From m.cuddy.keane at utoronto.ca Fri Nov 7 06:10:49 2008 From: m.cuddy.keane at utoronto.ca (Melba Cuddy-Keane) Date: Fri Nov 7 06:12:48 2008 Subject: [Msa-members] Business Lunch--Final Call Message-ID: <01e301c940c9$7df3e5b0$6401a8c0@Melba3> Dear conference attendees, We have discovered that food orders for the business lunch must be submitted by noon tomorrow, Saturday, Nov. 8. Since I don't want anyone to miss out who'd like to come, I'm sending this one last call for signing up for it. To join, just send an email note to Amanda Hagood: charlotte.a.hagood@Vanderbilt.Edu telling her that you'd like to register for the lunch and that you'll pay your $10 fee for it at the registration desk. Please indicate if you want the vegetarian option. To stimulate your taste buds, here's the menu: Spinach Salad with toppings Seared Salmon with Sundried Tomato (Vegetarian Option: Roasted Eggplant) Multi Grain Rice Pilaf Saut?ed Green Beans Breads and Butter Lemon Cake Tea, coffee, water, lemonade (seating will be at big round tables, and the main course will be served) To stimulate your interest in the discussion: We will be discussing future conference sites, and the development of a "social media" component on our web site. We will be presenting our MSA annual book prize, and hearing brief words from our co-winners, who have come from 2 different continents to join us. Hope to see you there! Melba Cuddy-Keane MSA President, 2007-08 Charlotte Amanda Hagood MSAX Assistant Coordinator Vanderbilt University Email: charlotte.a.hagood@Vanderbilt.Edu From sarker at macalester.edu Fri Nov 7 18:39:43 2008 From: sarker at macalester.edu (Sonita Sarker) Date: Fri Nov 7 18:39:51 2008 Subject: [Msa-members] Invitation to International Relations Lunch at MSA on Friday, November the 14th Message-ID: Hello everybody! I invite you to the MSA IR lunch next Friday, the 14th of November, at 12:15, in the EAT restaurant of Loews Hotel. Given the vibrant presence of inter/trans-nationalist studies of all kinds in the MSA program this year, I hope to see many of you. It is my last year as IR chair and I anticipate seeing lively signs of your interest in future leadership. It would be exciting to discuss strategies and issues such as the role of modernisms and modernist studies in the globalizing of knowledge, the trends of our scholarship and potentials for new perspectives, and research as well as pedagogical strategies that relate modernist studies to internationalism or multiculturalism in your various institutions. I am eager to meet scholars whom I have not yet met and who are contributing so much to the program and to Modernist Studies. I am also looking forward to reconnecting with colleagues who have been keeping me intellectual company. The table at the restaurant is reserved in my last name (Sarker). In addition, do feel free to leave messages for me at the hotel's front desk if you'd like to chat at any other time. See you soon! Sonita. -- = Dr. Sarker American Council on Education Fellow, 07-08 Professor, WGSS and English Chair, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Macalester College, 1600 Grand Avenue St. Paul, Minnesota 55105, USA. www.macalester.edu/wgs/people.html http://works.bepress.com/sonita_sarker/ Office Phone: 1-651-696-6316 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://chaos.press.jhu.edu/pipermail/msa-members/attachments/20081107/= facecc2a/attachment.htm From sean-latham at utulsa.edu Tue Nov 18 12:40:02 2008 From: sean-latham at utulsa.edu (Sean Latham) Date: Tue Nov 18 12:40:11 2008 Subject: [Msa-members] MSA X Conference Feedback Message-ID: <7DA83D5B-1F19-46FD-AACE-A1C9F4D964C3@utulsa.edu> Dear MSA Members, The Modernist Studies Association has now passed a significant = milestone with the completion of its tenth annual conference, = "Modernism and Global Media." The program included over 600 = participants all engaged in exciting and innovative ways with the = complex worlds encompassed by modernism. I want to extend my thanks = to all of you who participated in making this event such a success. = And I also want to thank once more the outstanding team of organizers = who worked tirelessly on our behalf: Mark Wollaeger, Paul Young, = Amanda Hagood, and Derrick Spires. We in MSA rely on such generosity = and truly value it. While these events are still lingering in your minds, I invite you to = take a few moments and give the MSA Board your feedback on the = conference. Please click on the following link and complete our = brief evaluation and comment form. All submissions come to us as = fully anonymous, unless you choose to sign your form. http://msa.press.jhu.edu/cgi-bin/msa10_feedback.cgi Your feedback helps the MSA as an organization to assess and refine = the conference structure. We will send a summary of the results to = future conference organizers, and be guided by your responses in our = planning overall. Finally, we hope to see each of you at MSA=92s next conference in the = beautiful city of Montreal. Mark your calendars now for: =93The = Languages of Modernism,=94 Delta Centre-Ville, Montr=E9al, Canada, = November 5-8 2009. Warm regards, Sean Latham President, MSA -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://chaos.press.jhu.edu/pipermail/msa-members/attachments/20081118/= cc55d19b/attachment.htm From sean-latham at utulsa.edu Mon Nov 24 11:15:55 2008 From: sean-latham at utulsa.edu (Sean Latham) Date: Mon Nov 24 11:16:07 2008 Subject: [Msa-members] 2008 MSA Book Prize Winners Message-ID: I am pleased to announce that the 2008 Modernist Studies Association = Book Award has gone to Astradur Eysteinsson and Vivian Liska for = their work in editing the outstanding two-volume collection = Modernisms: A Comparative History of Literatures in European = Languages (John Benjamins Publishing). In the words of the prize = committee, "this monumental project is in significant and heartening = ways a physical manifestation of the aspirations of the MSA=97to = consider modernisms as international and interdisciplinary phenomena." In addition, four books were shortlisted for the award, each an = important contribution to the interlocking fields of modernist = studies. These include: Sara Blair, Harlem Crossroads: Black Writers in the 20th Century. = Princeton University Press Caroline Goeser, Picturing the New Negro. University of Kansas Press Daniel Katz, American Modernism's Expatriate Scene: The Labor of = Translation. Edinburgh University Press Peter Nicholls, George Oppen and the Fate of Modernism. Oxford = University Press. For additional information about these works, including the = commendations of the committee, please visit the MSA Book Prize page = at http://msa.press.jhu.edu/prize_announcement.html. Nominations for the 2009 MSA Book Prize will open on 1 January and = any book in modernist studies published in 2008 is eligible. Please = nominate your own works as well as those of your colleagues by = contacting Michael Coyle (MCoyle@mail.colgate.edu), Chair of the 2009 = Prize Committee. Winners will be announced at the 2009 MSA = Conference in Montreal (November 5-8). Let me close by thanking the members of the 2008 Prize Committee who = put so much hard work and careful thought into this difficult task: = Gail McDonald (chair), Laura Marcus, and Steven Yao. Regards, Sean Latham President, Modernist Studies Association -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://chaos.press.jhu.edu/pipermail/msa-members/attachments/20081124/= cc5ccc68/attachment.htm From sarker at macalester.edu Wed Nov 26 17:04:34 2008 From: sarker at macalester.edu (Sonita Sarker) Date: Wed Nov 26 17:04:42 2008 Subject: [Msa-members] Post-MSA 2008 and pre-MSA 2009 International Relations message Message-ID: Dear Colleagues, The International Relations Business Lunch and IR Roundtable at Nashville's MSA 2008 were both very enjoyable and productive. We owe our success to the Vanderbilt University organizers who supported these two efforts by including a wide range and large number of other inter/transnationally-focused panels. Below is a brief report on ideas from the Business Lunch followed by an invitation to you for panels, seminars, and roundtables (including the IR roundtable) for Montreal 2009. The Business Lunch on Friday, Nov. 14th, 2008 at 12 noon was attended by 15 enthusiastic colleagues who said -That there is good potential in exploring the relations between English Studies and Area Studies -That we can do more to engage actively with scholars in African modernisms, various European modernisms (especially minoritized forms), Latin American and Asian modernisms -That the historical and political frameworks of queerness, especially but not only in postcolonial terms, can engage cultural modernisms fruitfully -That studies of migrating modernisms provide ways to analyze metamorphoses of form, function, intent, and expression -That ethnicized and indigenized modernisms remain full of possibilities -That 'international' panels can display more diversity in languages -That themes- and issues-driven panels can be more engaging comparative frameworks than the idea of 'international' based on geographical categorizations only -That more consistent and long-standing relations with other scholarly associations could be initiated. It was noted that a new society named "Arts and Society at Present" could be a link for periodized and transnational modernisms -That such emerging initiatives could lead to a review of the MSA mission statement so that it may reflect these developments The MSA 2009 (Nov. 5-8, Montreal) Theme is "Languages of Modernism." I'm absolutely sure that this theme has already and will readily generate abundant and creative interpretations, especially from an inter/transnational perspective. The business lunch notes above already imply good connections to next year's theme. Please discuss possible events with your colleagues. Collaborations with related scholarly associations to participate are most welcome, within the existing MSA frameworks. I look forward to hearing from you very soon, well before deadlines, regarding IR-related panels, seminars, and roundtables, and especially with topics and names for the featured IR roundtable, keeping the business lunch notes above as well as our 2009 location in mind. I know I will enjoy participating in conversations that lead to a lively representation of inter/transnational modernist studies events next year. Last note: This is my last year in this role--please look for the official MSA invitation for ballot nominations for a new IR chair! Warmly, Sonita. -- = Dr. Sarker American Council on Education Fellow, 07-08 Professor, WGSS and English Chair, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Macalester College, 1600 Grand Avenue St. Paul, Minnesota 55105, USA. www.macalester.edu/wgs/people.html http://works.bepress.com/sonita_sarker/ Office Phone: 1-651-696-6316 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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