Michigan Linguistics Society 37th Annual Meeting, Nov. 10, 2007, at EMU this year! (at the new EMU Student Center). Conference website

The Midwest Modern Language Association's Forty-Ninth Annual Convention
. . . at the historic Renaissance Cleveland Hotel in Cleveland, 8-11 November 2007. More than 200 sessions--attendance of nearly 1000 expected.
 
*** The English Department has paid for a department-wide "guest registration" for all faculty and students to attend free of charge. ***
 
This only pays for registration, so you will have to make your own arrangements to stay in Cleveland. If you think you would like to attend, you should email Pat Healy (phealy@emich.edu) and tell her you would like to go. She'll keep the names and pass them on to Dept. Head, Becky Sipe. Email Pat by the end of October. This will insure that there is a conference badge waiting at the registration table when you arrive at the conference.

Conference website: http://www.uiowa.edu/~mmla/

Friday evening's keynote address will be delivered by Toril Moi, James B.Duke Professor of Literature and Romance Studies at Duke Univ. and author of numerous books including Henrik Ibsen and the Birth of Modernism: Art,Theater, Philosophy (OUP, 2006), What Is a Woman?: And Other Essays (OUP, 2001), and Sexual/Textual Politics: Feminist Literary Theory (Routledge, 1985; 2002) ($1,500)

A series of well-attended professionalizing workshops that this year will include "Landing a Job," "Transitioning to Professional Life," and "Evaluating Scholarship for Tenure and Promotion: The MLA's New Landmark Report"