Dear Poundians, We have begun preparations for the two panels at the American Literature Association Conference in Washington DC, which will take place on May 22-25, 2014. Please find the society calls for papers below. The first panel, entitled ?Ezra Pound and Other World Cultures,? is being organized by Robert Kibler. Here is Professor Kibler?s call for papers: ?All ages are contemporaneous? especially in literature, Ezra Pound wrote in 1910. To be sure, his life work drew a vast array of other peoples, their worlds, their ideas, into his own contemporaneous literary universe. We know the people, the places, and the ideas drawn together. But it works the other way too, for Pound enters into interpretive dialogues with other worlds, understood not just as parts of his own vision, but also as entities discrete unto themselves. In this call for papers we seek scholars, artists, and even performers to undertake an examination, broadly considered, of other-world cultures engaged by Pound. What various ends do his appropriations of them serve, and how is his own literary universe co-opted, disrupted, or transformed by the exchange? We are in search of new meaning here and fresh paths. Please send your 350 word abstracts as Word documents both to Robert Kibler, panel organizer, at [log in to unmask], and to Demetres Tryphonopoulos, Secretary, Ezra Pound Society, at [log in to unmask], no later than January 10, 2014. The second panel, organized by Demetres Tryphonopoulos, will be on any aspect of Pound?s relationship with Archibald MacLeish, including their correspondence, Pound?s reception of MacLeish?s poetry, and MacLeish?s role in ending Pound?s incarceration at St. Elizabeths. Please send your 350 word abstracts as Word documents to Demetres Tryphonopoulos, Secretary, Ezra Pound Society, at [log in to unmask] no later than January 10, 2014. For information on the ALA and its 2014 meeting, please see the ALA website at http://alaconf.org. With all my best, Roxana -- The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336.