Mendele Personal Notices & Announcements March 17, 2010
To minimize wear and tear on the untershames, three requests: 1. Send time-sensitive notices well in advance. 2. Send material as plain text: no HTML, other coding, or attachments;and write MENDELE PERSONALS in the subject line. 3. Correspond directly with the person who or organization which has posted the notice, *not* with your ever-beleaguered untershames. ______________________________________________________________ Subject: Call for papers: MLA Yiddish Literature Panel From: Amelia Glaser <[email protected]> The MLA Yiddish executive committee for Yiddish is still accepting presentation abstracts for a panel on "Yiddish in Life Narratives:Biography, Autobiography, Bildungsroman" to take place at the MLA convention in January 2011. How does Yiddish figure in life narrative, from autobiographies in Yiddish to Yiddish themes in other genres. If interested, please submit an abstract for a 15-minute presentation to Amelia Glaser ([email protected]) or Ken Frieden ([email protected]). The deadline for abstracts for this panel has been extended to March 20, 2010. Amelia Glaser Assistant Professor Russian Literature University of California, San Diego Literature Building 3345 (858) 534-3809 ______________________________________________________ Please do not use the "reply" key when writing to Mendele. Instead, direct your mail as follows: Material for Mendele Personal Notices & Announcements, i.e. announcements of events, commercial publications, requests to which responses should be sent exclusively to the request's author, etc., always in plain text (no HTML or the like) to: [email protected] (in the subject line write Mendele Personal) Material for postings to Mendele Yiddish literature and language, i.e. inquiries and comments of a non-commercial or publicity nature: [email protected] IMPORTANT: Please include your full name as you would like it to appear in your posting. No posting will appear without its author's name. Submissions to regular Mendele should not include personal email addresses, as responses will be posted for all to read. They must also include the author's name as you would like it to appear. In order to spare the shamosim time and effort, we request that contributors adhere, when applicable, as closely as possible to standard English punctuation, grammar, etc. and to the YIVO rules of transliteration into Latin letters. A guide to Romanization can be found at this site: http://www.yivoinstitute.org/about/index.php?tid=57&aid=275 All other messages should be sent to the shamosim at this address: [email protected] Mendele on the web: http://mendele.commons.yale.edu/ To join or leave the list: http://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/mendele _______________________________________________ Mendele mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/mendele
