The William Faulkner Society will sponsor two panels at the American Literature Association Conference in San Francisco, May 22-25, 2008. We encourage submissions of 250 word abstracts for individual papers or proposals of entire panels on open topics for either conference. The deadline for ALA submissions is January 20, 2008. Send proposals to John T. Matthews, President, The Faulkner Society, Boston University, Department of English, 236 Bay State Road, Boston, MA 02215 or jtmattws@bu.edu.  Electronic submissions preferred.  In addition to unrestricted proposals, we are interested in papers or panels that might address the following topics: Teaching Faulkner: New contexts for teaching Faulkner, including postcolonial literatures; history of colonialism and imperialism; global South; critical regionalism; new theoretical models. Faulkner and the African Diaspora: Faulkner's relation to the literature and history of African diaspora: slavery; anti-colonialism; black nationalisms; African and African American culture.