The forty-first annual convention of the Midwest Modern Language Association will be held at the Marriott City Center Hotel in Minneapolis, 4–6 November 1999. More than 150 sessions are planned, covering a wide range of scholarly and professional topics. The informal theme of the convention is “Witness: The Real, the Unspeakable, and the Construction of Narrative.” One evening plenary session and several forums will be devoted to aspects of this theme.

The Northeast Modern Language Association will celebrate the new millennium by participating in a centenary reexamination of the Pan-American Exposition of 1901. The convention will be held 7–8 April 2000 at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Buffalo, New York. Erie Community College will host the convention, and the local arrangements chair is Annette Magid. The keynote speech will be delivered by Michael Frisch, a historian at the State University of New York, Buffalo, who is orchestrating the scholarly reexamination of the 1901 Expo. The convention will feature readings by the poets Charles Bernstein, Robert Creeley, Carl Dennis, Irving Feldman, and Dennis Tedlock. Scholars are invited to respond to the call for papers by 1 September 1999. The call is available on the Web site or from the executive director.

The association's ninety-seventh convention will he held 5–7 November 1999 at Portland State University in Portland, Oregon, under the sponsorship of the dean of Letters and Sciences and the Departments of English and Languages and Literatures. Inger Olsen is serving as local chair. The program will represent the association members' diverse interests in all matters of language and literature in classical, Western, and non-Western languages. The thirty-one general sessions will include papers on classical, Romance, Germanic, Scandinavian, English, American, and Asian literatures, as well as on linguistics, rhetoric, gay and lesbian literature, film, matrilineal culture, autobiography, poetry and poetics, and critical theory. Among the thirty special sessions are sessions on picaresque literature, Shakespeare and popular literature, Native American literature, Russian literature, Slavic literature, Toni Morrison in the 1990s, Caribbean literature, and cybertextbooks in foreign language education. Several special sessions have been organized by Portland State University and PAMLA affiliate organizations Women in French, MELUS, and the Milton Society of America. Registration at the conference will be $35 and $25. All paper sessions are scheduled for classrooms at Portland State University and will begin Friday at 1:00 p.m. and end Sunday at 1:00 p.m.

The fifty-third annual RMMLA convention will be held 14–16 October 1999 at the Courtyard Marriott Hotel in Santa Fe. Santa Fe Community College and Saint John's College of Santa Fe are the local hosts. Susana Hernandez-Araico (California State Polytechnic Univ.) will speak at the Friday evening banquet on the topic Colonial and Indigenous Theater in Spain's American Viceroyalties. Michael Pavel (Washington State Univ.), a member of the Spokane Indian Nation, will discuss developing outreach to Native American youth. A reading by local writers Miriam Sagan and Arthur Sze will take place at the SFCC Planetarium. Also scheduled are presentations by TIAA-CREF and the Fulbright Teacher Exchange Program, panels on grant writing and scholarly publishing, a preconvention workshop on educational technology, and a raffle of local goods and services benefiting the RMMLA Grant and Scholarship Fund. The schedule of sessions and abstracts of papers can be found on the RMMLA.

SAMLA's sixty-ninth annual convention will be held in Atlanta at the Hyatt Regency from 4 to 6 November. Our diverse program will include over 140 sessions and other events. Shirley Brice Heath will present the keynote address; Charles Altieri will address the critical forum; Ellen Douglas and Robert Morgan will give readings; and French, German, and Spanish plenary addresses will be featured. Readings by contemporary writers will be sponsored by Five Points, and graduate students will host a poets' circle.

The 1999 SCMLA meeting will be held 28–30 October at the Marriott-Downtown Hotel in Memphis. The University of Memphis, the University of Mississippi, and Rhodes College will host the convention, with Susan Fitzgerald (Univ. of Memphis) acting as local arrangements chair and Karen Raber (Univ. of Mississippi) serving as treasurer. This year's theme, Intersections, will be reflected in a record 111 regular, allied, and special sessions; highlights will include plenary speaker Ellen Douglas and a special roundtable on Reading Popular Culture.