Before the Fellows of Salzburg Seminar 148 – Contemporary American Literature, July 1973 – left Schloss Leopoldskron the spirit of reunion was alive. A small two-week conference, at Arundel, Sussex, during August 1974 featured a dozen papers, dramatic performances and readings, excursions, and exotic cuisine. Some randomly-invited Fellows of the 1972 and 1974 Salzburg theatre groups joined the 1973 Fellows in Florence, where, at the end of two weeks of by now traditional activities, thirty-four people, including spouses, decided to form the INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE AND THEATRE (ISCLT), which was officially founded in 1975.