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Time to slow down, buckaroos, but not while there are still conferences to attend, at home and abroad. The Literature/Film Association was well served in Carlisle. PA, by David Kranz and his Dickinson College associates, who arranged the 2002 conference in October, attended by nearly 100 scholars. Plenary speakers were IAMHIST President and archivist Christine Whittaker, cur- rently working with the BBC in White City, and Robert Ray of the University of Florida, who was considerate enough not to express his more inflammatory notions about the sort of adaptation study reflected by LFQ, which, he advises in James Naremore's anthology Film Adaptation (Rutgers UP, 2000), has none the less done "admirable" service by reserving "most of its space for articles by graduate students, junior faculty, and teachers at small, relatively unprestigious colleagues and universities." (I resist the urge to provide a catalogue of the senior faculty we have published over the past 30 years, lest it reflect badly on the institutions where they teach, as ranked by this display of snobbery and condescension.)
John Tibbetts and I personally invited Christine Whittaker because we knew her to be an excellent speaker, and also in order to direct attention to...