The twenty-seventh annual NEMLA convention will be held in Montreal from 19 to 20 April 1996 at the Hotel du Parc. In the heart of vibrant Montreal, Hotel du Parc is located at the foot of Mount Royal, within walking distance of world-class galleries, museums, and concert halls, exuberant nightlife and gourmet dining on trendy Saint-Laurent and Saint-Denis Streets, and relaxed sidewalk cafes on Prince Arthur's bustling pedestrian mall. McGill University will be the host institution, and Nicole Brossard will be the Friday night keynote speaker.

The association's most significant news is its change in name from PAPC to PAMLA to strengthen its identification with the Modem Language Association and to maintain the historic presence of classical languages.

The association's ninety-third annual meeting will be held 3-5 November 1995 at the University of California, Santa Barbara, hosted by the College of Letters and Science with its Division of the Humanities, and cosponsored by the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center, the Department of Classics, the Comparative Literature Program, the Department of English, the Department of Germanic, Semitic, and Slavic Studies, and the Department of Spanish and Portuguese. Gerhart Hoffmeister, professor of German, is serving as chair of the local committee.

The forty-ninth annual convention of RMMLA will be held 19-21 October 1995 at the Ridpath Hotel in Spokane, Washington. Central Washington University is the host institution. Grant Smith, local arrangements chair, also arranged the very successful conference in 1985. RMMLA will be meeting concurrently with Northwest British Studies and Northwest Eighteenth-Century Studies. David Bevington, the banquet speaker, will address the relation between politics and art in his talk “James I and Timon of Athens” A Central Washington University will sponsor a Thursday evening reception at which the Madrigal Singers from Washington State University will perform.

As we conclude our fifth and final year on the SAMLA team, we are happy to report that SAMLA continues to be the largest regional affiliate of the Modem Language Association of America despite the belt-tightening measures that have been going on in the economy and in our profession. This year 1,048 colleagues attended the Baltimore convention, a testimony to the attractiveness of the site but still below what we normally experience in Atlanta. The 1995 convention will be held 3-5 November at the Marriott Marquis in Atlanta. Preregistration for the convention is $30 for regular members and $20 for graduate students. SAMLA, as always, welcomes all to what will be a lively and informative meeting. Featured speakers will include Mary Lee Settle, William Calin, Trudier Harris, and Durs Grunbein.

The 1995 SCMLA meeting will be held 26-28 November at the Wyndham-Warwick Hotel in Houston. The University of Houston will host the convention, and Harmon Boertien and Julian Olivares will act as local arrangements chairs. This year's theme, “The Museum as Cultural Site,” will be reflected in a Saturday morning roundtable discussion, a preconference workshop, and various special sessions. Denise Chavez will be the plenary speaker. The 1995 program offers over ninety-five sessions, of which at least twenty-five are new special sessions. Current members will receive the summer newsletter, a convention program, and the fall issue of the South Central Review, a special double issue entitled Russian Literature after Perestroika. To join SCMLA, please write to Jo Hebert, SCMLA, Dept. of English, Texas A&M Univ., College Station 77843-4227. Dues are: joint members, $25; full professors, $20; associate and assistant professors, $15; instructors, retired professors, and graduate students, $10. These dues entitle members to four issues of the South Central Review, two newsletters, a convention packet and program, and application for SCMLA's annual awards.

This directory lists addresses useful to MLA members in their scholarly and professional activities. Acronyms are given in brackets following the full names of organizations. Learned and professional societies and book publishers (including university presses) known to be interested in books on language and literature are included. Journals and periodicals are not listed; readers should consult the MLA Directory of Periodicals: A Guide to Journals and Series in Languages and Literatures, which is available from the member and customer services office of the MLA. The information was updated in late spring 1995. The list is not comprehensive.