The 2006 MLA convention will be held in Philadelphia. Members should familiarize themselves with the guidelines for the MLA convention, which appear in the September 2005 PMLA (pp. 1003-1008), before writing to the organizer listed below. All participants in convention sessions must be MLA members by 7 April 2006. Organizers are responsible for responding to all inquires. A member may participate as speaker or respondent only twice, (e.g., by organizing and chairing a meeting, reading a paper, or serving as a speaker, panelist, or respondent in one or two sessions) at a single convention. [www.mla.org]

Special Session

Session title: Escritores angolanos entre os séculos XX-XXI/Angolan Writers between the 20th—21st Centuries.

Session description: Recent trends in contemporary and/or emerging Angolan writers at the dawn of the 21st century.

Type of submission preferred: Abstracts by March 10, 2006. Papers: English/Portuguese.