Announcements

ANNOUNCEMENTS The Société des Professeurs Français et Francophones en Amérique will meet conjointly at the annual conventions of the following associations: RMMLA, October 16-18, 1986, Denver; SCMLA, October 30-November 1, 1986, New Orleans; MMLA, November 6-8, 1986, Chicago; SAMLA, November 13-15, 1986, Atlanta; NEMLA, April 2-4, 1987, Boston; Association for Canadian Studies in the United States, October 8-10, 1987, Montreal. For further information, contact Maurice Cagnon, Vice-President, S. P.F.F.A., Department of French, Montclair State College, Upper Montclair, NJ 07043. The editors of Cottonwood, a magazine of poetry and fiction, are soliciting contributions for their fall 1986 issue. In honor of the one hundred twenty-fifth anniversary of Kansas statehood, this issue will focus on the contribution of Black writers to contemporary literature, especially in Kansas and the Midwest. Deadline for submission for this issue is September 15, 1986. Submissions should be addressed to Dr. Gerald Early, Guest Editor, Kansas Statehood Issue, Cottonwood, Box J, Kansas Union, Lawrence, KS 66045. Cottonwood also publishes reviews and would be interested in receiving recent small press publications by Black authors or similar special issues of magazines. The Florida State University Comparative Literature and Film Circle invites submission of papers related to the theme of its twelfth annual conference, "Crosscurrents /Art, History, Politics: Literary and Cinematic Representation." Participants are also invited to organize seminars and workshops on related topics of special interest to them, in the field of literature or film, or in the relationship between literature and film. Papers are invited in all periods, styles, and genres of literature and film. Keynote speaker of the conference will be Fredric Jameson, William A. Lane Professor of Comparative Literature at Duke University; there will also be a presentation by filmmaker Les Blank. Abstracts of papers of approximately 300 words and proposals for seminars and workshops must be submitted by October 1, 1986, to Winnie Adolph, Director, Film and Literature Conference, Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306-1020. Each presentation will be strictly limited to 20 minutes. The University of Kansas Department of English will hold a conference on "Victoria's Jubilees, 1887 and 1897: A Centennial Reconsideration," March 26-28, 1987. Relevant papers, twenty minutes each, in English literature and such related disciplines as history, art history, music history, history of science, Irish studies, women's studies, intellectual history, social history, and popular culture are being solicited. Send 500 word abstracts by September 1, 1986, to Harold Orel, Department of English, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66045-2115. The Renaissance Society of America will hold its national conference March 12-14, 1987, hosted by the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona. Persons interested in submitting a paper should contact Jeanie R. Brink, Director, Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287 or call (602) 965-5900. 122 ...