Dear all, Here is an announcement and two calls for papers. On behalf of the Ezra Pound Society, I would like to invite those attending the ALA conference in Boston to look out for and attend our two sessions and Business Meeting (dates and times to be announced by the ALA in March; see http://www.calstatela.edu/academic/english/ala2/). As well, please consider responding to our MLA Congress calls for papers (described below). First, the following program has been submitted on behalf of the Ezra Pound Society to this year’s ALA conference which is to be held in Boston, May 26-29, 2011. Ezra Pound Session I: Topic: Ezra Pound and H.D.: Early Poetry and an Unpublished Story Chair: Demetres P. Tryphonopoulos, University of New Brunswick 1. “Modernity’s Anthropologist: Reconsidering Ezra Pound’s Homage to Sextus Propertius,” LeeAnn Derdeyn, University of Texas at Dallas 2. “Ezra Pound’s ‘To La Mère Inconnue’: Unknown Manuscript to the Unknown Mother,” Frances Dickey, University of Missouri at Columbia 3. “‘Aegina,’ An Unpublished Story by H.D.: A Performance with an Introduction,” Mark Mallett, Victoria Conover, and Victoria Maratelli, The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey Ezra Pound Session II: Topic: Ezra Pound’s Later Cantos Chair: David Roessel, The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey 1. "Dorothy Pound, John Randolph and ‘States' Rights’ in the Late Cantos," Alec Marsh, Muhlenberg College 2. “Re-Reading the St. Elizabeths Letters from Ezra Pond to Olivia Rossetti Agresti: Right-Wing Politics of an Inmate,” Demetrios P. Tryphonopoulos: University of New Brunswick 3. "Global Pound: Travel and the Idea of Place in the Pisan Cantos," Ira B. Nadel, University of British Columbia And second, in two already circulated announcements, the Ezra Pound Society has made the following calls for paper submissions: I: Call for papers. MLA 2012, Seattle. Ezra Pound Society guaranteed session submission: "Language, Literature, Learning: Ezra Pound as Teacher/Teaching Ezra Pound." This panel will explore any aspects of Ezra Pound as Teacher or Teaching Ezra Pound’s work. In keeping with this year’s presidential theme, papers on “Language, Literature, Learning” (see President’s invitation at http://www.mla.org/pdf/berman_letter_2012.pdf) are encouraged. Please send 500-word abstracts to Demetres P. Tryphonopoulos ([log in to unmask]) or Ira B. Nadel ([log in to unmask]) by February 28, 2012. Possible ways of approaching this year’s theme may include (but not be limited to) Pound and the American West; Pound and War; Pound and Technology (the radio, photography, film, printing); Pound and Translation; Pound and Performance; and Pound and the Media. II: Call for papers. MLA 2012, Seattle. Ezra Pound Society and James Joyce Foundation joint-session submission: "Ezra Pound and James Joyce: Connections and Disconnections.” Papers are invited dealing with the affinities between and reactions by each author to the work of the other. Intertextual links as well as disparities and aesthetic and political differences may also be addressed. Sincerely, Demetrios P. Tryphonopoulos University Research Professor A/Dean, School of Graduate Studies Professor, Dept. of English, UNB Associate Editor, Paideuma