35.804, Calls: Modern Language Association 2025 Convention: Visibility

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Subject: 35.804, Calls: Modern Language Association 2025 Convention: Visibility

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Date: 07-Mar-2024
From: Anne Furlong [afurlong at upei.ca]
Subject: Modern Language Association 2025 Convention: Visibility


Full Title: Modern Language Association 2025 Convention: Visibility
Short Title: 2025 MLA Convention

Date: 09-Jan-2025 - 12-Jan-2025
Location: New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Contact Person: Anne Furlong
Meeting Email: afurlong at upei.ca
Web Site: https://www.mla.org/Events/2025-MLA-Convention

Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis; Ling & Literature;
Pragmatics; Sociolinguistics; Translation
Subject Language(s): English (eng)

Call Deadline: 22-Mar-2024

Meeting Description:

The annual convention of the Modern Language Associationwill take
place in New Orleans this coming January. In-person and online
sessions give faculty members and graduate students different options
for attending.

The convention is open to anyone in the humanities. It brings together
scholars, teachers, and writers from a variety of humanities fields to
share their work; pursue professional development opportunities; and
learn about the latest research in language, literature, cultural
studies, and writing studies. Attendees benefit from workshops
designed to help them grow as scholars, writers, departmental leaders,
external reviewers, and humanities advocates. They may be invited to
provide or receive mentorship, to network with other scholars, and to
hone their pedagogical skills. Attendees can discover the latest
publications in their fields and engage with scholarly press editors,
and may find what they learn will help strengthen their department and
institution.

The convention is also the MLA’s annual governance meeting, where
members participate in the Delegate Assembly, decide policy, and
gather to hear the Presidential Address and Presidential Plenaries on
topics of urgent importance to the profession.

The convention can be a rewarding experience for scholars at every
stage of their careers. Research sessions inform attendees about the
latest work in their fields, as well as in fields adjacent to or even
far from their own—that aspect of the convention, along with all the
professional development training, makes this convention different
from smaller, specialized gatherings. Professional development
sessions offer help to graduate students and department chairs and
guidance to those looking for grants or publishers.

Panel I: Visibility, Language, Style: Authorship as Resistance

Literary works reflect and reflect on the dominant culture. A feature
of contemporary literature is the growing visibility of previously
“invisible” populations, as subjects or audiences. Authors may
represent a submerged group in mainstream literature in their own
voices; audiences may clamour to see themselves made visible. Multiple
English literatures in post-colonial parts of the world have
flourished as authors produce texts in the English of that region; and
literary works represent excluded populations (such as trans people)
or subjugated majorities (such as women, or the working classes) so
that audiences see themselves in the pages of these works.

How do authors exploit linguistic or stylistic devices and strategies
to amplify the visibility of minority or subjugated populations from
production through reception? Please submit a 250-word abstract and a
brief bio by 22 March 2024 to https://forms.gle/RJhcTN3kSE1c7Wbq9

Panel II: Translation, visibility, and style: accommodating audiences

Audiences often expect translations to be "invisible" as differences
between source and translation are "smoothed over" and may expect
translators to be invisible as well. However, the act of translating
literary works from one language to another involves judgments about
visibility at every point. Some of these are stylistic, some
linguistic (such as differences in grammatical gender). More troubling
are adjustments which perpetuate social and cultural inequities by
diminishing the visibility of minority or subjugated communities in
order to accommodate the preferences of majority or dominant cultures.

How do translations of literary works navigate judgments of visibility
(of author, translator, or audience) at any point, from production
through to reception? Please submit a 250-word abstract and a brief
bio by 22 March 2024 to https://forms.gle/tJ7nJuSxCyob1dHu6



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