WILLIAM MORRIS SOCIETY: ACTIVITIES AT 1997 MODERN LANGUAGE ASSOCIATION CONVENTION TORONTO, 27-30 DECEMBER 1997 Sessions Social event This year's Modern Language Association annual convention will take place 27-30 December in Toronto, Canada. As usual the dates fall between Christmas and New Year's and, as usual, the William Morris Society in the United States has organized several events:   Sessions of Papers  "What's New with William Morris" Sunday, 28 December, 12noon-1.15pm New Brunswick Room - Royal York Hotel Presiding: Mark Samuels Lasner (William Morris Society) David Latham (York University) "How We Write and How We Might Write" Michael North (Historical Collections Librarian, New York Academy of Medicine) "What's New with William Morris: How Differing Concepts of Originality Came Between William Morris and Aubrey Beardsley" Edward Steven Shear (University of Rhode Island) "From the Ideal Book to the Virtual Book: William Morris in the Age of Digital Media" Robin Waugh (University of British Columbia) "Descriptions of Women and William Morris's Colonial Ideal in The Volsungs and Niblungs and in Sigurd the Volsung"   "William Morris on View and For Sale" Tuesday, 30 December, 10.15-11.30am Alberta Room - Royal York Hotel Presiding: Margaret D. Stetz (Georgetown University) Sandra Alfoldy "Morris Mania: Desire and Daily Life" Pamela S. Loy (UC-Santa Barbara) "'How strange it seems and new!': Memorabilia and William Morris" Diana Maltz (Stanford University) "William Morris: Seer of the New Museology?" Kevin R. Swafford (University of Rhode Island) "Morris the Commodity: Toward an Historical and Dialectic Understanding" Social event Our friends North of the Border (i.e. The William Morris Society of Canada) have graciously invited those attending the MLA convention to come to a social gathering-cum-dinner at the home of William Hall, WMSC Past-President. Here are the details: Sunday, 28 December, 6pm 101 Riverview Gardens, Toronto, M6S 4E7, Tel. (416) 766-7173 INSTRUCTIONS: WMSC members will provide a car pool from the Royal York Hotel. Pick-up time 5.30pm. If anyone wishes to go on their own by subway, they need only go to the Old Mill stop on the Bloor West line, phone Bill's home, and someone will pick them up from there; there is only one exit at this stop. (Take either Yonge line north to Bloor interchange, or take University line north to St. George or Spadina interchange, and in either case proceed west on the Bloor line. Perhaps a 20-min. ride in all). If anyone should be driving, they can call Bill beforehand for instructions. RSVP: Space is somewhat limited. If you plan to come please contact Mark Samuels Lasner, Biblio@aol.com, by 24 December. HOME · NEW · EVENTS · NEWSLETTER · SITE ARCHIVE · ABOUT THE SOCIETY MORRIS' LIFE AND WORKS · PRODUCTS · LINKS · SITE MAP · CONTACT US LAST UPDATE 4 JAN 2001 · PLEASE REPORT BROKEN LINKS TO WEBMASTER@MORRISSOCIETY.ORG