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Application deadline: Wed., Feb. 18. Late applications will not be considered. For complete application guidelines, call Joanne Gully, 232-2409.

An undergraduate/graduate language study opportunity focusing on spoken Quechua and oral traditions in the Andes. For info., call 471-5551.

For more info., call ILAS, 471-5551.

A graduate seminar on issues related to health, health care, and development in Latin America and the Caribbean. For info., call Dept. of Geography, 471-5116.

This undergraduate course focuses on high and popular culture, aesthetics and cultural politics, and gender construction. For more info., call 471-4936 or 471-5765.

PLEASE NOTE--Visiting artists in conjunction with the Huntington Art Gallery exhibition Re-Aligning Vision: Alternative Currents in South American Drawing will be available to speak to classes or groups of interested students during January and February. Interested faculty should contact Linda Briscoe, Assistant Curator, at 471-8984 or [email address removed to reduce spam].

Friday, Jan. 16--Re-Aligning Vision: Alternative Currents in South American Drawing, preview talk for opening Huntington exhibition by Mari Carmen Ramírez, Curator of Latin American Art, and Edith Gibson Wolfe, Ph.D. student, Dept. of Art and Art History. 6:00 p.m. Art 1.102. For more info., call 471-9207.

Sunday, Jan. 18--Artist gallery talks, The Cut in the Eye, lectures by Miguel Angel Rojas (Colombia); The Image between Reality and Illusion by Oscar Muñoz (Colombia). Huntington Art Gallery Re-Aligning Vision series. 2:00 p.m. Huntington Art Gallery.

Drawing as Idea: The Conceptual Artists of Re-Aligning Vision, a lecture by Mari Carmen Ramírez, Curator of Latin American Art. Huntington Art Gallery Re-Aligning Vision series. 12:00 noon, Huntington Art Gallery.

Space Traps: Recent Works of Regina Silveira, a lecture by Regina Silveira, Brazilian artist. Huntington Art Gallery Re-Aligning Vision series. 5:30 p.m. Art 1.102.

ENLACE Job Databank--The University of Texas Latin American Network Information Center (UT-LANIC) and the Institute of Latin American Studies are pleased to announce the creation of ENLACE, the Electronic Network for Latin American Careers and Employment, a first-of-its-kind job databank on the Internet created and tailored specifically for job seekers and employers in Latin America or with a Latin American focus. Job seekers can post their résumés on-line and search current job postings, and employers can post job openings and search for candidates in a wide range of professions, free of charge. The ENLACE Career Center is available now on the World Wide Web at: http://www.lanic.utexas.edu/enlace/. For more info., contact: UT-LANIC-ENLACE, Institute of Latin American Studies, SRH 1.310, UT-Austin, Austin, TX 78712. Tel.: 512/471-5551; fax: 512/471-3090; : ethan "at" lanic.utexas.edu; ethan "at" lanic.utexas.edu.

Maya Symposium: Classic Maya Sculpture and the Construction of Meaning, Denver Art Museum, Jan. 31, 1998. Presenters are Dorie Reents-Budet, Simon Martin, Adam Herring, and Ricardo Agurcia. Students $20, museum members $25, nonmembers $30. For reservations or more info., contact Heidi Strang, 303/640-7587.

Cultural Policies in Regional Integration: A Symposium, UT-Austin, Feb. 2, 1998. This one-day symposium will feature the following papers: Developments and Issues in Cross-Border Cultural Relations in NAFTA; Developments and Issues in Cross-Border Cultural Relations in MERCOSUR; Public Support for the Arts in Western Europe and North America: Governments, Policies, Politics; The Politics of Cultural Trade Disputes: A Canadian Perspective; The Television Industry in NAFTA; The Policy Process in Cultural Production and Exchange: National and International Considerations; and a concluding roundtable on research issues. Details on meeting time and place and names of presenters are available from Meg Tynan, Center for the Study of Western Hemispheric Trade, next to Mexican Center offices in ILAS. For more info., call 232-2411.

6th Latin American Resort and Tourism Development Conference, Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil, Feb. 11-13, 1998. All sessions will be simultaneously translated in English, Spanish, and Portuguese. For more info., contact Eckline Communications, Inc., tel. 415/883-1960 or 800/285-2332 or fax 415/883-9064. Program available on bulletin board outside the Mexican Center of ILAS, SRH 1.326, or contact Lindalee F. Valdivieso-Synyakov, Mexican Center Administrative Assistant, tel. 512/232-2423, fax 512/475-6778, [email address removed to reduce spam].

Summer Nahuatl Institute, Yale University. The course runs mid-June-Aug. 1998. Intensive language training in beginning Nahuatl and seminars and lectures by Nahuat scholars. Course is FLAS-approved. For more info., contact jonathan.[email address removed to reduce spam]; jonathan.[email address removed to reduce spam] or visit the website at http://www.yale.edu/nahuatl.

Call for Papers--El Planeta Plática (The Earth Speaks) newsletter seeks articles for the Feb. 1998 issue. Featured topics will be (1) Ecotourism and the Travel Industry in Latin America and (2) Personal Storytelling and Environmental Conservation in the Americas. Articles can be 500-1,000 words or longer works such as dissertations, theses, and materials of interest to specialists or scholars. Please send materials in text-only format (Word 5.0 on Mac; NOT in 6.0). Submissions deadline: Jan. 20, 1998. For more info., contact Ron Mader [email address removed to reduce spam]; [email address removed to reduce spam].

Call for Papers--Visioning the 21st Century: Globalization, Transformations, and Opportunity, 24th Annual Third World Conference, Chicago, March 18-21, 1998. For more info. on paper submission, accommodations, etc., see brochure in the Mexican Center of ILAS or contact: Dr. Roger K. Oden and Dr. Winberg Chai, Program Committee Co-Chairs, at tel. 773/241-6688, fax 773/241-7898, [email address removed to reduce spam]; [email address removed to reduce spam]; or Lindalee F. Valdivieso-Synyakov, Mexican Center Administrative Assistant, tel. 512/232-2423, fax 512/475-6778, The Mexican Center.

Call for Papers - 1998 Joint Conference of Canadian Association for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CALACS) and Canadian Association for Mexican Studies (CAMS), Vancouver, B.C., March 19-21, 1998. Proposals invited for papers and panels in all areas of Latin American and Caribbean scholarship. Deadline for proposals: Feb. 2. For more info., contact Dr. Conrad M. Herold, 604/291-5426 or cherold "at" sfu.ca; cherold "at" sfu.ca.

Call for Papers--Primavera 98; Women Crossing Generations: Bridges across Time and Countries, Texas A&M International University, Laredo, March 20-21, 1998. The community organization Las Mujeres and Texas A&M International are hosting this conference commemorating the signing of the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo 150 years ago, the 250th anniversary of the first Spanish settlements in what was then Nuevo Santanda, and the presence of women in what are now the borderlands between Mexico and the United States. Proposals for presentations, panels, literary readings, or workshops are invited on the role of women in art, culture, literature, history, science, the environment, and community activism and leadership. Proposals should be 250 words, double-spaced, in English or Spanish, and must include names, addresses, and phone numbers of all participants. Send 3 copies by Jan. 15, 1998, to: Norma E. Cantú or Jeraldine Kraver, Texas A&M International University, Dept. of English, Spanish, and Fine Arts, 5201 University Blvd., Laredo, TX 78041-1900. Acceptance notices will be mailed by Feb. 10. For more info., contact Norma E. Cantú, 956/326-2529 ([email address removed to reduce spam]; [email address removed to reduce spam]) or Jeraldine Kraver, 956/724-7924 ([email address removed to reduce spam]; [email address removed to reduce spam]).

Call for Papers - Western Hemispheric Economies in the 21st Century, Texas A&M International University, Laredo, March 23-25, 1998. For more info. on paper submission, accommodations, etc., see brochure in the Mexican Center of ILAS or contact: Lindalee F. Valdivieso-Synyakov, Mexican Center Administrative Assistant, tel. 512/232-2423, fax 512/475-6778, mexctr[email address removed to reduce spam]; The Mexican Center.

Call for Papers - Tenth Annual Afro-Hispanic Literature and Culture Conference, Palapa, Mexico, May 25-31, 1998. Proposals for papers welcome. Deadline: Jan. 31. For more info., contact Dr. Elba Birmingham-Pokorny, 870/235-4206 or [email address removed to reduce spam]; [email address removed to reduce spam].

Call for Papers - The Global Economy at the Turn of the Century, International Trade and Finance Association, Atlantic City, May 27-30, 1998. For more info. on paper submission, accommodations, etc., see brochure in the Mexican Center of ILAS or contact: Lindalee F. Valdivieso-Synyakov, Mexican Center Administrative Assistant, tel. 512/232-2423, fax 512/475-6778, mexctr[email address removed to reduce spam]; The Mexican Center .

Kellogg Institute, University of Notre Dame--Three positions are available: Associate Director, an endowed chair in Mexican Studies, and a tenured position in conjunction with a social science or history dept. For more info., call 219/631-6580.

Eastern Michigan University--A tenure-track position available in Latin American History. For more info., call 313/487-1018.

Sam Nunn School of International Affairs, Georgia Institute of Technology--Tenure-track Assistant Professor position in Latin American Affairs, with a background in comparative politics or international relations. For more info., call 404/894-3195.

University of Milwaukee--Tenured position in history dept. with a concurrent 50% appointment as Director of the Center for Latin America. For more info., call 414/229-4401.

Latin American Area Center, University of Arizona--Part-time research associate to coordinate interdisciplinary program of teaching, research, and outreach in Latin American Studies. For more info., laac "at" u.arizona.edu; laac "at" u.arizona.edu.

Smithsonian Institution--Accepting applications for Director of Smithsonian Center for Latino Initiatives. For more info., call 202/357-2627, ext. 114.