Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association

We now have a master 2009-2010 PAMLA Calendar online, available by clicking on the "Calendar" link on the left side of the PAMLA front-page, or through this link: http://pamla.org/2009-2010-calendar
Email Executive Director Craig Svonkin with any questions about the calendar: svonkin@netzero.com

PAMLA will host its 108th Annual Conference on Saturday and Sunday, November 13-14, 2010, at Chaminade University, Honolulu, Hawaii. Please save the date.  This is certain to be one of PAMLA's most beautiful conference sites ever.
 
Interested PAMLA members may propose special sessions on specific topics by December 15, 2009.
 
Special session topics may deal with any topic not covered by standing session topics (for the list of standing sessions, and for more information about how to propose a special topic, please see the PAMLA bylaws: http://pamla.org/constitution_and_bylaw ). Since PAMLA has standing sessions in general areas, it is important to have a more specific focus in designing a special session.
 
PAMLA members may propose special sessions on any literary, language, or cultural topic, but we are particularly requesting special session proposals dealing with the topic “Picturing Oceania and the Pacific.”
 
Special Session proposals for 2010’s PAMLA Conference in Hawaii are due to PAMLA First Vice-President, Sabine Wilke (University of Washington), by December 15, 2009: wilke@u.washington.edu . Please send a title and abstract of approximately thirty-five words.
 
Should the topic be approved, the proposer will act as presiding officer for the session and will be responsible for publicizing the session (the session will also be listed on PAMLA’s website), inviting participants, judging and accepting or rejecting paper proposals, designing the program, and submitting it to the Executive Director.  Please contact Craig Svonkin, PAMLA Executive Director, with any further questions: svonkin@netzero.com .
 
PAMLA Conference Dates to Remember:

•  Electronic Submissions of abstracts for the 2010 conference are due by March 15, 2010 (Session Presiding Officers will receive emails of these submissions automatically; AV requests must be included with abstract submission to be considered).
•  Session Presiding Officers must send acceptance and regret emails to those who have submitted papers for consideration by April 1, 2010.
• Electronic program copy for 2010 conference due from Session Presiding Officers to Executive Director by April 20, 2010.
• Conference participants must pay PAMLA dues by May 1, 2010, and must pay PAMLA Conference fees no later than September 15, 2010.

Congratulations to Roswitha Burwick (Scripps College) and Jeffrey Gray (Seton Hall University), who were each elected to the Executive Committee for three-year terms (to expire in 2012), and to Ana María Rodríguez-Vivaldi (Washington State University), who was elected Second Vice-President. Thierry Boucquey (Scripps College) will become President, and Sabine Wilke (University of Washington) will become First Vice-President.  For more information about the officers and Executive Committee, please visit the Officers page.

PAMLA elections were held in July of this year via an online balloting system.  If you have any questions about the elections process, please direct them to Executive Director Craig Svonkin at svonkin@netzero.com.

Thanks to all the members who voted!

Site visitors will notice that we have added a new section for "Academic Announcments" at www.pamla.org/academic_announcements.

PAMLA members are invited to submit academic announcements and CFPs to Craig Svonkin, PAMLA's Executive Director: svonkin@netzero.com.

Please send potential academic announcements to Craig Svonkin as word document attachments. Announcements will be posted at the discretion of the Executive Director, and may only be proposed by current PAMLA members.

PAMLA members are invited to read the statement from the President and the Executive Committee regarding Washington State University's decision to eliminate its German Program, under the section "Programs in Peril."