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News and Information NEWS AND INFORMATION Conferences A.LS. Annual Meeting 219 The next annual meeting of the Association of Israel Studies will be held at the Baltimore Hebrew University. As in the past, panels will cover various aspects of Israeli life, including politics and history, literature and law, social issues and folklore, etc. If you have an interest in giving a paper, organizing or chairing a panel, or serving as a discussant, send a written proposal by February 1, 1995 to: Dr. Han Peleg, Chair, AIS Program Committee, Charles A. Dana Professor ofSocial Sciences, Department ofGovernment and Law, Lafayette College, Easton, PA 18042-1780; Fax: (610) 250-5397; e-mail: PI#I@lafibm.lafayette.edu. Latin American Jewish Studies Association The Latin American Jewish Studies Association will hold its Eighth International Research Conference in Mexico City on November 11-14, 1995. Individual papers and entire panels on any subject within the field of Latin American Jewish Studies will be considered for presentation. Presenters must be members of lAJSA. The deadline for proposals is May 15, 1995. Send three copies of your proposal to: Dr. Victor A. Morelman, Spertus College, 618 S. Michigan Ave., Chicago, IL 60605, or to Dra. Alicia Backal, Asociaci6n Mexicana de Amigos de la Universidad de Tel Aviv, Seneca 307, Col. Polanco, Mexico, D.F. 11530. For membership information, contact lAJSA, 2104 Georgetown Blvd., Ann Arbor, MI 48105. Yiddish and Ashkenazic Studies: The Next Wave The Yiddish Program of the Ohio State University, in association with the YIVO Institute for Jewish Hesearch, will hold a conference for graduate students and recent recipients of the Ph.D. at Ohio State on April 2-3, 1995. The aim of the conference is to create an open collegial forum for the discussion of recent directions and trends in the various disciplines 220 SHOFAR Fall 1994 Vol. 13, No.1 (literature, linguistics, history, folklore, etc.) which collectively constitute the emerging interdiscipline of Ashkenazic studies. For more information, contact: David Neal Miller or Neil G. Jacobs, Department of Near Eastern, Judaic, and Hellenic Languages and Literatures, Ohio State University, 256 CunzHall, 1841 Millikin Rd., Columbus, OH 43210; phone: (614) 292-7140 or 292-4267; fax: (614) 2921262 ; e-mail: miller.3@osu.edu. History of Religions Congress The International Association for the History of Religions Congress, held once every five years, will take place in Mexico City next July. The theme for the 19?5 Congress is "Religion and Society." There will be a Jewish Studies section coordinated by Professor Paul Morris. For more information, or to submit abstracts, contact: Paul Morris, Dept. ofReligions Studies, Victoria University of Wellington, P.O. Box 600, Wellington, New Zealand; Phone: +64 4 472 1000; Fax: +64 4 495 5116; e-mail: PauI.Morris@vuw.ac.nz. Christianity and the Holocaust The Fourth Bienniel Conference on Christianity and the Holocaust, to be held April 14-15, 1996, at the Marriott Hotel, Princeton, New Jersey, is sponsored by the Julius and Dorothy Koppelman Holocaust/Genocide Resource Center and the Campus Ministry of Rider University. The theme of the conference will be "The 50th Anniversary of the Nuremberg War Crimes Trials: Their Effectiveness and Legacy." Papers are invited which examine the effectiveness of the trials in determining and accounting for the responsibility of political, professional, military, and business groups for the Holocaust, and the utility, in light of more contemporary events, of international tribunals in deterring and punishing war crimes and crimes against humanity. The conference also invites papers on the historical development of antisemitism with particular emphasis on religious doctrine and the response and responsibility of the churches. Papers will also be accepted on teaching Holocaust/genocide studies. Send a 500-word abstract and a brief biographical statement by November 1, 1995, to: Dr. Dominick A. Iorio, Dean, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Rider University, 2083 Lawrenceville Rd, Lawrenceville, NJ 08648; Phone: (609) 896-5155; Fax: (609) 895-5684. News and Information· Mishpat Ivri and Talmudic Research 221 The second International Conference on Mishpat Ivri Oewish Law) and Talmudic Research with consideration of practical applications in the State of Israel will convene in New York, February 19-20, 1995. This conference is co-sponsored by...