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NOTES AND COMMENTS Association News At its meeting in Chicago on January 6, 2000, the Executive CouncU of the American CathoUc HistoricalAssociation gratefuUy accepted two invitations for spring meetings. Joseph Boyle, principal of St. Michael's CoUege, and WUUam J. CaUahan, principal of Victoria CoUege, both m the University of Toronto, have offered the hospitaUty oftheir institutions for the spring of 2001 . The Very Reverend Joseph M. McShane, president of the University of Scranton, has invited the Association for the spring of 2003. The meeting in Toronto wül be held jointly with the Canadian CathoUc Historical Association. The dates wUl be AprU 6-7, 2001 . The chairman of the committee on program isWUUam Callahan,now retired principal ofVictoria CoUege and professor emeritus of the University ofToronto. Proposals of sessions may be sent to him in care of Victoria CoUege, 73 Queen's Park Crescent, Toronto, Ontario M5S 1K7, Canada; telephone: 416-762-3309; fax: 416-585-4459; e-maU: wjcaUahan@utoronto.ca. A caU for papers wiU be sent to aU the members ofthe Association after the spring meeting that wUl be held in Santa Fe this year. The spring meeting in Scranton wül be held on March 28-29, 2003. Roy Domenico of the Department of History wiU be chairman of the organizing committee . The dates of the spring meeting in 2002, which wül be held at the University of Portland (see ante, LXXXTV [AprU, 1998], 370, and LXXXV [January, 1999], 156), have been changed to March 15 and 16. The chairman of the organizing cornmittee, the ReverendJames ConneUy, C.S.C, expects to obtain the best possible spaces at these earlier dates. He may be addressed by telephone: 503-9437343 ; by fax: 503-943-7399; or by e-maü: conneUy@up.edu. The president of the American CathoUc Historical Association, Joseph H. Lynch of Ohio State University, has appointedJohn La Rocca, SJ., of Xavier University and SandraYocum Mize ofthe University ofDayton to the Committee on Program for the Association's eighty-first annual meeting, which wiU be held in Boston on January 5-7, 2001. Professor Lynch is chairman of the committee. 367 368NOTES and comments Conferences, Seminars, Symposia, and Colloquia Robert Kingdon of the University of Wisconsin at Madison was honored at the twenty-third Burdick-Vary Symposium, which was held on February 25-26, 2000, under the title "At the Frontiers of the Reformation: Robert Kingdon's Legacy of Graduate Education." Among the speakers were John Patrick Donnelly , SJ., of Marquette University ("Planning Jesuit Education from Loyola to the 1599 Ratio Studiorum"), Lynn Martin of the University of Adelaide ("A Plague of Drunken Jesuits? Alcohol and the Clergy in Traditional Europe"), and Frederic J. Baumgartner of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University , Blacksburg ("Popes,Astrologers, and Early Modern Calendar Reform"). A seminar in the Albert Cardinal Meyer Lecture Series was conducted by Eamon Duffy of the University of Cambridge at Mundelein Seminary of the University of St. Mary of the Lake on March 25, 2000. In the morning session Dr. Duffy spoke on "The Papacy and the Burden ofHistory," and in the afternoon on "Mary and Christian Maturity." The annual Catholic Daughters of the Americas Lecture wUl be deUvered on AprU 2, 2000, at the Catholic University of America by Christopher Kauffman, Catholic Daughters of the Americas Professor of Church History, under the title "Catholic Patriotism and American Citizenship: The Fourth Degree of the Knights of Columbus, 1900-1925."The lecture is part of the centennial year of the first exemplification of the Fourth Degree,which took place in NewYork on February 22, 1900. An international conference on "Religion and the Cold War" wül be held at the Royal Foundation of St. Katharine's in London on April 12-13, 2000. Information on the program may be obtained from Dianne Kirby in care of the School of History, Philosophy and Politics, University of Ulster, Jordanstown, Newtownabbey, County Antrim BT37 OQB, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom; telephone: (+44) 028 90 366460; fax: 01232 366834; e-mail: jp.campbell@ulst. ac.uk. At the sixty-fourth meeting of the New England Historical Association, which wUl take place at Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts, on...