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November 9-15, 1998 Late Entries Friday, Nov. 6--Women, the Media, and Democracy, a lecture by Anilú Elías, Mexican journalist and feminis t activist. 10:30-12:00 noon. Hackett Room, SRH 1.313. Sponsored by the Dept. of Journalism, Knight Chair in Journalism, and ILAS. For more info., call Journalism, 471-1845. Monday, November 9 Brazil Center Speaker Series--Women Photographers in Brazil, a lecture by Jorge Schwartz, Visiting Tinker Professor/University of S&at ilde;o Paulo, Brazil. 1:30-3:00 p.m. Hackett Room, SRH 1.313. Sponsored by the Brazil Center of ILAS. For more info., call 471-5551. Wednesday, November 11 CMAS Platicarte. Norma Elia Cantú, acting director for the Center for Chicano Studies, UC-Santa Barbara, and author of Canícula: Snapshots of a Girlhood en l a Frontera, will discuss and read from her work. 12:00-1:00 p.m. Garrison 7. For more info., call Jordana Barton, 471-2136. Thursday, November 12 2000 Presidential Election in Mexico: PRI or Pray? A session in English by George W. Grayson, College of William and Mary, with students, faculty, and invited guests, on the breakdow n 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. This program features Everardo Elizondo, Sub-Gobernador (Banco de México), who will lead a ses sion 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 International Business Education and Research (CIBER). For more info., contact Lindalee Valdivieso-Synyakov, 232-2423. Prospects for Mexico as the Century Ends. A panel discussion moderated by the Hon. Clark E. Ervin, Texas Assistant Secretary of State, and four experts from political science and economics. Pres entations on Mexican politics by Rodolfo de la Garza (UT-Austin) and George Grayson (College of William and Mary); analyses of the Mexican economy by Everardo Elizondo (Banco de México) and Roberto Newell-García (McKinsey). 7:00-9:00 p.m. Ca lhoun 100. Sponsored by the Mexican Center of ILAS. For more info., contact Lindalee Valdivieso-Synyakov, 232-2423. Friday, November 13 Resettlement and Relocation in Ceará, Brazil. A joint presentation by Dr. Jurgen Schmandt (LBJ School of Public Affairs, UT-Austin; Houston Advanced Research Center); Sunil Tankha (Houston Advanced Research Center; MPAff 1997, LBJ); Jennifer Burtner (Department of Anthropology, UT-Houston; Houston Advanced Research Center). 3:00-4:30 p.m. SRH 1.320. Sponsored by ILAS. For more info., call 471-5551. Friday-Saturday, November 13-14 1898 Revisited: Culture, Archive, and Diaspora after the Spanish-American War. A mini-conference featuring panels and keynote speakers Ar cadio Díaz Quiñones (Princeton), Rubén Ríos Avila (Universidad de Puerto Rico), and Rafael Rojas (Centro de Investigacion y Docencia Económica, México, D.F.). Friday, Nov. 13, 8:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m.; Saturday, Nov. 1 4, 9:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m. Bass Lecture Hall. Sponsored by ILAS and the Dept. of Spanish and Portuguese. For more info., call César A. Salgado, 471-4936. Conferences and Calls for Papers Texas Association of Chicanos in Higher Education (TACHE) Twenty-Fourth Annual Conference, Nov. 15-17, 1998, Houston, Park Plaza Warwick Hotel. Over forty-five workshops , presentations, and discussion sessions on a wide variety of topics are scheduled. For more info., call Ed Apodaca, 713/743-9567. Call for Papers--Ninth Congress of the International Federation of Latin American and Caribbean Studies (FIEALC), April 12-15, 1999, Tel Aviv University, Israel. Most of the panels will relate to the theme The Mediterranean and Latin America , but there will also be independent sessions. The three official languages are Spanish, Portuguese, and English. Please send by or in a diskette a brief abstract (max. 250 words) and a C.V. to: Prof. Tzvi Medin, Dr. Raanan Rein, School of History, Universidad de Tel Aviv, Ramat Aviv, P.O.B. 39040 (69978), Israel; fiealc99 "at" post.tau.ac.il; fiealc99 "at" post.tau.ac.il. Deadline for papers: Dec. 31, 1998. Call for Papers--SALSA (Symposium About Language and Society-Austin) Seventh Annual Meeting, April 9-11, 1999, UT-Austin. Submit abstracts on research that addresses the relationship of language to culture and society. Selected papers delivered at the conference will be published as a special edition of the T exas Linguistic Forum. Speakers will be allowed 20 minutes for presentation and 10 minutes for discussion. Papers will be selected based on the evaluation of an anonymous written abstract that may not exceed one page. Please submit: six (6) copies of the abstract, on 8-1/2 x 11 paper, to the address below; a 3 x 5 card with title of the paper, author's name and affiliation, address, phone and address at which author wishes to be notified; a short 100-word abstract, on a 3.5 disk (Mac or PC),for publication in the program. See the Web pagefor details: http://www.dla.utexas.edu/depts/anthro/projects/salsa Late submissions will not be accepted, and we cannot accept papers that are to be published elsewhere. Send all correspondence to: SALSA, Dept. of Ling uistics, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712 [email address removed to reduce spam]. Deadline for receipt of abstracts: Jan. 15, 1999. Call for Papers--Border Crossings, University of Minnesota Third Annual Graduate Symposium in Romance Studies, April 10, 1999. We are seeking papers related to romance language studies, and concerning a variety of boundary-dispute issues, including: globalization vs. fragmentation, negotiating genre conventions, travel writing, intersections of forms of representation, national and regional identities, sociolinguistic intersections, diaspora studies, margins and centers, gender boundaries, and immigrant, colonial, and postcolonial issues. We request that you submit an anonymous abstract of 500 words in English, accompanied by a 3x5 index card with the following information: title of paper, name, academic affiliation, address, telephone number, and address. Papers must be written in English. Please send abstracts t o: Mary Skemp, Department of French and Italian, or Rosa Rull, Dept. of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Minnesota, 9 Pleasant St. SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455. Deadline for submissions: Jan. 30, 1999. Employment Opportunities 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 include a Ph.D. in Spanish linguistics with specialization in first- and second-language acquisition, com pleted by Aug. 16, 1999, and native or near-native fluency in Spanish. Applications must be received by Nov. 13, 1998. For more info., contact John 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 international 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-state 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. T homas 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. Internships Washington Office on Latin America Spring 1999 Internships. WOLA selects seven unpaid inte rns per session (spring, summer, fall). WOLA's interns are exposed to the dynamics of U.S. foreign policy-making at close range, focusing on the effects of U.S. policies on human rights, democratization, and economic development in Latin America. As an in tern you will be involved in producing detailed research on a specific topic that will be used in WOLA's advocacy work. Interested applicants should have a demonstrated interest in human rights, democracy, and economic justice in Latin America or in nonp rofit organizations. (Two types of internships available.) Spanish proficiency is recommended. Applications will be accepted on a rolling-acceptance basis. Send a cover letter including area of interest and availability, résumé , names and d aytime telephone numbers of two references, and a short writing sample attention to Internship Recruitment Coordinator, WOLA, 1630 Connecticut Ave., NW, Washington, DC 20009; tel. 202/797-2171; fax 202/797-2172. Cover letter should include acknowledgment that position is unpaid. 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