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Announces DIPLO-HIST, a new discussion Iistscrv in diplomatic, political, and economic history, has been created. It welcomes subscriptions and contributions from historians, political scientists, and other interested and informed persons. Please feel free to pass along this announcement to friends and colleagues who might like to join the list. If interested in subscribing, please contact Michael J. Carley, mjcarleyiauakron.edu, or Robert Buzzanco, buzz@uh.edu, or send the following message to listserv'" lists.uakron.edu [subscribe DIPLO-HIST Firstname Lastname]. The American Conference of Irish Studies' Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference will be held October 27-28, 2000, at the College of Mount Saint Vincent in New York City. The theme is "Ireland and Unions." Please consult the ACIS Web site for further details (www.acisweb.com) or contact Dr. Joseph M. Skellv, Department of History, College of Mount Saint Vincent, 6301 Rivedale Avenue, New York, NY 1047 1, 718/405-3306, (fax) 718/405-3747, joeskelfyohotmail.com. Callfor Papers and Participants: American Presidents on Film and Television Papers and panels are invited for the forthcoming conference on "American Presidents on Film and Television,' November 10-12, 2000, at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library. Sponsored by the Film and History League, this event airead)' has panels on Lincoln, Roosevelt, JFK, and "imaginary presidents." Join such famous scholars as John Tibbetts, Ron Brilcy, and Gary Edgerton in a three-day ewnt that will lead to publication in an anthology from a major press. Contact Susan Rollins at ElmHisUagQaol.com or inspect the long announcement at the Film & History Web site: http://h-net.msu.edu/~jilmhis. An on-line registration form is at the Web site along with details about the meeting. This conference is being held in cooperation with the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, the Film and History League, and the journal EiIm & History: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Film and Television Studies. (RRPL is located in Simi Valley, northwest of Los Angeles. The meeting itself will be conducted at the Westlake Hyatt, a facility near the RRPL grounds.) The C. F. Reynolds Medical History Society announces the following meetings and lectures for 2000-2001. All lectures will be held in Lecture Room 5, Scaife Hall, University of Pittsburgh, at 6 p.m. Please refer all questions on the Society and its programming to Dr. Jonathon Erlen, 412/648-8927, erkn9pitt.edu. September 19, 2000—Gerald L. Geison, Professor of History of Science, Princeton University "Did Pasteur Cheat? Does It Matter?" November 2, 2000—Seventh Annual Sylvan E. Stool History of Medicine Lecture Steven M. Zeitels, M.D., Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School "Two Centuries of Medical Management of the Human Voice" 34 ^l ? — January 23, 2001— Peter Safar, M.D., Distinguished Professor of Resuscitation Medicine, University of Pittsburgh "On Resuscitation Medicine: 1000-2000 CE." March I, 2001—Paul J. Edelson, M.D., Professor of Clinical Pediatrics, Center for the Study of Society and Medicine, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons "An Episode in the History of Clinical Trials: The N.Y.C. Diphtheria Antiserum Trials of 1899" April 5, 2001 —Thirteenth Annual Mark M. Ravitch History of Medicine Lecture Maarten Ultec, Ph.D., Professor, Department of History, University of Alabama "Breast Cancer Surgery as Amputation: Reconsidering Halsted's 'Complete Method The Massachusetts Historical Society currently hosts two seminar scries: The Boston Area Early American History Seminar and the Boston Seminar in Immigration and Urban History. Each of these seminar scries provides a monthly discussion forum for local scholars as well as members of the general public. Each seminar group meets at the MHS at 5:15 p.m. one Thursday a month during the academic war. Each session revolves around the discussion of a precirculated paper and is followed by a light buffet supper. Every March, the MHS also puts out a call for papers for the upcoming seminar seasons. Advance copies of seminar papers for the year arc available for $25 (total . For more information or to be added to the mailing list, please contact Erin Pipkin at the MHS, 1 154 Boviston Street, Boston, MA 02215. She may also be reached by telephone at 617/646-0505 or at epipktn " masshist.org. Subscription checks should be...