From Thursday, November 7 through Sunday, November 10, the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA) will be hosting its 121st annual conference! During this four-day retreat, located in California’s most vibrant desert community, approximately a thousand PAMLA members will be arriving at the beautiful Margaritaville Palm Springs Resort for a fun, cultured, intellectual weekend in the tradition of the lyceum or Chautauqua movements. With more than 250 scholarly sessions on a wide variety of literary, film, language, media, artistic, and cultural topics, as well as poetry readings, and scholars’, writers’, and artists’ talks by Marilyn Chin, Sholeh Wolpe, Johanna Drucker, Rex Pickett, Seth Lerer, Juan Delgado, and Xavier Cázares Cortéz, as well as many opportunities for socializing, and more, we are sure to make memories, as we do every year.
If you’d like to join us for our conference dedicated to exploring and discussing literature, film, media, ancient and modern languages, and culture, but you are not a PAMLA member or participant in the conference itself, we are pleased to offer special Auditor rates ($80 to $110, depending on your job status). The Auditor’s fee is perfect if you would like to attend PAMLA 2024 and join in the intellectual festivities without having to present a paper or preside over a session. If you’d only like to participate in PAMLA for one or two days, that’s also an option. Please contact PAMLA’s Executive Director Craig Svonkin with questions or if you wish to attend for fewer days: [email protected] ).
To become a PAMLA 2024 Conference Auditor, you will need to create a user account at pamla.ballastacademic.com, then log in and click on the Registration tab. From there you can choose our Conference Auditor Registration option and pay to join us for our exciting conference.
If you are a current student or faculty member associated with CSU San Bernardino, CSU Los Angeles, La Sierra University, San Diego State University’s Department of English & Comparative Literature, or the Dorothy Ramon Learning Center, and you aren’t presenting a paper or chairing a session, you may attend the PAMLA conference for free – simply email Executive Director Craig Svonkin at [email protected] with your request to attend, full name, and affiliation. This opportunity is made possible through generous donations by these co-sponsoring institutions: The National Center for the Study of Children’s Literature; San Diego State University’s Department of English & Comparative Literature; California State University, San Bernardino; La Sierra University; California State University, Los Angeles College of Arts & Letters; and the Dorothy Ramon Learning Center.
Contact PAMLA’s Executive Director Craig Svonkin with questions: [email protected].