Northeast Modern Language Association

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The Northeast Modern Language Association will celebrate the new millennium by participating in a centenary reexamination of the Pan-American Exposition of 1901. The convention will be held 7–8 April 2000 at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Buffalo, New York. Erie Community College will host the convention, and the local arrangements chair is Annette Magid. The keynote speech will be delivered by Michael Frisch, a historian at the State University of New York, Buffalo, who is orchestrating the scholarly reexamination of the 1901 Expo. The convention will feature readings by the poets Charles Bernstein, Robert Creeley, Carl Dennis, Irving Feldman, and Dennis Tedlock. Scholars are invited to respond to the call for papers by 1 September 1999. The call is available on the Web site or from the executive director.