Hi #medlibs @medlibs

Anyone going to the #MLA24 #MLANET24 launch webinar today? I can't make it but I would be very grateful if you could ask these questions 🙏

Do the venues have HVAC systems that comply with CDC’s post-public health emergency recommendations – to wit, at least 5 air changes per hour of clean air in occupied spaces, and at least MERV 13 filters?

Will participants be able to get a refund or to transfer registrations without penalty if they get COVID or have COVID symptoms?

Want to propose an #mla24 session about something that happened after the 1 April deadline? Applications are now available for just-in-time sessions! Proposals should be submitted by 22 September. Learn more about just-in-time sessions: https://www.mla.org/Events/2024-MLA-Convention/Proposing-a-Just-in-Time-Session

Today is the deadline to submit program copy for #mla24. Learn more about how to submit your session proposal: https://www.mla.org/Events/2024-MLA-Convention/2024-Convention-Program-Forms

Saturday, 1 April is the last day to submit program copy forms for #mla24. Learn how to submit a session proposal: https://www.mla.org/Events/2024-MLA-Convention/2024-Convention-Program-Forms

The graduate student showcase at #mla24 will highlight some of the most innovative projects developed by grad students. MA and PhD students: submit your abstracts by 28 March. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1UVgfUw7vLWzSH48AUXjbzcfPid6jFCREjnYVSy8DH3Q/edit?usp=sharing

Humanities in Five challenges scholars from different fields to present their research at #mla24 using language accessible to the general public—in five minutes. Submit a proposal by 1 April: https://www.mla.org/Events/2024-MLA-Convention/Participating-in-Humanities-in-Five

Reminder: program copy forms for #mla24 are now available! Learn how to propose a session as an individual member or on behalf of an entity: https://www.mla.org/Events/2024-MLA-Convention/2024-Convention-Program-Forms

📣 Nostalgia in & for Children’s Literature
🖍️ #CFP, guaranteed session sponsored by #MLA Forum on Children’s & YA Literature. #MLA24, Philadelphia, Jan 4-7 2024
📚 Seeking papers about #nostalgia in & for children’s books. Whether the nostalgia is located in the work, its readers, or the environment in which it is read or produced, what are the objects of its longing? What political uses does it invite? What are nostalgia’s perils & possibilities?
➡️ DUE 20 Mar.
🔗 Full CFP https://philnel.com/2023/03/06/cfpmla2

Get involved in #mla24! You can still respond to some calls for papers through the end of March. Browse the calls:
https://mla.confex.com/mla/2024/webprogrampreliminary/programs.html

Reminder of 2 #MLA24 CFPs organized by Committee on Information Technology

“Ethics and Practice of AIs in the Academy” https://bit.ly/mla2024CITcfp

“Evaluating Digital Scholarship Today: Problems and Solutions” https://bit.ly/mla2024CITcfp

(this one is particularly important to us as the committee is tasked with drafting the new MLA guidelines)

Proposals deadline 15 March 2023.

Please share!

📣 Nostalgia in & for Children’s Literature

🖍️ #CFP for guaranteed session sponsored by #MLA Forum on Children’s & YA Literature. #MLA24, Philadelphia, January 4-7, 2024

📚 Seeking papers about #nostalgia in & for children’s books. Whether the nostalgia is located in the work, its readers, or the environment in which it is read or produced, what are the objects of its longing? What political uses does it invite? What are nostalgia’s perils & possibilities?

🔗 Full CFP: https://philnel.com/2023/03/06/cfpmla2024/

Seeking proposals for an MLA panel on "Comparative Media Histories"! This is a guaranteed session through the CLCS 18th-Century Forum. Proposals due March 15.

Comparative Media Histories

We invite submissions on comparative media history and 18th-century studies. How can comparative or multilingual approaches expand definitions of “the book” and the materiality of texts? 200-word abstract and CV to rking@english.ucsb.edu and pamela.phillips1@upr.edu

#MLA #MLA24 #bookhistory #mediastudies

CFP from our MLA Committee on Information Technology for #mla24 session on:

“Ethics and Practice of AIs in the Academy” https://bit.ly/mla2024CITcfp

Propsoals deadline 15 March 2023.

Should MLA in the future create guidelines on artificial intelligence for scholarship & teaching in language & literature? How?

#ChatGPT #LargeLanguageModels #ArtificialIntelligence

CFP from our MLA Committee on Information Technology for session at #mla24:

“Evaluating Digital Scholarship Today: Problems and Solutions” https://bit.ly/mla2024CITcfp

Proposal deadline 15 March 2023. Our committee is revising MLA’s Guidelines for evaluating digital scholarship. We could use input.

#DigitalScholarship #DH

As usual, looking at #MLA24 CfPs, I'm faced with the question of whether my work is a better fit with book studies or with digital/contemporary literary studies? I could send the exact same proposal to two widely different CfPs so I'm like 🤷🏽‍♀️

My fabulous bestie, Nora Benedict (who is the brand new @sharporg liaison for MLA) put together this equally fabulous CFP for #MLA24

“Book History in Translation”: http://bit.ly/mla24SHARPcfp

How do we study translated books? Possible topics: #mistranslation, #bookclubs, #piracy, #copyright, #copyleft.

Abstract + CV by 15 March!

Details in the link: https://mla.confex.com/mla/2024/webprogrampreliminary/Paper22840.html

🚨📢#CFP alert! Guaranteed Session @sharporg
#MLA24:

“Book History in Translation”: http://bit.ly/mla24SHARPcfp

How do we study translated books? Possible topics: #mistranslation, #bookclubs, #piracy, #copyright, #copyleft.

Send the fabulous Nora Benedict @norabenedict an abstract + CV by 15 March! 📚💻📜

CFP from our MLA Committee on Information Technology for its #mla24 session on “Ethics and Practice of AIs in the Academy”: https://bit.ly/mla2024CITcfp (deadline 15 March 2023) Should MLA in the future create guidelines on artificial intelligence for scholarship & teaching in language & literature? How?
#ChatGPT #LargeLanguageModels #ArtificialIntelligence

CFP from our MLA Committee on Information Technology for session at #mla24 on “Evaluating Digital Scholarship Today: Problems and Solutions” https://bit.ly/mla2024CITcfp (deadline 15 March 2023). Our committee is revising MLA’s Guidelines for evaluating digital scholarship.

I’m on MLA’s Committee on Information Technology with Eduard Arriaga, Nhora Lucía Serrano, @epyllia, @Readywriting, @elikaortega, & Avery J. Wiscomb.

Here’s our CFP for two panels at #mla24: https://bit.ly/mla2024CITcfp. @MLAnews #DigitalScholarship #DH #ArtificialIntelligence #ChatGPT