Announcements

ANNOUNCEMENTS Casper College invites applications for the fifth annual lecture in the Margaret Demorest Lectures in the Humanities which will be held in Casper, Wyoming, in January or February 1990. The honorarium is $1,000. The focus of the 1990 series will be the westward experience. Casper College will organize a two-day humanities festival around the keynote speech by the Demorest Lecturer. Applicants should submit vita, 500-word proposal, sample bibliography, and three references to Shirley Jacob, Chairperson, the Margaret Demorest Lecture Series, Casper College, 125 College Drive, Casper, WY 82601. Deadline is March 31, 1989. The Newberry Library Center for Renaissance Studies announces its 1989 Summer Institute in Hispanic and Hispano-American Archival Sciences, which will be directed by Vicenta Cortés Alonso, Inspector General of Archives and Professor of Anthropology at the Universidad Complutense in Madrid. This institute, conducted in Spanish, will provide intensive training in the reading, transcribing, and editing of Spanish and HispanicAmerican manuscripts, books, and documents from the late medieval through modern periods. The course will be from July 5 to August 11, 1989. Full-time faculty members and librarians with instructional responsibilities employed in American institutions of higher learning may apply for stipends up to $3,000 provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities. Application deadline is March 1, 1989. For application forms and information, contact the Center for Renaissance Studies, Newberry Library, 60 West Walton Street, Chicago, Il 60610; (312) 943-9090. The Conseil International d'Etudes Francophones will hold its next World Conference in New Orleans, LA, at the Hotel Fairmont April 11-15, 1989. The CIEF welcomes proposals to read papers in French or English, or to organize and chair sessions and panels relating to all French-speaking areas in all disciplines. For more information, contact Maurice Cagnon, President, CIEF, Department of French, Montclair State College, Upper Montclair, NJ 07043; (201) 893-4283 or home: (212) 663-8186. To become a member of the association, send dues of $25 (U.S.) to David Barry, CIEF Executive Director , P.O. Box 43331, University of Southwestern Louisiana, Lafayette, LA 70504. The Santa Fe Conference on Willa Cather: A Critical Reappraisal will be held at the La Fonda Hotel, Santa Fe, NM, August 9-12, 1989. For further information, contact Patrick W. Shaw and Lady Falls Brown, English Department, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX 79409. Allegorica, an annual journal devoted to medieval and Renaissance languages and literatures, has recently moved to Texas A & M University. The new editor is Craig Kallendorf, and a new editorial board has been formed. The journal is seeking articles for its 1989 issue; submissions should conform to The MLA Style Manual. No notes or book reviews can be accepted, but articles of any length, preferably in English, are welcome. Submissions and inquiries about subscriptions should be sent to the editor, c/o Department of English, Texas A & M University, College Station, TX 77843. The National Endowment for the Humanities announces a new edition of 182 the Overview of Endowment Programs, which describes NEH grant programs, submission of applications, and application deadlines through 1989. For a free copy, write NEH Overview, Room 406, 1100 Pennsylvania Ave., N.W., Washington, D.C. 20506; (202) 786-0438. The next Overview edition will be available in January 1989 and will cover information through mid-1990. The Ninth Annual Cincinnati Conference on Romance Languages and Literatures which will be held at the University of Cincinnati, May 17-19, 1989, invites submissions of abstracts of papers on "The Imaginary, the Fantastic and the Dream, in the literature of France and Francophone countries, Spain and Latin American Countries, Portugal and Italy," as well as papers on the teaching and translation of Romance languages and literatures in any Romance language or English. A 300-word abstract in triplicate should be submitted by January 15, 1989, along with one 3x5 card listing your name, academic affiliation, address, telephone number, and title of paper. Completed papers should arrive no later than March 31, 1989. Requests for the formation of special sessions organized around the main topics on an author or country will be considered by a committee and should be submitted as soon as possible. Send submissions or inquiries...