The 122nd Annual PAMLA Conference
InterContinental San Francisco
888 Howard St.
San Francisco, California, 94103
415-616-6500
The PAMLA 2025 Conference is being held at the InterContinental San Francisco in San Francisco, California. The conference proper will begin on Thursday morning, November 20, and continue through Sunday late afternoon, November 23, 2025. But we will have a fun Welcome Event on Wednesday evening, November 19: https://www.pamla.org/2025-welcome/
- The PAMLA Conference Schedule is available for you to peruse here: https://pamla.ballastacademic.com/Webforms/Schedule.aspx
- See our Transportation page for any extra information regarding transit.
Our room blocks at the InterContinental San Francisco, and our overflow hotels (the Marker and the King George) have now filled, with any extra rooms returning to the hotel’s inventory. If you neglected to get a room reservation, email or call PAMLA Executive Director Craig Svonkin for suggestions (director@pamla.org or 626-354-7526). For more information about the conference hotel and overflow hotels go here: https://www.pamla.org/pamla-2025-hotel/
Should you have to cancel your participation in the conference, please let Craig Svonkin know right away (and if you have a room at the InterContinental, please let him know before you cancel your reservation so he can get your room for other PAMLA members): director@pamla.org.
All conference participants must pay both PAMLA membership fees and conference fees to participate. But if you wish to join us for the conference without presenting, you can pay the very reasonable PAMLA Conference Auditor Fee. To do so, go to pamla.ballastacademic.com and create an account, and then click on Registration and choose the Auditor fee.
PAMLA conference fees pay for the cost of the running of the conference, including space rentals, AV costs, breakfasts and coffee breaks, the conference program, nametags, etc. PAMLA conference fees do not pay for conference attendees’ hotel room or travel expenses; PAMLA conference participants must arrange for their own room reservation and transportation.
Please check our Hotel and Accommodations Page for more information about our main hotel and our overflow hotels: https://www.pamla.org/pamla-2025-hotel/
The 2025 PAMLA Conference is being held entirely in-person. There will be no virtual or hybrid sessions or papers.
If you have any questions about PAMLA or the conference, please contact Craig Svonkin: director@pamla.org
PAMLA 2025 Whova is Live
Get our official event app,
Get the most out of the app and have a more productive experience!
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NAVIGATE the event agenda and logistics, even without Wi-Fi or data. Access useful information like ridesharing and local attractions through the Community Board
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NETWORK effectively. Plan whom to meet by exploring attendee profiles and sending out messages
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PARTICIPATE in event activities through session likes, comments, ratings, live polling, tweeting, and more
We are pleased to announce that PAMLA 2025 will be using the Whova app for our in-person conference (Nov. 20–23, 2025, at the InterContinental San Francisco). Through Whova, all registered attendees can:
- Access the full conference schedule and session locations
- Build a personalised agenda
- Connect with fellow participants and presenters
- Receive real-time updates and announcements
- Explore exhibitor information and venue maps
In the coming days you’ll receive an email invitation to access the PAMLA 2025 event on Whova. We recommend downloading the Whova app (available for both mobile and desktop) and logging in ahead of the conference to get the most from your experience.
PAMLA 2025 Basic Rules and Practices
- Presiding Officers or Chairs may not propose papers to or invite themselves to their own sessions.
- We do not accept scheduling requests, except for religious reasons (please send religious scheduling requests to PAMLA Executive Director Craig Svonkin by August 10 at the latest). This means that panels might be scheduled for any time on Thursday, Friday, Saturday, or on Sunday until approximately 3 pm.
- PAMLA 2025 will be held entirely in-person. Chairs, Presiding Officers, and panelists must physically attend the conference. Zoom, remote, or papers read in absentia are not allowed. Should you not be able to attend, please let your presiding officer/chair and Executive Director Craig Svonkin know right away.
- Conference participants may typically present twice, at most, at the conference. They may present once in a traditional panel and once in a roundtable or creative format session.
- Participants may not present the same paper, or a largely similar paper, at two different panel sessions. This policy applies as well for participants presenting at one panel and on one roundtable.
- Participants should not give a paper already presented at another conference or a previous PAMLA conference.
- One may only chair two sessions total, or present one traditional paper and chair one session. Presiding Officers with more than one session who are also presenting will work with Craig Svonkin to find chairs for their additional sessions.
- PAMLA does not publish conference proceedings. We do, however, encourage conference presenters to revise their presentations so as to submit them for consideration by PAMLA’s scholarly, peer-reviewed journal, Pacific Coast Philology.
- While PAMLA does provide some limited scholarships that graduate students, international scholars, and scholars of German literature may apply for, it is important to note that PAMLA, given its lack of any institutional support, lacks the funds necessary to support academic hotel and travel expenses.
- You may not present generative AI output or work by another author (human or otherwise) as your own scholarly work. Nor may you use AI output for the abstracts or descriptions of your work, or as your own work at the conference.
- PAMLA’s Board wishes to restate and re-emphasize our commitment to academic freedom, civil discourse, and free speech in our association and at our annual PAMLA conference. Please see our PAMLA Code of Conduct and PAMLA Commitment to Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity for more information.
Thank you for helping us make PAMLA 2025 a respectful, dynamic, and well-organized conference experience for all participants. We look forward to seeing you all in San Francisco for an event that celebrates a collaborative space for original scholarship, polite dialogue, and free discourse.
The Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association is committed to academic freedom, civil discourse, and free speech in our association and at our annual PAMLA conference. Please see our Code of Conduct and Commitment to Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity Statements.
PAMLA Store is Live
Discover PAMLA’s Redbubble Store, featuring original artwork by our community of artists. From Frank Quitely’s Send in the Clowns to Luisa Lange’s brand-new Pamlapsests 2025 – a palimpsest of PAMLA’s own art history inspired by this year’s conference theme “Palimpsests: Memory and Oblivion” – our collections showcase the creativity and vision of the scholars and artists who make PAMLA unique.
Join PAMLA Today
Please join PAMLA for the 2025 year, so as to receive our terrific journal, Pacific Coast Philology, and also, if you have a few extra dollars, please make a donation to support PAMLA during these difficult times. Your membership ensures that PAMLA can continue supporting conferences, scholarships, publications, and the artistic collaborations that make our association thrive. Go here to join or rejoin PAMLA.
PAMLA 2025 Vaccination Policy
PAMLA expects its members to take care with their and their colleagues’ health. We expect participants to be fully vaccinated, so please get your Covid, flu, and other necessary vaccinations so as to protect yourself and others. Those who test positive for Covid must cancel their conference participation. Mask wearing is often a good idea, as well. Since we cannot predict when a pandemic might return, please get your vaccinations ahead of time. If you have any questions, please contact PAMLA Executive Director Craig Svonkin: 626-354-7526 or director@pamla.org.