcolonial Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/postcolonial-studies/forum/topic/cfp-world-literature-and-disappearance-special-issue-of-ariel-3/ Tue, 02 Dec 2025 22:34:57 -0500 Call For Papers: “World Literature and Disappearance” 
Special Issue of <b>ARIEL: A Review of International English Literature</b>

Enforced disappearance is widely recognized as a crime in international law, with legislation that reflects the experiences of Latin America dictatorships and focuses on arbitrary detention and torture or extr…[Read more]

]]> 8837e72eb935955339045e16a296ce98 Peter Leman started the topic CFP: World Literature and Disappearance (Special Issue of ARIEL) in the forum TC Law and the Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/law-and-the-humanities/forum/topic/cfp-world-literature-and-disappearance-special-issue-of-ariel-2/ Tue, 02 Dec 2025 22:33:49 -0500 Call For Papers: “World Literature and Disappearance” 
Special Issue of <b>ARIEL: A Review of International English Literature</b>

Enforced disappearance is widely recognized as a crime in international law, with legislation that reflects the experiences of Latin America dictatorships and focuses on arbitrary detention and torture or extr…[Read more]

]]> 66e44e5c2900995ffe9f23d7db788106 Shashi Bhusan Nayak started the topic Call for Chapters – Scripting Selves: New Directions in Life Writing in the forum TM Literary and Cultural Theory https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/literary-and-cultural-theory/forum/topic/call-for-chapters-scripting-selves-new-directions-in-life-writing-5/ Tue, 04 Mar 2025 19:32:13 -0500 Scripting Selves: New Directions in Life Writing
Editors: P. Muralidhar Sharma & Shashibhusan Nayak

Until recently, Life Writing has emerged as a loose critical label encompassing a variety of genres, including biographies, autobiographies, memoirs, letters, and dairies. The later decades of the 20th century, in particular, have witnessed a surge…[Read more]

]]> db5e1f2431cafc9c6703e9142f0fe46e Shashi Bhusan Nayak started the topic Call for Chapters – Scripting Selves: New Directions in Life Writing in the forum TC Postcolonial Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/postcolonial-studies/forum/topic/call-for-chapters-scripting-selves-new-directions-in-life-writing-4/ Tue, 04 Mar 2025 19:26:51 -0500 Scripting Selves: New Directions in Life Writing
Editors: P. Muralidhar Sharma & Shashibhusan Nayak

Until recently, Life Writing has emerged as a loose critical label encompassing a variety of genres, including biographies, autobiographies, memoirs, letters, and dairies. The later decades of the 20th century, in particular, have witnessed a surge…[Read more]

]]> 2105b6767d80ba284f2c435ed1592703 Stefania Irene Sini uploaded the file: CFP: Limits of Narrative. 8th International Conference of the European Narratology Network (ENN), Wuppertal, Germany, September 29 - October 2, 2025 to TC Anthropology and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1912533/ Tue, 25 Feb 2025 15:13:38 -0500 In view of the rampant use of the term ‘narrative’, which often enough lacks a precise meaning, it is time to take a critical look at its limits. The 8th ENN conference in Wuppertal (Germany) is dedicated to this reflection on the concept of narrative in order to sharpen it by defining its boundaries: Which phenomena cannot be appropriately lab…[Read more]

]]> 0 b22102483166f405a14cd651e1eb324e Ted Laros started the topic Session on "War, Literature, and Human Rights" at MLA 2025 in the forum TC Law and the Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/law-and-the-humanities/forum/topic/session-on-war-literature-and-human-rights-at-mla-2025/ Sat, 04 Jan 2025 11:10:31 -0500 All are welcome to join our session on "War, Literature, and Human Rights" at the 2025 MLA Annual Convention in New Orleans. The session is an initiative of research group “Literature, Law and Society” and was made possible with the financial support of the Netherlands Research School for Literary Studies:

703 - War, Literature, and Human Righ…[Read more]

]]> 1832825dd1ce7c3b39ebaa3139bdb082 Nicky Agate started the topic Applications now open for the 2025 Values-Enacted Leadership Institute in the forum HuMetricsHSS https://hcommons.org/groups/humetricshss-1370894327/forum/topic/applications-now-open-for-the-2025-values-enacted-leadership-institute/ Sun, 15 Dec 2024 14:17:36 -0500 The HumetricsHSS team is thrilled to open applications for teams from institutions of higher education interested in attending the inaugural Values-Enacted Leadership Institute (VELI) from July 13 - 18, 2025.

Since 2016, Humetrics has conducted workshops, consultations and research across a wide range of higher education institutions, helping u…[Read more]

]]> 584cceced163122960d4b9f4e40d2d13 Juliane Braun deposited Modes of Recovery, Performative Commons, and Identity Formation in Early American Theater in the group LLC Francophone https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1902704/ Sat, 26 Oct 2024 03:04:14 -0400 Review of

Bloody Tyrants and Little Pickles: Stage Roles of Anglo-American Girls in the Nineteenth Century. By Marlis Schweitzer.
University of Iowa Press, 2020. 276 pp.

The Politics of Gender in Early American Theater: Revolutionary Dramatists and Theatrical Practices. Edited by Leopold Lippert and Ralph J. Poole. Transcript, 2021. 214…[Read more]

]]> 0 dbef4b774e1811db014244f2516c24f0 Juliane Braun deposited Recovering Virginie Gireaudeau: Race, Language, and Representation on the American Stage in the group LLC Francophone https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1902285/ Tue, 22 Oct 2024 04:05:13 -0400 This article recovers the life and career of Virginie Gireaudeau, one of the first African American actresses to appear in a major North American theater. Performing in New Orleans in 1826, she played the female lead in two tragedies, supported by a group of white professional actors and actresses from France. But despite Gireaudeau’s obvious s…[Read more]

]]> 0 c1a72ef9b1b380d234d1b17765120f4d Thomas Oliver Beebee started the topic CFP for "Reading Cultures," a special issue of the journal Culture as Text in the forum TM Literary and Cultural Theory https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/literary-and-cultural-theory/forum/topic/cfp-for-reading-cultures-a-special-issue-of-the-journal-culture-as-text-2/ Fri, 18 Oct 2024 11:34:40 -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]

]]> ff2c9ec8a0cce582a8832730e4ef2292 Weihsin Gui started the topic CFP: Special Topic in Antipodes journal on "Australia And..." in the forum TC Postcolonial Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/postcolonial-studies/forum/topic/cfp-special-topic-in-antipodes-journal-on-australia-and-4/ Tue, 08 Oct 2024 01:09:45 -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]

]]> a9c660823fa9d38c62f504520db2f90d Peter Leman started the topic ACLA 2025 Session CFP: "World Literature and Disappearance" in the forum TC Postcolonial Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/postcolonial-studies/forum/topic/acla-2025-session-cfp-world-literature-and-disappearance-2/ Mon, 07 Oct 2024 16:07:20 -0400 Hi All,

I am co-organizing a session with Joseph Wager for the 2025 ACLA. Our topic is “World Literature and Disappearance.” Please consider submitting, and feel free to share with anyone who might be interested. Full CFP below. Thank you!

Best,

Peter Leman

 
World Literature and Disappearance
Enforced disappearance has become a lingua fran…[Read more]

]]> 31ce09b0225b8241df50924b4aacb781 Rene Von Schomberg deposited The Future of Indicators for Research Assessment and Open Science. Doing away with quantitative indicators in the group HuMetricsHSS https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1900159/ Mon, 30 Sep 2024 03:00:56 -0400 I unfold the argument for a research assessment based on 'research behaviour' (e.g. knowledge sharing and collaboration) rather than solely on research outputs in bibliometric terms (e.g, number of publications, citation counts etc), reflecting a more open science practice. Quantitative assessments are any case not appropriate for assessing the…[Read more]

]]> 0 a19f2fe073bfd83ecdf3ff65c14f8201 Sonia D. Andras deposited Sonia D. Andras - Negotiations En Vogue: Interwar Romanian Women as Fashion Icons Represented in American Vogue (Conference Presentation, 2023, Audio Only) in the group Connected Academics https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1897548/ Fri, 30 Aug 2024 03:00:29 -0400 Presentation at the "Romanian American Negotiations in Education, Science, Culture, and Arts/Negocierile româno-americane în educație, știință, cultură și artă" Conference.
This paper explores Romanian women’s influence on US fashion, as representatives of European artistic, cultural and social elites and as genuine Parisiennes. This study trea…[Read more]

]]> 0 814e698f609bf5736d5b504edb5233e8 Sonja Rae Fritzsche deposited Charting Pathways of Intellectual Leadership Work Plan Template for Adaptation in the group HuMetricsHSS https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1892051/ Thu, 18 Jul 2024 03:00:43 -0400 The Fall Work Plan in the values enacted "Charting Pathways of Intellectual Leadership" initiative is designed to empower the faculty member (or staff or student) through self-goal setting and facilitating communication between faculty and academic staff (together “faculty”) and their supervisor/chair/director and mentors at the start of the aca…[Read more]

]]> 0 c9ef07ab1371c668a27de173077b30f0 Fatma Fulya Tepe started the topic Research based news piece on hybridity and Turkish immigrants in the Netherlands in the discussion TC Postcolonial Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/postcolonial-studies/forum/topic/research-based-news-piece-on-hybridity-and-turkish-immigrants-in-the-netherlands-4/ Sat, 29 Jun 2024 07:55:25 -0400 Dear All,

I would like to present our research on hybridity and immigrants in the Netherlands in the form of a news piece below. I will be happy if you could distribute in your networks.

https://x.com/bianet_eng/status/1656667905487151105

Best regards,
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Fatma Fulya Tepe
İstanbul Aydın University

]]> df01d75410acc421c32b84d26c0f3263 Frank Pfost deposited Fénice et la critique de la moralité courtoise par Chrétien de Troyes dans Cligès in the group LLC Francophone https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1889765/ Fri, 21 Jun 2024 04:00:12 -0400 Cligès, le second roman de Chrétien de Troyes, et celui qu’il a écrit en 1176, est toujours considéré
comme le plus divertissant de ses romans. Dans Cligès Chrétien a certainement utilisé beaucoup
d’artifices et beaucoup d’effets comiques pour créer son oeuvre, qui est plein d’images éclatantes. Elle
nous amuse plus que ses autres romans. Ma…[Read more]

]]> 0 51dbb91a449b9d3478027c53ec16c2bb Ji Eun Lee deposited Wooshing London: Unsettling Acceleration in H. G. Wells’s Tono-Bungay in the group TM Literary and Cultural Theory https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1889190/ Fri, 14 Jun 2024 03:31:49 -0400 This essay reads H. G. Wells’s Tono-Bungay (1909) in the context of “wooshing” London—I take the word from the story—to see how the unsettling effect of this rapid urban mobility translates into the generic form of the novel. At the turn of the twentieth century, London was wooshing—that is to say, people and things in the city were moving by b…[Read more]

]]> 0 09d5104fcd2af5a28cf3cc904d330a38 Ji Eun Lee deposited Victorian Humanity in Colonial Korea, Where Asians Did Not See Themselves as the Other in the group TC Postcolonial Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1889179/ Fri, 14 Jun 2024 03:07:15 -0400 This article reconsiders the racial hierarchies rendering the nonwhite race as the Other in Anglo-American Victorian studies by examining the case of colonial Korea, where both the colonizer and the colonized were people of color. In colonial Korea, reading Victorian and Edwardian literature enabled Koreans to find an alternative humanity beyond…[Read more]

]]> 0 7b38497d82f1d41e24e8a09b62bbd376 Frank Pfost deposited Les Femmes coupables dans les LAIS de Marie de France in the group LLC Francophone https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1887841/ Sun, 02 Jun 2024 04:00:11 -0400 Les douze Lais de Marie de France, écrits au XIIe siècle par un auteur dont on connaît peu de choses,
retiennent leur renom pour maintes raisons. Ce sont des contes, des aventures, souvent merveilleuses
et fantastiques, des chevaliers errants et leurs dames au temps médiévaux lorsque la bataille épique et
continuelle entre le bien at le ma…[Read more]

]]> 0 5990b522e766e71f5f9f167d98bda74c Regenia Gagnier deposited Language and literature in the information economy: the state of English, English and the state in the group TM Literary and Cultural Theory https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1887294/ Mon, 27 May 2024 04:09:13 -0400 The impact of colonialism and empire and then of transport, logistics, advertising, media, cinema, radio, tourism, and the internet extended the global reach of English. With 1.13 billion speakers, one in seven in the world now has some English competence. Within this global circulation of English, we have the global teaching of English language…[Read more]

]]> 0 8194eb5167fd0f18e67f0669b77880f0 David Lee deposited Asset Backed Note Securitization Modelling in the group HuMetricsHSS https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1887279/ Mon, 27 May 2024 03:00:14 -0400 The model makes the assumption that the future values of these parameters will be unchanged until the final payment date. Subsequently, we perform a deterministic computation consisting of calculating the future cashflows in the waterfall and discounting them. We note that, in reality,
future parameter values are uncertain. Furthermore, the model…[Read more]

]]> 0 4f5fb33963a08bc3d161109f863f4c91 Louise Bethlehem deposited The Anthropocene and the Environmental Humanities in the group TC Postcolonial Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1887208/ Sun, 26 May 2024 04:13:30 -0400 Interim bibliography on the Anthropocene and the Environmental Humanities generated in conjunction with the Rift Futurism Project supported by a grant from the ISRAEL SCIENCE FOUNDATION (grant No. 3011006089), May 2024

]]> 0 fd21853d52d8f378bac5575b37cbe5c3 Louise Bethlehem deposited Speculative Fiction from the Global South--Anthropocene Intersections, Interim Bibliography in the group TC Postcolonial Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1887203/ Sun, 26 May 2024 04:05:19 -0400 Interim bibliography on science fiction and speculative fiction with an emphasis on the global South and on Anthropocene-related perspectives generated in conjunction with the Rift Futurism Project supported by a grant from the ISRAEL SCIENCE FOUNDATION (grant No. 3011006089)
Louise Bethlehem, PI, English and Cultural Studies, The Hebrew…[Read more]

]]> 0 c68233ff40c2e468804dc260378c9373 David Lee deposited Pricing Asian Basket Relative Performance Option in the group HuMetricsHSS https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1884626/ Wed, 01 May 2024 03:25:15 -0400 An Asian basket relative performance options (RPO) option is a derivative product whose payoff is determined by the difference between the performance of a reference stock and that of a basket of stocks, where performance is defined as the ratio of average of two sets of averaging dates. In other words, the payoff depends on underlying stock’s a…[Read more]

]]> 0 c186a61550d328673e2439b169e2ccb9 Sonia D. Andras deposited Roberta at the Capitol and Roxy: Fashion, Cinema, and Modernity in Interwar Bucharest in the group Connected Academics https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1882919/ Fri, 12 Apr 2024 03:01:27 -0400 This paper follows the distribution, reception, and influence of Hollywood productions, using the particular case of the movie Roberta, starring Irene Dunne, Fred Astaire, and Ginger Rogers. It follows all stages from preparation, production, dissemination, and critique, and how they were seen from and reacted to in interwar Bucharest. The…[Read more]

]]> 0 865a3baa1133dd71a6034aeed9bc091b David Lee deposited Callable Asian Option Valuation in the group HuMetricsHSS https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1881556/ Sat, 30 Mar 2024 03:01:08 -0400 Callable Asian options allow their underwriters to call the options back from investors at a specified time and with a specified amount prior to option maturities. A hybrid of Monte Carlo simulation and the closed form Michael Curran’s solution is employed in pricing.

To fulfil these purposes, the volatility of stock for use in Monte Carlo s…[Read more]

]]> 0 40a1c6164b167daf4c4542319d7b1127 Dustin Friedman deposited Toward a Decolonial Queer Humanism: Thomas Hardy's The Well-Beloved and André Aciman's Call Me by Your Name in the group TM Literary and Cultural Theory https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1878058/ Thu, 29 Feb 2024 04:05:36 -0500 This essay situates queer negativity within the modernist tradition. In The Well-Beloved (1897), Thomas Hardy satirizes the then-popular notion of racial memory for its racist, colonialist implications, inaugurating the modernist critique of romantic love as complicit with the self-delusions of the liberal-humanist subject. Despite the view shared…[Read more]

]]> 0 4411ed8281bca12df4eb15c1feffa9d1 Nathan H. Dize started the topic CFP: Édouard Glissant: Still A Caribbean Theorist? (MLA 2025, in-person panel) in the discussion LLC Francophone https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/francophone/forum/topic/cfp-edouard-glissant-still-a-caribbean-theorist-mla-2025-in-person-panel-3/ Sun, 11 Feb 2024 03:34:08 -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]

]]> ddcb01f8bb9fd11993471e51583fa96f Regenia Gagnier deposited The Geopolitics of Beauty in the group TM Literary and Cultural Theory https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1870902/ Sat, 13 Jan 2024 04:04:41 -0500 Building on eighteenth-century philosophical traditions, Victorian aesthetics were often posed as an antidote to the vicissitudes of the Industrial Revolution and the political and economic demands of the marketplace, and in most cultures undergoing modernization the Beautiful has often functioned in opposition to the forces of power and…[Read more]

]]> 0 a4e96485ab9e0971cdccbd1aaa86787e Regenia Gagnier deposited The Futures of English: Introduction from the UK in the group TM Literary and Cultural Theory https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1870893/ Sat, 13 Jan 2024 03:10:19 -0500 Will students raised on social media still read English literature?
• What is the role of English/American literature in the PRC, India,
Australasia, the USA?
• What is the role of English language in relation to other global
and local languages?
• What is the role of decolonising efforts?
• How do our respective state apparatuses affect…[Read more]

]]> 0 89027516df51f11f75af8c6f7be191bb Siham Bouamer started the topic Call for Nominations: LLC Francophone (2025) in the discussion LLC Francophone https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/francophone/forum/topic/call-for-nominations-llc-francophone-2025/ Tue, 09 Jan 2024 19:43:08 -0500 Dear Colleagues,The LLC Francophone Forum Executive Committee is seeking (self)nominations from our membership for one colleague (must be an MLA member) willing to serve a term of five convention years (from January 2025 through the close of the January 2029 convention). Members who would like to nominate themselves or other members for…[Read more]

]]> 30e6f0749ad44fe27cd2a6d84b8b6d95 Gerald Joseph Prince started the topic Call Nominations LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French Forum Executive Committee in the discussion LLC Francophone https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/francophone/forum/topic/call-nominations-llc-20th-and-21st-century-french-forum-executive-committee-4/ Tue, 09 Jan 2024 13:16:07 -0500 Dear Colleagues,The LLC 20th- and 21st-Century French Forum Executive Committee is seeking (self-)nominations from our membership for one colleague willing to serve a term of five convention years (from January 2025 through the close of the January 2029 convention) as member of the executive committee. Responsibilities of the committee members…[Read more]

]]> 32acb6cf8c04417de4e5af0e0ae381b3 Ramzi Salti deposited Vivian and Her Son in the group TC Postcolonial Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1870106/ Mon, 08 Jan 2024 04:02:09 -0500 This short story, written by Dr. Ramzi Salti, was published as part of his book titled "The Native Informant and Other Stories: Six Tales of Defiance from the Arab World". It has been turned into a short film titled "The 40th Day'--available on YouTube at https://youtu.be/fspvJSiSQkc. Complete E-Book now available on Google Play and Kindle.

]]> 0 9e0320d74e2ce5de79d92fc9f5572421 Mimi Winick deposited Abstracts for panel, "Anthropology and Speculative Fiction," MLA 2024 in the group TC Anthropology and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1869862/ Fri, 05 Jan 2024 04:00:15 -0500 "Anthropologists, Aliens, and Indigenous Futurism: Writing against Culture in Rebecca Roanhorse’s Trail of Lightning" Eric Aronoff, Michigan State U
"Alberto Vanasco: An Alien Ethnography of Argentina," Caleb Delorme, Rutgers U, New Brunswick
"H. G. Wells’s Fetishism " Jayne Hildebrand, Barnard C
Respondent: Frank A. Palmeri, U of Miami

]]> 0 fb89e0ea4a3876e5b139f426fe1afe4a Shashi Bhusan Nayak started the topic Call For Book Chapters: Beyond Networks of Domination: Rethinking Machinic Media in the discussion TM Literary and Cultural Theory https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/literary-and-cultural-theory/forum/topic/call-for-book-chapters-beyond-networks-of-domination-rethinking-machinic-media/ Sat, 30 Dec 2023 10:47:52 -0500 Call For Book Chapters: Beyond Networks of Domination: Rethinking Machinic Media, Digitality & Cinema of our Times

Editors: Ananya Roy Pratihar(IMIS,Bhubaneswar), Saswat Samay Das (IIT, Kharagpur) & Shashibhushan Nayak(GP Nayagarh)

The biopolitical schemas for restructuring machinic networks of Media, Digital, and cinema do not stand as…[Read more]

]]> 105e972786eece810e68369a60ea3910 Preetha Mani deposited The Literary Management of Multilingualism in Postcolonial India in the group TC Postcolonial Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1869277/ Thu, 28 Dec 2023 03:01:42 -0500 This chapter explores a tension in postcolonial Indian literature between the monolingual form of the nation and the multilingual tendencies of the linguistic regions through a comparison between the Sahitya Akademi’s (India’s national academy of letters) activities and Tamil putukkavitai (new poetry) writing. By promoting translation and con…[Read more]

]]> 0 a74fe0ec01fd3798cad56068d62b232b Fatma Fulya Tepe started the topic New creative feminist work: A Misogynist Triptych from 1945 in the discussion TM Literary and Cultural Theory https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/literary-and-cultural-theory/forum/topic/new-creative-feminist-work-a-misogynist-triptych-from-1945/ Tue, 05 Dec 2023 14:28:19 -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 the…[Read more]

]]> 96907e47313e9933be5dfca8e43910de Arif Camoglu deposited Loving Sovereignty: Political Mysticism, Seyh Galib, and Giorgio Agamben in the group TC Postcolonial Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1866785/ Tue, 05 Dec 2023 04:06:32 -0500 Centering on the poetry of Şeyh Galib (1757–1799), this article considers Ottoman imperial sovereignty in tandem with the discourse of mysticism that underpinned it. A key rhetorical device that enables the abstraction of the politics of empire in this discourse is the metaphor of the beloved sovereign. In the mystical writing of Galib, this me…[Read more]

]]> 0 1f3256199a6daa50337497ec519d5dab Arif Camoglu deposited “Supreme in Ruin”: Empire’s Afterlife in Romantic Encounters with Imperial Ruins in the group TC Postcolonial Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1866469/ Fri, 01 Dec 2023 04:07:17 -0500 Registered in Romantic depictions of imperial ruins is the endurance of empire in its immateriality: the imageries of empire’s ruination announce a future where imperial sovereignty maintains its presence spectrally. Using Jacques Derrida’s notion of hauntology, and recruiting further insight from political theory, this essay argues that emp…[Read more]

]]> 0 a632733c91fb416d272af73ace525ebd Golam Rabbani deposited The Creative Industries in Bangladesh: The Case of Coke Studio Bangla’s “Deora” in the group TC Postcolonial Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1866457/ Fri, 01 Dec 2023 03:04:02 -0500 This article analyzes the case of Coke Studio Bangla's music and performance production titled "Deora."

]]> 0 bdef2a525311114cac5a46f7c4724ec7 Golam Rabbani deposited In the Light of What We Know: A Novel of Its Time in the group TC Postcolonial Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1866343/ Thu, 30 Nov 2023 03:02:38 -0500 Book review of Zia Haider Rahman's novel In the Light of What We Know

]]> 0 ff7110209e34594c0c09707db0b5ad5b Sonia D. Andras deposited Interwar Romanian Fashion and Beauty in American Vogue in the group Connected Academics https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1866202/ Wed, 29 Nov 2023 03:00:18 -0500 This paper explores Romanian women’s influence on US fashion as representatives of European artistic, cultural, and social elites and as genuine Parisiennes. This study treats the Parisienne model as a symbolic marker of elegance driven by French, namely Parisian, aesthetic philosophies, and technical prowess. In this sense, Romanian women f…[Read more]

]]> 0 5cebda65de219170b99812db73a50afc Arif Camoglu deposited Inter-imperial Dimensions of Turkish Literary Modernity in the group TC Postcolonial Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1865837/ Sat, 25 Nov 2023 04:04:14 -0500 Calling for a historiographical shift in literary criticism, this essay stresses the expansionist vision of the nineteenth-century Ottoman Empire, approaches its literature as a corpus of representation for imperial subjectivities, and thereby supplements the critique of the narrative of literary modernity identified with the orientalist E. J. W.…[Read more]

]]> 0 89ee1a35c498bfd56475f5612183059a Epifanio San Juan deposited INTER-CROSSCULTURAL DIALOGUES AND POSTCOLONIAL INDIGENIZATION IN LATE MODERNITY in the group TC Postcolonial Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1864250/ Sun, 12 Nov 2023 03:05:15 -0500 Survey of the rise of sikolohiyang Pilipino (Filipino psychology) in the context of decolonization and indigenization movements in the Philippines in the last decades of the 20th century.

]]> 0 4515dc920cf617adf371012c7fe044ce Simon Stern started the topic 2024 LAW AND HUMANITIES WORKSHOP FOR JUNIOR SCHOLARS in the discussion TC Law and the Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/law-and-the-humanities/forum/topic/2024-law-and-humanities-workshop-for-junior-scholars/ Thu, 19 Oct 2023 17:25:02 -0400 2024 LAW AND HUMANITIES WORKSHOP FOR JUNIOR SCHOLARS Call for Participation

Georgetown University Law Center, Stanford Law School, UCLA School of Law, the University of Pennsylvania, and the University of Southern California Center for Law, History, and Culture invite submissions for the 23d meeting of the Law and Humanities Workshop for Junior…[Read more]

]]> 169f59cf4f777fc612905e11b4ab1240 Corine Tachtiris deposited Syllabus for grad seminar on Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Translation - revised in the group TC Postcolonial Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1859971/ Thu, 28 Sep 2023 03:02:25 -0400 This is a revised 2023 version of a course was first taught at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in fall 2018. It addresses feminism, gender and sexuality studies, queer theory, and critical race and ethnic studies in conjunction with translation studies.

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