I offer you a warm invitation to submit a paper proposal of 250 words for consideration of inclusion in the next Jack London's Life and Works program at the Popular Culture Association [PCA] conference, which will be held at the Marriott Hotel, Philadelphia, PA, April 11-14, 2001.

If you are interested in attending the meeting in Philadelphia in 2001, please send me your 250 word paper proposal as soon as possible and certainly before September 15, which is the deadline. On receiving your proposal I will immediately respond and send you a pre-registration and membership form. The program book will be mailed to you early in December. Hotel reservation cards should be returned to the hotel immediately to ensure a room.

The PCA has made some changes in the program. Every session must have four participants. This means that you will be allotted 15 minutes for your presentation, so please limit the length of your paper to seven and one-half, double-spaced pages. You must present your own paper at this conference. Each meeting room will be equipped with one slide projector and screen and one VCR and monitor for your use.

Session Information for both the 1999 and 2000 Popular Culture Association Meeting Panel on Jack London's Life and Works is provided below.

Panel Presentations from the 1999 POPULAR CULTURE ASSOCIATION MEETING March 30- April 4, 1999, San Diego Marriott Hotel & Marina

JACK LONDON'S LIFE AND WORKS--Panel #1

Chair: Sean Hoare

1. "Racial Boundaries and Identity in ‘Li Wan the Fair'"
2. Kirk Lockwood, English Dept., Illinois Valley Community College, Oglesby, IL 61348
3. "Jack London: A Forgotten Muckraker?" Susan Gatti, English Dept., Indiana U of Pennsylvania, Indiana, PA 18706
4. "Common Waters: Melville, Conrad, and MARTIN EDEN" Sean Hoare, English Dept., Marymount University, Arlington, VA 22207

JACK LONDON'S LIFE AND WORKS--#2

Chair: Susan Gatti

1. "Bourgeois Post-Darwinian Anxiety and the Tenuous Self in ‘South of the Slot'" Heidi Kelchner, Continuing Education, U of South Florida, Tampa, FL 33620
2. "Jack London and Kanae Nagasawa" Takaharu Mori, Kagoshima Jr. College, 450 Nagoyoshi-cho, Kagoshima-shi, 890 JAPAN
3. "What Does Hearts of Three Tell us About Jack London?" George R. Adams, Languages and Literatures, U of Wisconsin-Whitewater, Whitewater, WI 53190
4. "The Ends of Empire: Race and Imperialism in The People of the Abyss" Chris Gair, Univ. of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham.. B15 2TT, England

1. “Representations of the Portuguese in London’s MARTIN EDEN” by Reinaldo Silva Dept. de Linguas e Culturas, Univ. de Aveiro, 3810-193 Aveiro, Portugal
2. “JERRY OF THE ISLANDS and the ‘Nature-Faker’ Controversy” by George Adams English Dept., Univ. of Wisconsin-Whitewater, Whitewater, WI 53190-1790
3. “A Mate for Frona Welse” by Sean Hoare English Dept., Marymount Univ., Arlington, VA 22207-4299
4. “Between the Medusa of Truth and the Aphrodite of Romance: London’s ‘Working Philosophy’ and Its Trivilization in Academic Criticism” by Per Serritslev Petersen English Dept., University of Aarhus, 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark