[Mendele] Mendele Personal Notices & Announcements--MLA Jan, 2013 Call for papers

[Victor Bers]

Mendele Personal Notices & Announcements

Feb. 9, 2012

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Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2012 01:24:40 +0200 
From: Alan Astro <aastro at trinity.edu>
To: victor.bers at yale.edu
Subject: Call for papers at MLA session, Jan. 2013

Call for papers for MLA 2013: Access to Western Culture, Its Fulfillments, 
Its Illusions

Following the MLA 2013 theme "Avenues of Access," the American Association 
of Professors of Yiddish/Conference on Modern Jewish Studies is seeking 
participants for an MLA session on Yiddish or Yiddish-related works 
portraying access to western culture, its fulfillments, its illusions.

The MLA is being held next year in Boston, January 3-6

Please send a 200-word abstract by March 15, 2012, by e-mail to the AAPY's 
MLA liaison Alan Astro, Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas:
aastro at trinity.edu
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