32nd Annual Conference

Society for Interdisciplinary French Seventeenth-Century Studies
Société d’études pluridisciplinaires du dix-septième
siècle français

University of California Los Angeles / William Andrews Clark Library (November 8)

Reception/Fundraiser for SE17 and CSULB French for Spanish Speakers
(November 8, 7:30-10:00 PM, Santa Monica Bay Womens Club)

California State University Long Beach (November 8-10)

SE17 Conference Hotel / Hyatt the Pike, Long Beach, California

Conference Organizer/ Président du colloque:

Stephen Fleck, California State University Long Beach
Stephen.Fleck@csulb.edu

Conference Registration

1. Registration fee:

          Before September 21, 2013: $160.00
          After September 21, 2013: $185.00

          Frais d’inscription : $160
          Après le 21 septembre, les frais seront de $185.

The conference registration fee also includes one admission to Friday's reception in Santa Monica (just show your conference badge), as well as all food and beverages served at the conference and the reception. If they wish, conference participants may purchase extra tickets to the reception at this website: www.whatwouldlouisdo.eventbrite.com

2. Society dues: The statutes of SE17 require all participants in the conference to be members of the Society during the calendar year in which the conference takes place. If you have not yet paid 2013 membership dues, you may include your payment with your conference registration.  New members must first register here in order for their dues payment to be processed. Members who owe past dues may include past dues payments as well. To check dues status (when one paid last), click here or, once logged in, select the "my dues" option on the left hand menu. If you have forgotten your username or password, please click here or select “Request new password” in the left menu. You may enter either your username or email and a new password will be sent to you.

Payments are accepted electronically with major credit cards are accepted using PayPal's secure processing system.

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Conference Locations

The Conference will take place at three locations.

Friday’s conference (keynote speaker and sessions) will take place at the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, 2520 Cimarron Street, Los Angeles. Buses will leave from the conference hotel, Hyatt the Pike in Long Beach at 8:30 AM. Those driving may park for free at the Clark library. Further information may be found on the Conference Program and at: http://www.clarklibrary.ucla.edu.

After the day’s proceedings (5:45 PM), conference participants will travel by bus to the Santa Monica Bay Woman’s Club, 1210 4th Street, Santa Monica, for the soirée entitled “What Would Louis Do?”, designed to raise travel scholarship funds for both SE17-sponsored graduate students and students in CSU Long Beach’s French for Spanish Speakers program, as voted by SE17’s Executive Committee at last year’s annual meeting. Food and drink and a fashion competition of costume inspired by Grand Siècle costume, but updated in fanciful ways, will be on offer. There will be some time before the event starts, during which conference participants may explore Santa Monica’s Third Street Promenade, a block away from the Santa Monica Bay Woman’s Club. Registered conference participants' name badges will serve as their tickets to the event; the event will also be open to a separately paying public (via the website www.whatwouldlouisdo.eventbrite.com) - feel free to invite your LA-area friends! Buses will return to Hyatt the Pike in Long Beach directly after this event.

Saturday’s and Sunday’s meetings will take place at California State University Long Beach’s Karl W. Anatol Center (AS119) and directly upstairs in a conference room, AS384, in the same building near the south end of campus. Campus map: http://daf.csulb.edu/maps/parking

Conference Lodging / Logement

Hyatt the Pike
285 Bay Street
Long Beach, California 90802

To register with Hyatt the Pike at the SE17 group rate: https://resweb.passkey.com/go/CSULBSE17MEETING

Please note that hotel registration at the conference rate ($125/night plus taxes) is available until October 10. Hotel registration after that date will be at the hotel’s discretion and available prices.

Veuillez noter que le prix spécial de $125 (plus taxes) est disponible jusqu’au 10 octobre seulement.

For further hotel information and registration questions:

General information: www.thepikelongbeach.hyatt.com

Telephone: + (562) 432 1234 extension 112 (Melissa Escalante, housing and concierge services; melissa.escalante@hyatt.com)
Fax: + (562) 435 1428 Attention: Melissa Escalante

The Hyatt the Pike is located in downtown Long Beach close to the Aquarium of the Pacific, the Pine Avenue and Shoreline Village restaurant districts, and a free shuttle away from the Queen Mary. Nearby restaurant suggestions will accompany conference registration materials. Those with an extra day or more in the area may wish to explore nearby attractions such as the Museum of Latin American Art; take a boat trip to Catalina Island; or visit Los Angeles’s array of museums, theaters, concert halls, and surf. Two websites:

http://www.visitlongbeach.com/SE17
http://www.discoverlosangeles.com

Travel and Transportation

Getting to Long Beach:

The Long Beach area is served primarily by three airports:

1. Long Beach (LGB), served by JetBlue, US Airways, Alaska/Horizon, and Delta;
2. Los Angeles (LAX); and
3. Orange County/Santa Ana/John Wayne (SNA), served by many major airlines.

Shuttles from LAX and SNA cost about $40 each way; a taxi from LGB to the Hyatt the Pike should cost about $20-25.

For those driving, taking the 710 route a few miles south from the 405 freeway and exiting toward the Aquarium will place one very near the Hyatt the Pike.

Transportation within Long Beach:

Preliminary indications follow; more complete details will be added closer to the conference date.
Voici des indications préliminaires; quelques précisions seront postées vers la fin octobre.

Long Beach Transit public bus transportation lines 91 and 94 run from close to Hyatt the Pike (Transit Mall Shelter E on 1st Street between The Pike and Pine Avenue) to the CSULB campus. See: http://www.lbtransit.com/schedules or http://www.lbtransit.com/schedules/pdf/90.pdf for a full, easily printable map and schedule.

Saturday and Sunday schedules vary from weekday schedules and should be checked individually. Fares are $1.25 cash or credit card.

Taxis are expensive in Long Beach, but reasonable when shared among several individuals. One can request a van holding six people for the same price as a Prius: fare is about $20 from the Hyatt to CSULB. Yellow Cab: (888) 529-3556

Individual cars may park in CSULB Lots 6 and 7 and at the turnaround off 7th Street (south edge of campus). All-day parking permits ($5) may be purchased from onsite machines. Scheduled construction will probably require entrance into the campus from 7th Street at East Campus Drive. See: http://www.csulb.edu/maps

The Passport is a free Long Beach Transit shuttle bus circulating around the downtown area and the Queen Mary (over a mile from the Hyatt the Pike). It does not, however, go to the CSULB campus (see above).