The forty-second annual convention of the Midwest Modern Language Association will be held at the Hyatt Regency Crown Center Hotel in Kansas City, Missouri, 2-4 November 2000. Approximately 140 sessions are planned on a wide range of scholarly and professional topics. The informal theme of the convention is “Crossroads 2000: Reading, Pedagogy, Academic Labor.” Plenary sessions tentatively include “Looking Forward/Looking Back” by Linda Hutcheon, Michael Bérubé, and Daryl Ogden. A special performance by Judith Roof and Katherine Burkman of two one-act plays by Samuel Beckett is also planned.