Hi!
So sorry to hear about your bone brake and about SCMLA

I personally have never heard of SCMLA

I attend RMMLA and SAMLA.

I would love to submit a paper for that conference, but SAMLA is at the same time and will be in FL in 2016.

Thanks for letting us know!
Jules

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From: Mark Twain Forum [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Richey, Ms. Carolyn L
Sent: Wednesday, November 18, 2015 3:29 PM
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Subject: SCMLA 2016 and Special Session on Twain

Forum Members:

Recently I presented a paper on Mark Twain (along with my husband) at the S= CMLA Annual Conference in Nashville.  It was the paper I was originally sup= posed to present at the conference in Hannibal in July; however, I broke my=  pelvis and had to cancel.

As I looked over the program and read all the paper titles that were being = presented, I was shocked that our paper was the only one on Twain.  That wi= ll be different next year.  I (and my husband Dr. Delwin Richey - who teach= es in our university's Communication Studies Dept.) are sponsoring a Specia= l Session panel on Mark Twain: The Gilded Age Exposed.  The theme for the 2=
016 SCMLA conference is "The Spectacular City: Glamour, Decadence and Celeb= rity in Literature and Culture," so because Mark Twain coined the term The = Gilded Age, we thought papers on any of his works about any of these aspect= s of the theme would fit right in.

The call for papers is not "official," but I wanted all of Twain Forum memb= ers to consider submitting an abstract.  The official call for papers will = be after the first of the year and the conference is not until November 201=
6 in Dallas, Texas.

Thanks for considering this and I look forward to getting abstracts......on= ce the official call goes out.

Carolyn

Carolyn Leutzinger Richey
Tarleton State University
Department of English and Languages
Office:  OAG334
Box T-0-300
254-968-9511
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