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Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

@HenryLouisGates

The groundbreaking literary critic, historian, and advocate Henry Louis Gates, Jr., will receive the Phyllis Franklin Award for Public Advocacy of the Humanities at the MLA Awards Ceremony and will speak with Frieda Ekotto, president of the MLA, during the session Finding Your Roots as Public Humanities.

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Amitav Ghosh

Amitav Ghosh

@GhoshAmitav

In On Climate Change: A Conversation with Amitav Ghosh, the celebrated novelist and other distinguished panelists discuss anew the challenges of the climate crisis to the novel, poetry, and other media.

Shelly Lowe

Shelly Lowe

@NEHchair

Join Shelly Lowe, chair of the NEH, and other leaders of the nation's foremost humanities grant-making bodies to discuss the state of federal and foundation support for language, literature, and culture research and teaching.

W. J. T. Mitchell

W. J. T. Mitchell

The MLA will recognize the renowned scholar and theorist W. J. T. Mitchell with the MLA Award for Lifetime Scholarly Achievement. Mitchell will receive the award and speak during the MLA Awards Ceremony.

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

In Learning How to Celebrate Language in Joy and Sorrow, presiders Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak and Surya Parekh lead a conversation about the transformative Origin and Development of the Bengali Language

And So Much More!

Come to Philadelphia from 4 to 7 January for these and over 700 other sessions at the MLA Annual Convention. Catch up on timely topics, from AI in the classroom to book bans to advocating for your department, and reconnect with your colleagues in sessions dedicated to dozens of fields of scholarship.

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Photo credits: Photo of Amitav Ghosh by Mathieu Genon. Photo of Shelly Lowe by Chris Richards, courtesy of NEH. Photo of Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak by Alice Attie.

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