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Mellon Faculty Research Grant

and

ILAS Faculty Research

Program Grant

Application deadline: Friday, Feb. 7

Late applications will not be considered.

Complete application guidelines are found in the Research and Grant Opportunity Manual. If you cannot find the answer to your questions there, please contact Joanne Gully at 471-5551.

Second Annual UT-Austin

Brazil Week

Monday-Friday, February 3-7

Carnaval Celebrations

Films, Music, Capoeira

Presentations on Cinema, Literature, Social Policy, Media, Afro-Brazilian Cultural Expression, Race, Political-Economics, 19th C. Travel, Environment

For info., contact the Brazil Center,

471-5551; brazctr[email address removed to reduce spam]; http://lanic.utexas.edu/ilas/brazctr

Tuesday, Jan. 21

México al Mediodía: Cabildeo, propaganda y projección de la Revolución Mexicana en el Río de la Plata (1915-1930). Presentation by Pablo Yankelevich, C. B. Smith Visiting Scholar-INAH 1996-97. 12:15-1:30 p.m., Hackett Room, SRH 1.313. Sponsored by the Mexican Center of ILAS. For more info., call Lindalee F. Valdivieso-Synakov, 471-5551.

Thursday, Jan. 23

PAPA Training Session--The Political Asylum Project of Austin is asking for volunteers to help Central Americans seeking political asylum in the U.S. Bilingual English-Spanish speakers are especially needed for a variety of tasks. All interested parties are invited to attend a training session 5:30-7:30 p.m. at PAPA, 1715 E. 6th St., Suite 206, Austin. For more info., call Jill Jarboe or Nidia Salamanca at 478-0546.

Job Opportunities

Program Associate, Inter-American Dialogue, Washington, DC. Person needed to support work in several areas, initially focusing on ethnicity and democracy and on Brazil. Requirements include a background in Latin American studies, fluency in Spanish (Portuguese highly desirable), and strong computer skills. Send or fax résumé to: Katherine Anderson, Director, Finance and Administration, Inter-American Dialogue, 1211 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Suite 510, Washington, DC 20036. Fax: 202/822-9553.

English/Spanish Translator Needed. The Desert Fishes Council, a professional society of biologists interested in conservation of desert aquatic ecosystems, needs someone to translate abstracts for about 75 papers per year. For more info., sample proceedings of the yearly meeting can be found at: <http://www.utexas.edu/depts/tnhc/.www/fish/dfc/proceed/dfc_proc.html; . If interested, contact: Dean Hendrickson, Curator of Ichthyology, Texas Natural History Collections, PRC 176/R4000, UT-Austin. Tel.: 512/471-9774.

Exhibit

Re-Aligning Vision: South American Drawing, 1960-1990. Consists of drawings by 45 artists; selections drawn from the Huntington Art Gallery's extensive collection of Latin American art as well as major South American public and private collections. The exhibition runs Jan. 17-March 2. Admission is free. Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery, The Fine Arts Museum of UT-Austin. For more info., call 471-7324.

Calls for Papers

Call for papers. XX Symposium on Portuguese Traditions (Europe, America, Africa, Asia), Sunset Recreation Center, UCLA, April 19-20, 1997. Dedicated to the exchange and dissemination of the language and culture of the Portuguese-speaking world. The symposium will pay homage to: (1) the 400th anniversary of the death of José de Anchieta; (2) the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Brazilian Academy of Letters. Papers may be presented in English or Portuguese and are limited to 15 minutes' reading time. Those selected will be published in Encruzilhadas/Crossroads. For more info. and registration, contact: Prof. Claude L. Hulet, Dept. of Spanish and Portuguese, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA 90024-1532; [email address removed to reduce spam]; .

Call for papers. 10th Annual National Conference on Race and Ethnicity in American Higher Education, Orlando, FL, May 29-June 2, 1997. Latino issues addressed include a keynote address by Dolores Huerta and sessions on such topics as: diversifying science and engineering at the crossroads: an elusive goal?; socio-cultural factors affecting retention of Latinos in higher education; survival for communities of color in the 21st century through entrepreneurship; higher education in the aftermath of the California Civil Rights Initiative; nativism and anti-immigrant bashing at the end of the 20th century. Complete proposals due by Feb. 3, 1997. For info., application, and submission: Dr. Maggie Abudu, Executive Director, Southwest Center for Human Relations Studies, University of Oklahoma, 555 E. Constitution, Suite 209, Norman, OK 73072-7820; 405/325-3936.

Call for papers. Third Conference on Political Behavior in Brazil and Latin America, Florianópolis, Brazil, June 11-13, 1997. The Laboratory of Studies of Political Behavior, in a joint program with the Dept. of Psychology and the Center for Human Sciences of the Federal University of Santa Catarina, is sponsoring this conference, which is open to students, scholars, and professional practitioners in the area of social and political behavior, public opinion, and public policy, with an interest in Latin American politics. Topics include: continuities and changes in political culture and socialization; cognitive dynamics and the subjective construction of the political world; mass-elite notions of citizenship, representation, and participation; the politics of social cleavages: linkages between gender, age cohort, race, religion, and region, and attitudes towards politics; democratic theory, democratization, and the role of public opinion. Papers may be in Portuguese, Spanish or English. Abstracts due by March 21. For more info., contact: Prof. Fabian Echegaray, LabComp, CFH-UFSC, P.O. Box 476 (88010-970), Florianópolis, S.C., Brazil; Fax: 55/48/231-9751; ; .

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