Dear Colleagues, I would like to invite you to consider participating in the biennial meeting of the Association of Chinese and Comparative Literature, to be held July 17-19, 2019 in Changsha, Hunan. In past years, ACCL participation has been highly skewed toward modern and contemporary literature, and other topics that are not particularly relevant to scholars working in earlier periods. However, I would like very much to change this, and encourage more of a presence of premodern scholarship at our conference. As the call for papers on our conference website <http://accl2019.hunnu.edu.cn/Call_for_Papers/CALL_FOR_PAPERS.htm> indicates, the "comparative" in our name is not intended to limit papers to Sino-Western comparison; and obviously the Song and Yuan exhibit some of the premodern world's most interesting examples of cross-cultural exchange and contestation. Our deadline for receipt of abstracts has recently been extended to January 7, in part to try to attract more participation by premodern scholars. Although we will be in Hunan in July, the conference will be held in a thoroughly air-conditioned hotel at the foot of Yuelu Mountain. (This is a short distance from the Song-era Yuelu Academy.) We can accommodate both panel proposals and individual abstracts, and I would be grateful if you could also help spread the word to other colleagues and graduate students who might be interested in attending. Naturally, I'd be happy to answer any questions about the conference. Thanks very much, and best wishes for the end-of semester rush, Daniel Fried (current ACCL president) -- Latest publication: *Dao and Sign in History: Daoist Arche-Semiotics in Ancient and Medieval China <http://www.sunypress.edu/p-6614-dao-and-sign-in-history.aspx>* Daniel Fried (傅雲博) Department of East Asian Studies Department of Modern Languages and Cultural Studies University of Alberta