Convention Announcements

CONVENTION ANNOUNCEMENTS Registration: Registration, information, meeting rooms, and exhibits are located in the "Dangling Participle" area of the Hyatt Regency Hotel. Special Events: Thursday: 7 30—9:30 PM: Poetry Reading (Regency A) Friday: 12 30— 1:30 NOON: Women's Caucus Luncheon (Regency A) Friday: 12:30—1:30 NOON: American Association of Teachers of Italian Luncheon (Regency B) Friday: 5:30—7:30 PM: "Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde" (Regency D) Friday: 6:30—8 PM: No-host Cocktails (Regency Foyer) Friday: 8—10 PM: Banquet, Walter J. Ong, President of MLA, Speaker Saturday: 12:30—1:30 NOON: College English Association Luncheon (Regency A) Saturday: 3:30 PM: RMMLA Business Meeting (Borein B) Career Information Service: RMMLA is continuing its job information service for a fourth year. Hotel Rooms 301 and 318 will be used for files of job listings, for getting prospective employers and employees together, and for some interviewing. To provide a pleasant atmosphere, both of these rooms are poolside. Room Phoenix A has been designated as the "Teaching and Careers" Room, and prospective employees should especially peruse the program scheduled for that room. Convention Headquarters: The convention will be run from Room 747, the "Grand Canyon Suite" (pun intended). RMMLA officers will be in and out of this room constantly, and can be contacted by leaving a message there. The room is very pleasant, and can be used for small business type meetings if prior arrangements are made. Storage: There will be a room available for the storage of audio-visual and exhibit material. This room will be secured when it is not attended. Smoking Restrictions: Presiding officers are urged to designate smoking and nonsmoking areas in meeting rooms before the program begins; unless otherwise specified, the left side will be for smokers, the right side for non-smokers. Future RMMLA Meeting Sites: The Albuquerque Inn in Albuquerque, New Mexico will be the site of the 1979 RMMLA convention. The University of New Mexico in Albuquerque (zip code 871 31) will be the host institution, and George F. Peters of the Department of German will be the 1979 program Chair. In 1980, RMMLA will be in Denver, Colorado (Contact William Moseley), and in 1981 it will be in Boise, Idaho (Contact Carol Mullaney). Special Thanks: RMMLA sincerely thanks Arizona State University for hosting this Convention. We are particularly indebted to Maureen Ahern (Foreign Languages) and Don Nilsen (English) and to the following members of their committee on local arrangements: Flo Barkin, Francine Hardaway, Marjorie Lightfoot, Helen Nebeker, Alleen Nilsen, and Teresa Valdivieso. We also thank Jay Ann Kelly for her excellent coordination with the hotel. OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST: July 30—August 4: 1978 Conference on William Faulkner at the University of Mississippi. Visiting lecturers will include Malcolm Cowley, Horton Foote, Bruce Kawin, Hugh Kenner, Ilse Dusoir Lind, and Thomas Daniel Young; there will also bea watercolor exhibit by William C. Baggett, Jr., an artist known for his realistic paintings of Faulkner Country scenes. Next year (1979). the University of Mississippi will celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the creation of Yoknapatawpha County (in the publication of Faulkner's Sartoris). They have for that conference Michael Millgate, Thomas L. McHaney, James Watson, Noel Polk and, probably, Reynolds Price VOL 3? NO 3 - CONVENTION ISSUE 1976 already lined up. John Pilkington Jr., James W. Webb, and Evans Harrington will be resident members of the panel. There will also be slide presentations, guided tours, dramatic entertainment and exhibits, as is customary. October 20-21: Rocky Mountain Conference on British Studies at Arizona State University. Section chairs are as follows: Richard Emmerson (Walla Walla College): Medieval, Jeanie Brink (Arizona State University): 16th and 17th centuries, Stanley Palmer (University of Texas at Arlington): 18th Century, Darrell Munsell (West Texas State University): 19th century, R. J. Q. Adams (Texas A & M University): 20th century. October 28:American Association of Teachers of German at Grand Canyon College. December 15: Call-for-papers deadline for the Jungian Perspectives on Creativity and the Unconscious, that examine the nature of creativity, that present Jungian critical studies of the arts, architecture, literature of all languages, film, philosophy, and in psychology (especially as a means of promoting...