Each year the Society sponsors at least one panel at the MLA Convention. Calls for Papers for these panels are usually posted in February or March, for the following January. Following is a complete list of past panel topics.
2023
Spring and All at 100
2022
Multilingual Williams
2021
William Carlos Williams Thinking
2020
William Carlos Williams, American Modernism, and West Coast Culture
2019
Approaches to Teaching William Carlos Williams
2018
Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, and New York City
Pater and Son: Fathers in the Work of William Carlos Williams
2017
“Wiping Soiled Words”: The Poetics of William Carlos Williams and Marianne Moore
2016
Ezra Pound and the Future (s) of the University
Borders and Crossings: Time and Space in William Carlos Williams
2015
Remembering Williams, Williams Remembering
2014
New Directions in William Carlos Williams Studies
2013
William Carlos Williams and the Armory at One Hundred
2012
William Carlos Williams’s A Voyage to Pagany and Pagany (1930–33)
2011
Prosody in the Poetry of Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams
William Carlos Williams and the “Radiant Gist” of Science
William Carlos Williams’s An Early Martyr and Other Poems: Seventy-Five Years Later
2009
William Carlos Williams and Life Studies
William Carlos Williams and the Problems of Embodiment: Disability, Medicine, and Trauma Studies
2008
William Carlos Williams, the Beats, and the San Francisco Scene
The Williams of Paterson Book V
2007
William Carlos Williams in Little Magazines: Poetry, the Little Review, and Others
William Carlos Williams and Company
2006
Williams and the Classics
“It’s All in / the Sound”: The Prosody of William Carlos Williams
2005
Twenty-Five Years of the William Carlos Williams Review: Landmarks, Controversies, and Change
Recent Trends in Williams Scholarship
2004
William Carlos Williams and the American Republic: In the American Grain I
William Carlos Williams and the American Republic: In the American Grain II
2003
William Carlos Williams’s Spring and All Today
William Carlos Williams and Objectivism
2002
William Carlos Williams and Latin America
Williams and the Urban Environment
2001
Williams and British Poetry