round table 99 The Round Table N E W S from the North American Branch NAB Officers 2000 (for full addresses see Bibliographical Bulletin of the International Arthurian Society [bbias]) President: Alan Lupack (U of Rochester) Immediate Past President: Donald L. Hoffman (Northeastern Illinois U) Vice-President: Susann Samples (Mount St. Mary’s College) Secretary-Treasurer: Jean Blacker (Kenyon College) Bibliographers: Rosemary Deist (U of San Francisco) Donald L. Hoffman (Northeastern Illinois U) Kathleen Kelly (Northeastern U) Paul V. Rockwell (Amherst C) Advisory Committee: James Carley (York U) Carol Dover (Georgetown U) Elissa R. Henken (U of Georgia) Elizabeth Sklar (Wayne State U) Stephanie Cain Van d’Elden (U of Minnesota) Kevin J. Harty (LaSalle U) Bonnie Wheeler, ARTHURIANA Editor (Southern Methodist U, ex officio) IAS Officers 2000 (for full addresses see bbias) President: Jane H. M. Taylor (St. Hilda’s College, Oxford U) Honorary President (Immediate Past President): Philippe Ménard (U of Paris- Sorbonne) Vice-President: Bart Besamusca (University of Utrecht) Secretary and bbias Editor: Keith Busby (U of Oklahoma) Treasurer: Hans R. Runte (Dalhousie U) Back Issues of bbias and ARTHURIANA: For back issues of bbias (through v. 46/1994), contact Hans R. Runte, Dept. of French, Dalhousie U, Halifax, N.S., B3H 3J5, Canada ([email protected]). For back issues starting with v. 47/1995, contact Joan Grimbert, Dept. of Modern Languages, Catholic U, Washington, DC 20064 ([email protected]). Back issues still available are vols. 25-29 (1973-77) and 31-34 (1979-82), all for $10 each; v. 36-41 (1984-89), 43 (1991), and 45-52 (1993-2000) are $15 each. All other volumes are out of print. For back issues of ARTHURIANA, contact ARTHURIANA, Box 750432, SMU, Dallas, TX 75275-0432 ([email protected]). Your bbias Abstracts: President Alan Lupack requests that, for inclusion in the society’s annual bibliography, members please send bibliographic entries and abstracts for arthuriana 10.3 (2000) 99 100 arthuriana articles or books published in 1999 or in 2000 to the attention of Alan Lupack ([email protected] or to Alan Lupack; The Robbins Library; Rush Rhees 416; University of Rochester; Rochester, NY 14627). Minutes of the North American Branch (NAB) of the International Arthurian Society Business Meeting held on May 5, 2000 at 12:00 noon in Valley III 308 (Medieval Institute International Congress, Kalamazoo, MI): The meeting was called to order by A. Lupack, presiding. The agenda as published in the Summer 2000 nab news (Round Table section of arthuriana 10.2) was approved. The reading of the minutes of the May 7, 1999 Business Meeting (as published in the Fall 1999 Round Table [arthuriana 9.3]) was waived, and the minutes were approved. Secretary-Treasurer’s Report: J. Grimbert read the nab Financial Statement for April 19, 1999-April 18, 2000, which was duly approved. In response to the Secretary- Treasurer’s report, a discussion of the necessity and advisability of raising dues was opened by the President. The questions raised by members present included whether dues should be raised for emeriti from $28 to $33; for students from $28 to $30; for institutions from $18 to $20; and whether international members should be charged the additional cost of postage, according to a preference for surface or air shipping. A vote on the latter suggestion was deferred. Three increases were moved, seconded, and passed by a show of hands: a raise in membership fees for students from $28 to $30, for emeriti from $28 to $33, and for institutions from $18 to $20. The President thanked J. Grimbert for her six years of excellent service as Secretary- Treasurer of the ias/nab, and introduced J. Blacker, who has accepted the invitation to serve in that capacity, subject to approval by the Executive Committee. Kalamazoo 2001: nab Sessions: The members voted on and approved four sessions: 1) Saracens, D. Hoffman, organizer; 2) Arthurian Tradition in Children’s Literature, J. Kellogg, organizer; 3) Arms, Armor, and Identity, C. Dover, organizer; and 4) Lancelot and Guinevere in Film, D. Armstrong, organizer. It was announced that the reception sponsored jointly by the ias/nab and the Tristan Society would be held later that day, Friday, May 5, at 5:30 p.m. in Valley II, Room 200, and the Tristan Society business meeting at 5:00 p.m. in Valley II, Room 203. Report of the Editor of Arthuriana: 1. Arthuriana: B. Wheeler introduced C. Grooms, Webmaster; D. Armstrong will continue as Marketing Manager, but from her new position at California State University, Long Beach. The volume of essays in memory of Maureen Fries, edited by F. Tolhurst and B. Wheeler, is currently in preparation; inquiries welcome. Future special issues include those to be edited by K. Harty and F. Ackerman. 2. James Randall Leader Prize: P. McCracken announced that the recipient of this year’s prize for outstanding article in the previous year’s arthuriana was Andrew Lynch for his article, ‘Malory Moralisé: The Disarming of Le Morte Darthur, 1800- 1918,’ (9:4, 81–93). Camelot 2000: The complete program for this ‘Millennial Conference on the Arthurian Legends,’ to be held on October 26–28, 2000 at the University of Rochester, round table 101 can now be found on the web (U of Rochester, <www.lib.rochester.edu/camelot/ C2000.h>). Many members expressed concern that the growth of the congress at Kalamazoo has resulted in an unusually large number of scheduling conflicts, and the President was asked if the ias/nab could officially voice its concern. A discussion of the advantages and disadvantages of drafting a formal letter of complaint led to the conclusion that a less formal approach suggested by and to be implemented by the President might prove both more politic as well as more effective. Following a reminder that the next triennial meeting of the IAS will be held in Bangor, Wales in 2002, the meeting was adjourned at 1 p.m. Call for Papers: Arthurian Studies at Kalamazoo: 36th International Congress on Medieval Studies. Kalamazoo, May 3–6, 2001. Topics for next year’s Congress appear in the minutes of last May’s meetings, below. [For information and registration materials write to Prof. Paul Szarmach, Director, The Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI 49008–3801; tel: 616–387–8745; fax: 616–387–8750; e-mail: [email protected]; Web Page http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress.] Camelot 2000: Alan Lupack will sponsor the ‘Millennial Conference on the Arthurian Legends’ to be held on October 26–28, 2000 in Rochester, NY. The plenary speaker will be Norris J. Lacy, ‘Arthurian Research in a New Century.’ P.J.C. Field will present the Helan Ann Robbins Lecture, ‘Malory and His Audience.’ World Wide Web Sites: Members of the nab of the ias are reminded of two important electronic sites: the International Medieval Congress at Kalamazoo: <http:// www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress>; ARTHURIANA, the official journal of the nab: <http://www.dc.smu/ARTHURIANA/>. 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