Mendele Personal Notices & Announcements Feb. 9, 2012
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. _______________________________________________________________________ Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2012 01:24:40 +0200 From: Alan Astro <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Subject: Call for papers at MLA session, Jan. 2013 Call for papers for MLA 2013: Access to Western Culture, Its Fulfillments, Its Illusions Following the MLA 2013 theme "Avenues of Access," the American Association of Professors of Yiddish/Conference on Modern Jewish Studies is seeking participants for an MLA session on Yiddish or Yiddish-related works portraying access to western culture, its fulfillments, its illusions. The MLA is being held next year in Boston, January 3-6 Please send a 200-word abstract by March 15, 2012, by e-mail to the AAPY's MLA liaison Alan Astro, Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas: [email protected] _____________________________________________________________________ Please do not use the "reply" key when writing to Mendele. Instead, direct your mail as follows: Responses to Mendele Personal Notices & Annoucements should be sent directly to the person whom or organization which posted the item. Material for posting in Mendele Personal Notices & Announcements,typically ,announcements of events, commercial publications, and questions not of general interest to the membership, should be sent to: : [email protected] (IMPORTANT! 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:and likely to interest the membership in general, should be sent to [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 read issues of Mendele not yet archived on the website (see above), or 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
