June 30-Aug. 22, 1997 - Andean History Studies at Cuzco, Peru, organized by Colegio Universitario Andino, Centro Bartolome de Las Casas. Three major courses about Andean history: Economic Andean History (Prof. Dr. Neus Escandell-Tur, U. A. de Barcelona), Social Andean History (Prof. Dr.Scarlett OPhelan, PUCP, Lima), Religious Andean History (Prof. Dr. A Acosta, U. de Sevilla/Prof. Dr. H. Urbano, U. Laval), Andean Etnohistory (Prof. Dr. H. Urbano, U. Lav al), Andean Archaeology (Arch. Julinho Zapata, U. de Cuzco), Textile Andean History (Prof. Dr. I. Iriarte, U. de Buenos Aires), Andean Colonial Art History (Prof. Dr.J. Burucua,U. de Buenos Aires). Visits to Archaeological Sites, Colonial Churches and Mus eums are programmed.

(Commentary-1) This place - Colegio U. Andino - and this Master program on Andean History are an appropriate and interesting site to discuss about the western and no-western, indigenous-no indigenous, andean -no andean, from a high level place -Andea n Highlands...between a cool air and a brilliant sun (or SUN for religious people...). For more information, write: postmaster@coland.edu.pe or jcgod@cbccus.org.pe If you want you can use for your request the Quechua or the Aymara language...

(Commentary-2) The site http//ekeko.rcp.net.pe/CBC gives you more information. You can read ANDES, An Andean Journal about the...Andes: History, anthropology, sociology and short news about the...Andean History, publications, etc.

(Commentary-3) Nov. 21-23 (1996) Santiago, Chili the Work Group Historia y Antropologia Andinas organised the VII Coloquio Intl. Theme: Individual and Society on the Andes. Before these meetings, this Work Group organised six international meetings hol d at Cochabamba, Quito, Cuzco, Lima, Paris,Jujuy. Some historical subjects studied and discussed : Violence, Power, Andean Religion, Cultural and Social Andean History, Eighteen Century in the Andes, Tradition, Modernity, Andean Identity, etc. These confe rences are published by CBC-Editorial. Write to: postmaster@cbclim.inv.pe Western e-mail address: henrique.urbano@soc.ulaval.ca Fax (418-656-5702)

Sept. 25-28, 1997 - The Southern Labor Studies Conference will be held at the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, VA. This conference brings together scholars from a wide range of disciplines, labor activists, teachers, and students t o learn about labor in the South and other parts of the world. The theme of the conference will be "Organizing the Unorganized: Past and Present, Locally and Globally." In seeking to fill existing panels, the Program committee seeks paper proposals in t he following areas:

Contingent workers: temporaries; subcontracted labor; or workers in the informal sector; Workers and the Law; Affirmative Action; Child labor; The criminalization of vagrancy; Farm Workers.

Please submit proposals and brief biographies or CVs to Cindy Hahamovitch by February 15, 1997. email cxhaha@mail.wm.edu fax: 757/221-2111 mail: Dept. of Hist., PO Box 8795, The College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, VA 23187-8795

Oct. 10-12, 1997 - The U. of San Francisco will be hosting a conference entitled Hispanics: Cultural Locations. This conference promises to be a unique event and hopes to provide a cultural and public setting for discussions of the role, situation and condition of Hispanics in Latin America and the US. The Conference seeks to promote interaction among Hispanics/Latinos, highlight their role as both subject and object of analysis, acknowledge and celebrate the existence of a Hispanic scho larly community, review the present StLItLIS of Hispanic research and thus begin discussing new horizons as we approach the next millennium. Deadline for Proposals: April 15, 1997. Deadline early regis. July 15, 1997. Contact: Eduardo Mendieta/Ped ro Lange-Churión, U. of San Francisco, 2130 Fulton, Campion Hall D-11, San Francisco, CA 94117-1080. Tel:(415) 422-2940 Fax: (415) 422-2517 e-mail: hispanic@usfca.edu.

Nov. 13 - 16, 1997 - American Society for Ethnohistory 1997 Annual Meeting National Museum of Anthropology, Mexico City, Call for Papers, Organized Sessions, Special Events, and Speakers that treat any world area are encouraged. Abstracts of 5 0-100 words on appropriate submission forms and pre-registration fees of US$40 (regular participants), US$20 (student or retired participants), or N$40 (Mexican participants) are due by 6 June 1997. Write for submission forms and return to either: William 0. Autry, 199/- ASE Program Co-Chair P.O. Box 917, Goshen, IN 46527-0917 email: billoa@goshen.edu voice: (219) 535-7402 FAX: (219) 535-7660; Jesús Monjards, Dir. de Etnohistoria, INAH Paseo de la Reforma y Calz. Gandhi Col. Polanco, C P 11560, México DF México.

Limited travel funds will be available on a competitive basis for students presenting papers. More detailed abstracts will be required. Write to William 0. Autry at the above address for application forms and further details.

Nov. 24-48, 1997 - IV Symposium of Maritime and Naval Iberian-American History sponsored by the Spanish Navy's Institute of Naval History . This kind of event is aimed to gather those maritime and naval historians interested in Latin America. Submission deadline is April 30. Send proposals to: Jose Cervera Pery, Secretario Coordinador, IV Simposio de Historia Maritima y Naval Iberoamericana, Juan de Mena, 1, 28071 Madrid, Spain. Fax number 3795250. For a quick reference contact - Jorge Ortiz , Secretario General de la Asociacion de Historia Maritima y Naval Iberoamericana, Av. de la Aviacion 224, Lima 18, Peru, e-mail thalasa@amauta.rcp.net.pe.

Year 2000 - Professor Alberto Filippi invites proposals for papers to be presented at an international conference in the year 2000, to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the birth of the Precuror, Francisco Miranda. The theme of the conference will be American and European Aspects of Miranda's Liberation Campaign, 1771-1816.

For more information, write him at: Largo Oligiata #15, Isola 77 (9-3), 00123 Rome, Italy

off. tel/fax 39737630440 res. tel/fax 39630889571