The ACH runs two sessions every year at the Modern Language Association's convention in December. It's an opportunity for us to publicize the kind of work we do and to hobnob with the like-minded. For 2003 we had two sessions: "Electronic Theory and Criticism", organized by Vika Zafrin of Brown University, and "New Paradigms in Humanities Computing", organized by Stephen J. Ramsay, of the University of Georgia.
Since 1996 we've also published on www.ach.org a list I compile of all sessions at the convention that have something to do with humanities computing; this year that list was shorter than it's been for several years. That may or may not mean something: usually all I've got to go on is the titles of the sessions or papers, and there may just be less of a tendency to use computerish terms in titles nowadays though the work may still involve them in some way.
For December 2004, Aimée Morrison of the University of Waterloo has organized a panel called "The Material Electronic Text", and David L. Gants of the University of New Brunswick has organized a panel called "Digital Preservation and Electronic Scholarly Editions"; the six speakers who make up these panels are all people who have never appeared in an ACH panel at the MLA before.
As always, my method of organizing these panels has been to ask people like Aimée and Dave to do all the work. We have also frequently asked graduate students or recent PhDs to organize one or both, so that we don't just have the same people involved all the time (as is common in some other organizations that run MLA sessions) and because it may actually be helpful to their careers. I'd be interested to hear from people interested in doing a panel or people who know some good candidates for the job.
Aimée and Dave were also the first to use the notes on this activity and how to do it that I've composed; for the moment these are at http://www.lavagnino.org.uk/temp/mla.html, but the plan is to move them to the ACH web site soon.