CALLS FOR PAPERS [note new deadlines] Proposals are invited for the following sessions sponsored by the Mark Twain Circle of America at the American Literature Association Conference 2000, May 25-28, Long Beach, CA and at the Modern Language Association convention 2000, December 27-30, Washington, DC. AMERICAN LITERATURE ASSOCIATION 2000 May 25-28, 2000, Long Beach CA 1. Panel topic: Mark Twain on Race, Ethnicity and Class. Send proposals to Joseph B. McCullough [[log in to unmask]] DEADLINE: January 5, 2000 2. Panel topic: Mark Twain and Native Americans. Send proposals to Lauren Muller [[log in to unmask]] DEADLINE: January 5, 2000 3. Informal roundtable topic: Why I work on Mark Twain. Send summary paragraphs to John Bird [[log in to unmask]]. DEADLINE: January 5, 2000 MODERN LANGUAGE ASSOCIATION 2000 1. Open panel topic: any aspect of Mark Twain's work/life. Send proposals to Shelley Fisher Fishkin [[log in to unmask]] DEADLINE: February 1, 2000 2. Panel topic: Mark Twain's Literary Daughters-on any women writers who were influenced by Twain or whose fiction is implicitly or explicitly in conversaiton with Twain. Send proposals to Shelley Fisher Fishkin [[log in to unmask]] DEADLINE: February 1, 2000 Shelley Fisher Fishkin University of Texas