Approximately thirty sessions for the November 11-13, 2016 Pasadena, California PAMLA Conference are still in need of a paper or two. To propose to one of these open sessions (see a partial list below) go here: http://www.pamla.org/2016/topic-areas . These open sessions will be open until August 5, or the session fills, whichever comes first.

Ancient-Modern Relations: The Classical Tradition

Back from the Dead: Language Revival as Archive, Memory, and Identity

Beyond Archives of Authority: Security, Intelligence, and the Humanities

Beyond the Spine: Experimental Poetics and Form

British Literature and Culture: 20th and 21st Century

Children’s Literature

Cinematic Libraries and Archives

Disabilities in American Literature

Down and Out: Narrativizing Poverty and Homelessness

East-West Literary Relations

Folklore and Mythology

French

Gay, Lesbian, and Transgender Literature and Culture

Gender and Sexuality Studies

Learning in the Digital Library

Linguistics

Making, Distributing, Using, and Teaching Electronic Editions of Medieval and Early Modern Texts

Medieval Literature

Mid-Twentieth Century Poetry (co-sponsored by the Robert Lowell Society)

Nordic Literature and Culture

Novelistic California

Permanent Ephemera: Travel Documents and Literature

Rhetorical Approaches to Literature

Romanticism

Science Fiction

Spanish and Portuguese (Peninsular)

The Mediterranean: Encounters, Diaspora, and Beyond

The New Italians: Migrant Stories in Literature and Film

Travel and Literature

Wars of Knowledge: Imperial Hegemony and the Assembling of Libraries

Western American Literature