Announcements

ANNOUNCEMENTS The University of Wyoming will hold the Wyoming Conference on English on June 19-23, 1989, in Laramie, WY. The topic is "Margin of Overlap: Schools, Communities, and Cultures." The speakers will be Alma Flor Ada, Madalena Freiré, Mike Rose, Jerome Harste, and Cecelia Tichi. The seminar leaders will be Ann Cummins, Dan Kirby, Mary Pratt, Renato Rosaldo, and Robert Torry. For further information, contact Tilly Warnock, English Department, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY 82071; (307) 766-5140. Texas A & M University announces its conference on "The Fantastic in New Critical Theory" to be held February 28 to March 4, 1990. The University is seeking papers on what opportunities and/or challenges the fantastic poses for a particular modern critical approach, as exhibited in a case study. For more information contact Brett Cooke, Department ofModern & Classical Languages, Texas A & M University, College Station, TX 77843; (409) 845-2198. The Ninth Annual Cincinnati Conference on Romance Languages and Literatures will be held at the University of Cincinnati on May 17-19, 1989. For further information, contact Danielle Raquidel, Conference Chair, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH 45221-0377. The Santa Fe Conference on Willa Cather: A Critical Reappraisal will be held at the La Fonda Hotel, Santa Fe, New Mexico, August 9-12, 1989. For further information, contact Patrick W. Shaw and Lady Falls Brown, English Department, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas 79409. The Hemingway Western Studies Center of Boise State University will host an interdisciplinary conference, Hemingway in Idaho, on June 9-11, 1989. There will be sessions on Hemingway biography, on For Whom the Bell Tolls, and on Hemingway's work before and after the Spanish Civil War. Participants will gather first in Boise; on the second day they will travel by bus to Sun Valley and convene at the lodge where Hemingway worked on his Spanish Civil War novel. The keynote speaker will be Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. Featured speakers include Michael Reynolds (North Carolina State University), Gerry Brenner (University of Montana), William Braasch Watson (M.I.T.), and playwright John De Groot. The registration fee of $50 includes bus transportation from Boise to Sun Valley and back, a Basque dinner, a tour of Hemingway sites in Sun Valley, films, and other events. Inquiries should be directed to Rena Sanderson, Department of English, Boise State University, Boise, ID 83725. Rockhurst College announces the Gerard Manley Hopkins Centennial Symposium to be held at Rockhurst College, Kansas City, MO on October 19-21, 1989. For more information, contact Dr. Charles Kovich, Department of English, 1100 Rockhurst Road, Kansas City, MO 64110-2599; (816) 926-4000, ext. 4034. The Eighth International Humor Conference will be held in Ottawa, Canada, on April 1-4, 1990. The theme for the 1990 conference will be "International Humor." For further information, contact Jacqueline Tavernier-Courbin, Editor, THALIA: Studies in Literary Humor, English Department, 175 Waller, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada KlN 6N5; (613) 231-2311 or (613) 744-1993 or (613) 564-3411. ...