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November 2-8, 1998 C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN; Late Entries Thursday, Oct. 29--Re-presenting 19th-Century Mexico: Demythologizing and Interpreting through an Exhibition,/ with Dra. Guadalupe Jimenez-Godinach, C. B. Smith fellow 1998-99, and Curator, Banamex/Mexico. 12:30-1:30 p.m. Hackett Room, SRH 1.313. Sponsored by the Mexican Center of ILAS. For more info., call Lindalee Valdievieso-Synyakov, 232-2423. Thursday, Oct. 29--José Saramago, 1998 Nobel Prize for Literature: A Celebration of the Portuguese Writer, featuring guest speaker José Sasportes, Cultural Attaché, Embassy of Portugal, Washington, D.C., with the participation of Spanish and Portuguese faculty and students, Prof. Seth L. Wolitz, Comparative Literature, Brazilian writer in residence Marina Colasanti, and Uruguayanp oet Ida Vitale. 3:30-5:30 p.m. Tobin Room, Batts 201. Sponsored by the Dept. of Spanish and Portuguese and the Program in Comparative Literature. For more info., call Cristina Ferreira-Pinto, 232-4540. Tuesday, November 3 Community Organizing in the 21st Century, a lecture by Ernesto Cortés, Jr., Southwest Regional Director of the Industrial Areas Foundation (IAF). 7 :30 p.m. Bass Lecture Hall. Open to the public. Sponsored by the School of Social Work. For more info., call Yolanda Padilla, 471-6266. Friday, November 6 CMAS Plática and Booksigning. Leticia Garza-Falcón, Director of the Center for Multicultural and Gender Studies and Asst. Prof. of English at Southw est Texas State University, will talk about her recent book, Gente Decente: A Borderlands Response to the Rhetoric of Dominance (UT Press). 12:00 Noon. Texas Union Governors' Room, 3.116. A reception and booksigning will follow at Barnes & Noble acros s the street. For more info., call 471-2136. Conferences and Calls for Papers 2000 Presidential Election in Mexico: PRI or Pray?, Nov. 12, 1998, UT-Austin. With George W. Grayson, College of William and Mary, who will lead a session in English with students, faculty, and invited guests on the breakdown of corporatism and electoral performance, leading to the presidential contest. 12:00-1:30 p. m. Hackett Room, SRH 1.313. Sponsored by the Mexican Center of ILAS. For more info., contact Lindalee Valdivieso-Synyakov, 232-2423. Changes in the Mexican Financial System, Nov. 12, 1998, UT-Austin. This program features Everardo Elizondo, Sub-Gobernador (Banco de México), who will lead a session in English with students, faculty, and invited guests. 3:30-5:00 p.m. GSB 3.106. Sponsored by the Mexican Center of ILAS and the Center for In ternational Business Education and Research (CIBER). For more info., Lindalee Valdivieso-Synyakov, 232-2423. Prospects for Mexico as the Century Ends, Nov. 12, 1998, UT-Austin. This program wil l feature a panel discussion moderated by the Hon. Clark E. Ervin, Texas Assistant Secretary of State, and four experts from political science and economics. Presentations on Mexican politics will be given by Rodolfo de la Garza (UT-Austin) and George Gra yson (College of William and Mary); analyses of the Mexican economy will be given by Everardo Elizondo (Banco de México) and Roberto Newell-García (McKinsey). 7:00-9:00 p.m. Calhoun 100. Sponsored by the Mexican Center of ILAS. For more info ., contact Lindalee Valdivieso-Synyakov, 232-2423. 1898 Revisited: Culture, Archive, and Diaspora after the Spanish-American War, Nov. 13-14, 1998, UT-Austin. A mini-conference featuring panels and keynote speakers Arcadio Díaz Quiñones (Princeton), Rubén Ríos Avila (Universidad de Puerto Rico), and Nicolasa Mohr (Puerto Rican writer). Bass Lecture Hall, Friday, Nov. 13, 9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.; Saturday, Nov. 14, , 9:00 a.m.-12:00 noon. Sponsored by ILAS and the Dept. of Spanish and Portuguese. For more info., call César A. Salgado, 471-4936. Call for Papers--Paisano: The Online History Journal at UT Austin. Submissions are currently being accepted for the next issue of Paisano, featuring the theme of contested cultural spaces. Culture is here defined in the broadest sense, and submissions dealing with religion, gender roles, belief systems, mat erial culture, art, and any other form of cultural production are welcome. Submissions should be 5,000-9,000 words in length. Please submit one hard copy of the essay you wish to be considered to: Joel Tishken or Ryan Carey, Paisano Editors, History Dept. , University of Texas, Austin, TX 78712-1163. Addtional questions can be directed to the online comments page at: http://ccwf "dot" cc "dot" utexas "dot" edu/~paisano. Deadline for the next issue: Dec. 1. Call for Submissions--Nineteenth Annual ILASSA Student Conference on Latin America, Feb. 26-27, 1999 , University of Texas at Austin. The Institute of Latin American Studies Student Association (ILASSA) at UT-Austin invites students to submit for acceptance a single-page abstract of a paper focusing on any topic in Latin Amerian Studies. Deadline for receipt of abstracts: Nov. 10, 1998. Invited participants will have until Jan. 15, 1999, to submit final papers. One-page abstracts should be sent to: ILASSA Conference Abstracts Committee, Institute of Latin American Studies, University of Texas at Austin, SRH 1.310, Austin, TX 78712; tel. 512/ 471-5551; fax 512/ 471-3090; mfuller[email address removed to reduce spam]; mailto:mfuller[email address removed to reduce spam] or minnesota[email address removed to reduce spam]; mailto:minnesota[email address removed to reduce spam]. Call For Papers--Hemisphere magazine seeks articles for an upcoming issue on the media in Latin America. Possible topics include privatization of the communications media, the proliferation of new media, professionalization of journalists, and freedom of the press. Hemisphere welcomes articl es from experts in the field as well as graduate students. Articles should be no longer than 2,500 words, and can be submitted as a hard copy with diskette (Microsoft Word or Word Perfect) or via . Send articles to: Alisa Newman, Managing Editor, He misphere magazine, Latin American and Caribbean Center, Florida International University, University Park, DM 353, Miami, FL 33199; [email address removed to reduce spam]; tel. 305/ 348-2894; fax 305/ 348-3593. Deadline for submission: Jan. 15, 1999. Employment Opportunities Assistant Professor in Economics, Macalester College, St. Paul, MN. A tenure-track position beginning fall 1999 to teach undergraduate courses and do research. Candidates should have a Ph.D. and an interest in interdisciplinary work; teaching experience is desirable; and evidence of excellence in scholarship is required. Send letter of application and C.V., a desc ription of teaching and research interests, and a sample of written work. Arrange for 3 letters of recommendation to be sent. Send to: N. J. Simler, Dept. of Economics, Macalester College, 1600 Grand Ave., St. Paul, MN 55105. Applications accepted unti l position is filled, but for fullest consideration should be received by Oct. 19, 1998. Assistant Professor in Spanish Applied Linguistics, University of New Mexico. Responsibilities include teaching undergraduate and graduate courses in Spanish linguistics, supervising graduate students in applied linguistics, and directing the lower-division Spanish language program. Minimal qualifications i nclude a Ph.D. in Spanish linguistics with specialization in first- and second-language acquisition, completed by Aug. 16, 1999, and native or near-native fluency in Spanish. Applications must be received by Nov. 13, 1998. For more info., contact J ohn M. Lipski, Chair, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131-1146; jlipski "at" unm; jlipski "at" unm; tel. 505/277-5907; fax 505/277-3885.   Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology (Tenure-Eligible), University of Arizona. Beginning fall 1999, the department seeks an anthropologist whose research links local, national, and internation al levels of scale. The successful candidate will be engaged in ongoing field research and will be making theoretical contributions to a topic such as structural violence and human rights; labor, immigration, and transnationalism; processes of nation-stat e formation and dissolution; and social memory and how identities and communities are reinvented in changing circumstances. Ph.D. required at time of application. Send application letter, C.V. , and names of at least three references to: Dr. Thomas Weaver , Chair, Cultural Anthropology Search Committee, Dept. of Anthropology, University of Arizona, P.O. Box 210030, Tucson, AZ 85721-0030. For consideration, complete requested documentation must be received by midnight of Nov. 30, 1998. For Access to the Calendar Archive: http://www.lanic.utexas.edu/ilas/calarc/