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NOTES AND COMMENTS Association News Next year the American Catholic Historical Association wiU hold its spring meeting jointly with the American Society of Church History at Santa Fe on April 28 and 29 (the Friday and Saturday of Easter Week). In this way the Association wiU participate in the celebration of the sesquicentennial of the erection of the episcopal see of Santa Fe. The archdiocesan archivist, Marina Ochoa, wiU be in charge of local arrangements. The chairman of the Committee on Program wiU be SandraYocum Mize. Proposals for sessions or individual papers should be sent to Dr. Mize by October 1, 1999, in care of the Department of Religious Studies, University of Dayton, 300 CoUege Park, Dayton, Ohio 454691480 ; e-mail: mize@checkov.hm.udayton.edu. Meetings, Conferences, Congresses, Lectures On November 23-27, 1998, in the Arabesque Alcazar or royal palace of SeviUe.a major international congress commemorated the 750th anniversary of the conquest of the city by St. Fernando III, King of Castile, from the Muslims. FormaUy opened by the King and Queen of Spain with an array of dignitaries of Church and State, and with ample media attention throughout, the congress comprised thirty extensive addresses (/5o«e««'«s) and an equal number of briefer papers (comunicaciones) under the central coordinator, Professor Manuel GonzálezJiménez. Among the American scholars who were brought to SeviUe and generously endowed there for their participation were Robert Burns, SJ., Cynthia Chamberlin, and Teófilo Ruiz, aU of the University of CaUfornia at Los Angeles, OUvia Remie Constable of the University of Notre Dame, Joseph O'CaUaghan of Fordham University, andJames Powers of the CoUege of the Holy Cross. The varied offerings, praised by one critic as "el corpus más importante sobre la época," wül be pubUshed shortly. In the Albert Cardinal Meyer Lecture Series held at Mundelein Seminary of the University of St. Mary of the Lake Robert A. Orsi of Indiana University conducted a day-long seminar on January 9, 1999, speaking on "Catholics in American Memory"in the first session and on "Remembering Children"in the second. An international conference entitled "Vatican II Nears Its End? Hopes, Fears, Disappointments, Prospects" was held at the Château de Klingenthal and Stras335 336notes and comments bourg on March 11-14, 1999, to examine the specific characteristics ofthe final period of the Council. The discussion focused on the "moment represented by the realization that the end of the CouncU (in terms both of its potential and of certain risks) was nearing, and by the beginning of the reception of its decisions ." It was organized by the Fondazione per Ie scienze religiose Giovanni XXIII. Those who desire copies of the papers should write to the secretariat of the Fondazione at Via S. Vitale 114,40125 Bologna, Italy;fax: 0039-051-230658; e-maU: isrfond@tin.it. At the twenty-sixth annual Sewanee Mediaeval Colloquium, which was held on March 26-27, 1999 (see ante, LXXXTV [October, 1998], 787) and devoted to the theme "Last Things: Apocalypse,Judgment, Millennium and MUlenniaUsm," one session was entitled "Franciscan Interpretations ofthe Apocalypse"; papers were presented byJohn V Fleming ofPrinceton University, "Two Voices ofFranciscan Apocalypticism"; by David Burr of Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, "Angelo Clareno's Apocalyptic Timetable"; and by Larry Hunt of the University of Georgia, "Heat from the Seraph's Coal: Saint Francis as the Prophet Isaiah and Herald of Bonaventure's Sixth Age." The Canadian CathoUc Historical Association (EngUsh Section) will hold its annual meeting at the University of Sherbrooke and Bishop's University during the Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities (June 2-12, 1999). Copies of the program may be obtained from Elizabeth Smyth (e-mail: esmyth@oise. on.ca). The Pontifical Committee on Historical Sciences in collaboration with the École Française de Rome wiU sponsor a congresso internazionale entitled "I GiubUei neUa storia deUa Chiesa" in Rome on June 23-26, 1999. Requests for copies of the program and for other information should be addressed to the secretary of the Pontifical Committee, P. Vittorino Grossi, O.S.A., at its headquarters , Piazza Pio XII, 3, 00120 Vatican City State, Europe; telephone: 379 06 69 88...