MLA on $5 per day

[Prof. Walter Comins-Richmond]

> 10)  Any conference venue in the country is going to discommode a lot of
> people -- let's not be provincial & imply that having the conference in
> Canada a mere four years after the last time is a bad thing.  Especially
> considering passport and visa issues that I won't go into because I can
> imagine what stories it might invite.
>

Is it "provincial" to request fairness? Toronto, San Diego, Chicago,
Wahsington DC, Toronto. Four out of five years the conference chooses a
"venue" that discommodes scholars on the West Coast. Long air travel,
time zone changes, climate changes--I'm not implying that it's a bad
thing to have the conference twice in four years in the same place
(Canada or elsewhere), I'm saying outright.