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Baer, James A. (Northern Virginia Community College), Papers read: "Polity and Residence in Barrio Norte, Buenos Aires 1895." At the XX International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association, April 17, 1997 in Guadalajara, Mexico. "Anarquistas Golondrinas: Spanish Anarchists in Argentina, Argentinean Anarchists in Spain." At the 1998 American Historical Association in Seattle, January 11, 1998.
Bakewell, Peter (Emory University), Paper read: "Una estrela fugaz en el firmamento potosino de s.17: Elasiento de chocaya." Presented at 49th International Congress of Americanists, Quito, July 1997.
Baskes, Jeremy (Ohio Wesleyan University), Gave papers at 1997 AHA and at the All- University of California Conference on Economic History.
Blyth, Lance R. (Northern Arizona University), Paper read: "Fugitives from Servitude: American Deserters and Runaway Slaves at Spanish Nacagdoches, 1803-1808," at the 77th Annual Meeting, Southwest Social Sciences Association conference, New Orleans, March, 1997.
Borges, Marcelo J. (Dickinson College), Papers read: Maria vãe com as outras’: The Role of Social Networks in the Emigration from Algarve to Argentina," 28th Annual Meeting, Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies, Minneapolis, April 1997. "Moving Algarvians: Migratory Systems in Southern Portugal, 1800-1900," 2nd European Social Science History Conference, Amsterdam, March 1998. "Labor and Family Migration from Southern Portugal to Argentina, 1880-1960," Center for Latino and Latin American Studies, Northern Illinois University, March 1997.
Bushnell, Amy Turner (College of Charleston), Papers read: "Escape of the Nickaleers: English Castaways, Wild Indians, and Spanish Soldiers in Jonathan Dickenson’s Journal (1699)," Philadelphia Center for Early American Studies, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 1997; "Jean de Léry and the Tupinambas: Ethnography in the Service of Homiletics," Third Annual conference of Low Country Studies and the Atlantic World: Out of New Babylon, The Huguenots and Their Diaspora, Charleston, SC, 1997. Commentator and panel member at various conferences.
Carr, Barry (LaTrobe University), Managing editor of the Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies from January 1997.
Carson, Anne C. Ambrose, A conference at Stanford University, October 10-12. California Institute of International Studies, on the Founding of Stanford University’s Latin American Program and Bolivar House.
Casanovas, Joan (Universitat Rovira I Virgili), Papers read: "Sindicalismo y reformas políticas en la Cuba después del Pacto del Zanjón (1878-1898)." Organized by Fundación General Universidad Complutense de Madrid, El Escorial, Madrid, August 1997. "Los trabajadores urbanos y la política colonial española en Cuba desde la Paz del Zanjón hasta la Guerra de Independencia (1878-1898)," at the Conference on the Meaning of 1898 in Central America and the Caribbean, Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany, June 1997.
Castro, Daniel (Southwestern University), Papers read: "Literatura y Compromiso Histórico en la Novela Peruana Contemporánea" at First FIU-UM Conference on Iberian American Literatures 1898-1998: Nation Culture and Identity. October, 1997. "Luchando por la otra mitad del cielo: Mujer y política en ‘Amauta’" at the International Symposium for the 71st Anniversary of Amauta. Lima, Perú, Septemeber, 1997. "The Interminable War: Latin American Guerrillas and the Politics of Violence" at the 75th Annual Meeting of the Southwestern Social Science Association, New Orleans, Louisiana, March, 1997. Sessions chaired" Migration, Nation-Forming and National Identity." 5th Annual Latin American Studies Symposium, Birmingham-Southern College, Birmingham, Alabama, April, 1997. "Idolized Revolution or Definitive Patriarchal Lie?: Latin American Guerrilla Movements in the Twentieth Century," and "Mexican-Americans in Texas" at the 75th Annual Meeting of the Southwestern Social Science Association, New Orleans, March, 1997.
Chambers, Kevin (U.C.-Santa Barbara), Papers Read: "Cotton Built My House: Rural Transformation of Paraguay Under Stroessner, 1954-1989," at Social Science History Association, October 1997. "Marching Peasants, Striking Labor, and a Revolting Military, Paraguay in 1996," at AHA, 1997.
Crahan, Margaret (Hunter College), Re-Elected: Executive Council, Inter-American Institute of Human Rights. Chair, Finance Committee, 1996-1998. Board, Kellogg Institute, University of Notre Dame.
Dwyer, John J. (Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies, University of California, San Diego), Three scholarly papers at the AHA, OAH, and SHAFR annual meetings.
Fleming, Martin V. (Tulane University), presented several conference papers.
Friedman, Max Paul (U.C.-Berkley), Papers Read: "Public Records, Private Memories, and Contested Terrain: The Expulsion of Germans from Latin America During World War II." 1997 Oral History Association Conference, New Orleans. "When Diaspora and Nation-State Collide: The Expulsion of Ethnic Germans from Latin America by the United States during World War II." 1997 National History Policy Conference, Bowling Green State University.
Hayes, Robert (Texas Tech University), Paper read: "The Military Club and Revolution in Brazil" at meeting of SECOLAS in Havana, Cuba, March 4-8, 1998.
Helg, Aline (University of Texas, Austin), Papers read: "Una nueva interpretación del Partido Independiente de Color de Cuba." At the Unión Nacional de Escritores y Artistas de Cuba (UNEAC), Havana, Cuba, November 1997. "Beyond Cuba’s Myth of Racial Democracy: The Racist Massacre of 1912." At the Crossroads. Afro-Latin American Fall Lecture Series 1997. Tulane University, New Orleans, September, 1997. "Race, Color, and Class During the First Independence of Cartagena, Colombia, 1810-15." At the XX International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association, Guadalajara, Mexico, April 1997.
Hidalgo, Dennis (Central Michigan University), Pastor of Hispanic Churches in Illinois. History teacher in Puerto Rico.
Hoffman, Paul E. (Louisiana State University), Paper read: "As If For Tribute…Indian-Spanish Accommodations in La Florida, 1565- ca.1630," at the CLAH/ AHA Conference, Seattle, January 1998.
Kortheuer, Dennis (University of California-Irvine), Paper read: "Santa Rosalía and Compagnie du Boleo: The Making of a Town and Company in a Porfirian Frontier." Reunion de Historiadores de la Mineria Latinoamericana, San Luis Potosí, S.L.P. Mexico July 14-18, 1997.
Lavrin, Asunción (Arizona State University), Papers read: "Género e Historica: Una conjuncíon a finales del Siglo XX" Keynote address at 49th Congress of Americanistas, Quito, Ecuador, July 1997. "Al rescate de la Biografia en la Hagiografia" at 49th Congress of Americanistas, Quito, Ecuador, July 1997. "Latin American Women: Voices, Thoughts, Actions" Keynote address, Southern Connecticut State University, 7th Annual Women’s Studies Conference, October 1997. "Women Studies in Latin America: Not Quite There Yet," Keynote address, Conference on International Feminism, Institute for Research on Women, SUNY, Albany, New York, June 1997. Commentator and member of a roundtable, AHA Annual Meeting, Seattle, 1998.
Leonard, Thomas M. (University of Northern Florida), Papers read: "The United States and German Nationals in Costa Rica on the Eve of World War II," Southeast Council on Latin American Studies, San José, Costa Rica, February 1997. "The Nazi Threat In Central America During World War II," Center for Latin American Studies, Michigan State University, March 1997. "United States-Nicaraguan Military Relations During World War II," Middle Atlantic Conference on Latin American Studies, Annapolis, Md. April 1997. "Before the Fall: United States-Nicaragua Relations, January 1978-January 1979," Conference on the Carter Presidency in Atlanta, Ga., February 1997.
Mahoney, Mary Ann (Notre Dame University), Paper Read: "From Sugar to Cacao: Preexisting and Emergent Fields of Power in Bahia," 4th Meeting of the Brazilian Studies Association, Washington, DC, Nov. 1997.
Milk, Richard L. (Texas Lutheran University), Paper Read: "Patrones históricas de Intervención Militar." Congreso Internacional de Americanistas, Quito, Ecuador, Julio 1997.
Newton, Ron (Simon Fraser University), Appointed to Argentine Government Comisión para el Esclarecimiento de las Actividades Nazis en la Argentina (CEANA), July 15, 1997. Comisión has one-year mandate, probably extendable to two. Charged with clarification of (possible) Nazi gold transfers to Argentina; movement of German and other war criminals to Argentina.
O’Neil, Brian (U.C.L.A.), Paper read: "The Demands of Authenticity: Addison Durland and Hollywood’s Latin Image during World War II," at the Annual Meeting of the Organization of American Historians, San Francisco, Cal., April 1997.
Osorio, Alejandra (SUNY-Stony Brook), "Magic, Sorcery and Witchcraft in Seventeenth Century Lima: Female Cultural Forms of Social Control and Action," 1996 Berkshire Conference of Women Historians, Chapel Hill, NC, June 9, 1996.
Pineo, Ronn (Towson University), Paper Read: "The History of Public Health Care in Valparaíso, Chile, 1870-1930." Given at meetings of Washington Area Historians of Latin America, November, 1997.
Pino, Julio Cesar (Kent State University), Papers Read: "Family Life in Three Favelas" at the Carleton Conference on the History of the Family, Ottawa Canada. "Development vs. Women? The Latin American Case" at the meeting of Third World Studies Association, Montgomery, Alabama.
Ramirez, Susan E. (DePaul University), Papers read: "To Feed and Be Fed: Caracas, Cosmology, and Community," presented at the International Congress of Americanists Meeting, Quito, Ecuador, July, 1997. "Caracas and Cosmology: Ancestral Power in the Andes," presented at the VII Jornadas del Inca Garcilaso, Montilla, Spain, September 18, 1997.
Richmond, Douglas W. (University of Texas, Arlington), Paper Read: "Native Americans and the Mexican War in New Mexico," at the 75th Annual Meeting of the Southwestern Historical Association in New Orleans on March 28, 1997.
Rubenstein, Anne (Allegheny College), organizer, "Representing Mexico," a conference at the Wilson Center, Washington, D.C., November 1997.
Ruggiero, Kristin (Cornell University), 4 Scholarly papers at meetings.
Schoonover, Thomas (University of Southwestern Louisiana), Papers Read: "Columbus, the Spanish American War, and great Power Activity in the Caribbean and Asia" at St. Antony’s College, Oxford. "Europe and the Spanish American War in the Caribbean," at the University of Erlangen-Nurenberg conference on Epoch Year: 1898.
Schwaller, J.F. (University of Montana), Papers read: "Don Luis deVelasco," presented at the 49th International Congress of Americanists, Quito, Ecuador. "Family in Late Sixteenth-Century Mexico," Third International Carleton Conference on the History of the Family, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada.
Stavig, Ward (University of South Florida), Papers read: "Indigenous People and the question of Race." Fourth Annual International Confernce of the Americas. Tampa, Fl. January 1998. "Indigenous Identity, the State and Conflict Over Land: Cuzco in the Late Colonial Period." American Society for Ethnohistory. Mexico City, November 1997. "Hobsbawm, de Certeau y el Diálogo Moral Indígena-Española." Centro de Documentación Sobre La Mujer (CENDOC). Lima, July 1997. "Culture, Religion, Resistance and Redefinition: Indigenous-spanish Moral Dialogue in 18th Century Cuzco." 49th International Congress of Americanists. Quito. July 1997.
Topik, Steven (U.C.-Irvine), Papers at conferences in Lund, Sweden; Quito, Ecuador; and Guadalajara, Mexico.
Trefzger, Douglas W. (University of Miami), Papers read: "U.S. Foreign Assistance and Guatemalan Political Violence: A Quantitative Reassessment," presented at SECOLAS 1997, San José, Costa Rica. "Race, Labor and Bananas in Izabal, Guatemala," presented at LASA 1997, Guadalajara, Mexico. Panel discussant for "Narco-Trafficking in the Americas" at SECOLAS 1997.
Vinson, Ben III (Columbia University), 2 Papers at professional meetings.
Viteri, Tamara Estupiñán (Programas Culturales Banco Central de Ecuador), Papers read: "El mercado interno en la Audiencia de Quito, siglos XVI y XVII," ponencia presentada en el 49th congreso Internacional de Americanistas, Quito, 1997. "Redes neuronales artificiales para tratmiento de series temporales," ponencia presentada en el V Encuentro de cálculo científico e informática industrial, Quito, 1997.
Wadsworth, James E. (University of Arizona), Papers read: "Paulo Freire and the Danger of Conscientização," at the Rocky Mountain Council for Latin American Studies/Pacific Council for Latin American studies in San Diego, CA, February, 1997. "Childhood on Display: Nationalism, Children, and the Ideology of the Welfare State, Brazil 1922," at the Graduate Student Interdisciplinary Symposium, Flagstaff, AZ, November, 1997; and at the XXI International Congress of the Latin American studies Association, Chicago, IL. September, 1998. Conference Panels organized: Power and Politics in Brazil and Mexico. Rocky Mountain Council for Latin American Studies/ Pacific Council for Latin American Studies, San Diego, CA, February, 1997. Creating the Welfare State: Children, Beggars, Gender and Reform in Latin America. XXI International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association, Chicago, IL. Sept., 1998.
Warner, Rick (U.C.-Santa Cruz), Paper read: "Were the Coras Conquered?" Society for Ethnohistory, Mexico City, 1997.
Weber, David J. (Southern Methodist University), Paper read: "Bourbons and Bárbaros: Center and Periphery in the Reshaping of Spanish Indian Policy," given at a conference on "Colonial Centers and Colonial Peripheries: Studies in the Social and Cultural History of the Early Modern Americans," Michigan State University, Nov. 21-23, 1997.