The International Association of University Professors of English (IAUPE). (Appendix: FILLM--history and objectives).

The International Association of University Professors of English (IAUPE) is at the time of writing in the middle of preparations for the celebration of its Jubilee. In 1948, the then editors of English Studies wrote to colleagues in British universities suggesting the institution of international conferences for professors of English. Two of these editors, Professors Zandvoort from Holland and Simonne d'Ardenne from Belgium, attended the 1949 annual meeting of British professors, where it was agreed that Professor C. L. Wrenn should organize a conference at Magdalen College, Oxford, in the summer of 1950. This was highly successful, and in 1951 IAUPE was formally constituted and affiliated to FILLM. A second conference was scheduled for 1953, to be held in Paris; and the Association quickly adopted a regular pattern of triennial meetings which has persisted until the present day, whereby they are held alternately in an English-speaking and a non-English-speaking country. In principle, they can be held anywhere in the world; in practice, they have so far been held in Europe and North America. Each succeeding venue is chosen by members present at the Business Meeting of a conference.

The 50th anniversary of the first conference in 2000 was followed in 2001 by a …