Announcements

165 ANNOUNCEMENTS Women Speak: A Research Conference will be held at the University of South Dakota at Vermillion April 10 to 12, 1985. This second annual women's research conference will feature three speakers: Dr. Nancy Henley, UCLA, on her pioneering research in sex differences in communication; Dr. Suzanne Pingree, University of Wisconsin, on the image of women in soap operas and primetime television; and Dr. Jeanne Kilbourne, Boston, on the image of women in advertising. Papers on a variety of issues will also be presented. For more information, contact Cindy Struckman-Johnson, Department of Psychology , University of South Dakota, Vermillion, 57069. Other Voices, a new fiction market for short stories, will publish its first issue in Spring 1985 and is now accepting manuscripts. The pre-publication subscription price for this semi-yearly publication is $12 for the first 4 issues. For more information, write to Dolores Weinberg, Executive Editor, Other Voices, 820 Ridge Rd., Highland Park, III. 60035. The Workshop Library on World Humour (WLWH) and the Western Humor and Irony Membership (WHIM) will co-sponsor the sixth International Humour Conference to be held in Phoenix, Arizona, during the weekend of April 1, 1987. Other sites at which the WHWL conference has been or will be held before 1987 include Cardiff, Wales; Los Angeles, California; Washington, D.C.; Tel Aviv, Israel; and Cork, Ireland. The annual WHIM conference will be held, as usual, the April 1st weekend of 1985 in Phoenix, after which the proceedings will be published as the Western Humor and Irony Membership Serial Yearbook (WHIMSY). WHIMSYI&nd WHIMSYII are now available, and WHIMSYIII will be available April 1, 1985; price for each is $10. For more information, write Don L.F. Nilsen, WHIM, English Department, Arizona State University, Tempe, 85287. The Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies will hold a six-week summer institute on Milton's Paradise Lost from June 17 to July 26, 1985. This institute, sponsored in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities, will address six perspectives on Paradise Lost: (1) the classical tradition, (2) the biblical tradition, (3) Renaissance poetics and epic theory, (4) the iconographie tradition, (5) Milton's philosophical ideas concerning human nature, (6) Milton's legacy to the literary and popular traditions. John T. Shawcross, distinguished Miltonist and textual scholar, will be the principal instructor. For information regarding the Milton Institute or ACMRS programs, contact Jeanie R. Brink, Director, Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Social Science Bid. 224, Arizona State University, Tempe, 85287; phone number is (602) 965-5900. Deadline for applications is March 1, 1985. 166Rocky Mountain Review A cal1 for papers and announcement of the annual meeting have been issued by the Southern Council on Francophone Studies. Meetings will be held March 22 to 24, 1985, at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, with papers invited from all disciplines in Francophone studies, either in French or English, to be read in 20 minutes. Proposals and abstracts are due December 1, 1984, with the completed paper due February 15, 1985. Papers should be sent to Dr. Claude-Marie Senninger, Department of Modern and Classical Languages, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, 87131. The conference is sponsored by the University of Southwest Louisiana and the University of New Mexico. Theme of the conference is "L'Aire Francophone: Problématique et Identité II"; the following schedule will be observed: Le 22 mars — Littérature et Société Matin — Le Théâtre contestataire Après-midi — Ecrivains et action politique Le 23 mars — Les Sociétés Francophones: Mythes et Réalités Matin — Histoire et théâtre Après-midi — Interprétation et recréation du passé Le 24 mars — Séance plénière The second annual Wichita State University Conference on Foreign Literature will be held April 11 to 13, 1985, in Wichita, Kansas. The topic of the conference will be Continental and Latin American Women Writers; for those interested in presenting an 8 to 10 page paper, the deadline is January 15, 1985. One page abstracts should be sent by November 15, 1984, to Dr. Ginette Adamson (French, Francophone Literature and German) or Dr. Eunice Meyers (Spanish and other languages), at the Department of...