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NOTES AND COMMENTS Association News At its meeting held on January 5, 1995, the Executive Council of the American Catholic Historical Association decided to increase the fees for membership as follows: for ordinary members $35.00; for retired members (after twenty consecutive years of ordinary membership) and for student members»25.00; and for life members «600.00. The president of the Association, Jay P. Dolan of the University of Notre Dame, has appointed Mary J. Oates, C.S.J., of Regis College (Weston, Massachusetts ), to the Committee on the John Gilmary Shea Prize for a three-year term. She will represent American history. The Committee for this year, therefore , consists of the chairman, Donald J. Dietrich of Boston College (for modern European history), John Howe of Texas Tech University, Lubbock (for medieval history), and Sister Mary. Professor Dolan has also appointed Robert C. Figueira of Lander University and Kenneth Gouwens of the University of South Carolina to the Committee on Program for the seventy-sixth annual meeting, which will be held in Atlanta, Georgia, on January 7—9, 1996. Meetings, Conferences, Congresses, and Colloquia The only session dealing with religious history among the approximately 1 50 sessions of the annual meeting of the Organization ofAmerican Historians and the National Council on Public History, which will be held in Washington, D.C., from March 30 to April 2, 1995, is entitled "Evangelism, Mysticism, and Minority Status: American Protestantism, 1790-1960." Emma J. Lapsansky of Haverford College will speak on "The Utopian Impulse in Twentieth-Century America: A Quaker Experience"; Donald Mathews of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, "From Evangelicalism to Liberalism, 1880-1920"; and Dickson D. Bruce of the University of California, Irvine, "African Americans and American Theological Discourse, 1790-1830." 301 302 NOTES AND COMMENTS Under the title "Re-enchanting the World: Christian Education and the Imagination," AlbertJ. Raboteau ofPrinceton University will deliver the annual Catholic Daughters of the Americas Lecture at the Catholic University of America on April 2, 1995. The American Society of Church History will hold its spring meeting on April 20—23, 1995, in Coral Gables, Florida. Further information may be obtained from Daniel L. Pals in care of the Department ofReligious Studies, University of Miami, Post Office Box 248264, Coral Gables, Florida 33124-4672. The theme of the forty-third study week of the Centro Italiano di Studi sull'Alto Medioevo, which will take place at Spoleto on April 20-26, 1995, is "Il Caucaso: Cerniera fra culture dal Mediterráneo alla Persia (secoli IV-XI)." Among the thirty papers that will be presented are "La cristianizzazione del Caucaso" by Bernard Outtier of the Bibliothèque du Caucase, Saulieu, France, and "Generic and Methodological Developments in East Christian Theology" by Peter Cowe of Columbia University. The American Cusanus Society will sponsor three sessions at the thirtieth International Congress on Medieval Studies, which will be held at Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, on May 4-7, 1995. In die first, entitled "Nicholas of Cusa's Place in Intellectual History," papers will be read by Dennis D. Martin of Loyola University Chicago ("Hugh of Balma and the Tegernsee Controversy over Affective Mysticism"), by F. Edward Cranz of Connecticut College ("Cusanus' Place in Western Thought"), and by Eric Crump of Gettysburg Lutheran Seminary ("Conjecture and Representation in Nicholas of Cusa and Kant"). "Preaching and Reform in the Age of Cusanus" is the theme of the second session, in which the following papers will be read: "A Call for Reform: Nicholas de Clamange's Use of Medieval Apocalypticism," by Christopher Bellitto of Fordham University; "The Art of Preaching in Ten Sermons of Nicholas of Cusa," by Lawrence Hundersmarck of Pace University; and "Word as Bread: Recent Research in Nicholas ofCusa's Theology ofPreaching," by Peter Casarella of the Catholic University of America. The third session will be devoted to a discussion of Brian Tierney's book Foundations ofConciliar Theory "forty years after." Francis Oakley of Williams College will present the book's "Significance for Ecclesiology and Political Thought," and Professor Tierney, emeritus of Cornell University, will give a response. Heiko A. Oberman of the University of Arizona will preside and comment. After the dinner and business...