I am contacting you in anticipation of the next RMMLA (Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association) conference, which will take place in Calgary, Alberta, Canada from October 4-6, 2007. The RMMLA is a regional subsidiary of the MLA (Modern Language Association). Every year, this conference features several panels on modern Chinese and Japanese literature, language, culture and film.

This year's program will include two panels on modern Chinese literature. The first will be a double panel entitled "Chinese Literature and Film Since 1900." All topics and areas of inquiry are welcome. Please submit your abstract to gschneid@fas.harvard.edu no later than March 1, 2007. Final selection of abstracts will be made by March 15, 2007.

The second panel is entitled "Late Qing and Republican Chinese Literature and Thought." This will be a "special topics" panel and it will feature papers that focus more precisely on this particular time period in Chinese literary and cultural history. All disciplines as well as comparative and interdisciplinary approaches are welcome! Again, please submit your paper proposal to gschneid@fas.harvard.edu between now and the end of February, and most definitely before March 1, 2007.

You can view the Call for Papers for these two panels as well as other information regarding the RMMLA conference in Calgary at

http://www.rmmla.org

If you should have any questions, concerns or inquiries, please do not hesitate to contact me (Géraldine Schneider) at gschneid@fas.harvard.edu.

If you are interested in submitting a paper to any of these two panels, please send me a preliminary e-mail now to let me know that you intend to submit a paper. You can then take the additional time until March 1 to finish the paper abstract. The full paper should be submitted to all members of the panel on which you are presenting at a later date, prior to the conference.

I look forward to being in touch with you and to receiving your paper submission!

Sincerely yours,
Géraldine Schneider