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NOTES AND COMMENTS Conferences, Meetings, Symposia, and Lectures "Irish Catholic Nuns, Cultural Resistance, and the Origins of the Welfare State" was the title of a lecture delivered on February 22 by Maureen Fitzgerald of the Harvard Divinity School in its spring program. The annual Catholic Daughters of the Americas Lecture at the Catholic University ofAmerica will be delivered on April 14 by TimothyJ. Meagher, archivist of the university. Dr. Meagher will speak on "The Historian as Archivist: Preservation and Interpretation ofAmerica's Catholic Past." Siena College's eleventh annual multidisciplinary Conference onWorldWar II, entitled"A Dual Perspective:The Sixtieth Anniversary—Preliminaries; the Fiftieth Anniversary—Aftermath," will be held on May 30-31, 1996. Inquiries should be addressed to the co-director of the conference,Thomas O. Kelly, II, in care of the Department of History, Siena College, 515 Loudon Road, Loudonville, New York 12211-1462; telephone: 518-783-2595; fax: 518-783-4293; e-mail: kelly@siena.edu. "Medieval Book Production: Liturgical, Legal, and Literary Manuscripts" will be the theme of the sixth biennial conference of the Seminar in the History of the Book to 1500, which will be held in Oxford on July 12-14, 1996. Full information may be obtained from Linda Brownrigg at 13040 Alta Tierra Road, Los Altos Hills, California 94022. The tenth symposium of the International Medieval Sermon Studies Association will take place at Linacre College, Oxford, onJuly 19-22, 1996. Requests for further information may be sent to the treasurer of the association, L. M. Eldredge , at 5 Longworth Road, Oxford OX2 6RA, England. An international symposium entitled "From Athens to Jerusalem: Medicine in HellenizedJewish Lore and in Early Christian Literature," will be held at the Hebrew University, Mount Scopus Campus, on September 9-11, 1996. Anyone who wishes to present a paper or to attend is asked to write to the chairman, Samuel S. Kottek, in care of the Faculty of Medicine, Ein Kerem, Jerusalem 91 120, Israel; telephone: 972-2-758120; fax: 972-2-784010. Baylor University, Hong Kong Baptist University, and the Ricci Institute at the University of San Francisco will present an international symposium on "The History of Christianity in China" on October 2-4, 1996, in Hong Kong. Twentysix eminent scholars from mainland China, the Republic of China (Taiwan), 342 NOTES AND COMMENTS 343 Hong Kong, Europe, and NorthAmerica will corne together in an atmosphere of mutual respect. The languages of presentation will be English and Chinese; facilities for simultaneous translation will be provided. Guests are invited to attend and to participate in the discussions from the floor. A registration form and information about the program may be obtained from the director of the symposium , D. E. Mungello, in care of the Department of History, Baylor University, Post Office Box 97306,Waco.Texas 76798-7306. The twenty-third Saint Louis Conference on Manuscript Studies will be held at Saint Louis University on October 4-5, 1996. Scholars are invited to present papers in such areas of manuscript and textual research as codicology, palaeography , papyrology, cataloguing formats, illuminations, textual criticism, epigraphy , and computer applications. Abstracts of papers, not exceeding 200 words, should be submitted byAugust 1 ; the papers in final form are due on September 2. Those who wish to submit papers or to attend the conference should write to the Conference Committee in care of Manuscripta, Pius XII Memorial Library , Saint Louis University, 3650 Lindell Boulevard, Saint Louis, Misouri 63108. An international conference entitled "The Jesuits: Culture, Learning, and the Arts, 1 540-1773," will be held at Boston College from May 28 toJune 1, 1997. A copy of the program, which will be ready in July, 1996, and other information may be obtained from the coordinator of the conference, Patricia Longbottom, in care ofthe Department ofMusic,Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts 02l67;telephone:6l7-552-8720;fax:6l7-552-3807;e-mail: Longbottom® bc.edu. A conference on "The Friars andJews in the Middle Ages and Renaissance"is being planned for October 26-28, 1997. Anyone wishing to participate should write to Philip Gavitt in care ofthe Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Saint Louis University, 3663 Lindell Boulevard, Saint Louis, Missouri, 63103-3342. Canonization On December 3...