Our 2025 Conference Co-Sponsors:
The 122nd Annual PAMLA Conference
InterContinental San Francisco
888 Howard St.
San Francisco, California, 94103
https://www.icsanfrancisco.com/
415-616-6500
NOTE: Do not reserve a room yet: PAMLA conference attendees who book through our PAMLA link will receive a large group discount, so stay tuned for our special conference rates.
The PAMLA 2025 Conference will be held at the elegant InterContinental San Francisco in San Francisco, California. The conference will begin on Thursday, November 20, and continue through November 23, 2025.
The 2025 PAMLA Conference is being held entirely in-person at the InterContinental. There will be no virtual or hybrid sessions or papers–the entire conference is being held in-person.
Our 2025 Conference Theme is “Palimpsests: Memory and Oblivion.”
The Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA), the west coast affiliate of the MLA, is a warm, welcoming, inclusive Humanities and Arts association dedicated to the creation, advancement, and diffusion of the aesthetic practices and knowledge of ancient & modern languages, literatures, cultures, and the arts. Approximately 800 to 1,000 faculty, students, writers, and interested independent scholars and members of the community attend our annual PAMLA conference, which offers scholars and writers the opportunity to share research and creative artistic works in a friendly, stimulating atmosphere.
PAMLA, founded as the Philological Association of the Pacific Coast in 1899, and the western affiliate of the Modern Language Association, is dedicated to the creation, advancement, and diffusion of the aesthetic practices and knowledge of ancient and modern languages, literatures, cultures, and the arts.
Please email Craig Svonkin if you have any questions about PAMLA or the PAMLA conference: [email protected].
PAMLA 2025 Dates and Deadlines
- Special Session Deadline: March 2
- Paper Proposal Deadline: May 15
- Paper Acceptance / Decline: May 25 (depending on submission date, deliberation could take longer)
- Conference Registration with Early Bird Discount: January 30 – May 28
- PAMLA Membership Payment Deadline: June 25 (presiding officers must pay earlier)
- Regular Conference Registration: May 29 – July 20
- Conference Registration with Minor Late Fee Added: July 21 – September 15
- Conference Registration with Urgent Late Fee Added: September 16 – October 1
After August 1, those who have not paid PAMLA Membership Dues will be removed from the program.
After September 15, those who have not paid PAMLA Conference Fee will be removed from the program.
Those who cancel after September 15 will not receive a full conference fee reimbursement.
PAMLA 2025 Vaccination Policy
You must be fully vaccinated (at least two weeks before the conference) and have proof of vaccination available; or you must be able to show a negative COVID-19 test result (taken within 72 hours of the conference). Those who cannot do one or the other of these will not be able to attend the conference. So, please plan on your vaccination ahead of time. If you have any questions, please contact PAMLA Executive Director Craig Svonkin: 626-354-7526 or [email protected].
Join PAMLA Today
PAMLA could use your support! Please join PAMLA for the 2025 year, so as to receive our terrific journal, Pacific Coast Philology, and also, if you have a few extra dollars, please make a donation to support PAMLA during these difficult times. Go here to join or rejoin PAMLA (and, if you can, please make a donation to the PAMLA General Fund–we could use your help!).