I received the following gem in my inbox last night:

Dear Colleagues,

The 2011 Mid-Atlantic Regional SBL call for papers is now available on the SBL website. The meeting will be held jointly with the Mid-Atlantic and New England/Maritimes Regions of the American Academy of Religion (AAR) on March 17-18, 2011 at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in New Brunswick, New Jersey. The call contains dates, locations, deadlines, guidelines for preparing and submitting proposals, hotel and registration information, and other important details regarding the meeting. Please follow the link below to access the call:

http://www.sbl-site.org/assets/pdfs/2011_MARcall.pdf

We are excited to announce that Dr. Lawrence H. Schiffman, Ethel and Irvin A. Edelman Professor of Hebrew and Judaic Studies and Chair of the Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies at New York University, will serve as our plenary speaker and Dr. Maxine Grossman, Associate Professor of Religious Studies and Jewish Studies at the University of Maryland, will deliver our presidential address.

One of the interesting things about moving is that Mandy and I are now in a different SBL region. I’m rather looking forward to seeing new faces at next year’s regional SBL. I’ll certainly be submitting a paper proposal, though I’m not 100% sure what topic I will choose. As a random aside, in New England our regional SBL meetings were only a single day. A two-day regional meeting is going to take some adjustment in my thinking.