Reports of the Regional Modern Language Associations

PMLA ◽  
1988 ◽  
Vol 103 (4) ◽  
pp. 417-423
Author(s):  
Charles G. Davis ◽  
Siegfried Mews ◽  
Richard D. Critchfield ◽  
Maria A. Duarte ◽  
Ida H. Washington ◽  
...  

The association's eighty-sixth annual meeting will be held 11–13 November 1988, in Portland, Oregon. The host institution is Portland State University. Most of the meeting's events will take place at the Red Lion Inn, Portland Center. A local committee headed by Georgia Ronan Crampton and Claudine Fisher (Portland State Univ.) is in charge of preparations.

PMLA ◽  
1976 ◽  
Vol 91 (4) ◽  
pp. 534-535
Author(s):  
Arlene N. Okerlund

The seventy-third annual meeting of the Philological Association of the Pacific Coast was held in San Jose, California on 28 and 29 November 1975 with 276 members attending. San Jose State University was the host institution with arrangements for the meeting coordinated by the Local Committee of Scott Rice (Chairman), Catherine Blecki, Esther Pereyra-Suarez, John Pollock, and Joachim Stenzel. The conference was distinguished by an unusually invigorating Presidential Address by Eli Sobel entitled “In Symbol of Hope.” At the banquet, President Sobel also honored R. S. Meyerstein with a resolution recognizing his extraordinary dedication to duty and his special service to PAPC during the previous ten years, when he had served as Secretary-Treasurer.


PMLA ◽  
1990 ◽  
Vol 105 (4) ◽  
pp. 891-896

The association's eighty-eighth annual meeting will be held 9-11 November 1990 in San Jose, California, hosted by San Jose State University. A local committee headed by John Engell of San Jose State University is in charge of preparations.In keeping with its long tradition, unique among the regional MLA organizations, PAPC will again offer a program that features both Western and non-Western literatures and Greek and Latin. The 1990 program will include 31 general and 23 special sessions as well as special luncheons, a plenary session, and a forum on a topic selected by the program committee. The program will be mailed to all PAPC members whose dues were paid by 15 June 1990. Dues are $15 for regular members, $5 for students and emeriti, and $20 for joint memberships. By reciprocal agreement, NEMLA and PAPC members may participate in the meetings of both associations. For details on the program, write or call Caroline Locher, Office of Alumni Relations, Reed Coll., Portland, OR 97202-8199; 503 777-7589.


PMLA ◽  
1995 ◽  
Vol 110 (4) ◽  
pp. 882-882
Author(s):  
Cyndia Susan Clegg

The association's most significant news is its change in name from PAPC to PAMLA to strengthen its identification with the Modem Language Association and to maintain the historic presence of classical languages. The association's ninety-third annual meeting will be held 3-5 November 1995 at the University of California, Santa Barbara, hosted by the College of Letters and Science with its Division of the Humanities, and cosponsored by the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center, the Department of Classics, the Comparative Literature Program, the Department of English, the Department of Germanic, Semitic, and Slavic Studies, and the Department of Spanish and Portuguese. Gerhart Hoffmeister, professor of German, is serving as chair of the local committee.


PMLA ◽  
1988 ◽  
Vol 103 (4) ◽  
pp. 421-422
Author(s):  
Ida H. Washington

The 1989 NEMLA convention will be held 31 March-2 April at the Radisson Hotel in Wilmington, Delaware, with the University of Delaware as the host institution. The local committee is chaired by Joan L. Brown and Joan Del Fattore (Univ. of Delaware). Information about the convention may be obtained from NEMLA President F. William Forbes, Dept. of Spanish and Classics, Univ. of New Hampshire, Durham 03824.


PMLA ◽  
2000 ◽  
Vol 115 (4) ◽  
pp. 853-853
Author(s):  
Scott F. Stoddart

The Northeast Modern Language Association celebrates its thirty-second year and will hold its annual convention in Hartford, Connecticut, 30-31 March 2001, at the Hyatt Regency Hotel. NEMLA remains the sole regional MLA to hold its convention in the spring. Central Connecticut State University will be the host institution, and Gilbert Gigliotti will chair the local arrangements committee. The keynote speech will be delivered by Joan Hendrick, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Harriet Beecher Stowe. Her talk, “The Politics of Literary Realism,” will examine the gendered nature of the realist movement.Any current NEMLA member may submit a panel proposal for the convention by completing a proposal form, available at our Web site. The convention committee reviews proposals received by 10 May and decides on acceptance. The 2001 Hartford convention offers eleven sessions with eighteen panels in each session. The call for papers will be shipped in late June to all current members and will be posted on our Web site. Abstracts or papers are sent directly to the session chairs for panel consideration and must be postmarked no later than 15 September; chairs must send their completed panels to the executive director no later than 1 October. By reciprocal agreement, PAMLA and NEMLA members may participate in the meetings of both associations.


PMLA ◽  
1995 ◽  
Vol 110 (4) ◽  
pp. 883-883
Author(s):  
Charles G. Davis

The forty-ninth annual convention of RMMLA will be held 19-21 October 1995 at the Ridpath Hotel in Spokane, Washington. Central Washington University is the host institution. Grant Smith, local arrangements chair, also arranged the very successful conference in 1985. RMMLA will be meeting concurrently with Northwest British Studies and Northwest Eighteenth-Century Studies. David Bevington, the banquet speaker, will address the relation between politics and art in his talk “James I and Timon of Athens” A Central Washington University will sponsor a Thursday evening reception at which the Madrigal Singers from Washington State University will perform.


PMLA ◽  
1935 ◽  
Vol 50 (4) ◽  
pp. 1343-1343

The fifty-second meeting of the Modern Language Associationof America was held, on the invitation of the University of Cincinnati, at Cincinnati, Ohio, Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, December 30 and 31, 1935, and January 1, 1936. The Association headquarters were in the Netherland Plaza Hotel, where all meetings were held except those of Tuesday morning and afternoon. These took place at the University of Cincinnati. Registration cards at headquarters were signed by about 900, though a considerably larger number of members were in attendance. The Local Committee estimated the attendance at not less than 1400. This Committee consisted of Professor Frank W. Chandler, Chairman; Professor Edwin H. Zeydel; Professor Phillip Ogden; Mr. John J. Rowe (for the Directors); and Mr. Joseph S. Graydon (for the Alumni).


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