7/4/2023 0 Comments Mla formatter![]() The inspiration for the boycott came from the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement which is a global movement that calls for comprehensive boycotts of Israel. Activists within the association had since 2014 pushed for such a boycott because they believed Israel was guilty of human rights violations and should be subjected to a boycott similarly to how South Africa was boycotted by the Anti-Apartheid Movement. On January 7, 2017, the MLA rejected a proposed boycott of Israeli academic institutions in a 113-79 vote during its annual meeting in Philadelphia. In The New Criterion, a classicist and politically conservative magazine, Roger Kimball and Hilton Kramer argued that this was part of a "rampant politicization of literary study that the MLA has aggressively supported" in American colleges and universities, including elevating popular culture to a position of parity with great works of literature as subjects for classroom study, and other "radical" postures. The association has highlighted issues such as race, gender and class in its professional deliberations. The MLA's Web site features the MLA Language Map, which presents overviews and detailed data from the United States 2000 Census about the locations and numbers of speakers of thirty languages and seven groups of less commonly spoken languages in the United States and Canada. Other not-for-profit organizations involved in this project include College Art Association Association for Jewish Studies and the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies. In November 2016, the association launched Humanities Commons, an open-access, crossdisciplinary hub for anyone interested in humanities research and scholarship. There are also extensive book exhibits in one of the main hotel or convention center exhibition areas. In addition to its job-placement activities, the convention features about 800 sessions, including presentations of papers and panel discussions on diverse topics (special sessions, forums, poetry readings, film presentations, interdisciplinary studies involving art and music, governance meetings) and social events hosted by English and language departments and allied or affiliated organizations. ![]() ![]() The organization's Job Information List ( JIL) is available online. Language departments of many universities and colleges interview candidates for teaching positions at the convention, although hiring occurs all year long. ![]() The MLA Annual Convention is the largest and most important of the year for scholars of languages and literature. Approximately eight to twelve thousand members attend, depending on the location, which alternates among major cities in various regions of the United States. Beginning in 2011, the convention dates moved to the first Thursday following 2 January. Since 1884 the MLA has held a national, four-day convention. The MLA produces the online database, MLA International Bibliography, the standard bibliography in language and literature. The association also publishes the MLA Handbook, a guide that is geared toward high school and undergraduate students and has sold more than 6,500,000 copies. The MLA publishes several academic journals, including Publications of the Modern Language Association of America (abbreviated as PMLA), one of the most prestigious journals in literary studies, and Profession, which is now published online on MLA Commons and discusses professional issues faced by teachers of language and literature. The MLA is governed by an Executive Council, elected periodically by its members, according to the MLA Constitution. The 2020–2021 president is Judith Butler. The 2019–2020 president was Simon Gikandi, the first vice-president was Judith Butler and the second vice-president was Barbara Fuchs. The officers of the MLA are elected by its members. According to its profile featured by the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), "The Modern Language Association is formed for educational, scientific, literary, and social objects and purposes, and more specifically for the promotion of the academic and scientific study of English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, and other so-called modern languages and literatures." Officers and governance The MLA was founded in 1883, as a discussion and advocacy group for the study of literature and modern languages (that is, all but classical languages, such as ancient Latin and Greek). Aaron Marshall Elliott ( pictured) has been credited with founding the Modern Language Association.
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