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NOTES AND COMMENTS Association News Sister Mary Oates, C.S.J., of Regis College, whose appointment to the Committee on the John Gilmary Shea Prize was announced in the April issue, has asked to defer the first year of her three-year term until 1996. To take her place this year the president of the American Catholic Historical Association, Jay P. Dolan, has appointedJames M. O'Toole ofdie University ofMassachusetts at Boston. Dr. O'Toole will resume service in 1999 after Sister Mary completes her term. Meetings, Conferences, Colloquia, Symposia In preparation for die year 2000 die Wethersfield Institute is presenting a five-year review of the first two millennia of Christian history. Each year a series of speakers will endeavor to convey a sense of die rise and decline of great movements, "of fresh mindsets, effective institutions; of key persons seizing critical moments, of the personal courage of heroes and die obscurantism of dreary leaders." Five experts delivered lectures in New York in die spring of diis year, and five more will speak in the autumn on die Apostolic and Patristic period. In 1996 the post-Roman and early medieval periods will be studied. The chairman of die program is Glenn Olsen of die University of Utah. Further information may be obtained from the Wethersfield Institute at 230 Park Avenue, Room 1528, New York, New York 10169; telephone: 212949 -0949. At the international conference commemorating the eighth centenary of die Battle ofAlarcos (in die Province ofCiudad Real), in which the Almohades under Almanzor defeated Alfonso VIII of Castile, Joseph F. O'Callaghan, professor emeritus ofFordham University, read a paper on "La vida de las Ordenes militares españoles según sus estatutos primitivos." The conference was sponsored by the Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha and was held in Ciudad Real on April 3, 1995. The Istituto per Ie Ricerche di Storia Sociale e Religiosa in collaboration widi die Istituto per la Storia Ecclesiastica Padovana held a conference on May 20 in Vicenza on die dieme ofdieJesuits and Cardinal Gregorio Barbarigo. The annual meeting of die Canadian Catholic Historical Association was 476 NOTES AND COMMENTS 477 held at the University of Quebec at Montreal on June 8—9, 1995. Its theme was "Religion and Secularism in Canada," and die program chairmen were Margaret Sanche and Terry Fay, SJ., president and president-general respectively of die English Section. The papers will be published in die next volume oí Historical Studies. The Oxford International Newman Conference, which will be held at Oriel College on August 6-12, 1995, will be devoted to die theme "Newman and Conversion" to mark die 1 50di anniversary of the reception of John Henry Newman into the Cadiolic Church. The chairmen of the conference are Michael Barber, SJ., and Ian Ker. The lecturers will be Jean-Robert Armogathe, Louis Bouyer, Avery Dulles, Sheridan Gilley, Alan G. Hill, Father Ker, John Macquarrie, Vincent Alan McClelland, Terrence Merrigan, Aidan Nichols, Stephen Prickett, and Geoffrey Rowell; the guest speakers will be Vincent Blehl, Graham Leonard, Richard John Neuhaus, and William Oddie. The conference will open with a Mass celebrated by one of the guests of honor, William Cardinal Baum, Major Penitentiary of the Holy Roman Church, on Sunday afternoon. The total cost for attendance, which includes full board and accommodation in a single room, is $580. The program and odier information may be obtained from Father Barber at Campion Hall, Oxford OXl IQS, England. The sixty-second annual meeting of the Société canadienne de l'histoire de l'Eglise catholique and the Fourth Western Oblate Studies Conference will be held in Saint-Boniface on August 25 and 26, 1995. Copies of the program and practical information may be procured from Angele Chaput, La Société historique de Saint-Boniface, CP. 125, Saint-Boniface, Manitoba R2H 3B4, Canada; telephone and facsimile: 204-233-4888. The annual fall meeting of the New England Historical Association will be held at Saint Anselm College in Manchester, New Hampshire, on October 28, 1995. Information about the program is available from Roland Sarti in care of die Department of History, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts 01002; telephone: 413-545-1330. A three-day conference entitled...