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April 24 - May 14, 1996

Late Entries
Wednesday, Apr. 24--En el remolino de identidad: nos/otras--An Ideology for Chicanas. Gloria Anzaldúa. Musical performance by Lourdes Pérez and Javier Chaparro. 7:00 p.m. LBJ Auditorium. Sponsored by Center for Mexica n American Studies Distinguished Speakers Committee and Chicana/Chicano Culture Committee. Admission: $1.00 students; $2.00 faculty/staff; $3.00 general public. For more information, contact Jordana Barton, 471-2136.
Thursday, Apr. 25--Jesse Amado Discusses His Sculpture, Mixed Media, and Installations. Noon. Texas Union Asian Culture Room, 4.224. Sponsored by Center for Mexican American Studies.
Friday, Apr. 26--Barriers to Integration: Challenges to Complying with NAFTA. David Gould, Senior Economist and Economic Adviser, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, and Javier Mancera, Economic Counselor, NAFTA Office of the Mexican Embassy in Washington. 8:30-10:30 a.m. Bass Lecture Hall. Sponsored by the U.S.-Mexican Policy Studies Program at the LBJ School of Public Affairs.
Friday, Apr. 26--Sangre Boliviana and Endangered and Imaginary Animals. CD-ROM presentation. Lucia Grossberger-Morales, Dept. of Radio-TV-Film. 11:15 a.m.-12:30 p.m. SRH 1.320.

Tuesday, April 30
Construction and Cosmology: Politics and Ideology at Tenochtitlán. Leonardo López, C. B. Smith Visiting Scholar/Museo del Templo Mayor. México al Mediodía. 12:15 p.m. SRH 1.320. Sponsored by the Mexican Center of ILAS.
Women in the U.S.: An Economic Profile. Barbara Robles, U.S. Congress Joint Committee on Taxation. 3:00-4:30 p.m. Carothers Honors Residence, Room 7. Sponsored by Center for Mexican American Studies Chicana Lecture Series.
Él. A film by Luis Buñuel. 1952. 1:00 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. UNAM-San Antonio. Free. For more information, call (210) 222-8626.

Wednesday, May 1
Benefit for Chiapas and Report on the Continental Encuentro. Music by Toqui Amaru, Spoken Word and Poetry by Raúl Salinas and Rodney Garza. 8:00-midnight. Ruta Maya, 4th & Lavaca. Bring school and medical supplies, jackets and boot s (size 9 and smaller), computers, money for foodstuffs for the next Pastors for Peace caravan for Chiapas. Sponsored by the Comité de Solidaridad con Chiapas y México, Coordinadora '96, Red Salmon Press, Resistencia Bookstore, and Peace and Justice Coalition Education Fund.

Thursday, May 2
Discussion of Talons of the Eagles: Dynamics of U.S.-Latin American Relations. Latest book by Peter H. Smith, Simón Bolívar Prof. of Latin American Studies, Director, Latin American Studies, UC-San Diego. 5:00-7:00 p.m. LBJ Presidential Library Atrium. Henry Dietz, Larry Graham, Bryan Roberts, and Peter Ward will comment on the book. A reception will follow.

Tuesday, May 7
Cultural Context of Kallawaya Herbalists: The Cultural Setting of Herbal Curing in the Andes. Joseph Bastien, Prof. of Anthropology, UT-Arlington. 3:00 p.m. EPS 1.128. Sponsored by ILAS; Depts. of Botany, Geography, Anthropology; ILAS Dis ease and Cultural Identity Working Group.
Ensayo de un crimen. A film by Luis Buñuel. 1955. 1:00 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. UNAM-San Antonio. Free. For more information, call (210) 222-8626.

Wednesday, May 8
Promising Drug Leads from Kallawaya Medicinal Plants: Treating AIDS with Andean Plants. Joseph Bastien, Prof. of Anthropology, UT-Arlington. 3:00 p.m. BIO 214. Sponsored by ILAS; Depts. of Botany, Geography, Anthropology; ILAS Disease and Cultural Identity Working Group.

Tuesday, May 14
La muerte en este jardín A film by Luis Buñuel. 1956. 1:00 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. UNAM-San Antonio. Free. La joven (1960), May 28; El ángel exterminador (1962), June 4. For more information, call (210) 222-8626.

Conferences and Calls for Papers
Afro-Latin American Research Association Conference. Aug. 19-25, 1996. Call for papers. Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. Send abstracts of papers interpreting the African Diaspora in the Americas, including the United States, to Marvin A. Lewis, Romance Languages, Univ. of Missouri-Columbia, 143 Arts & Science Bldg., Columbia, MO 65211. Fax: 573/882-3404.
Transcending Boundaries: Fostering Dialogues between the Island and Its Diaspora. 2nd Conference of the Puerto Rican Studies Association. Sept. 26-29, 1996. Call for papers. San Juan, Puerto Rico. Request proposal form from Jorge Duan y, Sociología y Antropología, Univ. de Puerto Rico, Apdo. 23345, San Juan, PR 00931-3345. Fax: 809/764-3625. Deadline for proposal submission: May 1, 1996.
IV Congreso Internacional de Etnohistoria Convocatoria. June 23-27, 1996. Call for papers. Pontificia Univ. Católica, Lima. Papers should be submitted in hard copy (double spaced) and on IBM-compatible diskette in Microsoft Wor d for Windows 6.0 or WordPerfect 6.0 for DOS. Papers should be 20 minutes in length. Submit papers to IV Congreso Internacional de Etnohistoria, Dra. Liliana Regalado de Hurtado, Pontificia Univ. Católica del Perú, Av. Universitaria cda. 18 s/n, Lima 21, Peru. Tel.: 51/1/462-2540; 462-9515, 460-2770, anexos 140-147. Deadline: May 15, 1996.
Emerging Literature of the Southwest Second Annual Conference. Sept. 13-15, 1996. Call for papers. Univ. of Texas-El Paso. Submit 50-word abstracts to Nancy Wacker, UTEP, 500 W. University Ave., El Paso, TX 79968-0602. Tel.: 915/747-5 142; fax: 915/747-5538; nwacker "at" mail.utep.edu. Deadline: May 31, 1996.
X International Congress of Traditional and Folk Medicine. Aug. 14-18, 1996. Call for papers. Texas A&M Univ.-Corpus Christi. Contact Steve Reséndez, 512/994-5965; or Javier Escamilla, 512/994-6092, for more information. Deadli nes: May 1, 1996, for concurrent workshop proposals; May 15 for panel proposals; June 1 for paper/presentation submissions.
Interpreting and Contextualizing the Recovered Text. Nov. 8-9, 1996. Call for papers. Univ. of Houston, University Park. Submit abstracts and a c.v. to Lynn Cortina, Univ. of Houston, 4800 Calhoun, E. Cullen Performance Hall, R oom 254, Houston TX 77204-2172. Tel.: 713/743-3128; fax: 713/743-3142; artrec "at" jetson.uh.edu. Deadline for abstract: July 18, 1996.
Ethnicity, Nationalism, and Empires: Rocky Mountain World History Association Biannual Meeting. Oct. 31-Nov. 2, 1996. Call for papers. Univ. of Utah, Salt Lake City. Submit paper and session proposals on any topic relating to world hi story to Edward J. Davies, History Dept. 211 Carlson Hall, Univ. of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112; fax: 801/585-3510; Anand A. Yang "at" m.cc.utah.edu. Deadline: July 31, 1996.
Politics and Languages of Contemporary Marxism. Dec. 5-8, 1996. Call for papers. Univ. of Massachusetts-Amherst. Submit proposals to Stephen Cullenberg, Dept. of Economics, Univ. of California-Riverside 92521. Tel.: 909/787-5037, ext. 1573; fax: 909/787-5685; scullen "at" ucrac1.ucr.edu. Dead: Aug. 15, 1996.
Latin America and the Caribbean in a Changing World: Patterns, Prospects, and Problems. Canadian Association for Latin American and Caribbean Studies XXVII Congress. Oct. 24-27, 1996. Call for papers. Submit proposals to Liddy Gomes, CERLAC, 240 York Ln., York Univ., North York, Ont., Canada M3J 1P3; tel.: 416/736-5237; fax: 416/736-5737; cerlac "at" yorku.ca; OR Mireille Hutchison, CALACS Secretariat, Civil Law, Pavillon Leblanc 120; Univ. of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ont., Canada K1N 6N5; tel.: 613/728-3262; fax: 613/728-2028; calacs "at" aix1.uottawa.ca.
Society for Latin American Studies Annual Conference 1997. Apr. 4-6, 1997. Call for papers. Univ. of St. Andrews, Scotland. Send proposals for sessions and papers to Will Fowler, Spanish Dept., Univ. of St. Andrews, St. Andrews , Fife KY169AL, Scotland. Fax: (0) 1334 462959; wmfl "at" st-and.ac.uk.
Markets and Cultures in Transition: Latin America and the Pacific Rim. July 9, 1997. Call for papers. Univ. of Auckland. Submit abstracts of papers to AILASA Conference, Coordinator for Latin American Studies, Univ. of Auckland, Private B ag 92019, Auckland, New Zealand. Tel.: 64-9-373-7599, ext. 5263 or 6651; fax: 64-9-373-7000. Deadline: Mar. 1, 1997.

Fellowship
Inter-American Foundation Field Research Fellowship Program at the M.A. Level. Applications for research projects to be carried out between June 1, 1996, and May 30, 1997, being accepted until May 3, 1996. Notification by mid-May. Forms available for photocopying in ILAS Professional Development Office, SRH 1.305. IAF tel.: 703/841-3800.

Study Opportunities
Visiting Scholars Program, Univ. of Chicago/Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Joint Center for Latin American Studies. Send applications and inquiries to The Center for Latin American Studies, 5848 S. University Ave., Kelly Hall 308, Chicago, IL 60637. Tel.: 312/702-8420; fax: 312/702-1755; [email address removed to reduce spam]; OR to The Center for Latin American Studies, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, International Studies Bldg. Rm. 201, 910 S. Fifth St., Champaign, IL 618 20. Deadline: < B; Apr. 30, 1996.
Roger Thayer Stone Center for Latin American Studies Summer Session in Havana. June 30-July 21, 1996. Address inquiries to Cuba Prog., Nicholas Robins, 128 Gibson Hall, Tulane Univ., New Orleans, LA 70118. Tel.: 504/862-8000, ext. 260 1; fax: 504/865-5241; nrobins "at" mailhost.tcs.tulane.edu. Deadline: May 31, 1996.
Spanish and International Studies in Mérida, Venezuela. In association with the Univ. of Minnesota. Deadline for fall semester 1996: July 1, 1996; for spring semester 1997: Nov. 1, 1996; for winter semester 1997: Nov. 1, 1996. For information on application, contact VENUSA U.S.A., 6342 Forest Hill Blvd., Ste. 287, West Palm Beach, FL 33415. Tel.: 407/753-3761; fax: 407/753-3758; [email address removed to reduce spam].

Internship
AFL-CIO Organizing Institute Union Campaign. Paid summer internship for 1,000 undergraduate student activists. Also available: paid training program for students with advanced degrees who want a career in union organizing. For information , contact the Organizing Institute, tel.: 1/800/848-3021; web site www.aflcio.org/orginst/; [email address removed to reduce spam].

Job Opportunities
ILAS Professional Development Coordinator. 19-hour position. Job includes interaction with alumni clubs, counseling students on job and internship opportunities. Submit résumé to Paula Burrichter, SRH 1.305. Deadline: Apr . 26, 1996.
Inside Customer Service & Purchasing at TNT Sales. Full-time position in small office of international welding company in Cedar Park, TX. Half of interaction will be in Spanish. Interviews will be held first week of May. Salary: $16,000 + be nefits. Fax résumé to Ken Hay, 512/219-8477.
Lecturer, The Politics of Latin America, Second Summer Session, UT-Tyler. July 8-Aug. 8, 1996. Applicants must have at least an M.A. in political science, with specialization in Latin American politics, and some teaching experience. Send letter of interest to Dr. Marcus Stadelmann, Political Science Prog., Dept. of Social Sciences, UT-Tyler, Tyler, TX 75799. Fax: 903/566-7377.

Announcement
Call for papers, unpublished work from researchers working on ecological subjects. Cátedra de Historia e Instituciones de América Latina. Contact Stefania Gallini, Storia e Istituzioni dell'America Latina, Dipartimento di St oria, Univ. degli Studi de Milano, Via Livorni, 12, 20122 Milan, Italy. : sgallini "at" mail.sociol.unimi.it.
Exhibit
Quetza Dice No 187: Arbitrary Borders. May 3-May 27, 1996. An exhibit curated by Terry A. Ybáñez and featuring work of Ricardo Duffy, Alberto A. Becerra, Roberto Cárdenas, Fermín Coronado, David Zamora Casas, A gosto Bianco Cuéllar, Teodoro Estrada, Piedad Flores, Lilian García-Roig, Liliana Wilson Grez, Ester Hernández, Magda McChesney, Arlene Polite, José Luis Rivera, Mirta Toledo, Bernice Williams, Zelma Bazaldúa Zapico. La Peña, 227 Congress, Ste. 300. For information call Ixchel Rosal, 477-6007.

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