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NOTES AND COMMENTS Association News The Committee on Corresponding Fellows, of which Martin J. Havran of the University of Virginia is chairman, proposed two candidates for each of the two vacant positions. One had become vacant by the death of Monsignor Michèle Maccarrone, and the other was newly authorized by die Executive Council lastJanuary for a Spanish scholar. The Executive Committee by mailed ballot has elected Professor Giuseppe Alberigo of the University of Bologna, director of the Istituto per Ie Scienze Religiose, and chief editor of Cristianesimo nella storia, and Professor Antonio García y García of die Pontifical University of Salamanca, a specialist in the history of canon law. The president of the Association for 1994, Professor Elisabeth G. Gleason, invited the two scholars and obtained their willing consent to accept the honor. Meetings, Conferences, Symposia, Courses, and Exhibitions The sesquicentennial of the Archdiocese of Chicago was marked by two scholarly observances. One was a symposium, entitled "Chicago and the American Cadiolic Experience," which was planned by a committee under the chairmanship of Theodore J. Karamanski, held on November 4-5, 1994, at the downtown campus of Loyola University, and supported by a grant from the Loyola Endowment for the Liberal Arts. Contemporary interests seem to have dictated the choice of topics and participants; the early history of the Church in Chicago was almost ignored. The odier part of the anniversary celebration is an exhibition in die headquarters of the Chicago Historical Society entitled "Bricks and Mortar: Catholic Churches and Chicago Neighborhoods ." It was produced by John J. Treanor, assistant chancellor for archives and records of the archdiocese, and researched and written by Ellen Skerrett and Edward Kantowicz. It illustrates how four neighborhoods were shaped by Catholic churches built within them—the German North Side, the Polish Northwest Side, the West Side Boulevards, and Back-of-the-Yards—and tries to depict the interaction between sacred space and urban life, showing how the parishes have adapted to changes in dieir environments over the last 150 years. The exhibition will remain open until April 30, 1995. 150 NOTES AND COMMENTS151 The annual dies academicus of the Accademia di S. Carlo was held in Milan on November 18-19, 1994; it was devoted to die tíieme "Le visite pastorali prima di S. Carlo Borromeo." On die first evening Luigi Prosdocimi delivered a prolusione on "La normativa canónica suite visite pastorali nel Decretum Gratiani (1140 c.)." On the following day papers were read on die pastoral visits of Gabriele Sforza (1454-1457) and Carlo da Forli (1457-1461) by Giulio Colombo, of Stefano Nardini (1461—1484) e Guidantonio Arcimboldi (1489-1497) by Giorgio Chittolini, of Melchiorre Crivelli (1543-1546 and 1558—1559) by Agostino Borromeo, and of Giovanni Angelo Arcimboldi (1550-1555) by Giuseppe Alberigo. That afternoon Marco Navoni spoke on the pastoral visits to the cathedral before Saint Charles, and Elena Rotelli on those of Saint Antonio at Florence and of the suffragan bishops at Pistoia and Fiesole. "Christian Religious Minorities in Early Modern Europe" is the title of a course that will be conducted at the Center for Renaissance Studies in the Newberry Library on Tuesday afternoons from two to five o'clock from February 7 to April 11, 1995. The instructor will be Susan Rosa, Bradley Assistant Professor of History in the Honors Program, University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee . By focusing on various minorities such as the Recusants in England, die Huguenots and Jansenists in France, and die Protestants in Italy, Dr. Rosa will acquaint the students with some of the library's extensive resources in the religious history of seventeenth- and eighteendi-century Europe. Funds are available to subsidize travel expenses for members of the Center for Renaissance Studies consortium. Those who wish to register for the course should write to the Center for Renaissance Studies, The Newberry Library, 60 West Walton Street, Chicago, Illinois 60610-3380; telephone: 312-9439090 , extension 201. The theme of the fourteenth Comparative Frontier Studies Symposium will be "Religion in Frontier Societies." The symposium will take place in San Antonio on February 24—26, 1995. Upon request ftirdier information will be provided by Colin Wells or Diana Murin in...