Announcements

ANNOUNCEMENTS Southwest Conference on Language Teaching (SWCOLT) The SouthWest Conference on Language Teaching and the New Mexico Organization of Language Educators present their upcoming conference, CHILE TWO! Current Highlights in Language Education: Teaching With Options, April 11-13, 1996. The conference will involve sessions on the hot topics in L2 education. Workshops, presenters, and special events, including optional excursions in the "Land of Enchantment," highlight the conference. Publisher and school exhibits will also be a part of the conference. For further information, contact Joann K. Pompa, SWCOLT Executive Director, Mountain Point High School, 4201 E. Knox Rd., Phoenix, AZ 85004; phone (602) 759-8449 ext. 3036; fax (602) 759-8743. National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) The NEH is now on the Internet with their own World Wide Web Home Page. With a click of a button anyone may obtain succinct, comprehensive information on all the grant programs the NEH has to offer, when to apply, who to contact, and more. To contact the NEH in cyberspace, key in their Internet address: INFO@NEH.FED.US; or to get more information on their World Wide Home Page, key in HTTP://WWW.NEH.FED.US. The Newberry Library Center for Renaissance Studies The Newberry Library in Chicago announces its 1996 Summer Institute in the Spanish and Hispanic-American Archival Sciences, June 24-August 2, 1996. Consuelo Varels, Escuela de Estudios Hispano Americanos de Sevilla, will be the director. The institute will provide intensive training in the reading and editing of Spanish and Hispanic-American manuscript books and documents from the late medieval through the early modern periods. The seminar will also offer a thorough orientation in the archives, libraries, and manuscript collections available for work in Spanish and HispanicAmerican studies. The course will meet at the Newberry Library in Chicago and will be conducted in Spanish. Sources of support are available for participants. For more information, contact The Newberry Library Center for Renaissance Studies, 60 West Walton St., Chicago, IL 60610-3380; phone (312) 943-9090. 116 Comparative Drama Comparative Drama is planning a special issue in Scandinavian Drama for Spring 1996. Articles may be submitted to The Editors, Comparative Drama, English Department, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI 49008. German Studies Association The German Studies Association will hold its twentieth annual conference in Seattle, Washington, October 10-13, 1996. The program committee invites proposals on any aspect of German studies, including history, Germanistik, political science, sociology, philosophy , pedagogy, and the arts. Proposals for entire sessions and for interdisciplinary presentations are encouraged. The deadline for proposals is Feburary 25, 1996—early submissions are welcome. For application materials and information contact: Glenn R. Cuomo, Division of Humanities, New College of USF, 5700 N. Tamiami Trail, Sarasota, FL 34243-2197; phone 941-359-4262; fax 941-3594298 ; internet: cuomo@virtu.sar.usf.edu. Science, Technology, and the American West The University of Nevada Press and the Nevada Humanities Committee invite submission of manuscripts dealing with the effects of technology on the development and evolution of the American West of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Submissions may be scholarly essays, imaginative nonfiction, poetry , short fiction, photography, art, or other genres. Manuscript deadline, March 15, 1996. For more information contact: Stephen Tchudi, Department of English/098, University of Nevada, Reno, Nevada 89557-0031; phone 702-784-6755; fax 702-784-6266; internet : s tchudi® scs.unr.edu. 117 ...