Dear all, First, as part of the 2008 MLA Congress to be held in San Francisco, 26-31 December 2008, The Ezra Pound Society has organized two sessions. We invite those of you who will be attending this year's MLA to attend. I would also like to mention that at the conclusion of the second session those in attendance will be asked to suggest topics for the 2009 MLA Congress. And second, we will be organizing two sessions at the ALA conference to be help in May in Boston-please see below for topics and deadline. With season's wishes, Demetres P. Tryphonopoulos I. MLA Congress Saturday, 27 December 48. Topos as Place and the Place of the Visual in Ezra Pound's Work 3:30-4:45 p.m., Union Square 9, Hilton Program arranged by the Ezra Pound Society Presiding: Timothy Paul Redman, Univ. of Texas, Dallas 1. "On the Road: Pound's 'Poetry' of Place," Ira Nadel, Univ. of British Columbia 2. "Signs of an Italian Awakening: Ezra Pound's Response to Fascist Architectural Restoration," Catherine Paul, Clemson Univ. 3. "Visual Arrhythmia and Transcendental Aesthetics in Ezra Pound's Asian Sources, Early Works, and Cantos," Robert Kibler, Minot State Univ. 4. "Real Property and Visual Poetics: Ezra Pound and Ecocriticism," James W. Kraus, Chaminade Univ. Monday, 29 December 558. Ezra Pound and Music 1:45-3:00 p.m., Golden Gate 6, Hilton Program arranged by the Ezra Pound Society Presiding: Demetres Tryphonopoulos, Univ. of New Brunswick, Fredericton 1. "'The Beat of a Different Drummer': Ezra Pound in and out of Time," Rob Wallace, Univ. of California, Santa Barbara 2. "Do Re Mi of Reading: The Place of Music in the Oeuvre of Ezra Pound," Margaret Fisher, Second Evening Art Publishing 3. "Ezra Pound's Musical Aesthetic," Stephen J. Adams, Univ. of Western Ontario II. ALA Conference The North American Ezra Pound Society invites papers to be delivered at two panels at the American Literature Association Conference in Boston, May 21-24, 2009. Papers are sought that address the following two topics: (1) Teaching Ezra Pound's Poetry; and (2) Ezra Pound and the Archive: Poetry, Biography, Correspondence. Please send abstracts of 250 words by January 31 to Demetres P. Tryphonopoulos ([log in to unmask]). Dr. Demetres P. Tryphonopoulos University Research Professor, A/Dean, School of Graduate Studies and Professor, Dept. of English Book Reviews Editor, Paideuma Sir Howard Douglas Hall, Room 317, 3 Bailey Drive, Fredericton, NB, Canada E3B 5A3 Tel: 506-453-4673; Fax: 506-453-4817; [log in to unmask]; www.unb.ca/gradschol