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 -----Original Message----- From: Mark Twain Forum [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Richey, Ms. Carolyn L Sent: Wednesday, November 18, 2015 3:29 PM To: [log in to unmask] 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 [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>