Announcements

ANNOUNCEMENTS Symposium: Literature and Phenomenology: Poetics and the Origins ofthe Work ofArt, Cerisy-La Lalle, June 1985. Organized by M.E. Kronegger, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824. Adjoining Cultures as Reflected in Literature and Language, the Proceedings of the XVth Congress of the International Federation for Modern Languages and Literatures, has been published by Arizona State University. Copies may be obtained from Professor Douglas Sheppard, Department of Foreign Languages, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona 85287, for a cost of $22.50. The volume includes the Presidential Address by George Winchester Stone, Jr.; the papers of the Plenary Sessions; Sectional Papers (Abstracts); and the proceedings of the Andrés Bello Symposium, which was held as part of the Federation Congress. Teaching writing in the two-year college is the focus ofan intensive three-week seminar to be offered at the University of Texas at El Paso during the summer of 1984. Drawing upon the research conducted by this faculty, the course will address problems in teaching writing to heterogeneous classes with variegated career goals, integrating specific classroom strategies with information garnered from current research and rhetorical theory. Graduate credit will be offered. For additional information, contact G. Douglas Meyers, Department of English, University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, Texas 79968. The first annual Mid-America Conference on Hispanic Literatures will take place on October 18-20. Anyone wishing to read a paper should send a one-page abstract by February 15, 1984, to the Organizing Committee, Mid-America Conference on Hispanic Literature, Modern Languages and Literatures, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska 68588. 171 Announcing a new professional organization: the Twentieth Century Spanish Association of America, TCSAA, is a division of the Society of Spanish and Spanish-American Studies and an affiliate of the Asociación Colegial de Escritores de España (the Spanish Writers Guild). It is devoted to the expansion ofknowledge in twentieth century literary studies. To this effect, the organization sponsors and distributes several scholarly and professional publications, organizes conferences, and seeks grants and other awards to facilitate its many undertakings and the research efforts of its members. Membership is $22.00 and should be forwarded to the Executive Secretary, TCSAA, Society of Spanish and Spanish-American Studies, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska 68588. Women's Place: A Research Conference. The University of South Dakota at Vermillion, April 12-14, 1984. The conference will feature keynote speaker Elizabeth Janeway, author of Man's World, Woman's Place, Between Myth and Morning: Women Awakening, Powers of the Weak, and Cross Currents in a Decade of Change. Further information may be obtained from Cindy StruckmanJohnson , Department of Psychology, University of South Dakota, Vermillion, South Dakota 57069. Principal consultants for the 1984 Wyoming Conference on Freshman and Sophomore English, to be held in Laramie, June 2529 , are Cleanth Brooks, Yale University; Richard Ohmann, Wesleyan University; and Walter Ong, St. Louis University. People wishing to attend the Conference or wishing to participate in panels, workshop, or address/discussion sessions should write to Michael Leonard, Conference Director, Department of English, University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyoming 82071. Deadline for submission in April 25, 1984. ...