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NOTES AND COMMENTS Association News The president of the American CathoUc Historical Association, Uta-Renate Blumenthal of the Catholic University ofAmerica, has appointedJohn C. Moore of Hofstra University to the Committee on the John Gilmary Shea Prize for a three-year term. The committee for 1997, therefore, consists of Sister Mary J. Oates, CSJ., of Regis College (chairman), a specialist Ui American history, Frederic J. Baumgartner of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, an expert in modern European history, and Professor Moore, a medievalist . The chairman of the Committee on Program for the Association's seventyeighth annual meeting,Arthur L. Fisher of Seattle University,has announced that eight sessions have been planned besides the business meeting, social hour, presidential luncheon, and Sunday Mass. There wiU be one session on ancient history,two on medieval,one on modern European,three on American, and one on general modern history. The president,Professor Blumenthal,wUl devote her address to the topic, "The Papacy and Canon Law in the Eleventh-Century Reform ." The meeting wUl be held in Seattle onJanuary 9-11,1998. Copies of the printed program and practical information wiU be sent to aU members of the Association Ui the autumn. The members ofthe Committee on Program,besides Dean Fisher, are David Alvarez of St. Mary's CoUege of California (Moraga), Alberto Ferreiro of Seattle Pacific University, Patricia KUlen of Pacific Lutheran University, andJohn Scott, O.S.B., of St. Martin's CoUege (Lacey). Meetings, Conferences, Symposia, Lectures On February 28-29, 1997,the University ofNew Mexico hosted a conference on "The Virgin and the DevU Ui the New World: ReUgious Encounters in Latin America." The conference was sponsored by the Latin American Institute, the Latin American Studies Program, the Student Organization for Latin American Studies, and the Department of History of the University of New Mexico. Funding was also received from the New Mexico Endowment for the Humanities. The conference opened on the evening of February 28 with a keynote address "The Inquisition in Colonial Mexico: Heresy, Dissent, and Social Control" by 542 notes and comments543 Richard Greenleaf of Tulane University. The foUowing day was devoted to the body of the presentations. Linda B. HaU, professor of history in the University of New Mexico, "The Virgin Mary and the Growth of Spanish NationaUsm in the Reconquest"; Stafford Poole, C.M.,"Our Lady of Guadalupe: Missionary Tool or Pious Fiction?"; Fernando Cervantes, Director ofthe Centre for the Classical Tradition , University of Bristol, "Diabolism in New Spain, 1521-1767"; Robert D. Martinez, M.A. candidate in the Department of History, University of New Mexico ,"The Devil in Spanish New Mexico:A Story ofWitchcraft and Cultural Conflict in 18th Century Abiquiu"; Charlene Villaseñor Black, assistant professor of art and art history in the University of New Mexico, "The Marianization of the Image of SanJosé in Colonial Spanish America";Alfred Brichta-López, ofthe Department ofHistory, University ofNew Mexico,"The Virgin Mary in the Spiritual life of Santa Rosa of Lima"; Elizabeth Kiddy, Ph.D. candidate, University of New Mexico, "Congados: Devotion to Our Lady of the Rosary in BrazU"; and Adrian Bantjes, of the Department of History, University ofWyoming,"Saints and State Formation in Revolutionary Mexico." In a series of lectures entitled "Before and After the Book" Astrik L. Gabriel, professor emeritus of history in the University of Notre Dame, spoke on "Early Academic Printing at the University of Paris: Ulricus Gering and Bertholdus Remboldt." Gering, a graduate of the University of Basel, printed the first book in France; he died in 1510, leaving half of his fortune to the College of the Sorbonne and the other halfto Montague College. Remboldt, who was treasurer of the EngUsh-German Nation in 1506-07, formed a partnership with Gering in 1494 and collaborated with him until 1509· The most important book they published together was the Liber Sextus Decretalium of Boniface VIII. The lecture was delivered on AprU 10, 1997, in the Department of Special CoUections. During the spring conference of the New England Historical Association, which was held at Northeastern University, Boston, on AprU 26, Maureen McCarthy of Samt Anselm College read a paper entitled "The Case of the Missing Servant Girls...