AHILA

AHILA - At last year's AHA meeting, Anthony MacFarlane of the U. of Warwick, attended the meeting of CLAH's General Committee to discuss the possibility of collaboration with AHILA, the Asociacion de Historiadores Latinamericanistas Europeos. H e invited me to attend the next meeting of AHILA in Liverpool in September 1996. Thanks to support from CLAH and the U. of Arizona's International Travel Grant, as well as an invitation from Diana Quatrrocchi-Waisson to present a paper at her session, I was able to travel to the meeting held in Liverpool, England, on September 17-21. At that time I met with outgoing president Horst Pietschmann, as well as Alberto Filippi, a specialist in Francisco Miranda and Enrique Semo, president of ADILAC, a group o f Latinamericanists and Caribbeanists.

The results of these meetings led to a unanimous approval of CLAH's invitation to AHILA and I offered to commence this relationship by providing information to the AHILA Secretariat on how to access CLAH's online newsletter as well as other bibliograph ic sites in the US. There was also discussion with Alberto Filippi and Enrique Semo regarding the possibility of CLAH participation in a meeting to be held in Colombia, ostensibly to celebrate an important anniversary for Miranda studies, but also to use it as a planning session to produce grants promoting funding for collaborative bibliographic and research projects. I have recently received more information on the meeting and will turn the information over to the current CLAH president, Lyman Johnson.

AILASA - Assoc. of Iberian and Latin American Studies of Australasia

July 17-19 - 3rd conf. of the Assoc. of Iberian and Latin American Studies of Australasia (AILASA) will be host by the U. of Auckland. The theme of this intl. conf. will be "Contested Spaces: Spain, Portugal and the Americas." For a copy of the Call for Papers or other information please contact Matthew O'Meagher e-mail: m.omeagher@auckland.ac.nz

CALACS - The Canadian Association of Latin American and Caribbean Studies June 4-7, 1997 - 1997 Conference of The Canadian Association of Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Memorial U., St. John's, Newfoundland. CALACS is a member association of the Canadian Council of Area Studies Learned Societies (CCASLS). It has b een decided that in 1997 the four constituent members of CCASLS -CALACS, the Canadian Assn. of African Studies, the Canadian Asian Studies Assn. and the Canadian Committee of the Assn. of Middle Eastern Studies will participate in meetings to be held in N ewfoundland in conjunction with the Learned Societies meetings.

The meeting will be a CALACS event as well as a CCASLS conference. Latin American and Caribbean panels will be held throughout the conference along with inter-regional theme panels.

Registration and accommodations contact: Learned Societies Secretariat, Rm 2000, Spencer Hall, Memorial U. of Newfoundland, St. John's, Nfld. A1C 5S7. e-mail: learneds@morgan.ucs.mun.ca