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Announcements International Kelly Prize in FrenchPoliticalThought. The Conference for the Study of Political Thought (CSPT) announces the George Armstrong Kelly Prize. It will be awarded for the bestjournal article, or paper of similar length and scope, published in 1995 on the history of 18th'- and/or 19th-century French-language political thought (including political theory, philosophy, etc.). This is an international prize: entries will be accepted from any country, although the articles must be in French, German, English, or Spanish. Individual authors are encouraged to submit their own work for consideration for the prize. Others are invited to nominate possible candidates for the prize. In addition to journal articles and articles in multi-authored collections, the prize committee encourages submissions of single-authored collections of articles, from which a winner could be selected. The deadline for submissions of articles for the prize is November 3o, 1996. Four copies of articles in English, French, or Spanish should be sent to Prof. John Christian Laursen, Department of Political Science, University of California, Riverside, CA, 9~5o7-o118, U. S. A. Four copies of articles in German should be sent to Prof. Martyn P. Thompson, Department of Political Science, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA 7ol 18-5698, U.S.A. Winner of the prize, which includes a cash grant, will be announced at the annual meeting of CSPT. InternationalBerkeleyEssayPrizeCompetition.Professor and the late Mrs. Colin Turbayne established an International Berkeley Essay Prize competition in conjunction with the Philosophy Department at the University of Rochester. The next deadline for submitting papers is November 1,1996. Submissions on any aspect of Berkeley's philosophy are welcome. Essays should be new and unpublished and should be written in English and not exceed 5,ooo words in length. All references to Berkeley should be to Luce/Jessop, and an MLA or similar standard for notes should be followed. Submissions will be judged by members of a review board selected by the Department of Philosophy at the University of Rochester. The winner will be announced March 1, 1997 and will receive a prize of $2,ooo. Copies of the winning essays are to be sent to the George Berkeley Library Study Center located in Berkeley's home in Whitehall , Newport, RI. Submissions should be sent to: Chair, Department of Philosophy , University of Rochester, Lattimore 532, Rochester, NY 14627-oo78. [483] ...