Knowledge Commons | Taarini Mookherjee | Group Activity https://hcommons.org/members/taarini/activity/groups/ Public group activity feed of which Taarini Mookherjee is a member. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 10:50:43 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 a76b083f1bc2fbbbe29a15a8b56de4b0 Elizabeth M. Holt deposited Resistance Literature and Occupied Palestine in Cold War Beirut in the group 2019 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1727898/ Thu, 18 Feb 2021 02:23:53 -0500 FREE ACCESS: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0377919X.2020.1855933
For the last decade of his life, the Palestinian intellectual, author, and editor Ghassan Kanafani (d. 1972) was deeply immersed in theorizing, lecturing, and publishing on Palestinian resistance literature from Beirut. A refugee of the 1948 war, Kanafani presented…[Read more]

]]> 0 0587461179aea37fb0221212a6126934 Elizabeth M. Holt deposited Al-Ṭayyib Ṣāliḥ's Season of Migration to the North, the CIA, and the Cultural Cold War after Bandung in the group 2019 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1680241/ Sat, 07 Mar 2020 16:26:05 -0500 In the fall of 1966, Ḥiwār magazine published al-Ṭayyib Ṣāliḥ's novel Mawsim al-hijrah ilā al-shamāl [ Season of Migration to the North ]. Arabic literary critics both hailed the novel in the Arabic press and mourned that it had been published by the Paris-based Congress for Cultural Freedom's Ḥiwār, part of a global covert cultural front of the C…[Read more]

]]> 0 28a817a23d197d821614e43b4e852da7 Cynthia Chase replied to the topic Call For Candidates: LLC Pre-14th Chinese Forum Executive Committee in the discussion 2019 MLA Convention via email https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/2019-mla-convention/forum/topic/call-for-candidates-llc-pre-14th-chinese-forum-executive-committee-2/#post-1023068 Tue, 14 Jan 2020 23:39:51 -0500 No, thank you.

Cynthia Chase

From: Xiaowen Xu [mailto:noreply@hcommons.org]
Sent: mardi 14 janvier 2020 17:08
To: Cynthia Chase
Subject: [MLA Commons] Call For Candidates: LLC Pre-14th Chinese Forum... (2019 MLA Convention)

]]> d1bde95e76b00832f06e29d8c084b84b Xiaowen Xu started the topic Call For Candidates: LLC Pre-14th Chinese Forum Executive Committee in the discussion 2019 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/2019-mla-convention/forum/topic/call-for-candidates-llc-pre-14th-chinese-forum-executive-committee-2/ Tue, 14 Jan 2020 22:06:42 -0500

Dear Colleagues,

The LLC Pre-14th Forum is calling for your volunteering to be an alternate candidate for the executive committee 2021 to 2026. Please contact Xiaowen Xu (xiaowen.xu@ubc.ca) or Benjamin Ridgway (brdgwa1@swarthmore.edu) if you are interested. Or you could reply to this thread directly.

We would need four forum members who are…

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]]> bbe7db68978aa8bd89e5900f3d2a3ec5 Jefferson Gatrall started the topic Job posting: Assistant Professor of Religion and Medical Humanities in the discussion 2019 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/2019-mla-convention/forum/topic/job-posting-assistant-professor-of-religion-and-medical-humanities-2/ Mon, 28 Oct 2019 18:27:04 -0400 The Department of Religion and the Medical Humanities Program at Montclair State University seeks an Assistant Professor of Religion and Medical Humanities.

Job Description

The Assistant Professor of Religion and Medical Humanities will teach and conduct research at the intersections of religion/culture and medicine/healthcare, such as…[Read more]

]]> ac236b73f67545a6a231d1cf7109149c Elizabeth M. Holt deposited "In a Language That Was Not His Own": On Ahlām Mustaghānamī's Dhākirat al-jasad and Its French Translation Mémoires de la chair in the group 2019 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1668649/ Sat, 26 Oct 2019 16:35:13 -0400 Abstract
This paper argues that Ah!lam Mustaghanami’s novel Dhakirat al-jasad (Memories of the Flesh)
enacts a break with Algeria’s Francophone literary past, multiply staging its affiliation with the
Arabic language. !e novel positions itself as part of an Algerian linguistic drama that, once
translated into French as Mémoires de la chai…[Read more]

]]> 0 a8a85a6a0114945cf7cbcbdd9eedaed8 Elizabeth M. Holt deposited “Bread or Freedom”: The Congress for Cultural Freedom, the CIA, and the Arabic Literary Journal Ḥiwār (1962-67) (complete) in the group 2019 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1668647/ Sat, 26 Oct 2019 16:34:17 -0400 In 1950, the United States Central Intelligence Agency created the Congress for Cultural Free- dom, with its main offices in Paris, lhe CCF was designed as a cultural front in the Cold War in response to the Soviet Cominform, and founded and funded a worldwide network of literary journals (as well as conferences, concerts, art exhibits and other…[Read more]

]]> 0 dba269f771560056ccd5b73286c255c0 Ryan Calabretta-Sajder started the topic 3rd IASA International Symposium in Italy Call for Papers in the discussion 2019 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/2019-mla-convention/forum/topic/3rd-iasa-international-symposium-in-italy-call-for-papers-2/ Sat, 12 Oct 2019 17:16:45 -0400 3rd IASA International Symposium in Italy Call for Papers

May 28-31, 2020

Fondazione Campus

Via del Seminario Prima, 790

Lucca, Italy

http://www.fondazionecampus.it 

Italian Diaspora(s): The Manifestations and Dynamics of Cultural ChangeSubmission Deadline: Saturday, February 1, 2020 https://italianamericanstudies.submittable.com/submit…[Read more]

]]> 7983df42c1daa16a5b57080cbf4a36c3 Elizabeth M. Holt deposited From Gardens of Knowledge to Ezbekiyya after Midnight: The Novel and the Arabic Press from Beirut to Cairo, 1870-1892 in the group 2019 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1666035/ Wed, 09 Oct 2019 16:25:26 -0400 Late 19th-century Beirut and Cairo were capitals of Arabic literary production and press
activity. A period, oft deemed a nahḍah, that witnessed the advent of the novel form or
riwāyah in Arabic, this was also the moment of intensified French and British imperial
involvement in the region, and the concomitant industrialization of Beirut’s silk…[Read more]

]]> 0 2cf4250d3012d73503db071f3332cf59 Elizabeth M. Holt deposited Cartography and Clandestinité in Leïla Sebbar’s Shérazade: 17 ans, brune, frisée, les yeux verts in the group 2019 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1664065/ Fri, 20 Sep 2019 16:32:51 -0400 Abstract.
In this paper, I read Leı ¨la Sebbar’s staging in her novel She´razzed: 17 ans,brune, frise´ e, les yeux verts of the resistance by children of North African and other immigrants in the early 1980s to the French state’s cartographic modes and documentsof control. The paper will consider the many uses to which the map was put by theFren…[Read more]

]]> 0 efce931297459a4d68c7e0f6ea308eeb Elizabeth M. Holt deposited "In a Language That Was Not His Own": On Ahlām Mustaghānamī's Dhākirat al-jasad and Its French Translation Mémoires de la chair in the group 2019 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1664064/ Fri, 20 Sep 2019 16:31:57 -0400 Abstract
This paper argues that Ahlām Mustaghānamī’s novel Dhākirat al-jasad (Memories of the Flesh) enacts a break with Algeria’s Francophone literary past, multiply staging its affiliation with the Arabic language. e novel positions itself as part of an Algerian linguistic drama that, once translated into French as Mémoires de la chair , is p…[Read more]

]]> 0 7ab3bd68a65ae8b9e477707e60923af7 Elizabeth M. Holt deposited "Narrating the Nahda: The Syrian Protestant College, al-Muqtataf, and the Rise of Jurji Zaydan," AUB: 150 Years in the group 2019 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1664063/ Fri, 20 Sep 2019 16:31:06 -0400 Published in Cairo in 1892, the first issue of Jurji Zaydan’s Arabic journal al-Hilal contained a history of the Arabic press, including a list of the journals published in Beirut in the 1870s and 1880s, when Zaydan was a young waiter and finally a Syrian Protestant College medical student and leader of the 1882 protest. Listed too are the Arabi…[Read more]

]]> 0 3d0cd27474d88cb98bf3a0627bd313e2 Elizabeth M. Holt deposited "The Story of Zahra and Its Critics: Feminism and Agency at War," Arabic Literature for the Classroom in the group 2019 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1664062/ Fri, 20 Sep 2019 16:30:13 -0400 ABSTRACT Theorizations of the female subject in Arabic literary criticism have long charted debates within Western feminism. This chapter invites a reading of Hanan al-Shaykh's novel The Story of Zahra that would attend rather to the quiet narrative aporia surrounding a reticent Zahra, the challenge her will to be "look[ed] at [as] a woman in…[Read more]

]]> 0 aa4e98aa846494051ca99fad924142eb Elizabeth M. Holt deposited "'A Fabrication in Fabrication': Ya'qub Sarruf's *Fatat Misr* and the Fiction of Finance in Colonial Egypt" in the group 2019 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1664061/ Fri, 20 Sep 2019 16:29:20 -0400 ABSTRACT Serialized over the course of 1905 in the Arabic journal al-Muqtaṭaf, Ya‘qūb Ṣarrūf’s novel Fatāt Mişr [The Girl of Egypt] was avidly read by contemporary subscribers and then soon forgotten by Arabic’s reading public. Ṣarrūf came to despise Fatāt Mişr and all of his novels, finding that the market for the genre in Arabic fell far sh…[Read more]

]]> 0 4cec331097bba40667ab00cfbfef34b6 Elizabeth M. Holt deposited Narrative and the Reading Public in 1870s Beirut in the group 2019 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1664060/ Fri, 20 Sep 2019 16:28:28 -0400 ABSTRACT This paper reads narrative published in the journals of 1870s Beirut in the context of an emerging bourgeois readership and argues that the significance of this archive to modern Arabic fiction has been neglected by critics. Taking the intensification of the silk trade with France following the civil war of 1860 as a point of historical…[Read more]

]]> 0 064e25abe5b888272c90efbe410c9469 Elizabeth M. Holt deposited "Cairo and the Cultural Cold War for Afro-Asia," Routledge Handbook to the Global Sixties in the group 2019 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1664059/ Fri, 20 Sep 2019 16:27:34 -0400 ABSTRACT Cultural cold war played out in Arabic from the late 1950s into the early 1970s in the
conference halls, hotel lobbies, cafes, bars, magazine offices, publishing houses, kiosks,
and streets of Beirut and Cairo. Berlin, Paris, Tashkent, Khartoum, London, Baghdad1,
and Tunis all have their place in this built landscape of cultural cold…[Read more]

]]> 0 057a140cb9d47dd9cdb455f54d107958 Elizabeth M. Holt deposited “Bread or Freedom”: The Congress for Cultural Freedom, the CIA, and the Arabic Literary Journal Ḥiwār (1962-67) in the group 2019 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1664053/ Fri, 20 Sep 2019 16:26:18 -0400 Abstract
In 1950, the United States Central Intelligence Agency created the Congress for Cultural Freedom,
with its main offices in Paris. The CCF was designed as a cultural front in the Cold War in
response to the Soviet Cominform, and founded and fiinded a worldwide network of literary
journals (as well as conferences, concerts, art exhibits…[Read more]

]]> 0 5b626766f8d8dca2cee3cfb9e267a0e2 Elizabeth M. Holt deposited Cold War in the Arabic Press: Ḥiwār (Beirut, 1962–67) and the Congress for Cultural Freedom in the group 2019 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1664052/ Fri, 20 Sep 2019 16:25:21 -0400 ABSTRACT

Extensively quoting from the archives of the International Association for Cultural Freedom, a Cold War organization founded as a CIA front in 1950, this chapter provides a history for their Arabic literary activities, including the journals Aṣwāt, Adab, and their best known work in the region: Ḥiwār (1962–67), edited by Palesti…[Read more]

]]> 0 e0fa2e9741f115f2dc95b1a9c3fb45f7 Renata Kobetts Miller deposited Practical Advice and Institutional Supports for the Parenting Professoriate in the group 2019 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1638011/ Fri, 12 Apr 2019 16:27:25 -0400 Slides from Renata Kobetts Miller's (City College of New York) presentation as part of the panel on "The Problems and Possibilities of Parenting in the Academy."

]]> 0 d00fe6bc95076bc0034daede72d7c849 Carrie Johnston deposited Language and Labor in the Digital Humanities in the group 2019 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1635315/ Fri, 15 Mar 2019 16:25:24 -0400 This presentation addresses the opportunities and challenges of transacting digital humanities collaborative projects from the perspective of a Digital Humanities Research Designer in an academic library. While collaboration is often celebrated as a central to the success of digital humanities projects, I argue that often the language of…[Read more]

]]> 0 1cdc2f98c6a5b98059e66acabdf22496 Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Draining the Amazon's Swamp in the group 2019 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1631442/ Fri, 08 Feb 2019 16:26:33 -0500 Full collection of essays written during my undergraduate and graduate studies in literature.

]]> 0 b343cbb160073f7bfe46631a8116c85b Amy Chen deposited Playing Around with Book History: Codex Conquest and Mark in the group 2019 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1628768/ Sat, 12 Jan 2019 03:57:01 -0500 Students learn more when they play—while the value of play often is emphasized only for those early in their education, play has a role in higher education as well. To teach book history across time and space, I developed two card games: Codex Conquest (http://codexconquest.lib.uiowa.edu/) and Mark (under development: h…[Read more]

]]> 0 a0782a7bd280413049a253cf8f5888aa Amy Chen deposited Teaching Book History through Card Games: Codex Conquest and Mark in the group 2019 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1628765/ Sat, 12 Jan 2019 03:48:43 -0500 Teaching Book History through Card Games: Codex Conquest and Mark
Amy Hildreth Chen, English and American Literature Librarian, University of Iowa
Students learn more when they play—while the value of play often is emphasized only for those early in their education, play has a role in higher education as well. To teach book history across t…[Read more]

]]> 0 af9a9ebebfdd28a794e629e95cd98c55 Jason Helms deposited The Invisibility of Digital Labor (slides) in the group 2019 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1628603/ Thu, 10 Jan 2019 16:44:14 -0500 Digital scholarship, particularly with digital monographs, requires a great deal of work that traditional scholarship does not. The presenter has authored a digital monograph (published 2017) and written and co-written web texts on the methodologies of digital scholarship and critical making (both currently under review). While digital tools can…[Read more]

]]> 0 cd0f0a992e134cc4c6fe43e0c299bb73 Jason Helms deposited The Invisibility of Digital Labor in the group 2019 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1628600/ Thu, 10 Jan 2019 16:38:33 -0500 Digital scholarship, particularly with digital monographs, requires a great deal of work that traditional scholarship does not. The presenter has authored a digital monograph (published 2017) and written and co-written web texts on the methodologies of digital scholarship and critical making (both currently under review). While digital tools can…[Read more]

]]> 0 f5c04fee2ba23ad91e1c9f25b5ea6427 Jason Helms deposited The High Cost of Love: Passive Exploitation of Labor in DH and DM Courses (slides) in the group 2019 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1628596/ Thu, 10 Jan 2019 16:32:24 -0500 One of the most salient aspects of DH projects is that they are fun to create. DH scholars love to make amazing new tools that solve tangible problems. This makes teaching DH a joy: students work harder on DH assignments because the assignments demand and reward their attention. When work is fun, it doesn’t feel like work. Rather than being a…[Read more]

]]> 0 4fbca72fa435cd864154464071b506d6 Jason Helms deposited The High Cost of Love: Passive Exploitation of Labor in DH and DM Courses in the group 2019 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1628592/ Thu, 10 Jan 2019 16:25:22 -0500 One of the most salient aspects of DH projects is that they are fun to create. DH scholars love to make amazing new tools that solve tangible problems. This makes teaching DH a joy: students work harder on DH assignments because the assignments demand and reward their attention. When work is fun, it doesn’t feel like work. Rather than being a…[Read more]

]]> 0 a0b9b29410c08433fa8b91a3bd49912f Matthew K. Gold deposited Issues of Labor, Credit, and Care in Peer-to-Peer Review Processes in the group 2019 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1628451/ Wed, 09 Jan 2019 16:25:21 -0500 This talk focuses on peer review models, considering issues of labor and credit within them. It then turns to the ethos of care to discuss how peer-to-peer review processes can be structure with care to ensure that participant labor is valued. The talk ends with a focus on the nature of the labor in peer-to-peer review, arguing that it is…[Read more]

]]> 0 f52e0e1d284898b7ea6eb6f2f61c6d74 Helen Davies deposited Recovery and Loss: (Multispectral) Imaging and Image Rights in the group 2019 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1628281/ Tue, 08 Jan 2019 03:54:36 -0500 Single author works do not properly represent the multifaceted collaboration that goes into a digital humanities project. At the Lazarus Project, a multispectral imaging initiative based out of the University of Rochester, we are experimenting with new modes of collaborative publishing. Furthermore, as a multispectral imaging project, we recover…[Read more]

]]> 0 a2e0a5bee72299e3f716ea8023a5828b Harriett Green deposited "Getting Credit in Digital Publishing and Digital Humanities" panel response in the group 2019 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1628278/ Tue, 08 Jan 2019 03:52:54 -0500 The response paper given by Harriett Green, panel presider, for Session #613, "Getting Credit in Digital Publishing and Digital Humanities" .

]]> 0 26ca61a457db2b0125242d629194f662 Grant Glass deposited Digital Humanities is No Object in the group 2019 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1628210/ Mon, 07 Jan 2019 16:27:56 -0500 About my Spring 2018 Writing Class: Writing in the Digital Humanities
Prepared for MLA 2019, Session 89: What do we teach when we teach DH?

]]> 0 c366c5cda0d05f0a4fd925f91129aa21 Vanessa Ceia deposited Mapping the Movida: Re-Imagining Counterculture in Late 20th-Century Spain in the group 2019 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1628206/ Mon, 07 Jan 2019 16:25:21 -0500 Vanessa Ceia’s talk features her project, “Mapping the Movida,” which visualizes the Movida, a sociological phenomenon and cultural renaissance that emerged in Madrid during the first decade of Spanish democracy (1976-1986). Ceia demonstrates how combining the use of digital tools and deep mapping techniques with traditional archival resea…[Read more]

]]> 0 a6271ddc036e8a3ef69f28aba629c370 Ellen McClure started the topic Panel 526: The Turn to Religion in Seventeenth-Century French Studies in the discussion 2019 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/2019-mla-convention/forum/topic/panel-526-the-turn-to-religion-in-seventeenth-century-french-studies/ Mon, 07 Jan 2019 14:46:23 -0500 Here are the files that our roundtable discussants (Dalia Judovitz, Flynn Cratty, Hall Bjornstad, Joy Palacios, Richard Hoffman Reinhardt) based their interventions on. (Unable to upload Dalia's powerpoint here, but it can be requested).

]]> 0d3134f748f8210808c44a930803921a William Nichols deposited Telling the Story of Iberian Studies: Spaces of Convergence and the Defense of the Humanities in the group 2019 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1628157/ Mon, 07 Jan 2019 03:49:42 -0500 This is a paper that I presented at the 2019 MLA in Chicago. In this paper I situate discussions of the field of Iberian Studies within the context of the crisis of the Humanities and the future of Cultural Studies.

]]> 0 88e5973b5a73cc011558562128033799 Amanda L. Watson deposited Collaboration in the Digital Research Landscape in the group 2019 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1628154/ Mon, 07 Jan 2019 03:48:43 -0500 Slides from MLA 2019 session 374, "Collaboration in the Digital Research Landscape," an open meeting of the Libraries and Research Forum.

]]> 0 0f5569148c6efea9ec11140905f28d07 Sabrina Lee deposited Searching the Silence: Women Writers and Romance Fiction in HathiTrust in the group 2019 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1628089/ Sun, 06 Jan 2019 16:25:21 -0500 This is a panel paper for "Critical Computation: What's Next?" This paper discusses an unpublished aspect of the article "The Transformation of Gender in English-Language Fiction," published in Cultural Analytics in 2018. In this paper I discuss ways in which we (Ted Underwood, David Bamman, and I) tried to explain the decline of women writers in…[Read more]

]]> 0 1aaedbba260e3dbecee43e7c82bc772a Whitney Sperrazza deposited Patterns of Violence: Critical Making and the She/Her/Hers of Early Modern Poetry in the group 2019 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1628057/ Sun, 06 Jan 2019 03:48:43 -0500 Short paper presented for MLA 2019 Session 417 - "Critical Computation: What's Next?"

]]> 0 2b203cd664911500dd8a5df473614e3a Grant Glass deposited Resisting the Machine: Learning a New Method in the group 2019 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1627998/ Sat, 05 Jan 2019 16:33:51 -0500 Paper for Session 417: Critical Computation: What's Next?

]]> 0 fbd0594f7d5aabb12ea31b9d920c128d Molly Des Jardin deposited Teaching "East Asian DH" in the group 2019 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1627989/ Sat, 05 Jan 2019 16:26:02 -0500 This presentation explains my undergrad/grad seminar "East Asian DH" (EALC111/511) at University of Pennsylvania in Spring 2018. I focus on the survey format of the seminar, as dictated by the challenge of trying to reach students working on many aspects of the un-discipline of East Asian studies, which encompasses a large region, at least three…[Read more]

]]> 0 9d3b6e05fbd3e191b3770cb61a09433a Kenton Rambsy deposited African American Short Fiction & Data Driven Humanities in the group 2019 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1627988/ Sat, 05 Jan 2019 16:25:22 -0500 Datasets, that is, digital collections of related information, and data visualizations are really crucial ways for understanding the circulation of African American short stories and black literature in general. Calculating the number of unique stories and the many reprints allow us to survey how editors collectively shaped canonical histories.…[Read more]

]]> 0 b526153af991302c46b3d453e3ca72d0 Anne Donlon deposited MLA Commons and Humanities Commons Workshop (MLA 2019) in the group 2019 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1627897/ Fri, 04 Jan 2019 16:25:21 -0500 Build Your Online Presence, Share Your Scholarship, and Collaborate on MLA Commons and Humanities Commons, session 140

This workshop introduces the features of MLA Commons and Humanities Commons, highlighting a number of cases that demonstrate how people are using the platform to get feedback on work in progress, develop a professional online…[Read more]

]]> 0 292e5910474834fa9178e17c09b9021a Molly Des Jardin replied to the topic Recommendations for food and drinks in Chicago in the discussion 2019 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/2019-mla-convention/forum/topic/recommendations-for-food-and-drinks-in-chicago/#post-1019332 Fri, 04 Jan 2019 14:36:07 -0500 This morning I checked out the Prudential location of Wildberry. It has a vegan hash among other many tasty items, is open at 6:30 and a five-minute walk from the Hyatt. Highly recommended but go early!

]]> 36fc54568b91a7723d9b9dc88a7a4d05 Anne Donlon started the topic Recommendations for food and drinks in Chicago in the discussion 2019 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/2019-mla-convention/forum/topic/recommendations-for-food-and-drinks-in-chicago/ Thu, 03 Jan 2019 16:23:03 -0500 If you're from Chicago, if you've visited before, or if you discover good food options during your time at the convention, share them here!

The Committee on Disability Issues in the Profession did an accessibility survey of restaurants.

I have not spent a ton of time in Chicago, but I did gather some recommendations from friends when I was here…[Read more]

]]> 60b436fcd935331affc4310329239c82 Nohemy Solorzano-Thompson started the topic PANEL: 040 Echoes of Sepharad, Thurs, January 3 at 1:45 pm, Sheraton Grand Huron in the discussion 2019 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/2019-mla-convention/forum/topic/panel-040-echoes-of-sepharad-thurs-january-3-at-145-pm-sheraton-grand-huron-2/ Wed, 02 Jan 2019 04:58:54 -0500 040 Echoes of Sepharad Across the Humanities:

Strategies for Teaching Sephardic Content

 

1:45 pm - 3:00 pm

Thursday, January 3, 2019

Sheraton Grand - Huron

 

Session Information:

Scholars from different disciplines with an interest in Sephardic literature and culture present strategies for including Sephardic content in…[Read more]

]]> 2adf01ffce19592608ed14619416225c Amanda Henrichs deposited Beyond Recovery: Computational Work and Archival Absence in the group 2019 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1627544/ Tue, 01 Jan 2019 03:48:43 -0500 Short paper presented for session 417 on Critical Computation.

]]> 0 acc73c45b60a156895f67fdf675596c1 Janine M. Utell started the topic Chat with an Editor: Slots still available! in the discussion 2019 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/2019-mla-convention/forum/topic/chat-with-an-editor-slots-still-available/ Mon, 31 Dec 2018 20:23:59 -0500 Heading to MLA in Chicago? Looking for mentoring in writing for and publishing in peer-reviewed journals in your specialization? It’s not too late to sign up for Chat with an Editor! Sessions with experienced editors from MELUS, English Literary Renaissance, Legacy, Papers on Language and Literature and more still available for Friday and S…[Read more]

]]> bf47f660a5df645fd4a016bc2c274856 Corine Tachtiris created the doc Abstracts for 2019 Convention panel on Radical and Rogue Translations in the group 2019 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1627457/ Sun, 30 Dec 2018 22:37:26 -0500 c5e81c19016b0dec5410783405228300 Elvira L. Vilches started the topic Panels and Happy Hour for Colonial Latin American Literatures/ MLA 2019 in the discussion 2019 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/2019-mla-convention/forum/topic/panels-and-happy-hour-for-colonial-latin-american-literatures-mla-2019/ Sat, 29 Dec 2018 23:01:48 -0500 Dear Members,

Here is the list of activities sponsored by the Colonial Latin American forum, MLA 2019.

We are looking forward to seeing you there.

 

Thursday Jan 3rd

54. And What does Colonial Mean? 

1:45-3:00 pm, Erie, Sheraton Grand

Presiding Mónica Díaz, U of Kentucky

Speakers: Ivonne del Valle, UC Berkley; Kathleen Myers, Indiana U, Bl…[Read more]

]]> 60e55926d5f1cd05a449a4f180dd3dfd Sara Brenneis started the topic MLA RT#233 "Spain, WWII & the Holocaust: History, Literature & Memory" in the discussion 2019 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/2019-mla-convention/forum/topic/mla-rt233-spain-wwii-the-holocaust-history-literature-memory/ Fri, 28 Dec 2018 18:47:51 -0500 233: Spain, World War II, and the Holocaust: History, Literature, Memory  10:15 AM–11:30 AM Friday, Jan 4, 2019  Sheraton Grand - Superior B

Join us for a pair of roundtable discussions at the MLA and AHA meetings in Chicago on Spain, World War II and the Holocaust. Panelists examine how the history, literature, and memory of World War II and the…[Read more]

]]> 4b88d58e446b1845abb2f738e1df5181 Dene M. Grigar started the topic Readings & Performances at M LA 2019 in the discussion 2019 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/2019-mla-convention/forum/topic/readings-performances-at-m-la-2019-2/ Sun, 23 Dec 2018 19:17:43 -0500 Natural Language: Readings and PerformancesJanuary 4, 2019 @ School of the Art Institute of ChicagoReception at 6:30,; Readings at 7:30
In conjunction with the 2019 MLA conference, the Electronic Literature Organization and the Art & Technology Studies (ATS) department at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) will host an evening of…[Read more]

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