New Orleans and the national organizations

[Benjamin Rifkin]

Dear SEELANGers:

Re AATSEEL / MLA Conference Location and the Return to New Orleans

As many of you know, AATSEEL does not select the city where the annual
AATSEEL conference is held.  Rather, the AATSEEL conference is held in
conjunction with the MLA Convention.  The MLA reluctantly moved its 2006
Convention from New Orleans to Philadelphia because of concerns that the
city would not be ready, so soon after Katrina, to accommodate the large
numbers of people who attend the annual MLA Convention.  The MLA has already
committed to holding the 2007 Convention in Chicago and the 2008 Convention
should, following the traditional geographic rotation, be held in a city on
the west coast, where the MLA hasn't been since 2003.  The Executive
Director of the MLA has told me that the MLA Executive Council hopes the
convention will be held in New Orleans again as soon as 2009.

In the meantime, I certainly join the voices encouraging people to travel to
New Orleans and support the economy of that city as it rebuilds.

Sincerely,

Ben Rifkin

-- 
Benjamin Rifkin
Professor of Russian and Vice Dean for Undergraduate Affairs
College of Liberal Arts, Temple University
1206 Anderson Hall, 1114 W. Berks St.
Philadelphia, PA 19122 USA
Voice 215-204-1816
Fax 215-204-3731
www.temple.edu/cla
www.temple.edu/fgis/rifkin

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