Samla's fifty-second annual convention will be held on 11–13 November in Atlanta, Georgia, at the Peachtree Center Plaza Hotel, and approximately 2,200 registrants are expected to attend one hundred separate sections, discussion circles, special sessions, affiliate meetings, and general sessions. Featured speakers will include James Dickey, Lewis Grizzard, Doris Betts, Germaine Brée, Morse Peckham, Paul Zimmer, Madison Jones, and Roy Blount, but the bill of fare features much more, such as the annual exhibition of books, which attracts publishers from across the country. Members will receive preregistration materials and the Program issue of the South Atlantic Review in early September and should quickly send in their hotel reservation forms and preregistration materials. Individuals may join SAMLA at any time by forwarding dues of $9 to Drawer CA, University, AL 35486, but preregistration forms for the convention can be sent only to those who join before 1 October.

The 1982 meeting of SCMLA will be held in San Antonio, Texas, on 28–30 October. The newly renovated Gunter Hotel will be the principal convention facility, with the El Tropicano providing overflow lodging. Both hotels are close to the famed Riverwalk, and they promise to be exciting locations for conventioneers. A number of San Antonio institutions will be cohosting the meetings; cochairpersons of the local arrangements committee are Alan Craven (Univ. of Texas, San Antonio) and David Middleton (Trinity Univ.). A Thursday evening reception at the Institute of Texan Cultures will be one of the highlights of the meeting in a city that represents a unique cross-fertilization of cultural influences. Persons interested in attending the convention will receive packets after sending dues for 1982 ($8) to Paul A. Parrish, SCMLA, Department of English, Texas A&M University, College Station 77843.

The thirty-sixth annual RMMLA convention will be held at the Hotel Utah in Salt Lake City on 21–23 October 1982. The University of Utah, which invited RMMLA to hold the convention in Salt Lake City, has provided support for such events as a Foreign Language Film Festival and a panel discussion by the outstanding literary critics Stanley Louis Cavell, Stanley Eugene Fish, and Hayden V. White. Local program directors are former RMMLA executive director Joel Hancock and former delegate Wolff von Schmidt, assisted by former president Richard J. Cummings, Karen Lawrence, Milton Voigt, Barry Weller, and, as book-exhibit coordinator, Philip J. Spartano. The over fifty sessions will cover English and foreign literatures, linguistics, teaching, comparative literature, literary criticism, ethnic studies, science fiction, French black literature, literature and other arts, and children's literature. RMMLA's geographical interests will be represented by sessions on western Americana and folklore and on recent Mexican literature, and the Rocky Mountain American Dialect Society will hold a conjoint meeting. Other organizations that will meet include the Popular Culture Association, the American Association of University Professors of Italian, the Association of Mormon Letters, and Letras Femeninas. A conference sponsored by the Western States Women's Studies Association, a Women's Caucus breakfast, and meetings on feminist pedagogy, women and literature, and the mother in twentieth-century American fiction will acknowledge the role of women, even though the states that provide a home for RMMLA and a site for the convention have not ratified the ERA. Seminars will mark the 150th anniversary of Goethe's death and the James Joyce centennial, while special sessions will treat the classical tradition and the modern world, creative writing, and Asiatic languages. An interdisciplinary event will focus on the contributions of Italian culture and civilization to the Western world, and the Western Association of German Studies has planned a panel on literature as perceived by a historian, a philosopher, and a literary critic. The French-Canadian section will feature a French-Canadian poet-singer.

In a decade of cutbacks in travel allowances and of decreased faculty job mobility, the regional modern language associations must assume greater responsibility for shaping the quality of our professional life. MMLA understands this necessity and is helping to develop a stronger regional identity for the Midwest in the 1980s.

The 1983 NEMLA annual convention will be held 14–16 April 1983 at the Erie Hilton in Erie, Pennsylvania, with Allegheny College as host institution. The choice of site accords with the informal tradition of meeting alternately on the edges and in the middle of the NEMLA area. The 1984 convention is tentatively planned for the Philadelphia area.