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Thursday, Feb. 19-Girls in Prison: The Role of the Buenos Aires Casa Correcional de Mujeres as an Institution for Child Rescue, 1890-1940, a lecture by Donna Guy, University of Arizona. 3:00-4:00 p.m., NOTE: Batts Hall-Tobin Rm 201 (not GAR 100). Sponsored by ILAS and the Dept. of History. For more info., call 471-5551.

Thursday, Feb. 19-Benefit for the Refugees of Chiapas, Chiapachanga, Dance and Music with Big Game Hunter, Concierto Grosso, and Roots and Wisdom. Admission, $10.00. Funds from this event will go to those displaced from their homes as a result of the massacre and government violence. Organized by the Comité de Solidaridad con Chiapas y México. For more info., call Re-sistencia Bookstore, 416-8885.

Friday, Feb. 20-Brazil Center Speakers Series-Televisão e Negócio: Estratégias Políticas, Culturais e Economicas, a lecture in Portuguese by Dulce Mária Cruz, RTF Fulbright Visiting Scholar/URB/UFSC. 3:00-4:30 p.m., Hackett Room, SRH 1.313. For more info., call David Workman at 232-2416, or brazctr[email address removed to reduce spam]; .

Saturday, Feb. 21-Amigos de la Frontera, a bimonthly gathering of friends interested in the northern frontier of New Spain, will meet for breakfast to share ideas, information, and camaraderie. 9:00 a.m., Cisco's Restaurant and Bakery, 1511 E. 6th St. For more info., dolitl[email address removed to reduce spam]; Email.

Sunday, Feb. 22-Memorial Performance and Procession to Remember Chiapas Massacre Victims. 4:30 p.m., Guadalupe Church, 1206 East 9th St. The procession will be followed by a Mass at 6:15 p.m. For info. on participation, contact SOLID , 495-9099.

Brazil Center Speakers Series-Reforma Educativa no Brasil: Temas e Problemas, a lecture in Portuguese by Helena M. B. Bomeny, Preal Brasil/CPDOC-UERJ. 3:00-4:30 p.m., ILAS, SRH 1.320. For more info., contact David Workman at 232-2416, or brazctr[email address removed to reduce spam]; Email.

Drawing as Culture, a lecture by Jonathan Bober, Curator of Prints and Drawings. Re-Aligning Vision: Alternative Currents in South American Drawing series. 12:00 noon, Huntington Art Gallery, Art Building.

Catholic Relief Services Information Session. 12:15 p.m., SRH 3.103. Contact Debra Dzwonczyk, LBJ School Placement Coordinator. For more info., call 471-3290.

The Crypto-Jewish Experience in the Americas, a lecture by Rabbi Peter Tarlow. 2:00-4:00 p.m., Hackett Room, SRH 1.313. Cosponsored by ILAS, Religious Studies, and the Hillel Foundation. For more info., call ILAS, 471-5551.

CMAS Lecture Series-Strategies of Leadership, a lecture by Blandina Cárdenas, Chairperson of the Board of Trustees of the Educational Testing Service. 7:00 p.m., Bass Lecture Hall, LBJ School of Public Affairs, reception following.

CMAS Plática and Booksigning-Latinos and U.S.-Latin American Relations, a lecture by Rodolfo de la Garza, Vice President of the Tomás Rivera Policy Institute and Mike Hogg Professor of Community Affairs in the Dept. of Government, will lecture. This talk will draw from his most recent coedited volumes, Beyond the Border: Transforming Mexico-U.S. Relations and At the Crossroads: Mexican Migration and U.S. Policy. 12:00 noon, Texas Union, Eastwoods Room, 2.102. Bring a lunch, drinks will be provided.

Volunteers Needed for Compañeros, a mentor program designed to teach local elementary and high school students about Latin America. For more info., contact Kate Bennett, ILAS Outreach Coordinator, 232-2404, or katebennett[email address removed to reduce spam]; Email.

Summer 1998 Foreign Language and Area Study Fellowship (FLAS). FLAS fellowships are for Portuguese language study at UT-Austin or Kaqchikel language study through Tulane University. To be eligible, an applicant musy be a U.S. citizen or permanent resident; show potential for superior academic achievement as indicated by grade-point average, class rank, and GRE score; demonstrate a long-term interest in Latin America; and be a graduate student in good standing at UT-Austin. The applicant must be a native speaker of Portuguese. Applications available in SRH 1.301. Deadline: March 9. Contact Brian Stross at 471-4206 for details about the Tulane program and application. Dates have not been announced, but are usually mid-June to mid-August.

Dissertation Research Grant. This grant is for dissertation field research in Latin America. Applicant must be advanced to candidacy before funds can be disbursed. Applications available in SRH 1.301. Deadline: March 9.

E.D. Farmer International Fellowship (for native-born Texans only). This fellowship will support advanced research and study in Mexico by students from the University of Texas. Deadline: April 1. For more info., contact the Mexican Center of ILAS, 232-2423.

E.D. Farmer International Fellowship (for Mexican nationals only). Applicants must be currently enrolled in a graduate program at UT and be nominated by the administration of the home university. Deadline: April 1. For more info., contact the Mexican Center of ILAS, 232-2423.

Solidaridad Scholarship. This scholarship is for Mexican nationals only who are currently enrolled in a UT graduate program. For more info., contact the Mexican Center of ILAS, 232-2423.

UT Press Fellowship will provide a year of experience in book publishing (including intensive training in editorial, production, marketing, business, rights and permissions, or journals) for a graduate of UT-Austin beginning Sept. 1, 1998, and ending Aug. 31, 1999. The Fellow will receive $13,200 payable as $1,100 at the end of each month of completed training. For applications and information, contact Gisele M. Requena at 471-7233 or write: Fellowship Program, UT Press, Box 7819, Austin, TX 78713-7819. Deadline: March 16, 1998.

AFSC-Sedepac Summer Program in Rural Mexico. The American Friends Service Committee invites applications for participants and facilitators in its AFSC-Sedepac Summer Program. The program places U.S. and Mexican young people in community projects in rural villages in Mexico. Facilitators receive a modest compensation and travel expenses. For more info., contact AFSC at 215/241-7000.

Nahuatl Summer Language Institute, Yale, June 15-August 7, 1998. The Institute includes both intensive language instruction and lectures by authorities on New World cultures. Approved for FLAS summer lan- guage grants. For more info., jonathan.[email address removed to reduce spam]; Email.

First Academic Colloquium of the Americas: The Challenge of Hemispheric Integration, San José, Costa Rica, March 12-14, 1998. The Colloquium will precede the IV Western Hemispheric Trade Ministerial and the IV Business Forum of the Americas, March 16, also in San Jose. The objectives of the Colloquium are to broaden, deepen, and contribute to the discussion of free trade and integration of the Americas from an academic point of view. The event will be organized in plenary sessions and specialized workshops. Registration fee is US$150. For more info., please contact Juan Manuel Villasuso, Coordinator, Instituto de Investigaciones EconUmicas, Universidad de Costa Rica, phone 506/207-4166, fax 506/224-3682, colloaa "at" cariari.ucr.ac.cr; Email, or see the website http://cariari.ucr.ac.cr/~colloaa.

Third Annual Images of Women Conference: Latina: Afirmación y Poder, Southwest Texas State University, San Marcos, March 28, 1998. For more info., contact Stephanie Hinojosa, Conference Chair, 512/396-8397, or sh23653 "at" swt.edu; Email. Deadline for pre-registration: March 4, 1998. Registration will also be available online at the Images of Women Website, www.swt.edu/~sh23653/iow.

National Multicultural Job Expo, Strahan Coliseum, Southwest Texas State University, San Marcos, April 16-17, 1998, 10:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m. Expo is one of the largest job fairs of its kind in the country; over 200 employers attended this two-day recruiting event last year. All employers who attend have full-time job vacancies and most conduct interviews on site. On April 16, representatives from business and industry organizations interview; on April 17, education and government organizations interview. To register or obtain more info. on Expo, call 512/245-2645 or Career-[email address removed to reduce spam]; Email.

Women Writers International Meeting, Rosario, Argentina, August 19-21, 1998. The program will include discussions of gender and poetry; public readings; a workshop on women and success; and presentations by women authors. For more info., contact Angelica Gorodischer [email address removed to reduce spam].AR; [email address removed to reduce spam].AR.

Conference on the Spanish American War, Texas A&M, College Station, Oct. 2-3, 1998. Multidisciplinary, international conference. Films, other artistic productions, and papers are invited on the war, Spain, U.S., Cuba, and Puerto Rico. The three themes of the conference are: (1) history and internal political and social dynamics of Spain and the U.S. during the late 19th Century as these relate to the topic of Cuban, Puerto Rican, and Filipino independence; (2) the impact of the war on the national origins and republican experiences of Cubans, Puerto Ricans, and Filipinos; (3) the impact of Cuban and Puerto Rican culture on Latin American literature, on Latino culture, literature, and art. Deadline for submission of papers or proposed panels is May 1, 1998. For more info., contact Benigno E. Aguirre, Dept. of Sociology, 409/845-0813, aguirre "at" acs.tamu.edu; Email; or Eduardo Espina, Dept. of Modern and Classical Languages, 409/845-2125.

Calls for Papers-North Central Council of Latin Americanists (NCCLA) is accepting papers and suggestions for panels for an interdisciplinary conference October 16-17, St. Norbert College, De Pere, Wisconsin. Abstracts and proposals must be sent by July 15, 1998. For more info., contact Associate Professor Eduardo Magalhaes III, Simpson College, magalhae "at" storm.simpson.edu; Email.

Calls for Papers-Hemisphere magazine seeks articles for an upcoming issue on Latinos living in the U.S. Articles may deal with a broad range of topics, including demographics, immigration, discrimination, politics, media and the arts. Hemisphere encourages articles by graduate students. For more info., contact Alisa Newman, Managing Editor, Hemisphere Magazine, Latin American and Caribbean Center, Florida International University, University Park, DM 365D, Miami, FL 33199, phone 305/3482894, fax 305/348-3593, or [email address removed to reduce spam]; Email. Deadline for submissions: March 14, 1998.

Africana and Latin American Studies Program, Colgate University-Program Assistant position beginning Aug.15, 1998-May 31, 1999. The position is a split between outreach and administration. A B.A. and fluency in Spanish are required. The nine-month salary is $14,000, with full medical benefits. For more info., contact Mary Keys, Program Secretary, 315/228-7546, or [email address removed to reduce spam]; Email. Deadline for applications: April 1, 1998.

Publications Manager for InterAction, Washington, DC-Biweekly newsletter and other publications (member profiles, annual report and flyers/brochures) to draft, edit, fact-check, proofread, format articles, layout issues using QuarkXpress, and transmit to printer. Requires B.A. in communications-related field and 3+years experience in publications. Salary $30,000-$45,000, DOE. Send résumé and cover letter to: Mike Kiernan, Inter-Action, 1717 Massachusetts Avenue NW #801, Washington, DC 20036, fax 202/667-8236, or [email address removed to reduce spam]; Email or Other Email Address.

Deputy Producer, Latino USA-Latino USA, the radio journal of news and culture, produced at KUT-FM at UT-Austin, seeks experienced candidates for this position. Major responsibilities: assist in the production of a weekly news and cultural affair program; produce a weekly 5-minute newscast; write scripts and interview questions; book guests and coordinate studio time. Required: B.A. in communications or equivalent, five years' experience in public radio broadcast production, and demonstrated knowledge of Latino-oriented issues. For more info. on the Web: www.utexas.edu/admin/ohr/empl. Send letter of interest, résumé, and audition cassette to: Christina Cuevas, Executive Director, CMB 3.142, Austin, TX 78712. Deadline: Feb 15, 1998.

Lithographs and Sculpture, Francisco Zuniga, Feb. 13-March 31, 1998, Santa Fe. Francisco Zuniga is best known for his massive and primitive sculptures of powerful and dignified Mexican women. His lithographs, though less known than his sculptures, have proven to be their equal in both skill and sentiment. The dignified and timeless figures in Zuniga's lithographs unite pre-Hispanic and contemporary images, and incorporate influences from artistic masters throughout the ages. Meredith-Kelly Latin American Fine Art, 135 W. Palace Avenue at Grant, Santa Fe, NM.