Arnold, Linda (Virginia Tech), paper read: "Privileged Justice? Military Justice in Early National Mexico" Conf. on Justice in 19th Century Latin America, ILAS, U. of London, 1996.

Baer, James (Northern Virginia Comm. College), member of Exec. Board, MACLAS. read paper "Cities and Social Change in Latin America." Organized panel, MACLAS, Bucknell U. 1996.

Baskes, Jeremy (Ohio Wesleyan U.), CLAH Program Committee 1998. Papers read: AHA 1997, All U of California Conf. of Economic History, Stanford U. 1996.

Benjamin, Thomas (Central Michigan U.), paper read: "The Past in The Mexican Revolution" Centro de Estudios Mexicanas, Groninger U.

The Netherlands.

Boeger, Andrew (North Carolina A & T State U.), papers read: "Popular Religiosity, Politics, and the `Problem of Production': Bolivian Mine Workers, 1944-1964" SHA, 1996; "Labor and the Bolivian Revolution," guest lecture U. of Mississippi, 1996.

Brockington, Lolita G. (North Carolina Central U.), papers read: "Culture, Labor, and Race: The African Diaspora in the Eastern Andes," AHA 1996; "Regionalism and Intra-Regionalism in the Andean World: Mizque, a Missing Link," Virginia-Carolinas -Georgia Seminar in Colonial Latin Amer. History, U. of South Carolina, 1995.

Broussard, Ray F. (U. of Georgia), papers read: 2 papers at Natl. Social Science Assn. Reno, Nev;

"Mining Frontiers of New Spain" Apr. 1996; "Spanish Louisiana: Era of Progress" Nov. 1996.

Buchenau, Jürgen (Wingate U.), papers read: "Every day Forms of Geopolitical Resistance: Development, Nationalism, and Mexican Foreign Policy, 1876-1911," CLAH, 1997; "The Nazi Presence in Mexico," and participant in roundtable discussion o n the teaching of inter-American relations, Second Inter-American Relations Conf., 1996; "On Behalf of 'Cuba Libre': Mexican For-eign Policy Toward Cuba, 1895-1965," SCLAS, 1996; "Inversión extranjera y anti-imperialismo: lo paradójico de la política exterior de Porfirio Diaz," SW Council of LAS, Oaxaca, 1996; "Vidas entre países: el caso de la familia Boker, ferreteros mexicano-alemanes," Instituto Nacional de Antropologia e Historia, Mexico City 1996.

Bushnell, Amy Turner (College of Charleston), paper read: "Spain's Conquest by Contract: Pacification and the Mission System in Eastern North America," History Research Seminar, U. of Canterbury, Christ Church, New Zealand.

Canizares Esguerra, Jorge (Illinois State U.), papers read: "Nation and Nature," South and Southwest Asian and Global Studies, Seminar Series ISU. 1996; "Medical Theories and Views of Race in Colonial Spanish America," Medicine and the Colonies Conf. Society for the Social History of Medicine, Oxford, 1996; "Climate, Race, and Ancient Amerindian Legislators: Spanish American Discourses of Environmental Determinism (1550-1800)," ISU Dept. of Hist. Seminar series, 1996; "European and Creole Repres entations of Andean Writing Systems (1550-1800)," Seminar "Andean Intellect", U. of Wisconsin, 1996; "Science, Race, and Reform in Late-Colonial Spanish America," The American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 1996; "Nations as `Imagined Commun-itie s': History, Mexico, and Our Lady of Guadalupe," Monmouth College, 1996.

Carr, Barry (La Trobe U.), Co-organizer (with Steve Niblo) and paper read: "The Zapatistas and the Culture of Popular Struggle in Mexico 1910-1996," Conf. on Popular Culture in Latin America, ILAS, La Trobe U., 1996. Keynote speakers: Bill Beezl ey and Romana Falcon.

Castillero Calvo, Alfredo (U. of Panama), prize for best article "La Experiencia Urbana Colonial," in Revista Loteria, first delivered as a paper

at the U. of Seville.

Chambers, Kevin (U. of California, Santa Barbara), paper read: "Social Transformation Under Stroessner" Centro Para Los Estudios Sociológicos, Asunción, Paraguay.

Chardkoff, Richard (Northeast Louisiana U.), paper read: "Confederate Raiders and Brazilian Neutrality," Natl. Social Science meeting, 1996.

Claxton, Robert H. (State U. of West Georgia), paper read: "Non-Commercial Radio in Latin America," co-authored with Alisa Colemen, Southern Historical Assoc. annual meeting, 1996

Conniff, Michael L. (Auburn U.), paper read: "Rise and Decline of the British West Indian Community in Panama," U. of London. Session Commentator: "Issues in 20th Century US-Andean Relations," 2nd Inter-American Relations Conf., U. of North Flor ida; "Electoral Observation and Democratic Transition in Latin America," about 1994 elections in Panama, for UC San Diego; sessions chair and commentator: on John Major's book, "Prize Possession"; "Rhetoric and Policies in Argentina, Brazil, Peru," CLAH 1997.

Dwyer, John J. (U. of Illinois), paper read: Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR). June 1997.

Engstrand, Iris (U. of San Diego), paper read: "Viaje a las Californias de José Longinos Martínez en 1792," Seminario de Historia de Baja California, Ensenada, Baja CA, México 1996.

Esposito, Matthew D. (Texas Christian U.), Papers read: "Dramatizations of Death and Disorder: State Funerals in Porfirian Mexico, 1876-1911" Conf. on Latin American Popular Culture, UDLA, Puebla, 1996; "And The Band Played On: Mexico at the New Orleans World's Cotton and Industrial Exposition of 1884-1885," SW Social Science Council Mtg, Dallas, 1995.

Fernández, M. Elisa (U. of Louisville), paper read: "Women's Integration into Politics or How Carlos Ibduez Reformulated Old Stereotypes of Women's Role in Society: Women and the Right in Chile, 1952-1958," RMCLAS/PClAS, 1997.

French, John D. (Duke U.), paper read: "Labor Law as Virtual Reality: A Brazilian Trade Unionist's Quest to Realize the Imaginary (Brazil's Consolidação das Leis do Trabalho)," conf. "Getúlio Vargas and Brazil: A Retrospective" Georgetown U. and Thirteenth Latin American Labor History Conf. Duke U. 1996.

Frías, Susana R. (Academia Nacional de las Historia), paper read: "El Problema Capital, de 1617 á 1880," Museo Mitre, Buenos Aires, 1996.

García-Belsunce, César (Academia Nacional de las Historia), "Aproximación provisional a la carto-grafía y toponimía de la costa del Pago de la Magdalena en el siglo XVIII," Documento de trabajo No. 1, Grupo de Trabajo sobre Historia de la Población, Acad. Nacional de la Historia, 1996.

Gonzales, Michael J. (Northern Illinois U.), paper read: "Migration Smuggling and Policing Along the US-Mexican Border, 1900-1920," European Soc. Science History Mtg, The Netherlands, 1995.

Gonzalez-Chiaramonte, Claudio (SUNY, Stony Brook), papers read: 2 papers at meetings in US and Mexico 1996; "Redesigning Frontiers Expanding Paradigms: American Foundations & Social Science in Argentina, 1953-63" AHA 1997.

González-Vales, Luis E. (Inter American U. of Puerto Rico), paper read: "The Puerto Rican Campaign Revisited: A 'Splendid Little War'," José Rizal Marjiordom Centenial Conf., Manial, 1996. Lecture: Puerto Rico's Political Develop- ment in "El '98: Las Antillas Españolas de Siglo a Siglo: Puerto Rico," under the sponsorship of CEXECI U. de Extramadura, Jaradilla de la Vera, Spain, 1996.

Guitar, Lynne (Vanderbilt U.), papers read: "Willing it so: Intimate glimpses of encomienda life in colonial Hispaniola," CLAH/AHA, 1997; "Francisco Chicorano: A North American Indian in King Charles V's Court," Society for the History of Disco veries conf. and at SECOLAS 1996; "Vadillo's Will: A Testament to the Strength and Influence of the Relationships Between Amerindian Women and Spanish Men in Colonial Hispaniola," American Society for Ethnohistory conf. and at Tennessee Historians' Conf. 1995.

Hampe-Martínez, Teodoro (U. Católica del Perú), XI Congreso Intl. del Derecho Indiano, 1995;

IV Congreso Intl. de Ethnohistoria 1996; XI Congreso Intl. de Ahila 1996.

Helg, Aline ( U. of Texas), paper read: "Race, Sterotyping, and Violence at the Turn of the Century: Cuba Versus the U.S. South," Porter L. Fortune Jr. His. Sympos., U. of Miss., 1996.

Henderson, Timothy J. (Auburn U., Mont-gomery), paper read: "Reforma Agraria en un Contexto Regional" Conf. on Regional History, U. de Carabobo, Valencia, Venezuela 1996.

Herzog, Tamar (Institute for Advance Study, Princeton), papers read: "La política espacial y su aplicación: las "Ordenanzas de descubrimiento, nueva población y pacificación de las índias" y las tácticas de conquista" and "La configuración histórica del espacio: caminos y correos en la Audiencia de Quito (siglos XVII-XVIII)," AHILA, 1996; "La presencia ausente: el virrey desde la perspectiva de las élites quitenas 1670-1747," IV reun ión científica de la Asociación Espanola de Historia Moderna, Alicante, 1996.

Johnson, Sherry (Florida Intl. U.), papers read: "Good for Farmers but Not For Soldiers: Military Communities and Population Schemes in Cuba, 1763-1800," CLAH, 1997; "Imperial Policy and Local Agency: Creole Participation in the Cuban Slave Trad e, 1789-1796," ACH 1997.

Jones, Oakah L. (Purdue U., Emeritus), paper read: "Puerta del camino real de tierra adentro: el presidio de Nuestra Señora del Pilar y los pob-ladores del Paso del Norte," I Coloquio Intl. El Camino Real de Tierra Adentro: Historia y cul -tura, Valle de Allende, Chihuahua, México, 1995.

Lamar, Marti (St. Norbert College), paper read: "Family and Business: Merchants in Chile, 1795-1823," North Central Council of Latin Amer-icanists, Ripon College, 1996.

Langley, Lester D. (U. of Georgia), papers read: "Centroamérica en la perspective norteamericana" Conf. of Central American Historians, San José, C.R., 1996; "The Americas in the Age of Revolution" Inter-American Cof., 1996. Lectur es: "Latinos in The USA", "The Americas in The Age of Revolution", "US-Latin American Relations 'After The Cold War'" Universities of Heidelberg, Bielefeld, and Erlangen-Nürnberg, 1996.

Lauderbaugh, George M. (Troy State U.), papers read: "Ecuador: Evolving Democracy" Assn. of Third World Studies, 1996; "Pride & Prejudice: US Diplomats in García Moreno's Ecuador" SECOLAS Conf. San Jose, C.R. 1997.

Lavrin, Asunción (Arizona State U.), papers read: "Cambiando actitudes sobre el rol de la mujer: Experiencia de los países del Cono Sur a prin-cipios de siglo," CEDLA Amsterdam, Intl. work-shop on "Making Sense of the World", 1996; "Women Studies in Latin America Today," Key-note address Conf. "Dutch Women's Studies on Latin America and The Caribbean: Alive and Kicking?!" Netherlands Assoc. LACS, U. of Leyden 1996; "La religiosa real y la inventada: Diálogo entre dos modelos discursivos," Confer- ence on "La Creatividad femenina y las trampas del poder," U. of Bielefeld, 1996.

Leonard, Thomas M. (U. of North Florida), papers read: the Assoc. of Third World Studies and Second Inter-American Relations Conf. 1996. Served as session commentator at CLAH, 1997.

Lesser, Jeffrey (Connecticut College), Lecture: "Immigrant Myths and the Construction of Ethnic Identity in Brazil," Yale U. Lecture Series on Language, Culture and Nationality.

Little-Siebold, Todd (Lewis & Clark College), papers read: "Visión Local, Política Imperial: Etnicidad y poder en Guatemala Oriental, c. 1780," Tercero Congreso de Historiadores Centro Americanos, Costa Rica, 1996; "Imperial Id eologies, Local Practices: Ethnicity and Power in Eighteenth Century Guatemala," CLAH, 1997; "Rendering Diversity: Local and Imperial Discourses of Identity on Guatemala's Eastern Periphery," LASA, 1997.

Love, Joseph (U. of Illinois), papers read at U. of Salamanca and U. of Lausanne (Switz.)

Mallon, Florencia E. (U. of Wisconsin), paper read: "Culturas políticas y procesos contra-hegemónicos: México, Peru y Chile en el siglo XX," Seminar on "Political Culture in Mexico: Towards a Theoretical Consensus," U. of Ch icago, 1996.

Martinez-Fernández, Luis (Rutgers U.), papers read: "Politics and Religion in the Hispanic Caribbean and in Cuban Exile Communities, 1868-1898" LASA, 1995; "Los Estados Unidos y Cuba, 1840-1878," Encuentro sobre Cuba en la Encrucijada del '98, U. de la Laguna Canary Islands, 1995; "El noventa y ocho antes del '98," Simposio Intl. de Historiadores en torno al 1898, U. de Puerto Rico, 1996.

Meade, Teresa (Union College), papers read: "The Contested Terrain of Public Space: Past, Present and Future," NEH Faculty Seminar, U. of Kansas 1996; "Public Space, but not for the Public: Rio de Janeiro in the Early 20th Century," Social Scien ce History Conf. 1996; "Gender and Nation in 20th Century Brazil," Commentator, Brazilian Studies Assoc. Mtg, Kings College, Cambridge, UK, 1996; "Tensions Between Nationalism and Internationalism," Chair and commentator Berkshire Conf. on the History of Women, 1996. Program Committee, Tenth Berkshire Conf. on the History of Women, U. of North Carolina, 1996.

Miller, Hubert J. (U. of Texas-Pan American), paper read: "Church-State Relations in Guatemala, 1927-1944: Decline of Anticlericalism," LASA 1997, Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico. Panel commentator, "Sociedad y Cultura en valle del Rio Bravo," SWCL AS, 1997 Austin, TX.

Nazzari, Muriel (Indiana U.), panel commentator at Berkshire Conf. of Women Historians; papers read at: Organization of American Historians, Chicago, Brazilian Studies Assoc., Cambridge, workshop on "Slavery in Colonial Brazil", Lisbon.

O'Meagher, Matthew (U. of Auckland), paper read: "New Zealand and Latin America: A Rapidly Growing Relationship," 18th Inter-Pacific U. Colloquium, U. of Chile, 1996. Responded to a keynote speaker, New Zealand Inst. of Intl. Affairs seminar, "F ocus Latin America, 1996

Pearcy, Thomas (Brigham Young U.), 8 papers presented including numerous guest lectures at Panama's many regional centers.

Pineo, Ronn (Towson State U.), co-chair, pre-senter, "Roundtable on Latin American Urban History" CLAH/AHA, 1997. Guest lecture, Cabrini College Faculty Development Program, Radnor, PA., "South American Urbanization."

Potash, Robert A. (U. of Massachusetts, emeritus), lectures given: the Argentine Council for Foreign Relations and the National Universities of Córdoba and Rio Cuarto, 1996.

Power, Margaret (U. of Illinois), papers read: "The Chilean Military's Use of Motherhood, 1973-1990," AHA 1997; "Pinochet and Women, What's Love Got to do With It?" CLAH/AHA 1996; "Real Men Support The Popular Unity: The Feminization of the Righ t and The Masculinizing of the Left, Politics and Gender in Chile 1970-1973" LASA, 1997.

Robinson, David J. (Syracuse U.), 5 scholarly papers read at meetings.

Richmond, Douglas W. (U. of Texas, Arlington), paper read: "A View of the Periphery: Regional Factors in the War," U.S.-Mexican War Symposium, Arlington, TX 1996.

Saénz-Rovner, Eduardo (U. Nacional de Colombia), Coordinator: Simposio en historia empresaria y económica. Congreso de historia de Colombia.

Schoonover, Thomas (U. of Southwestern Louisiana), participated in four conferences.

Schwartz, Stuart (Yale U.), papers read: "Simple Fornication in Iberia and the Americas" Society of Spanish and Portuguese History, 1996; "Mestizaje in the Early Caribbean" Assn. of Caribbean Historians, Barbados, 1996.

Shumway, Jeffrey M. (U. of Arizona), paper read at both 1996 & 1997 meetings of RMCLAS.

Stern, Steve J. (U. of Wisconsin), 3 lectures in Peru on gender and subaltern studies; 2 lec-tures/workshops in Chile on masculinity and on history, memory, and violence; panel commentator AHA and Berkshire Conf. Hist. of Women 1996.

Stoetzer, O. Carlos (Fordham U., Emeritus), "Panorama a vuelo de pájaro de la filosofía hispanoamericana, introduction to the panel on "Historia de las Ideas, de la Cultura y de los intelectuales en América Latin, siglos XIX y XX," Liverpool, AHILA, 1996. "The Study of National Identity in the Spanish-speaking Peoples," NIC Symposium on Intercultural Communication and Natl Identity," U. of Aalborg, Denmark, 1996.

Tenenbaum, Barbara A. (Hispanic Div., Library of Congress), CLAH Outstanding Service Award for her work as Editor in Chief of the ELAHC; AHA Waldo G. Leland Prize for the Outstanding Reference Tool in the Field of History Published in the Last Five Years.

Terraciano, Kevin (UCLA), papers read: "Adultery and Homicide in Colonial Mexico: The Case of the Mixtec Murder Note," Berkshire Conf. on the History of Women 1996; "El Contexto Historico de Códice Sierra, 1550-1564," Tercer Simposio Intl . de Códices y Documentos, 1996; "Ñudzahui Ethnic Identity: Reconsidering the Mixtec Indian," Amer. Anthro. Assoc. 1996.

Theissen-Reily, Heather (Western State College), paper read: "Beliotas or Bureaucrats: Caudillo Politics or the Birth of Modern Bolivian Government?" AHA Pac. Coast Branch 1996.

Trevino, David (Bowling Green State U.), paper read: Florida Conf. of Historians, Feb. 1997. 2 other papers to be read at conferences in 1997.

Van Young, Eric (U. of California, San Diego), paper read: AHA\CLAH 1996; lectures at Yale U. Emory U., Vanderbilt U. 1995.

Weiland, David J. (Utah State U.), papers read: "How To Shop in Eighteenth-Century Mexico," CLAS, Cambridge U., 1996; "Silver Mining and Mintage in Colonial Mexico: The Seventeenth-Century Debate Resurrected," AHILA, 1996.

Whigham, Thomas (U. of Georgia), Co-director of Latin American Certificate Program.

Wiesebron Marianne L. (Leiden U.), papers read: 1995, XVth conf. Sociedade Brasileira de Pesquisa Histórica, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: "O comércio de armas de Liége para o Brasil, em particular as `armes d'exp ortation', de 1830 a 1930,"; 1996, Monterey, Mexico: "Teoría y Prác-tica del poder político local en el noreste de Brasil," for the Seminario de Estudios Socio-históricos de 1996, organized Prof. Mario Cerutti, Facultad de Fils ofía y Letras, U. Autónoma de Nuevo Léon, Mexico.