Beattie, Peter M. (Michigan State U.), We are planning to invite Dr. Mary Karasch to speak on slavery in Goias, for the Third Annual Leslie Rout Memorial Talk on Brazil in the African Diaspora will be held in late February.
Dunkerley, James (ILAS, London), sabbatical leave academic year 1996-1997.
Fisher, John R. (U. of Liverpool), ILAS Liverpool papers available: Hojman, Economic and Other Determinants of Infant Mortality in Small Developing Countries: The Case of Central America and the Caribbean (42pp. 2.50 pounds); P. Garner, Regional Development in Oaxaca during the Porfiriato (1876-1911) (67pp. 4.00 pounds); Mojman (ed.), Neo-Liberalism With a Human Face? The Politics of the Chilean Model (256pp.12.00 pounds). Hojman, The Political Economies of Pinochet and Thatcher, 19; A. Ast-valdsson, Sociopolitical Organization, authority, Gender and Kinship in the bolivian Andes P. Pyne, The Invasions of Buenos Aires, 1806-1807: The Irish Dimension; W. Fowles, The Mexican Press and the Collapse of Representative Government During the Presidential Elections of 1828. Orders to: Secretary, ILAS, Liverpool L69 3BX, England. If air-mail required, add 1 pound per working paper, 2.00 pounds each monograph and equivalent of 6.00 pounds, if payment not made in UK pounds.
Joseph, Gil (Yale U.), Yale U. has received two grants from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, totaling $475,000, to enhance the training of Latin American historians and the University's LAS Program. Yale has joined the newly configured New England Consortium on LAS (with the neighboring programs at Brown, UConn, and UMass). The Consortium has embarked on plans to share speakers and library resources, collaborate on conferences, and teach courses across campuses.
Lizcano, Francisco (Autónoma del Estado de México), comenzó una nueva época de Coatepe, la revista de la Facultad de Humanidades donde yo trabajo, y de cuyo Consejo Editorial formo parte.
Shadle, Stan (College Misericordia), helping to establish MAWHA (Mid-Atlantic World History Assoc). The inaugural meeting will take place on Oct. 4-5, 1996 at Brookdale Community College, Lincroft, New Jersey. Latin Americanists are urged to attend.
Sweet, David (U. of California, Santa Cruz), the Latin American and Latino Studies Program at the U. of California at Santa Cruz, established in 1972, now enrolls over two hundred undergraduate majors. Research activities are encouraged by the Chicano/Latino Research Center housed in the Casa Latina at Merrill College, UCSC. More than a dozen full-time Latin Americanist faculty in Anthropology, Literature, Politics, Sociology, Music, Art History & Community Studies in addition to historians María Elena Díaz, Pedro Castillo, Lisbeth Haas and David Sweet will be joined next Fall by economist Manuel Pastor (as chair) and political scientist Jonathan Fox; with these additions it is expected that the program will be transformed within a year's time into a Board of Studies (Department).
Walker, Charles (UC, Davis), UC Davis is happy to welcome Lorena Oropeza assistant professor in Chicano History.