The following sessions have extended their deadline to May 15, 2012.  To submit a paper proposal to one of these sessions, please visit www.pamla.org/2012 :

• African Migration to Spain
• Alfred Hitchcock’s Films
• Allegory
• Asian Literature
• Beatles as Literature
• Beowulf and Related Topics
• Building Communities through Food: From Culinary Impact of Immigrant Communities to Social Media
• Chaucer and Related Topics
• Comedy and Subversion in Recent French Cinema, Media, and Literature
• Critical Theory
• Ecology and Imagination in Youth Literature
• Folklore and Mythology
• French/Francophone Gastronomy & Culture–Gastronomie et culture française/francophone
• Germanics
• Haiti: From Pre-Columbian to Independence
• Hybrid Genres: Asia
• Inter-examinations of Captivity and Slave Narratives (Sponsored by the Southern California Society for the Study of American Women Writers)
• Linguistics
• Marriage à la mode: Marriage in the 20th Century
• Medieval Migrations
• Migrants on a Mission
• Migration, Immigration, and Movement in the Pacific Northwest
• Modern Austrian Literature
• Moving Children
• Oceanic Literatures and Cultures
• Re-Examining Modernism in East Asia
• Revisiting Latin American modernismo: Poetry and Philosophy
• Rhetorical Approaches to Literature
• Scandinavian Literature
• Shakespeare and Adaptation
• Shakespeare’s Roman and Classical Plays
• Stage to Screen: Contemporary Playwrights
• Teaching Form and Meter: Prosody and Fixed Forms in the Classroom
• Teaching with the Internet and Technology
• Television Studies: Of Taboo and Trauma
• Visual Culture in Contemporary China
• Wide Open Spaces
• Writers in Hollywood: The Migration to Screenplay