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September 8-14, 1997

Editorial fellowships available for Latin American Music Review, Editor Gerard Béhague. UT-Austin School of Music, 12-month fellowship "at" +/ $l,000/month. Eligibility: (1) graduate student with 3.0 GPA or better; (2) knowledge of Musicology/Ethnomusicology discipline; (3) reading knowledge of Spanish or Portuguese. Application deadline: Sept. 2, 1997. Application materials: University Fellowship application form, transcript, and 3 letters of recommendation. Send applications to Prof. Gérard Behague, School of Music, UT-Austin, MPH 3.202, E3100.

Graduate student assistants for Latino USA, a weekly English-language radio journal of news and culture. Latino USA is sponsored at UT-Austin by the Center for Mexican American Studies and KUT radio. For more info., contact Christine Cuevas, 475-6767 or ccuevas[email address removed to reduce spam].

Clarice Lispector: A Symposium. Department of Spanish and Portuguese, UT-Austin, Oct. 17, 1997. Keynote speaker is Earl E. Fitz, Pennsylvania State University. Graduate students are encouraged to participate by presenting a 15-minute paper. Deadline: Sept. 8. To submit paper and for more info., contact Cristina Ferreira-Pinto, 471-4936, or cpinto[email address removed to reduce spam].

Adult ESL in the Electronic Age. Sixth Annual UNAM-SA ESL Conference. Saturday, Sept. 27, 1997. 9:00 A.M.-3:30 P.M. UNAM in San Antonio, 600 Hemisfair Park. Preregistration fee: $15.00 or $7.50 for students (lunch included). After Sept. 24: $5.00 penalty. For more info., call 210/222-8626.

Hispanics: Cultural Locations. An interdisciplinary conference at the University of San Francisco, Oct. 10-12, 1997. For more info., call 415/422-2940; [email address removed to reduce spam]; http://usfca.edu/events/hispanics_and_US.

Border Energy Forum IV, United States-Mexico, Las Cruces, New Mexico, Oct. 21-22, 1997. The Border Energy Forum is intended to encourage and solidify the formation of lasting partnerships that will result in maximizing our use of energy resources while minimizing environmental degradation throughout northern Mexico and the southwestern United States. Topics discussed will include: the border and energy; energy imports and exports; transportation and air quality issues; regional energy issues; energy's future. For registration and hotel info., see the Conference Bulletin Board at ILAS, or contact Soll Sussman at 463-5039 in the Texas General Land Office or Patricia Sullivan at 505/646-3524 at New Mexico State University.

Joint Conference of the Canadian Association for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CALACS) (XXVIII Annual Congress) and the Canadian Association for Mexican Studies (CAMS) (Third International Congress), March 19-22, 1998, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia. The 1998 Joint Conference of CALACS and CAMS invites proposals for papers and panels in all areas of Latin American and Caribbean scholarship and all areas relevant to the understanding of historical and contemporary Latin America and the Caribbean. Conference theme: "Latin America: Moving Beyond Neoliberalism." Proposals for papers and panels should be submitted in two copies, one to the most appropriate Section Head and one to the Program Coordinator at Simon Fraser University. For a list of names and addresses of appropriate Section Heads and for the Program Coordinator's address, see the Conference Bulletin Board at ILAS. Completed proposals must be received by both the Section Head and the Program Coordinator by Oct. 1, 1997.

The Fourth Annual Carolina Conference on Romance Literatures, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, March 19-21, 1998. Keynote speakers: Marc Auge (EHESS, Paris), Donald W. Bleznick (Univ. of Cincinnati). Open topics on any aspect and period of French (including francophone), Italian, Latin American, Portuguese, and Spanish literatures. Reading time limited to 20 minutes, interdisciplinary approaches encouraged. Send 3 copies of 1-page abstracts and a self-addressed stamped envelope before Nov. 14, 1997. Address submissions to: French & Portuguese: c/o Alain-Philippe Durand (adurand "at" email.unc.edu); Spanish & Italian: c/o Patricia Suppes (pattys "at" email.unc.edu) CB# 3170, 238 Dey Hall, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3170.