Call For Proposals: Persons in Poetry and Law: Proposel Panel for MLA 2020

From the mailbox:

Call For Proposals: Persons in Poetry and Law

Proposed Panel for MLA 2020
January 9-12, 2020
Seattle, WA
 What relationships exist between poetic and legal invocations of personhood? What emerges in examining the formal strategies involved in processes of invocation? Seeking papers that put poems and legal texts in conversation. Please send 300-word proposals to Talia Shalev (tshalev@gradcenter.cuny.edu) by Wednesday, March 11, 2019.

Call For Papers, Proposed Working Group on Embodied Reading, MLA Annual Convention

Proposed Working Group, Modern Languages Association, Annual Convention, January 9-20, 2020

Embodied Reading

Proposed working group, MLA Convention, Seattle, WA

Jan. 9-12 2020

https://mla.confex.com/mla/2020/webprogrampreliminary/Paper8576.html

   

Taking a cue from recent developments in somatic psychology toward embodied listening and embodied speaking, in this working group we will explore embodied reading as a practice that attends to bodily sensation and affective response as they emerge in the process of reading. For scholars engaged with materials that describe traumatic encounters—from the archive of slavery to the autopsy of Michael Brown to memoirs of sexual violence—a choice presents itself. Do I bracket my own revulsion, discomfort, boredom, rage, or pain? We invite papers that explore what happens when, instead of ignoring or suppressing the vagaries of sensation, we attend to bodily affects: to the catch of the breath the moment we learn where and how the bullet entered the body; to the tightening of the belly as we read of the deadly blow that struck the young girl. As a critical or scholarly practice, embodied reading accomplishes nothing, produces nothing: it is not so much an alternative to reading close or distant, deep or surface, but rather constitutes a place of commencement from which other critical reading modalities might follow. Embodied reading offers a new locus of attention from which scholarly practice becomes, perhaps, more sustainable, more connected to the rhythms of daily experience, of being-in-the-world. Please send 250-word abstracts to ccutchin@berkeley.eduby March 15. We invite papers on topics that (for example):

·     attend to the affective or bodily experience of reading triggering material (literary, archival, or journalistic)

·     reflect on one’s own personal experience of integrating embodiment practice, meditation, or other therapeutic techniques with literary scholarship

·     consider new developments in somatic psychology as they relate to literary studies

·     theorize how embodied reading can emerge in the classroom setting

·     situate embodied reading in relationship to e.g., disability studies, queer studies, or memory studies 

·     examine the relationship between the reader’s embodied experience and the emergence of meaning in the literary or filmic text

CFP: Law, Literature, and Human Rights, MLA Annual Convention, Seattle, January 9-12, 2020

From the mailbox:

Call for Papers: 

Modern Language Association (MLA) Annual Convention, Seattle, January 9-12, 2020

Law, Literature, and Human Rights

Papers examining legal and literary articulations of human rights, broadly conceived, from Jus Gentium to the U.S. Constitution to the European Union. 250-500 word abstract and brief CV. 

Deadline for submissions: Sunday, 10 March 2019

Melissa J. Ganz, Marquette U (melissa.ganz@marquette.edu ); Christine L. Holbo, Arizona State U (christine.holbo@asu.edu )  

CFP: Law and Humanities Forum of the MLA Plans Session on Literature, Law, and Violence at Next Year's Convention @MLANews

The Law and Humanities Forum of the Modern Language Association is sponsoring a guaranteed session on "Literature, Law, and Violence" at next year's MLA convention in Chicago (January 3-6, 2019).  We invite papers examining the relationship between law and violence in literary or legal texts from any period and all regions of the world.  

Here is a link to the CFP, as listed on the MLA website, with contact information. Please send 250-500 word abstracts and brief CV  by March 13, 2018 to Melissa J. Ganz (melissa.ganz@marquette.edu).

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Melissa J. Ganz
Assistant Professor of English
Marquette University
Marquette Hall 226
Milwaukee, WI 53201-1881

Call for Panelists, Law and Humanities Forum, Modern Language Association Convention, January 5-8, 2017

From Melissa J. Ganz, Marquette University, Department of English:

Please consider submitting a proposal for one of the panels that the Law and the Humanities Forum is sponsoring at the Modern Language Association (MLA) convention next year.  The conference will meet in Philadelphia from January 5-8, 2017.

We are organizing one guaranteed session and two special (non-guaranteed) sessions:

1.  Object Lessons in Personhood (Guaranteed Session) 10-minute papers

on a single “thing.” How do theoretical issues surrounding legal personhood--questions of consent, responsibility, rights, freedom--manifest themselves at the level of substance, form, environment? 150-word abstracts. by 15 March 2016;Kevin Curran  (kdcurran@gmail.com).

 2. Transnational Justice and the Literary Imagination (Non-Guaranteed

 Session) How do imaginative texts explore questions of justice that transcend national borders? Papers on all genres, periods, and regions welcome. 300-word abstract and brief cv by 15 March 2016; Melissa J. Ganz (melissa.ganz@marquette.edu).

 3. The Mexican Legal Code and its Glitches (Non-Guaranteed Session)

 The Mexico & Law and Humanities Sections ask: How might Mexican literature and legal codes illuminate one another? 200-word abstract and one-page cv by 15 March 2016; Emily Hind (emilyhind@yahoo.com) and Peter Lancelot Mallios (mallios@umd.edu).

 We hope to see you in Philadelphia next year!

 Best wishes,

 Kevin Curran

 Melissa Ganz

 Peter Mallios

 Imani Perry

 Richard Weisberg

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