Every year the ACH runs two sessions at the Modern Language
Association convention in December; we get to do this because we're an
"affiliated organization".  The sessions have to be organized a year
in advance, because the MLA itself takes that long to put the
convention's program together.

The ACH has sought to use these sessions to promote the kind of work
we do to people in the world of modern languages generally.  We've
tried to vary the topics and personnel a good deal; as organizer of
this activity I've most often just found someone with an idea for a
session and sent them off to arrange everything about it.

At the December 2002 convention in New York our two sessions were:

--- "Practice, Theory, and Profession: English Studies and New
    Technologies", organized by Michael Hanrahan of Bates
    College.

--- "The New Apprenticeship: Navigating Collaboration in Digital
    Studies", with Susan Schreibman of the University of Maryland
    presiding.

Details about speakers and papers are at

  http://www.ach.org/mla02/

I also compiled a list of all sessions with anything computer-related,
and that's at

  http://www.ach.org/mla02/guide.html

At the December 2003 convention in San Diego our sessions will be:

--- "New Paradigms in Humanities Computing", organized
    by Stephen Ramsay of the University of Georgia, and with talks
    by himself, Michael Best, and Mark Olsen.

--- "Electronic Theory and Criticism", organized by Vika Zafrin of
    Brown University, and with talks by Cheryl E. Ball, Marjorie
    C. Luesebrink, and Talan Memmott

John