INSTITUTIONAL NEWS
John Carter Brown Library
to Receive Simón Bolívar CollectionMaury A. Bromsen, a distinguished Boston-based antiquarian book collector, is donating his lifelong collection of manuscripts and iconographic materials to the John Carter Brown Library at Brown University. This will be North America's largest and most historically significant collection of iconography and original writings by Simón Bolívar, "The Liberator" of South America. The Bolívar collection consists of more than 40 items, including books, 22 manuscripts, paintings, engravings and other materials. The John Carter Brown Library plans to refurbish a special room adjacent to its MacMillan Reading Room to house the collection. Bromsen's Bolívar collection was exhibited at the Boston Public Library in 1983, and a portion of it was exhibited at the John Carter Brown Library in 1995. In addition to the gift of the Bolívar collection, Bromsen has announced a bequest to establish an endowment for Latin American studies at the Library which will underwrite a new curator of Latin Americana and provide funds for acquisitions, publications, research and lectures in the field. Bromsen, a bibliographer, historian and book dealer as well as collector, has specialized in the colonial Latin American field for more than 50 years.
Emory University's
Ph.D. program in Latin American Colonial History is about to graduate its first student--Jacqueline Höller. We invite applications to the program (to History Department, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322.)Michigan State University's
History Department has hired Laurent Dubois, Ph.D., as our Caribbeanist. He will join our faculty after his post-doctorate Grant from the Dubois Center of Harvard University ends in the fall of 1999. We welcome him to our program in Latin American and Caribbean Studies.Mount Holyoke College's
Schomburg-Moreno Annual Lecture is now available on its Latin American Studies homepage at: http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/latam/ or simply by clicking on the Lecture once you reach the homepage by other routes. The fifth annual lecture will be given March 29, 1999, by Stuart Schwartz, George Burton Adams Professor of History at Yale University, on the topic of "Hispanic Doubts and American Dreams." The college will also host the annual meetings of the New England Council of Latin Americanists (NECLAS), Fall 1997.Towson University's
Ronn Pineo chaired development of MA program in Comparative World History at Towson University.University of Southwest Louisiana
will host the 1999 South East Council on American Studies annual meeting, March 18-20, 1999, in Lafayette, Louisiana. "Y'all come!" says Thomas Schoonover.Florida International University
Visual Arts Department will host the SECAC Conference on Miami Beach, October 1998. Carol Damian is co-chairperson for programs. Also, Visual Arts Department has just welcomed its first MFA students for its first graduate program.Texas A&M University-Kingsville
held a faculty development seminar, "Transculturation Project" (9th year) and Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi (3rd year), conducted by Ward S. Albro May 1998.The College of Charleston
held the fourth annual conference of the Program in the Carolina Lowcountry and the Atlantic World on "The Impact of the Haitian Revolution in the Atlantic World," on October 16-18, 1998.