thinking post-identity || minutes of the 2002 executive committee meeting

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Midwest Modern Language Association Minutes of the 2002 Executive Committee Meeting Source: The Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association, Vol. 36, No. 1, Thinking Post-Identity (Spring, 2003), pp. 161-162 Published by: Midwest Modern Language Association Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/1315410 . Accessed: 24/06/2014 23:56 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use, available at . http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp . JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact [email protected]. . Midwest Modern Language Association is collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to The Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association. http://www.jstor.org This content downloaded from 62.122.77.28 on Tue, 24 Jun 2014 23:56:28 PM All use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions

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Page 1: Thinking Post-Identity || Minutes of the 2002 Executive Committee Meeting

Midwest Modern Language Association

Minutes of the 2002 Executive Committee MeetingSource: The Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association, Vol. 36, No. 1, ThinkingPost-Identity (Spring, 2003), pp. 161-162Published by: Midwest Modern Language AssociationStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/1315410 .

Accessed: 24/06/2014 23:56

Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use, available at .http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp

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Minutes of the 2002 Executive Committee Meeting

The Executive Committee Meeting of the 2002 Annual Convention came to order on Friday, November 8, 2002, at 9:15 in the Silver Lake Room of the Marriott City Center Hotel in Minneapolis, Minnesota. President Judith Roof called the meeting to order. The following report has been filed by the Executive Director on behalf of the Executive Committee:

(1) Report on Elections. In the absence of nominations by petition, the Executive Committee's nominees were declared elected: Ann C. Hall (Ohio Dominican Univ.) for Vice-President; and Michael Bernard-Don- als (Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison), Kevin J. H. Dettmar (Southern Illi- nois Univ.-Carbondale), and E. Nicole Meyer (Univ. of Wisconsin- Green Bay) for three-year terms on the Executive Committee.

(2) Report on Membership. M/MLA membership for calendar year 2002 was reported as 1,109, including 57 department memberships.

(3) Report on Publications. Total income in fiscal year 2002 from subscrip- tion sales, sales of individual copies, and advertising in the MiMLA Journal was reported as $2,093.

(4) Report on Annual Conventions. Official registration at the 44th Annual Convention held November 8-10, 2002, at the Marriott City Center Hotel in Minneapolis, MN, was 560.

(5) Future Conventions. The dates of the 45th and 46th Annual Conven- tions were announced as follows: 7-9 November 2003, Congress Plaza Hotel, Chicago, IL; and 5-7 November 2004, Hyatt Regency Hotel at Union Station, St. Louis, MO. Arrangements in Milwaukee for 2005 will be explored.

(6) Financial Report. For fiscal year 1 July 2001 - 30 June 2002, a report prepared by Greenwood and Crim, P.C., was received unanimously. Support and revenue totaled $33,196, while expenses totaled $66,628 in FY02. The report showed net assets of $87,631 at year's end.

(7) Report on Executive Committee Decisions. The following actions or deci- sions were taken:

(a) The Executive Committee voted unanimously to suspend pre- paid memberships to new faculty, who were renewing in very small numbers. At the same time, committee members unani- mously approved updating the online pre-registration form to include membership options as well as switching to electronic correspondence wherever possible.

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(b) The Executive Committee voted unanimously to request abstracts for upcoming convention sessions by April 26, when other convention session forms come due. During 2002, 380 out of 503 session presentations were abstracted, roughly 76% and thus an advance over the 61% submitted in 2001. Abstracts are now routinely posted by session even before the printed con- vention program appears in September, and they are being archived at the M/MLA's web site beginning in 2002.

(c) The Executive Committee voted unanimously to incorporate the convention program in the fall issue of the MiMLA Journal, which will also include member essays, book reviews, and "The Loop," a new column foregrounding the intersection of scholar- ly enterprise and pedagogical responsibility. By a similar unani- mous vote, the committee recommended moving the year's essays on the convention's informal theme to the spring as a distinctive cluster, augmented by the member essays, book reviews, and annual reports that would make for a similarly substantial issue.

(d) The Executive Committee reported enthusiastically on the returning book exhibit, in which several university and text- book presses made the most of two evening receptions to become the 2002 convention's daily meeting place. With the help of the Scholar's Choice, the book exhibit celebrated the recent publishing successes of participating M/MLA members, who were the convention's featured authors. Their red badge ribbons and program listing encouraged considerable traffic and a ballroom full of busy exhibitors.

(e) The Executive Committee recommended that petitions from annual special sessions like "Art What Thou Eats" be sent to the Program Committee for approval as permanent sections.

The meeting adjourned at 2:40.

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